this is not the end

Chapter 3 Return to Reality
Chen Xiaoze, who started to explore the dream world, has already confirmed that those guys on the Internet are all talking nonsense.

What hundreds of meters, one kilometer, he only walked for more than two minutes, a metal wall was in front of him.

He froze for a long time, then walked in the opposite direction.

This time it only took 3 minutes to hit the second wall.

Prove that this space is not infinite.

During this process, Chen Xiaoze has been counting the dormant cabins, placing one every two meters, and counting from the beginning to the end, there are only 200 dormant cabins.

That is to say, the width or length of this space is only 400 meters.

Afterwards, Chen Xiaoze started to walk along the metal wall again, and finally came to a conclusion:
This is a 400 by 400 square space, containing about 4 hibernation pods.

Excluding empty cabins, according to Chen Xiaoze's previous estimate, there are less than 4000 dormant cabins that are occupied by people, and they are all concentrated in the central area of ​​the square space.

It's not like what is said on the Internet, what kind of infinite space, how far you go, how far I go.

In the current situation, Chen Xiaoze judged that there were only three possibilities:
First, his dreams are different from others, much smaller.

However, this possibility is unlikely.It is impossible for everyone to have the same dream, only his little one.

Second, those online posts are lying, and no one is telling the truth.

But is everyone lying?Impossible?
Also, Chen Xiaoze calculated just now that the actual distance to the dormant cabin closest to the metal wall is only more than 100 meters.

Even if he is the first infected person to find the [Emergency Response Kit], as long as other people are strong enough and lucky enough, it is entirely possible to find the wall if they allocate their limited physical strength reasonably and crawl in the right direction.

Didn't one of them unravel the secrets of dreams on the Internet?
Even, if someone is lucky enough to climb to where Chen Xiaoze is standing now and see the scene in front of him, will he still not say a word?
At this moment, in front of Chen Xiaoze.
There is a door!

A door that leaves the hibernation pod space.

There is a word on it: [Harbin Colonial Module]

Standing quietly in front of the door, Chen Xiaoze fell into deep thought.

First of all, these characters are very strange, similar to the official human language-Chinese characters.Some characters are the same as Chinese characters, while others have much fewer strokes.

And, "Hashi"?Chen Xiaoze can be sure that there is no such place name on the earth.

Is that the place name of another civilization?
The civilization this spaceship belongs to! !
And then the colonization mod?
Is this civilization capable of interstellar colonization?Impossible!
When Chen Xiaoze inspected the dormant cabin just now, he found that the technology of this civilization is quite backward, and the technology of the dormant cabin is still equivalent to the industrial level of human civilization hundreds of years ago.

But here comes the problem:
In the ancient Song Dynasty 1000 years ago, the mad king Tang Zihao ruled the world, unifying civilizations and at the same time promoting the technological revolution.

In other words, it has been 1000 years since human civilization entered the age of science and technology, and science and technology have developed rapidly and made breakthroughs in countless fields.But even so, humans have not been able to leave the solar system so far.

Although there is a reason for the invasion of the Union League, some science and technology scholars assert that even without the shackles of the Union League, there will still be certain technical problems for human beings to go to deep space.

But how did this civilization, which is so far behind human civilization, achieve colonization?
Putting aside these questions for the time being, Chen Xiaoze focused his attention on the door again.

What's outside the door?
Is it the truth of K2's dream?Messages from other civilizations to humans?Or trigger the so-called plot?

Chen Xiaoze didn't know.

After thinking for a long time, I decided to stop here today.

This dream is far more mysterious and complicated than ordinary people understand.It is unknown whether there is any danger and what consequences it will bring.

Besides, Chen Xiaoze was not in a hurry.

You can come in at any time, you can continue at any time, so what's the rush?

Returning to my dormant cabin, I closed the hatch and drowned myself, in a trance
In the real world, the summer nights are slightly cool, and the soft bed gradually relaxes Chen Xiaoze's tense nerves, giving him a sense of being grounded.

It's just that during the dreaming process, it seems that I sweated a lot, soaking the sheets, quilts, clothes and pants so greasy and uncomfortable.

After changing clothes and bedding, I went to take a shower and felt completely refreshed.

Anyway, I couldn't sleep anymore, so I simply played with my phone, still searching for information about K2's dream.

This time he was more inclined to articles and posts like plot clues, hoping to see if he could gain something.

