Chapter 209. Filter
Arc 7 : Last Nightmare
When the scene became clear again, the house was still there below.
Du Yan walked in familiarly and saw the Shao family sitting in the living room, as if they were waiting for someone.
After a while, Shao Lingheng’s Waipo and Waigong came in.
After everyone gathered, they started discussing what happened in the past few days. Judging from the dark circles under the eyes of the Shao family, they still did not get enough sleep in the past few days.
The nannies, gardeners, drivers, etc. hired by the family, have all been given holidays, and the others have taken turns sleeping outside. The Taoist master who came a few days ago has also confirmed that there is no evil spirit involved.
In addition, people who left the house no longer had nightmares, so everyone was sure that the culprit was indeed the baby Shao Lingheng.
All hopes were placed on Shao Lingheng’s Waipo.
After listening to this, Shao Lingheng’s Waipo also talked about what happened after returning home.
Basically, she described her Gege’s condition in recent years in detail. After taking the secret medicine, he became a normal person, and no abnormal conditions occurred.
After hearing about Shao Lingheng’s condition, her cousin said with certainty that this was a manifestation of bloodline activation. The higher the blood concentration, the more likely it is that Shao Lingheng has some kind of atavism phenomenon that has caused his blood concentration to be abnormally high, which is why he has awakened at such a young age.
After hearing this, Xiao Ba sighed and said: “In fact, there are some differences between the bloodline of Nightmare beast and Birch. In order to prevent himself from being affected by emotions in nightmares, Birch is a predator with indifferent emotions. However, Nightmare beast can experience emotions by eating human emotions.”
When Du Yan heard this, he remembered what Qian Xing said, that Shao Lingheng had no emotions since he was a child, and seemed to have an emotional deficiency disorder.
Du Yan asked: “Then why can his Waipo’s Gege live an ordinary life?”
Xiao Ba said: “The bloodline of the Nightmare Beast actually awakens in stages. At first, it awakens the ability to consume human negative emotions. This stage has no effect on the people around it. After that, it awakens the ability to weave nightmares at a higher level.”
By the time Xiao Ba explained this, Du Yan had already understood why the secret medicine had adverse effects on Shao Lingheng. Shao Lingheng awakened his dream-weaving ability too early, and before he could understand human emotions by consuming emotions, his ability was sealed by the secret medicine.
Du Yan asked again: “When I woke up, you came to my side very quickly. Why didn’t Shao Lingheng and his bloodline have any helpers and could only rely on secret medicine to suppress the bloodline?”
Xiao Ba spoke with some disdain in his tone: “The faction of deities originating from Chaos is notorious for having no moral integrity, and they do not attach as much importance to the bloodline of their descendants as we Chinese deities do.”
People there have carefully studied the medical examination reports and various psychological test results of Shao Lingheng’s Waipo’s Gege over the years.
After confirming that the secret medicine had no effect on the body or mind, Shao Lingheng’s parents decided to give Shao Lingheng the secret medicine.
All of this is just a memory. Du Yan is powerless to change anything and can only watch things happen in silence.
After taking the secret medicine, Shao Lingheng did not show any abnormality. It looked like he had just drunk a glass of ordinary boiled water.
However, from Du Yan’s perspective, it was a completely different scene.
Not long after Shao Lingheng took the secret medicine, a huge phantom suddenly appeared from his body. It was a black horse with red flames wrapped around its body.
The horse raised its front hooves and roared to the sky. Chains began to appear out of thin air, tying up the horse tightly and dragging it back into Shao Lingheng’s body.
Everything started to blur again, and the scene changed again.
When Du Yan entered the house again, he saw Shao Lingheng, who had grown up a lot and was probably about seven or eight years old.
It is night now, and everyone in the house is asleep.
Du Yan’s brows furrowed, and he asked: “How should the subconscious dream layer end?”
These fragmented memories and dreams came one after another with no sign of ending. The feeling of being out of control made Du Yan feel a little anxious.
Xiao Ba said: “The subconscious dream layer is what the Lord of Dreams wants you to know in his subconscious. His thoughts before entering the dream will also affect the subconscious layer to a certain extent, so…”
After hearing this, Du Yan had no choice but to continue watching. Shao Lingheng would eventually wake up, so the worst that could happen was that he would just stay in his dream for a little longer.
Since meeting Shao Lingheng, Du Yan, who has been unable to force his way out every time, has become very calm in the face of such situations.
This memory will appear in a subconscious dream, so it is definitely not an ordinary night.
Not long after, the shadow of the nightmare beast appeared on Shao Lingheng’s body again. The black horse was still entangled with chains, but the chains had been broken in half, and it seemed that it could no longer trap it.
Du Yan thought about it, then turned and went to the room of Shao Lingheng’s parents next door.
Sure enough, the couple on the bed fell into a nightmare again. Just as Du Yan was thinking about how things would develop in the future, he suddenly felt that a certain barrier that had enveloped him all along suddenly disappeared. It was like watching a holographic movie before, but now it felt real.
