Hearing Bai Chen's words, Long Yuehong's body stiffened instantly.
If it was just him having such a dream, it could be explained as thinking about something during the day and dreaming about it at night, only that the content of the dream was too real and frightening.
But Bai Chen had the same dream, which couldn't be described as a coincidence.
Even if they slept in the same bed and had similar experiences, it was impossible for two people to have dreams with almost the same details.
There was no such coincidence in the world!
Almost simultaneously, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, both with considerable experience, thought of a possibility, the only possibility:
Their dreams were influenced by Awakened in the corresponding fields!
Long Yuehong quickly looked out the window.
Through the curtains, he saw that the lights in the corridor were still on, and people were passing by from time to time.
Bai Chen pondered for a few seconds and said:
"Although the dream just now was real enough, it didn't mean to kill us."
That kind of "real dream" couldn't be awakened by being frightened. Most people would encounter death in their dreams and die in reality along with it.
Long Yuehong also had such doubts and tentatively said:
"The one who influenced our dreams just wanted us to have that dream?"
If the other party was trying to scare people or test their abilities, they wouldn't let two people sleeping together have the same dream. This would easily be discovered as wrong, leading to a company investigation.
Therefore, Long Yuehong felt that the focus should be on the dream itself.
Bai Chen slowly nodded:
"The one who influenced our dreams probably wanted to tell us through that dream that Mei Shou'an is indeed a member of the 'Life Ritual' cult, and so is Minister Xi Yu."
Hiss, Long Yuehong gasped:
"No way..."
He could somewhat believe that Mei Shou'an was a member of the "Life Ritual" cult, but saying that Minister Xi Yu was one was completely baseless!
Then, Long Yuehong thought of something and frowned:
"We only suspected today that Mei Shou'an might be a member of the 'Life Ritual' cult, why did we have a corresponding dream tonight?
"Could someone be monitoring our conversation in the office?"
This was unreasonable!
Shang Jianyao could sense human consciousness within a large range, and the team leader could use electrical signals to sense and fill in the gaps. Excluding certain devices, Room 14 could be said to be uniquely blessed in terms of anti-monitoring, as solid as a rock!
Bai Chen pondered for a few seconds and said:
"If they learned of our suspicion through eavesdropping, that Awakened shouldn't have influenced our dreams tonight. This would expose that they can monitor our office, and it's not clear whether everyone is a friend or foe.
"I think either it's a coincidence, or he has been trying to guide our dreams for some time, but his ability is limited and he can't create something out of nothing. Only when we started to suspect Mei Shou'an and Director Su did the dream develop in the direction he hoped."
Since the previous dreams didn't meet the requirements, the other party would definitely give up halfway. Long Yuehong and Bai Chen wouldn't remember the corresponding content after waking up, and they wouldn't notice anything unusual.
"If the latter possibility is true, then that Awakened doesn't live far away," Long Yuehong said solemnly.
Only in this way could he influence the dreams in this room every night without being suspected by the Order Supervision Department and the employees on the same floor.
Based on the fact that the range of the Awakened's ability is spherical, and both people in the room were affected, Long Yuehong couldn't rule out people on the two or three floors above and below.
Bai Chen was silent for a while and said:
"That's not the point, the point is whether the content of the dream is true."
"This... maybe a certain force represented by that Awakened is trying to sow discord," Long Yuehong didn't dare to make a definite judgment.
Bai Chen silently exhaled:
"Sometimes, I feel that it's safer outside than in the company. At least we know who the enemy is, where the danger comes from, and if we need to fight head-on, we fight head-on, and if we need to evacuate urgently, we evacuate urgently, without doubting everything and being restrained."
With the current abilities and equipment of the "Old Task Force", except for a few scenarios, if they choose to escape, no one can catch them.
"It's okay... the problem is always with a minority," Long Yuehong still had a lot of affection for "Pangu Biology" and the underground building.
Even though he often imagined when the company could move to the ground so that everyone could see the blue sky and feel the natural wind, he never considered completely severing ties with this underground building.
This represented his childhood, adolescence, and half of his youth, the most carefree period of his life.
Bai Chen didn't refute, but looked at the telephone in the room:
"Let's tell the team leader and Wei about what happened just now as soon as possible."
It wasn't time to turn off the lights yet. The light outside the window passed through the curtains, making the landline faintly visible.
"Will this be monitored?" Long Yuehong asked with some concern.
Bai Chen replied calmly:
"Being monitored might be a good thing."
"Ah..." Long Yuehong was puzzled at first, then understood.
Bai Chen meant:
Those who can monitor the phone are mostly members of the "Life Ritual" cult, just like their Saint Master controlled the surveillance cameras in the beginning. After the "Life Ritual" cult discovers that another organization is secretly targeting them, the focus of attention will not be on the "Old Task Force"!
You go and fight among yourselves, don't bother us!
"Okay, who should we call first?" Long Yuehong's first reaction was to find Jiang Baimian.
Compared to Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian was much weaker in terms of Awakened abilities, but she was more reliable in other aspects, especially in terms of intelligence.
"Call Wei first. He's alone and lives on the floor for ordinary employees, which is relatively more dangerous." Bai Chen gave his opinion from another perspective.
Long Yuehong followed his advice, turned over and got out of bed, walked to the table, picked up the phone, and dialed Shang Jianyao's home number.
…………
"Mind Corridor," in Room "506".
Shang Jianyao, under the identity of the room's owner, chatted with many people in the Fourth Research Institute's family area.
