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Chapter 1,655 Dream within a dream

Mal smiled and asked: "Can I still survive if I jump?"

Cobb said: "It might be possible to enter the sea directly. Mal, why are you here?"

She turned around and looked at him, and said with some joy: "I think maybe you miss me..."

She smiled. He leaned forward, looking a little confused.

Cobb looked at her and said, "I miss you, but I will never believe you again."

She raised her head and stared at him with a charming look: "So what?"

"It looks like Arthur's taste," Mal said, looking at a painting and sipping champagne.

Cobb looked through the window at the security guards patrolling back and forth on the lower floor of the castle and turned around and said: "Actually, Mr. Li prefers British painters after World War II."

He turned to Mal and put on a pair of black leather gloves.

Cobb couldn't help but said to her: "Can you sit down?"

Mal lowered her body very gracefully and sat on the leather chair with a backrest and armrests. Cobb approached her, took out a long black rope, and bent his knees at Mal's feet. She looked down at him.

Mal looked at him: "Tell me..."

Cobb tied the rope around the chair legs.

Mal continued to ask: "Do the children miss me?"

Cobb stopped and let his gloved fingers gently touch her ankle. He looked up at her: "You can't imagine."

Mal looked away, looking uncomfortable. Cobb stood up, leaned back toward the window, and straightened the rope.

Mal looked at him with some confusion: "What are you going to do?"

Cobb threw the rope out the window: "Get some fresh air."

He grabbed the rope and tested it. The chair plus the weight of Mal sitting on it would hold.

He said to the woman: "Please sit down!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped down. Mal stared at the open window in trance.

Cobb slid down the wall and jumped through the windows. He stopped under a special window. He took out the glass cutter. Suddenly he began to fall. The empty chair slid across the floor——

Stuck under the window. Cobb suddenly stopped 15 feet from the window sill. He looked up at the bedroom window, shook his head, and then began to climb back up.

Cobb quietly walked down from the window sill to the dark kitchen. He pulled out a pistol from his waist and poured a load of bullets into the gun as he walked across the room. Then he took advantage of the darkness to sneak towards a guard.

, he was standing at the beginning of the huge staircase. The guard heard something - turned - and stared into the darkness, searching.

Cobb flashed out of the shadows, loaded the pistol silently, took aim and fired, and was shot in the head - the guard fell down...but Cobb quickly went over to catch him, and slid on the floor while kneeling.

Lower the guard quietly to the floor.

He walked over to a painting, and with his practiced hands quickly moved the painting away from the wall, revealing a safe. Cobb fiddled with the dials, opened the safe, pulled out an envelope, and quickly stuffed it into his belt

inside, and then took out an identical envelope from inside.

But at this moment, the lights all came on, and Cobb didn't move.

Li Teng's voice came: "Turn around."

Cobb turned around. Standing at the other end of the room was Li Teng. Next to him was Mal, holding a gun in her hand. She smiled at Cobb.

Mal looked at him and said, "Put the gun down, Dom."

Cobb remained motionless, and Mal motioned outside, only to see two guards drag Arthur into the room, and Mal pointed a gun at his head.

"please!"

Cobb placed the gun on his end of the long table and swung it along the polished ebony. The gun came to rest in the middle of the table.

Li Teng said: "Take out the envelope now, Mr. Cobb."

Cobb reached for his waist, took out one of the envelopes, and slid it along the table. He stepped back and raised his hand.

Cobb asked him: "Did she tell you? Or did you always know?"

Li Teng said calmly: "Do you know that you are here to steal my things? Or do you know that we are actually all in a dream?"

Arthur gave Cobb an "I told you so" look.

Li Teng said, "I want to know the name of your employer."

Mal's loaded gun was pressed against Arthur's temple.

Cobb was not nervous: "It's useless to threaten him in his dream."

Mal obviously understood this: "It depends on what you threaten. Killing him will only wake him up...but pain? Pain will stay in the mind."

With that said, Mal lowered the gun and shot Arthur in the foot - Arthur fell and screamed - Mal looked at Cobb with a cold expression.

