Dream Guide

If everyone is a chess piece, then who is the player?

Huang Liang first thought of the organization's first leader, but then he thought it was wrong. If the first leader is a chess player, then the second leader is at least a participant in the layout, not a chess piece. The chess player must be in a higher position than the first leader, even beyond the organization.

God?

If there are chess players, there must be opponents. If God is a chess player, who is the opponent? This obviously doesn't make sense. Who can play chess with God?

Selina didn't tell him the answer until after lunch. From beginning to end, she never said a word related to the organization or mission, nor did she acknowledge her identity. After leaving the kitchen, she didn't even give any hints.

Huang Liang is sure that Selena is the second leader, but he is not sure about her position. Judging from the arrangement of today's meeting and what she said, she does not completely represent the organization, otherwise there would be no need to beat around the bush. She seems to want to win over Huang Liang to establish a new position outside the organization, but she also wants him to follow his heart and act freely, which seems contradictory.

The relationship between Selina, Dickinson and Mei Yiqiu is also very confusing. They are old acquaintances, and there is even a somewhat unclear triangle relationship. Now they are all involved in the same major event that affects the fate of mankind. . Do they know each other? A group of people? Or taking advantage of each other?

Judging from his behavior during the meal, Dickinson seemed not to know about Selina, but it was a bit strange that Selina used Dickinson to fish for Huang Liang. If they were not in the same group, how could she be sure that Dickinson was in the same boat? Will Jinsen bring Huang Liang home?

Huang Liang didn't receive a clear mission, but he had already made some guesses.

The scene in Old Wolfe's dream must be related to a very important secret, maybe a treasure, maybe something else. In short, it is more important than the current trillions of assets of the Wolfe family.

The organization failed to invade Old Wolf, and someone needed to break through from another direction. Huang Liang was not originally responsible for this task, but Selina chose him. After the first leader left, no one should question Selena's decision, so Huang Liang also became a pivotal role in the organization. According to Howard, the two of them are already on an equal footing.

Selena obviously had other intentions when she chose Huang Liang, otherwise she wouldn't have asked him to act according to his inner true and free thoughts. Huang Liang understands the so-called freedom as completely independent self-awareness. This is combined with the theory of the chess player's piece, which is to cut off the chess player's "hand".

He guessed that the chess player should be a being that controlled or influenced them consciously. The chess player controlled the chess, but the chess did not know it.

On more than one occasion in the past, he had sensed something affecting his thinking and conscious decisions. Now after Selena reminded him, he probably understood.

The biggest problem is that he doesn't know who the chess player is and where his "hand" is. He suspected that Selina didn't know either. No chess piece could know who the chess player was.

As Selena said, Huang Liang is a smart person. Although he didn't get a specific task, from Selina's hint, he already knew what he should do next.

It was dusk when we returned to Wolfe Manor.

Huang Liang got off the bus station and walked slowly on the street. There are many willow trees on the streets of Wenxi. When he saw the willow trees, he thought of Wuzhong and the willows that could be seen everywhere beside the long flowing river and at the head of the ancient bridge. The wicker droops like a spring girl's long hair. The wind is swaying, its posture is graceful; the oriole is chirping, its sound is exquisite. People walk here and forget to leave.

He saw Martha standing under a willow tree.

After all, the willow trees in Vancouver are not as good as those in Wuzhong. The branches are not so dense and they look bare, like old trees that have lived for hundreds of years.

This scene suddenly reminded him of a place that truly remained in his memory but had never really been to - Liuying Lane - the old willow tree.

He remembered a woman standing under the old tree like this. The man she loved lay in the room on the second floor of the bar, sleeping forever with the crow.

Crows were taxidermied. Women's years continue to pass away.

Huang Liang clearly remembered that Sheng Shenghua walked alone in the alley at dusk with her back bent, and when she came to the old willow tree, she stopped and stretched out her old and skinny hands to touch the same skinny willow tree.

He clearly remembered that there was always a pot of Star Beauty at the back door of the bar, with a key under the pot.

He clearly remembered that the woman helped the unconscious man to the bench in the corridor to bask in the sun every day, saying that people always need to bask in the sun, and maybe he would wake up one day!

All of this became a fantasy when the man came back later, but it remained clearly in Huang Liang's memory.

He knew it wasn't a dream. That is a real time and space. In addition to memories, there are some real things left in him, such as his mental power, which has grown tremendously after experiencing that life. And the most important thing is that in that life, in Liuying Alley, in that clean hut above the dilapidated bar, his spirit was infected by human emotions, and from then on he had emotions. He returned from a parasitic consciousness to a "human" state.

Sometimes he wonders if all this was designed by Aoki. Otherwise, how could that guy come back from the closed zero-dimensional space? With the abilities he showed later, how could he easily fall into the trap of his own design?

Every time he recalled Aoki's lazy and confident look in prison, he began to speculate less and became more and more convinced that his suspicions were correct.

Aoki, Mei Yiqiu, Dickinson, Selina... each of these people is more mysterious than the last. Their plot is so big that it may transcend human beings and time and space.

Martha saw Huang Liang and waved to him cheerfully.

He saw the smile on Martha's face, as bright as the clouds in the sky.

"Huang——" Martha shouted, "You are finally back! I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

"Are you waiting for me specifically?"

"Yeah, I think you will definitely come back by bus. I'll wait for you here."

"Don't you have to take care of Mr. Wolfe?"

"Ah, Mr. Wolf suddenly felt much better today. He can already sit up and eat."

"Is this... is it true?" Huang Liang was a little surprised.

"Of course it's true!" Martha smiled, "It's all thanks to you that Mr. Wolfe kissed you. Now everyone in the Wolfe Manor is talking about you and saying that you have excellent medical skills. Little Mr. Wolfe We have prepared a sumptuous dinner and are waiting for you to go back!"

Of course Huang Liang knew that he had done nothing. If Wolfe was really cured, it must have been because of Selina's method, but it was a bit too fast.

"That's great," he said quietly.

Martha pointed to the bicycle parked in the shade of the trees on the roadside and said, "Let's go!"

"Or riding a bike?"

"Yes, it's still a long way from here to the manor, and the manor is so big, it would take a long time to walk at night without riding a bicycle!"

"But there's only one car..."

"Just like in the morning, you take me." Martha smiled playfully at him.

"Ah, but this is not a park. Doesn't the traffic police care about people riding bicycles in the city?"

"It doesn't work here. Just cross the intersection in front. That's the territory of the Wolfe family. There are no police to meddle in their own business."

At Martha's urging, Huang Liang pushed the bicycle, crossed the intersection in front, and then drove Martha, just like running towards the beautiful rose garden in the morning light of Stanley Park, in the dusk in West Vancouver, he circled Following her, she drove towards Wolfe Manor.

The road is long and has no end in sight; morning and dusk, winter and summer, the cold and heat are hard to get rid of. But there are always some things that are beautiful in life, such as the rows of swaying willow trees by the roadside, the bright smile of the girl in front of you, and the faint charming fragrance under your nose...

Huang Liang had an illusion that what he was going to now was not the exquisite and magnificent French manor, but the quaint and messy old street in Wuzhong. There was an old tree in front of him, and a woman was standing under the tree...