Lumian waited until the opening time of the dream cram school and then sent a WeChat message to Anderson Hood using the voice input method:
"Teacher Anderson, does your cram school have painting courses? I have a friend who wants to know about it."
Late last night, after receiving the message from Jenna, Lumian was thinking about how to test Anderson Hood. Based on the premise that Roxanne had been controlled and the personality alienation situation had been initially resolved, he believed that the matter was not urgent.
, there is no need to take a screenshot of the legal and shareholder information of the "Colorful Hotel" and send it directly to Anderson, "teasing" that the other party has other businesses in private, and then observe the subsequent reactions and wait for any surprises that may come.
He planned to start with painting as a preliminary test, and it was best not to arouse Anderson's alertness.
Anderson did not reply to Lumian immediately, and Lumian did not stay in the bathroom. He put his cell phone in his trouser pocket and walked back to the monitoring room.
He looked at the large screens in front of him, and some "experiments" that he had done before and that needed to be done in the future flashed through his mind:
1. Observe Mr. Fool’s dream image Zhou Mingrui and the people around him;
2. The first contact with Zhou Mingrui during the day left a certain impression;
3. Contact people who are close to Zhou Mingrui. This is divided into multiple steps. Eliminate the suspicion of one target and then contact the second one, and so on;
4. Contact Zhou Mingrui again during the day, leaving him with a deeper impression;
5. Establish a chatting relationship with Zhou Mingrui during the day, hinting at the existence of his extraordinary power and his own goodwill;
6. First contact with Zhou Mingrui at night;
7. At night, it hints at the existence of Zhou Mingrui’s extraordinary power and his own goodwill;
8. Based on the previous experimental results and the information collected, formulate a formal wake-up plan.
This is the action outline of the Lumian team. The first four parts have been completed so far, and no member has been kicked out of the dream or restricted. The third part is scattered in all subsequent steps. The person responsible for contact
Team members must self-isolate for a day and night after contact before they can continue to move forward.
In the following parts, the danger gradually increased, and Lumian did not want to avoid it, because determining the degree of danger and the source of the danger itself was one of the purposes of the experiment.
Only by knowing what can and cannot be done, what will result in being kicked out immediately, and what will take a while to explode, can their team formally enter the eighth part of the action outline and formulate a targeted awakening plan.
At this stage, Lumian is not worried or afraid of failure. What is worried and afraid is that he cannot find the reason for failure.
It is with this idea that he has a "testing" mentality in many things, including whether the "information crushing box" is useful, whether Stiano is trustworthy, whether Anderson Hood and
What is the relationship between the "painter" path, whether Greene has become one of the "Great Mother"'s tools to influence dreams, etc., etc.
After getting the results of the "test", contact the Major Arcana players and check the accounts, and you may be able to discover some interesting and useful details.
If they had checked with the Major Arcana cards from the beginning, they would have preconceived opinions and formed a set of thinking, and they might not "test" certain things, and they would not get their own results.
There are only conclusions given by the Major Arcana cards, which may cause them to miss key information.
When Lumian was thinking about what to do next, he discovered that there was an extra person in a surveillance screen on the tenth floor.
The camera was pointed at the gate of Aurora Company, and out walked a man wearing a black robe and a wide and deep hood, who looked completely different from the white-collar workers nearby.
Suddenly a bunch of things fell out of the man's robe and fell on the floor.
The man squatted down suddenly, and the hem of his robe covered the dropped items.
When he stood up, the ground was clean again, without any debris.
After watching this man walk out of the surveillance screen and seeing him enter from the elevator surveillance screen, Lumian said silently to himself:
"The corresponding image of a certain gentleman from the 'Aurora Society' in the dream city?"
The security guard sitting next to him followed his gaze and laughed:
"Don't be afraid. The live treasures of Aurora Company are like this. Nothing will happen."
"I thought they were doing performance art." As Lumian spoke, he saw Roxanne walking out of the elevator and entering the Intis Group.
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Administration Department, in the big office.
Luo Shan saw the table missing some things and froze beside the table in confusion.
"I'll throw away all those paintings for you." Franca approached Roxanne and explained with a smile.
Luo Shan suddenly realized:
"I've forgotten about this. I'll draw something new later..."
She paused, glanced left and right, and asked in a low voice:
"I, can I still draw in the future?"
"Yes, it won't affect your ability to use it." Franka comforted in a low voice, then increased the volume, "Director Zhang asked you to take me to familiarize myself with the work process."
Zhang Qing's full title is Deputy Director of Administration Department of Intis Group.
"Okay." Roxanne pulled Franka over and chatted with her openly about various rumors within the company.
Luo Shan finally said:
"I forgot to tell you last night that a very fierce young security guard came here recently. He dared to quarrel with those people from MCN Company. He is really handsome. But don't tell others. He is 7 years old.
My son, he is only 22 years old!”
Theoretically speaking, I am one of the child’s mothers... Franka’s mouth moved slightly and she sighed in agreement:
“Isn’t this a kid from junior high school?”
After chatting about the matter for a while, Franka sat back in her seat and entered working mode according to Roxanne's guidance.
After getting familiar with the office system, she turned her chair and stood up, wanting to help Luo Shan share some work.
She saw Luo Shan holding a pencil and drawing with concentration on a piece of white paper.
