i'm not a cyberpsychopath

Chapter 10
In the distance is a towering mountain.

And the end of the mountain seems to be still a mountain, and the mountain stretches all the way to the sky. I don’t know if it’s the light of the purple moon or the reason for the deep starry sky.

The majestic and towering peaks seem to be hidden in a deep gray mist, only faintly revealing layers upon layers of endless mountains and dangerous peaks, just like the waves raised by the sea, as if the endless mountains and the earth are in the waves It was rolling up and down, and with the waves of the sea of ​​fog, it seemed that it was about to overturn and beat down at any time.

For a moment, Li Pan was in this purple world, and almost forgot his own name. There was an inexplicable tremor in his heart, and he subconsciously wanted to fall over.

Suddenly, "Wow!" A dog barked brought Li Pan back to his senses.

He took a step back, still stood still, and turned to see a big black dog squatting at his feet.

This looks like a black bear dog, with a big head and a wide mouth, a pair of black eyes, one meter high at the shoulder, black and thick hair, a curly tail, strong and powerful, and a shiny chest, which looks like a neck It looks like something is hanging on it.

Li Pan squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch the dog's head, saw the silver key protruding from the thick neck hair, and gradually came back to his senses.

Oh, I'm probably dreaming now.

First of all, it is definitely not Chaomeng simulated by a virtual machine. The physical reality is different, and I did not hear the system beep whether to fast forward, whether to increase the sense of reality, whether to skip advertisements, or whether to renew the membership.

Obviously it wasn't drugs and alcohol, the hallucinations created by paralyzing the brain, because his consciousness was still under his control.

"Wow!" The black bear dog barked again, and rushed towards the ridge, looking like a black cloud from a distance.

If he didn't know anything, Li Pan would probably be wandering in this dreamland in confusion.

But he was reminded by Mr007 before, and he also saw the key on the dog's neck, and Li Pan also knew that this is probably the so-called 'formal dress/guardian's trial' now.

Now Li Pan has a little understanding of the urine of Monster Company, and a big dog is more reassuring than a pen in the eye, so he no longer panics, and follows the lead of the black bear dog, along the ridge. on the climb.

So one person and one dog, facing the stars, climbed towards the deep purple mountains shone in the mist.

The black dog had to stop from time to time to wait for him, and when Li Pan arrived, he stroked the dog's head, and then went out to lead the way.

I don't know what the black dog is taking him to find, but this mountain is really strange.

I don't know if it was an illusion in a dream, but Li Pan seemed to feel that the stars in the sky were moving with them when they climbed the mountain.

In this weird dream, the time and space are unbelievably long. Li Pan felt that he had been walking, walking, walking for at least ten days, climbing along the bare ridge, but he could not get out. Confused gray fog, let alone the end of the distant mountains.

Fortunately, the black dog has always been with him. Sometimes dogs are really more reliable, more loyal, and more trustworthy than people.

Maybe "company dog" is actually a good name in some people's ears?
In fact, he himself was almost trained as a dog by the company.

After all, these days, only a very small number of top-level families are wealthy enough to complete their studies at their own expense and get a diploma. Most of them have to apply for company student loans and go to technical schools and universities run by the company. .Some poorer families can’t even afford the company’s technical school, so they send their children to a military school with relatively low tuition fees. Although they are counted as reserve soldiers after graduation, they will be called into the army if they encounter a company war. The chance of survival is slightly lower than a narrow escape. A little bit, but at least the military academy provides food and housing, and there is a chance to achieve a class leap. For example, in the recent fleet battle, no one sailed the ship due to death. Every year, a certain number of places will be issued, recruiting cannon fodder, and the infantry reserve will be upgraded. For Starship Troopers.

Li Pan remembered that when he was in the military academy, he was dragged out of the bed in the dormitory by a group of people in the middle of the night and beaten because he had the highest comprehensive score. At that time, it was a peaceful era, and the company war had just ended, and a large number of soldiers were forcibly discharged. There is only one ship sergeant.Even when he was almost killed by a hacker, it was probably because of his good classmates who secretly played tricks and brought the puppet to the military school intranet to open a back door for the hacker.

What's even more funny is that, after several years of fighting wits and courage with these scumbags, Li Pan, the No.After all, as the saying goes, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, but everyone from the general to the director of the conscription office has sons, so everyone understands.

Well, although the starship soldiers are 'already lying in the coffin', at least they don't need to participate in the stratospheric airborne combat. Wearing mobile suits and carrying portable nuclear bombs, they hit the Star Fortress with their bodies like moths to a flame, right? .

