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"If I arrive half a stick of incense late, you will freeze to death."
Song Weichen didn't even raise his head, buried his face in his knees and asked angrily: "Then why are you late?"
The man was obviously stunned for a moment, why didn't this girl play by the rules?
"I thought you were going to ask me who I was."
Song Weichen twitched the corner of his mouth and gave a bitter smile, "I'm not even sure who I am now, so I don't have the energy to care about who you are. Whatever you want, love whoever you want."
Although lying down and lying down was not Song Weichen's usual style of doing things, at least it allowed her to be emotionally consistent at the moment.
The man stood up and walked around the desk, sat on the chair next to the bed and looked at her, "After all, you still couldn't cross that suspension bridge."
Song Weichen was startled and raised his head.
His face was as sharp as a knife, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, a high bridge of nose, and just the right amount of generous lips. If his eyes weren't so thin that they didn't have a trace of human emotion, he would have been the kind of rugged-looking man she likes.
Song Weichen finally saw that face clearly.
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"It was you. You saved me again."
"I went to look for my companions, but I found you and brought you back. Unfortunately, you died in the end and could never come back."
"That's not right." Song Weichen shook her head unconsciously. She clearly remembered that she woke up and went to work. It was a sudden power outage during the live broadcast that brought her back here inexplicably.
"I remember you said before that the passage to the world of sleep can only be opened when you enter a dream, but I haven't slept at all since I woke up. How could it be possible that I came back?"
"You didn't wake up at all."
"How is that possible! I'm still wearing motion capture equipment..." She wanted to say that she was still wearing the motion capture equipment from the live broadcast room, but when she lowered her head, she saw that what she was wearing under the white robe was clearly her home clothes, which she wore before falling asleep. That set.
Song Weichen recalled for no reason that when she was a child, her mother told her to get up to go to school. She had already gotten up, got dressed, had breakfast, and arrived at school with her schoolbag on her back. However, she was suddenly pushed by her mother and said she was going to be late if she didn't get up yet. When she opened her eyes, she realized He actually fell asleep again and was still in bed.
She sighed, she couldn't tell what really happened.
Could it be that growing up was just a dream? Could it be that my mother would push me awake soon, ask me why I fell asleep again, and hurry up to get up and go to school? She thought to herself and smiled bitterly.
The man looked at her quietly with a hint of scrutiny, without saying a word. He seemed to be thinking about something very serious.
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Although Song Weichen usually looks like a heartless middle school girl with a heart attack, she has always been able to handle big things right and wrong.
So now is not the time to get emotional. She has to try her best to understand the situation and save herself. Wanting to understand this, Song Weichen sat upright on the edge of the bed and looked at the man solemnly, "The way you opened it just now was wrong. I repeat, thank you again." Save me, can I ask you three questions?”
"Ask." He had a bigger question about her, but he might as well listen to her question first and see what medicine she wanted to sell in the gourd.
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"First question, who are you?"
"My name is Mo Tingfeng, the master of Sichen in the Sleeping Realm. I am in charge of worldly matters and am responsible for breaking resentments."
Seeing her eyes full of confusion, he explained, "The world of sleep is divided into three places: Kongmei, Chenmeni, and Youmei. They are the only places from the dream world to the three realms of gods, humans, and ghosts. The difference is that the three places are empty, dust, and youmei. The boundaries are not clear-cut, and they can be interconnected, so my deputy envoy, the Venerable White Robe, went to the Realm of Youmeni to handle public cases."
"Brother Mo, it turns out you are a senior executive here, so disrespectful!" Song Weichen thought to himself, he was unfamiliar with this place, so he had to hold this thigh tightly.
"Executive...? Your choice of words is quite interesting." Mo Tingfeng said, "That's right, since I took charge of the Chen Department, it has been a long time since a new member has been trapped in this sleepy world. I don't know what day it is in the world." "
"It's 2024 AD over there now. Let's put it this way, the earth has developed to the point where a foreigner has started a one-way interstellar spaceship business and is planning to take some people to leave the earth and immigrate to Mars. Hmm... I don't know how to follow him. If you explain, I can only say that the way you dress and talk must be from ancient times, which is quite far away from our current life."
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Listening to Song Weichen's words, Mo Tingfeng's eyes flashed, as if he wanted to ask more, but what he said was, "That's it, let's talk about this later, what's your second question?"