It's just that there is nothing useful, it's all the bragging of old infected people:

What is "I didn't see anything after walking a few kilometers."

What is "walking like flying, I don't know how far I can run inside."

Looking at it, Chen Xiaoze frowned even deeper, the more abnormal it became.

I simply posted a post by myself, "walk in a straight line and don't hit the wall for 5 minutes, I think you have found the door!!"

Leave it alone after sending it, and continue to search for information that is useful to you.

Key words to focus on are: dormant cabin switch, wall hatch, mysterious person, these are suspicious information.

Just, nothing.

It was a new post in the nightmare discussion group that caught Chen Xiaoze's attention.

"K2 Nightmare There Are Living People! ! "

Chen Xiaoze was startled, "A living person?"

This information is too important to him, so click on it quickly.

The post was just posted, and the person who posted it was a female ID named [Flower Rain Flying].

"My K2 dream seems to be different from everyone else!! There was a living person in the dream, a very strong living person! At that time, I just climbed out of the hibernation cabin, and I heard a person cursing loudly in a daze."

"Judging from the sound and footsteps, that person is definitely not an infected person."

"Because he is full of confidence and fast on his feet, not as weak as us."

"I was too scared to respond."

"What should I do? What should I do? Have you ever met this person? Did I trigger the plot? Is there any danger?"

Chen Xiaoze froze there, a little dazed.

A living person with fast steps and cursing?
"No. It's me, right?"

I have heard of two different infected people linking up in dreams before, but there is no scientific statement so far.

This is also one of the basis for the mad scientist to infer the virus as civilization.

The main reason is that the conditions for dream linkage are too harsh.

First of all, two people must fall into the dream at the same time, and they must be in the same city.

Secondly, the K2 virus is inherently small. There are tens of millions of people in Huining Prefecture, and there have only been a few hundred infected people in the past ten years.Moreover, it is not infected at the same time, and the timeline is very long, which is even more difficult to encounter.

Moreover, there is no case of cooperation and exchange that has emerged so far.

Think about it, regardless of gender, if two naked souls meet in a dream, there is more or less suspicion of 404.

Chen Xiaoze judged that this dream friend might have seen him running naked.

I was just about to reply to Hua Yufenfei's post, asking her about the details of her dream, to see if it was really linked.

As a result, just as I was about to return, the post was deleted.

Chen Xiaoze froze, deleted it by himself?

Immediately jump back to my own post, the result
His somewhat stinking showy post was also deleted.

Looking at the time, it was less than a minute after he sent it out.

He raised his eyebrows, "That's really the case."

In the next second, a system notification popped up, and he was banned.

This verified Chen Xiaoze's judgment: it's not that no one told the truth, but that those who told the truth were all deleted.

The next moment, the phone rang!!!
This startled Chen Xiaoze a lot.

how?Deleting posts, banning words, making an appointment for tea?

Looking at the phone, he was speechless again, "Dad!? It's midnight, what are you doing!?"

It was Chen Xiaoze's father, Chen Fengyang, who called, "I was taken aback."

I only heard a middle-aged man's ridicule coming from the phone, without the majesty of an elder, "Isn't this afraid that you will have nightmares, so I care about you?"

Chen Xiaoze leaned against the head of the bed, "Caring about me"

Frowning, "How do you know I'm having a nightmare?"

Father Chen was driving a supply ship in the deep space battlefield outside the solar system.

The delay of conventional directional wave communication is too high, and real-time hyperspace communication is very troublesome on the earth side, so an application is required.

Therefore, Chen Xiaoze usually does not take the initiative to contact his father, but Chen Fengyang calls him, and the front line is more casual.

Chen Xiaoze did not inform Chen Fengyang of the K2 infection.

I only heard Chen Fengyang over there coldly saying, "How do you know? The withdrawal notice has been sent to the front line, how do you think I know!?"

"Day!" Chen Xiaoze yelled, "The school is ruined, the scholarship is not given out happily, and it is positive to drop out!"

Chen Fengyang, "What did I say earlier? It's meaningless if you can't get into that school, and you're just arguing with me."

He concluded, "It's pretty good too! This time I completely stopped thinking about it, so you don't have to quarrel with me back."

"Dad!!" Chen Xiaoze was powerless, "Are you here to comfort me? Why do you look like gloating?"

