Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 400 13 Stunned

Chapter 400 13. Stunned
Thomas Cress opened his eyes, and the first thing he did was to turn his fat body and look at the crystal table lamp beside the bed. However, he found that there was no figure next to the lamp.

"Is it an illusion?" he thought to himself.

The alertness in his eyes caused by the sound he heard in his sleep subsided a little. After Thomas Cress quickly confirmed that there was nothing unusual where he stored his belongings, he supported his fat body with both hands and sat up.

His hand reached for the light switch beside the bed and turned it on. Soon light filled the entire suite.

Thomas Kress looked around the suite and didn't see any suspicious figures, which made him rub his temples.

Is it because of the recent stress that caused the dreamy sleep?

Although I have heard about this from my health doctor, I never thought that I would be so stressed out.

"call."

Thomas Cress let out a slight breath and felt his sleepiness dissipate a lot after falling asleep not long ago, so he simply got up and got out of bed.

Thomas Kress walked towards the bathroom in the suite, but he didn't notice that when he passed by a sofa, someone was secretly watching him through the gap behind the sofa.

At this time, the conversations among several people in the KK team's channel were quite heated.

Oliver: What should we do? The target seems to be awake. What should we do?
V: Should we knock him out? Judging from his behavior when he wakes up, the thing should be in the lampshade. How about we knock him out, take the thing and leave?
Jack: If you want to take action, do it quickly. I'm hiding behind the curtain with half of my body exposed. I just hid somewhere in a hurry. I'm not like Oliver and V who can hide behind the sofa and won't be exposed in a short time. If I'm discovered and he screams, it will be troublesome.

The three men on the team were asking for Carl's opinion, while Carl slowly sat up on the other side of the bed where Thomas Kress had gotten out of bed.

"There's no rush yet."

Carl said this in the squad, remaining seated and looking at Thomas Kress's back.

The small triangular area formed by the edge of the bed and the ground is a blind spot for the person lying on the bed. When Thomas Kress woke up, Carl judged that he would definitely look at the table lamp on the left first, and would subconsciously walk under the location of the secret when getting out of bed. Therefore, he chose to hide on the right side, and the result was just as he expected.

"We are hiding in a dangerous way, but we are not yet exposed. We won't act if we are exposed. The best situation is to leave safely. When a person wakes up from being knocked unconscious, the first thing he does is to check his secrets. But when he wakes up from sleep, he won't think of checking his secrets first. Thomas Kress's behavior when he got up just now has confirmed this. Letting him sleep peacefully can buy us more time."

"What kind of mentality is this?"

Oliver asked in confusion: "If it were me, I would definitely check it out as soon as I woke up and felt something was wrong."

“A sign of excessive stress.”

Carl continued, “I remember seeing in a superdream analysis that when a person has an extremely important secret in his heart, a secret that is so important that he even thinks it may affect his entire life, he will always resort to some self-deceptive methods to try to conceal it on a small scale;
Thus his fear of the secret would grow, and as time went on it would become heavier and heavier upon him, until he could hardly breathe and would not think of it;
So, he will subconsciously resist the secret and be unwilling to face the reality until the reality is inevitably placed before him.”

“I didn’t quite understand.”

"In human terms, when a child steals his parents' money, he is worried that they will find out, and he will become more and more afraid until he can no longer hide it. During the days when he steals the money, he will be very well-behaved and dare not even mention anything about the money. Even if the parents get a little closer to where the money is kept, his heart will start pounding and he won't want to face it."

"Why do you sound like you understand deeply?"

Oliver asked curiously, "Have you ever experienced this?"

"No, because when I was little I had no idea where my parents kept their money."

Carl said, "You can tell from Thomas Kress's behavior when he got up just now. His heartbeat was very fast, and his eyes were full of fear when he looked at the lampshade that held the secret. But after confirming that nothing was wrong, at least on the surface, he immediately relaxed, and even stopped shaking. But he didn't even dare to get out of bed to check the lampshade. Don't you think this is really like the psychological analysis I saw in Mewtwo?"

"Does the Mewtwo you read have a specific term to describe this thing?"

V asked. “I don’t know, but it’s enough to know his mentality.”

Carl looked at Thomas Kress, who was staring at the mirror in the bathroom without even closing the door, and waited quietly.

"Sparse."

In the bathroom, Thomas Cress took some water and wiped his face. Feeling more conscious, he looked at himself in the mirror.

There are no bloodshot eyes without the transformation, and no dark circles on the face, but the appearance is full of haggardness.

'Four days.'

Thomas Kress said something in his mind to encourage himself.

In four days, he would complete his front-line inspection of military technology as a new political rookie in the new United States and return to his loyal Washington.

If it weren't for the fact that his family members who supported him thought he should come to the front line to face Arasaka, he would not have come to Los Angeles, a testing ground for military technology.

'It will be over soon.'

After washing his face, he felt much more awake, but he still decided to end the day early. In order to avoid restlessness in his sleep, Thomas Cress turned his head and looked towards the bed.

There was no one in the direction of the bed, but for some reason, Thomas Cress always had a strange feeling, as if there had been someone there a moment before.

The strange feeling caused by stress is getting worse and worse. I have to go back to Washington and recuperate for a while.

Walking back to the bed, Thomas Kress turned off the light switch and closed his eyes.

After washing my face, I slept very well and had a dreamless night.

"Mr. Kress, your breakfast is ready."

During the day, Thomas Kress opened his eyes when the waiter rang the bell.

"Three more days."

He muttered, subconsciously looking towards the desk lamp on the left.

No abnormality.

No abnormality.
Thomas Kress suddenly had a strange feeling.

He ignored the waiter's voice, quickly turned over and walked to the side of the lamp.

Press the secret compartment that will pop up automatically, and the inside will pop out.

Inside, there was nothing.