12. Inseparable

The next day.

It was just dawn when Jiang Yanche was on his way to school.

His face was full of confusion and anger after waking up.

Luo Wuyou didn't know what was wrong with him. He called him at 5:30 and woke him up from his sweet dream.

In his dream, Jiang Yanche found that he could fly!

He was in a sea of ​​stars. Each star was not a huge planet, but just a shining point.

He was suspended in the air, passing through one star after another. He probably passed through ninety-eight stars. When he was about to pass through the ninety-ninth one, he was woken up by the ringing of the phone.

On the phone, Luo Wuyou said that he had a new discovery about the case. Jiang Yanche naturally couldn't neglect the matter of leaving the first layer of the dream world. He simply packed up and went to the street with a piece of toast in his mouth.

What made him helpless was that he had a companion.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yanche squinted his eyes. Behind him, the white cat walked slowly three meters away from him. It walked with such elegance, tilted its head, and looked around with emerald eyes.

Real cat steps!

Jiang Yanche originally planned to take a taxi, but although he had stayed with the white cat for a night, he still didn't understand its killing pattern.

What if they got in a taxi together and the taxi driver died the next second?

At that time, if the white cat played missing again, Si Qin would probably ignore the feelings of the dreamer and list him as a criminal suspect.

In the early autumn morning, the cool breeze was blowing.

Fortunately, in order to facilitate study, Jiang Yanche's residence was very close to Yuwang University. After walking for about ten minutes, he had entered the school gate.

According to Luo Wuyou's guidance, he turned east and west and came to a biological laboratory. Yesterday, the body of the deceased Shang Zhou was not transported away. There was an autopsy room in Yuwang University - this laboratory was used as a biological laboratory on weekdays for medical students to dissect frogs, white rabbits and the like.

The criminals left the bodies here and left. This morning, the official forensic doctor will come here to dissect Shang Zhou.

Don't ask why the dead have to be dissected the next day. The reason is that the forensic doctor's patience has been exhausted.

In the previous four cases, they stayed up late to dissect the bodies to find out the cause of death. But no matter how they checked, in the end, they could only give a diagnosis report of "sudden cardiac death".

With the lessons learned from the past, the forensic doctors have also learned to be smart. They first focus on other tasks such as the assessment of the injuries of living people, and then deal with the bodies of the "white cat case" when they are really free.

That's right, Luo Wuyou not only invited Jiang Yanche, he also invited Si Qin. The official finally referred to the case of these five dead as the "white cat case", but the white cat was never caught.

"Tell me, what did you find?"

Jiang Yanche didn't dwell too much on why Luo Wuyou was able to enter the laboratory so early in the morning. If he was a medical student and someone died the day before, the death was most likely related to going to the second level of the dream world. Jiang Yanche felt that he would also try every possible way to enter the laboratory.

Luo Wuyou didn't waste words. The body was in the next room. There were many high-precision instruments where the three of them were at the moment. It seemed to be a data reading room.

Next to Luo Wuyou, there was a microscope, and on the cover glass was a white hair.

Luo Wuyou pointed to the white hair: "This is what I found from the dead. According to your findings, it is probably the hair left by the white cat, but..."

At this point, he looked embarrassed, and looked at Luo Wuyou and the others with a puzzled look on his face:

"Whether it is an optical microscope or an electron microscope, no protein components were detected in this white hair, and even... even the cell structure was not detected."

Luo Wuyou has tried his best to explain in easy-to-understand language, and the effect is good. Jiang Yanche understands it.

If this white hair is really cat hair, it is impossible that there is no cell structure. The epidermal cells alone can be clearly presented under a microscope.

The only explanation is that this is not cat hair.

But thinking of this, Jiang Yanche became suspicious. After spending a night with the white cat, he secretly observed the white cat many times, but no matter how he looked at it, the hair in front of him was very similar to the one on the cat.

Thinking of this, he turned around and came to the door of the laboratory, but was stunned.

The white cat that had been following him disappeared without a trace. When he just entered the campus, it followed him slowly.

For a while, Jiang Yanche couldn't even verify it.

"What components were detected from this 'hair'?"

Si Qin naturally understood it. The two were in shock and didn't care about Jiang Yanche's behavior. They continued to discuss.

Luo Wuyou fiddled with the computer next to him:

"According to computer calculations and identification, the main components of this 'hair' are plant fiber and lignin."

