[BL, MTL] Unlimited Cycles of Death (Unlimited Flow)

Chapter 111: Dream Back (7)

About four years ago, the crystal stone guarded by the He family for generations was stolen by unknown forces.

He Xian, the father of He Chou, who obeyed the family instructions, was very anxious. He knew the danger of this crystal stone and knew that this terrible stone must not fall into the hands of outsiders, otherwise the power of the stone would definitely create a large number of " "Dreamers", more media will infect more people into nightmares.

If this terrible power continues to spread, and it really spreads like a virus, it may form a "virus" storm no less than Ebola.

Mr. He quickly began to seek help from various forces, and he even left behind his only son, who wandered around the world alone, looking for clues of that unknown force.

While Mr. He was leaving, the x department, which has always had an agreement and cooperation with the He family, learned of the theft of the crystal stone, and accordingly provided some help to Mr. He, sending additional manpower and funds to help Mr. He find the crystal stone.

Department X is a national department. Its investigation capabilities and intelligence collection capabilities are outstanding, no less than other related intelligence organizations. The people in Department X are also very confident in this point. They think that with the help of their own group, any Mister will be able to retrieve the crystal stone soon.

But the imagination is beautiful, but the result is unsatisfactory.

No matter how much manpower and material resources were used, or even spreading the net on the Internet with advanced information, the x department did not receive any news about the crystal stone.

They originally believed that after the crystal stone was stolen, there would definitely be new "dreamers" due to the power of the stone. In addition, most dreamers' spirits were unstable, and many dreamers would change their temperaments and cause social problems; The dreamer will be valued by the hospital because of unexplained prolonged sleep.

Therefore, as long as the x department pays attention to these recent criminals with abnormal behaviors, as well as the patients with abnormal sleep admitted by the hospital, and obtains information from them, they can follow the clues to find the whereabouts of the crystal stone.

But not at all, all the "dreamers" they could find were actually ordinary criminals, and many large and small hospitals they paid attention to recently had no patients with abnormal sleep.

After investigating for a long time, there is no news. The x department thinks... this may be because those guys who stole the crystal stones have gone abroad, and they naturally couldn't find any relevant information in the country.

But in this way, the scope of the investigation has been expanded. In addition, it is more difficult to investigate abroad, and there are also complicated national relations, which makes the investigation of the x department impossible.

Asking for help from those foreign forces in the name of an individual should naturally appear relaxed and comfortable, and will not cause too many international problems.

However, Mr. He, who has been tossed around in many forces and organizations and used the power of countless intelligence personnel, still cannot find the crystal stone after receiving so much support. The guys who stole the crystal stone seemed to disappear into this world out of thin air. Leave no trace, no audio, nothing.

Even the bad situation that caused a large number of dreamers to appear due to the large-scale infection of crystal stones did not happen, and everything was so peaceful.

No matter how I searched for it, it was useless, and then four years passed in the blink of an eye. Up to now, Mr. He still cannot find his crystal stone as he wished.

But recently, Mr. He has made a new breakthrough.

He got clues about the whereabouts of the crystal from an underground intelligence organization. This stone... seems to have been stolen by a religious organization.

After Mr. He shared the information he had learned with the cooperating X department, X department also began to investigate this religious organization. After having a big target, the difficulty of the investigation dropped suddenly, and the X department found out that this religious organization was called "Fringe Church".

"Fringe church?" Xu Haoyu sat on the boss's chair and listened to the young man from the x department tell him.

The young man told Xu Haoyu: "This is a religious organization that has existed secretly for many years... or a cult organization, but it is hidden very deeply. It is only in the past two years that we have discovered the secrets of this cult organization."

"What is it? What kind of... cult?" Xu Haoyu couldn't help asking curiously.

"You know, almost all religions believe in gods." The x boy showed a thoughtful expression, "but the marginal church believes in demons."