Mal continued: "And, judging by the decor, we're in your dream, right, Arthur?"

Cobb watched Arthur's agony. Mal aimed at Arthur's other foot... Cobb leapt to the table, gliding swiftly across its polished surface--he grabbed his gun--and aimed it at Arthur's other foot.

Se shoots between the eyes!

Gunshot! Arthur fell to the ground, and the whole house suddenly began to be shaken by a huge earthquake. Cobb rushed to the door, and Arthur stared at the ceiling, dead.

The scene turned back to the dirty bathroom. Arthur woke up from the chair and opened his eyes. He grabbed the tubes on his wrists and untied them!

Nash was surprised: "What are you doing?! This is too fast!"

Arthur hurriedly opened the silver box on the bathroom floor, and some liquid splashed out from the tube.

Arthur said: "I know! We must reconnect back to the knot before they wake up!"

Arthur grabbed the box, pushed open the door to the bedroom, and followed the pipe to where it connected to Li Teng's wrist. Li Teng was lying on the bed, still asleep, and just turned over.

Still in the Chinese manor, Cobb trudged toward the stairs. The buildings around him began to bump and sway, trembled up and down, deformed, and fell one after another! Li Teng and the security guards were panicked. Mal, on the other hand, walked calmly back and forth.

In the middle of the ruined building, he picked up the envelope and turned around and handed it to Li Teng.

"He almost got it, just a little bit," Mal said.

On the other hand, Cobb rushed up the stairs and pulled out the second envelope!

Here, Li Teng tore open the envelope and took out a stack of paper. He looked at Mal and fell into panic. He turned to the security guard and shouted: "Stop him!"

Mal was very confused and looked at the stack of paper: there was nothing on the paper. Mal smiled and became more excited.

While Cobb ran up the stairs, he read the printed information he took out of the envelope. In the outside world, in the dirty bathroom, Arthur opened the silver suitcase: inside was a complex device with tangled pipelines, syringes, and doses.

Controller. Arthur took a quick look at Li Teng's disturbed expression, and his hands moved quickly on the machine control buttons.

Arthur said: "I don't think I can do it! Wake up Cobb!"

Nash turned to Cobb, raised his hand and slapped him in the face.

At the same time, in the intertwined dreams, falling objects damaged the road on the side, and Cobb fell!

The ceiling above Li Teng collapsed. When he looked up, a pile of rocks fell one after another, crushing him.

Li Teng's eyes blinked open and he woke up.

In the dirty bathroom, Nash continued to slap Cobb with his palms, but he couldn't wake up no matter how hard he hit him!

"He can't wake up!" Nash said.

Arthur squatted next to Li Teng and connected the second pipe: "Put him down!"

There was a crisp sound: Arthur looked up and found Li Teng pointing a gun at his head, pointing a finger at his lips, signaling to be quiet!

Nash put his hand on Cobb's forehead and pushed him back. Cobb in the chair began to fall backwards in slow motion.

In the manor, or perhaps in a dream. Cobb tried his best to calm himself and quickly read the last page. He stared at the paper with confusion on his face. The security guards rushed up the stairs and opened fire. The bullets fired hit the

around him.

The scene changes again, back to the dirty bathroom!

Cobb fell onto the water in slow motion, and as he continued to fall, the water covered his head.

Inside the manor! When Cobb's gaze left the paper and looked up, the water broke through all the windows, and the floods sank to the bottom and flooded the entire hall. Cobb was swallowed up by the floods that came from all directions in an instant. He was either driven deeper

Or maybe he was pulled to the surface... Suddenly he burst out of the water and struggled to get up from the bathtub to breathe air!

He woke up, breathing rapidly and looking for his direction. The next moment, Li Teng broke into the bathroom and knocked Nash down. Cobb jumped up from the bathtub, and water splashed all over the bathroom. Cobb

He flew towards Li Teng and pushed him against the door. The gun fell to the ground.

Cobb's fist hit Li Teng's chin, and the fight ended quickly.