The second question," Song Weichen looked at his hands, "If the dream world is real, then what exactly is the 'I' trapped here? Is it consciousness? What will happen to my body in the real world if my consciousness never returns? "
"You are half right. The sleep world is real. It is different from the dream world. Here, pain, injury, bleeding and death are all real. Even like me, a monk who has lived here for thousands of years, if I am seriously injured If you don’t treat it, you will still die. In other words, what you have here is not just consciousness, but the complete you.”
Song Weichen looked in disbelief, "You mean that I disappeared in the real world and there is no me there. Then my parents must die in a hurry. They will definitely collapse if they can't find me!"
"That's not true." Mo Tingfeng said calmly, "Not only your parents, but also anyone related to you in that world will not look for you. After you are cut off, to them, you will never It never existed. It was just a dream they had, a dream that they forgot the content of when they woke up. At most, there was a trace of sadness that they had forgotten what they had dreamed. "
Song Weichen continued to shake his head mechanically, "Impossible."
From childhood to adulthood, growing up was not difficult, but it was not smooth either. After all, children were not born with a golden key in their mouths and God chased them to feed them. I worked hard to get into a passable school, studied a passable major, and worked hard to find a passable job. Until today, I can’t say there are many exams, but I also took it seriously and worked hard step by step. .
But what a great living person, suddenly and completely deleted his files, dripping into the sea, and no one remembers him.
"I don't believe it. I suddenly disappeared as a living person. How could they not remember me?"
Song Weichen paused as she spoke. She suddenly thought of a post she had seen. A student posted on the forum that he had a classmate named Pan. The badminton they played together fell into the basement. Pan went to pick up the ball and then disappeared. , but the strange thing is that except for himself, even Pan's parents and relatives don't remember such a person. Things in the dormitory were missing, and even the place belonging to that person in the group photo quietly became blank. But within a few days, the person who posted the message said that he was suffering from bipolar disorder and that everything was just his imagination. There was no such person as Pan in reality.
Could it be that this classmate Pan also accidentally entered a place like the Sleeping Realm and couldn't go back... Song Weichen didn't dare to think deeply. All this was far beyond her psychological endurance.
"Then...are you also like me? Why did you become Si Chen here?" She calmed down and tried to calm down. Now is not the time to think blindly.
"Is this your third question?"
"……no."
"Then don't ask."
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Song Weichen took a deep breath and said, "Okay, my third question is, if He is cut off, is there any way to bring me back to reality? Even if it is a very small possibility, is it possible?"
"have."
Her eyes were bright, "Really?! Then sue..." Before she could finish her words, he was coldly interrupted, "My duty is to prevent such incidents from happening."
The light in her eyes dimmed, and she looked at him sadly.
"If the cost of your return is that the real world will be in chaos, and people will no longer be able to distinguish between reality and illusion, and ordinary people may be seduced and devoured by evil things in the illusion at any time, will you still insist on going back?" The man's voice was cold.
Song Weichen stopped talking. She only felt that the man in front of her was cruel and didn't give him hope. He even put a moral shackle on hope, making her feel guilty for even thinking about it.
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Seeing that she didn't speak, the man stood up solemnly, facing her with his hands behind his back, "Now it's my turn to ask you, the same three questions. I hope you answer them truthfully."
Song Weichen nodded solemnly.
"First, why are you on that soul boat?"
"Falled off the bridge and happened to land on the boat."
"Second, have you ever seen the white-robed Venerable on that boat?"
Song Weichen shook his head, then nodded again, "Does it matter if I saw it on the iPad? But I didn't see the appearance clearly. The white robe had a hood. I couldn't even tell whether it was a boy or a girl."
"Thirdly, why are you wearing this white robe?"
"When I fell into the boat, I happened to fall directly into this suit of clothes. However, although the clothes were on the boat, there was no one in them and they were empty..." Song Weichen himself didn't have the confidence to say such an unbelievable thing, and the more he talked about it, the more he felt. Quietly.
Mo Tingfeng's eyes turned cold, and there was a hint of murderous aura in his eyes. It was obvious that this answer made him very dissatisfied.
"You have too many 'happens'. I'm not going to answer your questions patiently just for you to be so perfunctory with me."
"Although I brought you back, it may not be to save you."
