Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 184. 184. Reunited Mother and Daughter

At six o'clock in the morning, a gray belly appeared in the sky, and most people in Hawkins Town were still sleeping sweetly.

A lively and loud shout broke the silence of the second-story building.

"Dean, the sun is drying your ass, get up quickly, I should leave today!"

Jane opened the curtains of the bedroom, and a faint white light shone on the man on the bed.

"Get up, stop screaming!"

Dean muttered and pulled the quilt away, a carp jumped out of bed and stretched, then his eyelids twitched,
"Have you even changed your clothes?"

The little girl was wearing denim overalls that looked like a farm milker, and a dark denim jacket on her upper body. Her short hair reached her ears and was wavy and slightly curled in front of her forehead.

After more than a month of recuperation, her prisoner-like Yuan Cun finally returned to a normal state.

Her immature cheeks were a little rounder than before, and they were slightly reddened like chicken blood, and her bright black eyes shone with excitement.
"Look!" Jane tilted her neck, and a calendar flew into Dean's arms. Dean flipped it a few times at will, and the dates from mid-August to early September were filled with red circles on the calendar.

"Half a month has arrived, and you said that you would take me to find my mother!" Jian Wuliu looked at him with unblinking eyes, afraid that he would say "NO".

"Of course, I will never lie to you." Dean waved his hand and took a large black windbreaker from the coat rack next to the bed, "Go and call Hope first, let's have breakfast before we set off together! "

"Haha, it's time to go, let's go find my mother!" Jian Mei shouted happily, waved her hand,

Chop chop chop!
Three crisp sounds.

A series of silver lights flashed in the air.

The three sharp table knives floating behind her shot at the three dart boards on the wall of Dean's bedroom, hitting hearts.

"Yes, Jane, continue training."

"Ha ha!"

Jane supported her body with her thoughts, and floated unsteadily to another bedroom,
"Hope, get up and make breakfast! Let's set off together today!"

……

After washing, the three people ate a breakfast consisting of eggs, bacon bread, and milk cereal in the dining room, and then packed several hazelnut cakes, bear biscuits and other desserts.

Hope changed into a suit, Dean's black trench coat, and Jane's children's jeans.

The family combination of a middle-aged father, a young son, and a young daughter, under the auspices of Dean, took a few family portraits and single photos with the camera.

The Di Security Department put away the negatives, and washed them out whenever possible. It will be much easier to find Hope and Jane with the black area of ​​​​the mind in the future.

Afterwards, the three got into the Bronco together and left Maple Street.

It was the first time for Jane to leave the forest during the day, looking through the car window at the flowers, plants and trees outside under the sun, listening to the chirping of birds in the flowers, plants and shrubs on both sides of the road, her eyes were full of joy, and she kept chirping and asking,

"What is that square building?"

"Hawkins Library."

"And where is the music playing?"

"Cassette store."

"What about the colorful places?"

"Flower shop!" Dean parked the car outside the flower shop. "Hope, go buy a bouquet of carnations."

"Don't you have any legs?" The sheriff complained, "For the sake of Jane's good day today, I don't care about you."

The big man got out of the car, took out his wallet, and walked towards the flower shop.

"What is a carnation?" Jane asked curiously,

"A kind of flower."

"Why do you buy flowers?"

"As a daughter, it's the first time you meet your mother, shouldn't you give her some presents?" Dean observed Jane's face through the rearview mirror,
But the girl nodded thoughtfully.

After being imprisoned for nine years, she knew almost nothing about the world.

"What kind of person is my mother?" She asked longingly,

"Your mother's name is Teri Ives, a beautiful and kind woman. She has also been transformed by the Hawkins Laboratory just like you, but—" Dean changed his voice and decided to vaccinate Jane in advance. "She is not in good health now. Most of the time she sits in a chair in a daze and cannot communicate normally with others."

"Mom is not in good health?" Jane's breath was stagnant, her small hands clenched the corners of her clothes, and a trace of tension flashed across her face, "What's wrong with her?"

"She's sick ... and very sick, and you have to be prepared."

Dean's tone was serious.

Jane's face turned pale.

……

Nine in the morning.

The lazy morning light spilled through the gaps in the forest to an old small villa with a red vaulted roof in the open space.

A white car drove through the tree-lined path to the front of the villa.

The door opens.

Dean handed the fragrant carnations to Jane, led the two to the door, showed a waiting look, and then quickly scanned from the perspective of God to rule out surveillance and eavesdropping.