His face was full of shock. Seeing that Jiang Yanche and the others had no reaction, he coughed awkwardly and added:

"These two components are the main components of paper."

When these words came out, Jiang Yanche and Si Qin were both stunned. Due to their personalities, Jiang Yanche buried his head in thinking, and Si Qin couldn't help but speak:

"So we worked in vain. You tested for a long time, but it turned out that this was just a piece of paper stuck from somewhere?!"

Somewhat disappointed, but not angry. After all, trial and error is a must for criminal personnel. It's just that the original hope was too high, which led to the current emotional gap.

Seeing that Jiang Yanche was still silent, Luo Wuyou took the initiative to bring up the topic:

"Brother Jiang, what do you think?"

"Ah? Oh, I may not have thought about it anymore." Jiang Yanche's eyes were wandering, and he added, "I was thinking about the situation of other people who entered the dream besides us."

This word woke the two people up. Si Qin was fine. As the captain, he had already considered the situation of others. But Luo Wuyou, looking at his appearance, seemed to have completely forgotten about it.

With one victim already dead, the three of them had no idea whether the other dreamers had realized the importance of acting. If not, their team of dreamers had already lost a lot of members before they could even start.

"So, in the next few days, while ensuring the acting, we should pay more attention to the surroundings and try to find all the dreamers.

"Xiao Jiang, what do you think?"

Why do you always ask me what I think...

Jiang Yanche curled his lips, but he knew the reason in his heart.

The age difference between Si Qin and Luo Wuyou was too big, almost twenty years old, which made the two of them feel a little uncomfortable when talking to each other.

And he, who was just in between the two in age, became the target of rescue.

"I agree with the captain's idea, because we dreamers belong to all walks of life. According to the situation of the three of us, the other four in the dream world will definitely not change their professions. And the five dead are also people from different industries. People from different industries will have different answers to the same question. "

The three chatted for a while again. Jiang Yanche hesitated and told the two about the white cat, but as expected, Si Qin and Luo Wuyou did not believe it.

After coming to the dream world, he experienced many coincidences, but if the existence closely related to a series of cases took the initiative to find Jiang Yanche, this coincidence... is too outrageous.

Jiang Yanche also spread his hands and stopped talking about it. Who made the white cat disappear at some point?

What he feared most was that the white cat would be inseparable from him. With such an uncertain factor around him, his attention would still be distracted to a great extent.

Today's classes were relatively easy, and Jiang Yanche finished all the classes in one morning.

He had already planned the afternoon time. If he didn't do anything else, he would walk through more streets and alleys under the pretext of going to the Yuwang City Library.

Yuwang University is located in the university town west of Yuwang City, probably in the suburbs, while the library is located in the city. Jiang Yanche specially planned this route so that he could cross half of Yuwang City.

While ensuring the rationality of going to the library as a student, observe the anomaly along the way and try to find other dreamers.

For Jiang Yanche and the other two now, the information is still a little blocked, and the remaining four dreamers are the key to filling in the information.

After walking out of the school gate, Jiang Yanche did not go home again, but stopped a bus with his bag on his back.

Why choose the bus?

Just because he felt that he could meet more people and get more information on the bus.

If he took a taxi, then the taxi would become an information cocoon, isolating him from the city, and the information acquisition would be much more blocked.

Jiang Yanche even planned to walk, but considering that doing so would easily cause the dream world to target him, this idea was abandoned.

"Hey, uncle, pets can't be brought on the bus!"

After getting on the bus and sitting down, the bus driver's reminder sounded in his ears.

An ominous premonition came to his mind, and Jiang Yanche subconsciously cast his eyes towards the door. An old man trembled and got on the bus with a cane. Behind him, a white man followed closely.

White cat? !

Jiang Yanche's pupils shrank, and he stood up subconsciously, but he regretted it the next second——

——This sudden stillness and movement made him particularly conspicuous on the bus.

Strangely, the driver didn't drive the white cat away. After the white cat got on the bus, it found a corner and sat down by itself, as if it didn't notice Jiang Yanche who was also on the bus.

For a while, Jiang Yanche sat back in his seat, but he was a little fidgety.

Touching the tip of his nose angrily, he cast his eyes out of the window, looking at the people coming and going on the street. He seemed careless, but his eyes were looking at everyone in them.

But it would be strange if such a search like looking for a needle in a haystack would yield any results.

Jiang Yanche arrived at the library, but he did not find anything suspicious. In addition, the white cat beside him distracted him a little. It was clear that it did not set its sights on Jiang Yanche, but Jiang Yanche always felt that the white cat was staring at him in the dark.

