Chapter 932

"Not bad, a qualified popcorn movie." After leaving the cinema, Franca reminisced for a few seconds and sighed sincerely.

Beside her, the dispersing crowd poured into the mall that had already closed, walking toward a set of elevators that were still insisting on running under the dim lights.

Jianna was silent for a moment, then said with both yearning and dejection:

"With movies, will no one watch plays anymore..."

Franca understood why Jianna would say such words and said in a comforting tone:

"People still watch them. Plays and operas have characteristics and charms different from movies and TV series, and will still be appreciated by a large group of people, just no longer becoming the mainstream of society.

"Moreover..."

Franca deliberately made her tone become relaxed:

"Stage actors are actors, and TV and movie actors are also actors."

Jianna instantly entered a state of thinking:

"Yes, however, the scene of the performance has changed, and many performance techniques must also be changed, otherwise it will appear exaggerated..."

After the dispersing crowd became sparse, Lu Mian said thoughtfully:

"If the power of the 'Mother Tree of Desire' can penetrate the Eye of Dawn Hospital, will people in the acting industry be easily influenced?"

"Uh..." Franca hesitated for a moment and sighed, "It's possible. Some of them are immersed in luxury and desire."

Lu Mian nodded, holding Ludwig's hand, following the audience in front, and walked toward the set of elevators that were for cinema users to leave after the mall closed.

Along the way, Franca felt the environment was very dim, and the few lights still on could only illuminate the road and obstacles, so that people wouldn't trip or hit them.

"It has the atmosphere of a ghost story." Franca didn't forget that they went out tonight to probe the boundaries of the sentence "Beware of the night," and she knew from the information provided by the Major Arcana cards that the Sequence 4 of the "Diviner," that is, the "Fool" pathway, was called "Bizarro Sorcerer," so she deliberately used the 'Bizarro' of 'Bizarro Sorcerer' to describe the story instead of the 'ghost' of ghost monsters.

Hearing this sentence, Jianna, whose spirit was already highly concentrated, became increasingly vigilant.

Lu Mian acted like nothing was wrong, walked into the elevator with Ludwig, but after Franca and Jianna followed in, he still pressed the open button and turned his body to smile at the others in the same elevator:

"Sorry, I still have a companion who hasn't entered."

Those departing audience members instinctively looked outside the door and found that there was no one in the elevator room, and there were no footsteps coming from afar.

Their hearts suddenly hung in the air.

Lu Mian released the button and said to everyone with a smile:

"Alright, alright, he's in."

The eyes of everyone in the elevator froze instantly.

They didn't see anyone enter the elevator.

*Pa*, Franca patted Lu Mian on the shoulder and said amusedly:

"Is it fun to tease?"

After entering the dream city, influenced by internet information and the daily environment, she gradually found the tone and way of speaking of a "local."

After scolding with a laugh, she hurriedly apologized to the others in the elevator:

"Sorry, sorry, my friend's brain often twitches. Please forgive his poor mental state."

The departing audience members who were originally angry saw such a beautiful woman apologize sincerely and couldn't bear to care, just casting their gazes toward Lu Mian.

He himself has to apologize too!

Lu Mian immediately bent his waist:

"Sorry, I took the joke too far."

These people in the elevator sized up Franca and Lu Mian, some regretting that such a flower found a mental kid, some feeling that the kid's face was really wasted, and really wanted to crowdfund to treat his brain.

At this time, the elevator door closed slowly, descending toward the bottom.

Suddenly, the lights inside the elevator flashed.

Everyone here had their hearts in their throats.

Franca and Jianna thought of the sentence "Beware of the night," while others recalled Lu Mian's prank just now.

Fortunately, the flickering of the lights didn't affect the elevator's operation. Some departing audience members left on the first floor, and some arrived at the underground parking lot together with Lu Mian and the others.

After returning to the rented gray sedan, Franca didn't sigh "everything is still normal, that was just an interlude within an interlude."

She firmly resisted any behavior of setting a flag.

She turned her head to look at Lu Mian and asked suspiciously:

"Why did you suddenly play a prank just now?"

Lu Mian laughed and said:

"At that moment, I suddenly thought, if Anthony's 'Psychological Invisibility' couldn't be controlled, would something similar happen? Then I tried it."

Hearing the name Anthony, Franca and Jianna turned their heads to look at the back row abruptly.

Seeing Anthony, they both breathed a sigh of relief quietly.

Fortunately, fortunately, he really got in the car.

I remembered he got in the car!

Lu Mian continued to say:

"Moreover, such a prank that isn't too excessive and an environment as relatively sealed as an elevator, superimposed on the factor of night, might be able to test out some things without being targeted."

"Did you test out anything?" Franca pursued.

"I'm not sure if the subsequent flickering of the elevator lights was a product of the experiment." Lu Mian answered thoughtfully.

"Does this count too?" Jianna felt it was just a simple mechanical failure, and it didn't bring any abnormalities afterward.

Lu Mian laughed:

"Don't you feel that after the elevator lights flickered, it had more of a ghost story feeling?

