Reestablishing contact with Shi Xin made Yu Zhesen feel a little more at ease.
When he had faced the incarnation of the Nightmare in that childhood summer dream, he had felt alone and helpless.
When she returned home, Yu Qingxue was coming out of the kitchen, with sporadic water stains on her hands. She had just washed the dishes and chopsticks.
"Are you hungry?" She pointed to the refrigerator, "I put the remaining fried rice in the refrigerator. You can still eat it if you heat it in the microwave."
"No... no need." Yu Zhesen scratched his head, "Why do we have to repeat what happened in our dreams?"
Yu Qingxue smiled: "I'm not repeating it deliberately, I'm just following my own heart."
Yu Zhesen suddenly felt that their relationship had really improved.
"I'm going to rest first. You should go to bed early." Yu Qingxue walked towards her room. "Although the experience in the dream will not affect the body, the mental fatigue will increase."
They have all died three times in their dreams.
And every time she kills Yu Zhesen before committing suicide, the mental pressure must be even greater, right?
Yu Zhesen thought of this and said sincerely to Qingxue: "Thank you for tonight."
"You're welcome."
The sound of shower water could be heard from the bathrooms attached to the two bedrooms.
Yu Zhesen stood in the bathroom, raising his head and combing back the bangs on his forehead, feeling the hot water flowing through his body from head to toe.
He was communicating with the time mind in his mind, mainly to figure out the power each other could exert in dreams.
It has been confirmed that the ability to predict death will not work in dreams, so he will die very "naturally" in dreams.
"But active causality prediction can still take effect, but the effect will be distorted by reality." Yu Zhesen said to himself.
For example, when Yu Qingxue asked him to predict the head or tail of the coin, the result of his prediction was different from the situation in the dream.
Yu Qingxue's real coin only has a rose pattern on the reverse side, so the law of causality predicts that the result is tails.
In other words, his prediction ability is absolutely "loyal to reality".
Shi Xin said: "In this way, Nightmare can avoid your predictions through possible forgeries. Although it will increase the probability of you seeing through the dream, it can counter your predictions in the dream."
"What's the use of that? Once I find myself in a dream, I can escape through death."
Yu Zhesen clasped his hands together, rubbed out the shampoo, and then applied it to his hair.
Shi Xin reminded him with guiding words: "We who have the ability to recall death are theoretically invincible. If you regard yourself as the imaginary enemy, what will you do?"
Yu Zhesen thought: "If I use myself as the imaginary enemy... then I have to fight against an enemy who can predict death, pause time, and go back in time when he is about to die... First, I have to resolve the crisis of two time pauses."
"To simplify this question, there is no ability to pause time." Shi Xin added the condition, "You only need to fight against yourself who can activate time regression."
"Then change the goal, from elimination... to capture."
"Yes, this will prevent backtracking." Shi Xin's voice deepened, "Do you understand now? Time backtracking and death leaving dreams have the same weakness - what if you can't die?"
Nightmare may not know that he has the help of time mind, but he must know the method of death to escape from the dream.
At first, his plan might just be to use a seemingly perfect dream to make his prey lose him, but after fighting Yu Zhesen and Yu Qingxue, he might change his approach.
That is to create a dream that cannot be escaped even if it is discovered...
"Are you scared?" Shi Xin hugged Yu Zhesen tenderly in his consciousness.
"A little..." he admitted, "I'm even a little worried that I will never wake up after falling asleep."
"Do you regret that you investigated such a thing on your first day after joining the Security Bureau?"
"That's not true." Yu Zhesen smiled, "I like this job."
After the shower, Yu Zhesen dried his hair, put on clean clothes, lay down on the bed, closed his eyes and let his thoughts go.
The experience of dying three times in four dreams really made him mentally exhausted, and he fell into a deep sleep not long after.
Following Claire's instructions, he forced himself not to think about anything related to nightmare.
A dreamless night.
