On January 23, the twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month, more than six o'clock in the evening.

In the luxuriously decorated office on the second floor of a tea shop in Citong City, a middle-aged man who looks rather dignified is sitting at the main seat of the all-in-one tea table making tea, while he is sitting opposite A middle-aged man with thinning hair and a little dry skin.

If Xiang Kun were here, he would recognize that the middle-aged man with sparse hair was the "Brother Chu" Chu Xiuwen he had met in Tongshi Town.

This time when he came to Citong City, he naturally had nothing to do with Xiang Kun. He came to visit friends a year ago.

The owner of the tea shop in front of him, Guo Lin, is his middle school classmate. He used to study together in the provincial capital and was very affectionate.Besides the friendship of classmates, the two also cooperated well in business, and they cooperated well and were more pleasant.So even if it’s okay, I often walk around. Either Chu Xiuwen came to Citong, or Guo Lin went to Jianzhou City, and occasionally went to the provincial capital together to get together with a group of old classmates and old buddies.

Guo Lin changed to a new cup of tea, poured the tea, put the tea cup in front of Chu Xiuwen with tweezers, and asked casually, "Xiuwen, has Tongshi Town made any big moves recently?"

After Chu Xiuwen took a sip from his teacup, he wondered: "Why do you say that?"

"Do you know Haoguo Group? The one in Guangdong Province has been investing in our province for several years. In the previous paragraph, you also cooperated with a project called Liu Dabao in Tongshi Town," said Guo Lin.

Chu Xiuwen smiled and said, "It's Liu Feibao, I know that person."

"Yes, it's Liu Feibao, look at my memory." Guo Lin smiled and patted his forehead, and then continued: "I recently heard news that it seems that the boss of Haoguo Group, Qi Haoguo, is going to increase her capacity in Tongshi Town. His investment was not enough, and he handled a lot of assets. Moreover, the assets he handled, and some of the businesses he transferred, were all very high-quality. Normally, he wants to expand his investment and go to Jianzhou City and Tongshi Town. You should find a bank loan for your investment, and the local government will definitely support it. Put away a business that is already running well and invest in a project that you don’t know the prospects. This operation is a bit incomprehensible! By the way, I was yesterday I also heard that many of the new projects that Qi Haoguo asked the company's people to prepare are purely charitable. Although I have not actually contacted Qi Haoguo, the reputation of this product has never been a public interest person. It’s because it’s unprofitable that you can’t afford to be early, nicknamed'Grange'. He suddenly wants to invest in Tongshi Town for public welfare, and it is really gold and silver. There must be a reason..."

Chu Xiuwen can probably guess the reason, but he only knows one direction. He knows that it has something to do with Mr. Xiang who has a good relationship with Liu Caifu, but what is the background of Mr. Xiang? The person behind Mr. Xiang is in Tongshi. He didn't know what the town and Chongyun village did and what their purpose was.

Not only him, but also Liu Feibao is equally unclear, but I don’t know if President Qi of the Haoguo Group knows more?

Although he has a good relationship with Guo Lin, Liu Feibao has confessed that he himself is a bit scrupulous about Mr. Xiang’s background, so he can’t take matters into that Mr. Xiang, as well as some of Ji Hang’s judgments. Telling Guo Lin, he can only say ambiguously: "Tongshi Town should indeed be developed. It is normal that there is a little policy or official project support above."

Guo Lin nodded thoughtfully, and said: "I got some gossip before, "Shenxing Technology", do you know? It's just that I often get some black technology, and I specialize in drones, VR, security equipment, and electronic toys. The technology company in China. During this time, they applied to the province for a scientific research project in the mountainous area near Wushu Mountain, and several companies that I know clearly are related to "Shenxing Technology" are sending people to Jianzhou. It seems that I want to develop the business there. Do you think this is also related to Tongshi Town? After all, Wushu Mountain Scenic Area is not far away from Tongshi Town."

"I don't know that."

Guo Lin smiled and said, "Xiuwen, how can you not know that you are a snake in Tongshi Town. If you are supposed to make big moves, you can't not know."

"Snake...this is not a good name." Chu Xiuwen smiled bitterly, "If I really am a snake, the commercial street project that you got together last time will not almost overturn."

"Okay, then the'local pass' will work? Besides, in the commercial street project, we still made some money in the end, and there is no loss, which is good. You just say it, according to your judgment , Do you want to invest in Tongshi Town?” Guo Lin said directly. He knew the character of this old classmate and old friend. He has always been relatively stable, and it is impossible to cheat him.