"Isn't this the so-called Satanism? Churches that believe in demons, it is said It was a long time ago that some people deliberately used the name of 'Satan' to attract audiences in order to promote their own ideas." Xu Haoyu thought he had some understanding of this, "An evil cult that is hostile to Christ." The

boy x said: "I I think you misunderstood, Satanism has indeed been misunderstood as a cult by many people since ancient times, but in fact... this religion is not a cult at all. Satanism does not really believe in Satan or some kind of demon, they just regard Satan as a concept. They promote egoism, deny the existence of God, and advocate that believers love themselves, respect themselves, and control their own soul and freedom by themselves, not God."

"The idea of ​​Satanism is 'without God, I am God' , they do as they please, but not without restraint. They will not do things that violate discipline and law, but they will revenge and will not tolerate. They believe that people should do what they want to do, and that goodness and evil should be seen by people. "

To put it simply, in a sense, Satanism is a bit of a mockery of those who rely on nihility and false precepts to support and restrain themselves. The concept it believes in is also very similar to the mainstream views of many people in modern times, so it is fundamentally It's not a cult."

Xu Haoyu understood, stretched out his hand and scratched the back of his head ignorantly, "I see... I don't know much about these religions, and to be honest, I don't understand."

"Most people in China are Atheism or pantheism." X boy laughed, "There is no need to talk about Satanism, let's go back to the issue of the fringe church... There is a clear difference between this church and Satanism. The fringe religion really believes in a demon. They think this demon is Real."

"What kind of demon?"

Boy x didn't answer Xu Haoyu's question directly, but changed the direction and said, "Wouldn't that piece of crystal stone from the He family make people fall into a long-term nightmare and become a so-called 'dreamer'? "

We have done a detailed investigation and examination of the identity background, physical condition, mental state, etc. of almost every 'dreamer'." X boy kept talking, and he was operating his laptop again, The various "dreamers" materials collected were brought up for Xu Haoyu to read.

"Look, the people recorded on our list are all dreamers." A long list of people was called up on the computer of x teenager, each list has basic information such as photos and names, including their recent The physical and life and death conditions are all recorded column after column.

When Xu Haoyu was flipping through the list of these dreamers, he even found the messages of Zhou Yue and Mu Qin on it. After seeing the messages of Zhou Yue and Mu Qin, Xu Haoyu suddenly raised his head and looked at boy x: "It seems that you also Investigations were conducted on Mu Qin and Zhou Yue."

"Long-term sleep disorder and disorder, this kind of case is easy to investigate, we only need to check the hospital's records, and then observe those suspected 'dreamers' patients for a period of time, and we will be able to Basically confirm whether the other party is a dreamer or not."

Boy X shook his head: "However, the cases of Mu Qin and Zhou Yue are well hidden..."

Boy X raised his head and glanced at Xu Haoyu: "It should be It is said that you and your Xu family, major, hid them very well. You have protected them very well. We only added the information of Zhou and Mu to the dreamer information database after we received a report from Mr. He recently. " Xu Haoyu

smiled helplessly: "So I hindered your department's investigation?"

At least I have never heard of a dreamer waking up after falling into a long sleep."

Boy X talked a lot, his mouth seemed dry, he took a sip from the teacup on Xu Haoyu's table, and continued: "I've said so much, I think you should also realize a very, very important issue--

--These people who became 'dreamers', what exactly did they dream about?" Xu Haoyu nodded in agreement when he heard the words: "Yes, I really wanted to ask you this question just now, what exactly did they dream about, and then As for making them insane and unable to sleep?"

"That's why we investigated these dreamers." Boy x pointed to the list of dreamers on the computer, "We asked every dreamer what they dreamed about. What."

"Most dreamers say they can't remember, they can't remember anything in the dream at all, but the body and brain still have the lingering feeling of fear, and their emotions become very erratic and hard to remember. Self- control."

"A small number of dreamers said that they vaguely remembered that they were trapped in a closed space. They could even describe the environmental details of this closed space, and some said that they were in a forest that they could not get out of. Some said that they were in a room where the doors and windows were blocked. These people had different stories, but one thing in common, they all said that they were trapped in a 'closed' environment."

"These people who can remember the scene in the dream 'Dreamers', some of them will use any form of art...such as paintings and texts, to show the scenes in the dream, and then these paintings and texts will become 'mediums', and new dreamers will be born after contacting the media , one after another."

