Chapter 4 Chapter 1 The Instrument for Recording Dreams

Jiang Xia has been in a daze at the table for ten minutes.On the laptop's screen was a design he had just revised.In the ashtray nearby were a few half-smoked Marlboros.Jiang Xia has a habit of lighting a cigarette when she uses her brain.This seemed to be quite effective, and every time he smoked halfway, he came up with an idea, so he stubbed it out in the ashtray to continue his work.This evening was not going well, I smoked a lot, but I couldn't seem to find what I wanted. There was a loud noise of cars coming from far and near and then far away outside the window.Jiang Xia recovered from her thoughts.

"New York..." he muttered.In this metropolis, even in the middle of the night, even in Queens, where Jiang Xia lives far away from Manhattan, you can often hear all kinds of disturbing sounds. Jiang Xia's apartment is on the top floor of a 70-year-old three-story brick building, with one room plus an independent kitchen and toilet.This type of apartment is very popular with single students. It is practical, simple, and most importantly, the rent is relatively cheap; but in New York, where land is very expensive, it costs 800 dollars a month.New York consists of five boroughs. Manhattan is too expensive, Staten Island is too far away, Brooklyn and the Broncos are too chaotic, and Queens is Jiang Xia's only choice.There is also an apartment on the same floor as Jiang Xia, one bedroom and one living room, the rent is much more expensive, 1,200 US dollars per month.

Jiang Xia found a slightly longer cigarette butt from the ashtray and lit it.Seven dollars a pack of cigarettes is too expensive for a Chinese student. The laboratory meeting will be held the next day, and the work progress of this period needs to be reported to the supervisor.In the United States, whether they are students or working, bosses seem to be more accustomed to examining the performance of their subordinates rather than whether they come to work on time.The research group that Jiang Xia belongs to has a regular meeting every week, and several research groups in the same project will gather together for a big discussion every month, introducing each other's recent work results, questioning each other, and making suggestions to each other.This time the laboratory meeting will be given by Jiang Xia as a doctoral student of the research group. He has been up for several nights and wants to make the design at hand.But things are always like this, the more anxious you are, the more clueless you will be.

This is a huge project. Columbia University, where Jiang Xia works, and a Boston-based company jointly invested $200 million to develop a device that can record human dreams.The project originated from a theory of Mentor Jiang Xia: People’s dreams are formed by the interaction of electrical signals of the brain nerves, and the spectrum of this signal can remain in the brain for at least 48 hours after dreaming. Use instruments to search for these remaining brain signals and press By time-arranging and unraveling the content represented by these signals, dreams can be completely restored into image signals.According to Jiang Xia's understanding, their research is to make a video recorder that can record dreams.And this project was officially named "Dream Writing Project".

The neighbor's door knocked. It was Ye Guangting who came back.This is a rich man. His father has a big business in China. He spends money to send his son to the United States to study for a degree. When he returns home, he is ready to take over the family business.This young man is twenty-one and very smart, but he doesn't like studying.In the domestic college entrance examination, I was admitted to Tsinghua Business School after a little hard work.Those who get it too easily don't know how to cherish it. When he was in college, Ye Guangting naturally spent his youth outside of school all day long.When I was in my junior year, my grades couldn't get any better and I was invited back home.My father was in a hurry, and said harsh words, if you don't get me a decent degree, don't you want to get involved with my company!So he used a lot of connections, and actually sent him to New York University to study for an MBA.Ye Guangting bought a brand new Mustang convertible less than a month after he came to the United States.Degrees are read one after another. Anyway, there is plenty of money, and when it is mixed, it will be counted. Enjoying life is a big thing, and it must not be delayed.

Jiang Xia picked up the phone and called Ye Guangting. "Brother Jiang, what's the matter?" Ye Guangting spoke excitedly, obviously drunk. "Young master Ye, you didn't bring the girl home, did you?" Ye Guangting was a tall and heroic man who knew how to live and had a good sense of taste, unlike the ordinary descendants of nouveau riche.Coupled with strong financial security, there is always a beautiful female companion around.Suffering from his father's coercion and temptation, he still has to attend classes and do homework.The rest of the time is filled with restaurants, bars and some new and exciting places to go.But this person is also pure and lovely, not a flashy and promiscuous person.Ye Guangting and Jiang Xia met at the orientation meeting for Chinese students at Columbia University.He wanted to go to an apartment in Manhattan with a monthly rent of 4,000 US dollars, but Jiang Xia persuaded him to become a neighbor and lived in a one-bedroom apartment on the same floor as him.