This is? Entering the dream world?
Du Yan asked Xiao Ba with some uncertainty and got a positive answer.
At the moment, the barrier was broken, the scent of the nightmare became more intense and tempting, and the Birch blood in Du Yan’s body clamored to eat the delicious food in front of him.
But Du Yan stood there, thinking about why everything was happening.
Xiao Ba said that dreams in the subconscious are related to the thoughts of the Lord of Dreams. Combining everything that happened before, Du Yan had a definite idea in his mind.
Afterward, he did not hesitate any longer and walked directly to the bed.
The nightmare that troubled Shao Lingheng’s parents was not a complete dream world but just a fragmentary nightmare. This kind of nightmare is similar to a snack and is very convenient to eat.
There is no need to enter the dream.
Du Yan just pointed at the foreheads of the two people, and then a soft black mist fell into his hands. These were fragments of nightmares. Du Yan lowered his head and smelled the smell of nightmares. He thought it was quite to his taste, so he swallowed it directly.
As the black mist left the couple’s bodies, the uneasy expressions on their faces gradually calmed down, and then they fell into sleep again.
Du Yan speculated that Shao Lingheng might be expecting him to do something to make him enter the subconscious dream state, so he would just do as he wished.
“Ange, angel?”
A voice came from the door, and the voice was very soft, as if it was afraid of alerting the person.
Du Yan looked back and saw the young Shao Lingheng standing at the door, watching everything that had just happened inside through the crack of the door.
Du Yan smiled, made a gesture to silence him, and pointed to the next door.
Shao Lingheng nodded and returned to his room with understanding.
Du Yan has entered the dream. He can come into contact with the people and things inside, but he is still in a state of no entity.
When he passed through the wall and entered Shao Lingheng’s room, he saw the little boy sitting obediently on the bed, looking at him with extremely expectant eyes.
Compared to his sparkling eyes, Shao Lingheng’s cute little face was tense and didn’t show much expression.
“Are you an angel?” Shao Lingheng looked Du Yan up and down and asked.
Du Yan knew he would ask this question, probably because of the big wings on his back.
He raised his hands and spread his wings in front of him, saying: “Angel wings are not this color, aren’t you afraid of me?”
“Afraid of you?”
Shao Lingheng looked at Du Yan and shook his head: “You are so good-looking. You can’t be a bad person.”
“…” Du Yan finally realized that Shao Lingheng was still obsessed with looks.
He didn’t want to deceive the child anymore, so he said directly: “I am eating the nightmares that bother your parents.”
“Nightmare?” Shao Lingheng said: “Are you here to protect me?”
Du Yan nodded: “If you wish, yes.”
The following period of time should be to make up for the regret in Shao Lingheng’s memory. With Du Yan’s company, his ability was not sealed again but slowly released.
Shao Lingheng was weaving nightmares unconsciously, while Du Yan was consuming all the excessive nightmares caused by his inability to control his abilities.
He eats the various emotions that humans emit in nightmares, and grows up like a normal child, with joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and can sense friendship, family affection, and other things.
One day, Shao Lingheng suddenly said: “It would be great if I could have met you earlier.”
Du Yan looked at him and said: “There will be a chance.”
Everything in front of him gradually became blurry. Du Yan only thought that Shao Lingheng made up for the regrets of growing up in his dream, and the dream was about to end.
Unexpectedly, the scene was just switching, and the dream world below suddenly expanded.
After that, just like a fast-forwarded movie, Du Yan saw what Shao Lingheng would have experienced if he hadn’t appeared. Because his bloodline ability was too strong, he experienced the same situation again when he was six or seven years old.
The Shao family expressed their deep concern about this, but they also knew that if this situation continued, it would definitely affect Shao Lingheng’s life.
After all, the scope of his influence this time seems to be even greater. In today’s world, as an anomaly, wanting to live a normal life comes with various difficulties.
After comprehensively considering various situations, the Shao family decided to give Shao Lingheng the secret medicine again.
After that, Shao Lingheng’s beast blood seemed to be completely suppressed, and no abnormalities occurred again. However, Shao Lingheng could not understand human emotions by consuming them, and he always looked indifferent to everything.
A few years later, the Shao family discovered his abnormality and took him to see a psychiatrist, who diagnosed him with emotional deficiency. After all, the Shao family is not like Du Yan, who has Xiao Ba, an assistant who understands the bloodline of the mythical beasts.
They didn’t know that the root cause of Shao Lingheng’s lack of emotion was that his bloodline was sealed. They were just worried about his condition, accompanied him wholeheartedly, and took him to see a psychiatrist, but there was still no improvement.
Until one day, Shao Lingheng, who was in high school, was voted by his classmates to play the leading role in a play prepared for the school anniversary. After the performance, Shao Lingheng told his parents that when he was immersed in the performance, he seemed to be able to feel the emotions of the characters in the play and touched the edge of emotion.
