Falsifying history is good business

Faced with Lin You's calm and firm attitude, Rose Walker seemed uneasy; it was obvious that she was also uneasy about her actions, but the tone of her defense seemed somewhat helpless.

"I also know that it is wrong to break into other people's dreams. It's a bit... a bit like peeping into other people's privacy; but I swear, that was not intentional. It was definitely not my intention. In fact, I don't know how I did it at all, and I don't even know how to stop myself from doing it."

From Rose's own perspective, she really doesn't like this uncontrollable ability; she has encountered several embarrassing situations because of this inexplicable intrusion into other people's dreams. The most exciting one was when Rose broke into her good friend Leta Hall's dream, and saw that Leta was missing her deceased husband in the dream, and the couple in the dream were "playing" happily.

The scene was very awkward for both parties. Rose didn't know how to explain it - maybe it would be better not to explain it, because Leta was confused and probably just thought she had dreamed about Rose.

"That's exactly why I came to see you." Lin You said, "I just want to know why you appear in my sister's dream once a day?"

Rose shook her head blankly, "I told you, sir; I can't control my powers, so I don't know."

"I know you can't control whose dreams you enter, so it's not surprising if you only appear in Minerva's dream once or twice; but this kind of out-of-control behavior should make your movements in the dream chaotic. Maybe you appear in Minerva's dream today, in Jupiter's dream tomorrow, and in Dumbledore or someone else the day after tomorrow; as far as I know, you can't even accurately locate your brother Jed's dream. But why, when facing my sister, your movements become regular?"

"I do not know."

"No, you definitely know. Something special must have happened during this process, but you just overlooked it." Lin You reminded, "Think carefully, when you first entered Minerva's dream, or before or after, did anything unusual happen? It could have happened in a dream, or it could have happened when you were awake."

Rose tried very hard to think, but found it was in vain; even the details of her first meeting with Minerva in her dream were a little vague. After all, who could remember what they dreamed about ten or twenty days ago?
Looking at the girl who was thinking hard, Lin You also had a headache. According to the abilities of the Ophiuchus Saints and wizards, there were actually many ways to spy on memories. Even if the memories were ignored by the owner of the brain and hidden deep in the consciousness, they could still find a way to dig them out.

The prerequisite is that it must be in front of the other person himself, not the consciousness in a dream like now.

"Where are you now? I'm asking in reality, not in a dream."

"I'm in the United States and I'm looking for my brother." Rose seemed to have answered, but in fact she didn't say anything.

Seeing the girl's nervousness, Lin You did not push her too much, but instead made a fair suggestion: "Let's make a deal. I will help you find your brother, and you will help me investigate my sister's dreams. You should understand now that someone is probably secretly using your ability to get close to my sister through dreams."

"Of course, I agree." Rose agreed without hesitation. To her, nothing was more important than her brother.

Lin You reached out and "grabbed" the information from Murphys, and handed it to Rose, while sighing: "If I were to make a fair assessment, there is widespread dereliction of duty in child welfare institutions; your brother's foster family... is not conducive to the healthy growth of a child."

Rose became more impatient after hearing this. After opening the file, she skipped over long sections of historical records and went straight to the column of Jed's current foster family address and householder information.

Having also grown up in a foster family, Rose knows too well the consequences of the current "foster care system" being exploited by those with ulterior motives for profit.

It’s not that there are no good people in the foster family, but Rose didn’t dare to hope that her brother would be lucky enough to meet a good person - especially after Lin You’s almost explicit words.

The current "foster care system" has fundamentally turned adopting children into a business; there are countless lazy bastards who adopt children for the sake of foster care subsidies. Since it is a business, how can those who rely on subsidies to make a living let themselves lose money?

"I'm going to see him right away." Rose took a deep breath, but after a while she looked around herself in surprise, "Why am I still here? I should be awake?"

"This is the temple of the King of Dreams. You can try again after you go out." Morpheus, who had been listening silently since Rose came in, spoke for the second time, "Don't get too excited, and don't use too much force."

"What?" Rose was confused, but she didn't have the patience to wait for an explanation, so she turned around and was about to leave.

Morpheus suddenly said in a loud voice: "I will send a messenger to stay with you. He will convey my words, and you can also contact me through him - if you want."

A crow flew from nowhere; it first flew around Morpheus, and then as the King of Dreams pointed his hand, it landed on Rose's shoulder.

"Ah, aren't you too thin? You can't even take care of yourself, and you still want to find your brother? How are you going to feed two people? Are you going to go to the relief station to beg for food every day? Let me tell you..."

The crows were chirping and croaking, and although they were speaking human language, it had the natural shrill voice of a crow.

"Your messenger... why does he look like a chatterbox?" Lin You laughed for a moment and took the opportunity to tease the sleep demon. "I originally thought that if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked. It turns out that there can also be an extreme complementary method of 'make up for what is lacking'."

Morpheus kept a straight face and said nothing, as if he was proving with practical actions that Lin You's teasing was not a joke, but the truth.

On the other side, Rose was stunned by the talking crow until Morpheus spoke again and woke her up.

"You can call it Matthew; you will see it when you wake up, and it will always be with you."

"You want to monitor me?" Rose was very alert, just like she had been when facing Lin You's questions before.

"You can think of it as surveillance, but it's really just a messenger; it will notify me the moment you find Jed, regardless of whether you find the boy in a dream or in reality." Morpheus had a frank temperament and was willing to tell anyone anything. He spoke his plan calmly and matter-of-factly.

"What do you want to do to my brother?" Rose asked harshly. She was also annoyed by the noisy crow and kept reaching out to drive it away from her shoulder, but Matthew kept resisting with his claws and wings.

