Chapter 224 Thinking from another angle
"Xiao Xu...uh, um, Sheriff Xu, you guys..."
Because Peng Chengren had pierced the window paper, when Chen Honghui saw Xu Yunshu, he wanted to call Xu Yunshu by a familiar name, but he felt a little embarrassed. He wanted to just call the Sheriff, but felt awkward.
Showing it on his lips made Chen Honghui look awkward.
"Just call me Xiao Xu. After all, you are a senior at the Public Security Bureau." Xu Yunshu looked at the awkward Chen Honghui and spoke to ease the tense atmosphere.
Chen Honghui looked at Xu Yunshu and found that there was nothing unusual on his face, as if Peng Chengren's words would not have any impact on him.
"Then...Xiao Xu?"
"Let's go, Lao Chen, let's talk."
This was the first time that Xu Yunshu called Chen Honghui so affectionately. Before that, he had always directly called Chen Honghui "Sheriff Chen."
Chen Honghui knew in his heart that Xu Yunshu was trying to reassure him, showing that he was not swayed by Peng Chengren's words.
"Where's Peng Chengren?"
Xu Yunshu looked back at the locked door and told him: "Keep an eye on him and don't let him escape... But it doesn't matter even if he escapes. As long as he doesn't do anything excessive, there is no need to risk his life."
People who will die sooner or later have little value in guarding them.
Xu Yunshu has lived in the Haishi Public Security Station for several days, and the facilities and places here are extremely familiar to him.
Chen Honghui discovered that Xu Yunshu was walking towards the place where he usually stayed.
The Sheriff did not hesitate and strode to follow.
"Xiao Xu, you just..."
"Don't worry." Xu Yunshu interrupted Chen Honghui's question and said, "I know what you want to ask, and his words are not worth mentioning to me."
These are Xu Yunshu’s inner thoughts.
The extremely high mortality rate and powerful abilities of those possessed by dreams make it easy for them to let themselves go and become disruptors of society.
Even without the extreme emotional support brought about by the chrysalis outbreak, as time goes by, there will be more and more dream-possessed people with similar thoughts.
When the number of people with different ideas reaches a certain limit, the real world will be in chaos.
However, human society is not built on destruction and chaos.
Xu Yunshu has always believed that the most fundamental reason why a society composed of people can operate stably is construction and production.
Without these two things, the foundation for maintaining the abstract concept of civilization would not exist.
After seeing the huge monster that covered the sky and turned into mountains in the dream forest, Xu Yunshu's vision was much higher than that of other dream-possessed people who were just messing around.
He is not a careerist, nor does he like the boring-sounding position of being above ten thousand people.
Xu Yunshu only cares about one thing now.
That's when I can become that kind of existence.
Compared with the burden of maintaining the wealth and lives of millions of people, Xu Yunshu prefers unfettered freedom.
If there is a god in the dream forest who can grant all wishes, Xu Yunshu will only wish for one thing.
That is to stand at the top of the dream forest food chain, and then... is what happens after that important?
At that point, the only thing that can restrict Xu Yunshu is his inner sense of morality and his yearning for a better life.
He is now moving towards his goal step by step, and the next battle is crucial to him.
Defeat the snail and rob it to gather the flesh and blood energy of the entire forest to advance to level five.
Compared with this goal, Peng Chengren's little sarcasm fell on deaf ears to Xu Yunshu.
He won't compete with the dead.
These are unique to Xu Yunshu's psychological activities and cannot be fully revealed to Chen Honghui, and there is no need to rush to express them.
He just smiled at his old partner and then patted the sheriff on the shoulder.
"Compared with illusory goals, I prefer tangible benefits in front of me. By the way, after this incident is over, the bonus should be much higher than the last time, right?"
Chen Honghui stared blankly at Xu Yunshu, repeatedly savoring the meaning of Xu Yunshu's words.
The literal meaning is very simple, but even a rough guy like him can tell that there is something in Xu Yunshu's words.
Most of it is meant as a joke to reassure people, but there is also a hint of hidden content that needs to be interpreted to know.
He watched Xu Yunshu open the door to the temporary lounge and prepare to walk to the familiar bed.
Chen Honghui scratched his head, thought about it again, and confirmed one thing:
It seems that these things should not be thought of by a boss like me.
Let Zhao Suo and the others have the headache.
If Zhao Suo can't handle it, ask Zhao Suo's superiors to come. Anyway, even if the sky falls, there will always be tall people to hold it up.
Just as he was thinking this, Xu Yunshu's voice came to his ears again.
"By the way, Lao Chen, let me remind you something."
Chen Honghui was stunned for a moment, gathered his thoughts and listened carefully to Xu Yunshu's words.
"This person just now has been provoking my emotions." Xu Yunshu said word by word, "Extreme emotions are not a lack of reason. On the surface, this possessed person named Peng Chengren is just treating the Dream Forest as a game, thinking that
A shallow guy who is about to become a master."
Chen Honghui recalled the previous conversation and Peng Chengren indeed gave him this feeling.
"However, judging from the fact that he killed his own company executive and later wandered into the downtown area to take hostages, Peng Chengren is not a mindless person." Xu Yunshu analyzed, "So, he simply surrendered and was captured.
It seems very weird.”
"What do you think will happen if we put aside the first impression that our thoughts were imprinted by Peng Chengren and look at the conversation just now from a new perspective?"
Chen Honghui thought about Xu Yunshu's words.
However, the No. 1 member of the Dream Possessed Organization obviously didn't really make him think.
Xu Yunshu gave the answer directly.
"In the first step, the reason why he surrendered was because he wanted to see me who scratched the mark on his snail shell."
"The second step is to deliberately show a shallow attitude when talking to me to make me lose my due wariness towards him."
"The third step is to test."
When he said this, Xu Yunshu strengthened his tone, "To test whether I am like him, delusional, and regard my own people as insects that can be oppressed - every word of his is layer by layer.
Each sentence went deeper and deeper, until I was sure that I was not a fellow traveler with him."
Chen Honghui was dumbfounded when he heard this. He vaguely felt that this was what happened, and also wondered whether Xu Yunshu might have imagined people too shrewdly.
"After Peng Chengren determined my character and three views, he only did one thing in the following time."
Xu Yunshu's words continued. He stared deeply at Chen Honghui with his eyes, "He tried to provoke me and asked me to attack him in the monitoring room."
"Old Xu, you need to know one thing. If a fourth-level possessed person attacks with anger, he will definitely die as a second-level possessed person."
If we follow the logic described by Xu Yunshu, this is indeed how things developed.
Chen Honghui could not understand this irrational behavior, "Will you really kill him? Peng Chengren... why would he do this?"
"Of course I won't be so impulsive." Xu Yunshu said simply, "However, I don't know his purpose."
Chen Honghui was shaken and almost reached his waist.
"If I regard him as an enemy, there is only one thing I can do in the absence of insufficient intelligence." Xu Yunshu said seriously, "Whatever he wants me to do, then I must not do it."
Xu Yunshu moved his body and prepared to enter sleep mode.
He gave Chen Honghui one last word of warning.
Chapter completed!