After an unknown amount of time, Cobb sat wet, but very calmly, and put Li Teng's gun in his hand. Nash twisted Li Teng's arm from behind. The sounds of riots outside became louder and louder.

Cobb asked: "You came prepared."

Li Teng laughed: "I brought a gun because even the person responsible for my safety didn't know about this apartment. How did you find it?"

Arthur stood in front of the window, watching the increasingly violent conflict outside.

Cobb said: "It's very difficult for someone as powerful as you to keep your love nest completely a secret...especially when there's a married woman involved."

Li Teng shook his head: "She won't leak it!"

Cobb said: "But we are still here."

Li Teng was silent when he heard this.

Cobb added: "It's a dilemma."

Li Teng looked at him: "You got what you wanted, didn't you?"

Cobb shook his head again: "That's not entirely true. The most critical information is not on it, right, Mr. Li Teng?"

Arthur looked at Cobb with a worried look on his face: "They are getting closer, Cobb."

The scene changes again, this time on the Bullet High Speed ​​Rail.

Chen Tian put a pair of headphones on Nash's ears, and then took out an MP3 player.

On the other side, Li Teng's eyes were looking at the floor.

Cobb said, "You kept something because you know the purpose of our trip is..." As he said that, he raised Li Teng's chin with the barrel of his gun.

"Why did you involve us?"

Li Teng smiled, defiantly and defiantly. The sounds of rioting echoed up the stairs!

"This is a test."

Cobb was confused: "What are you testing?"

Li Teng smiled and shook his head: "It doesn't matter, you failed."

Cobb frowned: "We have stolen all the information you put there."

Li Teng laughed: "But your trick is too obvious."

On the Bullet High Speed ​​Rail, Chen Tian opened his silver suitcase, revealing complex syringes and dosage controls.

Controller and other mechanical devices - there are four metering controllers showing countdown.

Chen Tian waited until the first countdown showed "30", then he pressed play on the MP3

Key - He raised his volume while looking at Nash's sleeping face...

The voice coming from the headphones on Nash's head said "No, I don't regret it at all."

Back to Cobb, a strange, thick and low music began to sound from the distant background, which sounded like a distant horn...

Li Teng was a little impatient: "Don't bother me, just leave."

Cobb said: "You know, the company that hired us will not accept our failure. We will not last two days..."

The music slowly coming from the distance became louder and louder, and then the shouts rushed upstairs. Arthur looked at his watch, its slow second hand ticked to record the time, and at the same time responded to the loud noise.

music.

Arthur said anxiously: "Hurry up, Cobb."

"So now we have to use simple and primitive methods!" After Cobb finished speaking, he grabbed Li Teng and pushed him to the ground, with the gun pressed against his cheek. Li Teng looked into Cobb's eyes and provoked him

Dare you pull the trigger? But suddenly Li Teng blinked and looked away with shame!

When he realized something, he started laughing loudly.

Li Teng said: "I have always hated the carpet here."

Cobb's eyes flicked to the carpet and back.

Li Teng: "It's dirty and tattered, but it's very special!"

Cobb looked up at Nash and shrugged, looking helpless.

Li Teng: "But it is indeed a wool blanket. And now I am lying on a piece of polyester fiber."

Cobb stares at Nash!

On the high-speed train, Chen Tian saw the first row of numbers jump to zero. He looked up at Arthur and moved slightly.

The interlaced shots returned to Cobb's side.

Li Teng turned around from the carpet and looked up at Cobb: "This means that I am not lying on my carpet now, nor am I lying in my apartment... As expected, you

Well deserved, Mr. Cobb... I'm still dreaming."

Cobb looked at Arthur, but Arthur was gone.

Obviously, this is indeed a dream within a dream!

On the high-speed train again, Arthur's eyes opened, he woke up, and he pulled off his tube.

Chen Tian asked: "How is the matter?"

Arthur shook his head: "Not good."

He checked the remaining three sets of countdowns.

On the other side, Li Teng stood up and looked at Cobb with admiration: "This is a dream within a dream. I have learned the lesson."

Cobb put down the gun, looking completely defeated. He looked at his watch. The music started again and the rioters banged against the door.


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