Watchmen - Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Watchmen Chapter 15

Jiu Jie ascended the mountain stairs . He walked for quite a while before he finally reached it's peak .

Towering in front of him was a tall imposing building, and the surroundings were blending together .

It was a shrine, a castle as well as a residence . It had a waterfall and a flowerbed with painted screens and an ornate arched roof .

Jiu Jie couldn't say for sure whether it was one or a hundred houses . They were all intersected and shone irregularly .

He could see numerous courtyards, orchards, and trees . In the middle of the bizarre flower beds, and on the neighbouring trees; spring flowers, autumn leaves, and summer fruits were all growing eagerly .

Gorgeous birds were singing in the trees, and they had feathers ranging in colors from red to blue that were beautiful and lively, just like soaring flowers . The singing was also indescribably bizarre .

Jiu Jie was stunned by this display that he has never seen before .

In front of the magnificent building, an arched door was built with golden wood . On the surface, a strange beast was carved .

"Is this the door to my dreams?" Jiu Jie thought .

He walked closer, hitting the gong hanging on the door .

The gong rang noiselessly, but Jiu Jie had a feeling . He was sure that the people here already know of his arrival . 　　

He waited for a short time before the large doors opened . Gorgeous, colourful beings greeted his sight .

There was a strange bird there, it had the head of a lion, teeth like a snake's tail, and it was big enough to cover the entire sky . It was an incomparably large bird, a being that only existed in fairy tales .

"Why have you beat the gong?" The time bird asked .

This place is really beautiful . " Jiu Jie couldn't help but praise . He looked up at the large arched door and asked, "Is this the door of dreams?"

"Of course, this is indeed the door of dreams . " The time bird said impatiently .

"Then, I would like to pass . I want to know what's behind that door . "

"Behind the door is the castle of dreams . Of course you can go, but before that, you need to show me your key . "

"Key? What key?" Jiu Jie asked, confused .

"What? You actually came here without the key!?"The time bird roared .

"I don't know about any key, can you please explain it to me?" Jiu Jie slowed down his words, trying to appease it's moodiness .

"No key means you're trespassing, so your only choice is to die!"

The time bird screeched and spread its large wings; while it was taking off, it generated a large gale of wind .

Without waiting for Jiu Jie to understand, it opened his large lion's mouth and rushed downward, looking to devour Jiu Jie in one bite .

"Ah!"

Jiu Jie shouted and suddenly collapsed in terror, his head full of sweat . He realized that he was currently sitting upright in Gu Shi Chen's office .

He took the room in dazedly, trying to re-familiarize himself with it; it's set, and it's single seat sofa . The room was dimly lit and the outside had unknowingly started raining .

Jiu Jie took deep breaths . Having just woken up from a dream like that, he let his mind go empty, compartmentalizing the dream away .

"You're awake?" Gu Shi Chen was sitting beside him, and she asked that while looking at her watch . "You slept for quite a while . "

"What time is it?" Jiu Jie asked .

"It's already two-fifty pm . You slept for over an hour . "

Jiu Jie shook his head to wake himself up faster .

"I had a very long dream just now . " He said .

"I know, I know everything . " Gu Shi Chen said faintly .

Jiu Jie was silent for quite a while before he suddenly gave a thumbs up, while saying, "Respect! You're really amazing!"

"Oh? What are you doing?" Gu Shi Chen asked .

"Just now, you managed to hypnotise me, right?"

Gu Shi Chen smiled confidently and nodded . She said lightly, "I said it before . In here, even if you don't cooperate, I can hundred percent hypnotise you . "

Jiu Jie reclined on the sofa, wiping the sweat from his forehead as he said, "I can see through your method, but I can't guard against it . Amazing . "

"You can see through my technique? Let's hear it . "

"There's nothing to say . You still used excessive information as a means of attack, just like the hypnosis on the male student, but with different details . Also, this stage is specially designed by you to help with your hypnosis . Just counting these, I have lost the round . I'm convinced, and concede to you . "

"No," Gu Shi Chen said . "It's too early to decide . You're also quite good, your harder to deal with than I thought . Your consciousness is very deep and complicated, i've underestimated you . "

When she finished speaking, she walked to the front of the table and picked up the phone . She dialed a number, then spoke into it, "Hi, Aunt Liu… Yes, it's me . Help me cancel the three o'clock appointment . Yes . I still have some business to deal with here . Help me apologise to the patient and inform him that he can pick the time for the next appointment . Yes . Okay, that will be all . "

Gu Shi Chen put down the phone and returned back to Jiu Jie's side, while asking, "Jiu Jie, who exactly are you?"

After a short rest, Jiu Jie had become energized again . He rubbed his neck and said, "I said it before . I'm just an unemployed person . "

"Normal unemployed people don't have your strength of spirit . Who exactly are you?" Gu Shi Chen continued to ask .

