On the Seven Towers

Xiao Chen stared blankly at the security door in front of him. It was brown, with couplets on both sides, and the corners were rolled up. It was as old as the door, but so familiar.

Xiao Chen's hand patted his trouser pocket out of habit, and sure enough he found a bunch of keys inside. The keychain was a gold-plated dragon. He pulled out one of the four or five keys and stuffed it into the door. However, his hand trembled involuntarily and he couldn't get it into the keyhole several times.

The door opened from the inside. It was a middle-aged woman wearing a bib and holding a spatula in her hand. She was slightly stout but well-maintained. When she saw Xiao Chen, she complained: "What are you doing at the door? It was so rustling, I thought it was being robbed.”

Xiao Chen's lips were slightly open, his eyes were red, he mumbled a few syllables, and finally shouted: "Mom..."

"What are you doing standing around? Go wash up, change clothes and clean up the room. Linlin will come and see your mess in a while. How embarrassing." Xiao Chen's mother was nagging, but she took Xiao Chen's hand. The bag on the shoulder was hung on the clothes hanger, "You two are far apart, and you don't have much chance to meet with me, so don't be fooled. To say that Linlin is really a nice little girl, with a good temper and a decent person, it's also us I'm from Qingdao, and I've come all the way to Guangzhou to see you. I've been here for three days, but I haven't seen you spend much time with me..."

Before Xiao Chen's mother could finish her words, she was hugged by Xiao Chen.

"Hey, this is incredible! What's going on? Ah? Xiao Chen, what kind of injustice are you doing?" Xiao Chen's mother was shocked by this hug. She couldn't remember the last time her son hugged her. Today's incident made her a little nervous, because she could feel her son's arms hugging her tighter and tighter, and she was still trembling slightly.

"It's okay." Xiao Chen hugged her for a while and let go. He sniffed and smiled, "It's okay... I just feel that if I really get married, I will have less time at home."

"You kid. Why do grown men love their families so much?" Xiao Chen's mother looked at Xiao Chen and said, "Don't find me annoying. You should take care of yourself for the rest of your life."

Xiao Chen's mother turned around and prepared to go to the kitchen.

"mom……"

"What happened today?" Xiao Chen's mother turned around and looked at him, "Are you really okay?"

"No, Mom. I just want to say, you...you look pretty good." Xiao Chen gave a thumbs up, "Really."

"Hey, you are in good condition today. Let's start practicing with mom first, right? Chengchengcheng, you will also behave well in front of Linlin later."

Xiao Chen returned to his room and found that the layout was basically the same as in his memory. The only difference was that there were a few more photos of girls in the photo frames. His girlfriend when he was an undergraduate, Lin Lin.

There was one photo he had seen. It was taken on Pingjiang Road when we went to Suzhou together when we were in college. But I haven’t seen several of the other pictures. The outfits in two of them clearly look like they were after graduation and working. The two seemed closer than when they were in college, and they looked very happy together.

Xiao Chen distinguished the backgrounds. There was one of two people skiing in Northeast China, one of Kanas Lake in Xinjiang, and one of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Xiao Chen has been to all these places, but never with Lin Lin. He and Lin Lin broke up due to bad tempers in their junior year of college. Could these subsequent stories be some kind of yearning in his heart?

However, Xiao Chen really had no idea about Lin Lin after graduating from college. He was also a little curious about what she would look like in this dream.

He saw a pile of washed clothes piled on the bed in the room. With a wave of his hand, his mental power caused the clothes to fly into the air and fly towards the closet. They seem to be controlled by invisible hands, threading themselves into the hangers and hanging in the cabinet.

Sure enough, it was still a dream. Xiao Chen turned around and saw a ball of waste paper in the corner, so he wanted to erase its existence, but the ball of paper did not move. He used a little more mental power, and soon, starting from that ball of paper , this dream was just as fragmented as the previous one.

Xiao Chen felt a sense of loss in his heart, secretly blaming himself for being too reckless, causing a beautiful dream of returning home to be ruined.

He couldn't help but wonder, couldn't I still influence the world in my dreams?

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Xiao Chen experienced several more dreams, some in the past world and some in the new world. However, these dreams were different from the two dreams just now. In those dreams, he could use his mental power to change items, destroy monsters, and build buildings. Buildings, even breaking through the limits of the planet.

Xiao Chen stood on the high platform with his hands behind his hands. In front of him was the wide bridge, and beyond the bridge was the huge hanging window. You can see a blue planet as big as a ping pong ball, suspended in the dotted universe. Below the hanging window is an unmanned console. The screen and light strips on the console go off and on, giving it a sci-fi feel.

Luo Ling, dressed in a simple white uniform, walked up to the high platform and said: "Reporting to the captain, the spacecraft is about to enter the warp navigation stage and head to HD 40307g. We will generate a warp bubble in ten minutes."

"I like this dream." Xiao Chen laughed.

"Captain, are you awake?" Luo Ling asked strangely.

"Ah, don't worry about it." Xiao Chen held on to the railing of the high platform with both hands and asked, "What is the name of this spaceship? How many warp engines does it have?"

"What's wrong with you? This is of course the 'Flying Xiao Chen', which has the Republic's most advanced eight-stage warp engine." Luo Ling replied.

Xiao Chen sighed: "This is such an interesting world, but my first mate, I don't think you look as good in white uniforms as in black uniforms."

He waved his hand, and Luo Ling's clothes suddenly turned black. Her figure seemed to be more curvy.

Luo Ling looked at her clothes in confusion, but she didn't react much, as if everything was taken for granted.

"Also, these windows are too small." As soon as Xiao Chen finished speaking, the structure of the spacecraft changed like plasticine, and the transparent portholes kept getting bigger and extended to the top of Xiao Chen's head, and more and more stars appeared in front of them.

Luo Ling still looked unsurprised, and said, "This is indeed a better view."

Xiao Chen smiled and said, "Don't you think it's strange? I can change everything here by moving my mouth."

"What's so strange about this? I can do it too." Luo Ling looked at the floor, and the floor also turned into an octagonal transparent area from the middle.

"It's so absurd, it seems to be just an ordinary dream. This is the third world I control today. I will go one step further and control four dream worlds."

"Captain, I don't quite understand what you are talking about."

"Nothing, you just need to know that I will be here to accompany you through the long journey, but the other me is leaving this world." Xiao Chen said.

His consciousness began to split, all perceptions became double, thoughts also became double, and then the other him walked out of the captain, smiled at Luo Ling, and then slowly faded out of this world.