Chapter 402: The Border of Dreams: The Wheel of Life and Death
Chapter 402: The Border of Dreams: The Cycle of Life and Death
"Uh... okay, since you've brought it up to this point, I have actually signed it too." Lin Yi spoke up without thinking, never mind, just get over it first.
Doesn't that mean that Li Huiyuan, Pan Jian, Zhou Yuting and others all know something?
How dare they still laugh?
and many more……
Do Master Tian and the others also know?
No, I'm the only one who doesn't know?!
"hiss--"
He took a deep breath and suddenly remembered that the blue bus was his memory node during this period. He couldn't remember anything before that. Could it be that the confidentiality agreement was so outrageous that he was forced to have amnesia after signing it?
But...it doesn't seem right, it seems like he is the only one who is kept in the dark.
He couldn't help but feel a headache, and suddenly felt that the more he knew, the more he didn't know.
The female dormitory manager gently stroked the bookshelf in the historical academic literature section, and suddenly sighed quietly: "'Historical academic literature'... It's not because they are 'history' books, but because they are 'history books', some books that exist in 'waste history'..."
"You should know that since then, some books have been abandoned. In order to quickly adapt to the 'new era', the number of history books printed has been greatly reduced, and professional basic books have been widely circulated... Between life and death, this kind of spiritual food and human geography are not that important, especially human geography."
"Hehe... Humanities and geography..."
She smiled bitterly and shook her head: "You know, I was only a few years old in X999. When I was a child, I wanted to go to the polar regions, but after the disaster, the polar regions had completely become a restricted area..."
"A corner of a legendary outpost appeared in the Arctic Circle, and then that area was controlled..."
The female dormitory manager sighed and said nothing more.
Lin Yi was silent for a while, then asked doubtfully:
"Then why did you apply to join the campus if you know everything?"
Lin Yi found that his desire to explore the library suddenly decreased a little. Some secrets of this female dormitory manager seemed more worthy of exploration.
He glanced at his watch.
4: 33.
If the female dormitory manager didn't find him annoying, he could chat with her.
The female dormitory manager curled her lips and said, "Didn't I say this before? It's all for the money! I want to apply for Master Matthew's 'On the Enlightenment of the Secret Patterns of the Stars to the Desolate Present World' academic research course! Is your memory so bad?"
"Well...but it's not worth risking your life for thirty thousand dollars, right?" Lin Yi whispered.
“Shit…” the female dormitory manager cursed. “Everyone who comes here doesn’t think they’re going to die, right? People with great skills are brave. Who knew this place is even weirder than what people say outside! If I had known this would happen, I would have applied for extra money!”
"Uh...you said in the elevator that you wouldn't have come if you had known..." Lin Yi reminded.
The female dormitory manager rolled her eyes and said, "I was just saying that. In today's environment, it's so hard to make money... With this opportunity, everyone naturally wants to make some money. There are so many people who have applied for the experience places at S City University, but they can't get them! If I hadn't asked someone to say a few good words for me, I wouldn't have been able to come!"
Lin Yi suddenly said in a mean voice, "You...rely on connections to get in here and seek death? You have the ability, but are you worried about not having 30,000 yuan?"
"Get lost! Believe it or not, I will beat you up!" the female dormitory manager corrected helplessly, "It just happened that my major was more suitable, so I asked the teacher for help. It's not a financial relationship..."
"Okay, okay..." Lin Yi muttered, "As expected, people are either trapped by love or money, or both. You continue watching, I'll go and take a look at the side."
"Don't peek at me!" the female dormitory manager asked suspiciously.
"Fuck, do you really think I'm following you?" Lin Yi was speechless.
"If it were someone else, I might not believe it, but you..." The female dormitory manager looked Lin Yi up and down, "I won't doubt anything a perverted exhibitionist like you can do."
"Perverted Exhibitionist"
"Damn, this isn't what I wanted!" Lin Yi didn't bother to explain. He waved his hand and walked towards the dream study area.
You can't tell how many books a sector has just by looking at the counter area. After all, the starting point of a sector may only have one or two rows of bookshelves, but the deeper you go, the more bookshelves there are.