Morpheus replied, "I don't want to do anything to your brother, but I suspect there is a nightmare that has been with your brother; that nightmare is my target." "What is that?" Rose's worldview was hit too hard in one day. One "surprise" after another came one after another, making her a little overwhelmed. What made her even more upset was why accidents always happened to her relatives?
"In the mouths of you humans, dream demons are also called nightmares. You can understand them as my former subordinates, tools to help me manage human dreams - you can think of them however you want. The problem is that several of my subordinates escaped from my kingdom some time ago. And I suspect that one of the defected dream demons is with your brother right now, hiding in the boy's dream."

"how do you know?"

"It's simple, because I can't sense Jed's dreams. To do this, you need to have a sufficient understanding of the dream kingdom, and you must also master a certain amount of dream power; this power is very rare."

Rose sighed deeply, said nothing more, and chose to turn around and leave; she even ignored Matthew the crow that was flying around and chattering in front of and behind her. At this time, she felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and had a vague bad guess.

It seemed that ever since her great-grandmother Unity Kincaid became unexpectedly pregnant in her sleep, her entire family had been caught in a vortex from which it was difficult to escape; and the center of the vortex was dreams.

After watching the girl leave, Morpheus turned to look at Lin You: "It seems that I don't have to go to the waking world to look for Jade. What about you? Are you still going to the United States to find Rose Walker?"

"Of course." Lin You answered decisively, "Communication in dreams is full of subjective emotions and self-consciousness, and is not very accurate. If I want to find out what's wrong with Rose Walker, I must meet her in person. You must also be curious about who secretly arranged to connect the dream vortex with my sister?"

"Of course, I do want to know who the other person is."

Lin You encouraged, "So, why don't you come with me? If we act together, we can quickly resolve the issue: send Rose Walker to her brother so that they can be reunited. At the same time, you can capture the renegade nightmare, and I can immediately start the follow-up investigation. It's a win-win situation for all three parties, and everyone gets what they want."

Morpheus just responded indifferently: "Your suggestion is indeed very good."

"Should I say but next?" Lin You spread his hands helplessly.

"But, as I said, there are not just one nightmare demon that escaped, but several. In addition to the one that might be hiding in Jed's dream, there are two other nightmare demons that I need to find."

"Well, you do your thing and I'll do mine. We'll see each other then." When Lin You was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something. "You asked me to look for Jed Walker, and I did. I asked you to help me find the descending angel, did you find it?"

"No." Morpheus shook his head first, and then slowly explained under Lin You's reproachful gaze, "It's not that I didn't look for it, but I couldn't find it. No dreams of descending angels were found in the dreamland; there are only two possibilities, either they intentionally control sleep and dreams, or someone helps them cut off their connection with the dreamland - just like what happened to Jed Walker."

"This news... is really a 'surprise'." Lin You complained helplessly, turned around and left the temple, and immediately returned his consciousness to his body.

The moment he "woke up", Lin You frowned slightly, and his sight passed through the barrier of the wall and fell on the distant corner outside the manor, but found nothing; the breath that alarmed his consciousness was very obscure, and it disappeared in a flash.

"Who is spying on Forrest Manor?" With a heavy heart, Lin You came to his sister's study. This room, carefully decorated by the old housekeeper, has the most exquisite office and study furniture in the UK, and also has thousands of natural science books; the content of the books ranges from simple to complex, from preschool children's introductory readings to secondary school and university supplementary readings.

It can be said that ever since Minerva started her liberal arts education, the old housekeeper has worked hard to provide her with the best learning environment; the result was a naughty child who secretly burned her homework books.

What made Lin You even more upset was that even though he knew that Minerva had burned the homework books, the old housekeeper was still biased towards the little girl; to the point that Lin You often had to find ways to get the old man away so that he could have some space to educate his sister.

But surprisingly, Minerva was actually writing her summer homework at the desk at this moment; Lin You looked at the old housekeeper with a look of satisfaction, and then asked Diana, who had been playing the good cop with him since early morning, and got a positive response.

This girl really didn't do anything wrong? Lin You instinctively sensed something was wrong based on his nearly ten years of "experience" as a brother.

What is there to say?

The child is so quiet that he must be acting like a monster.

When a naughty child suddenly becomes well-behaved, she is either preparing to use a big trick on her parents, or she senses the "danger" and feels guilty.

What kind of situation would this girl be in?
Lin You quietly approached and looked at the desk, and saw the neat and tidy answers on the homework book. Unlike Lin You's surprise when he saw this scene, the old housekeeper's face was full of surprise and satisfaction, and he praised the little girl generously.

"Master, you see, I told you that Minerva is the smartest and best child in the world. These lessons are not difficult for her. You don't have to be too strict with her."

Is this still harsh? Lin You curled his lips secretly, and when he lowered his head, he happened to meet Minerva's flattering smile.

The psychology skills of the Ophiuchus Saint immediately made an accurate assessment: It was confirmed that the little girl's well-behaved behavior was due to her guilty conscience.

"Yes, the homework is very neat, I have to praise it." Lin You calmly agreed with the old housekeeper, and then inadvertently tested, "How about taking a rest first?"

Minerva's eyes lit up, but she began to hesitate again. The old housekeeper spoke for her: "Yes, you have been writing for almost an hour. You should take a break, Miss Minerva. Being too diligent is not good for your health..."

Lin You had already gotten used to the old housekeeper's almost unlimited doting. He patted the little girl's head and said casually, "Yeah, take a break! I'll tell you about Rose. I just met your new friend."

Minerva's face changed, and she quickly lowered her head in panic; from an angle that no one could see, her eyes began to roll around. (End of this chapter)