Siren Blade

Chapter 122 Li Yan
Fearing monsters, Li Yan hid in the dark for an unknown amount of time, but he was human after all, and he needed to eat, drink, and scatter.

Leaving aside Lazar, eating and drinking cannot be solved nearby. He has to go out to find food.So, in spite of all his fears, he reluctantly came out of his hiding place.

Then, as expected, the monster found him again, and it was the same monster that had killed him before.Although it was not the first time he had died, death and pain were by no means something you could just get used to.The experience of being killed several times has carved a very heavy shadow in his heart. He was suddenly terrified, squeezed out all the strength in his muscles under the drive of fear, and knew nothing in his mind except running away and running away .

But this time he didn't die under the claws of the monster, because he met Joan and me.

The indigo-blue blade pierced through the air, killing the chasing monster in an instant.

"I almost thought that I was the only living person in this city. I didn't expect to be rescued when I was escaping, and I didn't expect that the person who saved me was a superpower..." Speaking of this, he On his face, there is both the joy of meeting the same kind and the surprise of his own experience.

He added his self-introduction, "Speaking of which, I haven't said my name yet. My name is Li Yan."

Joan and I have introduced ourselves before.At this time, Qiao An kept silent in order to avoid charming Li Yan again, and at the same time walked in front of us.Just like before, I handed over the job of leading the way to Joan. He knows how to go back the same way, which is much more convenient than moving forward while listening to the guidance from reality.

It said "returning the same way", but looking at the surrounding scenery, it is completely unclear whether the "place where we first entered the dreamland" we are returning to is Joan's or mine.The blue bird said that any side is fine, and space is meaningless for dreams.Even if they are different visually, they may be completely consistent from the perspective of actual data.

I encountered several demons on the road, but I killed them all immediately.Li Yan panicked reflexively at first, he couldn't even stand firmly, but he was still trying to adapt, and looked at me with shocked and unfamiliar eyes from time to time.

But being looked at by such eyes, I can hardly be proud of it.Then, I asked him: "After being resurrected several times, is it true that you have no sequelae?"

"No. If I have to say there's something wrong, it's that I'm hungry and thirsty now, and I ran so hard just now..." He rubbed his stomach uncomfortably, then looked ahead, "What are we heading for? direction to move?"

"Leaving the direction of this city." As I spoke, I comforted him, "After you go back, you will be able to eat and drink enough."

"Leave, go back... can we really leave this city?" he said to himself.

"Why do you ask that?" I asked.

"Although saying this may offend you... I said before that I can't accept that this is a dream, but this is really not my dream, and are you really not the characters I imagined?" He asked blankly, " Such a bizarre city, monsters that don't seem to appear in reality, and you who can be easily killed by such monsters... These are not things that will appear in reality at all. Even if you are killed no matter how The place where I was resurrected was also..."

Maybe you have awakened the superpower of going back in time, or maybe the ability to predict dreams, and that is the truth of the mystery of your resurrection... Originally, I wanted to use this kind of joke to ease his anxiety, but I still swallowed the joke after thinking about it down.

"It's too unnatural no matter how you think about it. If these are dreams, then when did the dreams start?" He seemed to be caught up in entanglement and thinking, and even suspected that he had gone further, "Since I found myself at the crossroads But the continuity between switching from the staff dormitory to the crossroads is very strong, could it be that the staff dormitory is also my dream?"

"So, how do you explain your sense of reality?" I asked.

"It's easy to explain. If I'm dreaming, then my consciousness is definitely not awake. Even if I feel that my feeling is very realistic now, it may just be my illusion, and I will think about it when I wake up. I won’t think that way anymore.” He said as if he was trying to get rid of unnecessary emotions, “Any conclusions drawn by an unconscious mind cannot be trusted.”

After calming down, he showed me his clear thinking side.I realized that beneath his lack of assertiveness and courage, there was indeed a brilliant mind.Then I asked another question, "But, besides your own consciousness, is there anything more worthy of your trust?"

He froze like a dead machine, "This..."

"Actually, your suspicion is not wrong. This city like Liucheng is indeed a dream." I still chose to tell the truth.

"What!" Even though my words fit his suspicions, he was still dumbfounded, and couldn't help overturning his previous speculation, "But, but how is this possible? I'm not that easy to deceive. Ren Sai, you Say this is a dream, do you have evidence?"

"Isn't everything that happened to you enough to be the evidence in your heart?" I said, "If you really can't agree with it, just accept it with a 'hypothetical' attitude for the time being. Assume that what I said is true. Think about it based on that.”

"Suppose, well, suppose you are right..." He looked at Joan, who was walking in front, and then at me, "Then...then you two..."

"Of course we're all real people. I'm from the Security Bureau of the real world. I'm a law enforcement warlock who handles all sorts of secret incidents and the warlock criminals who cause them." I said, "And you are an ordinary person living in the secular society. You were unfortunately involved in a secret incident a few days ago, and you are an unlucky victim. The reason why I appeared in front of you is to get you out of this world." rescued from a nightmare of pain and death."

He showed a distressed expression as if he couldn't digest so much information at once, and seemed to want to start sorting out the details, "Warlock? Does a warlock mean a superpower like you?

"Yes." I nodded.

"So..." Then, he hesitated again and again, and asked a question that I thought he would not have at this stage, "What kind of person am I in reality?"

As soon as this remark came out, even Qiao An couldn't help but look back at him.

Li Yan continued to ask: "The self in the dream is often inconsistent with the self in reality. Is the me here really the same as the me in reality?"