Chen Fengyang hehe, "I'm really gloating! I told you a long time ago that you won't be allowed to follow the path of genetic evolution, and you didn't listen!"

Chen Fengyang is not a father who expects his son to become a dragon. He is obsessed with letting his son stay on the earth well, marry a wife and have children, and live a peaceful and stable life.

The remuneration for driving a supply ship is very generous, and he doesn't mind Chen Xiaoze taking the old man.

But Chen Xiaoze is very stubborn, insisting on being a new human being.

At this moment, Chen Fengyang turned on the chatterbox switch.

"I promised your mother to take good care of you. So what kind of new human being are you!? Isn't it good to be a waste?"

Chen Xiaoze's face turned dark when he heard this, and he became impatient, "Okay, okay, what you said is the same as going to the front line and you can't come back. The front line is not as dangerous as you said!"

At present, the situation of mankind is very good.Moreover, taking a step back, evolution of new humans does not necessarily mean going to the front, and ordinary people do not necessarily stay behind.

Regarding this, Chen Fengyang was also very stubborn, and said earnestly, "Anyway, you have to listen to me about this matter, we have to live to continue the incense for the old Chen family, there is no discussion!"

"Uh-huh!?"

This statement does not stand up to scrutiny.

Get vigilant, "Old Chen! You don't want to find me a stepmother again, do you?"

What does it mean that the two of us live together to continue the incense of the old Chen family?What's the matter?I'm dead, you have another one?
"Let me tell you, I am in favor of finding a stepmother. After all, I am tired of taking care of you for so many years, but I absolutely cannot find someone who is about my age!"

On this issue, Lao Chen has a criminal record.

"Look!" Old Chen felt guilty.

"The logistics support troops are all mature women who have just graduated. How can they be as old as you said?"

"Besides, I take care of your family, I'm not greasy, and your eight-pack abs are in your prime, so it's within your ability to find a big one!"

Chen Xiaoze got a headache when he heard it.

The biggest advantage of this father is that he is unreliable, and the biggest disadvantage is also that he is unreliable.

And Chen Fengyang didn't want to get entangled in this issue, so he changed the subject, "Let's not talk about it, anyway, I think the virus infection is quite good!"

Chen Xiaoze, "It's already infected anyway, what did you say?"

Chen Fengyang was overjoyed, "That's right, I am your father, and I can still harm you!?"

"Listen to Dad, isn't it just a nightmare? Stay up for a few nights, and after the onset period is over, the dream will gradually stop."

"But you remember one thing for me, don't think about it in your dreams, just stay in the hibernation cabin honestly."

Chen Xiaoze frowned, isn't this like dad's style?

Chen Fengyang belongs to that kind, Chen Xiaoze fights, he apologizes, and fights with his parents again.

Chen Xiaoze is addicted to virtual games, and he has become a serious Internet addiction player after persuading him.

It cannot be said that it is unreliable, but it highlights a love affair.

According to his routine, the nightmare matter should be to encourage his son to crawl hard.

Climb hard for me!Get rid of those hundreds of meters and one kilometer, so that he can have a face.

why this time
"Dad, do you know something?"

Chen Fengyang also became serious at this time, "I do know some inside information."

"Because of your illness, I even specially found old comrades in the Seventh Fleet. Their fleet has a K2 research institute, and they know more about it."

Chen Xiaoze froze, Seventh Fleet?

Apart from the special fleet known as the King of Hades on the front line, the Seventh Fleet is the most capable.

As for the Dream Research Institute, this is the first time Chen Xiaoze has heard of it.

Asked, "What did you hear?"

Chen Fengyang, "People won't say anything that is too confidential, but K2 is definitely not as simple as you think."

"Don't look at the nonsense of those people on the Internet. The government will not let the real news flow to the people, which will easily cause panic."

Chen Xiaoze frowned, more curious: "What do you mean?"

Chen Fengyang, "My old comrade-in-arms only told me three points."

"First, K2 is not a virus, nor is it a dream, it is more like a means of espionage."

"Secondly, most of the infected who had a deep contact with the K2 world were sent to the forefront of the battlefield to perform the most dangerous assault missions."

"Third, if you want to live a peaceful life, just stay in the hibernation cabin honestly, and it will pass soon."

Chen Xiaoze, "..."

Espionage?Not a micro-civilization! ?

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(End of this chapter)