"The prank I did was also deliberately developing in the direction of a ghost story."

Franca, who drove the car out of the parking space, realized suddenly:

"This is based on the description of 'Bizarro Sorcerer' in the information, to see if it can trigger the instinct of the dream subconscious and bring about certain, controllable changes?"

"At night, this is more likely to happen. This belongs to the evil and bad side of the dream." Lu Mian had similar thoughts before going out.

They didn't dare to do more experiments and took the sedan back to the rented residential area. This was for fear of stimulating the True Creator and letting Him cast His gaze.

Nothing happened along the way.

Back inside the rented apartment, Lu Mian looked around and said:

"Initially, it seems that if we don't contact Mr. Fool and important figures in the dream, or investigate mystical problems, even if we go out at night, we won't encounter abnormalities.

"Of course, this is just the result of one night's experiment and can't become a conclusion yet. It needs to be repeated many times to verify."

Franca and Jianna breathed a sigh of relief, and their spirits weren't so tense anymore.

Ludwig, on the other hand, had a joyful expression:

"Then can we go out to eat barbecue?"

Franca glanced at this naive little boy and muttered in her heart:

The main reason I don't take you out for barbecue at night isn't "Beware of the night," it's poverty!

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Weekend, inside the rented apartment.

A blackboard condensed from frost was stuck on the wall. Its surface was pinned with sketches and photos, and around each sketch and photo were sticky notes of different colors written with words and descriptions.

These sketches and photos corresponded to different target personnel. The white sticky notes recorded the team's observation results. As a comparison, the information provided by the Major Arcana cards was also copied with corresponding content, recorded with light green sticky notes, and stuck close to the white sticky notes on the ice board.

Lu Mian, whose "Conspirator" ability was suppressed to Sequence 7, in order to reduce the burden on his brain, stood in front of this frost blackboard, rubbing his chin, looking back and forth, wanting to find details that might have problems and hadn't been discovered by the Major Arcana cards.

"No particularly valuable gains, except for that misfortune." Franca, who had looked at it seven or eight times, shook her head.

Anthony nodded in agreement.

Jianna looked at her phone and said:

"We should go to the Dream Tutoring Center."

Ludwig, who was watching cartoons and constantly "ordering food" according to the content of the cartoons, had his face collapse instantly.

"Mm." Lu Mian withdrew his gaze and stuffed the frost blackboard into Jianna's "Traveler's Bag."

After the car parked diagonally opposite the Dream Tutoring Center, Lu Mian took Ludwig and pushed the door to get out.

He said to Franca, Jianna, and Anthony:

"From now on, you keep your distance from me and Ludwig. Don't call, don't send WeChat, and Ludwig and I won't go back tonight either. Wait until tomorrow morning, after confirming there are no problems, then meet up with you."

Franca and the others nodded solemnly, having no objections.

This was because Lu Mian would likely encounter Zhou Mingrui, the dream incarnation of Mr. Fool, at the Dream Tutoring Center next, and have a word or two of communication, and this might be a behavior that would be discovered by the True Creator and kicked out of the dream, so the team must be separated, so that one person being kicked wouldn't implicate the whole team.

Each person can only be kicked out of the dream three times; it absolutely cannot be wasted!

After closing the car door, Lu Mian held Ludwig's hand, crossed the road from the pedestrian crossing, and entered the Dream Tutoring Center.

"Li Lu is here." The dark-skinned receptionist recognized Ludwig.

He wasn't deeply impressed by this little boy, but was deeply impressed by his mother.

Ludwig had a dark face and didn't respond.

The dark-skinned receptionist turned to look at Lu Mian:

"Need to sign in, who are you?"

"I am Li Lu's father." Lu Mian answered with a calm face.

The dark-skinned receptionist was stunned:

It's fine that Li Lu's mother looks young, how come his father's age doesn't look big either?

Early love, early marriage, early childbearing, right?

After signing in, Lu Mian was led by the receptionist to the entrance of the English Enlightenment class.

The foreign teacher Anderson was already standing in front of the classroom, covering his left fist with a handkerchief, and smiled at the room full of children:

"Guess what I can turn out?"

"Flower!" "Ping pong ball!" "Panda!" The children cooperated very happily.

Anderson uncovered the handkerchief, and there was nothing.

"What I turned out is air!" He announced loudly.

The children made mocking sounds, while Anderson was still smiling.

He saw Lu Mian and Ludwig at the door, walked over, and said to Lu Mian:

"Are you also here to take the English Enlightenment class?

"Although the age is a bit old and the brain is set, it doesn't matter. Being willing to learn is always a good thing. Of course, good things don't necessarily have good results."

"I am Li Lu's father." Lu Mian pointed to Ludwig, not provoked at all.

He took the opportunity to say:

"Teacher Anderson, can I add your WeChat? If Li Lu doesn't perform well, you can find me at any time."

Anderson looked at Lu Mian for a few seconds and laughed:

"Okay."

By scanning the code, Lu Mian added Anderson Hood's WeChat.

This foreign teacher's WeChat name was "A Name That Leaves You With a Deep Impression."

(End of chapter)