"It's very different." I said, "In reality, you are a middle-aged man who is more than twice your age now. Love and career are so-so. From the perspective of social evaluation, you are one hundred and eighty thousand away from 'successful people'." Thousands of miles away. Although you married a wife and have a son, your son disappeared in the mountains five years ago. In reality, you don’t know whether he was abducted or what, and you still receive it today. There is no news about his whereabouts. If he is still alive, he will be about 19 years old this year, which should be about the same age as you in the dream now."

"What!" He said these two words again, his expression very messy.

Thinking about it carefully, although I was telling the truth, it might be more convenient to lie to him.Why do I have to tell the truth, because Li Yan is my father, so shouldn't I lie to him?But even if that's the case, there's no need to talk about it to this extent, or is it that somewhere in my heart wants to see what choice Li Yan will make in this situation?

But if you do this, you have to think about how you can persuade him if he refuses to return to reality.But even if it is forced, I can't just sit back and watch him stay in the dream.The dream must disintegrate as soon as possible, otherwise, including him, all the sleeping people will only become the living sacrifices of fanatics.

I feel more and more that I have said unnecessary words, and there is a taste of knowingly committing a crime.Thinking about it this way, I might resent Li Yan and my father a little bit.

Li Yan was caught in the entanglement again, and followed us step by step.And I reported the experience I learned from Li Yan to Qingniao.

"He was killed so many times by demons in his dreams..." Qingniao was astonished, "Could it be that the ones who killed him a few times before were not demons, but just virtual monsters in dreams?"

"No, he said that the demon that chased and killed him just now is the same as the monster that killed him some time ago." I denied it first, and then said, "Besides, as you said before, this dream itself has a strong attraction The characteristics of the devil, and the devils invade because of this. In other words, since the devil invades, it will not only invade his "channel" and attack only one person. Instead, it will invade all channels and attack all sleepers."

Spiritual body and spirituality are things with dual attributes of spirit and matter, so when a person dreams, his spiritual body exists both in the dream and in reality.

And if the spirit body is injured by a demon in the dream, the injury of the spirit body must be observed in reality.

"Unless you are a dream warlock who doesn't even talk about the most basic causal logic, no spirit body can be injured in a dream and still be intact in reality..." she read, and immediately thought of it. More things, "But fanatics can even simulate and reappear dreamy immortal bodies. It is also mentioned in the intelligence that he will bless his subordinates with 'dreamless bodies based on collective dreams', and now the state of this spirit body is in the Is the phenomenon of separation between dream and reality the special property of the collective dream as the basic structure of the dream undead?"

She couldn't believe it, "This, this is a completely unknown technology, I have never heard of such..."

"The current situation where the sleeping person is repeatedly killed by demons in the dream is probably also actively contributed to by him... Is there any deep meaning in this?" I asked.

"Maybe it's because...he wants to repeatedly squeeze the use value of the sleeper's spiritual body." She said, "The spiritual body is the aggregation of spirituality. Instead of just absorbing spirituality from the spiritual body, it is better to directly destroy and decompose the spiritual body. Get more spirituality in one breath. Originally, this was a one-time sale, but because even if the spirit body is destroyed and decomposed in this dream, the spirit body in reality will not be affected, and can still continue to invest in the dream, so he wants Squeeze as many times as you want. What is this, did he find a bug in the real world? No real dream warlock would do this."

That's why Li Yan is resurrected in the original place intact every time he dies - I have come to a conclusion.However, if we continue to follow this method, wouldn’t we be able to obtain inexhaustible and inexhaustible spirituality?Squeezing out infinite spirituality from a limited spiritual body, is this already a perpetual motion machine?From a rational point of view, I think that kind of thing is impossible to achieve, but I am still shocked by the technology of fanatics.

"Also, this dream itself has the characteristic of absorbing spirituality, and the demons invading the dream are equivalent to the automatic harvesting machines of fanatics." Her voice became more and more dignified, "the number of demons is not enough now, wait until later When the number increases, the loose environment of 'find a place to hide until I'm too hungry' will no longer exist, and this collective dream will become a veritable hell."

"It turns out that the reason why the fanatics want to disperse the sleepers into their own channel is to prevent them from surviving in groups." I said, "Assuming that 10 people were involved in the dream city as he planned , and those 10 people are all united, there is no guarantee that it will not form an obstacle to his harvest."

"It should be what you said." She nodded.

"But according to the statement just now, he doesn't actually need to get involved with so many people, as long as he grabs random people and squeezes them repeatedly, won't he be able to obtain inexhaustible spirituality in the end?" I asked.

"Maybe it has something to do with the container. The dream itself, as a container for storing spirituality, cannot withstand infinite spirituality. However, as long as more sleepers are added, the collective dreamland will become larger, and the storage capacity for spirituality will also increase." She said. Said, "But if this is the case, he should have a way to transfer the spirituality that cannot be stored in the dream to an external container. There must be other restrictions, and they are particularly strict."

"Even if the sleeper is killed, he won't die, so what about me and Joan?" I asked.

"You are intruders in this dream, and you cannot expect to receive the same treatment as those sleepers who were 'invited' in. To be on the safe side, act on the premise that you have only one life." She said.

"Okay." I nodded.

After that, she went to report the incident to the analysis department, and I turned my eyes back to myself.

Li Yan seemed to have finally struggled out of the long entanglement.

"I... still have to go back to reality," he said.

"Why? Don't you think that you in reality are completely different from you here?" I shouldn't have said that to him. "Choosing to return is no different from choosing to commit suicide."

"It's not like I haven't had a dream. Does it mean that every time I dream and wake up, I will die in reality? The me in the dream and the me in reality must be the same person, but I have temporarily forgotten some things, and now It's just to remember it again." He said, "Also, although I still don't know much about the warlocks and hidden events you mentioned, there is one thing that even I understand."

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

He turned his head and said seriously: "Dreams will wake up."

(End of this chapter)