Chapter 58 (2/2)
”Hum, no!” said Hu Xing.
”Well, now let me tell you some business.” Aoki said.
Seeing Aoki's serious appearance, Hu Xing nodded and said, ”OK!”
Aoki said, ”first, even the content attached to this course. You know I'm an 'intruder', so you think I'm not created by your subconscious. But you're wrong! I'm really created by your subconscious.”
”Ah?” Hu Xing was startled, ”how could it be?”
Aoki said, ”the dream is a void space, which is constructed by your subconscious extracting your memory materials. All images come from your memory. I'm just a conscious body, do you understand?”
Hu Xing was confused and asked, ”I know. What's the matter?”
Aoki said, as like as two peas, ”how can consciousness be exactly the same as the body?”
”Ah! I see.” Hu Xing exclaimed, ”you mean, what you intrude into my dream is your consciousness, and consciousness is an invisible thing. When I found you, my subconscious took the initiative to visualize you. That is to say, I'm actually talking to a group of... 'Qi'... Or... A 'shadow'?”
Aoki nodded and said, ”that's almost what you mean. In fact, you're not angry!”
Hu Xing was startled. He looked at his body and Qingmu again. His brain began to be a little confused.
Before she could figure it out, Aoki then said, ”the second thing, I just found out that the boss's wife and the singing girl are not here. It's so late, the phone can't get through, even Xiao Qi's phone can't get through. I think something might have happened, so I'm going out.”
Hu Xing said, ”where are you going to find them? Should I inform the police station to check the surveillance?”
Aoki said, ”don't use it first. I have a way.”
Hu Xing said, ”then I'll go with you.”
Aoki said, ”well, when people are awake in their dreams, their mental strength will be consumed very quickly. You will sleep until dawn, or even noon, and you will feel very tired when you wake up. If the coal boss comes to quarrel with you tomorrow morning, you will take out some of the sauce elbow meat in the refrigerator and heat it in the microwave.”
Hu Xing nodded and said, ”OK, what about the third thing?”
Aoki smiled mysteriously and said, ”you know you're in a dream now, don't you?”
”Yes, what's the matter?” Hu Xing suddenly felt a little unsure. Looking at Aoki's smile, he always felt that he had bad intentions.
”In fact, it's nothing,” Aoki said. ”I told you that lucid dreams are not a very pleasant thing. When you can't control your dreams, you have to face a lot of trouble. In addition to all kinds of 'accidents' in your dreams, there's another thing that you have to find a way to' get out '.”
”Get out?”
”Have you ever heard of a dream?”
”Well, yes.”
”If you don't want to live your life in a dream, you have to find a way to get out - leave the dream.”
Aoki's face showed a mysterious smile again, and then his figure slowly faded. Finally, there was only an invisible outline in the void.
”Go out... Live a lifetime...” Hu Xing muttered to herself, suddenly surprised with a ”cold sweat”. Yeah, how do I get out?
”Hey! Hey! Make it clear!” Hu Xing shouted and stretched out her hand to pull, but it was empty.
She wanted to open the door and run out, but she knew that whether it was the sunshine in California or the glaciers in the Arctic, it was still just her dream.
She was awake, in her dream. Now that I'm awake, how can I wake up to return to reality?
”Don't go!” Hu Xing got a little scared. She desperately shouted Aoki's name, but she didn't get a response.
The dormitory is terribly quiet. On the bed lay her classmates, all the same as when they were in college. Hu Xing can clearly see their blinking eyelashes and blowing noses when breathing, but she knows that all this is false.
The crazy roommate who likes writing poetry suddenly sat up from bed, rubbed his bleary eyes and said, ”Hu Xing, why haven't you slept yet?”
Hu Xing doesn't know whether to respond or not. A deep helplessness and fear that has never been worse than death are coming