Yu Hao lowered his head and looked at Zhou Sheng's WeChat chat box. Apart from those simple conversations, they didn't exchange any opinions.
"This matter has to start from the day I committed suicide in Houshan." Yu Hao murmured, and then told Huang Ting roughly what had happened. Huang Ting just listened carefully without interrupting Yu Hao, frowning slightly. up.
"This is how Zhou Sheng and I met for the first time in a dream." Yu Hao said, "The rest, I think you can already deduce it."
Huang Ting's expression was not surprised at all, Yu Hao suddenly had an idea, hazy, he understood some kind of arrangement and arrangement that Zhou Sheng had secretly made. Huang Ting didn't fully understand the Golden Crow Wheel and their purpose of dreaming, or rather, he had a certain degree of misunderstanding about this device. To confess the truth to him is quite risky, but it also opens up another possibility-perhaps Huang Ting will change some of his original ideas after realizing the true power of the Golden Crow.
Sure enough, Huang Ting replied: "It's a little bit different from what I thought, but it's not too big."
Yu Hao: "What was your original idea of the Golden Crow Wheel?"
Huang Ting did not answer, Yu Hao clearly remembered the information of the research report on the second page of the PPT, which revealed a lot of content that neither he nor Zhou Sheng had thought about. Make a note and go back to find the relevant literature for comparison.
Huang Ting: "So this is a device used to change the hearts of others."
"To be precise," Yu Hao replied, "it's a device used to help others and change their hearts. We don't directly interfere in a person's dream, but find the owner of this dream and help him regain the totem."
Huang Ting didn't care, turned the page, and there was a photo of Liang Jinmin lying on the hospital bed when he was in a coma.
"That is to say, as long as you are willing, you can also come into my dream." Huang Ting said.
"It's my turn to ask questions." Yu Hao accurately cut into the best moment and set off a smoke bomb, "Where is the Golden Crow Wheel now?"
"No comment." Huang Ting replied, "It's not in my hands anyway."
"Then our conversation can't continue." Yu Hao got up and said to Huang Ting, "This is not the way to communicate between friends."
"Okay." Huang Ting stopped Yu Hao from getting out of bed and said, "Leave it to the superior."
"Which superior?" Yu Hao said, "I remember you have several superiors."
Huang Ting laughed it off, but he was still thinking, Yu Hao said, "How are you going to study it now?"
Huang Ting replied, "It's my turn. How did you wake up a comatose person?"
"Subconscious." Yu Hao said, "I don't know the general principle, only Zhou Sheng understands."
Yu Hao roughly described what happened in Liang Jinmin's dream that day, Huang Ting said, "So in the end you discovered the surveillance that Liang Jinmin had forgotten about. What I'm saying...why do you get tips on things that she can't even remember? ."
Huang Ting glanced at Yu Hao meaningfully again and motioned Yu Hao to ask.
Yu Hao pondered for a moment: "Now that the Golden Crow Wheel is in your hands, your questions can be answered through research, why are you still chasing after us?"
Yu Hao was always trying to test Huang Ting, wondering if he knew that in the Golden Crow Rotation Package case, what they took away was still a fake. But through the observation of Huang Ting, Yu Hao was now almost certain that they still didn't know that what they got was a fake Golden Crow Wheel.
"You know better than me." Huang Ting said in a trance, "except you and Zhou Sheng, no one can activate it."
Yu Hao: "I can't activate it, only Zhou Sheng has control over it, let me see?"
Huang Ting said: "It's not in my hands, don't try again. Come on, the next question, can you pass it and erase people's memories?"
Huang Ting switched to the next page. This page was empty, but there was a player hanging under the screen. He clicked on auto-play, and it was a hypnotized recording of Ou Qihang. Sure enough, it was exactly the same as what Yu Hao had guessed before. Through hypnosis, Huang Ting reminded Ou Qihang of that lost memory and restored it!
"...In the beginning, I dreamed about Zhou Sheng and Yu Hao, and recreated the scene in the dream." Ou Qihang's voice was tired when he was hypnotized, "but common sense tells me that this is impossible..."
After Yu Hao listened to the entire paragraph, Huang Ting turned off the sound.
"How to erase a person's memory?" Huang Ting said.
