"Doctor, are you using hypnotic smoke?"
When he pushed the door open and walked into the bedroom, Xia De asked curiously. In fact, he was more curious that the doctor who exhaled the smoke was actually okay.
"No, this is my magic, the Sleeping Dragon Mist. Sometimes I use it to assist patients in their 'hypnosis' treatment. Don't worry, he's just an ordinary person. Unless we make loud noises in his ears, he won't wake up tonight."
The doctor said confidently.
Although Dr. Schneider has had bad luck, his professional level is still trustworthy.
After entering this narrow bedroom, the two checked the room separately to prevent other dangers when they fell asleep. During this time, Luther Kingweiss, who was lying on the bed, showed no signs of waking up. Even when the two people who had checked the room put their hands on his head in the dark, the sleeping man still did not wake up.
He closed his eyes, and under the light of the silver moon, his face actually had a ferocious expression. Coupled with the horrible red and swollen burn marks on his face, and the large shadow formed by his head on the pillow, this scene was indeed somewhat terrifying.
Dr. Schneider believed that the other person was having a nightmare and this was a good opportunity to fall asleep.
"The burn marks are really severe."
The doctor said quietly, and he and Shad both brought chairs and sat on either side of the single bed.
Shade extinguished the light on his fingertips and drank the potion that the doctor handed him to help him fall asleep. The doctor then used a silver rune chain that looked like a lady's bracelet to tie Shade's right hand to his left hand. On the rune chain, three runes were written to indicate a deep sleep and a repeating dream. This was an alchemical item.
It wouldn't be so troublesome for the doctor to enter the dream alone, but to bring Shade into the dream together, these extra preparations would be needed.
After doing all this, the people sitting on both sides of the bed in the dark room placed their empty hands on Luther King's forehead, one on the left and one on the right.
"Doctor, why do you feel like we are performing some evil ritual?"
Xia De said in a low voice, worried that Luther Kingweiss would suddenly open his eyes and be frightened to death by this scene.
"Detective, stop talking nonsense and relax now. I'm going to fall asleep. If nothing unexpected happens, we'll wake up in about ten to fifteen minutes in reality."
"What if there's an accident?"
Xia De asked again. The doctor looked up at him. In the almost complete darkness with the curtains drawn, he seemed to see some silver light in Xia De's eyes:
"Well... How worried are you about an accident? If something unfortunate really happens, it's hard to say when it will happen. But trust me, detective. I'm a professional. Now lie on the bed, close your eyes, and keep your body comfortable. Very good, one, two, three!"
His mind gradually became scattered, and a vague sense of attraction seemed to be pulling Xia De to a certain place. Xia De did not reject this attraction, so his consciousness became more and more blurred.
In a trance, I seemed to be standing on the ridge of the field under the silver moon, looking up at the vast night sky and the sea of stars. But as the temperature around me rose, the huge silver moon disk above my head gradually disappeared, and the fiery red light gradually eroded and replaced the tranquil scenery of the ridge of the field under the moon.
The crackling sound and the swaying flame gradually became clearer.
Xia De shuddered when he regained consciousness, and in an instant he seemed to have emerged from the bottom of the water.
He took a deep breath and looked around. He found himself standing on a deserted street at night. In front of him was a house that was burning like a fire demon. The three-story building was completely on fire, and the heat wave and terrible crackling sound seemed to indicate that it was about to collapse.
In the dark night, the light of the flames was so bright that it was almost impossible to open my eyes.
Doctor Schneider was standing in front of Xia De, raising his palm to cover his eyes, squinting his eyes and looking forward. The firelight reflected half of the doctor's face red:
"It really is a nightmare. A fire scene? It's as expected."
Xia De looked down at his hands, but did not see the golden cracks:
"I remember you said that as long as I'm in a dream, I will..."
Only in the deepest dream will the traces of "divine afterglow" be exposed. This dream does not belong to you, and you can only interfere with it to a limited extent, so it cannot expose the essence of your soul.
It seemed that even in other people's dreams, she was still with him.
"Understood."
Thinking in his mind, he continued to look around at the fire scene that seemed to burn everything. It was easy to judge that this was a dream. Such a large fire did not alarm the neighbors around. Moreover, if he looked closely at the burning buildings, the flames did not continue to damage the damaged buildings. They just burned there.
"Doctor, what do we do now?"
Xia De asked softly. When he looked up at the higher part of the building, he actually saw a black figure flash by the burning window:
"What is that?"
He thought in his mind, but the special environment of the dream greatly weakened the perception of outsiders, so the voice in his heart did not give an answer.
"I'm here to look for the owner of the dream, detective, please wait a moment."
The doctor stood still with his eyes closed, and Shade continued to observe the flames burning in front of him. Although this was his first time dreaming, this dream always gave him a strange feeling.
"Found it, upstairs... But this dream seems a little strange. Why do I feel like there are other things besides us?"
The blue-eyed doctor said with some surprise. He did not lead Xia De directly into the fire scene, but summoned the life ring. The core spirit rune dream and the spirit rune false reality emitted a faint light at the same time.
