Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 302 Two hundred and seventeen. Waiting for you to dream

   After that, the man began to look around for the exorcist, and at the same time used various self-mutilating methods to prevent himself from falling asleep. Having said that, he showed Lu Li the cuts on his arms and the burns on his body, and the ugly scabbed centipedes were climbing on the skin.

   This is what he did to prevent himself from falling asleep.

  The man found many exorcists in the past few days, but none of them could find traces of supernatural beings on him, until today, three days later, he found Lu Li.

   This means that the last time he slept was three days ago.

   also means that he is about to find no one - Lu Li is not well-known in the circle of exorcists.

   The man's body was shaking and shaking. Partly because of the cold, and partly because of the overwhelming sleepiness.

"They're right, you don't have any weird marks on your body." Lu Li told the man that neither he nor Anna found any kind of malice in this poor man, he added: "But a lot of weirdness is hard to detect, I need to know specific."

"What do you want to know?"

   A glimmer of hope flashed in the eyes of the man standing on the edge of the cliff of despair.

  Lu Li said, "If you can still recall the content of the dream."

   "Of course... Although it's been a long time, I still remember some of the content, just like things in reality..." The man lowered his head again, showing a look of memory.

"But I don't know how to describe it... These dreams are illogical, some are fragments of some people's lives, some are drifting at sea, some are beyond my understanding, and some are just like reality, I am living a normal life, it's like I suddenly took over someone else's body..."

  The man told Lu Li that in the dream he was clearly aware of his existence and possessed the ability to think. Most dreams, like normal people's dreams, are bizarre and illogical. The only difference was that he knew it was a dream.

   This chaotic dream usually appears first, and the length of time it occupies is related to his entire dream. The longer the dream, the longer the chaotic dream. Until he slept for a while, and then the dream world began to be relatively stable.

   For example, there is the most basic logic.

   But the man told Lu Li that there would still be a lot of... chaos, or loopholes. For example, when playing a man, he will suddenly become a woman at a certain moment.

   These relatively normal dreams occasionally intrude into fragments of the chaotic dream, until the dream draws to a close, becomes a chaotic dream again, and the man wakes up.

   Chaos Dreams is like the singing part of an opera.

   To put it another way that is easier for Lu Li to understand: the title, feature, commercial, and ending of a TV series.

   Lu Li asked, "Will you die in your dream?"

   "Yes! No..." The man shouted without thinking at first, then hesitantly said, "I will die, but I can be resurrected..."

   "What about after you come back alive?"

   "Sometimes it will change to a new dream, and sometimes it will continue."

   "Won't the person in the dream feel strange?"

  The man was stunned for a moment, and then showed a color of fear that was completely different from the pervasive despair: "Some will..."

Most of the time, the person in the dream will not notice the slightest difference, but there are many times when he died unexpectedly because of some kind of "loophole", for example, he suddenly realized that he could fly to a height of hundreds of meters in an instant and then lost control of his body. When he fell to his death, when he came back, the people around him would show panic and run away screaming.

   and one that he remembered particularly well.

   He is a member of a certain adventure group. When the two go out on an adventure together, a chaotic dream comes. After a period of bizarre dreams, he returned to a normal dream, and the companion asked him where he had just gone.

   This spooky thing makes hair stand up in front of a warm fireplace.

   Lu Li was lost in thought.

   It's hard to tell if this is a dream made up by a man's brain or if it actually happened——

   If on Earth, he could definitely say it was a psychological problem, but here…

   "Did you notice something strange or received some kind of message in the dream?"

   Lu Li asked, paused slightly after he finished speaking, realized what it was, and added, "Don't tell me the answer, if there is, you will nod your head without shaking your head."

   He has to beware of the possibility that the dream is an infectious agent.

   The man shook his head hesitantly.

   "Are there any strange marks on the body?"

   "Dream or—"

"Reality."

   "No, I made these myself."

   After thinking for a moment, Lu Li calmly told the man, "I didn't find any clues."

   The despair on the man's face was real.

  Lu Li suggested: "You still have two options now: ask a night watchman or an investigator, or sleep here for me to observe."

   "The Night's Watch... I know the Night's Watch, what is an investigator? Can they heal me!"

   "I don't know, if they can't do anything about it, there is only one way left to treat you." Lu Li took off the pen cap and looked up at the man: "I can tell you the addresses of the night watchman and the investigator."

   Investigators don’t mind civilians’ visits and inquiries. For example, in the initial investigator assessment, they brought several civilians directly into the base. The reason why the investigators’ base was hidden was just to be troublesome—they didn’t have time to accompany those civilians all day.

   "There is only one left...what is it...?" The man guessed something, but asked anyway.

   "Just what you think, death."

   Feeling that the man was hesitating, Lu Li continued: "Don't forget that I said 'maybe', no one knows whether long sleep represents an endless dream."

   There is no relief after death, that is the most terrifying despair.

   "If I sleep here... will you find the cause of the problem?" the man asked tremblingly, fists clenched in his wet sleeves against his arms.

"I have no idea."

   Lu Li wrote the address, pushed it to the table in front of the man, and looked up at him calmly.

  The sound of a kitchen knife chopping vegetables came from the kitchen.

  The man clenched his teeth and said, "You will treat me, right?"

   "I'll try to find a solution."

  The man made some sort of determination: "I'm going to get treatment...here."

   Perhaps the mysterious color on Lu Li's body and his unchanging calm infected the man, and he planned to sleep here for a few hours and a few years.

   "You can lie down on the sofa."

  Lu Li stood up and said, and came to the sofa with the man.

   The sound of cutting vegetables in the kitchen disappeared, and the man sitting on the sofa didn't notice that the blanket slipped silently and floated into the bedroom.

   This blanket belongs to her and Lu Li.

   The man lay down on his back and looked at Lu Li in front of the sofa without a sense of security, but after a while, his eyelids gradually fell and his breathing gradually stabilized.

   He soon fell asleep.

   as if something was waiting for him to dream.

   (end of this chapter)