Dream Guide

If someone suddenly kneels down to you, you will definitely be startled, and then subconsciously help the person up. But if the person kneeling down to you is not just one person, but a group of people, then you will not just be shocked. Instead, they will be frightened. To use modern language, that is - confused!

Aoki is in such a confused state now. Of course he would not help the enemy up. In fact, he couldn't help him even if he wanted to, because he suddenly found that he seemed unable to move.

There seemed to be roots under his feet, digging deeply into the soft sand of the lake beach. The root system is like an ever-expanding neural network, growing farther and deeper.

He seemed to see the black soil under the yellow sand, the grass buds struggling to emerge from the gaps in the black soil, and some insects lying quietly in the soil.

Further down, the soil becomes dry and there are many rocks. His roots shuttle between the cracks in the rocks, and there are many insects in the cracks, but they are not as peaceful as those in the soil, crawling rustlingly.

The stone gradually became larger, darker and colder, and became harder and harder. He saw a snake, twisting and crawling upward.

Further down, the soil becomes moist again. There are only some roots of big trees extending from a distance. As you go further along these roots, they become denser and denser, criss-crossing the ground. On top of them, there are strong tree roots. The roots burst out of the earth and became thick trunks. Each trunk formed a forest, and there was a savage camp in the forest.

The savage leader held up his scepter, his eyes full of confusion, anger and fear. His hands were trembling, the muscles on his face were stiff, and the wrinkles were like cracks in rocks, like a painting that was half realistic and half abstract.

The deeper the soil becomes, the wetter it becomes. Even the stones in the soil are wet. Finally, it suddenly dawned on him. He heard the sound of rushing water and saw the faint water rushing in the underground river, not knowing where it was going.

Aoki knew that this was not what he saw with his eyes, but what he saw mentally. It was the scene he saw when his mental power traveled through the underground and the surface. In the past, he could do it, but he had to have life and consciousness. For example, he can release his mental power to find an earthworm underground, but it is impossible to see the soil and stones next to the earthworm.

He knew that all things were animistic and that consciousness and spiritual power pervaded the world. He also tried to sense the spirit of plants, and he succeeded under the willow tree in Liuying Lane. But away from there, in other places, this feeling becomes very weak.

Now, he senses the spirit of all things. He was finally able to confirm that spiritual power is something universal in the universe and not unique to the conscious body.

He used to think that mental power was a product of consciousness, but now it seemed that that was wrong. Consciousness does not produce mental power, it can only mobilize mental power. The body is probably a unique mental force field, and the conscious body needs such a condensed and controllable mental force field. This can explain why those parasitic consciousness bodies want to invade the earth and invade human beings.

So could consciousness itself be the product of a mental force field? It's possible from a human perspective. But the existence of Tabu made Aoki suspicious, which can almost deny this inference, because if a powerful spiritual force field can produce a conscious body, then all Tabu may be alive, they all have thoughts, and they are likely to be stronger than Humans are much smarter and more powerful.

The singing of the savages alerted the friends in the camp, and they all came out, and then they knelt down on the beach one after another.

Aoki watched them kneeling in his direction and listened to their singing, feeling a strange feeling in his heart.

The strange thing is that he doesn't feel anything difficult to bear at this moment, and he feels that it is natural for them to kneel towards him. When he accepted all this calmly, he actually felt very comfortable, more comfortable than smoking.

He didn't know why he had such thoughts and feelings, but he was too lazy to stop them, let alone stop the savage's behavior. He enjoyed the pleasure brought by this spiritual opium.

He found that his body was slowly getting taller, growing like a tree. His arms stretched out and turned into thick branches, and the five fingers spread out and turned into more branches. His hair was growing rapidly, becoming dense branches and leaves that covered the sky and the sun, and a bird's nest was built on the top of the tree.

Of course, he knew this wasn't true, it was just a feeling, just an extension of his mental power, which in addition to extending underground, was also extending into the air.

Maybe it was the wicker in his hand that made him feel like a tree. Trees must look for sunlight and grow toward heights. Therefore, his spirit kept making breakthroughs upward, and he grew very tall.

He looked up and saw one sun slipping behind another sun, and then emerging from behind another sun. The two suns, one big and one small, are stuck together, like burning gourds hanging horizontally in the sky.

He heard the crow croak twice.

The gourd spurted out a stream of flames, flying in the sky like a fire dragon.

A burning sensation came over him, so hot that every leaf on his body was about to be scorched.

It wasn't until the fire gourd turned into two suns again, and the little sun slowly moved away from the big sun, that Aoki didn't feel so hot anymore. The roots under my feet are slowly shrinking, and the branches and leaves in the sky are also slowly shrinking.

The crow croaked twice more.

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Petru's eyes were dazed for a while, and the tree disappeared. A breeze blew across the lake, and the hot weather just now became cool again.

He heard Mrs. Larry say: "Let's go over and take a look!"

Petru looked towards the lake beach. There were swarms of savages kneeling there, and Aoki stood in front of them like a log. It looked like there would be no danger.

He helped Mrs. Larry walk over until she was behind Aoki. He saw Aoki walking forward slowly, and the kneeling crowd moved their knees to make way for him.

Petru suddenly remembered a movie he had seen about the last emperor of China. In it, a group of people with pigtails were like this, kneeling in front of their emperor. But the emperor was just a puppet. He could only live in a palace surrounded by tall walls and climb to the roof to see the outside world. The real power in that world lies in the hands of those with guns outside the city.

"Madam, I will always avenge you." Petru squeezed the gun on his chest hard.

But he immediately remembered that in this twisted time and space, the symbol of power was not the gun, but the black scepter.

He saw the savage wizard descending from the distant hillside with his scepter in hand, and walked to the center of the lake beach. Aoki also walked to the center of the lake beach.

They stood facing each other, with hundreds of savages kneeling around them, forming a circle around them.

The wildling wizard's eyes burst out with fire, and the hand holding the scepter trembled. He is like an angry lion, baring its sharp teeth to drive away all predators and aliens that invade its territory.

Petru heard the wind roaring, like the prelude to a storm on the sea; the lake water also roared, being pulled by the huge tidal force. He knew it was all a mental hallucination, like a dream.

Just when he thought a spiritual battle was about to happen, he saw the once arrogant savage wizard kneeling down, placing the scepter across the palms of his hands, and raising it above his head.

The wind blew across his face, blowing away a few grains of sand from the deep wrinkles and falling to the ground.

Aoki stretched out a hand and took the scepter.

The crow croaked twice, and the silent savages began to sing again.