Seven years after my death, the male protagonist of the substitute novel was criticized

Chapter 25 What is our relationship in your dream?

It’s still the same quaint restaurant with a beautiful window view.

Duan Chengyu postponed a party and arrived at the restaurant early to order the food. Lin Lu came just as he sat down.

The two people looked at each other, and no one spoke first.

Although they have met twice, they are not friends yet, at best they are better than strangers.

However, this time both parties had urgent questions to be answered. Like the only two protagonists in the movie who joined the mysterious organization, the surrounding guests and waiters were blurred into NPCs in the game background.

"We just ordered a few dishes. Is there anything else you would like to add?" Duan Chengyu spoke first and pushed the menu to her.

Lin Lu didn't open it, and said directly: "No need. Let's get straight to the point. Have you continued to dream these two days?"

Duan Chengyu placed the warm juice next to her, then shook his head and said, "No."

As expected, she had thought of several possible outcomes before coming.

Duan Chengyu didn't dream about her again during the time they didn't meet, or maybe he just dreamed about her occasionally at night because he thought about her during the day, which meant that he was not the person she was looking for.

Or maybe his memory cannot be restored on its own, and he must be stimulated by meeting her in order to continue dreaming about her.

She didn't dwell on the frequency of dreams, and asked again: "Then can you describe what your dreams are like?"

Duan Chengyu was silent for a moment, then frowned and said, "I dreamed that in a vast white space, you were squatting on the ground, looking up at me, crying, and you seemed panicked and confused. You probably didn't recognize me. I wanted to pull you, but as soon as I touched your hand, you and the white mist turned into... something that could make my skin feel wet, like a dandelion soaked in water."

Lin Lu's eyebrows twisted into a caterpillar: "Is there nothing around that I can notice? Buildings or something? What about the temperature? Cold or hot? What was I wearing? Long hair or short hair? How old did I look?"

"I only remember your face. Your hair, it should be long hair, and your age is about the same as you are now." Your face is full of collagen, and you can tell at a glance that you are young and beautiful.

Duan Chengyu told all the details he could remember, hiding his thoughtful look, and added: "Besides, I fell ill after I woke up from the dream. I had a bacterial cold, a high fever, dizziness and vomiting, and stayed in the hospital for three days. On the first day, the doctor thought I was dying, and my condition was so bad that I almost had to go to the ICU. Before that, I had never been so seriously ill."

Lin Lu widened his eyes in surprise.

"You...you kicked the quilt when you were dreaming?"

"What do you think?"

She opened her mouth slightly in disbelief.

"Dreaming, or dreaming about me, caused adverse reactions in your body? But when I dreamed about you, I didn't have any symptoms at all. Except that I remembered the dream very clearly, it was no different from a normal dream."

Duan Chengyu: "I don't know what happened. In fact, for safety reasons, I shouldn't see you again. If I go back tonight and dream about getting sick again, I'm not sure if I will be sent to the hospital again."

"Then why did you take the initiative to bring up the meeting?"

As they were talking, the ordered dishes were served. They were two separate meal sets with several small bowls placed in a wooden box, apparently to prevent the possibility of a normal person and a patient sharing a dish.

After the waiter left, Lin Lu picked up the chopsticks but didn't pick up any food. She focused all her attention on Duan Chengyu's answer. Her focused gaze was like a spotlight, easily making people feel that they were being watched and needed. "Because the more bizarre things are, the more we need to figure out what's going on. I don't want to be a confused person." Duan Chengyu slowly started to pick up food and eat, but his appetite seemed average, and there were a lot of vegetables in his bowl that Lin Lu hated to eat.

"Don't you feel panic? Inexplicable dreams, inexplicable fever... If the price of dreaming is also getting sick, I probably won't come to you first." Instead, I will go to Pei Yizhou to solve the problem.

Duan Chengyu just shook his head, took a piece of celery with his pale lips, and said after swallowing it: "I also want to thank you for giving me a shot of prevention. What exactly was your dream like?"

Lin Lu simply put down his chopsticks, rested his elbows on the table and said seriously: "At first, I dreamed that I was running wildly on the ice field in Antarctica, and you were shouting in front of me, asking me to run faster because the ice behind me was about to crack. I ran and ran, but it was too late. I fell into the crack of the ice and it hurt a lot. I subconsciously wanted to call your name."

"I had this dream several times, and then I dreamed of more and more scenes, and they were all very clear. For example, I dreamed of..." She paused and glanced at Duan Chengyu.

Duan Chengyu raised his eyebrows, stopped eating, took a sip of warm water and asked, "Why, it's hard to describe?"

"A little bit. I dreamed that you were cooking in the kitchen, that we were having a barbecue outdoors, that we were running on a path in a park, and that you took me into a room."

She pursed her lips, looked at Duan Chengyu seriously and said, "It's like I live my own life during the day, but live someone else's life in my dreams at night, or someone else's memory runs into my mind. When we first met, I wanted to ask you if you had a girlfriend, and I somehow shared her memory, but you said you had never been to Antarctica."

"I've definitely never been to Antarctica, nor have I ever had a barbecue in the wild." As things became more and more bizarre, Duan Chengyu put down his chopsticks and focused on the discussion. "Your description sounds like a science fiction movie, but your symptoms and speculation can actually be explained by science."

"what?"

"The brain is a magical information processing center, and it is possible for memory confusion to occur. You should have checked similar cases online. Some people at home and abroad claim to be another person or suddenly have the memory of someone else after experiencing a major emotional transition or serious illness. For example, a child clearly remembers a paper written by a medical doctor and can accurately tell the prescriptions for various diseases."

"But I'm not like that," Lin Lu shook his head, "and now you've started to dream about me. I always feel that our dreams may gradually overlap."

Duan Chengyu: "I know it's different, but you can refer to the first half of the sentence - people who have similar experiences usually experience this after a major illness or emotional transition. When did you start having these dreams? What happened that day?"

You hit the point.

Lin Lu knew that they would talk about this sooner or later, just like what she thought when she explored the time travel: There must be some opportunity for something like this to happen, right?
However, she did not intend to reveal her experience of time travel as it was too bizarre. Duan Chengyu might spread the news everywhere and someone might come to capture her and slice her up for research.

She had already thought of an explanation: "Something did happen. I remember that I went out to stroll in the park on the morning of October 13th, and I dozed off. But when I woke up, I was lying at home, and I didn't remember anything that happened in the hours between morning and evening."

Duan Chengyu understood what she meant: "On October 13, I was on a business trip in Melbourne and was not in the country, let alone seeing you."

She exhaled slowly.

Things did not become clear, and they could not find an explanation to explain this bizarre phenomenon. They could only wait for Duan Chengyu to return and see if he would dream again and what he would dream about.

She was speechless, but Duan Chengyu did. He looked at her blinking eyelashes and suddenly asked, "In your dream, what is our relationship? Are we a couple?"

　As of now, the tabloid reporter has been slapped onto the main road in Siberia by the jealous Pei and is looking for a way to return home.

　　Help out with a comment, and I will use Astro Boy's ability to fly into the sky to get a ride back. Thank you, thank you all kind people.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)