The world enters the age of myth

Facing Liu Xuwei's question, a technician replied: "It should be no problem for hibernators to last for more than a year. It reduces the human body's metabolism to less than one percent. Let alone a year, I think three There will be no problem for five years. The problem is the number of people who are sober. We have more than 100 people sober every month. We are so full that everyone rotates, so we can only last for one year."

"If everyone has been rotated, who else can be on duty? If no one is on duty..."

As you move around in the Nightmare Continent, the curse will increase as time goes by, and it will become increasingly difficult to break free from the nightmare.

Therefore, persisting for one month through lucid dreaming is currently a relatively safe value calculated.

After more than one month, the risk level will increase significantly.

Two months will be the limit.

The Unkai is so big that various monitoring lines need to be maintained. The operation of the hibernation chamber also requires electricity and must be maintained at a stable low temperature.

The maintenance of electrical equipment and information equipment naturally requires manpower.

If we hibernate collectively, how do we wake up? Even if the Unkai accidentally hit the island while drifting with the current, it was not impossible!

Liu Xuwei proposed a plan: "Either we can only reduce the number of sober people, and each batch will only have 50 sober people. In this way, the time can be doubled, and we can persist for two years."

Someone else retorted: "But the problem is... as the number of people decreases, the emergency response capabilities will also decrease accordingly."

"With the more than 100 people we have now, it's already a bit difficult. If the number is reduced by half, it will be even more difficult."

Lu Yiming thought of a way: "We can use the shuttle function of Hongyi to travel to the Cursed Continent to avoid this disaster."

In comparison, the smelly Curse Continent and those messy grievances are countless times better than the Nightmare Continent.

But after discussing it for a while, this idea is actually quite bad, because the current location is a full 50 days away from the Grudge Continent! Come and go for a hundred days!

There are only more than 400 red clothes, and only more than 400 people can escape.

Moreover, the Yin World Corridor is a more idealistic world. After such a century-old war outside, God knows whether there will be various uncontrollable risks inside.

"This option can only be regarded as a last resort plan."

Lu Yiming shook his head and rejected the plan: "With all our resources exhausted, we can only arrange for everyone to hibernate. Then we will select more than 400 people to escape to the Cursed Continent... Waiting for the Yang River to appear, these 400 people will be able to return to the mainland again. Return to the Sea of ​​Clouds and restart civilization."

But this plan is too risky.

For a while, there was no better plan.

Everyone had a severe headache, Yang He disappeared inexplicably, and all of them were trapped in this damn nightmare planet.

If Yanghe appears on time in a year, then it's okay to say that everything remains as planned; what if it never appears again?

It means that everyone must overcome the nightmare disaster here in order to survive.

"Reduce the number of people who are awake, the only ones that are so-so."

Lu Yiming finally sighed: "I don't agree with rashly reducing the number of conscious people."

"Because there is an unknown civilization nearby, and it won't work if there are too few people. I always feel that this unknown civilization is sneaky and I have to guard against it."

"To be honest, there are only more than a hundred people awake now, which is already very few. If it is reduced to 50 people, a lot of work will not be able to be done. The daily investigation power will not be enough. If something happens, who will come? Solve it."

"We'd better find the origin of the nightmare disaster. If we can find the origin of the nightmare and solve this problem, maybe we can survive here for a long time. So, we can only take risks... We have to think of a way, It would be great if everyone could persist longer to experience the dream state after 30 days.”

Jin Lili said with a drooped face, "From a scientific point of view, it is almost impossible to quickly decipher the mystery of nightmares. Because we have too few manpower now. In the past, so many experts had not yet hibernated, and they still could not decipher the nightmares. , not to mention now, there seem to be only a few technical staff..."

"However, this matter is difficult, really difficult... This issue will not be shaken due to subjective factors."

Nightmare disasters are not physical disasters, and they cannot be solved by killing a monster. They involve the lowest level mechanism of the brain. The scientists of the Unkai have been studying for so long, but they haven't even found the reason why humans have nightmares, let alone completely solved this disaster.

Now a large number of such technical personnel are hibernating, and they don’t even have scientific research capabilities.

According to some research before hibernation by Professor Huang et al. The origin of nightmares may come from the deepest dreams, which are dreams that no one can wake up from, or even a corresponding underworld.