After thinking for a while, Chu Xiuwen slowly said, "I think there is."

"Okay, let's turn around or find those old guys to get a real estate project together?" Guo Lin said.

"Well... it's still a long-term plan." Chu Xiuwen pondered, "Lao Guo, didn't you say that Qi Haoguo is famous and unprofitable, and is always greedy? Then have you ever thought that he wants to invest in Tongshi? As for the town, why not build real estate? He is a native of Guangdong, why would he sell his assets and take it out for real money to do public welfare in Haixi Province and Tongshi Town?"

Guo Lin was taken aback and nodded: "Yes, I have been thinking about this problem before, why, I really can't figure it out..."

"We simply imitate the smart people's approach, which may not be useful, but it must have some reference significance. Lao Guo, if you are interested, wait a year later, when I invest in the local area with a few friends in Tongshi Town, we will also pull Just come in and count it." Chu Xiuwen said.

He and Liu Feibao had talked with Xiang Kun and Liu Caifu before, so they knew they wanted to deploy aquaculture, catering, and related scientific research and Internet industries. But like Qi Haoguo, he and Liu Feibao were also worried that if they rushed to attract large funds to enter. Otherwise, it will interfere with Mr. Xiang’s original deployment, and make Mr. Xiang or the official boss behind him dissatisfied.What's more, if they really let them do it themselves, they don't know exactly what they should do. No matter which industry, which aspect, or what conditions, Tongshi Town has no advantage compared with other places.

Therefore, he discussed with Liu Feibao that they can look at Liu Caifu and Mr. Xiang's operations according to the specific situation at that time, and then choose to invest in related industries as "auxiliary".On the one hand, he showed his favor to Mr. Xiang, on the other hand, he also wanted to see if he could "get in the car" with this method.

They all felt that, with Mr. Xiang's background and the intervention of big capital such as the Zhang family, the benefits behind this must be huge, and no matter how difficult things are, they will certainly be able to promote.Listening to Guo Lin's words now, it seems that even technology giants like "Shenxing Technology" are also taking actions, and the previous guesses can be more certain.

"Hey, these policy matters, in fact, my father should know a lot, but unfortunately he doesn't want to care about it at all." Guo Lin said with some sigh in the middle of the conversation.

"Your old man is still traveling outside?" Chu Xiuwen asked strangely.

Guo Lin helplessly said: "Yes! I am in my seventies. I just want to travel around the country alone and travel alone. I wanted to find someone to accompany him, but he refused. Yesterday I called and asked him where he was. He didn’t give a plausible letter if he wanted to come back for the Spring Festival. He just said that he would come back naturally when he came back... Well, since my mother passed away, he has basically lost his family. He went everywhere to find his old colleagues. , Old comrades relive the past."

As he was talking, his mobile phone rang suddenly, took a look, couldn't help but smiled: "My old man, did you sense that I was talking about him?"

But after connecting, Guo Lin was taken aback, because the voice from inside was not his father's.

Without hearing a few words, Guo Lin stood up abruptly: "Yes, I am his son! How is the situation now? Well, I will be here soon! Where? I will be there soon, soon!"

Seeing Guo Lin hang up the phone solemnly, Chu Xiuwen also got up and asked, "What's the situation?"

"The old man just returned from the train, but when he arrived at the station, he suddenly had a heart attack and passed out. Now he has been sent to the first hospital. I have to hurry over. You said he really... don't tell me when he comes back, I You can send someone to pick him up... He had no heart problems during the physical examination before, so how could he suddenly have a heart attack..." Guo Lin said while putting on his coat.

Chu Xiuwen said, "My car is parked below. You can drive my car directly, which is faster."

The two went to the hospital together and soon saw the old man Guo who was sober.

Even the doctor was amazed by the old man Guo who came back so quickly and was so sane. Then he attributed the credit to the young doctor who rescued him from the station by timely CPR at the station.

When Guo Lin and the people in the hospital wanted to get the name and contact number of the young doctor, they decided to contact him tomorrow and prepared a gift to thank him.

But after seeing his father in the ward, Guo Lin felt that something was wrong with his father?Because he looks a little excited?

For people who have just had a heart condition, this is not a good thing.

Guo Lin sat down by the hospital bed, held his father's hand, and said, "Dad, I'm here."

