Chapter 337: Dream Stealing 3

Chapter 337: Dream Stealing 3

Chapter 337: Dream Stealing 3
"So how detailed should I design it to make the target believe that he is not dreaming?"

Outside a coffee shop on the street in Shanghai, Qin Yanni listened to Cobb's teachings and asked crucial questions.

Cobb's answer is also very interesting.

"In fact, when we are dreaming, we always feel that the dream is very real. Only after waking up, we will find that something is not right."

As he spoke, he looked at Qin Yanni and asked, "Let me ask you a question. Do you never remember when the dream started? All you can remember are some of the processes in between?"

Qin Yanni on the big screen was thinking, and the audience outside the big screen had also been attracted by the story of "Inception" and began to think about this problem, recalling their past dreaming experiences.

After thinking about this, they realized that, as Cobb said, they really could not remember the beginning of the dream.

"It seems so." Qin Yanni replied.

Cobb crossed his arms over his chest and continued, "How did we get here?"

Qin Yanni subconsciously wanted to answer: "We just came from..."

When she said this, she was stunned, speechless, and didn't know how to answer.

Cobb continued to ask: "Think about it, Ani, how did you get here? Where are you now?"

Qin Yanni said uncertainly: "Am I dreaming?!"

Cobb leaned over and said:

"You are sleeping and taking a class at the same time. This is your first lesson in how to share your dreams."

As he spoke, he did not forget to remind them to "calm down", because as he spoke, Qin Yanni quickly realized that something was wrong. At the same time, the space around them immediately began to move strangely, and the coffee cups in front of the two began to shake, making clinking sounds.

As the movement became more intense, the first dream wonder carefully designed by Wang Hao appeared on the big screen.

boom!
boom!
boom!
At this moment, time seemed to slow down ten times, and all the pedestrians on the streets of Magic City came to a standstill.

The newsstands, magazines, fruit baskets, flowers, cardboard boxes in front of street shops, the trash cans and seats on the roadside, even the walls made of earth and stone, the window glass of the shops, the sidewalk bricks and asphalt pavement on the road, and the parked cars, all seemed to be detonated by the invisible bomb inside, turning into debris and rushing out.

These fragments continued to explode in the air, turning into even smaller pieces, like a firework show without fire on the streets of this magic city.

Qin Yanni looked at the scene in amazement, watching everything around her slowly but clearly begin to collapse in her eyes, and some fragments even flew past her eyes.

The audience in the screening room also had the same experience as her.

After all, this is a 3D version of "Inception", so the audience on site can also see the fragments flying towards them and the "fireworks" exploding next to them, which gives a large number of audiences a more tense and exciting feeling.

At this moment in the movie, facing the same situation, Qin Yanni couldn't help but yelled to Cobb: "If you are dreaming, why are you still protecting..."

Before she could finish her words, she was submerged by the debris falling from above.

Then the girl woke up from the nightmare.

Only then did Cobb's answer ring in her ears.

"Because a dream is never just a dream."

Cobb sat on the recliner in front of her and looked at her.

"It hurts when glass pierces your face, and it all feels real when you're dreaming."

The assistant beside him also said:
“Don’t underestimate this. Although it was just a dream, the feelings in your subconscious mind will also cause certain stimulation to your body and nerves.

If this kind of stimulation accumulates too much, it will also cause harm to the dreamer. "

The camera zooms out at this time, and we can see that they are now in the abandoned factory building, but the inside has changed its appearance. It is cleaner and tidier, and there are many more living facilities and equipment.

"So the first thing a dream maker needs to learn is to construct dreams and protect himself. You have to be very familiar with your dreams."

As Cobb spoke, he looked at his assistant and said, "Why don't you let us stay for another 5 minutes? The class has just started."

Qin Yanni, who was standing by, was very surprised when she heard this.

"Five minutes, we talked for at least an hour!"

Cobb then explained:
“When you’re dreaming, your brain works really fast, so time tends to pass slowly.

