Gollum ...... Gollum ......

It was utter darkness, and the sound of a large number of bubbles floating slowly floated in consciousness, as if sleeping at the bottom of the deepest ocean.

Then, the sudden sound of breaking water broke through the dead silence.

Uproar——!

Suddenly, consciousness awoke from the chaos.

"Whew......" Lin Sheng took a deep breath and shook his head vigorously, as if he hadn't slowed down.

"It's been a long time since I've felt this feeling."

After the consciousness in his mind was completely stabilized, the surrounding environment gradually began to become clear in Lin Sheng's field of vision.

Looking around, Lin Sheng found that he was on a street that was not bustling, and this street was surrounded by several groups of buildings that looked a little old, which seemed to be a little crowded.

Since it was dinner time, there was a small number of people nearby, but it was barely bustling with people.

At this moment, the passers-by did not have a shocked emotion towards Lin Sheng in the crowd, and they didn't seem to notice that the person in front of him suddenly appeared in this place at a certain moment.

After confirming that the current environment was safe, Lin Sheng gave priority to scanning what he was wearing.

At this moment, the clothes on his body have changed greatly due to the corrective power of the dream, and it is no longer the extremely conspicuous airborne uniform worn before the intervention event, but has become a relatively ordinary set of normal clothing.

A light long puffer jacket with relatively tight winter trousers and a pair of leather martin boots on the feet are a very normal outfit for winter wear.

I touched my pocket, in addition to a very ordinary-looking, but really usable mobile phone, there was even a box of cigarettes with a lighter stored very intimately.

Lin Sheng knew that this was the limit of what Pushie could do, and the dream correction power was undoubtedly very powerful for the consciousness of intervening in the event.

Aside from the information that comes in the weapon module, there is very little left to carry around.

After moving around in place for a few moments, feeling the degree of restraint brought by his clothes, Lin Sheng returned to the appearance of a "normal person" in the strange gaze of others.

"Fortunately, the flexibility is okay, and it doesn't affect the action too much."

So he took his eyes back from a shop on the side of the road that had been closed due to the Spring Festival holiday, and then turned to the surroundings.

The buildings around him all looked like old residential buildings, and the two buildings with similar appearances across the road made Lin Sheng feel a little familiar, and he carefully identified one of them as the apartment where he had parachuted into before.

"Sure enough, it's still the same as before, and it will automatically send me to a location near the place where the incident happened."

Lin Sheng took out his mobile phone and dialed the contact information that Pu Xi had saved for him in the address book, which was Jiang Mian's mobile phone number in reality, in addition, this mobile phone could also locate the current location of the other party after connecting the phone.

But after a few seconds of waiting, there was a prompt voice from the earpiece that the other party had turned off the phone.

Immediately, Lin Sheng no longer hesitated, and immediately walked towards the neighborhood across the road.

Located at the entrance of the community is a security booth guarding the smart gate, and after the path naturally bypasses the direction that the security booth can see, Lin Sheng quietly approaches a corner position about ten meters away from the pavilion from the side.

This is the blind spot behind the security guard sitting in the security booth.

Lin Sheng stood in place and lit a cigarette, and began to wander back and forth from time to time, pretending to be a man who walked outside to let off wind because he was smoking, but in fact, whenever he walked to a location where he could see the security booth, he would use his peripheral vision to look in the direction of the window.

Through the window glass of the security booth, Lin Sheng saw the scene in the pavilion at this time, a security guard who was about forty or fifty years old did not know if he was too bored, and was sitting in his position and watching the program content on the portable TV seriously.

Lin Sheng was a little difficult, and if he wanted to find the target, he obviously needed to enter the apartment where the target was located, but now the community gate in front of him, which required electronic access to pass, was a troublesome problem in front of him.

Although the opening and closing of the electronic gate can be controlled in the security booth, it requires the registration of the visit and the certificate of the owner to release it.

If the dream is still consistent with the situation in his memory, then the dream with the characteristics of DS (haplotype dream event)-R (reality reduction) 5 (level 5 reduction, which can roughly replicate and restore people and objects within the entire city area) is obviously the presence of the police.

Even if he can break through into the community from the front with an overclocking state at this moment, he is likely to face a search and pursuit from the police afterwards.

Despite the peculiar status of the member of the Shrike, not only does he have no way to prove his identity in the dream, but he will be detained for a certain period of time because he is very suspicious.

If he could, Lin Sheng didn't want to cause trouble, which would probably be a great obstacle to future actions.

Every event is extremely dangerous, and if there is a slight accident or an accident in a certain link, or even the loss of mobility in the incident, the end is undoubtedly no different from death.

Lin Sheng immediately began to consider the possibility of "waiting for the flow of people around to decrease or even not pass by for a short time, break into the kiosk and stun the security guard in a short time, and then remove the gate security, and delete all the surveillance records of the security booth and the community gate within an hour".

If this idea had been carried out successfully, the subsequent actions would have been much easier, as there were no cameras inside the old apartment, which he had confirmed before he intervened.

But the reality of being at the dinner soon made him give up this plan that is relatively complicated and cumbersome, and the implementation is very prone to accidents, if it is really put into action, someone will soon see it and call the police.

Lin Sheng's mood was a little anxious at the moment, because the target's phone could not be connected, so he couldn't determine what the other party's state was at the moment.

Although I know that time cannot be delayed for too long, there is nothing I can do at the moment.

According to the information monitored by the shrike birds, the target's band curve value has only been revived for a few minutes, although it has climbed abnormally.

