Gu Shen sighed softly.

It was inevitable to be hypnotized for the second time... Zhou Yexin was indeed more sensitive than others, she even sensed his burning flame.

However, before the hypnosis, he decided to inform Xiaoxinjie about the truth she had been desperately seeking.

"That flame... is something similar to your pocket watch." Gu Shen said calmly, "There are indeed unexplainable phenomena in this world... Your research direction is correct, and your thinking is not wrong. Dreams and the material world are closely connected, they influence each other. Matter can affect the mind, and the mind can also determine matter."

"That's one of the reasons why Mr. Tang Qingquan sent me." Gu Shen affirmed Zhou Yexin's research direction.

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Unexpectedly, she did not show any relief or ease.

Calm.

Very calm.

Just calm.

To explore the transcendent in the world of ordinary people, it is a path full of thorns and loneliness, from studying in Zhongzhou to sampling in the capital, this woman's experiment has gone through countless hardships.

"I know."

But she just smiled, looked at the pocket watch, and said, "...My experiment is correct, I have always known."

She raised her head, "Mr. Tang and you are the same kind of person?"

"Yes... in a sense, we are the same kind of person, just that some of us are luckier than others."

Gu Shen didn't know what made Xiaoxinjie so determined.

He suddenly thought of the Awakening Decree, and what Cui Zhongcheng said by the lake, that the awakening of the transcendent can be controlled by humans. If one day the decree is really issued, then everyone has the possibility of becoming a transcendent.

Perhaps in the future, the secret of the transcendent will no longer be a secret.

After a moment of silence, he looked into Zhou Yexin's eyes and said seriously, "People like us... are called 'transcendents'."

"Transcendents..."

Zhou Yexin murmured softly, her eyelashes drooping, covering her cheeks.

No one saw that her eyes were slightly moist.

She took a deep breath, wiped her face, and when she raised her head again, the burning flame appeared on the young man's forehead.

"Xiaoxinjie, thank you for taking care of me these days..." Gu Shen spoke softly, "It's not the time yet, please forget about all of this."

The flame flickered.

The pocket watch thumped and jumped, as if it was going to confront Gu Shen this time.

Zhou Yexin smiled with relief, she held the pocket watch.

In the next moment, with the will of its owner falling asleep, the hands of the pocket watch no longer trembled...

"Finally... it's your turn."

Gu Shen's gaze focused on the faulty pocket watch, his burning flame swept towards Zhou Yexin's forehead, slowly merging into it, "Let me take a good look at your true origin in the dream."

...

...

The vehicle sped by.

The sunlight was dazzling.

Opening his eyes, Gu Shen saw the passing cars on the asphalt road, and the roaring and noisy sounds fading away.

This was the first time he entered such a bright and warm dream, without oppressive dark clouds or strange rules. It felt like a real afternoon world, and he could even feel that his mood was quite cheerful...

Originally, he intended to use this hypnosis to investigate the origin of the pocket watch in Zhou Yexin's dream. Although the aura contained in this transcendent item was weak, it still belonged to the category of sealed objects.

"Is the initial memory of the pocket watch... from childhood?" Gu Shen lowered his head.

He saw his own young and fair palm.

Then... he felt himself slowly walking forward. Although his line of sight could move freely, his body movements were not under his control.

The owner of this body was the young Zhou Yexin.

Although he came into the dream, he was just a spectator, or rather, a ghost inhabiting the host's body.

"Be careful."

A broad and powerful palm landed on his head.

Gu Shen saw a tall man in a suit, holding "himself" by the hand. The man's voice was warm, giving an inexplicable sense of security, but his face was covered by broken codes...

"This is... Zhou Yexin's father?" Gu Shen was taken aback, "But... why is his face missing?"

The girl in the dream murmured in a grievous voice.

"Dora is gone... I want to find her..."

The man squatted down, countless broken codes flowed and flickered on his face, but his voice was still warm and touching, "Don't cry, Daddy will buy you another one."

"But... if I buy another one... it won't be Dora anymore..."

