Uplifting Journey

".So, the 'students' taught by 'I', or the mice cultivated by 'I' through human experiments, have a deep connection with the construction process of this dream world."

In the Gobi Desert under the night, beside the blazing bonfire, Cheng Bin, who was holding a dead branch, heard about the "great achievements" of "himself" in this world from the green emperor, but there was no surprise in his sighs.

Glancing at the humanoid stand-in whose body surface was glowing green under the light of the fire, Cheng Bin couldn't see any emotion from the inhuman frozen face that looked like a hard plastic product.

However, although the tone of the Green Pope talking about this matter is calm, his true mood is completely conceivable——

Although as early as when he was facing Dior, as a human being, he had been defeated and fell into a nightmare. He did not personally experience the event of the fall of human civilization as a whole and fell into a dream. I don't know much about what's going on.

However, the residual human concept and the prey position in the dream made him naturally dislike this false world, so he hit it off with those rebels who were unwilling to sink into the dream.

Most of the members of the Rebel Army belong to the elite class of the original human society. Compared with most ordinary people who are captured by the alternative equality and beauty of dreams based on god beliefs, they have lost a lot of interests, rights and status in the process of civilization sinking. The resistance is stronger.

Even in the undisciplined dreamland sheepfold that lacks survival needs and has no normal resource allocation process, the rebels can still maintain a certain degree of organization by relying on the remaining human nature and civilization inertia, and using social science based on the current environment and ideas.

At the same time, various researchers who have become one of the main pillars of the Rebel Army after a series of internal changes have also begun to try to figure out and analyze the operating laws of the dream world from all accessible perspectives such as space, matter, psychology, and authority feedback.

Although the actions of the rebel army were as low-key as possible, the chaos and conspicuous scale at the beginning made it impossible to hide their existence from the Reaper 13 who dominates the dream world. He didn't care about the actions of the lambs, and almost didn't even pay special attention.

After several trials, the rebels let go of their hands and feet a little bit, and began to move around in every corner of the dream world, exploring the secrets of the dream world, collecting information before and after the sinking of reality, and contacting special life substitutes.

The Green Pope, who was hunted down by Reaper 13 wantonly, also got online with the rebels at this stage, and all kinds of information about what happened in reality "after his death" and about "Cheng Bin" gradually came from this stage. know.

For Cheng Bin, the legendary instigator, the Green Emperor would naturally not have a good impression, even if the Cheng Bin in front of him was just a parallel individual of the instigator.

After exchanging some information, Cheng Bin understood the vague anger expressed by the other party, and had no special feelings about it.

Because of these transferred bad feelings, he didn't wrong him at all——

"Reaper 13 talked about this kind of experiment on the influence range of the stand-in ability, and I really tried it on my side."

Cheng Bin stared at the bonfire thoughtfully, and seemed to be interested in various experiments in the current world.

"You know, the process of using the power of a substitute is quite subjective. For example, the ability of some substitutes can only be released on one's own body, but the concept of 'one's own body' is quite vague. During the specific experiment process, A certain experimenter initially identified and determined the boundary between the 'own body' and the 'outside' based on the vague perception of pain."

Looking up at the green Emperor, Cheng Bin looked at the other's unrecognizable complexion, and considered his own words: "The experimenter can't extend his ability to the skin and hair that don't feel pain, but when I modified his body, let him He grows new hair with nervous system endings and capillaries, and psychologically adjusts his perception of bleeding hair by cutting.

Under the shroud of vague hostility coming from the opposite side of the bonfire, Cheng Bin spread his hands helplessly: "Don't be like this, this is the only way to scientific research and explore the secrets of doubles - you can also imagine the following things Right? When the experimenter agrees with the new boundary between the hair and the outside world from the body to the mind, he can apply the ability to the hair. As long as the length of the hair is infinitely extended, the range of the stand-in ability can be infinitely extended. "

As soon as the subject changed, Cheng Bin transferred the content of the exchange back to the current world: "I have seen related information about Reaper 13 in my world. As far as I know, its ability to control dreams is very limited. In addition to being unable to actively hypnotize the target to sleep, the scope of its ability is also very small, centered on the body, and may not expand to the size of a house."

After describing the information about Reaper 13 in another world and confirming it with the Green Emperor, the representative of the rebel army, Cheng Bin nodded slightly: "This kind of Reaper 13 wants to pull all human beings into a dream and build the current A dream world of such scale is absolutely impossible

"If my transformation experiment led to the birth of the dream world, then this process must solve several core issues, including how to expand the scope of Reaper 13's ability influence through transformation, how to maintain the survival of the dream individual's real body, and how to make everyone Maintain the brain state of sleep at all times."

——Thinking of it this way, the reality carrier of Reaper 13 must have been transformed into a huge and distorted life form similar to a tentacle monster. To extend the nerve endings to hundreds of millions of body terminals, this shape is not optimistic at all.

After straightening out the context based on the existing information, Cheng Bin had a solid understanding of the current state of the world and the reason why the rebels came to him, so he confirmed to the green emperor: "The Cheng Bin before has never fallen into a dream, so assuming In the real world, the will to maintain this huge life support system is indeed 'I', what are you rebels going to do?"

"The key now is not what we are going to do. If you can subvert the reality foundation of the dream world through you, that would be great, but." The Green Emperor shook his head, ".Intelligence is the basis of all actions. The previous conclusions are There are a lot of speculations. In fact, what we want to do most now is to learn about the situation in the real world from you. The reason why I didn’t explain the details of the fall of civilization to you is because the rebels don’t know anything about it. .Did you know? Some people in the rebel army even want to catch you and go to Reaper 13 to receive a reward, hoping that the other party will fulfill their promise and return to reality to see it."

A series of information about Reaper 13 and Cheng Bin originated from the exploration and summary analysis of the rebel army, but the transition from normal operation of human civilization to falling into a dream is very, very abrupt, and no one has the memory of this process, as if during this period of time It was directly deleted, and everyone seamlessly traveled from daily life to dreamland.

Only the sudden changes in clothes and status of everyone at the beginning of the chaos, and the traces of incongruity hidden deep in the details, made the rebel army aware of this period of time, or the overall lack of memory of this period.

"Collective amnesia." Hearing this, Cheng Bin pondered for a while, but he couldn't guess the real reason under such a situation of scarce information.

Strictly speaking, Cheng Bin himself has experienced a similar amnesia process, but he feels that his amnesia is not the same as that of other people in this world.

Just like all dreaming ordinary people can recall some dream memory fragments but can hardly recall the process of entering the dream at the beginning, due to the influence of parallel world travel and the potential interference of virtual dreams, he completely lost the ultimate goal of entering the dream from reality. key memory.

At present, Cheng Bin can only determine the main factor causing his current situation, which lies in the process of switching the source of power between the substitute and the soul system. He does not know what kind of experience the "Cheng Bin" in this world is, so naturally he has no way of knowing that he does not have the ability to dream at all. How the black cat carrier of the function enters the dream.

After continuing to exchange information with the green emperor for a while, Cheng Bin indirectly learned some of the key profiles of the dream and reality operating system from the aspects of whether there are newborns, the change of the current population, and the promotion system of the envoy.

After the resolution was reached within the rebel army, the green emperor who was notified also had more information to communicate with Cheng Bin.

But this level of communication could not be fully concluded - a simple eye roll and eyelid blink, a conspicuous abnormal phenomenon immediately attracted Cheng Bin's attention.