According to the ratio of realistic reduced dreams to "one hour of reality corresponds to twenty-four hours of dreams", the time of his intervention is very timely, and the target should have just encountered that "ghost" at the moment, and meeting him as soon as possible can be prevented to the greatest extent.

After all, in Lin Sheng's memory, the horror and difficulty of this incident were unprecedented, the last time he almost died in this incident, if it weren't for Xiao Qian's life for life next to him, he would not be standing here now. Therefore, he rejected Nan Mingyuan's request for execution in just a few words.

In a single dream, a "protagonist" can only provide the consciousness capacity of one dreamer, so that the other party can intervene in the event.

If the result this time must be that there is no return, then dying in this place with Xiaoqian does not seem to be so unacceptable.

Lin Sheng smiled a little self-deprecatingly, then retracted his thoughts and retreated to a hidden corner on the side, and began to observe if there were any other ways to quietly enter.

Then he noticed a woman in the distance who looked like she had just returned from an outing, walking slowly in the direction of the entrance to the community.

The woman was dressed in a rather casual winter dress, wearing a knitted hat on her head to keep warm, looking very young, her face was full of collagen, and one hand was a little awkwardly carrying a shopping basket full of various meat and vegetable ingredients, like a newlywed wife who had just become a full-time wife, and was not yet familiar with these daily life, and the other hand was rummaging for something in her satchel.

Seeing this, Lin Sheng, who was located in the corner, immediately stepped out the cigarette decisively, and then when the woman was about to approach the door of the community, he walked out from the direction of the corner at a relatively natural angle, and began to keep digging into his pockets as he approached, and kept muttering something in his mouth.

"Where's the key? When I came out, I remembered the ...... I brought with me."

seems to feel the difference in his acting skills, and Lin Sheng himself can't help but want to complain.

But the woman didn't look in the direction where he was, but after finding out the access card and key at the entrance of the community and the apartment, she walked to the slightly old smart gate, seeing this, Lin Sheng didn't think much about it, and immediately pretended to be "Fortunately, a neighbor can give me a ride" and walked quickly to the woman's side.

"Crunch, whew-"

The already somewhat outdated smart door slowly opened after sensing the electronic access control, and the woman with the vegetable basket and Lin Sheng walked in one after another.

When passing by the security booth, Lin Sheng used his spare eyes to look at the situation in the security booth again.

On the wall of the pavilion hangs a round clock, which looks like a very traditional mechanical clock, with the hour and minute hands on it at 6:22.

In the locker not far away, all kinds of items are stuffed full, I don't know if it is the security guard's own belongings or the owner who has deposited them here.

On the table at the front desk is a list of owners with photographs, along with the words "2045 Community Collective Culture Commemoration".

The security guard was still in the same sitting position as before, and although the door had opened and closed for a few moments, the latter never looked up to deal with them.

Instead, he kept staring at the cheap portable TV, which seemed to be extremely interesting to him, and paid no attention to their comings and goings.

Sitting, but not very conscientious.

After entering the community, Lin Sheng slowed down slightly, walked behind the woman, and silently prayed that the other party's home was the apartment in Building B, where the target was located.

As if hearing the voice of prayer in his heart at this moment, the woman in front of him decisively walked to the branch on the right at the intersection of an oncoming fork, and Lin Sheng immediately secretly felt a trace of happiness.

The whole process seems to be going very well, and the next step is to find the target and meet it.

When entering the apartment, the woman who opened the door gently pressed the door against it, smiling and motioning for the neighbor in front of her to enter with her.

Looking at the bright hall in the apartment, Lin Sheng immediately returned a shallow smile to the kind female neighbor, and after softly saying "thank you", he followed the woman into the door of the apartment.

Following the woman through the first-floor lobby of the apartment in Building B, and then through a corridor that looked like it was still being renovated, with a slightly messy arrangement of materials, the two walked to the place where the elevator room was.

Lin Sheng, who was walking behind the woman, had already put away his smile on the way and changed back to his previous expressionless face.

"Ding—"

The elevator opened, and the woman walked in with a full basket of vegetables, and then turned around in the elevator and looked at Lin Sheng, who was still outside the door.

For a long time, Lin Sheng did not follow into the elevator compartment.

"Aren't you coming in?" The woman pressed the button to open the door, and then spoke for the first time, her voice was soft and pleasant, but the emotional fluctuations between the lines were not too big.

Lin Sheng didn't answer the sound and stepped in, he just silently looked at the wall above the elevator room at the moment, and then let the time pass by second by second......

The elevator room, which had just been renovated and installed with several light sources, was very bright at this time, like a partial daytime in the night, and the two of them were silent with the elevator door as a dividing line.

"The property of this apartment is very responsible." After a few seconds, Lin Sheng spoke slowly.

The woman in the elevator car didn't reply, just looked at Lin Sheng blankly.

"The last time I visited, most of the lights in the corridor were broken."

"I didn't expect it to be renovated so quickly."

"So, I'm not going home today."

The other party still looked at Lin Sheng's position and did not speak, it seemed that because of Lin Sheng's words that had no clear logical connection, she fell into a long-term doubt, and then, she released the button that kept the elevator open, and the elevator entered the countdown to closing.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

The woman in the elevator car always stared at Lin Sheng, and Lin Sheng also looked at each other as usual.

Inside and outside the elevator, the positions of the two have never changed in the slightest.

The short time to open the door quickly passed, and with a "buzz", the mechanical module came into operation, and the doors on both sides began to slowly move closer to the middle position.

A little.

A little.

In Lin Sheng's eyes, it seemed to be extremely long.

Then in the woman's eyes that never moved.

"Bang".

The elevator doors closed completely.