"This door..."

Gu Shen had already come into contact with the Red Door.

He hadn't dared to touch it before, fearing the unknown and uncontrollable.

During his treatment at the Dream Weaver Clinic, the thought of dealing with the renowned Madam... made Gu Shen cautious, lest he stir up trouble.

After all, there was a mad dog chained outside the door.

Of course, it was the same this time... With Song Ci guarding the old house, Gu Shen felt very secure.

The words "mad dog" were high praise for that fellow.

Now.

The bloody light enveloping the Red Door, along with the talismans, surrounded him, slowly swirling and unraveling... There wasn't the imagined sharpness or intensity, but a warm current flowing, directly conveying a feeling of spirit.

Truly touching this Red Door, Gu Shen's heart instead calmed down...

"No 'supernatural event' happened as imagined."

Gu Shen felt that these talismans surrounding him seemed to be scanning something...

The Red Door transmitted a stream of spiritual warmth to him.

After flowing through, it returned again.

It was like... an information exchange?

"This door is scanning me?"

Gu Shen vaguely sensed the true meaning of these ancient talismans enveloping him. The condition for opening this Red Door must be encountering the right person.

And that sense of summons towards him... Could it be...

Before Gu Shen could think further, the ancient talismans that had emerged from the Red Door slowly withdrew, calling off the troops.

"The scan... is over?"

Gu Shen exerted a little force with his palm.

The Red Door was indestructible... unshakeable.

Gu Shen felt somewhat embarrassed.

He had been so cautious, only to find that he couldn't open the door at all...

But the Chihuo's (Crimson Fire) sensing had never been wrong. Gu Shen was willing to believe that the original sense of summons wasn't just wishful thinking. However, since he couldn't push open the Red Door, he wouldn't force it.

...

...

Under the banyan tree, the two gradually returned to normal.

"Madam... I've examined your dream, and there's nothing unusual..."

Gu Shen exhaled a long breath and said seriously, "It should just be overwork. Clear your mind before bed."

Lu Nanzhi woke from her dream state.

She pressed her hands on the marble tabletop, staring intently at Gu Shen, her brows furrowed. After a long while, she slowly asked, "In my dream... did you see that Red Door?"

Gu Shen's heart skipped a beat.

Indeed... touching the Red Door was a bit reckless. Had he been discovered?

He sighed helplessly and said cautiously, "Yes... I saw a Red Door at the end of your dream."

"You touched it?"

"Yes, but..." Gu Shen immediately explained, "You might not believe it, but it was more like it touched me... But I can guarantee that I didn't push it open."

"Why didn't you push it open?"

Lu Nanzhi's question stunned Gu Shen.

Why didn't he push it open?

"Actually, I did try... The door is very thick, and I couldn't push it open. And those strange characters seemed to be scanning me..." Gu Shen scratched his head and said, "In short, you can rest assured, the door wasn't opened."

The doors in the dream were locked with corresponding spiritual locks.

Although he didn't know what secrets were sealed inside the iron doors on both sides of the corridors, Gu Shen guessed that the Red Door at the end was the most important, and the Madam didn't want anyone to know about it.

"The door wasn't opened..."

The Madam, with her hands propped on the marble table, fell into an unusually dazed state. It had been many years since anyone had seen her so lost and helpless.

Lu Nanzhi murmured unconsciously, "He saw the door... and touched the door... but the door... didn't open..."

She couldn't understand it all.

031 had told her with great certainty that Gu Shen was the key.

That's why she decided to take a gamble... The Guwen Hui (Ancient Text Society) had reached a critical moment of life and death, and nothing was more important than finding the key to open the Red Door.

But now it seemed...

She had found the key, and yet she hadn't...

Gu Shen could see the Red Door in her dream, and even touch it, but he couldn't open it.

"...Madam?"

Looking at the distracted Lu Nanzhi, Gu Shen couldn't help but frown. He asked in a low voice, "Would you mind telling me... what that Red Door is?"

Lu Nanzhi came back to her senses.

She looked at Gu Shen, caught in a dilemma... If she confirmed that this young man was the key she had been searching for so hard, then the secrets about herself and the Guwen Hui wouldn't need to be hidden any longer.

But now...

"Ding-dong—"

The familiar sound of an email arriving rang out.

Still the familiar ID.

Still the familiar five-second countdown to automatic deletion.

This was the second email from 031.

The content contained clear warnings and reminders.

"Regardless of whether the door has been opened... now is not the time to reveal the truth about the key."

Lu Nanzhi calmed down.

She slowly sat back on the rattan stool and silently put her earrings back on.

In just one second, she fabricated a lie: "That Red Door... is a relic left to me by my father. It holds something very important that belonged to my father."

Gu Shen was not only perceptive but also a psychic adept.

Ordinary lies couldn't deceive him...

And Lu Nanzhi's words just now, in a sense, weren't exactly a lie.

The last person to safeguard the Red Door and search for the key was indeed Old Lu.

This door was a heritage, a belief, something that countless people had been searching for... Alan Turing's legacy.

No one knew what it was.

But everyone knew it was something very important.

"You're right. Actually, I'm not troubled by insomnia. I'm just not resting well." Lu Nanzhi said in a low voice, "Because I want to unlock that Red Door dream my father left me... that's why I came to you. I heard that during the Tribunal's S-class assessment, you completed three nightmare-level dream-solving trials in a row. I thought you could help me."

"Is that so..."

Gu Shen fell into thought after hearing this.

He didn't suspect anything.

After thinking for a while, Gu Shen said seriously, "Perhaps I can push open this door... However, you'll have to wait a little longer."

"What...?"

The Madam's eyes lit up, then she frowned slightly.

The hope that had been extinguished rekindled with Gu Shen's words, but she didn't understand. Did pushing open the Red Door require additional conditions? Why did she have to wait?

"Um... It's hard to explain to you. You can understand it as my current mental state isn't very good. Or rather... the me who entered your dream this time isn't at my peak."

Gu Shen smiled and thought to himself, as expected, he still couldn't do without Chu Ling.

He had a feeling... If Chu Ling were here.

That Red Door would already be open.