He didn't intend to learn anything from the book, but he had some interest in dream studies, so he planned to take a quick look.
After entering the dream study sector, he felt a faint sense of restlessness in his heart, as if a desire for exploration had begun to grow in his heart.
"That's why they say libraries have a scholarly atmosphere. I couldn't help but want to read as soon as I came in." Lin Yi smacked his lips.
His eyes swept across the bookshelf, looking at book after book with curiosity.
Secret Realm of Dreams...
The Book of Dream Interpretation...
The Fusion of Art and Dreams...
Dream Divination: The Art of Dreaming to Predict the Future…
"Dream Boundary: The Cycle of Life and Death"...
Every book seems to be extremely mysterious. Just looking at the title gives you the feeling that it is some kind of misleading stuff. But in this place, this kind of mysterious... no, this kind of mystical stuff seems to be the mainstream.
"How about... getting a copy and trying it out?" This thought quickly came to Lin Yi's mind.
Library rules encourage people to just browse around and look around. It shouldn't be a problem to read a book, right?
He then reached out and took a book titled "Boundary of Dreams: The Cycle of Life and Death" from the bookshelf, but the moment he put the book down, he suddenly found that a person suddenly appeared in the empty space where the book was taken.
The man was staring at him with his eyes wide open, and there was a bookshelf between them.
When he saw Lin Yi, the man's head tilted slightly, and his somewhat evil smile appeared in the gap between the bookshelves.
Lin Yi was startled and almost summoned the baseball bat with a trembling hand, and then inserted it into the guy's mouth through the bookshelf.
But he still thought of the one in the Library Guidelines:
When you meet other people, please note:
Don't pay attention to other people's opinions;
Don’t talk to strangers, not even the librarian;
You can trust the librarian's words, but don't accept any of his requests. He then silently moved a few steps away, intending to avoid this guy, but the guy seemed to move with him along the bookshelf.
If he didn't move, the guy on the other side wouldn't move either. If he moved, the guy would move with him.
He narrowed his eyes and decided to ignore it. As a last resort, his baseball bat was not to be trifled with.
No matter what that guy is, after killing him, the most he will do is to ingest some pollution, which will accelerate the process of pollution... Why should he panic? After all, his current pollution threshold may even exceed that of ordinary nocturnal species.
Well, no need to say “maybe”, it is 100% more than that…
Polluters have one thing in common: low-polluters chase high-polluters, and high-polluters like to swallow up those with higher pollution purity.
He possesses both qualities: he is deeply polluted yet very pure. To a certain extent, when the nocturnal creatures see him, they will shout "Great Lord, the Mist-Cloaked Light-Seeker". Of course, to another extent, he may also be the food that the angel statues want to eat the most.
Who wouldn't be confused when seeing Tang Seng's flesh being moved? It's reasonable to be remembered.
Lin Yi laughed at himself, he was now popular wherever he went - well, popular in the literal sense.
He opened "Boundaries of Dreams: The Cycle of Life and Death" and began to read...
Foreword:
"The boundary of dreams is the boundary of the world, vague and mysterious..."
"I have traveled through layers of fog, trying to decipher the meanings behind the symbols in dreams, to understand why some dreams are like dark abysses, leaving me with lingering fears when I wake up..."
“This book not only records the research on dreams, but also explores the deepest and most secret corners of the boundary between my soul and the world when I was dreaming. I hope that every reader who opens this book can find resonance with his or her own dreams and embark on this journey of dream boundary full of fantasy and mystery with me…”
"——"Dream Builder-HX-S-023""
When Lin Yi saw the last signature, he was shocked.
"Dream Builder Number! This was actually written by a dream builder?!"
Unconsciously, the professionalism of this book has been raised to a higher level.
Unlike the grandpa and grandma who change their skin every time they promote a product in Chinese TV shopping, the author of this book doesn’t need to say “It is well known that our X family has been studying dream building for generations”, “It has been like this since my grandfather’s time”, “Now I want to make a decision that goes against my ancestors and record the process of dream building in a book” and so on…
The preface of this book is simple and clear, with the author's name directly marked.
