When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

Joad looked at him, perhaps knowing that Zhang Luotuo couldn't understand, and picked up a blue porcelain cup with carved patterns from the bedside table.Zhang Luotuo turned his head, glanced at it casually, and then froze.The porcelain cup was empty, and it seemed no different from other cups, but Zhang Luotuo remembered this teacup, he had seen it ten minutes ago.

The sky-blue shell is carved with various artificial plants.This teacup appeared in his dream. Joad asked him to drink tea and handed him the cup. He picked it up and drank it. Gray tea leaves floated in the blue porcelain cup, which tasted bitter like garbage.

"You remember this?" Joad said.

Zhang Luotuo's eyes stopped on the teacup.

"I was in a dream just now..." Zhang Luotuo said, hesitant to speak, "I drank this tea and you brought it to me."

"Tea. This is what you drink." Joad answered. He seemed to have seen Zhang Luotuo's thoughts, nodded his head, lowered his head, and put the porcelain cup back on the table where he had been. superior. "It's not tea to be precise, but what's in the tea. There are C33 tablets in it."

"C33?" Zhang Luotuo leaned against the head of the bed, confused, he had never heard of this.And what does this have to do with his dream?

Joad stared at the blue porcelain cup and said: "A psychotropic drug. You haven't heard of it. It's not sold in the market. It can only be prescribed by doctors. C33 can make people feel dizzy and drowsy, but It does not make people fall asleep completely like sleeping pills, it is more like being in a half-dream, conscious but with low resistance. Psychologists will use this to deal with patients who are unwilling to treat. Some patients resist treatment, and doctors will let patients take pills before treatment, Treat the patient when he is half asleep and half awake, and finally leave before the effect of the medicine expires, and restore the original state of the patient's room, so that everything is an illusion for the patient, thereby creating the illusion that the patient is self-healing."

He took out a small medicine bottle from the pocket of his black jacket and handed it to Zhang Luotuo.Zhang Luotuo picked up the medicine bottle.It read: C33, psychotropic drug, soluble in water.He froze, frowned, and understood Joad's meaning for a moment.

He hesitated and said, "So you mean... I ate this, and everything just happened when I was half asleep and half awake?"

Zhang Luotuo looked at Joad, but Joad didn't speak, he put the blue porcelain cup back to its original position.Zhang Luotuo understood that Jod had already acquiesced to his statement.Zhang Luotuo shook hands in bewilderment.He recalled their dream conversation, which sounded so far away and meaningless—he got out of bed and tried to open the curtains, which were as heavy as iron and could not be opened. There was a light at the door, and when he opened it, he suddenly woke up. This is more like a nonsensical dream than reality, if he didn't remember it so clearly until now.

"But I feel like it's a dream, with lots of hallucinations..." he said.

Jord said calmly: "C33 has side effects. It sometimes causes hallucinations, allowing people to distinguish between dreams and reality."

"But you in that dream are completely different from reality. I don't know about the others, but you and I can always see." Zhang Luotuo interrupted him hastily.

Joad raised his eyebrows and froze.He looked at Zhang Luotuo without speaking, his gray eyes were quiet and steady, containing some other flowing emotions.After Zhang Luotuo interrupted, he realized what he had said.He blushed, opened his mouth in embarrassment, and didn't continue.

The room was very quiet for a while, and the shouts from the blue canopy in the distance shuttled here.Zhang Luotuo lowered his head, staring at a small wrinkle on the bed sheet in bewilderment.He closed his eyes, and could hear his heartbeat and breathing.His breathing resonated with the rising and falling of his left arm, and the blood flowed through the fine veins in his left arm, which worked as well as before an hour after the operation.

"In the dream... I did behave differently on purpose." Joad's voice sounded in the brown-black after closing his eyes, "I want you to notice the abnormality inside, and you will quickly notice if it is abnormal enough. This is different from reality, treat this as a dream."

Zhang Luotuo opened his eyes: "What?" He raised his head and said in confusion.

Joad thoughtfully said: "Because this can let you understand the fastest, dreams or hallucinations that you thought could not be connected with reality actually happened."

"I don't understand what you mean." Zhang Luotuo was confused, he bit the inner wall of his mouth.

Joad took a long breath: "What I mean is, I deliberately exaggerated so that you can remember it deeply and think it is a dream, but in fact it is reality."

Zhang Luotuo bit his lip, completely confused: "I see..." He said slowly, frowning, but soon, he spoke again.

