According to Jiang Ming's story, he was able to survive partly because of luck, but mainly because he dared to resist.
Lin Mo had inspected the dagger in Jiang Ming's hand before.
Because it is a murder weapon used by murderers, it has an evil aura on it, and it also has some restraint effect on nightmares. However, according to Jiang Ming, the nightmare who imitated him was stabbed dozens of times but still survived. This is indeed a bit strange.
strangeness.
But Lin Mo couldn't figure it out now, unless he saw the nightmare with his own eyes.
Next, Lin Mo briefly told Jiang Ming about the situation in the nightmare world. In this case, sharing some basic survival knowledge is not considered a leak.
And as expected, with Jiang Ming's identity, it shouldn't be a problem to work in the Security Bureau.
Of course, the premise is that he can survive forever.
At this time, the ‘wake-up service’ that Lin Mo had set before was activated.
"Expert Lin, wake up, Expert Lin?"
Lin Mo was shaken awake.
Opening his eyes, Lin Mo looked at Jiang Ming next to him who had also been awakened. He knew in his heart that his previous judgment was correct. After being hypnotized by the mysterious video and entering the nightmare world, he could only be awakened by becoming a member of the evolution website.
Xiao Du and Xiao He are already dead.
This time, apart from Lin Mo, there was only one survivor, Jiang Ming.
Lin Mo didn't have to worry about Jiang Ming. The Security Bureau had special rules and regulations to accept and train him.
"Team Leader Liu is back. He's outside." A staff member came over and said something. Lin Mo remembered what he had explained before and hurriedly walked out.
"The man named Zhao Xin has been found. He should be the one you are looking for, and he has made important discoveries." Team leader Liu looked excited when he saw Lin Mo.
Lin Mo was directly pulled out of the Sanqiao Branch by Team Leader Liu and got into an assault vehicle outside.
It's already night outside.
Team Leader Liu’s driving skills are very high and he is extremely fast, but he can still ensure compliance with traffic regulations, which is commendable.
The lights of the city were passing by quickly. Lin Mo looked at the scenery outside the window and had a feeling in his heart that the comfortable life everyone is living now may not last long.
The nightmare world is expanding, and it has been proven.
Moreover, there are more and more infectious incidents, and it is possible that it will gradually evolve into a global disaster. This is not Lin Mo’s alarmism, but a data model deduction made by experts from the Security Bureau.
It’s hard to imagine what it will look like by then.
Twenty minutes later, the vehicle drove into a residential area in the suburbs.
These are all single-family villas, which are quiet and have good supporting facilities. After getting out of the car, Lin Mo asked: "Is that Zhao Xin still a rich man?"
"I don't know if he has money or not, but I know he is definitely a pervert." Team leader Liu closed the car door, and there were many vehicles from the Security Bureau parked in front of him.
An action team member with a gun stepped forward to salute. Lin Mo looked around and found that the place was obviously under the control of the security bureau.
Followed Team Leader Liu into the house.
"We haven't moved anything here because we are afraid of damaging the scene."
Team Leader Liu leads the way.
The villa was very quiet, except for a few security bureau technicians taking photos, no one else was around.
The furnishings in the house are very strange.
Entering the door is a statue of Medusa that is as tall as a human.
It’s the woman with a head full of venomous snakes who turns to stone at the first glance. The statue is so lifelike that when you first open the door and walk in, you really think a Medusa is roaring at you.
But no one in their right mind would place such a thing in the foyer, right?
After entering, the paintings on the wall are not serious.
A woman with scantily clad clothes and horns on her head; or a man holding a corpse and smiling strangely; there is also a painting of the setting sun, crows in an old tree, and a row of people hanging under the branches of the tree. They should have hanged themselves. If
We are a family, this is considered a disaster, but the name of this painting is very artistic.
It’s actually called ‘sublimation’.
Apparently the author of this painting was ill and unclear.
Or maybe it's his art that ordinary people can't appreciate.
However, the style of these paintings is very unified, that is, weird, abnormal and unreasonable.
Team leader Liu also saw Lin Mo's expression.
"Expert Lin, what's even scarier is yet to come. Come on, look here."
The two walked to a room on the second floor. After opening the door, Lin Mo saw a dead person lying on the bed. It was a corpse.
Take a closer look.
Recognized, this person is Zhao Xin.
Lin Mo was not surprised.
Zhao Xin was robbed of the red box by himself in the nightmare world, so he was skinned by the wedding ghost to make a lantern, and died miserably.
Zhao Xin's corpse was also very strange. He was curled up. Logically speaking, he should have a painful expression, but in fact, he was smiling.
Still that weird smile.
It was the first time that Lin Mo saw a corpse smiling so happily.