Generally speaking, 5 minutes in the real world is equivalent to 1 hour in a dream."

"But I don't see this kind of situation when the captain is performing tasks normally." Qin Yanni was still a little confused.

Cobb smiled at this time and said, "That's because you have added protection devices to your equipment. This can protect you from jet lag and your thinking becoming old in your dreams, or from time confusion and becoming mentally ill."

After saying that, he took off his dream helmet, turned it around, and pointed out the electronic components exposed on the back of the helmet to Qin Yanni.

"Look, it's right here. I think the teachers added it after I left the R&D team.

In fact, in my opinion, this jet lag is still necessary, as it prolongs our lifespan in disguise.

Besides, the time for the mission we will carry out in the future is very tight, so this time difference between dreams and reality is necessary. You have to adapt to it now, you flower in the greenhouse."

Qin Yanni was a little dissatisfied when she was called a "flower in a greenhouse", but Kebu had no intention of arguing with a little girl like her, so he immediately said.

"Okay, let's continue with the class. Let's see what you can design in five minutes."

The scene then switches back to the familiar streets of Shanghai, where Qin Yanni and Cobb are strolling.

"You already have the basic structure, the bookstore, the cafe, and everything else you need."

"Then who are they?" Qin Yanni looked at the people around her.

"My subconscious defender," Cobb explained.

"subconscious?"

"Yes, I am the dreamer and you are the dream builder. You design dreams and insert them into my dreams.

But that was just a dream, a pile of memories related to the environment. On top of that, there was also the materialization of my subconscious brain, or the personification of some of my memories and thoughts.

You can talk directly to the target's subconscious mind, which is also a way to steal information."

"What else can I do?"

“The brain can imagine a familiar place where secrets are stored, such as a bank vault, a safe in one’s own study, a drawer in the company, or a secret compartment in some room, and then store all the important information in it.

Do you understand?" "And then you will go in and steal?"

"Oh, don't say that. You Chinese don't have clear laws to define this kind of thing.

There is a saying that goes, "Anything is allowed unless it is prohibited by law."

A man and a woman walked through the nearly real streets of the Magic City, discussing issues related to dreams.

They knew they were dreaming, and the audience knew they were dreaming, but everything around them seemed so real.

People come and go, it is lively and noisy, and whether from the perspective of vision, hearing, touch or smell, everything is no different from reality, making it difficult to distinguish what is real and what is fake. If you are not careful, you may blur the concepts of reality and illusion.

It was not until this point that the audience finally got into the mood, completely immersed in this dream space constructed by light and shadow, and began to experience the fun of "stealing dreams".

“I always thought dreams were constructed visually, but other senses seem to be more important.”

Qin Yanni seemed to have gotten used to the state of the dream and began to curiously explore more mysteries.

"So what would happen if I messed up the laws of physics in my dreams?"

As she said this, she seemed to have already started thinking this way, and the dream she designed also began to change synchronously.

Qin Yanni, Cobb, and all the audience in front of the big screen can see that the horizon of the distant city begins to rise, and the degree of rise is getting higher and higher.

However, although the Huangpu River and the skyscrapers in Shanghai were tilting, there was no collapse of buildings or flow of the river water. It was as if the entire Shanghai had turned into a scroll, and someone was holding one end of the scroll and flipping and folding it towards the other end.

So the other half of the city appeared above Kebu and Qin Yanni's heads.

No, it wasn't just Cobb and Qin Yanni. Because it was a 3D movie and it was an IMAX screening room, the audience sitting in the front row subconsciously raised their heads and craned their necks to look up at the sky above the screening room as the movie played and the city turned.

It was as if there really was a demon city there, pressing down on them.

"Oh!"

The audience couldn't help but exclaim when they saw such a wonderful sight.

This is a real 3D movie. Finally, there is a director in China who can create such a stunning film and television spectacle.

In the movie, Cobb's reaction was similar to that of the audience. He also widened his eyes and then looked at Qin Yanni.