So in the end, Li Pan suddenly lost the opportunity and interest to be a serious dog.

It's far away, anyway, it's a pity that in a place like the capital of the night, keeping pets has long been the privilege of a very small number of people. After all, the capital of Tokyo has been completely wiped out thirteen times, and the nuclear warfare company war has wiped out countless times. 0791 Earth The ecological circle of China has collapsed N times earlier, and now so many people are so desperate to live in this crappy place of the night capital, it is also because the entire surface except for a few metropolitan areas and the private manors of those rich people can survive , the ecology of most places has been seriously polluted.

Wild animals may carry viruses and biological weapons left over from the previous generation, and all household pets, cats and dogs, are monopolized by genetic biological companies, and they cannot be domesticated at all. A live dog is just a regular creature. Safety testing and certification, and pet licenses all require a five-digit start. Most people can't even support themselves, and want to keep dogs, let's raise cockroaches.

Hey, don't mention it, cockroaches, mice and flies are still strong these days. Of course, it doesn't mean that human technology can't really exterminate these pests. The main reason is that no one is willing to pay for it...

So Li Pan took advantage of the opportunity in his dream to stroke the dog vigorously and rub the dog's head angrily.

In the end, the whole dog thought he was annoying, and ran forward in a hurry, and jumped into the fog to ignore him, "嘬嘬嘬嘬".

The farther he went, the thicker the fog became. In the end, he couldn't even see the distant mountains and the starry sky above his head. Li Pan could only rely on the barking of dogs in the fog to determine his direction.

Then, suddenly, a wall made of black bricks appeared in front of him, so Li Pan knew that he had finally arrived at the destination of the trial.

The wall looks like an old Chinese-style compound, extending into the mist, and it’s hard to see how high it is. Li Pan groped along the wall and the sound of dogs barking, and finally found the main entrance. In the Chinese-style archway, the handwriting on the plaque is unclear.

The black dog squatted at the door and gave Li Pan a wink.

"Why don't you go in? All right, wait for me here."

Li Pan rubbed the dog's head angrily again, and walked into the yard.

The mist inside was a little thinner, so Li Pan could see the surrounding pattern.

This seems to be... a Taoist temple?
There is a huge alchemy furnace in the middle of the courtyard. The alchemy furnace is made of some kind of iron. It is cold and cold, but there is a curl of gray smoke rising from the top, connecting with the mist in the sky. , are all illusions born from the pill furnace.

Li Pan walked around the alchemy furnace, and found that the doors of the Western Zhou wing room were closed, only the main hall was open, so he went forward.

The main hall was also dark, with no light at all. There were three ancient seal characters written on the plaque. Li Pan didn't recognize any of them...

On the altar of the main hall, there is a huge statue carved in stone.

Li Pan looked carefully for a while before recognizing it.

It seemed to be a coiled snake, covered with thorn-like dragon scales all over its body, it was pitch-black, and it was hard to see carefully. The snake's head was coiled by its body, and it seemed to be sleeping inside.

The waist of this giant python is two meters wide, and the carving is lifelike. If Li Pan didn't recognize the dark purple one, it probably used mountain rocks mined outside. He almost thought it was really a giant python coiled in the palace.

On the stone shrine in front of the altar, there was no incense burner tribute, but a stone box. Li Pan noticed that the stone box was pull-out, and it seemed that there was something in it, so he stretched out his hand to lift the stone box. Open it and see a roll of black bamboo slips in the box.

There seemed to be engravings on the black slips, but Li Pan couldn't see clearly, so he took the bamboo slips to the outside of the hall and held them up to compare with the ancient inscriptions on the plaque.

I still don't recognize it, but there are four characters on the bamboo slips, and when you open it, you can see that there are densely packed inside, and every bamboo slip is full of writing.

Just when Li Pan hesitated, not knowing what to do next in this trial, he hesitated whether to go to the door and ask the dog.

At this moment, the dog at the door barked wildly, "Aoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"It was clearly a warning to him!

At the same time, from the corner of his vision, Li Pan seemed to catch a glimpse of something moving in the main hall.

Then he heard a sound, click, click, click, like the loud noise of rocks rubbing against each other during a landslide.

What else could it be? Li Pan stiffened his neck, turned his head slowly, and saw that giant python really came alive in the temple, raised its head in the shadows... wait, it looks like a human head!
"Fuck!"

Li Pan ran away, and rushed out of the temple in a flash. Gouzi saw him coming out, "Aoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Li Pan ran with the dog with all his strength. He didn't know whether he was too nervous or too scared. He even felt his feet were soft. The ground under his feet was undulating like a trampoline. After several somersaults, luckily I didn't sprain my ankle, so I got up and continued running in the direction of the dog barking!

