Looking at Xia Libing, who was sleeping in bed, Xiang Kun had to pull over the quilt and cover her to prevent her from catching a cold.

Then he untied the rubber bands from her hair and spread it out.

Then take out the eight-armed eight-eyed woodcarving from the cabinet and put it on the bedside next to the box containing the chopsticks.

In Xia Libing's usual style, since she made it clear that her purpose was to try Xiang Kun's dreams inspired by the eight-armed eight-eyed wood carving, she also brought another emotion-infused item, chopsticks, and placed it beside her head. , Obviously there is a purpose.

Sitting on the computer chair in the room, looking at the eight-armed eight-eyed wood carving placed on the bedside, Xiang Kun did not immediately sense, but first deduced the situation in his dream.

Judging from many previous dream perception experiences, the dreams and emotions caused by the eight-armed eight-eyed wood carving have relatively strong negative effects and follow-up influence. This is why he asked for this wood carving from Tang Baona’s grandfather. The reason why it has been "sealed" in the cabinet.

So regardless of whether the eight-armed eight-eyed woodcarving can successfully mobilize Lao Xia’s dream, how to judge Lao Xia’s state and limits after motivating, how to provide help and support to her in the dream, when and how to end the dream, All need to make plans first.

Originally, these issues should be discussed and settled by Lao Xia and him before the induction and before going to bed.

As a result, Lao Xia is too sleepy now, and she just came to sleep in seconds. It's not easy to pull Lao Xia up and wake her up and let her fall asleep again after discussion. Then Xiang Kun can only grasp and decide.

After five minutes, after considering various possibilities, and thinking about several plans, Xiang Kun began to sense the eight-arm and eight-eyed wood carving, and then a large amount of sensory information flooded in, and it really succeeded in arousing Lao Xia's dream.

It seems that this sentiment also has an effect on Lao Xia.

In the dream, Xiang Kun observed the surroundings through Lao Xia's perception.

This is a dim and unclear world, and I can't see the surroundings clearly, as if in space, boundless, but there is an invisible field under my feet, making her stand firmly on the ground.

A strong sense of hunger drove her, constantly searching around, trying to find something to eat, but there was nothing, and it seemed that there was nothing.

Hungry, so hungry.

My body is getting weaker and weaker, and I can even feel the passing of life, my stomach is constantly shrinking, my internal organs are failing, and my muscles are constantly breaking down.

Xiang Kun felt that in Xia Libing's dream perception, she was like a candle, constantly "melting", little by little, feeling that she was "dissolved" by hunger and heading towards death.

Just like hunger, this is the body's most instinctive response, the most primitive feedback.

Xiang Kun can clearly perceive the source of Xia Libing's fear. This should also be a sequelae caused by the doctor Li who treated her when she was a child.

In other words, the death threat and fear caused by such extreme hunger is the main way of "treatment".Only with this method can the little Lao Xia integrate into the lifestyle of a normal person and understand what can be done and what must not be done.

In the dream, after being frightened by hunger and death, Xia Libing did not panic, hysterical, and panicked like ordinary people.

Sharing the perception and emotions in Lao Xia's dream from the first perspective, Xiang Kun knew that she was constantly observing her surroundings, even if she could tell at a glance, there was nothing around her.

It seems that even if she has not "waked up" in her dream, Lao Xia's instinct is still dominated by reason. Even if she perceives the strongest fear, she is not simply thinking about running away or avoiding, but how to "solve"— —Although normally speaking, this is an endless loop and an unsolvable problem.

Then, Lao Xia saw a white door appeared in the distance. There was a window on the door and a fuzzy face on the window.

Lao Xia ran over quickly, and as the distance drew closer, when she saw the face on the window clearly, she couldn't help slowing down.

It was a face with two rows of eight eyes. It was a monster.

In an instant, the whole door merged with the monster, not only the head with eight eyes, but also the huge and weird body with eight arms, giving people a strong feeling—the only door is also It's impossible to go out.

She was going to be starved to death in this empty space. This was Lao Xia's instinctive feeling in her dream.

In the next instant, extreme sanity came, and Xia Libing "waked up" from his dream.

Xiang Kun's perspective of perceiving dreams can be shifted, and the support of dreams has been transferred from him to ten "super-connected things" that have established a special connection with Xia Libing.

Compared to Xia Libing's dreams triggered by chopsticks several times before, this time she was "waking up" a bit slower in her dreams.

Moreover, in the previous dreams, the emotions brought about by the chopsticks triggered by the dreams will be quickly suppressed by her reason after Xia Libing "wakes up".But this time, Xiang Kun could clearly feel that the emotions brought by the eight-armed eight-eyed wood carving, the fear of death caused by extreme hunger, were still there, only slightly weakened.

Although the self-made chopsticks and the eight-armed wood carving trigger the emotions of dreams, there are some similarities, and they are all related to eating and hunger.

But the former's emotions are mainly focused on "eating", the satisfaction of eating and the urge to possess food.The latter is more about the fear of hunger, the harm to the body, and the threat of death.

Undoubtedly, the intensity and negative level of the latter's emotions are much higher than those of the former. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that even if she is already "awake" in a dream, Lao Xia cannot completely suppress the negative feelings brought about by emotions. .

