[Funato] Dream Analysis

"……thanks."

Luo Wenzhou's eyes did not directly land on a certain place after Fei Du took the water bottle, but repeatedly moved within the distance from the top of his head to his neck.Even in his dreams, Fei Du refused to take off his gold-rimmed glasses. He wore them for a long time, reminiscent of people wearing masks in literary works—not to mention that his face was so pale that it was no different from the mask.

Fei Du swallowed a few mouthfuls of cold water. The cold stimulation from his throat to his stomach made his complexion slightly better. He raised an eyebrow and looked at Luo Wenzhou, who had been staring at him for a long time. The latter was taken aback, and after a brief silence, he spoke first. : "What's wrong with you, haven't you recovered after so many years?"

Hearing this, he coughed twice more. Fei Du's voice was extremely dry due to the series of physiological vomiting movements just now, so he had no intention of answering Luo Wenzhou at this moment.Surrounded by Fei Du's throwing scene, the three inner and outer three layers of cordon were extremely dazzling under the scorching sun, and they were resting under a crooked parasol next to the innermost cordon, apparently without any line of sight attention To these two people who have their own concerns.

Luo Wenzhou heard the sound of the wind swirling rapidly in his ear, like a sharp knife, while searching his memory, it even caused a slight displacement of the two stones on the ground.What exactly does Fei Du want to do?Such an unresolved question appeared in his mind, he couldn't get a reasonable hypothesis, and his innocent irritability made him raise his hand and glance at his watch reflexively.

"Twenty times."

Then Fei Du opened his mouth quickly, and before Luo Wenzhou could react, he heard him explain again: "The time of the dream is about twenty times longer than the reality. I asked Lu Jia to set aside 10 minutes, which means that now we have at least three hours. Before artificial awakening, only fall or death can forcibly leave the dream."

"Oh." Luo Wenzhou uttered a short voice that seemed half-understood, and muttered as if changing the subject: "Lu Jia, is that your assistant?... I thought assistants were usually women."

"Originally there was a female assistant—but she just took a long vacation, so I had to let Lu Jia take over." Fei Du cleared his throat, tidied up the wrinkled shirt he had scratched, and then slowly got up, letting Lu Jia take over. I was able to look at Luo Wenzhou at eye level: "Back to the topic. Are you going to talk to me about your leg injury within these three hours?"

"..."

Facing Fei Du, Luo Wenzhou was actually not nervous at all.To be precise, when counting from this reunion, they didn't hug, kiss, or have any physical contact with a lover as the motive and goal, but his trust in Fei Du was like the two had known each other for many years.

The latter turned his eyes away, moved his eyeballs behind the transparent lenses where he could not see, and his tone seemed to be covered with a layer of incomprehensible meaning: "There is nothing wrong with avoiding it. But Captain Luo, I am very curious about your previous doctors. Do you know that you suffer from neurosis?"

Luo Wenzhou glanced at him, seemingly not understanding what he meant: "What did you say?"

"Ah, it's a bit direct for me to ask so suddenly." Fei Du still had that polite look, "I mean, do you want to hear about the Dahlia case from the perspective of a bystander?"

Luo Wenzhou didn't answer.After three or two sporadic footsteps, he saw Fei Du's upright figure reappear in front of the two pieces of stone.Fei Du stared at the mess on the ground from top to bottom, then raised his chin slightly, and set his eyes on the uninhabited land a little far away on the other side.

"On May 40, the Municipal Criminal Investigation Brigade received a report that a scavenger accidentally discovered a dead body with a tragic death. The victim was a woman around [-] years old. When Captain Luo Wenzhou arrived with his team, they found The victim was cut in half, the chest of the upper body was gouged out by a sharp knife, and the face was severely damaged; the lower body was broken into strange angles, leaving the scene of death not much different from the appalling 'Black Dahlia' tragedy of the last century."

As expected, the empty ground in the distance changed again, like a drama staged, the tragic body lay across in front of him out of thin air, making Fei Du want to retch again.Fortunately, before he could vomit from stress, a car swept to where he could see like a hurricane.Fei Du took a deep breath and did not retreat. "After investigation and investigation, the suspect was identified as the victim's ex-husband. The ex-husband was a violent butcher. When he learned that he was about to be arrested, he hijacked his car and fled immediately."

"Captain Luo Wenzhou was ordered to arrest him, but he didn't expect that the murderer who jumped over the wall had a whole ten catties of explosives tied to him..."

"Be careful--!!"

Fei Du didn't get a chance to finish his sentence, because Luo Wenzhou behind him grabbed his arm almost without time, and then pulled him back with a sudden force.The sudden loss of balance made his whole body tremble, and he reflexively looked for a source of safety with his backhand, and then, without any accident, he slammed into Luo Wenzhou's arms.

In the next second, deafening explosions tore through the sky, and Fei Du's fragile eardrums were almost broken.He closed his eyes, and only after he regained consciousness did he notice that his back was pressed against Luo Wenzhou's chest.Facing flying sand and rocks and raging fire through several layers of thin fabric, Luo Wenzhou's arms tightly wrapped around him, and the breathing that came to his neck trembled like a traveler who had forgotten his destination.