Knock lightly on the door.

There was a flash of eagerness in Jane's eyes, she tilted her head and was about to use her thoughts to unlock the door.

But Dean stopped.

"Forget what I said? Don't just show your superpowers in front of outsiders, or someone will come and catch you!"

Jane nodded dully.

Knock on the door.

Soon there was a sound of footsteps in the house.

Then a tired middle-aged woman's face poked out through the crack of the chained door, and she saw the young and handsome Dean's face in front of the door, who had left several thousand dollars before leaving. Dao's generosity was still fresh in her memory, and she immediately smiled.

"Dean, Sheriff Hope?"

"That's right, Ms. Betsy, it's us. I want to ask you a question. Have any other strange people come to you recently?"

"No."

"Then I have good news for you, can I go in and talk?"

"You are very welcome. You came at the right time. I just made breakfast." Becky opened the door and led a few people to the sofa in the living room to sit down, offering hot tea and snacks, "Who is this?"

Becky turned her curious eyes on the face of the immature girl holding a bouquet of flowers, inexplicably feeling that the little girl looked familiar.

"This is...Jane." Dean put the gift on the coffee table.

"Hello...Jane, Jane?" Becky's voice choked up, and she frowned. The name was too familiar.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing, I just think it's too coincidental, too coincidental."

"It's not a coincidence...that's the good news I want to say," Hope said, staring into Betsy's eyes. "Jane is the daughter of your sister Teri Ives, so I brought her to find my mother today."

"I want to see my mother." Jane opened her mouth in a timely manner, her eyes were tense and full of longing.

"That's impossible!" Becky shook her head in disbelief, "Teri's daughter has already had a miscarriage!"

"It wasn't a miscarriage, but was taken away by the Hawkins laboratory to study superpowers." Dean explained, "I rescued her, and I brought her to meet her relatives!"

"Jane, show her a few hands." Hope patted the little girl's head, and the latter glanced at the cup on the tea table that was filled with tea aroma and steam.

The teacup rose into the air and slowly floated in front of Betsy. The steam made her eyes blur for a moment.

Frozen in place as if struck by lightning,
"Oh, God!"

……

Facts are always more convincing than pale words.

Betsy accepted the trio's account almost immediately.

Dean gave another detailed introduction to Jane's background and the relationship between Teri and his parents.

Betsy gritted her teeth after hearing this,
"The scientific lunatics in Hawkins kidnapped Teri's child Jane, locked her up for nine years, and developed superpowers?"

"These bastards broke up my sister's family and slandered my sister!"

"Poor child, let my aunt take a good look at it. I haven't been loved by my mother since I was a child... I have suffered a lot of grievances, right?" Becky rubbed Jane's little head, but when she thought of the super power she just showed, she retracted like an electric shock. hand.

"I'm not wronged," Jane glanced at Dean and Hope, "They treated me very well."

"That's fine, come with me here, Teri is watching TV..."

……

In the living room, sunlight through the window illuminates the haggard woman on the rocking chair.

Teri was still in the pajamas and knitted shawl that Dean saw last time, and she said to herself to the cartoon on the TV: "Rainbow, 450, breath, sunflower, turn right three times, turn left four times, red…"

She spoke incomprehensible trivial words, turning a blind eye to the three people who visited,
"Mom?" Jane leaned towards her slowly and asked softly, "Mom, can you hear me?"

There was no response, and the woman stared at the TV, speaking difficult words to herself.

Dean and Hope at the door looked at each other and smiled wryly.

Jane walked to the rocking chair and knelt down, handed the flowers to the woman's arms, and looked at Teri's face full of suffering and torture that appeared with age spots.

Every inch of Jane's green face trembled.

It was obviously the first time they met, but the fetters of blood made her feel deeply sad.

This is the mother, the mother I have never seen.

How did she become like this?
With a sore nose, Jane grabbed the woman's skinny right wrist, and her movements were as gentle as if she was worried about breaking porcelain,

"Mom, it's me, Jane, here I come, don't you know me?"

Finally, the woman's eyes moved from the TV back to her eyes.

Those dry, turbid eyes blinked, and her dying face moved slightly. She stared at her daughter whom she hadn't seen for several years, and spoke more emphatically.
"breath, sunflower, red, rainbow, 450..."

"breath, sunflower, red, rainbow, 450..."