Xu Haoyu said: "After talking so much, I still don't know what is going on with these dreamers' dreams. They just dreamed that they were trapped in a closed environment, so that the Are they insane?"

"Our department has repeatedly studied and thought about the question you mentioned." X boy said, "Later, we sought help from a number of psychiatrists and psychologists, and after a joint discussion, we deduced a possible answer. "

X boy's words are full of suspense and very attractive. Hearing this, Xu Haoyu was anxious: "What answer, tell me quickly."

"This is a kind of psychological suggestion." Boy X concluded in one sentence, "That crystal stone has a strong psychological suggestion effect, and all people who have touched it will fall into their own dreams because of this suggestion. This This kind of hint comes with mental damage, leading to mental breakdown and a big change in temperament, and some of them will give up their consciousness because of the mental breakdown, and fall into a deeper sleep, never to wake up again."

"Then those 'mediums' are again What's going on?" Xu Haoyu didn't understand, "The medium left by the dreamer will also make people become new dreamers."

"We think that those dreamers will, under the influence of this strong psychological suggestion, Leave corresponding 'hints' on the items to infect more people."

X boy said and brought up the "crystal stone" photo taken more than ten years ago that Xu Haoyu had seen before, x boy pointed In the photo, there are densely packed mysterious characters on the surface of the crystal stone, and he said to Xu Haoyu: "We speculate that the strong psychological suggestion effect of this crystal stone is caused by these mysterious words on the crystal stone, but after investigation, we found that this text is not from the history of the earth. In other words, it may not be something created by human beings."

Xu Haoyu felt as if he was listening to the Arabian Nights: "Are you going to tell me that the writing on this crystal stone...is the writing of aliens? Is it possible?"

"This possibility is not ruled out." Boy X sighed and replied, "We have been asking text experts to study and translate the text on the crystal stone in the photo... After studying for several years, we probably translated this sentence."

" What do you mean?"

"A world that exists through dreams." X boy replied, "I don't know if that's true, and those philologists can't guarantee the accuracy of their translation."

Xu Haoyu was confused when he heard that, "It means a world that exists through dreams?"

"It probably means that..." X youth himself was also very distressed to find an adjective, "A dream of one person is just a dream, but when multiple people have the same dream, It became the world... it seems like that."

"What the hell?" Xu Haoyu was completely stupefied, "Did you come up with such a result after half a day's research?"

"I can't help it, and I'm not in charge of research." Boy x laughed, "I'm in charge of investigation and research." Get in touch."

"Okay... so what do the crystal stones and dreams have to do with the so-called 'marginal church'?"

"Some believers in the marginal church are dreamers, and some are eager to become dreamers. People." Boy x said the main point, "They think that the world dreamed by the dreamer is real, and in the dream world there is an omnipotent devil who is as omnipotent as a god and dominates everything. If they want to enter the dream world, they must Worship the devil in the dream, hoping that the devil can lead them into the dream world."

"According to what they say, that dream world is called the 'edge world.'"

"In order to enter the edge world, this group of people seems to have been staring at the He family , finally found an opportunity to steal the crystal stone four years ago, and then disappeared without a trace."

After hearing what the x boy said, Xu Haoyu really digested it for a long time, and after a while he sighed and said: "It's so bizarre , I'm a little dizzy for a while, please let me take it easy."

After a long silence, Xu Haoyu asked the young man, "Since you have revealed all these top-secret contents to me, you should ask me for something, right?"

"Yes... We believe that within the military, people from the fringe churches have also infiltrated, so I hope that you, Major, can help a little in this regard, because it is difficult for us to intervene." The x boy said in surprise.

The young man said: "The way the fringe church expands its believers is a bit similar to the way the crystal stone infected the dreamer. They seem to use methods similar to psychological suggestion to make a normal...an ordinary person who has nothing to do Become a member of the marginal church and help the church do things."

Xu Haoyu suddenly remembered something when he heard this, and the things he remembered made him feel horrified, and he even looked at the boy x in front of him with horrified eyes, Suggesting a similar method? Can you describe it in detail?"