What are you drawing? Franca stepped lightly and walked to the side of Roxanne completely silently.
She discovered that Luo Shan was drawing a portrait of herself in the form of a sketch. In the painting, Luo Shan had empty eyes, a cold expression, and the corners of her mouth curled up.
This... Franka's eyes narrowed, and she immediately stretched out her right hand and patted Roshan on the shoulder:
"What are you drawing?"
Luo Shan was startled and quickly stopped describing.
She turned sideways and saw that it was Franka. She breathed a sigh of relief, held her chest and said:
"I was scared to death! I thought I was caught by Lao Zhang."
While speaking, Luo Shan glanced at the sketch on the table, and the expression on her face quickly turned to horror:
"H-How can I draw this?"
Franka pondered for two seconds and showed a smile that made Roxanne extremely reassuring:
"Don't worry, you can finish the last few strokes and I'll take care of it."
Roxanne leaned forward again in surprise and added the last few strokes to make the portrait more realistic.
As soon as she finished the drawing, she appeared in the sketch as if she was about to come to life.
Franca grabbed the painting, and black flames burned hiddenly in her palms.
The expression of Rosanne in the painting immediately became painful, full of resentment and hatred, as if she was being burned by fire.
In the blink of an eye, the painting curled up, spontaneously ignited, quickly turned into ashes, and fell into the trash can.
While completing this matter, Franca created a "mirror maze" with the help of the transparent baffle on the side of the desk, the screen of Roshan's mobile phone, and the mirror being used by nearby colleagues to touch up makeup, in order to cope with the surveillance of the camera and no longer respond.
Traces of extraordinary abilities are left on the screen.
Luo Shan stared blankly at Franca handling the portrait, and then said after a few seconds:
"I feel a lot more relaxed and in a better mood..."
Franka nodded and said:
"You can think of it as another outlet for negative emotions and desires."
She considered it for two seconds and then added:
"At present, we can only cure your symptoms, but cannot solve the root cause of the problem. To put it simply, we can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
"So, you have to be alert to your own condition and do a self-examination from time to time. If you find something is wrong, come to us immediately for a new round of treatment. Don't delay, otherwise the behavior just now will happen again, and the consequences are unpredictable.
"Power is a double-edged sword. It can hurt others as well as yourself. This will accompany us throughout our lives."
Luo Shan listened quietly, remained silent for a moment, lowered her head and smiled:
"I understand what you mean. I hope, I hope I can last a few more years, preferably until I retire. No, let me enjoy my life for another five years after retirement."
Seeing Roxanne's smile, Franka suddenly felt that it was a bit dazzling, making her eyes sore.
She comforted her voice softly:
"If you can support it, you must continue to support it. Just like some diseases, they were terminal illnesses in the early years, but if you actively cooperate with the treatment and extend your life as much as possible, with the development of science and technology, you can now be cured or better control the disease
.
"In the future, we may be able to become stronger, or we may meet stronger people, and there will be ways to solve the problem of power pollution."
Roxanne nodded slowly, smiled and said to Franka:
"I'm working hard, well, you have to work hard too, let's all work hard!"
Franka was silent for a moment, then released the "mirror maze" and returned to her position.
She picked up her phone and found that Jian Na, whose nickname was "Nana and Lily", had sent her a message, telling her about the dangers she experienced while delivering the paintings to Xingmeng Grocery Store, the help she received and the final result.
Franka was frightened for a while after seeing this, and was quite upset that she did not accompany Jenna.
She anticipated great danger, but felt that Jenna, who could voluntarily exit the dream, wasted only one opportunity. She did not expect that the power of the evil god representative of the "Fantasy Society" could prevent them from returning to reality.
Jenna almost died for real.
"Fortunately, Amon and his father are with us... Jenna's experience can be considered as an exchange for important information. If you encounter people and things in the 'painter' path in the future, you must be careful not to escape from the dream..."
Franka thought that Lumian was about to test Anderson Hood or had already tested it, so she quickly forwarded Jenna's message and told the other party to remember to delete it using the "message crushing box".
After confirming that Lumian was fine and had been reminded, Franka glanced sideways at Roxanne and roughly understood why Lumian's condition suddenly recurred just now.
That is consistent with the time when something abnormal happened in that painting and Jenna almost died.
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Monitoring room.
After Lumian used the "message crushing box" to delete the messages sent to him by Franka and Jenna, he reminded Anthony.
He continued to watch the surveillance, looking for people and things that might be abnormal.
At this time, Xu Xinyang, captain of the second security team, walked into the monitoring room, patted his two subordinates on the shoulders and said:
"After work in the afternoon, we went to see Lao Wang and Lao Ding together. They were out of danger.
"After visiting the patients, the brothers who are not on duty will gather together to welcome Xiao Li to our team."
"Lao Wang and Lao Ding?" Lumian could guess which two Captain Xu was talking about, but he still had to pretend to be confused.
Xu Xinyang, who is tall, has a face and is very tanned, said in a funny and helpless way:
"Didn't you see the news? Several of our brothers were struck by lightning. Fortunately, the ones who died were not members of our second team. Damn it, why were they struck by lightning?"
"Oh, I remember." Lumian asked instead, "Which hospital are Lao Wang and Lao Ding in?"