This has become a real deadlock again.

After discussing it for a long time, there was no good result.

"Don't be anxious first, or let's observe what the turtle ship will do, right?" Jin Lili said: "They have survived longer than us, and they should be more experienced...observe their movements, and then make a decision. Let’s draw a conclusion.”

"If it really doesn't work, we can only ask for cooperation."

As a technician, she actually didn't want Lu Yiming to take too many risks.

"Are you asking for cooperation? Yes, in this desperate situation, we really need to think about it."

Lu Yiming thought for a long time before letting out a long sigh: "However, we can't be too anxious for the time being. Let's see what they will do first."

In this way, time passed day by day.

There are no ghosts in this world. The only danger is the increasingly terrifying nightmares, so everyone is happy to take their time, patrolling, doing maintenance, and eating some delicious food every day. Only when they are really sleepy will they choose to sleep. The current sober people are all enhanced humans, and they can still stay energetic even if they sleep once every two days.

For better reconnaissance, the distance between the two ships is slowly approaching.

The Unkai once again used drones to launch a dozen hydrogen-filled reconnaissance balloons to monitor the movements of the turtle ship.

A surprising scene appeared. The movement of the turtle boat was very strange. It docked on the shore from time to time, and then a large group of people rushed out to catch insects in large quantities on land! Every time they arrive at a place, they start a vigorous nationwide insect hunting program.

At least thousands of people use insect nets to catch bugs on a large scale and then transport batches of insects back to the turtle boat.

At the same time, there were a large number of people going into the sea to fish.

However, the fishing level of this civilization is not very good, because they do not seem to have refrigeration equipment, and the fish caught with fishing nets quickly become smelly.

Faced with this strange scene, Monk Zhang Er was also at a loss on the Yunhai Ship.

"What are they doing? Catching bugs to eat?"

"Not too possible……"

"Are they short of food?"

"Looking at the number of people on their ships, the population size is about 20,000."

It is not a good choice to alleviate the food crisis by catching bugs. Because locusts and other large-yielding insects will become toxic when they live in groups, and they will be poisonous if eaten. Even birds do not want to eat these things.

And they migrate very quickly, so catching them requires a lot of effort. Let an adult catch bugs for a day, and the energy consumed may be more than the energy captured.

"I don't think it should be a food issue."

"Something's wrong. Why don't these people have nightmares? Are they all gifted people who can have lucid dreams... That shouldn't be the case. I think they are all sallow and thin. They are just ordinary people. It is unlikely that all people can master lucid dreams. The art of dreaming.”

Facing all the experts, they were puzzled. They even followed their example and captured some local insects for research...

People hope to get the secret to cracking nightmares from insects.

The end result is that nothing has been studied...

This caused everyone on the Yunhai to fall into deep doubts.

"Really nothing has been studied?"

"Insects are just simple-minded, so they won't be killed by nightmares. With such a smooth logic, what else is there to study?" Jin Lili said angrily: "Are you telling me that the people over there are simple-minded? Are you not affected by nightmares?"

Lu Yiming frowned, a dark premonition told him.

Taking the initiative to expose the Unkai is not a good thing...

But the other party obviously has a way to avoid nightmares.

This method may be better than the one mastered by Yunhai.

He tapped his fingernails on the table and fell into deep thought: "To contact the other party, no matter what, you have to wake up five or six hundred soldiers to be safer. Currently, there are only fifteen hundred soldiers who can complete lucid dreams 100%. People. Once five or six hundred people are used up, life will be difficult in the future."

…

On the other side of the planet, about four thousand kilometers away from the Unkai, there was a giant turtle ship.

Countless slaves came and went, searching for supplies and catching locusts on the continent, and they were very busy.

In this large turtle ship, some tall humans were exchanging something in a certain room.

"...The number of locusts is completely insufficient. The value of a living locust is only 1%, and the simplest sacrificial activity costs 20 value points. In this case, no matter how you capture it, it will cost you 20%." It’s not enough.”

"How many slaves do we have left?"

"There are still more than 400 people! The total number of pigs, cattle and sheep is only more than 1,000, and they need to be used to provide food..."

"Where are the local humans? Have you found any?"

"It's not found at all... maybe it's completely extinct. Ordinary people really can't resist this kind of nightmare curse."