"Didn't you already hypnotise me just now? Don't tell me that you didn't even get any information?" Jiu Jie questioned .

"That's the area that makes me suspicious . " Gu Shi Chen said . "Even though I managed to hypnotise you, but I didn't get any useful information . Additionally, your protections were very strong . I've never seen such a long journey to access the door of dreams . Also, you had a specialist add some protections as well . You are definitely not an ordinary person . "

Jiu Jie kneaded his temple and asked, "What door of dreams?"

It is a door to get into the subconscious . " Gu Shi Chen said . "Everyone's subconscious holds a lot of information, including their own desires and people that have come and gone throughout their lives . If the door of dreams can be opened, the whole unconscious is available, which in turn, enables you to completely understand that person . "

"So, you call it a door of dreams . Not a bad name, better than the name we came up with . "

"The name 'we' came up with? You also have your own definition of the door to the unconsciousness?" Gu Shi Chen asked .

"That's not important . More importantly, this situation . Is it going to just end like that? You hypnotize me, but get no prize?" Jiu Jie asked .

"Of course not . " Gu Shi Chen said . "Your conscious is very deep, and you have very strong protections in your unconsciousness . Just now, I was too confident, but that doesn't mean that I don't have other methods . "

"Oh? Other methods? Don't tell me you'd like to hypnotise me again?" Jiu Jie laughingly asked with a hidden meaning .

"Of course . This time deeper though . That way, I can open your door of dreams . This time, I won't mess up . " Gu Shi Chen said expressionlessly .

"Being too confident may not necessarily be a good thing . "

"Your way of thinking is because you haven't seen my other techniques . "

"That's fine . " Jiu Jie made himself comfortable on the sofa . "Actually, i've always wanted to see what my unconsciousness actually looks like . "

"You'll see it . " Gu Shi Chen passed him a glass of water . "Have you drank yet?"

Jiu Jie received the glass, and raised it to eye-level and observed it . "Just now, the glass you gave me, was it drugged?"

Momentary surprise flashed across Gu Shi Chen's face before it disappeared . "That's right, your spirit was too strong . If I didn't borrow the strength of drugs, then just relying on the innumerable amount of information to hypnotise you would be very difficult . "

"Then, this glass is also drugged, right?" Jiu Jie asked .

Gu Shi Chen casually admitted to it . "Yes, and it's a double dose too . "

"I said it before," Jiu Jie said, relieved, "If I got hypnotised without being drugged, Uncle Luo would definitely have scolded me as a useless thing . "

Finished speaking, he looked up and swallowed all the water down in one gulp .

Gu Shi Chen couldn't help but laugh at the scene . "You still drank it even though you knew it was drugged?"

Jiu Jie leaned back onto the sofa, and closed his eyes . "Actually, you don't need to do this . I didn't come here to compete with you, but rather to help you . "

Gu Shi Chen laughed lightly when she heard him . "Situations may not turn out like how you thought it would . "

Jiu Jie laughed bitterly and shook his head, declining to comment .

It was darkness once again .

The first thing Jiu Jie heard was an unceasing sound of the waves . He opened an eye and realized that he was standing on an island . The island was very sinister and black, not much bigger than a rock .

A blind old man was standing in front of him, his eyes facing the ocean .

Seawater splattered, the sea breeze wailed, and seagulls were lamenting in the sky .

The old man opened one wrinkled hand, holding out a small black spoon . His movements were slow, just like a machine toy .

"Take it, it will help you pass through the door of dreams . "

Jiu Jie took the black spoon . At this time, a seagull flew above their heads, crying out three times before flying away . When Jiu Jie turned back, the old man was gone .

Jiu Jie held onto the spoon very tightly . Such a playful island . He wanted to find something that would help him escape the island, but it was very barren . The sky was empty and he couldn't find anything .

At this time, Jiu Jie felt like something was spying on him . He glanced all around, but there wasn't anyone . There was only the seagull in the sky, and a slim silhouette in the distance on the edge of a cliff . Even though he couldn't see it clearly, he could confirm that the person standing there was a beautiful girl .

Jiu Jie felt his mouth curling up, a sly smile flashing on his face before disappearing .

The sound of the waves continued incessantly .

Before long, the sky had darkened to a complete black . The world once again entered an endless darkness .

Following closely behind, the sound of the waves also steadily disappeared .

Immediately, Jiu Jie couldn't feel the island he was standing on, nor the torrential waves . Actually, he couldn't feel anything .

Couldn't see, couldn't hear, and couldn't feel . All five senses were muted, everything was silent .

After that, from the darkness, a fluorescent light slowly shone through . A bit, then a bit more, the light brightened, and strengthened . The innumerable fireflies once again appeared .

Jiu Jie tightly clutched the black spoon in his hand, and stepped forward resolutely . At the same time, the black spoon emitted a bright light, even brighter than the fireflies .