Add some practice: start with a lucid dream

Chen Ze is too tough.

Just like using a stone mill to grind a diamond, the great millstone of heaven and earth is still coming together, but somewhere where it touched Chen Ze was shattered inch by inch, turning into fragments of powder, and he suddenly carved out a space for people.

Chen Ze quietly watched the changes until the big millstone was completely integrated into one, with no gaps left in the middle. Only the sound of mortise and tenon joints could still be heard in the distance.

He was surrounded by a small area and his vision was blocked, so he tried to expand his consciousness.

As a result, I don’t know what kind of material this giant city is made of. It is extremely difficult for spiritual consciousness to spread in it, and it can only extend a few meters away.

The same was true for Yuan Qi, and the resistance he encountered was somewhat unexpected.

It's difficult to move forward without destroying it.

At this time, Chen Ze couldn't hear much movement, so it seemed that this giant city of machines was completely formed.

There is no doubt that the power energy that inspires this giant city is the massive amount of Yuan Qi provided by Chen Ze.

So he closed his eyes and realized that [-]% of his Yuan Qi reserves had been reduced, leaving only about [-]%.

Thirty percent should be enough.

Chen Ze thought about his strength and immediately decided to explore the inside of this giant city.

dong dong.

Chen Ze stretched out his hand and knocked on the barrier next to him. The material was somewhere between metal and wood. It was surprisingly strong, far better than steel.

Should it be facing up or down?
Although he couldn't see clearly inside, Chen Ze could still vaguely tell that the machine city was divided into upper and lower parts.

Chen Ze thought for a while and decided to go down first.

So he gathered his Yuan Qi, tensed his toes and thrust them down like vertebrae.

Dangdang!
Like an exploded tempered glass, a large number of fine pieces of hard objects flew everywhere.

Chen Ze kept sinking in place.

【Experience value +5000】

【Experience value +8000】

【Experience value +10000】.
There is a mystery hidden underneath, and there are many parts with no discernible purpose.

Chen Ze dug all the way to a depth of tens of meters, and with the help of his extended spiritual consciousness, he quickly noticed the existence of the hollow.

He immediately quickened his movements.

At the same time, the outside world.

"Ah-"

Wu Jiagui fell from the sky and kept falling. Suddenly he felt a pulling force from his collar, and the screams suddenly stopped.

He opened his eyes with difficulty and saw that he was actually hung on, hung on. He was hung on an unknown black raised hard object.

Wu Jiagui glanced down carefully and immediately closed his eyes.

I don't know how many hundred meters away from the ground it is. If I fall,
"Ah~ah sneeze!"

hiss-

Wu Jiagui sneezed and the fabric of his collar suddenly tore, and his whole body sank.

"Digging!"

Wu Jiagui quickly hugged the protrusion tightly with his hands and feet, climbed step by step along the uneven parts of Laushizi, gradually climbed up, and landed on a relatively flat platform.

"Ah sneeze!"

This sneeze took away all the strength of Wu Jiagui, and he could only huddle up with his arms around his shoulders, lying on his side shivering.

He looked quite miserable at this time, his already terrifying face was bloodless from the cold, and there was still snot dripping from his nose.

Wu Jiagui just didn't have time to evacuate, so Chen Ze threw him up to an unknown height of several thousand meters, and did an exciting cordless bungee jump.

After a while, he regained his composure and gradually regained his consciousness. Only then did he have time to pay attention to what was under him.

It looked like the top of an endless huge building. He had never seen such a strange sight.

Where did this thing come from?

Wu Jiagui struggled to stand up and looked around blankly, but saw that the surroundings had changed drastically.

The mountains that I had seen countless times disappeared, and a large bald head nearby seemed to have been shaved off by a barber's apprentice using clippers.

Have I been thrown somewhere else?
Wu Jiagui began to wonder if he was still in Guanshan Nature Reserve.

Rumble-

A sudden tremor shook him around.

When the Wu family finally regained their footing, they saw light coming from not far away from the platform, and immediately ran over.

The light seemed to come from the entrance of a cave, and a figure jumped out of it with neat movements.

"Hello!" Wu Jiagui took a few steps closer and shouted loudly, panting.
"Where is this place?"

A cold light flashed in front of his eyes.

Wu Jiagui stopped for a moment, his eyes stiffened and he squinted at the sharp blade against his own, and goosebumps appeared on his neck as if being pricked by needles.

Inside the city.

Chen Ze's last heavy step.

when!When~ bang!

A big hole was kicked out under his feet, and a strange smell came up.