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The next day, Yu Zhesen woke up to the beeping sound of the electronic bracelet.
The moment he opened his eyes, a sharp cold light entered his pupils, and he was so frightened that he trembled all over.
Yu Qingxue held the kitchen knife upside down in one hand and propped it up on his pillow with the other.
"Good morning, let's test whether waking up this time is a dream within a dream or reality."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute..."
"What are you waiting for?" Yu Qingxue stabbed him with the knife in her hand.
"Shi Xin!" Yu Zhesen shouted subconsciously.
The surrounding space suddenly faded, and everything including Yu Qingxue turned into a static gray.
Yu Zhesen took the opportunity to grab the kitchen knife from Yu Qingxue's hand, turned over and pinned her down.
Time is stagnant and broken, and offense and defense are transformed.
"Don't move." Yu Zhesen choked her neck with one hand and held a kitchen knife in the other and threatened.
"How did you do that?"
"Tell me how you got in first? I obviously locked the door."
"I have the key."
"You..." Yu Zhesen was speechless.
"Can you speed up time?" Yu Qingxue asked keenly, "or slow down other people's time?"
"yes."
"Why didn't you share such important information last night?"
"If you're referring to reality, it's because you said you're going to rest. If you're referring to dreams, it's because you're going to kill me as a test if you don't agree with me, and there's no chance to talk about it."
Yu Qingxue accepted this explanation.
She asked again: "Other than that, what else can you hide from me? What's going on with Steel Burning?"
"I won't tell you." Yu Zhesen replied coldly, "What you are doing now has eliminated all the good impressions accumulated yesterday."
"I know it's not a good thing to do, but we must confirm whether the world we are in is real or a dream every time we wake up."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Then why are you sure that I am a real person? The nightmare can pull you into a dream alone."
"Do you think I didn't expect it?" Yu Qingxue said calmly, "I left a mental mark on you. I can tell whether you are a real person or a consciousness projection of the dream world."
Yu Zhesen was displeased, and the hand that strangled her neck involuntarily increased its force: "Did I allow you to do this?"
Yu Qingxue's face didn't change: "This is a necessary protective measure."
Yu Zhesen slowly let go of her, turned over and sat aside and said, "I saw it."
"Um?"
"The moment I woke up and opened my eyes, I saw the scene of you killing me." Yu Zhesen sighed, "This is reality, not a dream."
Yu Qingxue said happily: "That's good."
"Don't you use mind reading skills?"
"Don't use it as much as possible."
Yu Zhesen glanced at her and noticed the new pinprick on her arm.
"Do you need stabilizer injections every day?"
"You must inject after using your ability."
"What will happen if I don't get the injection?"
"When I lose control, I will read the consciousness of everyone around me indiscriminately. If I am in a crowd, it will be like hundreds of people quarreling in my mind."
Yu Zhesen sympathized with her a little. Just a moment of thought would occasionally make him feel noisy. When Yu Qingxue lost control, he heard hundreds of people speaking in his head at the same time. His head was about to explode, right?
"Didn't you use mind-reading skills on me when you were fighting with me yesterday?" Yu Zhesen thought of what happened before, "Do I have any secrets from you?"
"Mind reading is not as simple as you think. At that time, I was just reading your immediate thoughts, which was relatively easy." Yu Qingxue explained, "It takes a long time to dig deep into your underlying memories, and the pressure on me is also high.
Very big.”
"Reading real-time thoughts? To put it bluntly, it means knowing what I am thinking, right?"
"right."
"Then if I deliberately think about wrong information, I can mislead you?"
"It seems that you already have a basic awareness of thinking attack and defense, but theory alone is not enough. Misleading thinking can indeed counteract mind reading, but ordinary people without training can hardly do it." Yu Qingxue said.
"How to say?"
"You have to hide your thoughts of misleading me before you can make me believe what you want me to see."
"I kind of want to give it a try..."
"You're going to be late for work." Yu Qingxue polished the electronic bracelet.