Dream Guide

Aoki knew the problem was never in the locker room. Dream scenes are three-dimensional scenes created and restored by the subconscious mind based on memory, and the conscious body itself can break away from the constraints of dimensions and construct spatial rules and understand spatial content in higher or lower dimensions. Aoki gained a deeper understanding of this by entering the dream state of the "ghost" of mechanical consciousness.

After Zhao Pengcheng's mental power weakened, the dream space was already crumbling. It was Aoki who used his mental power to help him support this space.

At this time, Aoki's mental power easily touched the edge of this dream. At first, he felt that the dream was no different from ordinary people's dreams, but soon he discovered that there was a gap in the space in the direction of the locker room.

Ordinary space, if understood in three dimensions, is a sphere with the consciousness as the center. But in dreams, space is superimposed, that is, many events and scenes are superimposed on each other, so dreams are more like rolling up the three-dimensional space and turning it into a scroll. However, this is still too neat, because when people wake up and restore their dreams, they integrate the order, so our dreams seem to occur on a timeline. In fact, a real dream is more like a ball of wool.

The length of the yarn represents time, and the plush on the surface of the yarn represents the three-dimensional scene we are in. When the wool goes around a ball, many three-dimensional plushs are superimposed on each other. When you seamlessly transition to another three-dimensional world, your timeline may span a long distance forward or backward. . From a time perspective, this is a disordered world, but this disorder is arranged in a special tight order, forming a complex world.

When we wake up from a dream, because our conscious mind can only understand the three-dimensional world, we will open the ball of yarn and straighten the yarn, which is equivalent to rearranging all the scenes.

But the wool balls are too messy, so we can often only remember part of the scene, or even nothing at all, because the human brain will actively classify such messy information as invalid memory. This is an instinct formed in the long-term evolutionary process - the brain groups memories that are not useful to people and buries them like garbage.

A gap in the three-dimensional space is very obvious. For example, in a cardboard box, a corner is missing here, a hole is broken there, etc. It can be easily distinguished by the naked eye. But a gap in a four-dimensional or more-dimensional space is not easy to find. Just like if a piece of wool is broken and a section is missing, you can find it, but you can't see it when it is wound into a ball of wool. It will still look like a tight and complete ball of wool.

There was nothing wrong with Zhao Pengcheng's dream on a three-dimensional scale. When Aoki fully felt the entire ball of yarn with his mental power, he found nothing. But when he unfolded the ball of yarn, a problem arose.

The long velvet was pulled out from the sphere, and scenes of dream scenes were wrapped around the thread, and then suddenly got stuck in a certain place. Of course, this is normal. When we take out a headphone cable from our pocket, it is often too messy to untie it, let alone a long and messy timeline that is entangled with space scenes.

But Aoki found that the stuck place was unusual. There was a very strange knot tied there, it didn't look like it was formed naturally, but it was man-made. When he untied the knot, a gap appeared - the thread of time was broken, and a small section was missing in the middle.

Of course, the lines of time will not fall because they are broken, because there is no place to fall. It just exposes a gap. After passing this gap, it continues according to its rules.

While Aoki was unraveling Zhao Pengcheng's dream, Zhao Pengcheng was still looking towards the operating room. At this moment, Aoki could see clearly that what Zhao Pengcheng's consciousness corresponded to was the gap in time.

"What are you waiting for?" Aoki asked.

Zhao Pengcheng saw Qingmu smile strangely and had a bad feeling.

"Nothing," he said.

Aoki stopped talking to him and walked straight to the locker room.

"What do you want to do?" Zhao Pengcheng asked.

Qing Mu didn't reply and pushed open the door of the dressing room.

The door swung back and forth twice. Behind the door was supposed to be a small room with a wardrobe, a bench and a sink. But now these are gone, leaving only darkness.

This is the gap Aoki discovered.

Qingmu looked back at Zhao Pengcheng and said, "If I ask you what this is now, you will definitely refuse to tell me, but I guess this is the special channel for you to communicate."

Zhao Pengcheng remained silent.

Aoki smiled and said: "You have been looking here, what are you expecting?"

Zhao Pengcheng continued to remain silent.

Aoki ignored him and said as if to himself: "The gap in the dream... is really interesting! The dream is a complete space, what is outside the space? There is nothing." He shook his head again, "Space does not There is a gap for no reason! Unless...there is something here. Let me guess...what it is? Hmm...could it be a passage connecting to another...dream?"

Zhao Pengcheng finally couldn't remain silent. He raised his head and looked at Qingmu in horror, his chest heaving violently.

"Did I guess it right?" Aoki said with a smile, "Oh, I think I guessed it right."

"You have your own way of communicating with dreams. You can reach another person's dream, or the place where you gather. This is a bit like... a group dream." Aoki thought of the cave in southern Yunnan, a perfect group dream and a real-life dream. "But your dreams are not really connected together, but through a special channel. Are these channels created by your special abilities, or do they already exist and you just take advantage of them?"

Aoki glanced at Zhao Pengcheng, "What I want to know more is, whose dream will it be over there? Ronald Cohen?"

"You won't know." Zhao Pengcheng said.

Aoki said: "Really? What if I walk over and have a look?"

Zhao Pengcheng showed a trace of panic, but immediately calmed down: "Stop dreaming, this passage has been closed, you can't go through."

"Closed?" Aoki stood at the door of the locker room, looking at the deep darkness behind the door and said, "Even if it is closed, it must be opened. Otherwise, what were you expecting just now?"

Zhao Pengcheng opened his mouth, but finally said nothing and remained silent again.

Aoki decided to take a risk. Although there was an unknown world behind the door, the risk was worth taking.

He stepped into the darkness, and a long, dark corridor appeared in front of him, extending forward in the endless darkness, leading to nowhere.

Zhao Pengcheng watched Qingmu walk in, and the door of the operating room slammed shut. He tried to move his body. Although he was weak, he could move freely. He breathed a faint sigh of relief, walked to the door of the operating room, and nervously opened the door. Behind the door is a neat row of wardrobes with a bench next to it.

He went inside and washed his hands in the sink in the corner. There was disinfectant on the side of the sink and a mirror on the wall.

Zhao Pengcheng looked at himself in the mirror and couldn't help laughing: "Who said I can't lie to you? Oh, by the way, I didn't lie to you. I am indeed looking forward to it, looking forward to you finding it, looking forward to you walking in! Hahaha..."

His laughter grew louder and shriller.