Chen Ze looked down, and there seemed to be light coming out.

So as soon as he let go, his whole body fell through the big hole.

puff~
The footing was slippery, the ground was covered with greasy unknown liquid, and a strong smell immediately filled the nose.

Chen Ze looked around with the faint light coming from somewhere on the wall.

This is a room of about tens of square meters. The wall material is exactly the same as the inside of the machine city, but it is now filled with some unknown liquid.

Chen Ze took two steps and came to the wall. He found that the room was filled with the same liquid, which was slightly viscous and exuded a strange smell of gutter oil.

He stretched out his hand and touched it. It was cold and could be drawn, like hot cheese that was transparent but slightly cloudy.

The room was also littered with tools that looked like funnels, shovels, hammers, and other named or unnamed tools.

Snapped.

Chen Ze fired several Yuan Qi fireworks to surround him and illuminate them, while using his spiritual consciousness to detect them.

The air here is nothing special except for the smell, which cannot block the spiritual consciousness.

A faint blue light shone through the room.

Soon, the entire room was under control.

In addition to tools and miscellaneous items, there is a large groove that takes up half of the room. It looks like a sink in a public bathroom.

It was filled with that greasy and unknown liquid.

Chen Ze guessed that the liquid was originally stored in the pool, but because of the growth, deformation and bumps of the machine city just now, it was spilled everywhere.

There was still a thick layer of something that looked like old dirt and algae at the bottom of the pool. Chen Ze took out a little bit and held it in his hand, but couldn't figure out why.

However, the experience value increased slightly.

【Experience value +1000】.
Forget it, I'd better not eat it.
Not short of this experience value.

Chen Ze finally threw away the disgusting thing and decided to look for anyone there first.

According to Wu Jiagui, this is the headquarters of an organization that has been entrenched in the local area for many years, and there must be many people living here.

There were not many traces of habitation in this room. Chen Ze glanced left and right and walked straight towards the door.The shape of the door leaf is very simple, just a door and a handle, without any decoration.

But if you look closely, it is quite delicate. The moving shaft seems to be driven by a machine, and it makes a very rhythmic crunching sound when pushed.

The door was unlocked, so Chen Ze pulled the handle and walked out.

Outside is a wide corridor with many identical doors on both sides, some closed, some ajar, and some wide open.

There was no light in the corridor, only light came from a few door cracks, and the whole place was still dark and gloomy.

Chen Ze threw the Qi Yan out with a flick of his finger, lighting up the entire corridor.

The ceiling, floor, and walls are all made of the same material, which looks like metal and ebony. It seems that this is the only material in the entire city, which is a bit monotonous.

With his spiritual consciousness first, Chen Ze stepped forward slowly.

The door to the nearest room was closed, but Chen Ze opened it as soon as he pulled the door handle.

Inside was a room similar to the one before, dozens of square meters in size, filled with tools and miscellaneous items.

But there is no sink in the room. Instead, it is divided by a large piece of patched rag used as a curtain.

Swah——

As soon as Chen Ze pulled the door curtain, there was a pile of rotten wood that almost reached the ceiling. The smell was overwhelming, and the gaps seemed to be filled with mushrooms.

Chen Ze frowned, pulled back the curtains and backed out.

Ever since he entered this city, the deepest impression he had was the smell.

Smelly!
Everything stinks, the air stinks, and the room stinks even more.

Next, Chen Ze drove along the corridor from room to room.

As a result, various rooms were filled with strange things. Some were filled with boxes of spoiled and moldy powdery substances; some were crawling with insects that resembled super-rat women, and seemed to be deliberately bred; some were separated by wooden pillars to create countless squares and filled the room. Do something.

The only thing in the room that was understandable was the layers of containers filled with sand and cotton. Water dripped from the ceiling from nowhere and was filtered down step by step.

The bucket for collecting water had already been smashed to pieces.

In any case, at least it means that these rooms are usually used.

squeak--

Chen Ze closed the door for an unknown number of times, and suddenly his expression moved slightly, looking in a certain direction.

His extended consciousness noticed the living person.

Whoosh—

Chen Ze's figure flashed and appeared dozens of meters away at the door of the room near the end of the corridor.

squeak--

When I opened the door, I saw that it was dry inside and filled with large wooden boxes. It seemed to be used as a warehouse.

Chen Ze did not check what was in the wooden box. His attention was entirely on a figure lying on the ground.

The man lay face down on the ground, his face covered with a mop of knotted, greasy hair, and he seemed to be in a coma.