Just as he got off the car, he turned his head slightly and saw a white shadow following him out of the corner of his eye.

What on earth is this?

Jiang Yanche frowned, walked forward at a constant speed for a distance, leaned over, and got into the crowd of people coming in and out of the library.

As if it had noticed that Jiang Yanche was hiding from it, the white cat stopped where it was, its emerald eyes locked onto the direction where Jiang Yanche disappeared. It scratched its mouth, as if it was weighing something, and then, as if it had noticed something, a faint green flashed across its cat eyes, and it turned sideways and ran in another direction...

...

Huh, it seems that it didn't catch up...

In the library, Jiang Yanche followed the crowd to the third floor, and then he slowly stood up.

There was nothing to be afraid of a cat, but if he really had to fight with the white cat, the dream world would punish him!

A student was walking on the road, and a cat followed him. Suddenly, the student inexplicably chased the cat away, and it was really abnormal.

With a sigh of relief, Jiang Yanche looked around. On the third floor of the library, there were already few people borrowing books, and most of the bookshelves in front of him were review materials from lower grades of elementary school to high school.

He chose to come here in the afternoon, not just for the sake of seeing more of Yuwang City. After finding the direction, Jiang Yanche came to a computer, clicked the mouse, and typed the three words "Tarot Cards" in the book search column————Yes, if Jiang Yanche had to say the main purpose of coming to the library, it was to find information related to Tarot Cards.

The information on the Internet is complicated, and sometimes paper materials can contain more secrets.

But he was a little nervous when looking for and taking books, until he sat down in the borrowing area and opened the book, and his mood slowly calmed down.

The dream world did not reject him!

It seems that this so-called acting does not need to be played to the extreme. If the dream world's control over acting is really strict, when Jiang Yanche looks for books related to "Tarot Cards", it will be punished.

It is a bit out of place for a liberal arts student to read this kind of mystical thing.

Silently note this loophole, Jiang Yanche has been in the dream world for a day and a half, and he is still tied up. This feeling is very uncomfortable, but after finding more loopholes in the dream world, this sense of restraint and oppression can be reduced a lot.

"Um... can you make way?"

A weak question came from the side. Jiang Yanche turned his head and saw a man in formal clothes. He looked very young, in his twenties, wearing a pair of glasses. He held a piece of paper between his fingertips, which seemed to be a list of materials to be purchased.

"Ah, sorry..."

The information the man needed was just behind Jiang Yanche. He closed the book that he had not turned a few pages of, and stood up with a wry smile. But after standing up, the smile on his face froze. For some reason, the man next to him raised his eyebrows and looked at him with a scrutinizing look.

Oops...

Jiang Yanche's brain was spinning at high speed, thinking that he had accidentally exposed something in the brief contact just now. Fortunately, the man's next words made him feel relieved:

"X?"

This letter has been like a nightmare in recent days, lingering.

Hearing this, Jiang Yanche's pupils shrank and he raised his head. The man slowly took off his glasses at this time. In the dimness, this strange man overlapped with the one in his memory.

"You are... Hu Wenlei?"

"Oh, yes, Xiao Jiang, long time no see."

This trip to the library was not without gain. Hu Wenlei, also one of the eight dreamers, has entered the workplace and works in an educational institution.

The night before the dream, Jiang Yanche had seen the faces of all the dreamers, but at that time his thoughts were completely on Xilan Ningshang, and the light was dim that night. He did not have a deep impression of this group of colleagues.

Of course, Luo Wuyou and Si Qin did not count, they were too recognizable.

Feeling Hu Wenlei's caution, Jiang Yanche understood that he must have also realized the importance of acting. When meeting to confirm the identity, he did not even dare to say the word "dream".

Looking at Hu Wenlei's glasses, a bold idea came to Jiang Yanche's mind:

Is there a possibility that he can also wear glasses or a hat to change his appearance?

If he meets a dreamer in the future who is careless and shouts as soon as he meets him, making his acting exposed, it seems that he will be easily dragged down.

Even Jiang Yanche himself didn't realize that, influenced by his gloomy personality, his thoughts and ideas tended to be paranoid.

Coincidentally, the two met, so they naturally had to exchange information as quickly as possible.

After the greetings were almost over, Jiang Yanche narrowed his eyes and said meaningfully:

"How are the people around you lately?"

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