Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 182 182. Lena's Whereabouts
In the evening, Dean called Hope to the yard for a chat,

"You know what the sensory deprivation tank is all about?"

Hope frowned, "This thing is not the equipment of the Hawkins laboratory, why do you ask it?"

"I want to see if I can expand Jane's black mind in the sink and ask her to help me find my missing parents."

In the afternoon, Dean used the bathtub at home to build a water tank to enlarge Jane's dark mind, but unfortunately, adding cold water, warm water, and salt water to the bathtub failed.

Unlike the water tank in Jane's impression, it has no effect.

"The black area in the mind is some kind of super power?"

"Well, but Jane has more than one kind of superpower. Jane can pick up objects from space, so the lab and the Sulian people all want her." Dean simply said frankly, "It's just that she just came here, and she is more reluctant to show her abilities to us."

Hope looked at the little girl on the sofa in the glass window who was concentrating on watching TV, her eyes became very complicated, and when she turned to Dean again, there was a dangerous gleam in her eyes, "You're going to put her in the sensory deprivation tank, with the perverted Martin What's the difference with Brenner?"

"I didn't force her, she offered to help."

"Will that hurt her body?"

"She said no problem."

"That's fine. But I didn't go to college, and I don't understand this kind of advanced scientific knowledge. I suggest you go to Hawkins Middle School and ask Scott Clark, the teacher of the audio-visual club, a graduate of the physics department of Princeton University. A genius, surely knows the answer."

Dean remembered that Dustin had mentioned this teacher, and he had an idea in his mind.

……

The next morning.

"Mr. Clark, I'm Dustin." The little fat man knocked on the door of the teacher's house, and Dean stood in the shadow beside him,

"It's just in time," a thin man opened the door and said with a smile, "I have good news for you. The principal has agreed to allocate funds for the audio-visual club to purchase new equipment. Next semester, you will see a brand new set of projectors..."

"Wow...it's great, teacher, I can't wait to see it!" Dustin immediately jumped up and down twice excitedly, and Dean couldn't help laughing.

"Don't worry young man, school will start in half a month, and then you will be able to see enough every day. Now let's get back to the point, you didn't come here on purpose to say hello to me, right?"

"That's right, I have a scientific question I want to ask you." Dustin glanced at Dean next to him out of the corner of his eye, and got an encouraging look, "Do you know how to build a sensory deprivation tank?"

"Sensory deprivation is not a trivial matter, what are you going to use it for?" The man looked serious,
"The weather is hot and suitable for swimming, but ordinary swimming pools are really boring and crowded," Dustin said cleverly, "Mike and I want to use the children's pool at home to create a sensory deprivation tank in the yard and experience being in it." What it's like to float."

"Uh... this..." Clark's thin face showed a look of embarrassment.

"Help us, teacher, didn't you say that curiosity is the ladder of progress."

"OK, the size of the children's pool is just right enough to fully stretch the body, and then you need to prepare 1500 pounds (680kg) of salt, mix it in the water...the water temperature is similar to the body temperature...then eye masks, earplugs, and a thermometer are essential, and you have to create After entering an environment similar to the amniotic fluid of the mother, there will be a feeling of returning to the mother's stomach."

"Okay... I remember," Dustin waved goodbye, "See you at the beginning of school, Mr. Clark."

……

"Great job Dustin, you helped me a lot!" Dean put his arms around the boy's shoulders and walked to the car,

"Compared to what you did for us, this little favor is insignificant." Dustin rubbed the back of his head and said with a smile,
"Well, but there's a big problem, and everything else is easy to solve, where did you get all the fifteen hundred pounds of salt?" Dean asked. "Does the little supermarket where Joyce works have all this stock?"

Dustin stroked his slightly curly hair, "The small supermarket only has a maximum of one or two hundred pounds. Even if you search all the stores in the town, you can't buy that much. But I remember that there are two tons in the basketball hall of Hawkins Middle School. To deal with the de-icing salt in winter, but now the door is closed for summer vacation... It is impossible for the teacher to allow us to waste so much salt."

Dean nodded secretly.

"Then I'll think of another way."

"By the way, Dean, I swear to keep it secret for you, but can you let me see Joshua again." Dustin looked up at him, his eyes full of longing,

"There is a chance."

……

After bidding farewell to Dustin, Dean bought a rubber children's swimming pool across town and took it home. When it was completely dark, he drove to Hawkins Middle School.

This place is bigger than he expected, with a playground, three teaching buildings, and a luxurious basketball stadium.

On the night of summer vacation, the school was dark and quiet, like an abandoned cemetery, not even a janitor could see it.

