Sun Minghang lives alone in a rental apartment on Guanlan Street in Xiasu District. Although it is a small apartment with one living room, one bedroom and one bathroom, the rent is twice as high as the place where Yu Zhesen lived before.
Yu Zhesen wanted to take off his shoes at the door, but found that there was no shoe cabinet at all.
"No need to take off your shoes, just come in." Sun Minghang said nonchalantly, "The floor hasn't been wiped for half a month."
The apartment has been finely decorated. Sun Minghang did not make any special modifications to the bedrooms, and basically maintained the appearance of the apartment when it was rented out by the merchant.
Yu Zhesen was a little surprised. He had been to Lu You's home before and saw the homely bedroom full of posters. On the way here, he thought he would see the same style of decoration in Sun Minghang's place.
"There's not even a kitchen?" Yu Zhesen said in surprise.
"The kitchen and laundry room are public and can be used by tenants on the first floor across the corridor outside."
"You usually order takeout, right?" Yu Zhesen saw the takeout lunch box in the garbage bag.
"Do I look like someone who cooks for myself? It's too much trouble." Sun Minghang shrugged.
After visiting Sun Minghang's simple residence, Yu Zhesen thought of today's business.
"What's the basis for you saying you want to show it to me?" he asked Sun Minghang.
Sun Minghang took out a few comic books from the drawer and threw them on the bed.
Yu Zhesen's face darkened, and he suddenly felt like he was being teased.
However, he still had the patience to look through those comics. The comic is called "Dream Maniacs", a passionate comic about fighting with super powers around the theme of dreams.
The information page at the end of the first volume clearly puts forward the concept of "dream master" in the setting of the work, which is the argument that Sun Minghang said in the tea room before that "the dream master cannot escape from his dream by death."
"Are you kidding me?" Yu Zhesen put down the comic and said in a very dissatisfied tone: "Take the plot setting in a comic and substitute it into a real case? Are you awake, Commissioner A1828?"
"My current number is D12043."
"Your work attitude deserves to be demoted."
"It's not too late for you to read the author of this comic before you criticize me."
Yu Zhesen was stunned for a moment and glanced at the author of the comic reluctantly.
"The author...Qu Baizhou, who is it?"
"My best friend in college."
"Even the comics drawn by your friends cannot be used as a basis. Wake up, brother, you want Amway and I shouldn't be so oblique when reading comics. Can't we communicate well?"
Sun Minghang turned around and said with a stern expression: "Qu Baizhou died two years ago. He committed suicide and it was related to the nightmare."
Yu Zhesen shut his mouth, and he began to realize that all the things Sun Minghang did were meaningful.
The room suddenly became quiet, and Yu Zhesen seemed to be able to hear the sound of his heart beating rapidly.
Sun Minghang sat in front of the wooden table with the computer, and used his feet to pull out a stool without a backrest from the corner to him: "Sit down."
Yu Zhesen sat down next to him, watched him operate the computer, and opened a page with a dark background.
The title of the web page is "Collection of Dream Anecdotes".
Sun Minghang's login account caught Yu Zhesen's attention. The authority shown behind the account number ID was administrator level.
"This is... your privately operated website?"
"I inherited the administrator account of this website from the suicide note left by Qu Baizhou." Sun Minghang said slowly, "He is a person who is very interested in supernatural phenomena in dreams, and this website was also established by him - not entirely
It’s to accumulate materials for drawing comics.”
According to Sun Minghang's explanation, Qu Baizhou came up with the idea of creating a comic during the process of establishing this website and collecting materials.
He happened to be majoring in a related major, so there were almost no technical obstacles, and he started writing quickly after he came up with the idea.
This "Dream Maniac" once won the Top Ten Newcomer Award that year. Unfortunately, Bai Zhou passed away before the song was completed.
Sun Minghang raised his eyes and continued to recall:
"Before I was admitted to the Security Bureau, that is, when I was in school, we went to the place where the strange news mentioned in the news happened during the holidays.
"Visit, investigate, conduct research, collect intelligence information bit by bit, and fill this website with content bit by bit."
Yu Zhesen looked at Sun Minghang in disbelief, unable to imagine that a homebody like him would be interested in traveling around to investigate rumors when he was a student.
"Nime didn't just appear recently. Qu Baizhou noticed his existence a long time ago...or knew that there was such a person." Sun Minghang clicked the mouse to jump to an encrypted page. This page only has administrator rights.
Can be viewed.
What was displayed in front of them was a photo.
A photo of a young man carrying a travel bag and a short black-haired girl. The background seems to be a large construction site.
"Is this backpacker Qu Baizhou?"
"Yes, the girl who took the photo with him is named Nanami Saki. The photo was taken at the construction site of the Development Zone in Kamiya City. The time was the autumn of the 68th year of the Iron Dome Calendar." Sun Minghang said.
He clicked the mouse, and soon the second photo appeared.
This time Sun Minghang also appeared in the shot. He and Qu Baizhou stood side by side on the cement pipes that were stacked together. Nanami Saki stood on tiptoe in the lower left corner of the screen and handed them two bottles of water.
"Wait... Then who took this photo?" Yu Zhesen felt strange, "Is there anyone else traveling with you?"
"You'll know right away." Sun Minghang clicked the mouse again, and the page jumped.
In the third photo, Qu Baizhou and Sun Minghang are not in the picture. The photo shows two girls sitting on the curb.
The girl on the left is Saki Nanami, who appeared in the first two photos. The girl on the right is wearing a straw hat and her skin is a little tanned. Yu Zhesen did not recognize her at first sight.
He stared at it for a long time before asking in surprise: "This person...can't be Meng Dongxia, right?"
"That's right, it's her."
"Holy crap, did she look like this three years ago?"
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Yu Zhesen snatched the mouse from Sun Minghang's hand and enlarged the photo to take a closer look.
The Meng Dongxia of three years ago is completely different from the current Meng Dongxia. Her hair is cut very short, just above her earlobes, exposing the back of her neck. Her skin color is also darker. She wears no make-up and no makeup. It matches her outfit of straw hat, short-sleeved jeans.
It sounds a bit rustic.
"So you guys have known each other so long..." Yu Zhesen murmured.
"More than just acquaintance," Sun Minghang said lightly, "she was my girlfriend at that time."
"Huh?"
"What's so surprising?" Sun Minghang skipped the photo.
"No...no...getting back to the subject, what do you mean by showing me these?"
"Nanami Saki is a dream superpower, and her ability is very similar to that of Nightmare." Sun Minghang found a summary diary they wrote at that time, which recorded in detail what they had done with Nanami Saki during their summer trip to the Divine Valley.
Interaction.
The recorded text of the dream part attracted Yu Zhesen's attention. He was surprised to find one thing - it turned out that Sun Minghang had also experienced a dream within a dream, three years ago.
But in all the records, only he and Qu Baizhou were seen, while Meng Dongxia, who was traveling with him, was completely missing, as if he had evaporated.
"Did you hide the dream interaction with Nanami Saki from Meng Dongxia?"
Sun Minghang frankly admitted: "I don't want to involve my girlfriend in strange and possibly unknown dangers, so for her this is just an ordinary holiday trip."
"Then Nanami Saki didn't tell her anything?"
"No, she agreed to my request and completely hid her abilities in front of Meng Dongxia."
Yu Zhesen asked: "What is the relationship between Qihai Shaji and you guys? Is Qu Baizhou's death related to her?"
This chapter has been completed!