"It's said that it's like being possessed by a ghost, and the spirit is controlled by other people. The words and deeds seem to be the same as usual, but they will do things for the marginal church that they would not do at all."

"Okay ." The mind control similar to 'possession' is only temporary, and most people are only temporarily controlled, and will soon return to normal, and lose the memory of when they were controlled."

"This method is hard to guard against, and we don't know it How did they use this kind of 'possession' to control others? There are very few traces left by this church, but it's not completely untraceable."

Having said this, youth x raised his head and glanced at Xu Haoyu, only to find that Xu Haoyu's face was pale, as if he saw a ghost.

The young man couldn't help but asked with concern: "Major? Are you okay?"

Xu Haoyu didn't reply, he pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time before slowly

answering : "It's okay." , I was possessed by a "monster" and controlled to threaten his sister Xu Lin.

Later, Zhou Yue and Mu Qin just explained to them vaguely, and Xu Haoyu didn't go into it.

Now that he heard all this from the mouth of the boy x, Xu Haoyu realized belatedly that his close friend Mu Qin probably launched a battle against the fringe church and the fringe world a long time ago.

And it continues to this day.

"Can you get that crystal stone back?" Xu Haoyu suddenly asked the boy from the x department.

The boy was slightly taken aback, and replied: "We will do our best."

"Add me, share information and resources, and I will help you uproot that bullshit cult."

Boy X immediately smiled and said, "Then I have to rely on you, Major." ."

The boy from Department X went back later, and Xu Haoyu started to deal with the transfer of Mu Qin and Zhou Yue. It was not an easy task to send the two of them abroad "calmly", Mu Qin said, but Zhou Yue After all, Yue is the young master of the Zhou family. After staying in Xu Lin's hospital for a long time, I am afraid that Zhou's family will come to make trouble.

At the beginning, Xu Haoyu wanted to transfer Zhou Yue and Mu Qin as soon as possible. If Zhou's family came to him later, he would fake the hospital's surveillance video, saying that Zhou Yue had never been to their hospital, creating the illusion that Zhou Yue had disappeared.

It's just that Xu Haoyu didn't expect that as soon as the teenagers from the x department left, Zhou Yue's mother, Xie Zhu, would come to him on the back. First of all, Xie Zhu was looking for Xu Haoyu's sister Xu Lin. She told Xu Lin that she wanted to see Xu Haoyu, and said bluntly that she was here to find Xu Haoyu.

Hearing from his sister that Xie Zhu was going to see him, Xu Haoyu suddenly felt flustered and anxious, for fear that Xie Zhu would find out that he wanted to secretly move her son away.

But after Xie Zhu appeared in front of Xu Haoyu, his attitude surprised Xu Haoyu.

Xie Zhu entered Xu Haoyu's room, and the first thing he said was: "You didn't do what I said, Xu Haoyu, I said don't let Zhou Yue and Mu Qin meet again."

Xie Zhu's words were very strange, because Xu Haoyu Xie Zhu, Zhou Yue's mother, who had never met Zhou Yue, knew about this woman from his sister Xu Lin. if.

But this passage is very meaningful, Xu Haoyu thought about it carefully, and thought of what the boy from the X department told him about the "possession" incident of the cult's fringe church, he couldn't help looking at Xie Zhu in horror.

Xie Zhu didn't give Xu Haoyu time to think, and walked straight up to Xu Haoyu. She supported the table in front of Xu Haoyu with her hands, her movements were quite masculine, "Xu Haoyu, do you know who I am?"

Xu Haoyu was stunned for a while, Zhang Opening her mouth, she asked tentatively as if she had opened her eyes: "Amu?"

Xie Zhu didn't answer, she stood up straight, "Sure enough, you still have brains, why don't you listen to me?"

Xu Haoyu looked shocked, and put his hands on his forehead, as if trying to ease his emotions. After a while, he asked Xie Zhu, "Is it really Ah Mu?"

"Who else could it be?"

