Alien Relic Hunter

"Then...how can I wake up?" Hound looked at the gun in his hand, "Does it...do I have to shoot myself in the head again?"

"I'm afraid it's useless, otherwise we should have completely woken up before this." Ke Lan shook his head, "Also, subconsciously I always feel that part of the damage suffered in this layer of dreams will be reflected in us. On top of the actual body.”

"What do you mean? I didn't understand?" Hound looked puzzled, "What does it mean... to be reflected on the real body?"

"Do you remember the small surgery I performed on Martin before?"

"Remember." Hound nodded.

"When I gave him the sealing injection, he didn't know that the syringe contained lidocaine solution and glucocorticoids, but why did the medicine still anesthetize him?"

"That's right... you just asked me to smell the thing in your hand. I didn't know it was a biscuit, so I didn't smell anything. Logically speaking, the anesthetic should not be harmful to him without knowing it." It works...this is really weird."

"So I think we should be half asleep now... just like those crazy hunters who shot at the monsters they saw in their nightmares, and ended up shooting pedestrians passing by... And just now, I It's possible that Martin was actually given a occlusive injection."

"In other words, if I kill myself with a bullet now, will I really die?"

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded.

"Then can I try to slap myself twice to wake myself up?"

"It's unlikely, you can try." Ke Lan said, "Although we are half asleep and half awake, our self-awareness is very clear..."

Before Ke Lan finished speaking, the hound had already run up to Layton, who was on guard outside, and kicked him on the butt!

"Ouch! Why are you kicking me, old man?!"

"I'm just trying to see if I can kick you awake. Well, Ke Lan, you're right. It seems like it's really useless." Hound said, spreading his hands.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Aren't I very sober now?" Leighton shouted.

"Then try shooting twice at that stone pillar with this gun." Hound suddenly threw the pistol in his hand to Layton.

"What?" Layton took the pistol and asked somewhat unclearly.

"Just do as you are told," said the hound impatiently.

"Okay..." Layton picked up the gun, aimed at the stone pillar, and pulled the trigger——

"Boom! Boom!"

Seeing the flash of light from the muzzle of the gun, the hound on the side was stunned and said: "I just wanted to try it, I didn't expect it to be like this..."

Layton: "What to try?"

"What do you think this is?" The hound stretched out the hand behind his back, and there was a pistol magazine lying in the center of his palm.

"Magazine? What else could it be?"

"You're looking at this gun in your hand."

After the hound said this, Layton noticed that the gun in his hand had no magazine at all!

"What...what's going on? What the hell?" Layton pulled open the sleeve with some surprise and pulled out a bullet case that was still a little warm, "Why is this? First, what is this? When the gun was fired, it could also be explained by the remaining bullet in the barrel. Where did the bullet in the second shot come from? No... Old dog, this gun of yours was modified by me. There is no such thing at all. It’s better to plant a magic mechanism!”

"Because you thought the gun was full of bullets, so there were bullets in it." The hound took the pistol and pulled the trigger again, but this time it only made a crisp "click" sound, "This It was Ke Lan who discovered it... We haven't woken up at all now, we are still in a dream world."

"Here... is this world also a dream?" Layton was stunned for a moment, then slapped himself hard.

"Oh, it hurts—no, I can feel the pain. How could this be a dream?"

"That can only mean that we were 'stuffed' into this dream by some kind of coercive means." Ke Lan came over and said to the two of them, "Moreover, the instigator also connected our dreams together, so Just like a computer LAN.”

Ke Lan paused and continued: "But the human brain does not have a wireless network card. If we want to connect our minds together, we can only use a 'wired connection' in the physical sense..."

"You mean we have a network cable plugged into our heads?" Layton said in shock.

"Although this is a strange statement, it is true."

"Does that mean that if I pull out this network cable, I can break free from this dream world?... But I can't touch anything..." The hound raised his hand and touched his head, but he couldn't. Nothing was touched.

"The creator of this dream should have tried to block our perception of 'this network cable'... Otherwise, it would be too easy to unplug the network cable." Before Ke Lan could finish speaking, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang. stand up.

"Why is your cell phone ringing?" Hound asked, "There's no signal here... Oh, I almost forgot, this is in a dream, anything can happen."

"But I didn't think about the mobile phone." Ke Lan's face was a little solemn, "I even forgot that there was a mobile phone in my pocket."

He reached into his pocket and took out his phone. An unread email was displayed on the screen, and the sender was "ACMS_0420".

Ke Lan opened the email with a hint of doubt. However, what surprised him was that the email was actually written in Alpha script.

"It's Alpha text!" Although the hound can't understand the meaning of Alpha text, it is still very easy to identify it. After all, there is more than a little difference between this thing and the common characters used by humans.

"What...what's written on it?" Layton also came up and asked.

"Well, it's a method..." Ke Lan couldn't hide the look of surprise in his eyes. He said in a dubious tone, "This email describes a method that allows me to escape from the dream world. Methods."

"Is there such a good thing? Someone will give you a pillow when you fall asleep?" Hound was also stunned after hearing this, "Then... what should we do specifically?"

"I...I don't know how to describe it in words..." Ke Lan said with some difficulty, "But I can try it myself first..."

After saying that, he sat down cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes.

Empty your mind and get rid of distracting thoughts... This state is very close to "zazen" in Buddhism, but it is completely different from "zazen".

Ke Lan needs to search and use his consciousness to find a critical point between dreams and reality. Only by finding this critical point can he break through the shackles imposed on himself by the dream maker...