The use of magic caused a strange halo to spread from the brass ring to the surroundings, and in the air that originally looked a little distorted due to the heat, some black silk fibers actually appeared.
Those black things looked extremely filthy and weird. They moved through matter and air like phantoms. Trying to touch them would only cause the fibers to pass through your fingers.
"What's this?"
Xia De asked again in her heart, but she still didn't give an answer, because Xia De had never touched these things at all.
"Doctor, it looks like something is strange here. Should we go find the owner of the dream, or should we back off and give up now?"
Xia De asked Dr. Schneider for his opinion. The doctor frowned and thought for a while, and even twitched his nose towards the burning building in front of him, as if trying to catch a smell:
"No need to quit. Different people's dreams do have different strange phenomena, not to mention that the other party is a gifted person in the awakening period. Also, if I were to encounter an enemy in reality, I might be worried about accidents, but this is a dream world, and I am a professional."
The strong self-confidence he showed also infected Xia De, who actually did not want to give up:
"So how do we get into a fire?"
Dangers in dreams can also affect them.
"Leave it to me."
The dream spirit rune flashed again, and as the doctor chanted a difficult spell, a layer of water film wrapped around Shade. The heat was isolated outside, and at the same time he felt as if he had become stronger.
"Blessing of the Thaumaturgical Dream Spirit. Within one hour of the dream experience, the damage of the scene is greatly reduced, and the power of the recipient is enhanced. In addition, outsiders like us in the dream should not manipulate the dream even if we have a way to do so in order not to wake up the dream owner. We can use our own power as a ring sorcerer, but don't try to use the relics. Even if your spirit is strong enough to simulate the relics, don't use them in the dream, otherwise the dream will deviate in a more weird direction."
The doctor explained the basic rules of dream exploration and walked up the steps of the house. He grabbed the burning hot door handle with his hand, clanged it a few times, and turned to Shade and said:
"Detective, you come and open the door. The locks in dreams are more difficult to open than the locks in reality. If you were not here, I would probably have to look for clues around and understand the theme and background of the dream before I could unlock the first lock."
"Doctor, it sounds like every time you enter a dream, it's like playing a role-playing game with pre-set rules."
Shade said, walking up the steps and reaching out to touch the door lock. He only felt warm heat, and after a slight resistance, the door lock turned and the door was opened. According to the dream theory that Shade knew, the lock in the dream is actually a "heart lock" and is also within the range of the door key.
The doctor smiled:
"Role-playing? That phrase is quite interesting. But it does seem like a very real game. A psychiatrist is actually a detective in a dream. But compared to detectives like you who go to the past to investigate, a detective investigating in a dream is a little safer."
Seeing that Xia De successfully opened the door lock, the doctor took a deep breath and regained his serious expression:
"Now get ready to fight. Even if there are no intruders other than us in the dream, this nightmare will definitely spontaneously produce some strange things to resist us."
"What happens if you get hurt in a dream?"
Shade looked at the fire in the door and walked in. The doctor followed him, and the flames licked the two of them:
"Loss of mental strength."
The hallway was blocked by a collapsed, flaming shoe cabinet and clothes rack, so the doctor asked Shad, who was walking in front, to cut open what was blocking the way.
"What if I die in a dream? Will I die in reality too?"
After passing through the foyer is the living room, and the upward staircase is on the other side of the living room. The crackling flames looked particularly terrifying, all around were bright lights, all flames, all heat waves, and the heat waves distorted the air, making everything extremely strange.
It was Xia De’s first time to go deep into a fire scene. Even though it was a fire scene in a dream, it was truly an eye-opener for him.
"No, no, detective, don't underestimate me. Death in a dream will force you to exit the dream, and then you will have headaches for several days. During this period, your mental resistance will be greatly weakened, and the risk of losing control will increase, but you will definitely not die directly."
The doctor said, then held Shad's shoulder to stop him from walking so fast:
"Look ahead."
In the burning flames, a thing that looked like a burnt corpse was crawling on the ground. But if you look closely, it was not crawling. Its body was facing upwards, with its hands and feet bent downwards and touching the ground. When Shade looked at it, the monster was beating the ground with its hands and feet, and rushed towards Shade and the doctor with flames.
"Monsters in dreams reflect the fears and thoughts of the dreamer. It seems that Luther Kingweiss saw those who were burned to death in the fire that year."
The doctor asked Xia De to step back, and he walked towards the burning corpse. When the two sides were three steps away from colliding, the skinny and charred corpse with its hands and feet bent backwards suddenly jumped up in the fire and pounced on the doctor's face.
But the doctor raised his left hand calmly, and as a transparent round shield appeared in his hand, he raised his left hand upwards -
Bang!
The flying corpse was hit hard by the shield and flew away. After hitting the protruding stone bricks in the collapsed corner of the living room, it turned into a ball of black ash and disappeared.
"So weak?"
"This is just a dream of a gifted person, not a dream of a ring wizard."
The doctor's shield fell away and he shrugged.
"But the closer you get to the owner of the dream, the stronger the counterattack you will encounter, so you can't really think that this place is absolutely safe." (To be continued)