The black shadow appeared stubborn and vigilant, huddled in the corner of the wall and remained silent.

He seemed to be very afraid of the rusty key in Zhuang Die's hand, and desperately dodged backwards. The black energy around him surged irregularly, as if he might lose control completely at any time.

After a little deliberation, Zhuang Die simply put the key behind him.

He took out a small bench and sat in front of the black shadow, took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket, knocked them, and even divided a small handful, placing them on the ground not far in front of the black shadow.

"I said..."

A little cold sweat broke out on Wu Li's forehead: "This...Captain, don't you want to dissuade your team members a little bit?"

If you saw someone using the method of boiling an eagle to boil a shadow in the teaching video, Wu Li and his classmates would probably admire the other party's boldness, and then make a specific analysis based on the specific situation, and come up with thousands of words from various angles. after-school homework.

But Wu Li himself is in this room now, looking at Zhuang Die's operation, nothing but trembling is left in his liver: "Never deal with shadows, is this common sense that should be told before dreaming?"

Ling Su responded, "I'll go back and ask."

It took Wu Li less than a second to figure out that this person didn't listen at all, and was just dealing with himself casually.

He moved a little closer, lowered his voice and said anxiously: "Really! I'm not kidding you. At least in our circle, this is already one of the few taboos recognized, and no one dares to do it..."

The first group of people who tried to explore in their dreams had a lot of serious accidents because they didn't know enough about the shadows, and almost no one was able to escape unscathed.

……

The origin of the original "shadows" is unknown, and they don't seem to belong to any dream, nor are they restricted by the dream barrier.

When a certain overly strong emotion appears in a dream, and the subconscious fluctuations caused by this emotion are severe enough, a shadow will appear quietly nearby.

People who have been in contact with the shadow for a long time, even after leaving the dream, it is still difficult to get rid of this influence.

These people will continue to lose control of their emotions and become irritable, paranoid, and moody.If you don't intervene at this time, even your personality and behavior will change, and you will eventually become a completely different person.

If someone is unlucky enough to be swallowed and fused by the shadow in a dream, the consequences will be even more dangerous—these people will not have the chance to leave the dream at all, but will become a new shadow.

The sanity of this black shadow will gradually disappear, and its own human form will also collapse with the collapse of sanity.Gradually only a certain deepest complex remains, driven by instinct, and gradually even this bit of instinct is completely forgotten.

Having lost all human instincts, the black shadow can't even distinguish its shape, and won't remember who it used to be.

And if you completely forget about "yourself", the black shadow will completely merge into that group of wandering shadows, repeating itself, and continue to be attracted by new emotions in the dream...

Wu Li had already memorized these contents by heart, and reminded Ling Su worriedly: "This is not a joke... I have seen it with my own eyes a few times, and it is true!"

"I believe." Ling Su nodded, "Thank you for your summary."

He glanced at Wu Li briefly, and all the rest of his attention was still on Zhuang Die: "This matter is actually very troublesome."

Wu Ligang breathed a sigh of relief for persuading the other party, but was stunned when he heard this: "What?"

"Only by telling you the danger of the shadow can remind you to be vigilant against it."

Ling Su withdrew his gaze: "But at the same time, once you know the real danger of the shadow, the uncontrollable fear you have in yourself is the best bait to attract the shadow."

Ling Su said: "Shadows can lure out the emotions in people's hearts, let emotions devour reason, and thus turn the other party into their own prey-the easiest and simplest of these is fear."

However, not everyone can be swallowed by fear while holding up the slippers and beating the black shadow all the way into the toilet with water to flush it away.

Ling Su accidentally slipped into Curly's room through a crack in the floor. After seeing Zhuang Die, he looked at the half slipper on the toilet and basically guessed the whole story.

Wu Li never realized this, and stayed where he was, tongue-tied.

No matter what, he is considered a half-professional, and Wu Li will not be fooled by anyone casually with a few words—but he knows very well in his heart that what Ling Su said is not only very reasonable, but may even be the truth .

Because Wu Li still had a vague impression when he was receiving the training for entering the dream, his instructor once stopped suddenly when he was telling them about the danger of the shadow, and sighed that "this level of explanation may not be really appropriate."

It's just that at that time, Wu Li and his classmates had never had direct contact with the black shadow. This kind of situation that only appeared in a few high-difficulty and high-risk dream realms was still too far away for them.

Wu Li entered many dream realms with his mentor, but most of them were variants and extensions of psychological counseling.

