Vol 18 Chapter 6-2 (1/2)
The remaining members of team China waited in the hotel. They crammed into a room due to the lack of larger suites. The season was fortunately refreshing. A cool breeze circulated through the room once they opened the windows. It would have been disastrous if the season were summer. The air would smell stale from closing the windows in order to turn on the air conditioner.
The two new girls didn't want to stay alongside so many men. However, they also feared Freddy's attack. They grabbed Lan and headed to the window side. The girls chatted among themselves while they bathed in the cool breeze. The men also converse topics they were interested in a low volume. Kampa and Zero talked about improving their weapons. LiuYu, WangXia, and TengYi talked about the possibilities of abilities from novels. The scene looked peaceful and no one was particularly worried.
HongLu suddenly said to Zheng, ”Hey, I want to ask you something.”
Zheng was meditating at the time. He opened his eyes as he heard HongLu's voice and saw HongLu staring at him with a frown. Zheng asked, ”Sure, go ahead.”
HongLu breathed out then said, ”Everything I am about to say assumes that Freddy is listening. So some things, I can't speak in direct words. You have to think to get the meaning. The first point is there are two criteria for any person to have a nightmare. One, the origin of the nightmare. In reality, this origin comes from deep within a person's inner conscious. It might be a physical stimulation, such as an urge to use the restroom could provoke a dream where you are being flooded. Or a prickle on your finger could provoke a dream where your hand gets eaten by a monster.”
Zheng said, ”I know this but what does it have to do with our situation?”
HongLu seemed stuck. He thought for quite some time before continuing. ”That is the origin for a nightmare in reality. However, we are already in a dream, which also means we are inside the movie world. I speculate there is also an origin for this dream. It is the center of this series of nightmares.”
Zheng said with enthusiasm, ”Does that mean we can leave this nightmare once we find out its origin?”
HongLu shook his head and said, ”No. The origin is the origin. Leaving is leaving. Our thoughts flow in momentum. The nightmare won't simply vanish when the pain on your finger stops. Your brain will continue on with the nightmare by itself. Such as you lose sensation of your hand and then a pack of monsters chase after you. We have to make the nightmare vanish along with finding out its origin.”
Zheng muttered, ”By waking people up?”
”There's another method to make the dream vanish aside from waking people up.” HongLu sighed.
He looked at Zheng with a peculiar gaze. After a while, he moved his eyes away and sighed deeply again. ”I have told you, our conversation assumes that Freddy is listening. I can't tell you the details. What should be said has been said. I have fulfilled my responsibility. Lastly… our lives are placed on your hands, Zheng. Thanks to you, our team made it through so many movies. So let fate decide our lives. Save us if you can. Otherwise… we will leave everything to fate.”
Zheng was more confused than before. He stared at HongLu for a while then said, ”Your words are too strange. It's on the same tone as Xuan. I really can't get what you people are thinking… Speaking of which, I wonder if their mission is going well.”
”That's the situation. The two of us rented a house on the east of the town. The house is fully furnished. The first floor is large enough to fit all thirteen of us.” Xuan spoke while holding a piece of document.
Zheng laughed. ”Great. I was worried since it took you so long. Since the house can fit all thirty of us… thirteen… Eh? Thirteen?”
The rest of the team looked to Zheng in confusion. Zheng counted them one by one then yelled, ”Heng? Xuan! YinKong! Where's Heng? Where did you lose him?”