"..."

Fei Du suddenly had the illusion that he had lost his language ability.

His always meticulous brain seemed to be split into two symmetrical lobes, and the left brain actively speculated that Luo Wenzhou's legs had an accident at that time—after all, in peaceful times, it was rare to hear mobs detonating bombs, which almost killed the criminal investigation captain who was the embodiment of justice. This kind of thing, naturally, set off a wave of public opinion after it was published in the newspaper; but the right brain helplessly began to think about how to comfort the person behind him who was obviously still in a state of deep panic.

I don't know who subconsciously projected the firefighters to come in a hurry, without saying anything, without even looking at them, they just put out the fire with due diligence.Occasionally, a speck of fire would flash before Fei Du's eyes, and the firefly, like a sleepy candle, would disappear in the cool wind.He thoughtfully did not make the slightest movement, letting Luo Wenzhou hold him stiffly from behind.Such an ambiguous posture was maintained for a while, until the projections left one by one, and Luo Wenzhou slowly let go of him reluctantly.

The thick white smoke diffused into the slightly ambiguous air untimely, Fei Du didn't turn his head to look at Luo Wenzhou, but just quietly waited for the white smoke to dissipate.

Then in the very center of the chaos, only a scorched black male body was left.

Weng Luo Wenzhou moved his lips, as if he didn't intend to hide the red corners of his eyes.He took a small step back, took the initiative to maintain a safe distance between the two, and murmured after a long while: "...Maybe I could have saved her."

Fei Du didn't know what to recall, but felt that his assumption was extremely naive.He looked ahead indifferently, and whispered softly: "The life and death of others is not something you can change with just a few words."

"Yes." Luo Wenzhou answered extremely simply, and his tone was much more determined than before, "...One month before the Dahlia case, she came to the bureau to report the case because she had been subjected to domestic violence by her husband for a long time." After finishing speaking, Luo Wenzhou covered it with his hands in annoyance. Eyes, with a little choking: "She begged me so hard to save her, but I didn't."

"No matter how much you regret it, the dead are already dead."

Fei Du sighed inaudibly, and finally turned around, forcing the person in front of him to look directly at him, "Luo Wenzhou, listen. Things that people fear, even if they can't be seen or touched at the moment, will always be in another way. feedback in a way.”

Then he closed his eyes, as if he had made a lot of determination before he could speak the next words.

"The cause of death of the deceased was blood loss, not the suffocation in your mouth; the name of the deceased was Tong Mei, and he was not someone else at all; the suspect was the victim's ex-husband, who died on the spot in the explosion—"

"Listen well," Fei Du approached Luo Wenzhou, whose eyes were wide open and his mouth was slightly open in surprise, and placed his hands on his shoulders in a persuasive gesture. Then he said slowly, counting down three times, and finally said straight to the point. Ask: "Now I want you to tell me, Xiang Han, who is it?"

Xiang, Han.

After the world spun, Luo Wenzhou felt in a daze that there was another pale page floating in the chaos in front of him.He raised his hand with difficulty and pulled the piece of paper floating in the air into his field of vision, and the block letters on it caught his eye:

Han, the night will pass, and the sky will dawn.

Then, he heard a voice that didn't belong to him.The voice echoed dully, as if it came from a very distant direction.

"What did you see?" he heard the voice ask.

Luo Wenzhou's pupils struggled to focus. In fact, he didn't know what he saw—maybe it was only a small, dark figure.Then, there was a needle-like dizziness and pain in his brain, and he stretched out his hands to cover his face in pain, trying in vain to drive away the sharp tinnitus.

"I saw... a black shadow." It took him a long time to answer.

Some small-tempered "black shadows" seemed dissatisfied with him calling himself that, "it" stomped its feet, and slowly moved in front of Luo Wenzhou full of hope.

"Come closer, Sombra has something to say to you—"

After receiving the order, Luo Wenzhou lowered his head in a daze.

On the other side, Fei Du carefully placed Luo Wenzhou's head on his lap.The latter's eyes were closed tightly, his breathing was disordered, and he was obviously in a state of hypnosis.Fei Du arranged the slightly messy forehead hair for him in a strange way, and smoothed the brows with his soft fingertips, and guided him: "Did you see clearly?"

"I see clearly..."

"Very good." Fei Du smiled softly, resting his palm on his slightly hot cheek as a reward, "Who is he?"

"..."

"Fei Du..."

"Do you believe in ghosts in this world?"

TBC.

【Currently available information】

①The deceased in the Dahlia case was indeed Tong Mei.

②Luo Wenzhou did encounter an explosion during the pursuit of the murderer.

③ neurosis (neurosis): a general term for a group of mental disorders, including neurasthenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, phobia, somatoform disorder, etc.Fei Du now suspects that Luo Wenzhou suffers from neurosis for some reason, and is very puzzled why his previous psychiatrist didn't tell him. (From Baidu Encyclopedia)

④The author is a non-professional, and the part about hypnosis is written based on impressions.Hypnotherapy should be carried out when the subject's consciousness is weakest, so in the text, once Fei Du approached aggressively and made three countdown calls, he was preparing for hypnosis.