Dream Guide

Zhao Pengcheng remembered why he felt a sense of familiarity with the old man.

This Professor Mei used to be a big celebrity in Wuzhong City, with a status and reputation no less than that of the mayor and the richest man. His heroic deeds of traveling abroad when he was young and later returning to China to serve his country were once legendary and became a hot topic on university campuses; and his bold remarks that often despised powerful people and treated them as dirtbags also impressed the young Zhao Pengcheng.

Mei Yiqiu was once the chief scientific advisor of the United Nations Space Management Committee and one of the leaders of the Third Space Foundation, a group of human scientists. He never flinched in the intense struggle between the original humans and the parasitized humans. Until humans and parasitic consciousness signed a peace agreement, he refused to sign at the United Nations General Assembly and hid underground since then, becoming the leader of the resistance organization.

Zhao Pengcheng then carefully looked at the old man on the screen - his hair was all white, like silver threads; his cheekbones were high, his cheeks were sunken, and he was so thin that only a wrinkled skin remained; The pipe-smoking hand was shaking slightly, as if he had mild Parkinson's disease.

Although he looks old, his spirit is still strong. His eyes are deep, his voice is loud, and his whole body is full of wisdom. The fireworks in the pipe flickered on and off, and the smoke he inhaled spurted out from his mouth. Under the naked-eye 3D effect, it seemed to float out of the screen, adding a bit of mystery.

Zhao Pengcheng finally knew why they locked him up. This is a struggle between two races, just as they have also been assassinating human scientists and are still hunting down resistance members to this day.

"Don't even think about knowing anything from me." Zhao Peng said to the screen. He remembered that he had said similar words to Aoki in his dream ten years ago. In the end, he said a lot of things that he shouldn't have said, but that was because he had a killer move to trap his opponent, and today, he knew that he could not escape. .

"Oh, don't worry, I'm not interested in your organization's secrets." Mei Yiqiu didn't look like an interrogator at all, more like he was chatting with an old friend, "Because I know you don't know more than me. . In the past ten years, you have been cut off from your organization in prison, and you know nothing about the outside world. You are just a poor, lonely, and unloved child."

"Then why are you imprisoning me? Do you just want to torture me to satisfy your pleasure?" Zhao Pengcheng sneered, "If you have studied us, you should know that I can get rid of the influence of human emotions, and I can also block human emotions. Nerve pain, my tolerance for pain is a thousand times greater than yours, no matter what punishment you use, it is nothing to me."

"I have no interest in torturing you." Mei Yiqiu burst into laughter. "I know you are not afraid of pain or suffering, but you are afraid of death. You have been in prison for so many years, and finally waited until your race won - -Oh, let me make it clear first, this is a temporary victory - you don’t want to die right away, do you?”

Zhao Pengcheng snorted and refused to answer the question.

Mei Yiqiu continued: "I don't know how big your racial group is, but there are not many people who have come to the earth now. I don't think it will exceed one million, but there are seven billion people on the earth. You We can only take advantage of the weaknesses of the pyramidal structure of human society to occupy the top of the tower. So every consciousness that comes to the earth is very precious. In addition, you live much longer than us to some extent, and it becomes even more regrettable to die. .You don’t want to die before you have any chance to transfer your consciousness to another human being, right?”

"What exactly do you want to say?" Zhao Pengcheng asked.

Mei Yiqiu took a deep breath of cigarette, then put down the pipe, looked at the screen and said, "I want to trade your life for Aoki."

"Aoki? Isn't he lying on the bed?"

"Thanks to you."

"I don't know where he is."

Mei Yiqiu said: "Are you very cold now?"

Zhao Pengcheng said disdainfully: "I'm not afraid of the cold."

Mei Yiqiu shook his head and said: "The place you are in now has 37.2 cubic meters. Don't think this is a cold storage. We don't need to use it to store tuna. This is a laboratory - the most advanced low-temperature laboratory in the world. .”

"The current temperature is minus 1℃. If I lower the temperature to minus 10℃ or lower, how long can you hold on? Of course, you are not afraid of the cold. Your race is very strong. Even if your body is frozen to death, your consciousness is still there. It can exist for a long time. Although I don’t know where you will go when you leave the body and can’t find a new parasite. The ancestral star? Or will you wander in the universe? But I think there must be a place you don’t want to Go."

"Where?" Zhao Pengcheng suddenly became curious.

"Centauri Bumorang Nebula." Mei Yiqiu said.

Zhao Pengcheng began to search for this vague astronomical term in his memory. When he found this memory from a corner of his brain, he got goosebumps all over his body for no reason, as if he was suddenly thrown from the beach in June. On the Siberian ice sheet.

The Boomerang Nebula, also known as the Boomerang Nebula, is 5,000 light-years away from the Earth. Its temperature reaches minus 272°C, which is only 1.15°C higher than absolute zero. It is the only celestial body currently known to have a temperature lower than the cosmic background radiation.

At such low temperatures, nothing is active, including consciousness.

"What do you mean?" Zhao Pengcheng forced himself to calm down.

"The lowest temperature that can be achieved in this laboratory is one billionth of a Kelvin, which is only five nanokelvins away from absolute zero. At that time, your consciousness..."

Mei Yiqiu suddenly stopped when he said this. Zhao Pengcheng saw a tremor on the screen, as if there was an earthquake. Because the naked-eye 3D technology was so realistic, he almost thought the laboratory was going to collapse.

The bald man standing behind Mei Yiqiu rushed up to help Mei Yiqiu out, and then there was the sound of gunshots. The sound of gunfire lasted for more than ten seconds, a strong flash appeared on the screen, and then the screen disappeared. The wall returned to its appearance of an ice wall, and there was no trace of a screen there.

Then, Zhao Pengcheng heard a dull explosion. The sound didn't come from the screen or the microphone, but from outside the laboratory. It should be the explosion that flashed on the screen just now. If the video was not delayed, judging from the time difference between the flash and the sound, the explosion was less than one kilometer away from him.

The temperature in the laboratory is maintained at minus 1°C. Zhao Pengcheng is lucky. If Mei Yiqiu really activates the ultra-low temperature and lowers the temperature to close to absolute zero, the space here will freeze and the atoms will become stationary. The body he is parasitic on will be quite Yu no longer exists. At that time, his consciousness will fall into endless darkness, and like Aoki in the zero-dimensional space, life will be worse than death.

Of course, if no one comes to save him within an hour, he will freeze to death here, which is not a misfortune.

About twenty minutes later, Zhao Pengcheng felt the temperature rise. Then, the door of the laboratory was opened, and the foreigner appeared at the door, just like when he was picked up from prison, holding his hand and saying: "Comrade Zhao Pengcheng, you have worked hard."

Zhao Pengcheng felt the warmth of the other party's hand, but felt a chill in his heart: "How did you find me?"

The comrade said: "We started laying out the plan when you went to Liuying Lane. Thank you for helping us find the undersea base of the resistance organization."

Zhao Pengcheng said dissatisfied: "You are using me?!"

Comrade said excitedly: "Everything is for the organization and the great victory!"