Indescribable cyberpunk

It's getting dusk.

Zhu Jue turned his back to the door, looking out at the fire clouds that dyed half of the sky red and the aerostats flying through the sky for decoration. The color of the sky further away was completely dim.

There were already a lot of burnt incense on the low table in the living room behind him. It took most of the day, but Zhu Jue's spirit barely returned to normal. With the support of incense, he seemed to suddenly become better at reading special books. There is quite a bit of leeway.

Even so, Zhu Jue still had no desire to read the black octavo book. This was his intuition after opening the book last night.

Not yet, at least not yet!

"The situation at the scene is not very good."

Olivia City set out to visit the ruins this morning. After arriving at the local area and conducting a short exploration, she immediately contacted Zhu Jue, so that when the two of them were talking on the phone, there was still a relatively clear noise around them, which sounded a bit like It's the rumble of an excavator at work.

"Not very good. This description is too general. What is it specifically that makes you feel wrong?"

Fingering the wind chimes squatting on the window frame, Zhu Jue still had a while before the dream time agreed with Black Swan, so he didn't mind chatting with Olivia.

"The entrance to the ruins was completely buried due to the previous earthquake. That's all. Our machine re-opened a road. Within a few days, the association's detection team discovered the cooled magma in the pile of rocks. The quantity Quite a few.”

On the other end of the phone, Olivia was weighing a fine-textured stone in her hand. Nearby, a geologist wearing a brown vest was rushing to the scene with a group of staff. High-power searchlights several meters high were looking around. On the left The fire cloud on the top of the mountain was turning gray. He paused for a few seconds and then said,

"There are no volcanoes where the ruins are located, not even extinct volcanoes!"

Without volcanoes, where would the magma rocks come from?

"It can't be that there is a volcano buried underground. If you dig it out now, aren't you going to drill into the crater?"

Thinking about the possibility that he casually mentioned, Zhu Jue had no research on geology.

"Now we have to wait for the machine data to come out before we can make a closer judgment. However, judging from the strength of the orders issued within the Archaeological Association, the underground ruins here should be extraordinary. Even if an archaeological team has been damaged, the association We still sent a second archaeological team over. I won’t say any more, I need to help. I’ll contact you if I find new discoveries.”

Hearing the paging calls from other support teams, Olivia could only hang up the phone temporarily, throw away the stone, and run over to check the situation.

Irregular stones fell to the ground, stacked together with the fine branches and leaves on the valley floor.

At a certain moment, they all seemed to tremble briefly, and it seemed like nothing happened.

"Wind chimes, can you dream?"

Locking the door, Zhu Jue sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a bottle of dream elixir that could lead to Dilas Harbor.

Zhu Jue is used to taking wind chimes with him wherever he goes, but this potion should be configured for humans, and he doesn't know if wind chimes can be used.

"How about you stay in the real world? Anyway, the time here is only one hour. Just pretend that I am asleep and don't let anyone get close to me before I wake up!"

After thinking about it, Zhu Jue decided not to let Feng Chime try it. Firstly, the effectiveness of this medicine was uncertain for beings like Feng Chime. If there were any side effects, it would be too late to regret it. Secondly, after Zhu Jue's consciousness entered the dreamland, In the real world, the body will enter a deep sleep state. If someone comes to the door, it is really unsafe without protection.

Ouch~

The wind chime whispered softly, then turned around and fiddled with the quilt next to it. In its opinion, it was normal for Zhu Jue to be guarded by himself while he was sleeping. It had done this in the past nights, and naturally it would not do this this time. There are exceptions.

"Haha, you are the sensible one, I'm going to sleep first."

After drinking the dream medicine, Zhu Jue lay down on his back, his right hand casually resting on the wind chime, and soon it lost its movement.

A moment of dizziness, a feeling a bit like a person suddenly surfacing after diving.

When Zhu Jue opened his eyes again, his whole body felt as if a layer of restraint had been removed. This was true in every sense of the word.

Looking down at his naked body, Zhu Jue twitched his lips and concentrated his thoughts. Not long after, a set of clothes that were exactly the same as the last time he entered the dreamland appeared on his body. But the things that can be embodied are limited to this. Whether it is a space ring or a wind chime, even if Zhu Jue concentrates more intently, he still cannot materialize these two existences.

Regarding this point, Black Swan has also said in advance that once you drink the dream medicine, it seems to simply make people enter the dream state, but Zhu Jue's current state is actually more similar to what ancient monks said about the soul leaving the body. His body and other "mundane things" will remain in reality, and only his spiritual will, or soul, can enter the dreamland.

