Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a world-famous fairy tale book. At the beginning of the fairy tale, Alice chases the white rabbit and falls into the rabbit hole, starting a magical and dreamy adventure.
The heroine Alice in the book is a little blond girl wearing a blue dress. In the long evolution after the story was launched, Alice has almost become a cultural symbol, which can also be called a meme. Shi Yuling's dress is exactly the same as the girl in the book, except she is dyed blonde.
"After seeing what you looked like when you were a child, I will be embarrassed to call you Alice again..." If he calls you by a false name in the future, he will immediately think of Xiao Yuling. Comparing it with the cruel and evil girl now will make him unable to help himself. He could only imagine what Rei Shigure looked like now in his Alice suit...forget it, really forget it.
Gongsun Ce thought quietly. He was not in a hurry to read, so he put the fairy tale book back as it was and checked the time again. The clock on the wall showed the time at ten o'clock in the morning and the date on August 27th. He found a small calendar next to his desk, the year 1999. This was exactly that day in Shigure Rei's deep dream state. Genya Shigure returned home at 3:30 in the afternoon, before the scene of "father and daughter enjoying themselves" took place. He recalled the conversation between the two.
——"Have you been a good child today?" "Yes! Today, I went to give snacks to my brothers and sisters!"
Gongsun Ce pondered these two lines of dialogue. He thinks there are two possibilities. First, give snacks and be a good sister = be a good child. Second, this sentence actually says two things: be a good child and then give snacks.
Where will Rei Shigure's younger siblings be? Where does Xiao Yuling plan to go now? The answer is self-evident.
"The rabbit hole is Shigure Research Institute."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Yuling spoke: "I have to look in the mirror! See how I am dressed today."
Be careful when a mirror girl pops out of the mirror and scares you.
Gongsun Ce controlled the little girl to move around the house and looked at every mirror on the first floor, but the girl did not speak. He walked along the stairs to the second floor and found a floor-to-ceiling mirror in a cozy bedroom full of girly style.
Xiao Yuling's appearance was reflected in the mirror. Before he could speak, a human voice came from behind the mirror.
"You are the most beautiful, kindest girl in the world!"
You have a dream about stitching. Why did Snow White get sewn in? You are also very self-aware in assigning yourself the role of queen!
Xiao Yuling picked up her skirt and spun it around happily.
"Really? That's great! I'm always the best!"
The best again... Genya Shigure also emphasized that she was the best in his conversation with her. The mirror, his father, and his own approval are probably the causes of Shigure Rei's narcissistic character.
Gongsun Ce discovered another point worthy of attention. Xiao Yuling always thought that she was a good child, and the mirror also said that she was kind. This was no match for the evil girl he knew... Rather, nothing in this dream allowed him to connect the girl with her true identity.
Xiao Yuling looked in the mirror for a while, then turned around with a smile.
"I want to take Dana with me! We won't be alone when we go on adventures together."
Gongsun Ce sighed: "Son, please don't test my brother's memory all the time, okay? My brother only reads animated fairy tale books very rarely. And I don't like this genre very much. The fairy tale I liked to read when I was a child was 108 Apples Havoc on the Earth... …”
Fortunately, Alice's story was so popular that he still had some impression of it. Dana is Alice's real-life cat. There is another famous cat in the fantasy world of the story: the Cheshire cat, a short-haired cat who always grins. Since Wonderland is ultimately Alice's dream, the Cheshire Cat is probably Dana's projection in her dream...but that's a digression.
Gongsun Ce controlled Xiao Yuling to move around the bedroom. Behind the mirror, on the desk, under the curtains... He searched around for places where the cat might be hiding, but found nothing. He also found strangely that there were no bookshelves in Xiao Yuling's room.
Gongsun Ce noticed a bulge under the quilt. He controlled the little girl to lift the quilt, and a blue-haired kitten was lying on the bed.
"It's very hidden..." The super-powered person couldn't help complaining, "When I play decryption games, I hate this kind of blanket search with no clues."
"I found you, Dana!" Xiao Yuling held the cat in her arms, and Dana meowed. Gongsun Ce always felt a little strange, but he couldn't explain it.
After about ten minutes, he had exhausted all the clues he had and now had to find new information. The superpower returned to the living room and picked up the fairy tale book covering the sofa. The text on these two pages.
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Alice opened the door and found a small corridor outside the door, smaller than a mouse hole. She knelt down and looked out along the corridor and saw a beautiful garden she had never seen before.
... She found a small bottle on the table, with a small note tied to the mouth of the bottle, with two beautiful large characters printed on it: "Drink Me".
… There was no word “poison” on the bottle, so Alice took the risk and tasted it, finding it very delicious. Alice drank the whole bottle in one go. "What a strange feeling!" said Alice, "I must have become the little man in the telescope."