What happened afterward was just as Qian Xing said, and the Shao family saw the ray of hope. In order to cure Shao Lingheng’s lack of emotional balance, they found an old artist with a great reputation in acting to guide Shao Lingheng in performing arts.
Shao Lingheng was admitted to the Film Academy, and step by step became the actor that Du Yan knew, who had been in the industry for many years and had excellent acting skills and had won many awards.
The bloodline in his body was activated again, but because of the effect of the secret medicine, the nightmare he created would no longer affect others, and only Shao Lingheng himself was troubled.
When Du Yan saw this, the fast-forwarded scene below suddenly stopped.
Du Yan thought about the memories that were like Shao Lingheng’s autobiography and felt that it was understandable that these things happened at the subconscious dream level.
According to Xiao Ba, before being forced to sleep, Shao Lingheng was thinking about confessing his past.
This thought was expressed in this form at the subconscious level. Now that the regret in Shao Lingheng’s heart had been made up, and what should have been said had been expressed in this form, he should finally wake up from the dream.
However, Shao Lingheng’s brain circuits can never be guessed by common sense, and the subconscious dream layer has not ended yet.
After a while, Du Yan became a bystander again, but this time, his perspective was a little strange.
He is sitting on a chair now, and the person in front of him is Qian Xing.
This scene is also very familiar. The room in front of him seems to be the room where he interviewed for the assistant position.
Du Yan recalled the scene at that time. The entire interview process was led by Qian Xing, but Shao Lingheng sat behind Qian Xing and watched the whole process. Although he did not say anything, the person who made the final decision should still be Shao Lingheng.
Thinking of this, Du Yan had a guess. Could it be that he was now experiencing this memory from Shao Lingheng’s perspective?
There was no one sitting in the chair opposite that belonged to the applicant. It seemed that it was halftime.
After a while, there was a knock on the door, and then someone walked in.
Du Yan can not control the behavior of this body. It seems that he can only stay in Shao Lingheng’s body and see what is happening around him through his eyes.
The person who came in was a familiar face, and then he saw a familiar person walking in.
The young man who came in had light-colored eyes. He was much better looking than those popular young actors in the entertainment industry who were known for their good looks.
Of course, Du Yan is not that narcissistic, and he doesn’t know why he can sense Shao Lingheng’s psychological activities.
What was in front of him was a scene from his interview. Du Yan in front of him smiled and greeted him politely.
Lub-dub, lub-dub lub-dub, lub-dub lub-dub lub-dub lub-dub——
The sound of an accelerated heartbeat rang in Du Yan’s ears. He had no physical body, so this could only be the sound of Shao Lingheng’s heartbeat.
Du Yan felt Shao Lingheng’s mental monologue. He wondered why his heart was beating so fast and even planned to have a comprehensive physical examination after this busy period.
During the entire interview, Du Yan couldn’t even bear to look at his own face, because from Shao Lingheng’s perspective, he looked like he had turned on the beauty and soft light special effects, and the whole person was glowing there.
Du Yan thought that the filter as thick as the center of the earth mentioned on the Internet probably refers to the situation in front of him. He didn’t think he looked so perfect.
After going through so many things, Du Yan was no longer the person with shockingly low emotional intelligence. He quickly understood Shao Lingheng’s abnormal behavior. It turned out that he fell in love with him at first sight.
Thinking back to the time of the interview, Du Yan didn’t notice anything from Shao Lingheng’s expressionless face. He didn’t expect that at such a serious moment, the inner drama of Actor Shao would be so magnificent, rich, and colorful.
The interview was over, and Du Yan saw himself walking out.
Qian Xing then pressed the phone, preparing to notify his assistant to bring in the next person.
However, Du Yan noticed from the change in his perspective that Shao Lingheng had stood up, and then he heard a familiar voice.
“Let’s go with Du Yan. I’ll leave first.”
Seeing this, Du Yan realized that Shao Lingheng was the one who directly appointed him as his personal assistant.
After the interview, the familiar scene switching happened again. Du Yan experienced everything that happened since Shao Lingheng joined the company from his perspective.
After hearing that he had proposed to resign, Shao Lingheng felt frustrated and reluctant, but because he did not understand the reason for this feeling and wanted to maintain his image, he could not directly say anything to keep him.
He even posted a thread on the Internet with the following title: An employee I value very much wants to resign, how can I quietly persuade him to stay? Waiting online, urgent.
Finally, with the help of netizens, Shao Lingheng used money to keep his assistant Du Yan.
During this period, Shao Lingheng’s mood swings and inner conflicts made Du Yan laugh and cry, but in the end, he was filled with joy.
Du Yan suddenly felt that this entire subconscious dream layer had become like cotton candy, soft and sweet. He didn’t like sweets, but at this moment, he suddenly felt that eating sweets could make people feel better.
Everything in front of him became blurry. This time, it was no longer a scene change. Everything was slowly swallowed by darkness and returned to nothingness.
Wake up.
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