Of course, Zhu Jue also thought about sending the space ring and wind chimes into the fantasy dreamland through the space crack in advance, so that Zhu Jue could meet them inside. However, Zhu Jue had to consider more than just himself in doing so. The problem is whether things will be lost during transportation, but the time overlap between him and the wind chime.

Because no matter how long he stayed in the dreamland with the help of the dream medicine, he still only spent an hour in the real world, and the wind chime entered the dreamland with his body. The time consumed by the two in the dreamland was exactly the same, but in real life Excessive time makes a world of difference.

It stands to reason that there should be some kind of contradiction in this. When Zhu Jue was thinking about this issue, he asked Black Swan specifically about this. After all, the latter had used dream medicine many times.

Regarding Zhu Jue's doubts, the explanation given by Black Swan is that no matter how long his soul stays in the dreamland after entering it, when he returns to the real world, he cannot use the space in the time corresponding to the existence of the dreamland. crack.

To give a simple example, Zhu Jue drinks the dream medicine and enters the dreamland and stays there for three days. After he wakes up, since only one hour has passed in the real world, theoretically speaking, he can of course pass through space. Rift re-enters the dreamland in his physical body, so is it possible that he will encounter himself who is causing trouble in the dreamland at this time?

In fact, if he dares to do this, there is only one result. The moment he enters the dreamland, his soul will return to the position he was in one hour after entering the dreamland three days ago, and his body will immediately Disappeared, everything in the dreamland returned to normal.

Looking back, Zhu Jue, who has lost his body, will never wake up from his dream, and can only stay in the dreamland forever!

This is the rule of the dreamland. Two identical souls cannot exist in the same world, unless the soul can be completely split. This is the result of a gentleman's trial with many temporary workers. It cannot be faked!

And this was one of the reasons why the gentleman strangled them for three days when he took them into the dreamland. He needed time to buffer. After all, he often used dream medicine to enter the dreamland.

Correspondingly, if the wind chime enters the dreamland after Zhu Jue falls asleep, it will undoubtedly be able to see Zhu Jue in the dreamland. Even during the time Zhu Jue stays in the dreamland, as long as the wind chime physically Traveling through time, it can completely see the two worlds.

This may involve the theory of parallel worlds. Zhu Jue didn't understand this part anyway. When Black Swan talked about it, he was almost in a daze.

Then someone may want to ask, Zhu Jue will know everything that happened in his dreamland when he wakes up in the real world one hour later. So if he does something wrong, can he let Feng Chime correct it for him?

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel!

Because the result of doing so will undoubtedly involve more cause and effect. Without Zhu Jue by his side, any decision made by Feng Chime will lead to changes in established facts, which in turn will lead to changes in Zhu Jue's memory. This itself There is a paradox.

Not to mention that if Zhu Jue had an accident in the dream realm, he would never be able to wake up in the real world, and there would be no need to explain the situation to Feng Chime.

"Mr. Wind Chime, you'd better not try this outrageous behavior. Gentlemen have conducted similar experiments in the past few years, and the result without exception is the death of all experimental subjects. There are not just ordinary humans in the dreamland, but some mysterious ones." The power of the world does not allow the rules of the world to be challenged!"

This was what Black Swan said to Zhu Jue at the end of the phone call, and it also dispelled all the weird thoughts in the latter's mind.

This is indeed the case. The gentleman is not a fool. He has been controlling the space rift for nearly 8 years. He has already tried many ideas that only existed in Zhu Jue's mind.

There is no doubt that failure is the end result of most attempts!

Back to business.

At this time, Zhu Jue was in his own dream.

To be precise, it was a high-rise building in the dreamland. He took a few steps forward and stood at the edge of the building. The cool breeze at dusk blew against his face. At this time, Zhu Jue suddenly realized that the surrounding environment was actually Shuguang City. His current location should be It was on the roof of a building somewhere in the center of the city. It seemed that he did not fall asleep after drinking the potion just now, but left his house and came here.

The only thing that could prove that he was in a dream seemed to be the suspended parallel stairs extending outward in front of him and the wooden door at the end.

"Mr. Wind Chimes, the entrance and exit of this dream medicine in the dreamland is set on the coast of Dilas Port. You may experience some mental shock when you enter."

Black Swan's voice sounded from behind. After drinking the same formula of dream medicine, she naturally appeared in Zhu Jue's dream, reminding Zhu Jue of using the dream medicine for the first time.

"Let's go, I can't wait to see what the port in the dreamland looks like."

When Zhu Jue saw that the person had arrived, he did not stop and stepped directly onto the stairs, leading to the door that connected the dreamland.

"I thought you might be a little disappointed."

After hearing Zhu Jue's words, Black Swan recalled the appearance of Dilas Harbor, and his expression became a little strange.