After they enter the dream, they will use the method of dream interpretation to help the client to untie the knot in the dream, supplemented by real-life psychotherapy, so that the visitor can return to normal life.

According to Wu Li's learning progress, this kind of intricate and weird dream realm will only be touched in the second half of next year...

Wu Li sighed in a low voice, and raised his hand to press the painful temple, his mind was completely messed up.

"This effect is what I want." Ling Su nodded in satisfaction, "Stay chaotic for a while."

Wu Li: "Huh?"

Ling Su raised his eyes slightly, and Wu Li followed him blankly.

Only then did he realize that as his thinking was completely in chaos, the black shadow seemed to be finally no longer disturbed by the redundant emotions in this room, and gradually calmed down.

"After that day, you never left this room again?"

Zhuang Die picked up the room card of 313, and when the black shadow retreated into the corner desperately, he accidentally dropped it on the ground: "Have you ever come back from outside?"

The black shadow was silent for a while, and finally nodded slowly, then shook his head again.

"I came back at the beginning, but never came back again?" Zhuang Die guessed.

Sombra nodded.

Zhuang Die opened his notebook and wrote down this clue: "Can you still perceive what happened outside?"

This problem is relatively complicated. The black shadow fluctuated irregularly several times, as if a hole had barely appeared in the position of the mouth, but it was still very unstable.

The sound from that "mouth" sounded closer to some kind of mumbled sleepy talk, hoarse, low-pitched, and indistinct, and sometimes changed suddenly without warning, piercing as if fingernails were scratching the glass.

Wu Li couldn't take it anymore, so he raised his hand and covered his ears: "What do you mean?"

"He said that he could still feel it at first, and it was completely synchronized. He had an illusion at that time and thought he had gone out too."

Zhuang Die turned back: "But later he discovered that the one who can freely enter and exit is only another self. He has been trapped in this hotel all the time, and has never left..."

Wu Li was stunned and froze in place.

For a moment, Wu Li even had some kind of superstitious belief about this rumored "special incident handling team": "You——"

"I guessed wildly." Zhuang Die looked at him for a while, and added the last sentence.

Wu Li: "..."

Zhuang Die turned back and asked the black shadow, "Did I guess right?"

Heiying's "eyes" stared at him for a while, and seemed to finally comprehend what Zhuang Die meant, and nodded slowly.

Zhuang Die pondered for a while, and he has gradually cleared up his thoughts: "After becoming like this, the time when you can perceive the sound outside is not after twelve o'clock every night?"

Sombra nodded.

Zhuang Die asked again: "How many times have you been complained?"

This time, Sombra's reaction was extremely intense.

He tried his best to block his mouth with every part of his body, shook his head vigorously, and the instinctive voices were all firmly covered by himself.

He tried to make himself less obtrusive.

The black shadow arched its body, its hollow facial features wriggled with difficulty, and carefully gave Zhuang Die a distorted smile.

……

Zhuang Die frowned, and turned to look for the captain behind him.

"He is afraid that you will drive him out."

Ling Su put away the scalpel and walked over, squatting down together: "Don't be afraid, we are not administrators, and we will not complain to you."

Ling Su embraced Zhuang Die's shoulder, and lightly pressed it twice, signaling Zhuang Die and himself to rest for a while, and giving Black Shadow time to calm down.

Zhuang Die nodded and put away the small bench.

He moved his numb legs twice, and was about to stand up with Ling Su's strength, when there was a sudden bang behind him, and the door of Room 313 was pushed open.

The residents of rooms 420 and 419 came in.

The faces of these people were not very good - they heard about the strange incident that Wu Li encountered, and because they couldn't let go, they went to the front desk together to check the situation, but they didn't expect to find something more troublesome.

"Sure enough, it's still here..." The leader frowned when he saw the black figure in the corner, and said in a low voice.

He is tall and tall, wearing a well-tailored dark gray suit, wearing rimless glasses, short black hair, and a serious face.

In Wu Li's file, Ling Su had seen the one-inch work photo of the other party.

This person is Yan Xun, who is the counselor in charge of treating 313 in reality.

He is 35 years old this year and graduated from a world-class psychology school. He has been staying at the school to do research on cognitive neuroscience.He returned to China half a year ago and established his own psychological counseling institution.

"You'd better stay away, that's the 'shadow'."

Yan Xun adjusted his glasses, his voice was a little cold, but he still reminded Ling Su and Zhuang Die: "They—"

"That... Teacher Yan." Wu Li raised his hand in a low voice, "I've already recited it."

