Dream Guide

"Sin City?" Mei Ziqing looked at Mei Yiqiu with a familiar yet unfamiliar face, "I thought you came into contact with the Alliance through Selena, but now it seems I was wrong. You are a member of the Alliance yourself. Human. But for so many years, you haven’t shown any trace.”

Mei Yiqiu did not deny it.

"So, have you known my identity for a long time?" Mei Ziqing asked.

Mei Yiqiu still did not deny it.

"When did you know about it?" she asked again.

"I knew it from the beginning," said the professor.

Mei Ziqing should have been shocked, but strangely, she was in a very calm mood at the moment. Many past events appeared in her mind, scene by scene, like a movie, and she was just an audience.

"So, the speech you gave in Tokyo, which revealed the research content on dreams and the collective subconscious, was deliberately told to me? You designed that speech, and the encounter after the speech, just to get me to follow you. Wuzhong. Since then, I have been a part of your plan. What is your plan?"

"No, I didn't design it that way, I was just entrusted by others." Mei Yiqiu said.

"who?"

"Your father."

"My father?"

"He once begged me to imprison him in the City of Sin to atone for his past sins."

Mei Ziqing was shocked and turned around to look at the small dim door on the castle tower behind her.

"You mean my father is in here?"

Mei Yiqiu shook his head and said, "No, he is not here. He is already dead."

The sudden dash of hope made Mei Ziqing very frustrated and even a little angry. Her father's death is a knot that can never be untied in her heart. That father who was so gentle and loving when he was a child, that father who has extraordinary abilities and is omnipotent! No one knows what kind of disaster it was for her after her father left. She watched helplessly as her mother wasted away little by little on the hospital bed until she died. He watched helplessly as everything in his house was sold off, leaving only a notebook left by his father.

"How did he die?" she asked.

"That's not important. What's important is that he has redeemed himself." Mei Yiqiu said, "He also asked me to take care of you. He said you were a genius and didn't want you to repeat the path he took."

"But you didn't come to me." Mei Ziqing said.

"Yes, this is my fault." Mei Yiqiu said, "I thought you would grow up like an ordinary person. You are beautiful and kind-hearted. The suffering in your childhood will make you stronger. You will grow up in this short period of time." And gain happiness in the rare peaceful years. Until one day, I found that you were walking on your father's old path, and you were walking further and further on this road. "

"So everything that happened afterwards was carefully planned by you."

"I want to save it."

"No, you don't want to." Mei Ziqing said, "If you wanted to, you wouldn't ignore me at the beginning. Don't say such nonsense that suffering is the best experience. I'm not a child anymore. Do you hate me very much? Father, what did he do to make you hate him so much?"

"Everyone is guilty, including me. It's behind us and we still have a lot to do."

"Really?" Mei Ziqing looked at him resentfully, "You are dead. I personally sorted out your remains, put your ashes into the grave, and covered you with soil. But I didn't see my father. In the last scene, my mother died right in front of me. They dragged her body away. I didn’t even know where she was buried. When they died, they disappeared forever, but you died, but you are still standing here. .”

Mei Yiqiu fell silent and smoked vigorously.

"I want to be like them, but I still have unfinished business."

"Career? Who doesn't have unfinished business?" Mei Ziqing pointed to the bizarre and infinite dream in the distance and said, "Look, the small world has formed such a scale. As long as you are willing to hand over the key and open all the passages, this It’s a new world, a new universe, where everyone can live happily ever after under new rules.”

Mei Yiqiu shook his head and said: "It's useless. Your method, or your father's ambition, even if it is realized, is just a repetition of the original world. Humanity will eventually follow the same old path, and the utopia in your heart will never appear. world."

"How do you know if you haven't tried it?"

"Who says no one has tried?"

Mei Ziqing was shocked: "What did you say?"

Mei Yiqiu did not answer, but took a deep breath of cigarette.

After a while, he said: "Hiding in dreams will not prevent Gaia from coming."

"Do you have any idea?"

Selena's speech made everyone around the world know about Gaia, and Mei Ziqing was also shocked. After many verifications, especially the inside story she learned recently through her cooperation with Sa Tiaoding, and combined with many clues in the notes left by her father, she has roughly restored the truth of the matter.

Gaia is a hopelessly powerful being.

To humans, it is the Creator, God.

Mei Yiqiu pointed to the castle at his feet and said, "Do you know what this place is for?"