Dean walked around the school's walls and guardrails, checked the 50-meter range from the perspective of God, and turned off the monitoring equipment in the security booth with Nianli.

Then "Shadow" opened the door of the basketball stadium from the inside, and Dean sneaked into the utility room like a gust of wind, leaving a compensation of one thousand dollars, and then moved the bags of deicing salt into the car and transported them back to the ancestral house.

……

Hope was taking a shower in the bathroom when he got home.

Dean came to the yard with a huge reel on his back. The reel contained a rubber children's swimming pool, eye masks, earplugs, thermometers, rubber hoses connected to faucets, and other tools.

"Jane, come and help me roll out the pool..."

"Ok."

The light from the corridor outside the house illuminates the small courtyard in front of the door, and a circular swimming pool spreads out in the middle of the courtyard, which is just big enough for Jane to stretch her limbs.

Dean sent one end of the two rubber water pipes into the wooden house with his thoughts, connecting cold water and hot water respectively, and the other end flew into the swimming pool out of thin air.

Thought force turned the valve, and with a grunt, the liquid poured into the swimming pool, mixing hot and cold, rippling with a soft luster under the moonlight.

Jane, who was on the sidelines, widened her big black eyes, and opened her small mouth wide enough to swallow an egg.
"Dean, you, you also have 'ability'?"

"How else would I get you out of the lab?" Dean smiled at her, looked her in the eyes and said sincerely, "We all have superpowers and are looking for our parents, so we are the same kind of people, Or a companion."

After half a month of laying the groundwork, the fire is almost ready.

"We are companions."

These words echoed in the little girl's mind repeatedly as if they contained magic power, making her face stunned.

After losing memory.

In her impression, there are hundreds of people in the Hawkins Laboratory, researchers, and security guards, but only she has the ability to master it. Therefore, she is different from everyone, including her father. She is a lonely individual and will never have real friends.

She thought the whole world was like this.

But today—

"Dean and I are companions."

The huge surprise made her nose sore inexplicably, and she looked at Dean with trust in her eyes for a moment. In the dark, it seemed that there was some kind of connection and fetter with him.

"Why are you crying?" Dean couldn't help but curl his mouth slightly as he watched the system soar to 80.00%.

"I, I'm so happy, but why are you more proficient in superpowers than me?"

Jane ran over and held Dean's hand, and at the same time tilted her head, a trace of blood slipped down her nose, the invisible thought force rolled up the thermometer on the ground and dropped it into the pool, and began to measure the water temperature,
"Because I have received professional training, which is more effective than your training in the laboratory. Your use of mind power is too rudimentary." Dean looked at the rear door of the car next to him.

The shadow of the past turned into a gust of wind and rushed in, and at the same time activated the power of mind to fly over the half-filled swimming pool with two white woven bags in the air.

Holes were ripped open in the woven bag, and white deicing salt fell into the bath.

Splashes of water float in crystal-clear colors under the light.

"Stir it up, Jane."

"it is good."

The little girl manipulated a crowbar on the ground to stir up the water in the pool, allowing the water and salt to merge.

The two cooperate with each other like this.

Jane stirs the pool solution, takes the temperature with a thermometer, and occasionally tries to lift salt bags from the car.

Her mind power is stronger than that of "Ying", and her speed is faster when holding a 50kg woven bag, but her power fluctuates from strength to strength, sometimes from strength to weakness, and sometimes the bag falls open halfway, and splashes of salt cover half of the yard.

Finally, wait until a pile of woven bags are all emptied.

Jane manipulated an egg into the swimming pool, suspended steadily on the water surface, the temperature on the thermometer reached the standard, and the faucet was turned off.

The sensory deprivation tank for kids is fresh out of the oven.

Jane was about to take off her skirt.

"Wait a minute, Jane, have you forgotten, privacy, don't change clothes in front of outsiders..." Dean stopped her immediately, "Go to the utility room."

"Ah."

Jane changed into a one-piece swimsuit like a black diving suit, re-observed the photos of Lena and Guangming, and then, with Dean's encouragement, put on an eye mask and earplugs, jumped into the pool, and lay flat on her back without any worries. He strenuously floated on his back in the sensory deprivation tank, motionless like a floating corpse.

zizi——

An invisible energy field swirls in the air.

The screen of the TV in the room turned into a large snowflake of signal, the wire of the hanging light in the corridor flashed a blue current, and the light began to change from bright to dark again, until it was completely extinguished.

Jane, floating on the water, was engulfed in darkness.

Time stood still.

