According to Jiang Ming, he was able to survive partly because of luck, but mainly because he dared to resist.
Lin Mo had checked the dagger in Jiang Ming's hand before.
Because it was the murder weapon used by the murderer, it carried a kind of evil spirit, which also had some restraining effect on nightmares. However, according to Jiang Ming, the nightmare that imitated him was stabbed dozens of times but still did not die, which was indeed a bit strange.
But now Lin Mo couldn’t figure it out, unless he saw the nightmare with his own eyes.
Next, Lin Mo briefly told Jiang Ming about the situation in the nightmare world. In this situation, telling him some basic survival knowledge was not considered a leak.
And if nothing unexpected happens, with Jiang Ming's identity, it should not be a problem for him to work in the Security Bureau next.
Of course, the premise is that he can continue to survive.
At this time, the 'wake-up service' that Lin Mo had set up earlier started.
"Expert Lin, wake up, Expert Lin?"
Lin Mo was woken up by someone.
After opening his eyes, Lin Mo looked at Jiang Ming who was also awakened next to him. He knew in his heart that his previous judgment was correct. After being hypnotized into the nightmare world by the mysterious video, he could only be awakened by becoming a member of the Evolution website.
Xiao Du and Xiao He are already dead.
This time, apart from Lin Mo, Jiang Ming was the only survivor.
Lin Mo doesn't have to worry about Jiang Ming's affairs. The Security Bureau has special rules and regulations to accept and train people.
"Team Leader Liu is back and outside." A staff member came over and said this. Lin Mo remembered what he had been told before and hurried out.
"We have found the man named Zhao Xin. He should be the one you are looking for, and he has made important discoveries." Team leader Liu was excited when he saw Lin Mo.
Lin Mo was directly pulled out of the Sanqiao Branch by Team Leader Liu and put into an assault vehicle outside.
It's already night outside.
Team leader Liu has superb driving skills and drives at extremely high speeds, but he also ensures that he abides by traffic regulations, which is commendable.
The lights of the city passed by quickly. Lin Mo looked at the scenery outside the window and had a feeling that the comfortable life everyone was living now would not last long.
The nightmare world is expanding, that much has been proven.
Moreover, there are more and more infectious incidents, and it is possible that they will gradually evolve into a global disaster. This is not Lin Mo's alarmist statement, but the result of a data model deduction made by experts from the Security Bureau.
It’s hard to imagine what it will be like by then.
Twenty minutes later, the vehicle drove into a residential area in the suburbs.
There are single-family villas here, quiet and with good supporting facilities. After getting out of the car, Lin Mo asked, "Is Zhao Xin a rich man?"
"I don't know whether he is rich or not, but I know he is definitely a pervert." Team Leader Liu closed the car door. There were already a number of vehicles from the Security Bureau parked in front.
A member of the action team with a gun stepped forward and saluted. Lin Mo looked around and it was obvious that this place had been controlled by the Security Bureau.
Followed Team Leader Liu into the house.
"We haven't moved anything here because we don't want to damage the scene."
Team leader Liu leads the way.
The villa was very quiet. Apart from a few security technicians taking pictures, no one else was there.
The furnishings in the room are very strange.
At the entrance is a statue of Medusa as tall as a person.
It's the woman with poisonous snakes all over her head who turns people to stone with just one glance. The statue is very lifelike. When you push the door open and see it for the first time, you would really think it's a Medusa roaring and screaming at you.
But anyone with a common sense wouldn't put such a thing in the hallway, right
After entering, the paintings on the wall were also not serious.
There are women with revealing clothes and horns on their heads; or there are men holding corpses and laughing strangely; there is also a painting of the setting sun, old trees and crows, and a row of people hanging under the branches, probably hanging themselves. If they were a family, this would be considered a disaster of extermination, but the name of this painting is very artistic.
It's actually called 'sublimation'.
It is obvious that the artist of this painting is seriously ill.
Or maybe it's just that his kind of art is not something that most people can appreciate.
However, the style of these paintings is very consistent, that is, weird, perverted and unreasonable.
Team leader Liu also noticed Lin Mo's expression.
"Expert Lin, the scarier things are still to come. Come, look here."
The two men walked to a room on the second floor. After opening the door, Lin Mo saw a person lying on the bed. He was dead. It was a corpse.
Take a closer look.
I recognized him. This person is Zhao Xin.
Lin Mo was not surprised.
In the nightmare world, Zhao Xin had the red box snatched away by himself, so he was skinned by the wedding dress ghost and made into a lantern. He died a miserable death.
Zhao Xin's body was also very strange. He was curled up. Logically, he should have a painful expression, but in fact, he was smiling.
It was still that very weird smile.
It was the first time that Lin Mo saw a corpse laughing so happily.
