Chapter 340: Dream Stealing 6

Chapter 340: Dream Stealing 6

Chapter 340: Dream Stealing 6
Finally, we have arrived at the last level of the third level dream!

When Cobb saw Fisher Jr. walking to the door of the core room of the base through the eight-fold scope of his sniper rifle, he was extremely excited, because that meant he was one step closer to his dream of returning home and reuniting with his children.

However, at this moment, an unexpected pretty figure appeared behind little Fisher.

It's Li Li! Li Li played by Li Binbin!
Cobb saw his wife's face clearly through the 8x scope, and he couldn't help but feel dazed.

Qin Yanni, who was following Cobb at this time, also saw this scene and quickly reminded Cobb.

"That's not Li Li! Wake up Cobb, that's just your subconscious!"

"How do you prove it?!"

Cobb was still reluctant to do it, but Qin Yanni didn't tolerate him. She snatched the sniper rifle and started shooting.

But with this delay, everything is already too late.

Although Qin Yanni still shot Li Li with one shot, the other party had already fired first and hit the little Fisher in front of him.

When Cobb, Qin Yanni and the pretender Yi Xiu trotted up to little Fisher, the target person was already in a dying state, with only intermittent breathing.

What is even more despairing is that because of the bullet injury in the first level of the dream, Saito, like Fisher Jr., is also in a life-threatening state.

A target person and a client are about to die in a dream and fall into a state of brain death, which means that Cobb and his team's "Dream Stealing Plan" has completely failed.

For a vegetative person, it doesn’t matter whether the implant is implanted or not, because he will not wake up anyway.

As for the other one, if Saito doesn't wake up, not only will the conditions he promised to Cobb be invalid, but everyone in their team may have to face the wrath of the other party's subordinates.

"It's my fault," Cobb said, looking at what was happening in front of him, and fell into deep self-blame. "If I had reacted faster..."

Yin Xiu tried to take out the first aid equipment from the tool box on the wall, but Qin Yanni felt the pulse of little Fisher's neck and finally shook her head.

Cobb on the side also said weakly at this time:
"Don't waste your energy. He has already entered the edge of subconsciousness. Game over."

Yin Xiu raised his head and glanced at him. For the first time, his originally cold face showed a "lively" expression.

"Is this a failure?"

"Failed." Cobb replied dejectedly.

Yin Xiu suddenly jumped up, grabbed Cobb's collar, his face full of anger.

However, when the words came to his lips, his breath escaped.

"Well, I'm not the one who wants to go home. Maybe Senior Sister is right. You are indeed a coward and a loser. If someone like you returns to the children, it will be their biggest disaster."

Yin Xiu said, loosening Cobb's collar.

Cobb lowered his eyebrows and was speechless. Finally, he squeezed out a sentence, "I am responsible for your safety," and then said, "Install the bomb."

However, at this moment, Qin Yanni, who was standing aside, said: "No, we must complete the task!"

"There's nothing we can do. The person is dead! Brain dead, do you understand?"

Cobb glared at her, and Qin Yanni glared back without giving in.

"There is another way. We can follow them down."

"Not enough time." Cobb's answer was calm.

But Qin Yanni's method made his movements stop.

"We have plenty of time on the next level."

"We can find them, and when Arthur's music starts, we can have them travel back through time on the next level and continue the mission.

When the music ends, Yin Xiu will blow up the hospital, and then we can travel back together."

Yin Xiu pondered for a moment and nodded, "You can give it a try."

"Let's do it, Cobb. Think about your two children. We should give it a try."

Faced with Qin Yanni's persuasion, Cobb finally regained some of the spirit of the world's top dream stealer.

"Then let's get started."

The three of them acted quickly and immediately used the dream device to connect Cobb himself, Qin Yanni, Little Fisher and Saito together.

At this point, the four of them fell into the fourth level of dreams, which is also the outermost area of ​​the dream - the Lost Zone.

[The 4th Dream: Lost Domain]

This time, Qin Yanni woke up on the beach, surrounded by ruins and dilapidated buildings, and Cobb was wading towards her and helping her up.

The two of them walked through the ruins and wreckage of the house together. In the first dream, the car was still in the air, slowly falling towards the water. In the second dream, Arthur was busy pushing the suspended people into the elevator. As for the third dream, Yin Xiu and the guardian were fighting fiercely to protect Cobb and the other four who were lying down.

Time gradually expands through the layers of dreams. Cobb and Qin Yanni, who are in the fourth layer of dreams, still have some time, enough to find Saito and Fisher Jr.

As for how to find them, according to Cobb, since Li Li in his subconscious mind has always wanted to keep Cobb, she will definitely catch Fisher Jr. or Saito first and lure Cobb over.

So as long as we find Li Li, we can find Fisher Jr. and the others.

The closer to the center of the ruined city, the more complete and shinier the buildings are.

This is a world completely created by Cobb and Lily based on the reality, because he and Lily once came to the deep level of dreams and were trapped here for 50 years.

Kobe was very familiar with this place. He took Qin Yanni directly to the residence where they used to live, and easily found Li Li.

But Li Li, the embodiment of the subconscious, does not want to tell Cobb where Fisher Jr. is, but wants him to stay with her in her dreams forever until they grow old.

Of course, this Li Li is not real.

But when the couple's lines came out in the movie, the audience watching the movie, no matter who they were, as long as they had a little ability to think, broke out in cold sweats.

“An idea is like a virus, both tenacious and contagious.

Even the smallest idea can grow and change you, or even destroy you.”

“Sometimes a small thought, a simple insignificant idea, can change everything.

