Chapter 5 (2/2)
Pan Rui smiled and said, ”Okay, it's a promise.”
Facing the situation in the cell, the people watching the screen could only stare dumbly.
Yet, what made them, so shocked was still the end result. Wu Ma, who was stubbornly silent after being arrested, a 'hard bone', after seeing Pan Rui, had his att.i.tude do a one-eighty. He not only detailed the criminal act but also revealed the locations of the other bombs.
Zhang Ju immediately sent the bomb experts to where Wu Ma had pointed, defusing the bombs at the chemical factory one by one.
The thirty-six hours in the threat letter had pa.s.sed, the factories were peaceful. A ma.s.sive crisis had thus pa.s.sed by smoothly. Everyone let out relieved breaths.
In T city, not many people knew that they just had a brush with death. And the one who had saved them was an ordinary-looking youth surnamed ”Jiu.”
After concluding everything, Luo Yi De brought along Jiu Jie to say goodbye to Zhang Ju.
Zhang Ju pulled Luo Yi De's hand, thanking profusely, expressing grat.i.tude in his words.
”Old Zhang, you know,” Luo Yi De said, ”This time I came to help you due to our friends.h.i.+p. Information regarding the Watchmen is top-secret. Please don't leak anything.”
”That's only natural. I'll protect your ident.i.ties. Any information regarding the Watchmen will not be divulged.” Zhang Ju said.
”That's good. What comes next… I also can't help much. This is goodbye. There are still a lot of things you need to clean up, and I won't inconvenience you any longer.”
Zhang Ju smilingly said, ”With our relations.h.i.+p, I won't be polite. I won't hold you back if you want to leave. There is ample time; this favour I will remember. But I still have some questions that during our separation I would like to clarify.
”Oh? What do you want to ask?”
”Before, no matter how we asked, Wu Ma refused to open his mouth. Why only did he relent when we asked Pan Rui to say those scripted words?”
Luo Yi De pointed at Jiu Jie, laughing and said, ”You'll have to ask him.”
Jiu Jie gave a yawn and replied, ”Actually it's quite simple. Once you know the desires of a person's heart, you naturally know how to exploit it. There are two types of war, one on a battlefield and one with the mind (兵战为下，心战为上嘛).”
”Oh? Then what was Wu Ma's heart's desire?” Zhang Ju asked again.
Jiu Jie yawned incessantly, ”According to what I speculated, Wu Ma fell for a woman, and this woman definitely had a big problem. Additionally, the surrounding people were all very uncaring, no one was willing to help her. So Wu Ma took a risk out of desperation, trying to use such an extreme method to save his beloved woman. Right, Zhang Ju?”
Zhang Ju nodded his head and said, ”Not bad. According to what Wu Ma has said, he did fall for Pan Rui. However, Pan Rui had gotten leukaemia and had no money for a doctor. However, their colleagues were utterly heartless and made matters even worse. Wu Ma wanted to help her, but he had a limit. Later, a person went to find him and told him to follow the instructions to plant bombs in the chemical factory which would get him a lot of money, enough to treat Pan Rui's condition. Wu Ma had no other choice and decided to do it. Then, after that, everything happened.
Jiu Jie nodded, ”En, Just as I had suspected.”
”But, how did you deduce all of this?” Zhang Ju enquired.
”Of course, it’s all according to his dream,” Jiu Jie answered.
”His dream?”
”Oh yeah, Zhang Ju, what do you think dreams are?” Jiu Jie inquired.
”Dreams?” Zhang Ju thought about it and said, ”You think in the day and dream at night. Dreams are this what you encounter in the morning and what you imagine at night.”
Jiu Jie shook his head, saying, ”No, Zhang Ju, the essence of dreams is not that simple,”
”Then what is the essence of dreams?”
Jiu Jie paused for a moment then replied, ”Dreams, are what you desire to accomplish. To be more precise, they are the suppressed goals that you pretend to accomplish. They reflect one's innermost desire, they are the doors to the deepest parts of one's heart.”
Zhang Ju nodded his head, eyebrows crinkled for a moment, his expression like he did not understand.