"Mom, what's wrong with him?" Jane turned her head to look at the three of them, with tears lingering in the corners of her eyes, confused, helpless and sad.

Betsy covered her mouth sadly.

"It's all the fault of the Hawkins laboratory." The sheriff said,

"In 1978, Terry broke into the laboratory and tried to rescue you, but failed." Dean sighed and explained, "The director of the laboratory, Dr. Martin Brenner, asked the laboratory security personnel to make her Such a miserable look."

Jane's body trembled visibly, "Did Dad kill Mom?"

Dean nodded.

Although this fact is cruel, Jane still has special feelings for Martin, who has been with her for several years, as a father.

But Jane has to face the reality sooner or later, it is better to know the truth now.

Additionally, Martin imprisoned Lena and Bright for several years and was Dean's enemy.

Dean wanted Jane to be on his side.

……

"Can Mommy return to normal?" Jane asked in a whisper,

"Maybe it won't get better?" Becky walked up to her, gently hugged her in her arms, and gently stroked her hair. "The doctors said it won't get better, but she won't have any pain."

"She's just stuck, stuck in a dream, an endless dream."

Betsy described it this way.

"Is it a sweet dream?" Jane looked at her mother's face and asked,
"I hope so." Betsy sighed.
The atmosphere in the room fell into a low and silent.

Only Teri kept repeating a few words.

"Wait, is Teri trying to tell us something?" Dean put his arms around his chest and circled the room a few times, "Breathe, sunflower, turn left three times, turn right four times, red, rainbow, 450... yes Doesn't it have any special meaning?"

"Tell us? You mean she knew we brought our daughter?" Betsy let go of Jane's shoulders and walked to her sister, observed her face, and shook her head, "I don't think it's possible, she would occasionally Repeating nonsense like that."

"No, there are special circumstances!"

Dean's expression changed. After he entered the room, he had been observing the structure of the entire house from the perspective of God. At this moment, the lights in the corridor of the room suddenly began to flicker unsteadily.
"Follow me, all three."

Jane wiped away her tears, Hope and Betsy looked at each other, followed Dean out of the room, just as they entered the hallway, they saw an electric light with a yellow lampshade on the wall flickering on and off,

"It's normal," Betsy shook her head and explained, "The circuit in the old house is seriously aging, and sometimes the lights and power cut off suddenly at night."

"It's 100% not a problem with the circuit." Dean followed a row of light bulbs that were lit sequentially and changed orderly in light and dark, and walked along the winding and narrow corridor. The lights seemed to guide them in this way.

As a result, after the three of them followed the changing lights around, they returned to the original point, the room where Teri was.

In the room, a large signal snowflake appeared on the TV that was working normally.

And Teri's old and dull face had a shocking nosebleed.

Becky was surprised and puzzled, "So, what's wrong with you?"

Jane bowed her head and wiped her mother's nosebleed intimately.

Dean's brain was running at high speed - he thought of a similar situation. Before Jane learned the red dragon meditation, she had a nosebleed every time she used superpowers.

Terry is her biological mother and may have the same problem.

So Teri is using superpowers now?
Dean said in a deep voice,
"I get it, Teri is flicking the lights on purpose to tell us...she knows we're here, she wants to 'talk'."

Becky said in surprise, "Teri is just an ordinary person, how can she control the lights? Before she became like this, I have never seen her use any super powers, and she has never taken the light from the air like Jane did before." thing."

Jane looked into her mother's eyes thoughtfully.

Hope rubbed his chin.

And Dean laughed,
"Betsy, the super power that Jane inherited from Teri is not only the telekinetic power of telekinesis—"

"I don't understand you," said Betsy,

Dean turned to the little girl,
"Jane, I think your mother also has the ability to black domain in the mind."

"She knows her current state and cannot communicate with us through speaking, writing, and body movements."

"So she is reminding us to use the black area of ​​our minds to communicate."

Jane's eyes lit up...

Hope had to give Dean a thumbs up in admiration.

"It's still young people with good brains."

……

Next, Betsy, who was a little confused, found a pair of blindfolds for Jane.

Jane put on the blindfold, sat cross-legged on the red carpet, and entered the black area of ​​her mind less than half a meter away from Teri.

……

The lights in the room began to change again, a quarter of an hour later.

A few drops of nosebleeds flowed down her nose. Jane took off her blindfold and took a deep breath. Her eyes were sad and shocked, as if she had received a huge shock.
"Breathe, sunflower, turn left three times, turn right four times, rainbow, 450... I see it all, I know what mom means!"