Chu Xiuwen, who followed in, also greeted him: "Hello, Uncle Guo."

Father Guo suddenly held his son's hand backhand, looked at him and said, "Guo Lin, I saw...I saw..."

Guo Lin comforted his father a little nervously, and then asked in his tone: "Dad, what do you see?"

"I saw another world." Old man Guo said with a trembling voice: "I saw the person who guarded the gate."

"Dad, please calm down first, speak slowly, slowly, what door do you see?" Guo Linwen comforted his father without questioning.

After a while, Father Guo finally suppressed his emotions under the guidance of Guo Lin, and said clearly: "...I thought I was really going to die, I was very scared, afraid of how I would feel after death. It’s all gone. Then... Then I felt like I saw a very narrow, very dark room with no windows and only one door. I saw a man with many arms standing guard at the door. I saw It is scared, very scared. But I know that it is there, it is real..."

Not only Guo Lin, but Chu Xiuwen probably understood it, but they both felt the same, thinking that this was an illusion caused by the old man's consciousness because of fear when he was dying.

But naturally they will not argue with the old man at this time, to expose his "illusions".

They also know why the old man has such a "fantasy".

Sure enough, the old man looked at Guo Lin next and said: "Since that world exists, it proves that...Your mother is also there, and I still have a chance to meet her."

Guo Lin quickly said, "Dad, Mom definitely hopes you can live a good life..."

Elder Guo interrupted him and said, "Don't worry, I will have a better life. I will see more things and experience more things. Only when I turn around will I have something to tell her! If I didn't take good care of myself, if I didn't have a good time. , Seeing her back, I will definitely be beaten by her! Since I have seen the world, since I have seen the gatekeeper, I am not afraid of anything, I am not afraid of anything... There is nothing to be afraid of, hehe, rest assured Go to Guo Lin."

Guo Lin didn't know what to say, anyway, the old man can be happy, can maintain a good attitude, and the body can recover.

...

In the early morning of January 24, Xiang Kun "woke up" early in the morning.

Of course, he himself did not sleep.

After tossing in the branch yesterday until midnight, he first succeeded in using the special "emotional injection" chopsticks to achieve a historic breakthrough-guiding and perceiving Lao Xia's dream.

Then for the rest of the time, I continued the "homework" that has remained the same for this period of time-after entering the "super-sensing state", I perceive the mutant creature around the rabbit wood carving.

His original plan was to take advantage of the mutant creature's sensing range of the rabbit woodcarving, to forcefully write down the perception information of the mutant creature in the "super-sensing state", so that he can come into contact with other realities in the future. Mutated organisms to perform "supersensing state information comparison" for analysis.

But it didn't take long for him to realize that his previous thoughts were taken for granted. The perception information represented by mutant creatures in the "super-sensing state" is fundamentally different from the perception information represented by ordinary things.

When his consciousness penetrated into the perceptual information representing mutant creatures under the "super-sensing state", he found that as long as he was willing, he would continue to perceive a certain part of the information, just like a road leading directly to the boundless universe. Not the end.

Once he expands the depth of this perception, he will find that the perceptual information represented by the "mutated creature" is too large, almost endless, not what he can perceive now, let alone memorize it. Up.

So later, he could only change the method, and set a limit on the perceptual information, just like the research in reality set the smallest unit to cells or molecules, micrometers or nanometers, and set a range limit.

When there is still no way to know the actual information corresponding to these perceptual information, it is meaningless to do too deep perceptual exploration.

So Xiang Kun just made the shallow sensory information memory that represents the mutant creature, and then focused on other things around the mutant creature, trying to speculate from this that the mutant creature was carrying the rabbit woodcarving at this time, where What to do.

And he was still waiting, waiting for the mutant creature to drink blood.

He wanted to see if he could use the rabbit woodcarving to guide and perceive the other side's dream after the mutant creature drank blood and fell asleep.

Although dream perception is not reality, much of the content is based on real experience, memory, and cognition, and is directly presented with sensory information such as vision, hearing, smell, and touch, which can make Xiang Kun more rich and intuitive Content.

Just as he used the same rabbit woodcarving to perceive the members of the exploration team that "Shen Xing Technology" entered the Qinling no man's land, so he found Zhou Rui, who loves ants, and Fang Pingfang based on Zhou Rui's information. Dr.

Moreover, he has a faint hunch that if he can really use the "emotional injection" objects to perceive the dream of a mutant creature, then the dream may have an unprecedented experience.