Chapter 0111: Getting Closer
After Men Nan finished speaking, both Chen Ge and Dr. Gao did not speak for a long time.
Washing one’s hair represented washing away bad luck and dirt, and dreaming of washing one’s hair usually meant that good things would happen, but the scene Men Nan described had nothing to do with good things at all, and was a nightmare any way you looked at it.
”Do you remember what the person in the dream looked like and the environment you were in?” It was highly likely that Men Nan was the special visitor prompted by the black cell phone, and every choice Chen Ge made and every question he asked now would affect the final reward.
”It seems like it’s in the bathroom I rented, and the placement of items is familiar, but I can’t be sure.” Mennan lowered his head, his voice was even smaller, “The man standing next to me can’t be seen clearly either, but I’m certain he’s getting closer to me, I’ve been having the same dream for the past few weeks, and every time I do, the scene in the dream becomes a little clearer. The man’s face, too, I can see more and more clearly.”
”What does he look like?”
”Soon, I should see his face in my next dream!” Mennan’s head was pressed downward, and his eyes moved upward as he spoke, and he looked a little frightened.
The young man spoke vaguely and didn’t offer anything of value.
Chen Ge was undeterred and pressed on, “Can you be more detailed, for example, during the process of washing your hair, did that person make any movements or say anything?”
”The content of the dream was almost exactly the same.” Men Nan’s hoarse voice trembled a little, “When I had this dream for the first time three weeks ago, I didn’t find it very frightening. In the dream I didn’t know why, I would get up in the middle of the night and enter the bathroom, and in the dream any of my thoughts stopped functioning and I could only follow my body’s instincts, or maybe there was another force dominating me at the time.”
”The initial dream was vague and hazy, I stopped in front of the mirror, filled the sink with water and stuck my head in the water.”
”When I bent my head, lowered, I could see someone in the doorway upside down.”
”At first he was far away, and it wasn’t until after I washed that I realized that he seemed to move a little closer to where I was. Well, only a little.”
”After this dream, I had other dreams, so I didn’t care at first.”
”But the thing that really made me not dare to imagine happened, just the next day, I had this dream once again!”
”The exact same scene, coming into the bathroom, standing in front of the mirror, catching the water, and then bending over and sticking my head in the water.”
”As my head touched the water, my eyes could see a person standing in the living room, and when I washed and looked again, the person moved a little closer to me.”
”The same dream repeated itself over and over again, I went from being confused at the beginning of the dream to gazing at everything fully awake, my brain was functioning properly, my senses were becoming more and more acute in the dream, and most crucially the man who came in through the doorway was getting closer and closer to me every time I dreamed!”
”I’m not sure what it is, in my dreams I’m scared to death, but I can’t wake up.”
”As soon as I fall asleep the dream continues, two and a half weeks ago the man in the dream entered the living room, a week ago the man appeared in the doorway of the bathroom, and just four days ago the man walked up to me!”
”He was standing right next to me, and as soon as I bent over and stuck my head in the water, his body would tilt with me, and that blurry face slowly closed in.”
Just listening to Men Nan’s narration, Chen Ge felt a bit} human, not to mention the fact that this young man had personally experienced all of this.
Having the same dream for three consecutive weeks, with a man whose face he couldn’t see coming closer and closer in the dream, it was no wonder that he had become the way he was now.
”The night before last, I had this dream again, and it was the last time I had that dream.” Mennan tried to raise his head, his eyes darting in and out of their sockets, “The man’s face was so close that I almost got a good look at it, but that’s when he grabbed me by the neck with both hands. Then I woke up and haven’t dared to sleep until now.”
Men Nan’s situation had reached a very bad point, the man in the dream had his hands around his neck, and there was no telling what this dream would evolve into if it continued further.
The matter was even more urgent than Dr. Gao said, and it was no wonder that Dr. Gao had come to Chen Ge, purely because he was beating a dead horse and wanted to take his chances.
”It keeps repeating this dream, and the scenes are all in the bathroom.” Chen Ge thought for a while and asked, “Could there be a problem with the apartment building itself? I’ll start with a possibility, don’t be afraid, it’s just my guess.”
”You say.”
”Is it possible that someone once died in the room you rented and the body hasn’t been found until now, so it sent a dream to you, hoping that you can help it call the police and return its innocence.”
After Chen Ge finished speaking, Men Nan’s face turned green, and he inhaled violently into his lungs, “There’s a corpse hidden in the room I rented? Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
He was so agitated that if he wasn’t held down by Dr. Gao’s shoulders, he probably would have fallen ill again.
Next to him, Dr. Gao also looked odd: “I’ve been to his rented place, and I’ve checked it all inside and out, and there’s nothing out of the ordinary. And a week ago, I took Men Nan to live in my own home, and he still had that dream, it didn’t stop just because he wasn’t in the apartment.”
”The first time he saw the man in his dream, the man was standing in the doorway, so it’s highly likely that the man came in from outside. Our search cannot be limited to Men Nan’s own room, we should expand our scope and search the entire apartment building.” Chen Ge voiced his opinion, because he was afraid of irritating Men Nan, he still had the second half of his sentence left unsaid, the ghosts and monsters might have already haunted him, it wasn’t something that could be solved by changing the place he slept.
”We’re not the police, we don’t have the right to search an entire apartment. Even if we did, the reason for this search is far-fetched.” Dr. Gao was now unsure if he had made the right decision in coming to Chen Ge or not, “Why don’t we analyze this dream first, Men Nan has been washing his hair in his dreams, perhaps we might find clues from what the washing of the hair itself symbolizes.”
Dr. Gao tried to persuade Chen Ge, and Chen Ge patiently listened to the other party’s analysis, only to find that these things, unfortunately, did not explain why Men Nan kept going to the same dream.
”I’m not sure now, why don’t we wait until this evening, how about we go together to the place where Men Nan rented a room and take a look? Surveying the place once on the ground might yield a whole new harvest.” Chen Ge quietly waited for the two to answer, his hand reached into his pocket, and until now, the black cell phone did not show a response.