Mei Ziqing said: "I heard that Sin City is used by the Alliance to imprison the conscious bodies of awakened people who violate the rules. The original sin of consciousness induced by countless sinful souls creates a sinful gravity that makes it impossible for conscious bodies to escape. Do you want to Use this place to imprison parasites?”

"No, Sin City is not for imprisonment."

"Then what is it used for?"

"Human beings can never prevent the coming of Gaia. This has been known as early as the time of Itesa. Closing the Ramla Passage and sealing the Holy Land can only delay her coming and buy time for human civilization. Human beings cannot Use what God created to stop God.”

Mei Yiqiu paused, "Do you know about spiritual black holes?"

Mei Ziqing said: "I have heard some conjectures, but they are only conjectures. Including us awakened ones, we have no idea about the nature of spirit."

"Well, it is true for the civilization of this era. But in the previous era, spirit was something that everyone knew." Mei Yiqiu said, "If spirit and matter are regarded as two sides of the universe, they are There is a symmetrical relationship. There are black holes in the material universe, and there are also black holes in the spiritual universe. In the material black hole, the spirit is not limited by its gravity. The early civilization created by Gaia took advantage of this to establish Ramla, which will Its spirit is transported to distant planets.

Sin City is actually just a dream core made by Itsa. Its essence is to contain the spiritual gravity inside. When a dream space approaches it, the space will collapse in due to the gravitational force, and the gravitational force will be further enhanced. As long as enough dream space is attracted to it and collapses, it will become a spiritual black hole, and any spirit approaching will be attracted to it and cannot escape. "

Mei Ziqing suddenly said: "Are you saying that Itsa knew Gaia was bound to come, so she wanted to trap her with a spiritual black hole?"

Mei Yiqiu nodded: "Yes, killing God is the only way for mortals to get rid of God."

Mei Ziqing pointed to the vast Dream Guide game world outside and asked, "Isn't it more important to open everyone's dreams? Why do you want to stop it? If you had said it earlier, we could have happily cooperated."

"Once you are sucked into the dream core and turned into a black hole, you will face the darkness that will never be released." Mei Yiqiu looked at her and said, "If I had told you earlier, would you be willing to do this? Maybe you would agree, Will those people outside agree? Will Satu Ding agree? "

Mei Ziqing thought of the situation just now and lowered her head. Only those who have experienced it will know that kind of fear.

Mei Yiqiu sighed: "It is not easy to form a black hole. Just as there is enough mass in the material world, there must be enough 'mass' in the spiritual world, or a sufficient number of group dreams. Itesa delayed the creation of a black hole. The coming of Asia has bought enough time for mankind. We have enough population to have group dreams. Compared with single dreams, the power of group dreams has increased exponentially, but it is still not enough to form a black hole, and We cannot sacrifice the lives of all human beings. The earth is too small and the number of lives it can accommodate is limited, especially higher life."

"So you've been waiting for the birth of artificial intelligence?" Mei Ziqing said suddenly, "The consciousness generated by the Internet was designed by you and is it a part of your plan?"

"Some are planned, some are accidents." Mei Yiqiu said, "For example, teasing Ding."

"It turns out that the real owner of Laboratory No. 19 is you!" Mei Ziqing suddenly felt a little cold, "You are also the one who conducts human chip experiments, and Sa Tiao Ding is just a chess piece! Poor chess piece, you have taken advantage of it, and you still think you are God. !

Human chip, Internet consciousness, space box, dream guide, everything is your plan! You are indeed guilty, you are a devil! Why is this happening, why is this done hidden from everyone? "

"In order to hide it from Gaia." Mei Yiqiu said, "This secret is only known to the leaders of the Awakened Alliance in the past generations. Every generation of leaders will come here after death. We are indeed guilty, and our sins are heinous, so we will never recover after death. Atonement.”

The more Mei Ziqing listened, the more surprised she became: "Who are you?"

"Do you know the meaning of the name Mei Yiqiu?"

"Isn't it a homophonic pronunciation of "dream"? The ancients said, "The perfect person has no dreams." If the word "dream" is removed, doesn't it represent the perfect state that you have been striving for?"

"Well, that's one of them."

"What about the second one?"

"Plum, a tree from the south, can only withstand the cold and cold in order to bring spring."

"You are... Nanke?!"

Mei Yiqiu took down his pipe, looked at the countless dream scenes in the distance, blew out a long puff of white smoke, and said, "It's been a long time. It's been so long that I almost forgot this name."