From the outside, he looks thin and thin. He wears rags and linen clothes that can barely cover his thick and exposed joints. He is skinny in the true sense.

Huh?
Chen Ze suddenly became suspicious.

He habitually swept it up with his spiritual consciousness, but was blocked by this person's face.

Face, face?

Is it
Chen Ze squatted down and turned the man's head over.

A face that looked like it had a white blurred effect appeared in front of me, and it was impossible to see the parts other than the mouth and nose.

Chen Ze looked carefully and found that the man's face was covered with a white mask. Except for the openings for the mouth, nose and eyes, the entire face was completely blocked.

And this mask can actually block the intrusion of spiritual consciousness, making Chen Ze unable to figure out this person's face.

Chen Ze stretched out his hand to peel it off, but couldn't find the gap between the mask and his face.

The edges of the entire mask were completely covered in flesh and fit extremely well, resembling fingernails, as if they were growing out of the face.

The mask itself is made of a material that is both hard and flexible, with an uneven thickness that makes it difficult to see the outline of the face and can perfectly cover the appearance.

If you look closely, you can still vaguely see the lines, and the texture when touched can easily remind Chen Ze of unscratched fish scales on the dining table.

In this case, Chen Ze planned to wake this person up first.

The spiritual consciousness cannot penetrate the facial area, but it can penetrate directly into the brain from the back of the head, and the same is true for other parts.

Chen Ze already knew that this person was a man. Judging from the color of his hair, he should not be too old. His soul was not seriously injured. He was probably comatose after being frightened.

Under the stimulation of the spiritual consciousness entering his brain, the person's exposed eyelids moved slightly, and then the amplitude became larger and larger until he completely woke up.

He made vague syllables in his mouth, struggled to get up, and noticed a pair of shoes on the ground in front of him.

His eyes moved upward, and he slowly met Chen Ze's eyes.

"Uh-huh, ah——"

This man was babbled and backed away on his hands and knees, obviously frightened.

"Don't be afraid." Chen Ze soothed softly, his divine consciousness and Taoism already activated.

The affected man quickly calmed down and his eyes were no longer panicked.

"Who are you?" Chen Ze squatted down again, lowering the height difference between them.

"Uh-huh, lu-wa-gu-gu-la," the man chirped, gesticulating with his hands.

Chen Ze originally thought it was some kind of language, but after listening to it for a while, he realized that it was just meaningless gibbering with almost no rules.

Is it a deaf-mute?
Chen Ze shouted a few more words, but saw that the other party was able to respond to the sound.

When I opened my mouth again, I saw that this guy was smelly and full of rotten teeth. He couldn't bear to look at it.

However, there are no abnormalities in the vocal cords and throat, and he should be able to speak.

But no matter how Chen Ze guided him, he could not establish effective communication with the man.

Could it be that this person has never learned any language at all?

Chen Ze gradually began to have speculations in his mind.

So he temporarily erased this person's memory, and then used his spiritual consciousness and Taoism to "invisibly" stand aside, preparing to see what this person would do.

After being affected, the man was stunned, and silently climbed up from the floor. He looked anxiously at the tools and debris dumped all over the room, and went up to sort them out hurriedly.

The layout of this room was similar to the first room Chen Ze entered. The main body was a large groove filled with a sticky unknown liquid.

I saw the man working hard, sorting out the debris, cleaning, and taking a few filter-like tools, kneeling in front of the large sink, filtering the liquid in layers, and then putting it into a barrel container.

Chen Ze watched for a while and could only see that the man was purifying the unknown liquid.

As for the unknown liquid after purification, it was much clearer than before, and the odor was also removed a lot. When Chen Ze came forward to smell it, he smelled the aroma of oil.

Is this extracting some kind of oil?
Intuition told Chen Ze that there should be many people like this.

So he left the hard-working man alone and started searching each room again.

Sure enough, Chen Ze discovered more similar people along the way, and their characteristics were all surprisingly consistent.

The male is in extremely poor nutritional and health status, cannot speak, has a mask on his face, and is dressed in ragged clothes.

The mental state of these people was quite tense. Each one was more frightened than the other when seeing Chen Ze. After erasing their memories, they all went about their own tasks corresponding to the rooms.

Some are filtering water; some are cultivating and feeding bugs and killing them for meat; some are picking and processing mushrooms; and some are processing and manufacturing certain tools.

This is the only difference between them besides age.

After such a trip, Chen Ze could roughly understand that these people were only engaged in some kind of production work and seemed to be slaves. (End of chapter)