"Why are you doing this?" It sounds pointless.

Joad tucked the quilt for Zhang Luotuo.He looked agitated, and some emotions resurfaced in his body.He was silent for a long time, then raised his head, his gray eyes stared directly at Zhang Luotuo.

"Do you remember Fan Liu? You fainted at his house a few months ago?" Joad said.

Zhang Luotuo was stunned.Several thoughts flickered through his mind at once, fleetingly, and then drowned out by a single thought that blazed through his mind like a warning light.Fan Liu.Zhang Luotuo captured this word from Jod's words.You fainted at Fan Liu's house.Zhang Luotuo didn't react at first, but in less than a second the memory got into the back of his head.He remembered that he was led by Big A through countless corridors to check the toy named Liuliu, and he suddenly fell to the ground halfway through recording the data.Everything that happened next was like a dream: the blurred lights, the cold big A who could speak suddenly, and the hazy smell of perfume.But after a few minutes, everything disappeared like a hallucination. He was still standing in front of the glass cabinet, and Big A was beside him urging whether he had finished observing Liu Liu.

Zhang Luotuo grabbed the sheet and felt it wrinkle in his hands.

"You...why did you say this suddenly?" He didn't know where to start, and countless thoughts were about to blurt out in his throat.

"Do you remember?" Joad said firmly.

"Wait, fainted?" Zhang Luotuo suddenly sensed something was wrong, "Isn't that a hallucination? I woke up, and I was next to the glass cabinet...and then I realized that it was all my hallucination?"

He thought for a while, and added incoherently: "Besides, I asked you about it on the spaceship, and you also said it was a hallucination. Wait... What's going on?" dizzy.

He looked at Joad almost blankly, the memory covered all his thoughts like a flood, and his tongue was knotted.He even went to the doctor, who told him it was a hallucination caused by accidental but normal physical discomfort.

"Have you noticed the similarities between the last fainting and this dream?" Joad said, not affected by Zhang Luotuo at all, still staring at him.

Zhang Luotuo frowned, and was involuntarily led by Qiao De, following his memory.common ground.That dark familiarity that comes from behind the scenes.Waves of dizziness and black eyes.The drowsiness and hallucinations that hit me seemed to be in another blank cyberspace.

Those feelings overlapped.

"This is not an illusion." Joad emphasized to him in his dream.Everything is so far away and blurry, but it seems so close, and when I wake up, nothing happens.

He smacked his lips, feeling bitter in his mouth, and the cold metallic taste swirled around the tip of his tongue, just like it was at Fan Liu's house a long time ago.

He remembered something, lowered his head, and twisted open the medicine bottle of C33 in his hand. There were a dozen small white pills in it, and he sniffed at the mouth of the medicine bottle.

A pungent and familiar metallic smell.

He looked up at Joad, who looked strangely calm, his gray eyes unmoved.

Zhang Luotuo suddenly realized that he understood what Qiao De meant.

He took a long breath: "You mean, that time was the same as this time—" he said word by word.

"It's not a hallucination." Joad took his words, his face was still cold, but he noticed Zhang Luotuo's panic, and his tone softened, "You suspected it, but didn't confirm it in the end. That's not a hallucination. This is me I really want to tell you."

Zhang Luotuo looked at Qiao De helplessly.Joad was very close to him, and he could clearly smell the subtle forest perfume on Joad's clothes.The nerves in his left finger flicked sensitively, which caused his whole body to convulse, like a cold war.

Forest perfume.he thinks.He also smelled it when he fainted last time, it was very gentle.Cold as rain.

"Is he?..." The familiar voice asked Big A in the C exhibition room, and then the overwhelming smell engulfed him.

"No." Big A said.

He understood.

"You want to say... the hallucination I thought last time is the same as this time. After eating the C33 in the tea, everything actually happened." Zhang Luotuo raised his head and said.

"Yes," Joad said.

The hum of the huge dilapidated spaceship passed through the roof, almost drowning Joad's voice.Zhang Luotuo looked at Qiao De in a daze.Then he lowered his head and covered his cheek with his hand.

He was occupied by those chaotic thoughts, everything he thought was overturned, everything was like a computer restart, and he rebuilt those truths and lies.

After a long time, the sound of the spaceship completely left here, Zhang Luotuo buried his head, still thinking.On the opposite side, Joad stared at him with a vague expression in the gray rainy night: "Did you go to my office yesterday?"