I ran all the way, and then it suddenly dawned.

Yes, it is dawn, and the light is pouring down from the top of the head, dispelling the mist that envelops the sky and the earth.

Li Pan couldn't help looking up, and then saw two huge golden suns clearly exposed in the strong wind and heavy fog, and the golden light balls were rapidly falling from the distant starry sky!
All of a sudden, the dog's barking sound of "Aooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

But Li Pan's whole body was paralyzed from the neck down, and he couldn't run anymore. He knelt down on the ground and hugged the raised rock on the ground tightly.

Because it was not an illusion, beside him, at his feet, the distant mountain was really rolling like a vast sea, the earth was shaking, the mountains were falling apart, and the earth was cracking.The dense fog in the sky was swept away by the violent wind blown by the leaping mountains, and the earth rose up like a tsunami!The mountains lead!The galaxy hangs upside down!Cover the starry sky!Cover up the galaxy!

In Li Pan's field of vision, the endless mountains rolled up like snakes, roaming in the galaxy, rushing towards the emptiness, endless, vortex of deep space.

In this frantic scene, Li Pan couldn't help shedding blood and tears. He seemed to be able to hear the cracking sound of blood vessels in his skull, and he could feel warm liquid overflowing from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

But he didn't blink because he actually saw it.

is a snake.

An indescribably gigantic snake.

Those two golden suns are the pupils of the snake.

It rolled up, stuck its head out from the darkness, and looked at Li Pan.

Li Pan also recognized its face.

That is his face.

……

Li Pan opened his eyes suddenly, feeling his heart beating wildly in his chest.

When he raised his eyes, he saw his face again, like a monster with a snake body in a dream, staring at him not far away, almost screaming out in fright.So much so that he stared and almost forgot to breathe, and it took him ten seconds to react.

It was just the reflection in the bathroom mirror.

At this moment, he was sitting in his small apartment with one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom. The timer on the mirror flickered, showing that it was two o'clock in the morning.

Although in the dream, he seemed to be on that mountain, no, climbing on that snake's back for several days, but in fact, he only slept for an hour when he returned to the apartment after work on the first day.

"...Mad's strange dream..."

Li Pan's voice became hoarse, and after wiping off his sweat, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Then he saw the scroll of bamboo slips in his hand.

"Wattfa..."

Trembling, Li Pan climbed to the window and looked out cautiously. He only saw the dirty and crowded Tongzilou in the slums, and he was slightly relieved when he didn't see the huge snake.

For a moment, he didn't know which truth was more terrifying.
It was he who really went to another world just now and stole a scroll of bamboo slips from a giant python with a human head.

Someone still sneaked into his apartment in the middle of the night and stuffed a roll of bamboo slips into his hands...

Li Pan quickly got up and took a shower. He didn't have any trauma on his body, and his blood vessels didn't explode like in the dream. The newly bought prosthetic body was also in good condition. It seemed that the only connection with that weird dream was the bamboo slip. up.

"Xing Tian, ​​call out the apartment video from an hour ago. There is also my sleeping state and physical signs."

However, Li Pan didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly did a full-body examination. Fortunately, from the surveillance, he was still normal, but after returning, he sat on the sofa and fell asleep, and there were no hackers. Ninja sneaked into the apartment. Even the tooth marks that the female vampire gnawed on her hands when she got off work are still there.

But there is a small problem.

No matter in the video or in the mirror, there is no scroll of bamboo slips.

Obviously, Li Pan himself can see and touch with the naked eye, in the mirror, in the video, and in the system, but there is nothing, and he can't observe anything!

The person in the mirror raised his head repeatedly to check the air in his hand, making him act like a lunatic.

Not optical invisibility, not camouflage.

Really, something that only exists in dreams.

"Mad, the monster..."

Li Pan also couldn't understand, couldn't figure it out, so he had to attribute this strange dream and monster to the "trial of formal clothes" for the time being.

Frowning and staring at the bamboo slips in his hand, he felt that this 'trial of formal attire' was not over yet.

But now that he's back to the real world of 0791, Li Pan copied the ancient handwriting on the bamboo slips one by one, and retrieved them on the Internet.

Then, looking at the translated results, Li Pan was speechless. For a while, he suspected that someone was messing with him, and for a while, he fell into deep self-doubt. He even wanted to take the initiative to apply for a psychiatric evaluation to see if he was really crazy.

This crazy thing is actually "Nine Yin Scriptures", can you believe it...

(End of this chapter)