... Her eyes fell on a small glass box under the table. When I opened it, I found a small snack inside, with the words "Eat me" delicately embedded in raisins.
... She started eating again and finished a piece of snack in a short time.
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Gongsun Ce closed the book and frowned. The "Drink Me" bottle and the "Eat Me" snacks correspond to plot props that make Alice smaller and larger in the book. He does not believe that anything similar exists in reality, unless it is the product of the law of impermanence.
Dreams and fairy tales are certainly not exactly the same, and this hint is also part of the imagery. He controlled Xiao Yuling to walk to the kitchen. The girl kept hugging the cat during the process, and the cat Dana only meowed twice occasionally. He came to the refrigerator and controlled Shi Yuling to open the bottom door.
The cold air is coming, and there are two kinds of food on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator: a row of glass bottles filled with purple liquid, which look like milk bottles, but smaller. Each bottle has a cute heart-shaped label with the words "Drink" Me"; the other is a honey jar with a lid and a similar-style label reading "Eat Me" on the outside.
"It's very fairy tale style." Gongsun Ce commented, "So do you really want to eat it?"
At this time, the young man found that he had lost the control over Xiao Yuling, as if the game had entered a cutscene.
Shi Yuling took out a bottle of "Drink Me" and drank it. He also poured out five or six cake-shaped hard candies from the "Eat Me" jar and drank them several times while soaking with water. After doing all this, she happily sat back on the sofa and said to herself: "I am also a good boy today. It's time to go play with everyone!"
Gongsun Ce looked at the clock and found that the hands of the clock became crooked and moved very fast, sometimes moving forward and sometimes backward, making it difficult for him to tell the current time.
The surrounding scenery began to change again. The air seemed to be shining with colorful lights; the gravity was much weaker, and he bounced when he walked; grass and trees grew on the marble floor; the kitten Dinah smiled like a human, her mouth grew wider and wider, and she became The Cheshire Cat in the fairy tale; the door of the bungalow turned into a deep cave, and a pure white rabbit in a robe jumped out of the hole, holding a small basket full of candy in its paws. The emblem of shuriken and fan is embroidered on it.
"It's time to go, Miss Zero."
Shi Yuling jumped off the sofa. Suddenly a familiar dizziness hit him, and Gongsun Ce knew that the dream was about to change. He completed part of this dream, but the confusion in his mind only increased. The many inconsistencies in Xiao Yuling's beautiful life were like cracks in the artwork, which made him have uneasy suspicions.
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On the other side, Gongsun Ce’s dream.
Rei Shigure was in shock. She had just been nearly smashed into a pulp by a large piece of iron shell in the air. Even in a dream, this was not an experience that could be forgotten without any pressure.
"That's great...you were much more powerful when you were a child than you are now..." Rei Shigure gritted his teeth, "When we get to Weiyuan, I will blow you up and throw you into the Nine-Nine Kyōto."
When she said this, she completely forgot that the first person to suffer was herself.
Rei Shigure took a few deep breaths, and after calming down his emotions, he sorted out the events that happened in the last round of dreams.
At 10:04, the dream begins; after arriving at the crossroads for more than a minute, I find the soldiers; at 10:07, I hear voices; about a minute later, I arrive at the cell at the head of the wreckage and encounter Mo Yuankai; after a short exchange, the containment ship collapses, It is suspected that someone has gone berserk with super powers.
If the dream ended in the same way this time, she would have less than five minutes left. Shigure Rei immediately ran forward. Those loud and unnatural words should be a reminder from a dream. The content of the words must be related to the reason why someone went berserk. As she walked, she rummaged for useful gear. Four fully armed soldiers had better be dealt with quickly and silently. She couldn't do this without the impermanent method...
Unless you use some small tools.
"I hope the quality of your support items can be as hard as your mouth." Rei Shigure took out four beans.
Yes, four green beans. She quickly rolled the beans in the packed biochemical mud, placed them gently on the left side of the road before the soldiers arrived, and then hid in the passage on the right.
Accompanied by rhythmic footsteps, the patrolling soldiers walked to the left just like last time. Due to the dark fog that filled the road, they failed to notice the four beans... and some unlucky soldier stepped on them.
"Bang!" The beans expanded rapidly, growing into thick vines and branches in the blink of an eye! The left side of the road instantly turned into a dense forest from another world. The green vines tightened the bodies, limbs and necks of the soldiers like pythons, causing them to lose their ability to fight in a few seconds. Even their screams were muffled. I can't pronounce it in my throat.
"……Well."
Rei Shigure patted his chest, thankful that he had obeyed his orders and not put the beans around. The white coats said it was "one of the unexpected products of the pea variety improvement experiment," and she felt sick to her stomach when she thought that it was originally meant for eating.
She skirted around the poor soldiers and ran into the middle road. She didn't know how long it would take for the alarm in the ship to activate, let alone when the soldiers who noticed something was wrong would arrive for reinforcements, so she had to fight quickly.