"No, no, when did you see me bring a girl home?" Ye Guangting quibbled, "Furthermore, you are allowed to talk on the phone with Xiting, my sister-in-law, Chen, and I am not allowed to relax a little... ..." "Stop talking nonsense, come and chat, I'm bored here." Jiang Xia interrupted Ye Guangting, lit another cigarette, got up and went to open the door. "It's done, just wait." Ye Guangting still couldn't get enough of it, and was grinding his teeth with joy. Jiang Xia welcomes Ye Guangting in. "Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law!" Ye Guangting yelled as soon as he entered the door, looking around, "Don't hide, I've seen your big feet."

Jiang Xia had nothing to do with this poor boy, so he sat back in front of the computer and watched him torment. "What's wrong with Brother Jiang, what about 'dream nocturnal' with my family alone?" Ye Guangting had a smirk on his face, he always referred to Jiang Xia's device for recording dreams as "dream nocturnal" for short. "Isn't it going to be left behind? I want to talk to you and sit down. Where did it go?" "It's really not this time." Ye Guangting blushed and was dizzy from alcohol, "Just a few friends to drink."

"Is there no girl to accompany you during the banquet?" Jiang Xia continued to tease, anyway, I can't hold back any decent designs tonight, so I will have something to say tomorrow.The bosses can't ask our part-time workers to report good results, can they? "Don't tell me," Ye Guangting paused, "There are really two of them. One of them is good, and it's also from your brother university. I just came to the United States not long ago, and I need a senior like you to guide me. Someday I will introduce it to you. Introduction, oops..." He put his palms together suddenly, "Don't blame sister-in-law, don't blame sister-in-law, I did this to make Brother Jiang cherish you more."

"Don't worry about it, how can I have time to think about it now? I'm almost out of work here." "Don't be too serious. The real state is to balance work and life. That girl is nice, her name is Zhou Qingzi." "Light son? There's something interesting about that name." "Yeah, those who are not educated at home will definitely not be able to come up with such an elegant name. Qingzi, Jiang Xia, what a pair of names! It's so easy to say together! Don't tell me, that girl looks taller than her The name is still foreign, and the figure is also exquisite." Ye Guangting always beams with joy when talking about girls, "If it weren't for my brother, I am afraid that you will be exhausted by yourself, I am really reluctant to introduce her to you!"

"Aren't you afraid that your sister-in-law will whip you?" Ye Guangting looked at Jiang Xia with suspicion on his face: "Are you serious? What year is this? Xiting is in Rhodes Island, two hundred miles away. Can you see her once a month? You can't take care of her." , she can’t take care of you either. What are you talking about? What are you trying to do? It’s not that I don’t like you, this kind of long-distance relationship is really unreliable. You stick to your position, maybe one day she will do whatever she wants From the enemy! And now, this classmate Zhou Qingzi is in the same school as you, with a distance of 300 meters in a straight line. You say it, you say it yourself..." Ye Guangting poked the table with his index finger and spoke earnestly. Columbia University, built in New York City, is a famous university with a history of 250 years.With the aura of Ivy League universities and unparalleled geographical location, Columbia University has attracted countless top scientists and scholars in the world. Jiang Xia's laboratory is in the building of the medical school, and the George Washington Bridge can be seen from the conference room. Jiang Xia's mentor is the internationally renowned Dr. Schweil, a German-American; he is not tall and a bit rickety, his left shoulder is a little lower than his right shoulder, and it is most obvious when he walks, as if he is malnourished; he is about five years old. About ten years old, the face was very thin, but there were a lot of folds; the blue-gray eyes were unfathomable, and the thin lips were covered with a red nose. Since the "Dream Writing Project" began, Schwell has successively recruited more than 50 professionals in the fields of bioengineering and electronic engineering to work on this project.Schwell's scholarship was rigorous and democratic.The entire 17th floor of the medical school building is his laboratory, and in this little empire of wisdom and passion, anyone can criticize another person's point of view.Even if you get into a fight with Schweil himself and break up unhappy, as long as you are right about the matter and wrong about the person, you are fine and even encouraged.Jiang Xia, who is a biology student, is a doctoral student at Schwell, and is naturally responsible for some design work as part of her graduation thesis. "I'm very glad that our design is nearing completion." Dr. Schweil sat casually at one end of the big round table and said brightly.His working group was too crowded and was scattered in different meeting rooms for video conferences.In order to show concern for students, Schwell's own doctoral students always share the same room with him, and Jiang Xia was specially arranged to sit next to him today. "Although there are still some detailed designs that have not been completed," Schweil continued, "But due to time and financial reasons, I propose to let the subject enter the human experiment stage in advance, um." Whenever Dr. Schwaer made a proposal, he always added a firm "um" at the end of the sentence, as if to re-examine his words and make a self-affirmation.This is his habit of speaking, but with his status as a great professor, today's "hmm" really has an encouraging effect. There was some commotion in the venue immediately, and many people's eyes flashed with excitement.After all, five years of hard work have been spent on this project, and now it can enter human experiments, which seems to be what everyone is looking forward to. "Everyone think about my proposal first. Let's rest for ten minutes before discussing it." With that said, Schweil stood up and went to the table next to him to get a biscuit and mixed another cup of coffee. Jiang Xia also understands what it means for this project to enter the stage of human experimentation.They have done experiments on various small animals, and the results are quite satisfactory.But people and animals are fundamentally different after all.Every success in animals can only be said to be a step closer to the ultimate goal. However, whether this instrument is safe to use on the human body, whether it can really record human dreams and restore images, no one dares Guaranteed.He glanced at the people in the conference rooms on the video wall.Everyone seemed very excited, discussing enthusiastically, and some Indian colleagues in charge of electronic engineering design even twisted their necks and buttocks as if they were about to dance. Holding a hot drink, Schweil walked up to Jiang Xia and sat down next to Jiang Xia, still chewing: "Xia, what do you think?" The pronunciation of Chinese characters with "X" such as "Xia", "Xi" and "Xu" is the most difficult for foreigners. Their pronunciation closest to "Xia" is "Xia". "Ah?" Jiang Xia was stunned for a moment, obviously his mentor didn't care much about asking his opinion in the past, "Okay, I think this is a very decisive decision." His expression was unnatural, a little flattered. Schweil adjusted his sitting posture, moved closer to Jiang Xia, and said, "I'm sorry I didn't ask for your opinion in advance, but I hope you can be the first subject of this project." "Uh..." Jiang Xia didn't expect this, he was at a loss for words and lost his mind, and looked at his mentor in surprise, not knowing whether it was a blessing or a curse. Schweil continued without waiting for his answer: "First of all, this experiment is very safe. You know, we have done a lot of experiments on animals. Safety can be guaranteed, um." Jiang Xia remained calm, but her heart was beating drums. Animals and people are two different things! "You also know the working principle of our system. First of all, our system is not invasive, it is non-invasive. Although we will stick some electrodes for you, they will not discharge, they will not emit electric waves, but from you Information can be obtained from the structure of the brain's sulci, nerve signals, blood flow velocity, and temperature." Professor Schweil stroked Jiang Xia's hand and explained patiently. "In addition, considering that people's dreams involve privacy, I can also assure you that all experiments are independently operated by you. If any image information is recorded by our equipment, you will be the first to see it. Only We have the right to see it if you think it can be made public." Jiang Xia looked at his mentor and nodded slightly, but he didn't want to express his opinion immediately. "If you participate in the test, I promise you that you will be one of the authors of all the papers in our group related to this project." Jiang Xia still looked at Schweil and thought: Why don't you try such a beautiful thing yourself?His mind is a little messed up. Scientifically speaking, he is at ease in terms of safety. The whole instrument has not caused any harm to small animals. He participated in the previous experiments on mice and rabbits.Privacy is not a problem either, as it has an independent operating system, even if it records a sexual dream, it will not be made public.Becoming an author of an article is so attractive. Even if the results of such a large project are not so perfect, the published articles must be published in the first-class scientific journals - "Nature" and "Science". A scientist's dream, a passport to future career, but but... "At the end, as a test subject, you get a $10,000 bonus, um," Schweil added. "I did it!" Jiang Xia said firmly. The bar on Lexington Avenue is called High, on the top floor of a building.The meaning is obvious: one is that the location itself is high; the other is that you can enjoy a drink here, overlooking the night view of New York City, and the more you drink, the higher you will be, and the more excited you will be.Ye Guangting booked a table on the outdoor platform, the only place where he could drink and smoke, and he could also see the night view of the Chrysler Building.The Chrysler Building is a landmark building in New York. At night, the layers of semi-circular arches on the top of the building are dotted with sharp white fangs that diverge upward. The roundness hides sharpness, and romance is full of wisdom, just like a successful man. , stands near Wall Street. Most of the people who hang out in the High Bar are of some status, and the consumption standard of 300 US dollars per person is not something everyone can afford.Ye Guangting was wearing a Zegna fine-striped shirt and a Bioni casual suit.The brand of jeans is a mouthful, and Jiang Xia can't remember it. It's called "Seven for All Humanity". It is said that each pair costs two to three hundred dollars.Two men and two girls sat around a table.Sure enough, Mr. Ye called Zhou Qingzi.Jiang Xia looked at this girl when we first met: tall figure, fair skin, well maintained, a pair of big round eyes on a small face, eyebrows are carefully trimmed, and the face shape Jiang Xia likes is the pointy one , her hair is coiled up from the back into a "stewardess bun", she doesn't look very old, but she is full of the charm of a mature woman.Qingzi was wearing a silky dark purple dress, covered with a short white long-haired waistcoat, the skirt would be tucked under the knees, forming the shape of a half shell, with a touch of playfulness in its elegance.What a beauty!Jiang Xia couldn't help but bursts of admiration and faint inferiority welling up in her heart.For the first time, he experienced the feeling of "prostrating under a woman's pomegranate skirt". It was a kind of worship, a kind of heartfelt touch, deja vu and unattainable.The other girl is Yang Shan, who is also very beautiful, even more mature and sexy than Zhou Qingzi, and has a completely different style from Qingzi.Among the four, Yang Shan was the most casual. She wore a pair of tight jeans and a small white shirt with a pinched waist, clean and refreshing, and highlighted her beautiful feminine curves to the greatest extent. Seeing two such beautiful girls at the same time in one night seems to have never happened since Jiang Xia went abroad. At this time, he was really drunk. He was fascinated by the wine, the night, and perhaps more by the beauty in front of him. . Ye Guangting was quite at ease, gently shaking the long crystal glass in his hand, admiring the rising bubbles in the golden champagne - today's theme is to celebrate Jiangxia. "My buddy made a small post today, Ten Wanmeizi was a guinea pig, and he did it well." Jiang Xia took a sip of his wine with a wry smile, squinted at the surroundings, and said: "Such a high-end person, how could he return to the head of your rural village with just one mouth!" Yang Shan was amused.Ye Guangting nodded his head and said with a sneer: "The poor are getting rich, and the poor are getting rich. But I can see that Jiang Xia is either hiding his secrets, or he pays special attention to dating the two beautiful ladies here. The suit on him is so docile , So handsome, it must have taken a lot of work. He is not like this usually!" Zhou Qingzi looked at Jiang Xia's attire, smiled quietly and sat down. Jiang Xia smiled and said: "Brought from China, it's the first time I wear it. I don't remember when I bought it." "It's not bad." Yang Shan looked very excited, her eyes squinted at Ye Guangting, "The brand is not important, the important thing is the heart. Girlfriend tailor-made it for Jiang Xia, right? Haha! Hey, tell me about your experiment! What is it for? Will you be given an injection or medicine?" Jiang Xia sounded funny, knowing that she couldn't explain it to them, she simply nodded. Ye Guangting took over the conversation: "It doesn't matter what you do, it's true to earn money. Besides, he is absolutely dedicated to science. Without a scholar like him who devoted himself to death, how could we have a happy life today! Come on, Let's have another drink for him!" Four crystal wine glasses collided together and made a nice sound. "It doesn't matter what you do if you can earn money?" Yang Shan refused to give up, "Would you like to be a duck in the United States?" After speaking, she laughed to herself. "If you make a chicken, I'll do it..." Ye Guangting said without any fear, and the two started teasing. "Is there any danger?" Zhou Qingzi asked lightly, but Jiang Xia felt very useful.He looked up, smiled and shook his head. At this time Jiang Xia's phone rang, it was Chen Xiting.He leaned away from the table and walked over to the railing of the platform. "Honey, got your email. Congratulations." "What is there to congratulate, who knows if it's a good thing or a bad thing?" "Don't talk nonsense, there won't be any danger, right?" It could be heard that Xiting was also very concerned on the other end of the phone. Jiang Xia froze for a moment, then said: "Yes, nothing will happen, I just said that, don't worry. What are you doing today?" Chen Xiting is an alumnus of Jiang Xia's university, in the same year, but not from the same department, she is the "sister-in-law with a pair of big feet" in Ye Guangting's mouth.Chen Xiting came to America half a year later than Jiang Xia, but he couldn't live in a city as he wished.Jiang Xia was at Columbia University, which she had admired for a long time, while Chen Xiting was admitted to Brown University in Rhode Island to study comparative literature.The schools are good schools, but as Ye Guangting said, the two of them are two to three hundred miles apart, and Jiang Xia hardly needs a car in New York, so he didn't buy one.Chen Xiting has a car, but the three or four hour drive is a burden, so he can only come to New York every one or two months to meet up and bring back some supplies from Chinatown in New York. On weekdays, he mainly relies on phone calls and emails A taste of tenderness. "It's snowing here...do you miss me? Give me a kiss!" "Yeah." Jiang Xia agreed, turned her head to look at Zhou Qingzi, feeling a little different in her heart. This is a big day. Jiang Xia came to the laboratory early.Dr. Schwell smiled at him, and he smiled back hastily.Busy colleagues are doing their own preparations, but they all smile when they see him.Those who are more enthusiastic will come up and pat him on the shoulder to cheer him up.Needless to say, he was the most important person on the entire 17th floor, at least on this day. As soon as she got up in the morning, Jiang Xia called her parents in China and told them about today's arrangements.The experiment process is naturally to be understated so as not to worry them.My mother was always worried, and although she knew nothing about the subject, she kept asking until she could confirm that the experiment would not pose any danger to her son.When he arrived at the office, Jiang Xia called Chen Xiting.But at this moment, he still felt apprehensive, as if something was missing.He had to admit that he really wanted to hear Zhou Qingzi's voice and hear her blessings before entering the laboratory. After struggling for a while, he finally didn't make this call.Jiang Xia was taken to a room for a physical examination.Needless to say, blood pressure, heart rate, and heart atlas, advanced physical examination items such as chest X-ray, MRI, and brain color Doppler are all available.One is to finally confirm that Jiang Xia's physical condition is suitable for this experiment, and the other is to compare the data before and after the experiment to draw corresponding conclusions. All human experiment plans and applications for the "Dream Writing Project" have been approved and filed by the US federal government.Although the experiment is theoretically safe, Columbia University still prepared a $1 million personal safety insurance for Jiang Xia.Jiang Xia filled in the beneficiary's mother's name. Jiang Xia lay down on the bed early last night.Since he was a little nervous after all, he tossed and turned for a while before falling asleep.After waking up today, he lay on the bed and lit a cigarette first.In the smoke he tried to remember what he had dreamed.I vaguely remember dreaming that I was in a fierce battle with a team.He kept getting shot and shot.He got up and tried to fight back, strafing and throwing grenades.The enemy fell down but stood up again as if nothing happened and continued to shoot him.So he started to run, but the other party didn't chase, but he continued to run... What a hard dream.Jiang Xia smiled and took a puff of cigarette.Thinking about it again, I have no other impression.It seems to be dreaming of a woman, but not sure. It took a long time for the physical examination, and Jiang Xia finally put on a special, anti-static isolation suit and came to the side of the dream recording device.Although he participated in the design, this was the first time he entered the main laboratory.In the square room is a main instrument, like a large freezer lying horizontally.Next to the instrument is an experimental chair, which is somewhat similar to the chair used by patients when seeing the dentist, ensuring the comfort and convenient operation of the subject.A red oxygen mask hung down from the ceiling, just within Jiang Xia's reach, just in case.To the right is a small monitor, a few simple knobs, and a delicate little joystick.All the equipment surfaces close to Jiang Xia were taped with a layer of protective pads to prevent his body from moving and hurting during the experiment.The preparation was meticulous and thoughtful, almost every detail was considered. Dr. Schwell and Jiang Xia had rehearsed the use of these buttons and joysticks on the simulated instrument the previous afternoon.If the experiment goes well, Jiang Xia can see the dream guided from his brain on the monitor in real time, and can use these buttons and the joystick to choose the time of dreaming to watch and record, and can also fast forward, rewind, and pause And local amplification, can really realize various functions of "dream video recorder". Separated from the main laboratory by a glass curtain wall is an operating room and monitoring room, where many computers and specially designed processors are placed.A large amount of data exported from Jiang Xia's brain must be transmitted to the supercomputer here for analysis and processing in real time, converted into images and then sent to the monitor in front of Jiang Xia.Jiang Xia's colleagues have already taken their positions. "Xia," said Dr. Schweil, kneeling on one knee beside Jiang Xia, "I thank you again for agreeing to do this experiment. I also want to emphasize that we will definitely ensure your safety outside." Jiang Xia nodded while sitting on the experimental chair. "Now all the equipment is ready. The whole subject is fifteen minutes, during which you are awake. If, I mean if you feel any discomfort, just press this button." Schweil pointed to a red button next to Jiang Xia's hand. "At the same time we will watch you from outside through the glass window, everything is under control. In addition, this monitor in front of you can display the dreams ingested from your head in real time. I will say that this is the only A monitor, no one can see your dreams except you. As I said before, this is your privacy, after the experiment, if you think it can be disclosed to us, we will watch it.” "No problem." At this time, Jiang Xia also wanted to see what the first recorded dream of human beings displayed on this monitor looked like. "Can we start?" Schweil asked with his lips pursed. "Yes." Jiang Xia was full of expectation. Dr. Schweil reached out his hand and shook Jiang Xia firmly, and then summoned two staff members.They began to stick wires on Jiang Xia's head skillfully and handed him an earphone. After checking that there was no problem, they left the main laboratory with Dr. Schweil. According to the procedure, some faint mist began to be emitted from all corners of the room. The first function was to carry out final disinfection of the room, and the second was to reduce the possibility of static electricity during the experiment.Since the experiment involves the neural signals of the brain, the slightest external interference may lead to unexpected results. "Start." Jiang Xia said to himself, and began to mobilize the instruments. I went to bed at ten o'clock yesterday, although I couldn't fall asleep...Jiang Xia decided to start watching at eleven o'clock.He spins the wheel that regulates time.The monitor is a mess of fine lines. Jiang Xia continued to turn the knob. The fine lines vibrated a bit. He stopped and deliberately felt for any discomfort in his brain. There is no abnormal feeling. He set the time back, and it now shows 0:16 in the morning.He felt that everyone outside the house was looking in intently. Seventeen points, eighteen points. Fine lines trembled again, and with a purple-red shadow flashing across the screen, Jiang Xia slowed down. Eighteen minutes and twenty-three seconds past zero. A human figure appeared on the monitor!It looks vague, but it is indeed a person! Jiang Xia clearly felt her heartbeat and hot cheeks.He took a deep breath and fumbled with the knob next to him to adjust the signal strength.As the signal gradually strengthened, the human figure in the monitor began to become clear, and the brows, eyes, mouth and nose could be distinguished. At the same time, Jiang Xia felt a burst of not too harsh but faint noise swirling between his ears.He stopped to feel the change, as if there was no other discomfort.He knew that in the process of locating the brain wave signal, the instrument would interfere with some other neural signal systems. It is normal to hear some strange sounds, see strange colors or pictures at this time.So he continued to increase the signal strength, and the noise between the ears slowly increased, and then fell back until it disappeared.At this time, the human form on the monitor is relatively clear, just like watching a freeze-frame picture of a gun-version VCD. Without further hesitation, Jiang Xia pressed the "record" button, and the screen actually moved! The person on the screen kept waving his hands, as if he was calling his companions, and then his body was shocked and he fell to the ground.Two or three of his companions entered from the right side of the screen, and the man just now stood up again with a smile, and even brushed the dirt off his body. Isn't this the dream I recalled when I woke up in the morning?Jiang Xia turned her head to look at the people outside the house, and stretched out her thumbs in front of her chest to compare.Dr. Schwell and his colleagues jumped up excitedly and hugged each other.Everyone congratulated Jiang Xia through the glass window. At this moment, he is a hero. Sudden!Jiang Xia felt a sharp pain in his head, followed by a tight twitch of his body.The scene in front of him became very blurred, as if covered by a black tulle.His chest kept rising and falling, his heart rate on the monitor was 140 beats per minute, and his blood pressure was also rising close to the warning value! The people outside fell silent immediately, and hurried back to the instruments and meters they were in charge of.Dr. Schweil saw all this too, and anxiously knocked on the glass windows. Someone hurriedly handed Schweil a headset, and then his voice appeared in the main laboratory: "Xia! Stop the experiment immediately!" Jiang Xia regained her sobriety, and the gray mist in her eyes dissipated.The whole process didn't take more than three seconds, but he almost felt the abnormality of his soul coming out of his body. The chasing and killing scene on the monitor is gone, and it has become a room.The picture is far less clear than before. "Xia, are you okay? Answer me!" Schweil turned his head and waved his hand to make an experimenter ready to listen to his orders to stop the experiment at any time. "I'm fine, I can continue the experiment." Jiang Xia said, and then tried to feel the reactions of various parts of the body.At this time, he didn't feel any discomfort, except that his face was still a little hot, as if nothing had happened just now. "Are you sure?" Schweil was not at ease. "Totally sure." Jiang Xia stared at the monitor, time was moving.He hesitated to continue increasing the signal strength.He tentatively increased the signal by one bar very slowly, and it was fine, so he added another bar. In the room is a bed with bright white sheets.A dart board was faintly visible on the opposite wall, and the whole room was clean and bright. This is Jiangxia's home in Beijing. Jiang Xia's father, Jiang Huafeng, was originally the deputy director of the General Administration of Customs of China. He studied in the United States in his early years and was educated in the West.After returning to China, he entered a state-owned enterprise and embarked on an official career.Although he holds real power, Jiang Huafeng is very clean.Simple three bedrooms and two living rooms, a family of three enjoy themselves happily.When Jiang Xia graduated from University, Jiang Huafeng retired early due to health reasons. Not long after, Jiang Xia went abroad to study and entered Schwell Lab. The screen kept shaking and gradually became clearer.Jiang Xia felt a little complacent.He really didn't expect that a person's dreams could be recorded so beautifully.With such data at the bottom, the published articles will definitely be able to reach a higher level; with such articles at the bottom, my life abroad will be much easier, and it will be of great help to my future career development. A woman in a long bright silk dress enters the picture, sitting lightly on the sofa, talking something. Zhou Qingzi! God!Jiang Xia habitually clenched his hands into fists and put them to his mouth, watching with a smile.He couldn't believe that he only met Zhou Qingzi once and let her appear in his dream. Another man came in, holding a