Jiu Jie continued his explanation, ”Let's take Wu Ma as an example. In his dream, there was a train car. This represents his workplace. The faceless people in the train car represent his cold coworkers. The unconscious woman served as Pan Rui, and Pan Rui turned into a caterpillar. After that, she turned into a b.u.t.terfly which represents his hope for her to be cured. He killed all the people in the train car who had turned into caterpillars, which showed that he hated his colleagues… wait. Right at the end, his heart's desire was that he wished for Pan Rui to be saved, which is why he used the method of killing a lot of people for one person.”
“But these are all indirect metaphors. Since it's his innermost desire, why wasn't it all just directly played out?” Zhang Ju asked.
Jiu Jie pointed at the head, saying, ”That's because the brain has a processing mechanism in dreamland.
”Processing mechanism?”
”Yes, because some desires are morally wrong or embarra.s.sing, once such a desire pa.s.ses through into the dreamland, its appearance will undergo the brain's processing mechanism's conditioning, and the desire will disguise itself. For example, Wu Ma wished that his colleagues would all go die, but this wish was not ethical. Thus, in dreamland, it would be distorted and used those disgusting caterpillars to represent his colleagues. This appearance can pa.s.s through dreamland's processing mechanism conditions.
Zhang Ju was profoundly moved, ”So that's what happened. So that's why you said that dreams are the representation of the innermost desires.”
”Yes,” Jiu Jie nodded.
”Last question,” Zhang Ju asked, ”According to my knowledge when you investigated Wu Ma's dream, you went through three layers of dreamland right? Why was it so troublesome? Was he being used by someone else before?”
Zhang Ju's question was particular and crucial. Jiu Jie and Luo Yi De could help but take a glance.
”Yes, he was indeed being used.” Jiu Jie said, ”His mind had been tampered with to conceal something. At this point, I had to go through three layers before I could reach his heart's desire. I think this is also the reason why no matter what you did, he wouldn't talk.”
At this point, Luo Yi De suddenly asked, ”Old Zhang, regarding this case, the master in the shadows, are you able to investigate who it was?”
Zhang Ju shook his head, ”I can't. The mastermind was very cautious. Wu Ma never actually met him face-to-face. They only communicated on the net. When we checked, we could only get a name.”
”They? The mastermind is not one person but a group?” Luo Yi De asked.
Zhang Ju nodded, ”Yes.”
”What are they called?”
”Ba Su.” Zhang Ju spat out these two words.
When Luo Yi De and Jiu Jie heard these words, they were surprised. This wasn’t their first time hearing the name; they were both very clear on what this group entailed.
”Old Zhang, I would like to ask you for help,” Luo Yi De said seriously.
Zhang Ju laughed, ”You are too formal. Considering our relations.h.i.+p, you can just ask.”
”If, next time, there is any information regarding this group, could you tell it to me first? Of course, in a completely legal situation,” Luo Yi De said.
”Of course, this is no problem.” Zhang Ju quickly agreed.
”Thanks.”
”No problem.”
After hearing the name Ba Su, the incessantly yawning Jiu Jie suddenly gained energy, eyes sharp as arrows. He nodded his head solemnly and sank into his thoughts.
Zhang Ju eyed Jiu Jie and smilingly asked Luo Yi De, ”Your seventh department is full of talented people. This young man must be a well-known Watchman.”
Luo Yi De shook his head. ”No, he's still an apprentice Watchman. He still has a long way to go before becoming a full-fledged member. If not for the fact that there's a lack of staff, I wouldn't have brought him out this time.”
The two, after chit chatting for awhile, finally bid their goodbyes.
Outskirts of Nanjing, in a specific villa:
A middle-aged man was flipping through the newspaper. At this moment, the phone beside him suddenly rang.
”Wei, what is it?” He held up the phone and asked.
”Wei, Old Gu, it's me. The situation you wanted me to keep an eye out for has started to take shape,” the voice on the phone said.
”Oh? Tell me more.”
”Currently, all the high-ranking members of the seventh department have been sent out. At Luo Yi De's side is only an apprentice Watchman. Their headquarters is empty.”
”Good, I got it. Thanks.”
Finished, the middle-aged man hung up.
”What happened? There's news?” the young woman beside him asked.
The middle-aged man folded up the newspaper, smiled and said, ”According to multiple sources, the time is ripe. Our plan begins.”
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