I don't know how long it took.

"Black, black..." Jane murmured slightly, and the light was turned on again.

She swam to the pool, took off her blindfold and looked at Dean.

"I saw your mother."

Dean suppressed his excitement and carried her out of the water tank, wiped the blood between her nose and mouth, and her wet hair with a blanket, and at the same time called out "Shadow", "Where is she? Take your time, don't worry. "

"A hall with colorful lights..." Jane stared at the empty memory in front of her eyes, "there is a stage in the middle of the hall, on the stage a naked woman twists her body around a steel pipe, and Lena sits with another beautiful woman chatting at the corner table."

"Woman without clothes, are you kidding me?"

"Sorry, I wasn't accurate. I actually wore it a little." Jane pointed to her chest innocently, "The woman is wearing two black hoods."

pointing down again,
"Here is a rag."

"You mean a bikini?" Dean held his forehead, his face became a little ugly, "So, Lena is currently drinking in a strip club?"

"Shadow"'s black body became unstable like an abyss.

Bloodline progress jumped to 11.00%.

"Where is a strip club?" Jane was curious,

"It's a scarier place for kids than Hawkins Lab."

Jane shrank her neck, not daring to ask any more questions.

"What did Lena talk to the woman about?"

"Sorry, I can't hear clearly, there seems to be some power in that place that is preventing me from spying."

"Supernatural power?" Dean's expression changed. This should not be an ordinary strip club. "Then what does the woman sitting with Lena look like?"

Sitting by the pool, Jane tilted her head and thought about it, "About twenty years old, with white skin, reddish-brown hair, big red lips, and well-developed chest, I couldn't help but want to take a second look."

In his twenties, Dean thought about it. It should not be Carly No. 8 who escaped from the laboratory together. "Tell me more carefully."

"The facial features of that woman are similar to your mother's to me."

"It looks a bit like Lena?" Dean looked at his mother's facial features in the photo, and suddenly realized, "That means the woman she's chatting with is also Asian? Oh, no, it's more likely to be an Indian!"

Bloodline progress jumped to 13 percent.

"Can you draw her?"

"Sorry, I can't do it."

"What does the woman on the stage look like?"

"Very characteristic, yellow and light brown skin, black and smooth hair, prominent cheekbones..."

"It's a bit like Old Mo, or Indians too." Dean stretched out his hand and took out a map of the United States from his arms and placed it on the lawn, marking the approximate location of Hawkins, Indiana, where they were located.

"Where is this hall exactly?"

Jane took a pen and drew a long slanted line in the southwest direction of Hawkins Town. This slashed line passed through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and finally Texas. "It's probably on this straight line, but I can't see the street signs outside. There is something terrible in that place staring at me in the dark, which makes me panic."

"It's okay, you've done a great job," Dean handed Jane a candy, and the information he collected flashed through his mind—in the southwestern part of Indiana, there are Indians, Asians, or old Mexican dancers who are suspected to be supernatural Power strip clubs.

Bloodline jumped to 15.00%.

Dean couldn't figure out why Lena was in a place like this, but after finishing the "caged bird" incident, he had to follow this route to find someone.

……

"So you see the light?" Dean pointed at the man in the photo. "Is he with Lena?"

"Sorry, I didn't see your dad," Jane recalled her experience under Martin Brenner's tutelage. "Either he's far, far away, in another place we can't get to. Or he's dead for a long time. long time."

Huhu——

A gust of wind swept through, and the shadow flew around the courtyard like a cat, and the electric lights were driven to shake wildly.

"No, light shouldn't be dead?"

Dean vetoed Jane's guess in his mind, the system would not let him find someone who had been dead for a long time.

Now, since there is no light in the black area of ​​his mind, Dean immediately changed his mind - first find the No. 8 experimental body Carly who escaped with the two couples!

……

"That's it for today," Dean smiled gratefully at Jane, wiped her little face clean,

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help you find your father." Jane's face was full of guilt and tiredness. Tonight's perception and thoughts consumed her too much physical and mental energy.

"Don't say that, you've done a great job." Dean rubbed her little head, "To thank you for your help. I'm going to teach you how to use superpowers, would you like to?"

"Uh-huh!"

"Go into the house first, dry your hair, and change back into your clothes." Dean reached out and rolled up a woven bag and floated it towards the trash can. "I'll clean up the yard."

"Ok."

"Ahem..." The sheriff in a nightgown walked out of the door with his hands on his hips, and glanced at one big and one small with resentful eyes like a jealous old father. "What secret are you two hiding? Can't you explain it to me first?"

(End of this chapter)