Running with all his strength, Shigure Rei almost reached the end of the corridor in less than half a minute. Seeing that he was about to step out of the black mist, a crack suddenly appeared in the smooth wall on the right front of the corridor. In less than a second, the gap turned into a sliding door, and four more soldiers walked out!
Seeing this scene, Rei Shigure immediately made a guess. In order to prevent the dragons from breaking in after leaving the cell, there is probably no passage connecting the upper and lower floors on this floor. The soldiers patrol in front of some kind of special secret door! But at this time, decryption was of no use, as the soldiers were already approaching. Rei Shigure took out beans and short arrows and decided to fight to the death——
"...?"
Something was wrong. These four soldiers didn't even raise their guns when they saw her. It was as if they hadn't seen her.
The soldiers came closer and closer. An idea burst into Rei Shigure's mind, and she pressed against the wall, holding her breath.
The nearest soldier was only a few centimeters away from her, but he still walked past like a blind man. Thinking of the shadows filling the corridor, Rei Shigure understood the mechanism of this dream.
(This is superfluous...the shadow represents safety.)
Hide in the shadows and remain undetected by your enemies. People have different ideas. She believes that the shadow is a quagmire that must be escaped, but Gongsun Ce believes that the shadow is a safe area. After thinking about this, Rei Shigure knew that this round of dreams would most likely end in failure.
"Mo Yuankai is on the left side of the passage at this time. It will take nearly a minute to go back, including the time to communicate and rush over..." Shigure smacked his lips anxiously, "Tsk, if you make a wrong step, you have to start over. Dreaming about extreme challenges? What kind of mental illness are you!"
It wasn't long before the voice rang out, and Rei Shigure quickly ran to the end of the road and stopped in front of a door.
The style of this door is exactly the same as that of the Skull's Cell, with one difference: it is completely transparent. People outside can not only directly see the whole picture of the cell, but it seems that they can even hear the voices of the people in the room clearly.
There is no reason for a real steel ship to be equipped with such a door. It must be a projection of someone's emotions.
(The uneasiness of being monitored and imprisoned for a long time...the lack of security.)
Rei Shigure stood in front of the door. There are also three stools in this cell, restraining an anxious-looking blonde girl, a handsome brown-haired boy slightly older than him, and a gloomy-looking black-haired boy.
Shigure Rei's eyes wandered back and forth between the two male members, and finally locked on the black-haired one: the brown-haired one didn't look much like him, and the black-haired child's eyes looked like a person with superpowers who was in a bad mood. Exactly the same.
As for who the little blond girl is... Shigure Rei can recognize it just by the tone of her voice.
"It's been more than three months, guys!" the young Caldesia complained, "I cooperated with them with the best attitude, but this is what they did?! Let the children wear this... this..."
The black-haired Gongsun Ce reminded: "Restraint clothes."
"Yes, a straitjacket! Treat me like a mental patient on TV!!" Little Caldesia was furious, "I learned what human rights is last year, they definitely haven't learned it!!"
Rei Shigure rolled his eyes and thought to himself, little cat, you are right about what you said.
She noticed that Caldesia spoke in common language, but Gongsun Ce was able to pick up the conversation. This shows that someone had a good command of Common Language before being taken into custody, or that he has improved his speaking skills in the past three months.
The young landlady shook the stool vigorously. "I don't care anymore," she said angrily, "I want to escape from prison, and I want to burn all these pieces of shit!"
"Don't be like this..." Gongsun Ce tried to dissuade him in a low voice, but it seemed to be of no use. Then the third person spoke.
"Please calm down, Caldesia Spencer." The brown-haired boy smiled, "You should not regard this as torture, you should regard it as a test."
"Huh?" Caldesia stared at him.
"Test, my friend. Mortals become heroes after passing the test, and heroes become myths after the test. You, me, all of us. We have unique powers, which are different from those experiences or skills that can be obtained through learning and exercise. What you have is innate talent..."
The brown-haired boy's voice seemed to contain a kind of magic, making people listen involuntarily.
"Talent, a gift from fate! It distinguishes geniuses from mortals, and distinguishes us from geniuses. We are extraordinary, we are born to be transcendent, and we should be generous."
"The people on the boat, the people sitting in high positions, they are just ignorant, stupid, short-sighted, but not malicious. They, and everything they do, will eventually turn into a ladder, leading us to the true highest stage."
Little Caldesia seemed unable to fully understand what the inmate said: "That is to say, I think what you mean is..."
The gloomy Gongsun Ce spoke at this time. He had only spoken briefly before, but this time he spoke a long sentence, with undisguised hostility and denial in his words.
"All Aurus Optimis wants to say is that he really, really likes his powers."
You are a genius, remember in one second: Red Oasis:
