Dream Guide

Since Zhao Pengcheng was imprisoned, the organization has cut off contact with him. He doesn't know much about the understanding and changes in the outside world, but thanks to Aoki, on the one hand, he learned some things from Aoki's mouth, and on the other hand, he experienced another life in a dream or a parallel world, which made him know a lot. Things that others didn't know also fundamentally changed his consciousness and attitude towards life.

He began to think about the meaning of life and the nature of time. He feels that time is a spiral, and possibly even a chaotic existence.

The universe is vast and infinite, and time is endless. This is just an illusion of human beings. Because human life, even from the origin of human beings to the present, is so short that it can be ignored in the time dimension of the entire universe.

When humans observe that the universe is expanding, they think that the universe will continue to expand and then begin to collapse at a certain point in time. Human beings think that time transitions smoothly. One guess is that time moves forward peacefully until the moment the universe collapses, and then begins to return on its original path.

In fact, time may well be a thing that is sometimes here and sometimes there. The universe is expanding for a while, collapsing for a while, time stops at the starting point of the universe, and stops at the moment when the sun goes out. But the stories of life and death on earth are really not very eye-catching.

Zhao Pengcheng actually didn't know what he was before he became a human being. Perhaps because there is no aging cycle and life and death like life on earth, their race does not need to think about the meaning of existence. On the contrary, human beings, who are extremely dependent on matter, are working hard to interpret the universe and life.

But Zhao Pengcheng knew that humans were working in vain. Everything the great physicists and philosophers did was in vain because time is chaotic. No matter how much efforts humans make and how many achievements they achieve, one day they will all be wiped out due to a sudden jump in time. As long as we cannot get rid of our dependence on the material world, human beings cannot exist forever.

But they are different. Their consciousness can exist without matter, and time is a concept in the material world. Without the movement and change of matter, there would be no existence of time. Essentially, chaos in the material world leads to chaos in time. The consciousness that is separated from matter will not be affected by time. No matter what moment the time jumps to, they still exist. They just need to find a new parasite to establish a new connection with the material world.

As for why he wanted to establish contact with the material world, Zhao Pengcheng guessed that it was to obtain energy or to evolve. Memory is a good thing, and memory must be present in order for the race to progress. The essence of memorization is to store and transmit information through the orderly arrangement and identification of matter, and matter must be involved.

Human dreams are the subconscious organization of brain memories. Human beings whose consciousness and matter are interdependent can create dreams, but pure consciousness cannot dream.

Perhaps their race was once a being whose consciousness and matter were closely bound together like humans, but in order to get rid of the curse of time jump and escape from the chaotic material world, they had to abandon their memories and become pure consciousness.

Because he has no memory, Zhao Pengcheng doesn't know much about other things about the race. In the past, they only had one idea to continue the race. Of course, after hearing that the invasion was successful, racial memories would be slowly injected into them. This memory comes from the ancestors of the race, who preserve ancient information by condensing entities with powerful spiritual power.

Zhao Pengcheng didn't know whether the surviving ancestor really existed, or was it just a legend or a symbol to make up for the regret that their race had no memory?

He felt that the last option was more likely. But if there is really no memory, where did the original instructions and the thoughts of the tribe come from? It is impossible to do such an orderly invasion just by relying on survival instinct.

Zhao Pengcheng found more and more that things were not that simple, and there must be something hidden. Sometimes, he really wants to have a showdown with the organization, tell me the truth, or let me meet my ancestor.

But he knew he couldn't because he wasn't qualified. But now, even if he wanted to contact the organization, he couldn't.

The Dream Corridor was the most direct connection between him and the organization in the past, and it became the only connection after being imprisoned. After the other end of the corridor was sealed, he felt very lost for a while, although in their race, loss is an emotion that should not be felt.

However, the corridor has not been taken away, indicating that the organization has not completely abandoned him, and there is still hope for him to return. For a long time in the past, he had felt lonely and longed for the organization to send someone to find him. But it doesn't matter to him now, he has new ideas, new plans, and new partners.

However, just when he had given up hope, the corridor suddenly opened.

He went to work as usual that day. The delivery was originally due the next day, but the manufacturer suddenly called the prison and asked for delivery on the same day. Because the factory added money, the prison agreed.

The prison's workload was already close to full capacity, but suddenly it had to meet deadlines and had to work overtime. Zhao Pengcheng was originally only responsible for drawings and checking, but now he had to pick up a soldering iron and solder wire and solder them one by one. The inspectors and drivers from the factory had been waiting since the afternoon, and even had dinner with the prisoners.

The inmates worked overtime until midnight, but Zhao Pengcheng couldn't leave yet. He had to inspect the goods with the factory inspector and hand over the goods. It was already late at night when the goods were loaded onto the truck and sent away. It felt like it was almost dawn. Zhao Pengcheng couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep leaning on the warehouse.

I don't know whether the prison guard was negligent that day or whether he was too tired to wake him up. Anyway, he slept comfortably in the warehouse until dawn. The next day, his supervisor came over to take a look, but didn't say anything.

When he fell asleep, Zhao Pengcheng had a vague dream. He dreamed that he was sitting in the passenger seat of the truck, talking and laughing with the driver. Ahead is an open suburban road with green trees on both sides, and in the distance is the misty city.

This was not a dream of his own accord, but he soon realized that he was. He wakes up. The truck disappeared. He stood alone on the road, looking at the end of the road that stretched into the distance, thinking about a serious question.

Then, there was a scalpel in his hand, and there was still a trace of strange power fluctuations on the knife.

This was the mental power he had gathered back then. He originally used it to kill Aoki, but later he killed the prison guard. The fluctuations on this knife are the remaining spiritual power injected by Aoki. He has never been willing to dissolve it. On the one hand, it is to warn himself that there are still such powerful humans in this world; on the other hand, he learned the training and use of mental power from Aoki. This method is much better than what he used in the past.

He believed that Aoki deliberately left these things for him as a sign of sincerity for cooperation. Of course, he must also show sincerity in the future cooperation.

Zhao Pengcheng kept playing with the knife in his hand. Lately, every time he dreams, he has to play with this scalpel. He felt that his mental power was growing stronger. He still remembered that in another life he experienced, he spent a full ten years making himself stronger, which was just about the same as he is now.

At this moment, he felt a familiar fluctuation in the dream space. He quickly gathered his mental strength, and the scalpel suddenly disappeared from his body.

The space passage appeared. During the fluctuation, a thin but energetic foreigner came out. He glanced at Zhao Pengcheng and said, "You are in good spirits. It seems that your strength is stronger than before. It seems that the human prison is not bad!"