In the dream, Xia Libing observed the surroundings again, the emptiness of space immediately "filled up", except that the door was still firmly blocked by the eight-armed eight-eyed monster, other places had actually appeared-positive It was the first time Xiang Kun used chopsticks to trigger a dream in that closed room with nothing.

There is no doubt that this is where Lao Xia's fear was born.

Xia Libing walked directly to the eight-armed eight-eyed monster. The closer she got, the stronger her fear. Even in the dream, Xiang Kun could clearly see her trembling slightly-if not in the dream, he could I directly felt Lao Xia's emotions. From an objective point of view, her performance was more like holding back excitement and excitement, rather than suppressing fear and fear.

But this didn't stop her. She knew very well that she was in a dream now, and she knew exactly what this eight-armed eight-eyed monster represented.

But no matter how she approached, she was always so close to the eight-armed eight-eyed monster, it seemed that she would never be able to touch it.

Xia Libing thought for a while, no more futile operations, nine coins and a tungsten steel ball appeared in front of her. The next moment, they all disappeared and turned into a crispy pork knuckle.

She ate the pork knuckle guts, and after eating, another piece appeared and she kept eating.

But after eating a few pieces, she found that neither the process of eating nor the process of swallowing it alleviated hunger and the fear of hunger.

She frowned and thought, raised her head, looked at the empty ceiling, and said, "Chopsticks."

Observing Lao Xia's Xiang Kun from the perspective of an eight-armed and eight-eyed monster, she immediately knew that she was talking to herself, and immediately understood what she meant-she was making Xiang Kun feel the chopsticks now.

Normally, in the process of perceiving other people's dreams through the "love objects", he cannot perceive other "love objects" at the same time.But Lao Xia’s dreams are different. When she “wakes up” in her dreams and transfers the support of her dreams to the dream projection of “super-connected objects”, Xiang Kun’s has the ability to sense other “love objects” Ability, like "freeing up".

Last time, he tried to sense Liu Shiling's chopsticks in his dream, so he successfully merged the dreams of Little Fat Girl and Lao Xia. The two of them even met in their dreams and "dinner" together.

But this time, Lao Xia's "chopsticks" obviously did not refer to Liu Shiling's pair, but the pair that Xiang Kun gave her and is now also on the bedside.

Xiang Kun immediately sensed the pair of chopsticks. After a while, there was a change in the dream. A figure appeared next to Lao Xia. It was the projection of the dream emotion of the pair of chopsticks, which was the image of the little fat girl.

The little fat girl representing appetite and the eight-armed eight-eyed monster representing fear, these two "love objects", projections of two different emotions, unexpectedly appeared in the same dream at the same time.

Xiang Kun knows that the underlying structure of Lao Xia's dream has also undergone great changes. Now this "system" is both windows and linux.

The emotional projection of the chopsticks, the little fat girl, raised her head to look at the eight-armed eight-eyed monster that was not far away, and approached Xia Libing, took a chicken wing to her, then hugged her thigh and looked at it timidly. monster.

Xia Libing ate the chicken wings, and finally felt that his appetite was satisfied. As a result, his hunger was relieved, and his fear was also reduced. The eight-armed and eight-eyed monster also seemed to be less ferocious and smaller in size.

Xia Libing dragged a chubby girl holding her thigh, while eating chicken wings, he leaned close to the eight-armed eight-eyed monster and watched carefully. From time to time, she used a scalpel to draw a scalpel on the monster. A few clicks, a few pokes.

Xiang Kun suddenly realized that Xia Libing had such a great interest in the eight-armed eight-eyed woodcarving, perhaps because he had heard the group illusion made by Little Apple before, and he had seen him make it to three car thieves in the abandoned factory. I also want to try to have a more direct connection with the "love object" outside of the dream, and try to use the projection of the "love object" for its use.

Xiang Kun couldn't help but look forward to it. Will Lao Xia find a way to "appear" the eight-armed and eight-eyed monster in reality by "imagining it all"?

Although the ability "developed" by the Little Apple can also create "illusions" for others, allowing them to "see" monsters with eight arms and eight eyes, the objects that are "imagined" are essentially different from illusions.

Xiang Kun didn't even think about what the "Juxian" was going to do, but simply felt that "this function seems to be difficult to implement and difficult to achieve. If it is done, it must be very emotional".

However, according to the situation of "all presenting" other dream objects in the previous few times, it may not be so easy to do it.

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After the dream was over, Xiang Kun opened his eyes, only to find that Lao Xia on the bed did not wake up, but was lying on her side curled up, like a baby, sucking on her thumb joint, with an expression of "wine" on her face. Satisfaction after a full meal.

It seemed that the sleepiness was too strong tonight, or the consumption in the dream was too great, so after the dream ended, she did not wake up, but continued to sleep and rest.

Naturally, Xiang Kun will not wake her up. There will be many things during the day tomorrow, and next, he will fall asleep after drinking blood. Lao Xia is likely to "watch the night", so rest and sleep well tonight, very important.

He turned away from the computer chair and moved his body from facing the bed to facing the computer.

Because he was afraid of waking Lao Xia, he did not call Alice through voice, but through the keyboard.

After asking Alice to reply to herself via text, Xiang Kun started to summarize the improvement direction of today's game and re-released the task for Alice.

But unexpectedly, after Alice routinely reported the progress of some of the tasks previously arranged, Xiang Kun discovered a situation that made him somewhat unexpected.