Starting with dissecting ghost stories

Fifteen minutes ago, in a taxi.

Wu Xiaoting and Shen Yuan sat in the back row, looking at each other. Even though Wu Xiaoting was no longer sleepy, she looked somewhat at a loss. "What should I do... My mom said she'll take me to the hospital... I'm not going to be sent to a mental hospital, am I? I don't want to go there again..." Wu Xiaoting's face fell, as if she had thought of something bad.

Shen Yuan also looked distressed. After hesitating for a moment, she leaned close to Wu Xiaoting's ear and whispered, "How about... we talk to my brother about this?"

"No," Wu Xiaoting immediately whispered back, "What if I get taken in for research...? I feel like I'd rather be in a mental hospital!"

"No way! My brother isn't some crazy scientist who does research all the time!" Shen Yuan retorted anxiously, lowering her voice. "He won't tell anyone!"

"But..." Wu Xiaoting seemed to still have some reservations. Right now, she was more inclined to believe Professor Wen, who had initially offered to help her. "We're on the same side... Didn't you say that what happened to Sister Xiaoran might be due to supernatural forces? Sister Xiaoran's boyfriend is my brother, and my brother definitely wants to resolve this matter..." Shen Yuan clenched her fists and said fiercely, "I'm going to find out who hurt Sister Xiaoran too."

"But...can your brother really beat the killer? He looks so thin..." Wu Xiaoting said hesitantly. Hearing this, Shen Yuan paused, and after a long while, managed to stammer, "He really is..."

However, Shen Yuan quickly made amends for Shen Xing.

"We don't necessarily have to confront the bad guys directly. My brother was called out that night. He must have been in contact with some mysterious force. He might know something. We're really short on information right now."

Shen Yuan's analysis was very logical and reasonable, and Wu Xiaoting nodded repeatedly as she listened, although she didn't understand the connection between Shen Yuan's words. However, she could tell that Shen Yuan seemed to trust her brother very much.

After hesitating for a while, Wu Xiaoting finally nodded and said, "Okay..."

She wasn't familiar with Shen Xing, but she now trusted Shen Yuan quite a bit because Shen Yuan was the first person to trust her.

Ten minutes later.

"Brother... do you believe in special abilities? Like magic?"

Wu Xiaoting sat next to Shen Yuan, looking nervously in Shen Xing's direction.

The pale and thin older brother didn't seem to change his expression at Shen Yuan's question, which actually eased Wu Xiaoting's unease a little.

"Could you tell me about her first? Including those dreams?"

Shen Xing asked the question.

Next, the two girls began to explain to Shen Xing, as if they were performing a comedy routine, about those strange dreams and how Wu Xiaoting knew what problems might occur on the street through her dreams.

The point that Shen Xing cared about most was...

Wu Xiaoting seemed unaffected by Wang Xinran's emotions or the cellulitis from beginning to end.

Did the swarm skip her for some reason when they dispersed to find a host? Or was her strange "dream" providing her with some protection? Shen Yuan's encounter with the anomaly was also somewhat unexpected for Shen Xing... When he heard Shen Yuan complaining about Wu Xiaoting before, he never imagined that the two would become friends.

According to the confidentiality regulations, Shen Xing definitely couldn't tell them any information about the Ninth Detachment or anything related to the anomalies. Mainly, allowing Shen Yuan to continue dealing with anomalies wouldn't be good for Shen Xing... They were too close, and in their daily interactions, Shen Xing couldn't guarantee he would never reveal anything.

However, he also heard the information he wanted from the two of them.

Do I have nightmares whenever I'm at home?

Moreover, only Wu Xiaoting has nightmares, but Wu Xiaoting's mother doesn't?

In the past, Shen Xing would never have been able to understand this phenomenon, but now he has figured out some commonalities.

resonance.

Wu Xiaoting "resonated" with a strange object in her home, while her mother did not, which led to this situation.

What puzzled Shen Xing was that, according to the description, Wu Xiaoting's resonance with the abnormal creature was not related to time, but rather strongly related to the behavior of "sleep".

Even when I take a nap at noon, I can still be dragged into those dreams.

Has Wen Yan already obtained that thing?

After thinking for a while, Shen Xing looked up at the two girls and said, "You don't need to worry about this matter. Someone is already investigating."

Is someone investigating?

Shen Yuan and Wu Xiaoting exchanged glances. Then, Shen Yuan looked at her brother and asked, "Brother, are you also involved in the investigation... about Sister Xiaoran's matter..."

Shen Xing simply wore a serious expression and said, "This is not something you should be asking. This matter is very dangerous. Go to sleep and don't think too much about it."

After Shen Xing finished speaking, he got up and walked towards the room.

His seriousness just now wasn't feigned.

Even the two little girls have begun to learn about the unusual things... These unusual things can't be kept secret for long. What will society be like in the future?

This ambiguous situation might persist for a long time domestically... but other countries might not be able to control good news. Shen Xing could almost foresee what the scene would be like when the information exploded after some time.

Now, the information blockade of the Ninth Detachment is like an ever-expanding balloon. Even if it doesn't burst from within, it will eventually be completely punctured by external forces.

The larger the balloon inflates, the louder the explosion will be.

Wen Yan only recently returned to China; perhaps he was already aware of this.

So why did he want to bypass the Ninth Squad and monopolize the anomaly?

Shen Xing was still thinking, while in Shen Yuan's room, the atmosphere was not so serious.

"He didn't believe us." Wu Xiaoting sat on Shen Yuan's bed, her tone somewhat dejected.

"He believed it," Shen Yuan shook her head and said, "but he doesn't want us to continue our contact."

My brother has always been like this; no matter what happens, he always shoulders it all alone.

The fact that my brother could simply pull out an ID and get Uncle Chen to release the person already says a lot. At the very least, my brother definitely knows some inside information, and might even be a member of a mysterious national organization.

I still can't help much.

"Thump"

Just then, a loud thud pulled Shen Yuan out of her thoughts. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw that Wu Xiaoting, who had been sitting on the bed, had rolled onto the floor.

"What's wrong with you?" Shen Yuan quickly crawled over to check on her, wanting to help Wu Xiaoting up.

But she soon realized something was wrong.

Wu Xiaoting's eyes were still open, but they had lost focus and their spirits had faded.

It was as if, in an instant, I had opened my eyes and entered a deep sleep.

That dream!

Shen Yuan's heart tightened.

Why? Why does Wu Xiaoting still enter that dream even at home?!

"elder brother!"

Without thinking too much, Shen Yuan rushed out of the room and knocked on Shen Xing's door.