"Isn't it amazing?" Qin Yanni looked at the scene she created with some pride and couldn't help asking.

Half of the Demon City was right above their heads, and on the ground over there, there were also people coming and going, and even vehicles driving on the road.

Because we are in a dream, we will not fall down due to the effect of gravity.

Not far away, the towering Shanghai Financial Building and two other skyscrapers connect the upper and lower worlds, like giant pillars supporting the reflection of the city above.

This is a dream!
This thought suddenly popped up in the audience's minds, and they were also shocked by director Wang Hao's peculiar imagination.

At the same time, the performances of Qin Yanni and Cobb in the movie are still breaking their inherent cognition.

The two men walked along the street and soon came to the fold where the city was turned over.

Here, the originally straight road was erected like a wall, forming a 90° angle with the ground under Qin Yanni and the others' feet.

However, the two of them seemed not to have seen this scene, and continued walking forward, raising their legs and stepping on the wall in front of them very naturally.

The next second, gravity failed to affect the two of them again, and they actually "walked" onto the vertical road and continued to move "up".

Everything is possible in dreams!
The audience suddenly had such a concept in their minds, and before Cobb and others took any formal action, they had already implanted an idea in the audience.

Qin Yanni, who was walking on the street, asked Cobb curiously, "Why are they all looking at me?"

Just as Qin Yanni said, those who were walking on the street were looking at her.

Cobb also gave an explanation, it turns out that the people derived from the dream are the embodiment of the dreamer's subconscious.

As the dream stealer changes a dream more and more, and the more it defies common sense, the dreamer's subconscious mind will become more suspicious of everything in the dream, and this will trigger the dreamer's own dream defense mechanism.

The principle is very simple. Just like when people are dreaming, their imaginations are often unrestrained, but sometimes the dreamer will suddenly come to his senses, notice something abnormal in the dream, realize that he is dreaming, and suddenly wake up.

The same goes for dream defenders. Professionally trained dreamers can detect anything wrong in their dreams more quickly, and their subconscious minds can also sense the dream stealer as an invader. Then, just like the white blood cells in the blood attack bacteria, they will also attack the dream stealer and expel him from the dream.

Qin Yanni then experienced this firsthand. As she controlled her dreams at will, causing bridges to rise from the ground, corridors to extend infinitely, and the surrounding environment to become similar to the campus in her memories, more and more people in the dreams gathered around her.

They surrounded Qin Yanni and the other girl, and some of them even tried to control the little girl.

However, they didn't know that the little girl in front of them had gotten full marks in fighting classes when she was in the police academy.

So the audience saw Qin Yanni dealing with the subconscious defenders around her with extremely agile skills, until Li Li, played by Li Binbin, suddenly appeared behind Qin Yanni and stabbed her hard in the back.

"Ah~"

Qin Yanni, who was lying on the recliner, suddenly woke up, gasped, and panted violently. She seemed to be still immersed in the dream just now, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"Hey, look at me, it's okay, relax, take it easy..."

Arthur, the assistant who had been standing by her side, stepped forward to comfort her. Qin Yanni was strong-minded after all, so she soon calmed down. At the same time, she couldn't help asking:

"Why? Why can't I wake up?"

Assistant Arthur replied: "Because the time has not come, you can't wake up, unless you die in your dream, or fall..."

Before Arthur finished speaking, Cobb stood up and reminded Arthur, "She still needs a totem."

"What?" Qin Yanni looked confused.

Arthur then explained: "A totem is a small object with weight that you can always carry with you, but you can't let others know about it."

"Will coins be okay?" Qin Yanni asked.

"It's not concealable enough. It has to be more special, like this lead-filled dice."

Arthur took out a very ordinary red dice. Qin Yanni subconsciously wanted to take it, but was blocked by Arthur.

"Ah, you can't touch her. It will be useless if you do. I am the only one who knows where the center of gravity of this loaded dice is. As long as I can see my totem, I can be completely sure that I am not in someone else's dream."

(End of this chapter)