"The memory has always been there." Yu Hao recalled Chen Yekai and Zhou Sheng's speculation, and replied, "We just sealed it temporarily, mobilized a part of the dream, and then threw it into the subconscious."
"I went to Liang Jinmin and walked around subconsciously, what did you learn?" Huang Ting raised his brows and asked Yu Hao.
"I don't know," Yu Hao replied, "You have to ask Zhou Sheng. Come to me."
Yu Hao pondered, and suddenly got some kind of inspiration from Huang Ting's words. Could it really be what he speculated? After Zhou Sheng entered Liang Jinmin's subconscious, he learned how to transform memories between the surface conscious and the subconscious. Found some kind of pattern? No, Zhou Sheng suggested earlier that he could avoid leaks by "erasing" Chen Yekai's memory.
So has he used this method before? Who is it used for? Zhou Sheng never told him... why? Of course, there is a reason why they don't ask, there are not many opportunities for them to discuss the Golden Crow...
"Hello." Huang Ting said, "Are you asleep?"
Yu Hao: "Why did you only take the Golden Crow Wheel and not Zhou Sheng?"
Yu Hao wanted to confirm their guess about Huang Ting, but got another answer.
"I don't want your superiors to embarrass you." Huang Ting said, "Given full autonomy, the power of this device is too powerful, and Zhou Sheng can't hold it for a long time, so I made a deal with my superiors: I am responsible for getting it. The Golden Crow Wheel, turn it in. In exchange, the organization will let you both go and no longer interfere with your normal life."
"But obviously it didn't work out," Yu Hao said, "otherwise there wouldn't be today's conversation."
Huang Ting was noncommittal: "It's my turn, how many people's dreams have you entered?"
"Not much." Yu Hao told him everything Huang Ting knew, or what he thought he could infer, including Fu Liqun.
"That's all?" Huang Ting didn't believe it, and glanced at Yu Hao.
"Since you don't believe me, why ask me?" Yu Hao said, "What is your superior's attitude towards us now?"
"I can't answer you this question." Huang Ting said, "You can only trust me, and I will try my best to protect you."
"Thank you." Yu Hao replied.
"You're welcome." Huang Ting said, "According to your guess, will it happen without your knowledge..."
Yu Hao said, "But you also helped us get out of this matter."
Huang Ting said sternly: "Do you think that if I choose not to investigate, the secret of your dreams will never be discovered? Yu Hao, you have entered the society and are no longer a child."
Yu Hao remained silent, took the remote control, flipped through the PPT, stopped at their past forensic photos, looked for an opportunity to go back to the front, and read the English analysis report on the second page.
Huang Ting said: "Then, let's solve the last problem, it's not too early, don't mess around, Yu Hao."
Yu Hao didn't turn around again, and looked sideways at Huang Ting, Huang Ting said, "It's the same question, has Zhou Sheng entered someone else's dream without your knowledge?"
Yu Hao replied, "Impossible. If he goes to someone else's dream, he will definitely tell me."
Huang Ting said: "Is this your agreement? His performance in the firm is quite outstanding. The whereabouts of some targets are not so easy to grasp."
Yu Hao asked back: "The office is part of your arrangement, right? They also know the secret of the Golden Crow? How many people know about it?"
"Not much." Huang Ting said casually, "I can't tell you the specific personnel involved."
Yu Hao: "Qin Guodong opened the office. What is his relationship with Ren Chong and Zhao Liang?"
"Relationship with a former colleague." Huang Ting got up and said, "I'll take you back? Xiao Fu has arrived in Beijing, won't you say hello to him?"
Yu Hao: "???"
Yu Hao had put down his cell phone for a while, so he quickly checked. Seeing that Fu Liqun had sent him a message and no reply, he asked again in the group. Zhou Sheng replied that Yu Hao and Huang Ting were having dinner, and Chen Yekai asked if he wanted to go. he lives there. Ou Qihang was asking if he wanted to pick him up. Fu Liqun's last reply was to wait for him at Yu Hao's unit.
Fu Liqun did not have the keys to their house. He originally planned to go to Beijing tomorrow, but he did not expect to come tonight. Last year, he sent Yu Hao a courier, and Yu Hao left the address of the newspaper office. Jin Weicheng should still be on duty at the newspaper office now.