What is professionalism?
This is called professionalism!
Lin Yi opened the text and found that it was indeed a description of the process of this "Dream Builder - HX-S-023" building his own dreams and perceiving the boundaries of dreams:
"That was the first time I reached the border of dreams, and it was also the only time I reached the border of dreams..."
"It happened in December of X999, on the eve of the Spring Festival. I accepted an order from the organization and followed the "Moon-III" survey team to the Arctic Circle to search for traces of the "Black Moon Outpost" recorded in the "Book of Origins"..."
"On the way to meet up with the Moon-I survey team, I seemed to hear some kind of call. The voice swirled in the wind, shuttled through the polar storm and spread, vague and clear..."
"That night, after trekking and surveying along the way, I fell asleep quickly in the camp..."
"As soon as I fell asleep, I noticed something unusual. I knew I was dreaming. This feeling of being awake and confused was very strange... I knew I was about to embark on a dream-building journey..."
"Darkness surged in like a tide, wrapping me tightly. I walked forward in a chaos, with no solid ground under my feet, only endless void... Faint lights flickered around me, like the remnants of distant stars, but they could not illuminate the way forward..."
"My consciousness began to cry out, trying to break through the mist of this dream, but my body could not help but drift with the invisible gravity..."
"I don't know how long I drifted, but a vague boundary line appeared in front of me. It seemed to be drawn with silver threads, emitting a mysterious attraction..."
"I moved closer to it, and my heartbeat suddenly accelerated, as if I was about to cross a huge taboo..."
"I felt fear, yet an unprecedented desire. I was about to peek into the forbidden world, as if I had reached out and touched a corner of the gauze that the Creator had covered the crystal mural. I touched it, and as long as I uncovered it, I would see a completely unknown mysterious world..."
After just reading the opening chapter, Lin Yi was addicted to it.
He slowly sat down with his back against the bookshelf, gently turned the pages of the book, and his eyes slowly wandered between the words.
At first, the words were like a trickle, quietly outlining some vague scenes in his mind.
But as he read deeper, his mind seemed to step into a turbulent river. He felt himself being pulled by an invisible force, towards the depths of the dream, towards the boundary described by "Dream Builder-HX-S-23"...
Lin Yi continued to penetrate into the world described in the book. He felt like he was standing in a fog. The ground under his feet seemed to be there and not there. Every step he took was like stepping on cotton, without any solid touch.
He knew that the dream world described in the book began to come alive before his eyes. He seemed to see the original appearance of life, a faint but hopeful light, like the first star born in the dark universe. He was tracing the trajectory of "Dream Builder-HX-S-023" and walking towards the edge of the dream.
His thoughts were so clear, just like "Dream Builder-HX-S-023" was so clear at the beginning...
The light flickered and gradually condensed into a tiny embryo, which began its growth journey in the chaotic warmth. He could feel the vigorous vitality. Every cell division was like a song of life, full of infinite possibilities.
But gradually, as the pages turned, the shadow began to spread quietly, and the mist around him seemed to have life, slowly wrapping around his ankles. The cold and damp touch seemed to penetrate his senses and fall on him.
Some of the mist gathered in front of him into various vague shapes, like humans but not humans, like animals but not animals, baring their fangs and claws at him, but silently. As soon as he approached, the mist dissipated, as if it was being brushed away.
He watched the endless cycle of life and death at the edge of the dream. He began to immerse himself and sink, but he seemed to sense a kind of terror and despair that he could not escape...
Just as this feeling began to erode his soul, he began to run and flee following the words "Dream Builder-HX-S-023". He wanted to escape from these horrific phantoms, but his legs seemed to be bound by invisible ropes and he could only move with difficulty.
He gradually understood the despair that "Dream Builder-HX-S-023" felt, but he was powerless to break free. He could only let his consciousness follow the words of "Dream Builder-HX-S-023" and sink bit by bit in this chaotic land of illusion and reality...
(End of this chapter)