Wu Li glanced back: "Their team seems to be quite professional. They know everything, they are very familiar with the 'Shadow' related matters, and they have read the professional information in the circle..."

Wu Li's voice became smaller and smaller, he huddled into a ball with his arms and legs bound, and moved to the corner of the wall.

These few people are commensurate with his mentor colleagues, and have already established their own place in the professional field. He is just a student who runs errands with the teacher to help, so he can't get in any words for the time being.

Wu Li shut his mouth firmly, and was relieved to find that Yan Xun didn't show any displeasure because of being interrupted by him.

"You know the situation?" Yan Xun nodded, "That's easy, if you have anything to add, you can ask us at any time."

He didn't waste time, and went straight to the point: "We tried to leave the hotel just now, and something happened."

……

These people came to the front desk of the hotel together and did several groups of controlled experiments.

The situation they encountered was very similar to that of Zhuang Die.

If you want to ask the person at the counter to return the room card, you will basically not get any valuable reply-the NPC like a repeater seems to be only responsible for checking in, and the rest of the content cannot be answered, and can only be repeated verbatim mechanically hear the words.

If the room card could not be returned, things became a bit more difficult.

First of all, the fact of "carrying something out of someone else's dream" itself is one of the taboos of dreaming.

Once this is done, the self-awareness and the dreamer's consciousness will remain connected to some degree.For ordinary people, even if such a thing is not an anchor point that can trigger teleportation at any time, it will still bury a considerable degree of hidden danger.

The most typical situation is that dreams that do not belong to me frequently appear during sleep, and even at a certain moment of distraction, I feel as if I have become another person.

They tried to give up the room card, but no matter how hard they tried, the room card would reappear in their pockets.

What made them even more aware of the strangeness was the moment they walked out of the door—they couldn't take all of themselves out of the hotel.

The hotel does not prevent residents from leaving, but at the same time as they leave, some of their own consciousness will be left in the hotel in an intangible and undeniable manner.

"Even so, our subjective consciousness can't detect it, and we still think that we are whole."

The bald consultant frowned: "If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes...we might not believe it."

Yan Xun nodded and looked at several people: "Your situation is the same? Is there any difference?"

"I... right?" Wu Li hesitated for a while, and tentatively raised his hand, "When I went out with the teacher for the first time, I didn't feel anything wrong at all, and the room card was directly placed at the front desk."

He returned to the hotel for the second time with his mentor, and then he was unable to leave. The mentor who was traveling with him also disappeared in the hotel...

Yan Xun looked at him: "Are you a student of Professor Du?"

"That's right." Wu Li nodded quickly, "I actually met you when I went to the academic exchange with the teacher. It's just that I was only in charge of running errands, so you may not have an impression of me..."

"It's not important, you can repeat what happened when you returned to the hotel twice."

Yan Xun interrupted, his expression was a little more serious than before: "As detailed as possible, don't miss the details."

Wu Li was stunned for a while, then nodded: "The teacher and I came to look for the client who was stranded in the dream. We left the hotel and everything was normal... If I want to talk about the details, my shadow has disappeared."

"The following life is no different from usual. I feel better and more energetic than usual."

"Two weeks later, the client's situation was not quite right, so the teacher decided to take me back to have a look. We went back to this dream through the previously reserved passage...huh?"

Wu Li couldn't help frowning, and raised his hand to scratch his hair.

For some reason, his memory was suddenly cut off here.

After he fell into a dream with the teacher, how did they return to this hotel, how did the teacher disappear, why did the teacher disappear, why did he leave him alone in the room... He didn't have any memory at all.

It seemed that next, he was alone in the room in a hurry, writing his resignation report and listening to the corner, and then he was dragged into room 527 by his collar.

But he himself never felt anything strange, even when he was threatened by a scalpel and confessed his situation ignorantly, he never had any doubts at all.

"How is this going?!"

Wu Li didn't realize the strangeness until now, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead: "I seem to have forgotten a lot of things, I—"

His face was pale, his breathing was a little short, and he looked at the others helplessly.

"The dreaming process will be kept secret from the outside world, and we don't know the specific arrangements within yours."

Yan Xun said: "But there is at least one thing. If more than one person enters the same dream realm, the number of people will be announced in advance to avoid overcrowding in the dream realm."

"Looking through the public records, you can find out the content of your second registration."

……

Yan Xun looked into his eyes: "This time, Professor Du fell into the dream by himself, and did not bring any students with him."

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