Yu Hao said, "I'll pick him up from the work unit."
"Okay." Huang Ting said, "Let's go, after a while, if the research doesn't come up, maybe I'll take you to see it... The Golden Crow Wheel, is that what it's called?"
Yu Hao said, "You should go to Zhou Sheng directly. I can't open the Golden Crow Wheel either."
Huang Ting replied: "The conclusion I got from finding Zhou Sheng is far from being as simple as communicating with you alone. If you want to protect him, this route is obviously the safest."
Huang Ting changed into a down trench coat. It was already cold outside. When he got into the car, he coughed twice and handed Yu Hao the helmet.
"You have to believe," Huang Ting said. "The person who least expects you to be in danger is me. I only hope that everything is still under control."
"Last question." Yu Hao asked Huang Ting while holding his helmet, "What's in the small refrigerator in your room?"
The snow-melting Beijing was quiet, with the ice ridges dripping down. In the dark night, Huang Ting lowered his head and put on gloves, straddling the motorcycle, not looking at Yu Hao. Holding his helmet, Yu Hao stood on the side of the road like a sculpture.
"You have grown up, Yu Hao." Huang Ting put on his gloves, looked up at Yu Hao, and said, "I still remember the day I had coffee with Xiaojun and you."
"What kind of medicine is it?" Yu Hao said, "Injection? Huang Ting, is your body okay?"
"Get in the car." Huang Ting said.
The motorcycle drove into the urban area where Hua Deng was first.
"Why?" Yu Hao said while waiting for the red light.
Huang Ting turned his head to look at Yu Hao, Yu Hao asked in confusion, "Is this your project?"
Huang Ting nodded.
Yu Hao: "It started with you? I mean, because you brought up this case."
Huang Ting briefly recalled and shook his head.
Yu Hao: "Does it mean anything to you to work on finding out these details?"
"The truth." Huang Ting said solemnly, "I want to know the truth, but I don't know if you can understand it."
"Understandable." In a sense, Yu Hao understood what Huang Ting was thinking.
"You're not a bad person." Finally, Yu Hao said to Huang Ting outside the newspaper office.
"There is still a difference between 'not a bad person' and a 'good person'." After Huang Ting said this, he straightened his helmet and said, "Let's go! Say hello to Xiao Fu for me."
The engine rang, Huang Ting galloped onto the road and left.
Yu Hao immediately opened his backpack, took out his laptop, took three steps and two steps, and entered the office. Jin Weicheng was indeed on duty, and Fu Liqun and Fu Liqun each had a small bottle of Erguotou, chatting and drinking in front of the heater.
As soon as Fu Liqun got up, Yu Hao immediately said, "Give me another half an hour, you guys can continue."
Yu Hao quickly sat down at the table, opened the notebook, turned off the WIFI, found the network cable adapter from the drawer, surfed the Internet, and opened the literature library to start searching. He didn't want to check information related to the Golden Crow on the Internet at home, fearing that the network would be monitored. At the same time, I took a post-it note, took off the pen, wrote down the first keyword "intercommunication of collective subconscious", and started searching.
This is one of the key words of the English research report on the second page of the PPT.
The conversation between Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun was heard, and the content of the document popped up on the webpage. Yu Hao studied Jungian psychology in college. Shadows, Persona, Animas and Animas... are all things that he has learned. Among them, "self-nature", Yu Hao specially used it as a keyword in his graduation thesis opening report, and did a literature search.
"So your responsibility is very heavy." Jin Weicheng said to Fu Liqun, "This is how men live. Society is harsh on women, and it is equally harsh on men. To take responsibility, I can't say, there is no way... "
Fu Liqun drank some wine and said, "What happened later?"
"Cremation." Jin Weicheng replied, "It can only be cremated. Now that I think about it, if I hadn't nodded, she wouldn't have wanted to get pregnant..."
Yu Hao looked up at Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun, and wrote the second paragraph from memory.
Fu Liqun glanced outside and said, "It's snowing again, Yu Hao, are you cold?"
"It's not cold." Yu Hao said, "Should I avoid it?"
"It's okay," Jin Weicheng said.
On this snowy night, Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun were drinking wine in front of the fireplace. Yu Hao was very surprised. It was the first time Jin Weicheng and Fu Liqun met each other that night, and they actually started to chat.