The girl sobbed and wiped her cheeks forcefully, trying hard to look across the road, her voice intermittent, "I lost Dora... I want to find her..."

The man, whose face couldn't be seen clearly, reached out and wiped away the tears on the girl's face.

"Don't cry, crying will make your face ugly... Daddy will take you to find Dora."

He held the girl's hand and crossed the road, then crossed the lawn.

Gu Shen noticed that the color of this dream suddenly changed. The warm sunlight began to dissipate, and the clouds were covered by leaden clouds. There were no more noisy car horns around, and the whole world became silent and lonely.

But the man holding his hand always walked steadily, giving a strong sense of security.

Finally, the two stopped in front of a villa with red bricks and white tiles.

The daylight had faded.

The leaden clouds pressed down.

At this moment, the dream was no longer as warm as before, but it exuded a great sense of oppression from all directions.

"Daddy... I saw Dora!"

The girl shouted with joy. Under the eaves of the villa, there was a hanging rabbit doll, a small doll swaying in the wind.

Just as she took a step forward, the girl's joyous expression froze, her voice abruptly cut off.

The once pristine little bunny doll was now pierced through the chest, its body hollowed out. A red string hung it up, swaying back and forth, covered in dirt.

"We found Dora."

The man spoke softly, "Xin, stay here, Daddy will bring Dora back home for you."

He walked towards the villa.

In the leaden clouds, a thunderclap resounded.

Accompanied by the thunder, the villa in the dream suddenly exploded. Large shards of glass shattered abruptly, a raging tide of flames gushed out from the interior, the fire reaching the sky. The mighty tongues of flame instantly swallowed the figure of the father—

The girl stood still, her pupils reflecting a ferocious sea of crimson flames.

She stood at the edge of the sea of fire.

A small flame had just sprouted from the wild grass at her feet, immediately extinguished by the heavy rain.

Thunder trembled, rain poured, the whole world was cold and silent, only the ruined villa danced in the soaring flames, as hot as hell here.

A tall figure, at the core of the explosion, was hit by the massive impact, thrown into the air and fell heavily to the ground. But he didn't die... instead, he struggled to get up, kneeling on the ground, slowly moving. Eventually, he reached the boundary of the heavy rain and the raging tide, trembling hand extended, offering a doll.

The surface of the cloth bunny was coated with a thin layer of red, as if time had reversed, it was restored to its original clean and innocent state.

"Daddy..."

The girl's voice was very small, she took the bunny, holding it tightly in her arms, she recognized the man who was burned beyond recognition.

This time, the man didn't wipe her tears away for her.

His hand was raised somewhat helplessly, wanting to touch, but ultimately restrained.

"Xin... be good from now on..."

The man smiled gently, the crimson flames had completely engulfed him, making him look like a tragic blood man. These were flames that ordinary people couldn't understand, as glaring as blood, as if they could swallow everything, burn everything.

The wind howled, the blood-red flames in the storm danced wildly, like a demon laughing.

The figure of the father was burned by the fire, extinguished by the wind, shattered by the rain.

The fire raged on for a long time, the girl stood in the heavy rain, holding the bunny tightly. In the dream world, countless passersby passed by, they were all unimportant people, leaving only dark silhouettes and blurred faces in the dream.

Finally, the siren sounded low, the ambulance arrived.

Many people gathered in front of the burnt-out sea of fire, they watched, investigated, collected evidence.

But nothing was left here.

Not even a piece of clothing could be found, all traces that could prove the man's existence had been burned into nothingness.

Only a lone survivor remained... a little girl holding a bunny doll.

After a long time, everyone dispersed.

After the fire, the dream never saw a sunny day again, it was always overcast and rainy, gloomy.

"..."

The little girl felt a hard object inside Dora's body.

"Thump."

"Thump."

In the silent dream, this orderly, monotonous beating sound appeared.

The girl took out the only thing her father left behind in the fire from inside the bunny doll.

It was a pocket watch.

The pocket watch was severely damaged, the dial was shattered, it could no longer keep time correctly, the hands were permanently stuck at the 12 o'clock mark.

But.

It was still ticking.