Chapter 149.1 (1/2)

Yu Hao looked down at his WeChat chat window with Zhou Sheng. Aside from those few simple conversations, they never exchanged any further opinions.

“About that…we’ll have to start from the day I tried to commit suicide in the back mountains.” Yu Hao murmured, then told Huang Ting roughly about what had happened. Huang Ting just listened earnestly and didn’t interrupt Yu Hao, his eyebrows furrowing slightly.

“That was the first time I met Zhou Sheng in my dream.” Yu Hao said, “As for the rest, I think you can already deduce what had happened.”

Huang Ting didn’t seem surprised in the slightest. An idea suddenly surfaced in Yu Hao’s mind; it was vague, hazy, and he understood some of the kind of arrangement and set-up Zhou Sheng had planned in the dark. Huang Ting wasn’t entirely clear about the Golden Crow Wheel and their motive for entering dreams, or in other words, he has a certain degree of misunderstanding regarding this device. Telling him the truth posed quite a huge risk, but it also opened up another possibility— perhaps Huang Ting would change some of the ideas he had first held after he realised the true power of the Golden Crow Wheel.

Sure enough, Huang Ting answered, “It’s a little different from what I imagined, but the difference isn’t that significant.”

Yu Hao, “What was the Golden Crow Wheel you had originally envisaged?”

Huang Ting didn’t reply. At this moment, Yu Hao clearly recalled the information provided by the research report on the second slide of the PPT; it disclosed a lot of content that he and Zhou Sheng had never thought of before, and he had no way of understanding it with his current body of knowledge, so he could only forcibly commit it to memory before going back to find relevant literature for comparison.

Huang Ting, “So this is a device that can be used to change the hearts of others.”

“To be exact,” Yu Hao answered, “It’s a device used to help others and to change their hearts. We can’t directly interfere with a person’s dreamscape; we can only find the master of the dreamscape and help him seize back his totem.”

Huang Ting didn’t seem to take it seriously. He flipped a slide, and a photo of Liang Jinming lying in bed unconscious appeared on it.

“That is to say, as long as you’re willing, you guys can enter my dreams as well.” Huang Ting said.

“It’s my turn to ask questions.” Yu Hao cut in precisely at the best opportunity and released a smoke grenade, “Where’s the Golden Crow Wheel now?”

“No comment.” Huang Ting answered, “In any case, it’s not with me.”

“Then our conversation can’t continue.” Yu Hao was ready to get up. He said to Huang Ting, “This isn’t how friends communicate.”

“All right.” Huang Ting stopped Yu Hao from getting off the bed, “It was handed over to my superiors.”

“Which superior?” Yu Hao said, “I remember you had quite a few.”

Huang Ting dismissed it with a laugh, but he was still thinking. Yu Hao said, “How do you guys plan to study it now?”

Huang Ting answered, “It’s my turn. How did you guys wake up someone who was unconscious?”

“Subconscious.” Yu Hao said, “I’m not sure about the general principles behind it, only Zhou Sheng understands them.”

Yu Hao roughly described what had happened in Liang Jinmin’s dream that day. Huang Ting said, “So in the end you realised that Liang Jinmin had forgotten about the surveillance video. And I was wondering too…how she managed to get suggestions from you about things that even she couldn’t recall.”

Huang Ting cast another meaningful glance at Yu Hao, signalling for him to ask his question.

Yu Hao pondered for a moment. “Now that the Golden Crow Wheel is with you guys, all your questions can be answered through research. Why are you guys still pursuing us so relentlessly?”

Both on the surface and underneath, Yu Hao’s words have always been trying to sound Huang Ting out. He wanted to know if he knew that the Golden Crow Wheel they had switched out and taken was a fake. However, through Huang Ting’s observation, Yu Hao was now almost certain that they still didn’t know that they had taken a fake Golden Crow Wheel.

“You know why better than I do.” Huang Ting said absent-mindedly, “Aside from you and Zhou Sheng, no one else can activate it.”

Yu Hao, “I can’t activate it. Only Zhou Sheng has control over it. Let me take a look?”

Huang Ting said, “It’s not with me, don’t try to sound me out anymore. Come, next question. Can you guys erase other people’s memories through it?”

Huang Ting flipped to the next slide. This slide was completely bereft, except for a player at the bottom of the screen. He clicked on ‘autoplay’, and it started playing a recording of Ou Qihang when he was hypnotised. Sure enough, it was just as what Yu Hao had speculated — through hypnosis, Huang Ting made Ou Qihang recall the memory that he had lost, and even the entire process had been reconstructed!

“……at the beginning, I dreamed of Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao, then saw that scene in my dream again.” Ou Qihang sounded a little drowsy while he was under hypnosis, “But common sense told me that it was impossible…”

After Yu Hao listened to the whole recording, Huang Ting turned it off.

“How do you guys erase a person’s memory?” Huang Ting asked.

“The memory is always there.” Yu Hao recalled Chen Yekai’s and Zhou Sheng’s deductions and answered, “We just sealed it off temporarily; transfer a portion of the dreamscape out and throw it into the subconscious.”