While checking the literature, he deduced a general idea from their on-and-off conversations—Jin Weicheng was one of the few college students at that time. In that era when he was proud of his career as a worker, he was in charge of numerical control in a steel mill and married a beautiful wife. , He also played a good basketball, and was considered a man of influence in a small world.
He has a very lovely daughter, and he even showed Fu Liqun a photo, and his words were full of pride for her. But there is only one child, and I always feel as if something is missing. Once my wife got pregnant unexpectedly and wanted to give birth to the second child. In those days, family planning was very strictly controlled. Jin Weicheng thought about it for a long time, and finally nodded his head unexpectedly.
This decision turned their lives upside down. My lover went back to the countryside to hide and prepare to have a child, but when she was eight months pregnant, she was taken away by the family planning office and had an abortion shot. Bleeding after miscarriage and died. Jin Weicheng also lost his job. His daughter resented her father because of her mother's death and lived with her grandmother.
"How much ambition do you have," Jin Weicheng sighed again. "When you were young, you wanted to be a powerful person. These ideals and goals will become different when your first child is born. In your life, , children will be part of your new future."
Fu Liqun was silent, and Jin Weicheng said: "So being a father is sometimes not easy, you have to understand your father-in-law. He did that because he couldn't express his emotions. In the eastern cultural system, men, especially fathers , always wearing a mask, always reminding myself 'I'm a dad'."
Yu Hao asked, "What about Teacher Jin's daughter?"
"I'm going to study abroad," Jin Weicheng said. "I'll save some money for her as a dowry, and I won't run away. I'm tired of being an investigative reporter. I'm not as young as you."
Fu Liqun said: "Actually, many times, as a child, I also hope to communicate more with my parents. It is not bad to be able to sit down and talk."
Yu Hao clicked the documents and papers to download one by one, Jin Weicheng replied, "I can't put it down. There is a wall in my heart, and I can't put it down either, nor can she put it down. That's it, it doesn't mean that you can put it down if you put it down. , go far, as the Buddhists say, maybe one day you will have an epiphany."
Yu Hao closed the computer. In this quiet snowy night, for some reason, what he remembered the most was Huang Ting's back on the motorcycle. Zhou Sheng took him on a bicycle, and Huang Ting took him too. The feeling of being with Zhou Sheng was a heartbeat and love, but on the back seat of Huang Ting's motorcycle, it made him feel more direct and impactful force.
What is that emotion? Just like the moment when Jin Weicheng took Erguotou's wine bottle, brought it to his lips, and looked at the snow outside the window.
It is a deep, deep loneliness, it is the loneliness that separates everyone from the noisy environment and the entire grand world. At this moment, they are in the world, but they are separated from the world, and there are countless scenes. And the sound became distant in an instant. Between heaven and earth, there are only solitary individuals, just like a boat that can never land in the boundless sea.
The stars in the sky had disappeared, and the sun had not yet risen. Yu Hao recalled what Ou Qihang said with a smile, sitting side by side on the school bench with him before the end of the summer.
Huang Ting turned an intersection and stopped an SUV in front of him. He looked back, and there was an off-road vehicle behind him. Two vehicles were blocked at both ends of the road, and a person got off the vehicle.
"The things have been handed in." Huang Ting replied, "It's no use looking for me, Mr. Zhao should go back."
"It doesn't matter." Zhao Liang said, "If you hadn't made an appointment with Yu Hao today, I wouldn't have come here specially. Whoever can't hold back first will lose, remember what you said at the time?"
Huang Ting twisted the motorcycle handle a few times and made a "humming" idling sound.
Zhao Liang said: "Although I have left the investigation team, my strength is still a little bit. Xiao Huang, don't do stupid things."
Through his motorcycle helmet, Huang Ting observed the vehicle behind him from the rear mirror. Zhao Liang said, "Just a few questions. You are Brother Ren's favorite student, so he won't hold you back. I also want to give you some things. have a look."
Huang Ting finally gave up his plan to fight, took off his helmet and got out of the car. Someone came over immediately in front of the SUV and rode his car away. Zhao Liang signaled to Huang Ting to get in the car first, and the driver drove the car away.