But this is not the weirdest or scariest thing.
His bedroom is filled with mirrors.
The surrounding walls, ceiling, and even the floor were all mirrors, so after entering, Zhao Xin's strange corpse could be seen from all directions.
"We checked his computer and found records of him logging into the Evolution website, and he visited it more than a hundred times in a month." Team leader Liu did not dare to enter the room.
After all, this room made of mirrors is really weird.
"He is a senior member of that website, so it is not surprising that he has a visit record."
What Lin Mo wanted to say was that if you check the computer in the underworld, you will know that Zhao Xin has visited it more times.
But this mirror room is indeed suggestive.
Lin Mo thought of the mirror world.
Could it be that Zhao Xin has the ability to control the mirror world
Probably not, but it is certain that Zhao Xin knows how to use the mirror world.
One thing can prove this. The location of Zhao Xin's villa is far away from the Sanqiao Branch. Logically speaking, even if he enters the nightmare world, he will not appear in the same scene, and he should not have any intersection with the other party.
But the reality is not like that.
So Lin Mo suspected that Zhao Xin could use the mirror world to connect different nightmare worlds together.
Lin Mo has entered the mirror world. Indeed, the mirror world is likely to become a channel connecting different nightmare worlds.
However, this matter needs further confirmation.
"Pull out the body."
Lin Mo said.
Although Zhao Xin is already dead, it is better to dispose of this guy's body in order to be safe.
Team leader Liu immediately arranged for someone to do so.
The room next door is a study, which is filled with various books. If you flip through them, you can find that they are all works on mysticism.
Lin Mo couldn't understand most of it.
In addition, there are some archaeological books, but because they are too complicated, Lin Mo and Team Leader Liu only glanced through them.
At this time Lin Mo noticed a piece of information.
It was a yellowed diary, and it was obvious that it was old, and definitely not as short as thirty or fifty years.
After flipping through it, Lin Mo's attention was immediately attracted.
It's someone's diary.
The content of the record is about a strange incident that happened about a hundred years ago.
It was said that the daughter of a wealthy family was forced to marry a young man from an aristocratic family whom she had never even met. As a result, the girl died unexpectedly on the wedding night.
Some people say that the woman committed suicide.
The man thought it was unlucky that someone died just after the marriage, so he broke off the engagement.
The woman's family also felt it was shameful and unlucky, and there was a local custom that if an unmarried woman died, it would bring disaster to the family.
So they gave the women to other men for secret marriages.
No one expected that when the village was decorated with lights that night, a dam surrounding it suddenly broke, and floods rushed in, engulfing the entire village.
Some people survived, so this diary was created.
This incident was also a local folk legend. Some people said that the woman turned into a ghost and that was the reason for the disaster. In short, this legend has been around for a long time, and it was not until the last decade or so that it was gradually forgotten.
Lin Mo then flipped over.
There are also some records and analysis about this strange story at the end.
These should have been written by Zhao Xin.
It records the time when the ghost story was spread and the number of people affected. The other party even went to that remote place to investigate and interviewed some elderly people.
In the last sentence, Zhao Xin wrote: Only true fear can form a powerful nightmare.
"Expert Lin, what exactly do you mean by this? Is this person studying nightmares?" Team Leader Liu asked from the side.
Lin Mo said nothing.
Team leader Liu didn't know, but he was very clear that the horrific weird stories in the diary had become reality in the nightmare world.
In other words, the wedding dress ghost and the haunted house were specially created by Zhao Xin.
Is this guy just mentally ill
Why deliberately create nightmares
Does Zhao Xin think that he can control this nightmare
Facts have proved that it is not impossible for people to control nightmares, but it is extremely difficult, and in fact the probability of failure is greater. Zhao Xin's fate has proved this point.
And that's not right either.
In the nightmare world, fear condenses into a nightmare once and for all. That is to say, only after a person enters the nightmare world for the first time will the fear in his heart turn into a nightmare.
Even if Zhao Xin studied these strange stories, could he create nightmares by himself
Just at this moment, a member of the action team came running over from outside and reported that there was a new discovery.
But judging from the way the other person spoke, he seemed to be frightened by something.
Lin Mo and Captain Liu immediately followed the team member all the way down to the basement.
The basement of this villa had obviously been renovated. According to the house plan, there was originally only one basement, but in the end, the action team members found the entrance to the second basement.
The entrance is disguised behind a decorative wall and there is an iron security door inside.
However, this did not pose a problem for the Security Bureau. After arranging various cutting tools, the iron gate was opened smoothly.
The moment I opened the door, a foul smell hit me in the face.
Wearing protective equipment, Lin Mo walked down.
Lin Mo was also very shocked by the scene below, and Team Leader Liu next to him exclaimed: "Is this place a prison?"