In addition to gaining a lot of useful information, including but not limited to the price of certain fields, and the Fourth Research Institute's suspicion of the Eighth Research Institute's forbidden experiment, Shang Jianyao roughly restored the original image of the room's owner:
A girl, whose appearance was considered good in such a family area, had several suitors, was full of interest in the entertainment materials of the Old World, liked to restore the clothes and dresses in them, and even though she was often too scared to sleep by the terrifying plots, and her eyes were filled with tears by the emotional scenes, she still enjoyed it;
She was cheerful, and on the surface was a straightforward person, but in reality, she was indecisive when she encountered big things and couldn't make up her mind;
She was very interested in various things on the graylands, and from time to time she would follow the Fourth Research Institute's trading team to travel to other places, and was a very curious person;
Perhaps because she grew up in such a relatively stable place in the Fourth Research Institute's family area, she, like Long Yuehong before joining the "Old Task Force", had a simple sense of justice and a view of good and evil, and was full of vigor...
Just as Shang Jianyao was preparing to inquire further, he heard a ding-ling-ling sound in his ear.
No one around noticed.
"Someone is calling me?" Shang Jianyao became excited.
He ran to the exit.
When he returned to the real world, he picked up the phone and asked with a straight face:
"Hello, who is it?"
"It's me," Long Yuehong replied.
"Who am I?" Shang Jianyao began to be unreasonable.
Long Yuehong's forehead twitched slightly:
"I'm Long Yuehong. Bai and I just had the same dream."
"You went to bed so early?" Shang Jianyao's focus was completely wrong.
Long Yuehong took a breath and slowly exhaled:
"That's not important. What's important is that we had the same dream. We both dreamed that Director Mei Shou'an was a member of the 'Life Ritual' cult, and when we reported to Minister Xi Yu, she also made the 'Life Ritual' cult's salute gesture."
Shang Jianyao let out a long "oh":
"So many fellow believers...You woke up too early. You have to see what information the person influencing your dream can give you. Maybe later, you will find that we are also members of the 'Life Ritual' cult..."
After fantasizing for a while, he asked:
"Did you tell Da Bai?"
"Not yet, I'll call her now." Long Yuehong was very fortunate that he had called Shang Jianyao's home first, otherwise it would never end.
After hanging up, Bai Chen began to dial Jiang Baimian's home number.
…………
Ding-ling-ling.
Xue Sumei answered the phone:
"Who are you looking for?"
"Hello, I'm looking for Jiang Baimian. I'm her colleague," Bai Chen replied.
Xue Sumei covered the microphone with her hand and shouted at the study:
"Mianmian, someone's calling you!"
When Jiang Baimian in the study answered the phone, Xue Sumei put down the microphone of the landline outside and said to Jiang Wenfeng with a disappointed look:
"It's a woman."
"Don't be impatient," Jiang Wenfeng smiled and shook his head.
At this time, Jiang Baimian asked clearly about Bai Chen and Long Yuehong's experiences in a few words.
She thought and said:
"It seems that we are involved in a muddy situation.
"Could it be that the company has been eroded more seriously, and multiple foreign organizations have grown stronger, but because there is a big boss and several strong people suppressing them, the surface is calm?
"This time, is another organization trying to take the opportunity to eliminate the 'Life Ritual' cult?"
"Then we better sit on the sidelines for now," Bai Chen said his thoughts.
Jiang Baimian "hmm"-ed:
"I think so too."
After all, she couldn't find a senior official she could completely trust, unless she could report directly to the big boss.
Jiang Baimian smiled instead:
"It's not too late to discuss this the day after tomorrow. You should take turns sleeping tonight to see if you have similar dreams again. After two or three times, and after confirming that there is no problem, continue to sleep together. You can't delay tomorrow's meeting with the parents."
After comforting Bai Chen and Long Yuehong and hanging up the phone, Jiang Baimian sat there, thinking.
After a few dozen seconds, she picked up the microphone and dialed Shang Jianyao's home number.
"Hello," Shang Jianyao's voice quickly sounded, "who is it?"
"Who do you think it is?" Jiang Baimian asked with a smile.
"Maybe it's Xiao Hong, maybe it's Xiao Bai," Shang Jianyao said with a justified tone, "Do you want to discuss the same dream they had tonight?"
Jiang Baimian smiled:
"That's not so urgent. Let's wait and see."
"Did you find out the personality and experience of the owner of Room '506' tonight?"
"Yes!" Shang Jianyao explained in detail what he had found out.
Jiang Baimian was silent for a while, frowning slightly:
"Heavy curiosity... a sense of justice and a simple view of good and evil...
"Do you think, could the owner of Room '506' also have fallen into our current dilemma, and as a result of a wrong choice, the place she wanted to protect suffered a catastrophe?"
She couldn't help but make associations, because the environment, atmosphere, and feeling inside the Fourth Research Institute's family area and "Pangu Biology" were very similar.
ps: I recommend a book, «Tang Qi Tan», the author Mao Pi is really very knowledgeable about the history of the Tang Dynasty, but he always touches thunder and is harmonized. This book changes to writing strange stories in a fictional Tang Dynasty, which is quite interesting.
The content synopsis is: Crossing a hundred years, fictitious prosperous times, the imperial court and the martial world, undercurrents are surging, supernatural return, legends reappear, the truth is like blood, the human heart is like iron, reaching across the air, only I am the redemption.