"My God!" Xu Haoyu couldn't hide his astonishment, and stared at Xie Zhu in a daze: "Amu, are you also a member of that fringe cult?"

Xie Zhu heard Xu Haoyu mention a special term "marginal cult", He also stared at Xu Haoyu in surprise, and said at the same time: "What? What are you talking about? Borderline... cult?"

At this moment, Xie Zhu...is Mu Qin. Mu Qin is now taking advantage of the fact that the Faceless Man has no time to control him, using the power of the Butterfly Throne to come to the present world, and chose Xie Zhu, who has relatively weak mental power, to possess him.

After possessing Xie Zhu, Mu Qin was able to roughly read Xie Zhu's memory, so he knew a series of things that Zhou Yue encountered in the real world after he sent Zhou Yue out of the marginal world.

Mu Qin also deduced that Xu Haoyu must have not followed his instructions in the end, and let Zhou Yue run to see his body.

What he originally meant was to hope that after Zhou Yue escaped from the fringe world, he would be able to completely cut off contact with that world, and stop contacting the media related to the fringe world, so as to prevent the faceless people from doing anything to Zhou Yue.

But thinking about it now, Mu Qin knows that he can't protect Zhou Yue in a watertight manner at all. The power of the faceless man is too strong. As long as the faceless man really wants to drag Zhou Yue into the water, there are ten thousand ways to torture Zhou Yue Zhou Yue, Zhou Yue has no possibility of escaping.

With no way to protect Zhou Yue, Mu Qin could only seek other solutions. Now Mu Qin pinned his hopes on an important message that echo and Jin Zeng told him one after another. Echo and Jin both mentioned that the edge world was sealed by unknown people in the last version update stage, which made the edge game completely shut down, and it took five years before it was accepted by Jin's parents and other "believers" who believed in the edge world. It was artificially turned on about four years ago.

From these messages, Mu Qin can learn that the fringe world can be sealed, but the question is how to seal it?

Mu Qin decided to start with Jin's parents. Since Jin said that his parents were the group of people who opened the fringe world four years ago, then his parents must also know some inside information, so just find a way to extract information from Jin's parents. just fine.

However, Jin told Muqin that his parents also entered the edge world with him four years ago, and it didn't take long for them to survive the terrible cycle of these killing games and died. Jin is the only player who has lived since the fringe world opened four years ago.

"Is there no one else alive among the group of 'believers' including your parents?" Mu Qin asked unwillingly.

Jin replied: "Yes, there are other believers who are still in the real world. As long as you can return to reality and find those people, you may be able to learn the truth about the opening of the marginal world four years ago, and even get the seal of the marginal world." Then

, Mu Qin traded Echo's white card to Jin by using a certain player's system, and asked Jin to go to Echo's throne map to meet with Echo, and let the two of them form an alliance and quickly establish an alliance in the fringe world. a force. Mnuchin wants the force established by Kim to continue to investigate in the fringe world, and at the same time find a way to deal with another upcoming version update event in the fringe world.

And Mu Qin himself decided to follow the clues Jin gave him, return to the present world through the power of the Butterfly Throne, possess someone, and then go to his almighty friend Xu Haoyu for help...Xu Haoyu is really good in many ways Helped Mu Qin a lot, although he was always involved in these dangerous accidents, it always made Mu Qin feel bad.

Mu Qin first planned to transfer all the clues that Jin gave him to Xu Haoyu, and then asked Xu Haoyu to investigate the affairs of the group of believers four years ago, to find out how they got the crystal core of the edge world, and how to open the edge. world.

But Mu Qin never expected that his actions at this moment coincided with Xu Haoyu. Xu Haoyu had just learned about the existence of crystal stones and the fringe church from the X department, and was preparing to help the X department eradicate this cult so as to regain that cult. A very important crystal stone.

Mu Qin and Xu Haoyu, good comrades-in-arms, used to stand back to back on the battlefield and entrusted all their trust to each other. The high level of tacit understanding between them allowed them to complete various tasks and battles countless times beautifully.

It's the same this time, one of them is in the dream and the other is in reality, but they are standing side by side on the same road.