But that's not the weirdest and scariest thing.
His bedroom is filled with mirrors.
The surrounding walls, ceiling, and even the floor are all mirrors, so after entering, you can see Zhao Xin's weird corpse from all directions.
"We checked his computer and found that he also had records of logging into the evolution website, and he visited it more than a hundred times a month." Team leader Liu did not dare to enter the house.
After all, this room made of mirrors is really weird.
"He is a senior member of that website, so it is not surprising that there are access records."
What Lin Mo wants to say is that if you check the computer in the underworld, you will know that Zhao Xin has visited it more often.
But this mirror room is indeed evocative.
Lin Mo thought of the mirror world.
Could it be that Zhao Xin has the ability to control the mirror world?
Probably not, but it is certain that Zhao Xin knows how to use the mirror world.
One thing can prove this. Zhao Xin's villa is located far away from the Sanqiao Branch. Logically speaking, even if he enters the nightmare world, he will not appear in the same scene, and he should not have any intersection with the other party.
But the actual situation is not like that.
So Lin Mo suspected that Zhao Xin could use the mirror world to connect different nightmare worlds together.
Lin Mo has entered the mirror world. Indeed, the mirror world is likely to become a passage connecting different nightmare worlds.
However, this matter needs further confirmation.
"Pull out the body."
Lin Mo said something.
Although Zhao Xin is already dead, it is safer to dispose of this guy's body than just in case.
Team leader Liu immediately arranged for someone to do it.
The room next to it is a study room, which is filled with various books. If you look through it casually, you can find that they are all works on occultism.
Lin Mo couldn't understand most of them.
In addition, there are some archeology books. Because they are too complicated, Lin Mo and Team Leader Liu only glanced through them briefly.
At this time, Lin Mo noticed a piece of information.
It was a yellowed diary. It looked like it was dated, and it was definitely not as short as thirty or fifty years.
After flipping through it, Lin Mo's attention was immediately attracted.
The above is someone's diary.
The content of the record is about a strange event about a hundred years ago.
It is said that the daughter of a wealthy family was forced to marry a child of a family whom she had never met before. As a result, the girl died unexpectedly on the night of the wedding.
Some people say that the woman committed suicide.
The man's family thought it was unlucky to have someone die just after they got married, so they broke off the engagement.
The woman's family also felt it was embarrassing and unlucky, and there was a local custom that the death of an unmarried woman would bring disaster to the family.
So they assigned the girl to someone else for secret incest.
No one expected that during the night when the lights were on, a dam around the village suddenly burst, and floods poured in, swallowing up the entire village.
There were also people who survived, so this diary was created.
This incident is also a folklore legend in the local area. Some people say that the woman turned into a ghost, which caused the disaster. In short, this strange legend has been passed down for a long time, and it has been gradually forgotten by people until the past ten years.
Lin Mo then turned back.
There are also some records and analyzes about this strange story written at the back.
These should have been written by Zhao Xin.
It records the time when the ghost story spread and the number of people it affected. The other party even actually went to that remote place to inquire about it and interviewed some old people.
In the last sentence, Zhao Xin wrote: Only true fear can form a powerful nightmare.
"Expert Lin, what do you mean by this? Is this person studying nightmares?" Team Leader Liu asked from the side.
Lin Mo said nothing.
Team Leader Liu didn't know, but he knew very well that the horrific stories in this diary had become a reality in the nightmare world.
In other words, the wedding dress ghost and the ghost house were specially created by Zhao Xin.
Is this person just mentally ill?
Why deliberately create nightmares?
Does Zhao Xin think he can control this nightmare?
Facts have proved that it is not impossible for people to control nightmares, but it is extremely difficult. In fact, the chance of overturning is greater. Zhao Xin's fate has proved this.
And it's not right either.
In the nightmare world, fear condenses into nightmares only once, that is to say, the fear in a person's heart will only turn into a nightmare after entering the nightmare world for the first time.
Even if Zhao Xin studies these strange stories, can he alone create nightmares?
At this time, an action team member from outside came over and reported that there was a new discovery.
But judging from the way the other person spoke, he seemed to be frightened by something.
Lin Mo and Captain Liu immediately followed the team member all the way down to the basement.
The basement of this villa was obviously renovated. According to the plan of the house, there was originally only one basement, but as a result, the action team found the entrance to the second basement.
The entrance is disguised behind a decorative wall, and there is a security iron door inside.
However, this was not a problem for the Security Bureau. After arranging various cutting tools, the iron door was opened smoothly.
The moment I opened the door, a stench hit my face.
Putting on protective equipment, Lin Mo walked down.
Lin Mo was also shocked by the scene below, and Team Leader Liu next to him even exclaimed: "Is this place a prison?"