"Don't get excited, Jane, we're with you."

Dean and Hope hugged the little girl on the left and right, and Betsy looked at them with complexity and envy.

"I see images from the past," Jane said.
"Every word in my mother's mouth represents an experience in her past."

"Breathe... Mum was sent to the hospital with a big belly... and Betsy, you were there with her, you made her breathe, breathe..."

Becky recalled, then nodded.

"Sunflowers... Dad Martin Brenner took me out of my mother's womb when I was a baby, and only left a pot of sunflowers for my mother." Jane sobbed in the arms of the two, and stretched out her hand to hold Teri's hands. "They left Mom all alone."

"Turn left three times, turn right four times... In 78, my mother used this method to turn the safe to take out a pistol and explosives, shot a security guard, and broke into the Hawkins laboratory."

"Red..." Jane paused, looking at Dean, "Mom found Lena and Guangming who were locked up in a red room in the laboratory building, and she shot the door lock with a gun and let them out. "

Dean's eyes began to glow, which exceeded the information he asked from the mouth of the bald researcher ghost,
"and then?"

"Rainbow... Mom ran into a room with a rainbow painted on the outside with Lena and Guangming, and I was sitting in the room with another dark-skinned little girl."

"Lena and Guangming rushed into the rainbow room and picked up the dark-skinned little girl, while my mother picked me up, and they escaped in two ways."

"450..." Jane paused, with a trace of fear and anger flashing in her eyes, "Mom failed, the people in the laboratory took me away, and then locked my mother in an operating room, tied her to the operating table, and used The electric current shocked her temples, and I saw Dad, he was giving orders, Dad said 450, and a few bastards increased the electric current to torture Mom!"

"Dean, you're right," Jane's immature tone had a bit of gnashing of teeth, "it's dad who made mom look like this!"

"God!" Becky paled in horror, she couldn't imagine that her sister had been treated so horribly in the past, her eyes turned red, and she hugged Teri from behind.

……

"Next, did you see where Lena, the light and dark-skinned little girl went?" Dean asked. There is no doubt that this dark-skinned little girl is the one he has been looking for with the ability to create illusions. , Experiment No. 8 Carly!

"Sorry, Dean, it's gone. These pictures keep repeating, and I can't see them again."

The room was quiet for a while, only the sound of Jane's trembling gasps, she seemed to be still settled in the unwillingness and pain she felt from her mother's thoughts just now.

"A picture that keeps repeating? So, is Teri trapped in this repeating dream and can't get out?" Hope interjected,
"Well, I can still feel that my mother wants me to find this dark-skinned girl who escaped!" Jane looked around at several people, "But I need at least one photo of her!"

Dean rubbed his chin in distress. He had been searching in Hawkins Town for half a month and found nothing.
"Wait, a dark-skinned little girl? I remember it appeared in Terry's collection of information, please wait a moment." Betsy seemed to have remembered something, and excitedly walked to a drawer in a certain room and rummaged for a while. Son, I dug out a bunch of old newspapers wrapped in folders and handed them to Jane.

Dean leaned over her shoulder and saw the bold headline—Eleven Children Missing in Indiana.

It was filled with photos of all kinds of young children, boys and girls, up to ten years old.

"Are these all experimental subjects captured by the Hawkins laboratory?" Hope asked,

Betsy shook her head in doubt.

Jane quickly pulled out a newspaper with a black and white headshot in the upper right corner from the pile of newspapers. In the photo was a dark-skinned girl with braids.

Dean recalled in his mind that the appearance was very similar to the No. 8 described by the researcher ghost.

"Is that her?" Dean asked. "The other girl in the rainbow room, Number 8, Carly?"

"Well," Jane nodded, "I want to find this sister!"

Immediately, Dean felt his system shake,
The progress of Bloodline has been increased to 16%.

Jane held the photo tightly in her arms, put on the blindfold, and sat on the ground to enter the black area of ​​her mind to track the whereabouts of No. 8.

This time she withdrew in just 2 minutes, her face was tired and pale, but her eyes were shining with excitement like small light bulbs.

"I found her! She's in Indiana!"

"Jane, it's noon soon. Put Carly's affairs aside and have a meal together... I just bought beef from the supermarket yesterday, and I'm going to stew it." Becky looked at the girl, "I haven't seen you for so many years, you have to Stay with Teri well."

(End of this chapter)