Destiny Rekindled

Chapter 5 Dream Rules and the State of Nothingness

"Special Affairs Group, Zhou Zixiu"

After writing these words on the blackboard, Zhou Zixiu smiled and said, "I know that you all have a lot of doubts now. Please don't worry. We will explain them one by one."

"First of all, what is the Special Affairs Group?"

"This is an official organization established specifically for the dream world. Its job is to deal with any possible situations related to the dream world."

"Although we were only established yesterday, please trust our professionalism." Zhou Zixiu tapped the blackboard, "Now, let me help you solve your doubts about the dream world."

He casually took out a USB drive, plugged it into the multimedia host in the classroom, and quickly opened a PPT.

"First, the dangers of the dream world." Zhou Zixiu paused for a moment, "So far, there have been 168 deaths in the country caused by the dream world."

Amid the uproar of the students in the audience, Zhou Zixiu changed the subject and said, "However, in these 168 deaths, the deceased were all elderly people with serious underlying diseases. The cause of death was cardiac arrest or cerebral vascular rupture caused by the pain and shock caused by dying in the dream world."

"After our observations and verification, death in the dream world itself does not directly lead to death or injury in reality."

"Therefore, it is recommended that elderly people with underlying diseases such as heart disease adjust their work and rest schedules to stagger their sleep time and the opening time of the entrance to the dream world."

"We have sent people to every household to give lectures. If you have such elderly people at home, remember to urge them to adjust their work and rest schedules."

After hearing this, the class quieted down and many students breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment just now, they really thought that the dream world would directly cause death in reality.

Fortunately, that’s not the case.

"Secondly, it's about the entrance to the dream world." Zhou Zixiu paused, "Yesterday's text introduction was not detailed enough. We have tried to verify some of the more detailed parts."

"First, it's time to enter the dream world."

"If you fall asleep at any time between midnight and eight o'clock, you will enter the dream world. If you fall asleep before midnight, you will enter the dream world at midnight."

"But!" Zhou Zixiu's voice became more serious, "There is a problem here that needs attention."

"If you enter the dream world at one o'clock, then your body in the dream world may be at risk between midnight and one o'clock."

"Yesterday was the first time for everyone to enter the dream world, which is similar to creating a new game account. There is no impact if you delay entering. But if you already have an account tonight, there may be unknown risks if you delay entering."

"We will arrange verification tonight about the specific risks and inform you of the results as soon as possible."

"Before the verification results come out, it is recommended that everyone go to bed before midnight and do not delay."

"Well..." Zhang Yangwang raised his hand, and after Zhou Zixiu nodded, he stood up and spoke, "We only need to wake up the person who entered the dream world last night and let him enter the dream world again an hour later, so that we can verify the effect of delayed entry, right?"

"Since we could have verified it last night, why wait until tonight?" Zhang Yangwang's words were full of sarcasm. After all, the man in front of him affected his ability to pretend.

"Very thoughtful." Zhou Zixiu saw Zhang Yangwang's little thoughts, but did not take them to heart. "Of course we have thought of this method."

"This brings me to my second point." He glanced around, and it was clear that what he was going to say next was equally important. "Once you enter the dream world, you cannot exit before the entrance is closed."

"You should have discovered that there is no option to exit after entering the dream world. The only way to exit is to wait until the entrance closes at eight o'clock."

"We conducted a series of tests to determine the possibility of forced exit through external force." At this point, Zhou Zixiu clicked on a video in the PPT.

The video environment is a high-tech laboratory, which is empty inside with only a hard bed on which a man is sleeping.

There is a time display in the upper left corner of the video, and the start time is 00:00:00. "Testing begins."

Soon, another man appeared in the video. Under the nervous gaze of everyone, he began to make all kinds of noisy noises, trying to wake the man up. The decibel meter displayed the volume at the moment in real time.

Even though the volume reached 120 decibels, equivalent to sitting in the front row of a concert, the sleeping man did not react at all.

The volume test came to an end, the tester pressed a button, and the bed under the sleeping man began to vibrate violently, like an earthquake.

However, in such a testing environment, the man still showed no signs of waking up.

"Oh my god...he's sleeping so soundly?" Xiaopang couldn't help but muttered, "Why not just take his bed away?"

Qin Chuan: “…”

Just be a human being!
But the next moment, he was dumbfounded.

There were bursts of exclamations in the classroom.

Because that tester really started pumping the bed.

What is even more shocking is that after the bed was pulled away, the sleeping man did not fall to the ground as everyone expected, but instead remained in the original position and slept in mid-air.

The tester in the video seemed to be shocked by this scene, so much so that he uttered a very clear "WTF" sound.

After a moment, he came to his senses and put a hand on the man's shoulder, trying to shake his body.

In full view of everyone, the tester's hand passed through the man's shoulder.

Seeing this scene, exclamations were heard again in the classroom.

Looking at the progress bar which was less than halfway completed, everyone realized that things might not be that simple.

Needles, daggers, swords, pistols, flamethrowers...

At the end of the video, when a rocket blew the entire laboratory into pieces but the man's body was not damaged at all, the expressions on everyone's faces were numb.

It was confirmed that the tester had a grudge against the sleeping man.

"This is the state you are in after entering the dream world." Although he had already watched this video, Zhou Zixiu couldn't help but twitch his mouth at this moment, "We call this state the state of nothingness."

"As you can see, in the state of nothingness, people who enter the dream world behave as if they don't exist in this world except that they can be seen, and they can't be awakened."

"So, there is only one way to wake up in the dream world."

"Death in the dream world, account reset."

Zhou Zixiu glanced at Zhang Yangwang and smiled slightly, "This is why the method you proposed cannot be done. The verification can only be carried out tonight."

Zhang Yangwang sat down in silence.

Qin Chuan, who had watched the entire video, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at this moment.

The state of nothingness greatly increases the safety of entering the dream world.

(End of this chapter)