Protagonist interpretation rules

Chapter 22 Human Prison, Path, Distant Dream
Bai Yue stared at the black watch Hanyu Hitomi put on his wrist.

There are only two kinds of logos engraved on the front of the crystal-like dial. A green heart is engraved on the top, and two crossed golden lightnings are engraved in the center of the heart. At the bottom is a dark red light bulb, which contains a mixture of human brain and eyeballs. texture.

"Is this thing also a setting prop for exploring the depths?"

Bai Yue touched the watch with his other hand. The young man was a little surprised, because the watch clearly felt like metal, but in fact it was as light as a feather, and he could hardly feel the weight.

"It's called the 'Human Prison', and it's the latest sanity stabilization device produced by the Blood Press Company. It's characterized by its firmness, reliability, and excellent performance."

The old man at the other end of the screen was chewing French fries and introduced: "In addition to marking the 'path', it will also detect your mental state at all times. If your reason is not as good as the inspiration you swallowed, it will It forcibly locks your humanity in time to prevent the explosion of inspiration and buy time for the birth of the work. However, the only drawback of this setting prop is..."

The black marketeer paused: "Its life-saving effect is one-time."

"It's quite reasonable, but this thing shouldn't be cheap." Bai Yue tapped the dial.

"Fortunately, it's just the down payment for a house in Dayan Shangjingtian City."

"..."

At this moment, Bai Yue and Baimao's eyes turned out two big ""s.

"Calm down... I'm just borrowing it! I didn't say I would give it to you! Hey! Don't let your cat lick it!"

Lao Wen had a dark look on his face and quickly called to his employees: "Hitomi Hanyu, please help control the situation!"

The silver-haired girl hurriedly hugged the white lion cat, and Bai Shu struggled in her arms, purring without meaning.

"Ahem, sorry... I accidentally got distracted just now."

Bai Yue wiped his love watch, and the young man smiled and said, "Aside from the Human Prison and Klein's Box, does Brother Wen have any good products?"

"There are only so many setting props I can provide."

Lao Wen said angrily: "Watches, boxes, and necessary sanity protection masks are already standard equipment for Dayan's official team."

Bai Yue nodded, approving the response of the financial owner.

"Next, I will provide you with the 'path' to your deeper destination, and the 'inspiration' you need."

Lao Wen snapped his fingers, and Bai Yue's personal terminal projected a new picture.

"Let's get to know it before you go. The destination of your trip is the deep world recently discovered by the Dayan survey team - the Golden Kingdom that never sleeps."

The picture was obviously taken artificially.

The protagonist who recorded this trip held up the photography equipment and slowly pulled the camera towards the sky.

A red moon appeared in the sky, and a golden river surrounded the red moon and flowed in the sky.

The river is very bright so the environment is not dark.

Every moment, something falls from the golden river, most of them are gems and gold coins, and the rest are some random items.

Bai Yue took a quick glance and saw among the fallen objects a rusty silver gun, metal bearings, a tricorn hat with feathers, a coffee machine, a broken lantern...

The surface of the earth is littered with collapsed houses, and things falling from the sky hit the desolate ruins, filling the air with dust.

Some Dayan survey members wearing conspicuous yellow uniforms were walking back and forth among the ruins, taking samples and taking notes on paper from time to time.

At this moment, two young survey members came to the protagonist's side.

One of the team members looked obviously a little uneasy: "Captain Liang, Xiao Li and I found human corpses not far from the west direction of the ruins."

"Human corpse? You didn't approach it rashly, did you?"

Captain Liang's tone instantly became serious.

"No, no, Xiao Li and I came over immediately to report. He took notes."

The camera is slightly tilted toward another young man.

Xiao Li took out his notes and told: "The corpses (sudden harsh rustling sound)...the corpses were wearing yellow uniforms, and they had red star badges on their chests...the number of people was (rustling sound)...as for their appearance……"

The young man was in a daze: "I...I don't seem to have a record..."

"Call everyone to assemble immediately."

Team Liang pondered for a while: "Although this is a resource-rich world and there are still many places that need to be surveyed, the safety of the team comes first. Let's stop here for today's survey." Not long after, a man wearing a yellow uniform with his chest Survey members wearing red star badges gathered together.

Everyone is here, no one is missing.

The protagonist holding the photography equipment issued an instruction: "Everyone, take the records of this trip as... works... (harsh rustling sound), prepare to... return..."

The screen ends here.

"What I am sending you now are part of the notes recorded by Liang Qiuli, the record-keeper of the survey team."

Lao Wen's big face appeared again, and the young man smiled proudly: "It can be seen that there is a brand new and mysterious world over there. There is gold everywhere in it, and there are tons of settings waiting for us to mine. .”

"...slow down."

Bai Yue's face became strange: "Didn't you find anything wrong?"

"Huh? Something's wrong? There's nothing wrong..."

Lao Wen was obviously a little confused.

Bai Yue shouted: "They obviously saw the bodies of their own people!"

The black marketeer scratched his head: "What did you say? Is the signal there not very good?"

"Are you serious?"

Bai Yue showed an expression of disbelief for the first time. The young man turned his head and found that the silver-haired girl beside him was staring at him with the same puzzled expression.

"Tell me, what did you discover from Xiao Li's description?"

The young man asked word for word.

"Mr. Bai, it is very common for members of the survey team to find corpses in deep layers..."

The girl said weakly: "Maybe the corpse is a local from deep down or a stowaway or something..."

Bai Yue: "..."

——Everyone’s cognition is distorted.

Bai Yue stopped trying to uncover the 'irrationality' in the record. After a moment, deep curiosity appeared in the young man's eyes.

He wanted to go and see it for himself.

The young man breathed a long sigh of relief: "Tell me the path."

In previous exchanges, Bai Yue was told that there is a path to any deep level, and people will swallow different inspirations and fall into different worlds.

The creators fell from the present world into the deep, and then from the deep into a deeper and deeper place...

As the depth value increases, the creation of the work will become more difficult, and the possibility of soul loss will increase exponentially.

"The path is easy to say. You have to pass through the 'Secret Sea', 'Swallowing Star Universe', 'Sacred Mountain', and finally use your inspiration to call out the golden moonlit night."

Lao Wen smiled and said: "Believe me, Boss Bai, the journey during this period will be very easy."

At the black market merchant's signal, the silver-haired girl put on a black silk glove under Bai Yue's gaze, and she put her hand into the smooth black box.

After a while, she pulled out one...

A living transparent marshmallow?
Bai Yue looked at it carefully and found that the marshmallow was not completely transparent. Every time it twisted its body, some reflections of the world would appear in the marshmallow, including the sun and moon, cities, mountains, lakes, and desert oceans.

Scenes of scenery changed and intertwined, and then disappeared into nothingness.

The silver-haired girl held the marshmallow's hand tightly and handed it to the curious boy.

"This is the inspiration you want to digest, Mr. Bai. It's called..."

The girl said softly.

"——Distant Dream."

(End of this chapter)