For example, your world is not real. You believe in your world very much and believe that everything is real, but do you think it is real?
Or are you as completely lost as I am?"

"I know what's true, Ali."

“Do you really know?

No doubts at all? No worries at all?
No matter where you escape to, there will be strangers or police chasing you, just like a dream stealer being chased by the defender.

Admit it, Cobb, you no longer believe in reality." The audience woke up in shock at this moment, and they broke away from the story atmosphere created by "Inception", just like the characters in the movie woke up from a dream.

Yes, what in this movie is real and what is a dream?

Is what they see of Cobb necessarily true?
Cobb said that he escaped from the Lost Zone, but if we look at it from another angle, it was not Cobb who escaped from the Lost Zone, but perhaps it was Li Li?

So was Cobb still immersed in the dream from beginning to end, and all these actions were his imagination, his efforts to escape from the dream and go home?

The audience was clearly in the screening room, outside the big screen, but at this moment, the story of "Inception" was still playing out in their minds.

It felt as if an idea, an idea called "Which is true, dreams or reality?", was implanted in the minds of everyone present by Cobb and his team, making the audience unable to help but continue thinking along the story and the words of Cobb and his team.

At this moment, "Inception" actually broke free from the constraints of light and shadow, and was actually performed in reality through a 3D movie.

But before the audience could get rid of the influence of the movie and continue to think deeply, the story on the big screen once again pulled them into the hazy dream.

As time passes in the bottom dream, the pharmacists, sentinels and pretenders in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dream layers above are also fighting hard, and the situation is becoming more and more urgent, and the atmosphere is becoming more and more tense.

At this time, Cobb was still arguing with Li Li.

Or in other words, it was not Li Li, but Cobb's own subconscious demon.

Over the years, Cobb has obviously never forgotten his wife.

It is not so much that Li Li in the dream wants Cobb to stay with her, but rather that Cobb, a middle-aged man who has experienced the pain of losing his wife, subconsciously does not want to leave the dream.

But why couldn't Cobb get over the pain of losing his wife? In the movie, he personally gave a horrifying answer.

"Mary (Lee Li), please, they are not real."

"You keep saying that, but are you sure?"

"I am very sure!"

"What if you are wrong? What if what I am here is real?
You always thought you knew what was real, so tell me what it feels like to be real?"

"Guilt, that guilt."

Cobb couldn't help but cover his face with his hands, and the sadness in his words was almost uncontrollable.

"No matter what I'm doing, no matter how desperate I am, no matter how confused I am, I will always feel guilty, and it is this guilt that reminds me what the truth is."

"What's the truth?" Li Li asked.

Cobb looked up at her, his eyes filled with tears of regret, moving the audience in front of the big screen.

"It's because of me that you start to doubt that this world isn't real."

Li Li, played by Li Binbin, was stunned at first, then her eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.

"You put that idea into my brain."

Qin Yanni was standing aside at this time. After hearing this, she couldn't help but asked in a trembling voice: "What is he talking about?"

At this time, Cobb finally made up his mind and revealed all the secrets.

"The reason I know this is possible is because I tried it on her. I experimented on my wife."

"Why?" Qin Yanni was a little bit unbelievable.

“We were trapped and I knew we had to get out.

But she didn't want to, there was an idea locked in her mind, very deeply.

She chose to forget the thing she once knew, and she could never get rid of it.

So I decided to get her thoughts back, I went into the most secret place of her mind, and found the secrets she kept in that safe, and implanted an idea.

A simple idea that could change everything - her world isn't the real world."

The audience couldn't help but feel their scalps tingling as they watched Cobb walk into the old house that symbolized Li Li's inner world, open the safe, turn the totem gyroscope that was used to distinguish between dreams and reality, and lock it in the safe.

It's so horrifying that there's almost no need to play the following content. Just based on this part, plus the fragmentary information before, the audience has already pieced together a general idea.

Cobb actually experimented on his own wife, and the death of his wife Li Li was most likely related to Cobb's behavior.

And this is indeed the case.

Through this idea implantation, Li Li finally agreed to return to reality with Cobb.

In the dream, the two of them held hands, lay on the railroad tracks, and waited patiently for the arrival of the train.

"Death is the only relief."

“You’re waiting for a train that’s going to take you somewhere far away, and you know where you want to go, but you’re not sure.

It doesn’t matter where the train is going, but why is that?

Because we will be together!"

When the last sentence was shouted out, the train that appeared in the first dream rumbled over and brought Cobb and Li Li back to the real world.

What Cobb didn't expect was that the idea that "this is not reality" would spread like cancer cells, spreading into Li Li's clear consciousness and into her real life.

Li Li still doesn't believe that she lives in the real world, and believes that only death can bring her freedom.

"You invaded my brain!" Li Li cried, unable to accept all this.

"I wanted to save you!" Cobb made his final argument.

He was in pain and felt guilty about his wife's death. The idea he implanted in order to save her from the dream indirectly killed her in reality.

This is also the reason why he later became addicted to dreams and developed mental demons.

At this time, the time of the upper dream was almost over. The pacemaker used by the pretender Yin Xiu on little Fisher turned into lightning in the 4th layer of the lost domain, reminding Qin Yanni and others.

"Cobb, we have to find little Fisher quickly."

Even after hearing such shocking information, Qin Yanni remained calm and spoke up to remind them.

But Li Li shouted fiercely, "You will never find little Fisher!"

Cobb looked at the woman he loved deeply and said, "If I stay, can you let him go?"

In this way, under Qin Yanni's incredulous eyes, Cobb exchanged his stay for Fisher Jr. and her departure.

(End of this chapter)