wine glass, talking and laughing, walked up to Zhou Qingzi, and sat on the armrest of the sofa.Jiang Xia thought that the man who appeared in her dream with Zhou Qingzi should be Ye Guangting, but it was not.This man is tall and tall, his hair seems to have just been trimmed, and you can see neat hair edges and blue sideburns. His eyes are small but very energetic, his nose is full and well-proportioned, and his speech and demeanor are open and cheerful. Jiang Xia has never seen this person before. He wanted to turn up his voice louder to hear what they were saying, but all he heard from the earphones was squeaky electrical noise. Just then, there was a soft beep in the laboratory—it was time.The instrument stopped running automatically. Jiang Xia wanted to continue watching, but had to pull off the cable and earphones from her head. Dr. Schweil and a group of colleagues walked in and hugged Jiang Xia with open arms. "Xia, congratulations! Thank you too, we made it, right?" Jiang Xia nodded. Schweil patted him on the shoulder hard: "You go to the medical examination first, come back later, we prepared champagne to celebrate!" "Dr. Schweil, I have a request." Jiang Xia said, "I just recorded two dreams, but I can only disclose the first one." "No problem!" The tutor was very straightforward and trustworthy. "Also," Jiang Xia asked tentatively, "Can I keep a copy?" "I think...that's not a problem." Dr. Schweil smiled mischievously. "You want to get together again? Do you want to see Qingzi?" Ye Guangting lazily leaned on the back of the chair and looked at Jiang Xia with a smile. "That girl is nice." Jiang Xia nodded. "Let me just say, distant water will never quench your near thirst. Don't take chances in long-distance love. Play deep when you don't see Qingzi, and you can't hold back when you see someone beautiful? You guys All the Ph.D candidates are sanctimonious, but they are actually hungrier than anyone else. Do you think I was wrong in criticizing you? You made an appointment yourself, didn’t you change your phone last time?” Jiang Xia knew that Ye Guangting would cheat on him.Indeed, at the age of twenty-four, it is really unreasonable for a person who has already got the girl's phone number to find a friend to help him make an appointment.It's just that he really can't open his mouth. He thinks that Ye Guangting has more experience and is familiar with Zhou Qingzi, so it will be more natural for him to invite another four-person party. "It's okay to make an appointment, but I have to tell you first that Qingzi already has a boyfriend, and I just heard about it." Ye Guangting said when Jiang Xiamo was embarrassed. There was an inexplicable regret in Jiang Xia's heart. It is undeniable that Zhou Qingzi does have something that attracts him, which has been lingering in his heart these days, so it is no wonder that he dreams of her, day by day and night by night.But such an excellent girl will naturally be the goal pursued by many men in the United States. If she is a foreigner in China, maybe her boyfriend is really a Yankee... Jiang Xia thought a lot, and he was surprised that he would think so much when he heard that Zhou Qingzi had a boyfriend. “哦，那她上次没带来啊，我还以为她一个人呢。”江夏故作镇静地说，换了个姿势坐着，眼睛看了一眼叶广庭后开始四处游移。 “男朋友怎么了？你不也有女朋友吗？你要真喜欢咱呛啊！枪、强、抢、呛！不是还没结婚呢吗？”叶公子倒是一副满不在乎的样子，“哎，说说，什么情况？真有点儿动心啦？” 江夏探身从桌上把烟抓过来，取了两支丢一支给叶广庭，打着火点上然后把火机也扔了过去。 “也许吧，怎么说呢？”江夏长吐了口烟，“我梦见她了。” 叶广庭刚点着烟，一没留神呛了出来，剧烈地咳嗽。 “你行！算你狠！我就说你整天跟家梦遗吧，这才哪儿跟哪儿啊你就梦见人家了？” 江夏想起带了录制好的光盘回来，欠身起来边翻书包边说：“对了，你一说梦遗我想起来了。我们今天做那实验我给带回来了，昨天晚上的梦，都让我刻盘上了。要光盘吗？蓝光高清，五块钱一张，不清楚不要钱……” “嗯，好！有毛的吗？再来点儿大片。”叶广庭配合着，“你要再抱一孩子就更像了。别说，你们这东西还真挺有意思，没准儿让你小子弄个诺贝尔什么梦遗奖……” 在江夏的电脑前，叶广庭不住地啧啧称奇，说现代科技发展得真快原来从来没想过的事都变成现实了以后破案都可以拿这玩意儿当证据了之类的夸赞之辞。江夏坐在一旁看着叶广庭，仿佛看见斯德哥尔摩音乐厅里的灯光和瑞典国王肩头的绶带。 “这男的是谁啊？好像和轻子关系不一般。”叶广庭突然问起来。 江夏移近电脑，说道：“我也不知道哪儿蹦出这么一位，没见过。人的梦里也不全是自己见过的人或事，可能是大脑神经信号随机那么一组合一排列就出来一个你根本就不知道的东西。所以梦这东西可以是人类想象力的延伸，你会梦到很多你清醒的时候绝对想不到的东西，好多科学家的发现都是从梦里得到的启示。”江夏解释道，这方面他完全可以当叶广庭的老师，“那个谁谁谁，凯库勒，不就是因为梦到了一条长蛇掉转身来咬住自己的尾巴形成了一个圆环，后来受到启发发现了苯环吗？” “你别跟我这儿跩，我就知道你即便是梦遗的时候都把自己喜欢的姑娘往别人怀里送！哎，这样这样，”叶广庭来了精神，眼里闪着光，盯着江夏说，“你就跟轻子说你梦见她了，女孩特吃这个。” “行吗？”江夏半信半疑，“有点儿过了吧？” “过什么过？你追女孩就得往嘴上涂蜜啊，多过都不算过。她一听你还没怎么着呢就梦见她了，嘴上不说心里肯定美吧滋儿的，咱就有戏。不是，你没嗅过蜜啊？” “我又没想追她……不过她要不信我就给她看这个。” “甭看，看什么看？你们搞科学的就是这样，要不怎么人家说你们书呆子呢？做什么事都那么理性。你跟她说你的心理活动也就是个暗示，表示你心里老想着她，白天想得多了晚上就梦到了，就够了。没人查你是不是真梦了。没情调！”叶广庭摇着头十分不屑地扬了扬手。这方面他完全可以当江夏的老师。 十月初的纽约已经很有些凉意，尤其是晚上。最近一连下了几场秋雨，气温又降了不少，路边铺满了被雨水打落的各色枝叶。江夏和叶广庭站在法拉盛的街口等周轻子。法拉盛是纽约皇后区的华人聚集地，相比曼哈顿的华埠，法拉盛的餐厅更加多样化。除了吃饭喝酒的地方，还有不少茶室和KTV，近来又引进了足底按摩，中国人爱去的所在几乎都能在这里找到。入夜之后霓虹闪烁，三三两两的人在街头游走，从一家店出来又进到另一家店去。现代音乐和南方大戏的乐曲声从一些夜店的门缝中传出来，像足了广州郊区的某繁华小镇。 叶广庭约了轻子，但就在昨天听说她的男朋友要一同来。江夏有点儿失望，叶广庭却很兴奋，四下里望着，他倒要看看周轻子到底找了一位什么样的男士做伴。 “来了。”江夏看到轻子和一个男人远远地款款走来，淡淡地说道。 叶广庭转过脸仰着头辨认着，表情霍地凝固住了，他惊异地看向江夏。 江夏也怔住了，他也看清了轻子身边的那个男人。