Chapter 69: The Illusionary and the Real (2)

  Falsehood (2)

  Because the elevator broke down, the two people had no choice but to walk down to the stairs one floor at a time.

  As Shen Yu went down the stairs, he stood at an angle behind Yuan Fei, sizing up this person who had been replicated in his dream.

  He curled up the corner of his mouth with some self-mockery, and indeed he was still too arrogant. Indeed, the world is so big that it can't be grasped in a short time, ordinary humans are just a grain of sand in the ocean, and what they grasp is only a small dust particle in the universe.

  It's just like the Dreamweaver. From Zhen Tianqi's mouth, it is learned that this mysterious race should have existed long ago, and at the beginning of human birth, they seemed to have their existence in unknown places, using a mysterious method to silently intervene in this world.

  There are too many unsolved mysteries in the world, and there have been too many historical figures with unpredictable titles. Countless wise rulers have made incomprehensible mistakes in decision-making that have puzzled historians.

  Now that I think about it, is it all because of the existence of the dream planter that led to the current history?

  "Director, why do you look so terrible? Didn't you pull an all-nighter again yesterday?" Yuan Fei turned his head to see Shen Yi's serious expression and exaggerated terrified look, even his feet cooperated almost getting tripped by the stairs and falling down, fortunately he reacted quickly and grabbed the handrail to maintain balance.

  Shen Yu raised his head, thoroughly implementing his principle of having no expression on his face. "Don't waste words."

  Yuan Fei's familiar expression and tone were no different from those of the Public Security Bureau on an ordinary day, even the cleaning staff sweeping the floor was no exception.

  A wonderful world.

  He curled up the corner of his mouth and sneered. If one were to obtain in this world everything that they did not have in reality, such as a career, wealth, and love, then people would easily become trapped in this world and regard the real world as an unfortunate dream. A warm but illusory dream is often more alluring than an unfortunate reality.

  "Police officer, what do you want to do? You called me down just to go window shopping with you?!" They walked silently for about a minute before Yuan Fei suddenly stopped and looked at Shen Yu strangely, "Officer, have you received some kind of stimulation?"

  He glanced at him and said, "What about the thing I asked you to investigate when we went to Yu's family anniversary dinner together last time?"

  Yuan Fei looked confused, "What are you talking about? Didn't you and Liao Xin Xin attend the anniversary dinner together last time? I wanted to follow you then, but you scolded me. Why bring this up today? You didn't let me investigate anything that day?"

  "Oh, I see." Shen Yu continued with a poker face, "Maybe I remembered it wrong."

  "What's wrong today? Is it that the police are being abnormal or am I being abnormal?" Yuan Fei muttered behind him.

  It seems that the characters copied in the dream have complete memories of their original bodies, and the range of memories is still very large. It appears that as long as the original body has memories of something, it will also be remembered here. No wonder people who enter the dream can't detect anything.

  If he hadn't clearly known that the place he was in was just a dream, he would have thought that what he had just said to Zhen Tianqi in the coffee shop was just a dream caused by his thoughts during the day.

  （2）

  "Besides the dream walker letting them wake up, there are also ways for people to exit the dream on their own." Zhen Tianqi said.

  "What is it?" Shen Yu asked.

  "Weightlessness." Zhen Tianqi replied, "You can choose to go bungee jumping or choose to jump off a building, it doesn't matter, as long as you create this weightlessness, even if only for an instant, you can return to reality."

  "But free fall isn't exactly weightlessness, it's just an illusion to the senses, is that okay?" Shen Yu furrowed his brow.

  Zhen Tianqi smiled, "My Shen Da Jing, you're being too meticulous. For the human body, senses are everything. Even if the body isn't in a completely weightless state, but is still under the influence of gravity, it doesn't matter. As long as the senses think they're in a weightless state, the body will naturally activate its emergency protection mode. The human body is a wonderful thing. It's like when you're sleeping in reality and in a half-dreaming, half-awake state, you often feel like you're floating for an instant, then your body twitches and you wake up with a start. That's the body's automatic reaction. When you want to come back but can't communicate with me, you can use weightlessness as a way to return to reality."

  Shen Yu slowly opened his eyes.

  The second floor of the cafe's private room by the window seat, the Italian espresso on the table was still emitting a faint mist of heat.

  He looked down at his watch. 3:04 PM.

  It had been only half a minute since he entered the dream, yet it allowed him to spend several hours in the dream.

  "Do you understand now?" Zhen Tianqi supported her chin and smiled, "Otherwise, how could you stay in the dream for so long? I almost thought you'd forget about your worries."

  "I only slept for half a minute?" Shen Yu couldn't believe it and turned around to take another look at the Western-style clock in the room, "But a long time has passed in my dream."

  "You can actually stay in the dream for a longer time," said Zhen Tianqi. "You seem to be afraid that staying any longer will delay your next meeting, but I forgot to tell you earlier that the time difference is fully controlled by us, the lucid dreamers. As long as I'm willing, you can exchange half a minute in reality for a lifetime in the dream."

  "Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine." Shen Yu smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes, "Such a false world."

  "But didn't you want to try the thrill of weightlessness in an elevator, and experience the sensation of flying in mid-air for a moment? This is something that can only be felt in dreams." Zhen Tianqi said with a smile, her almond-shaped eyes narrowing into a slit. "This is also one of the benefits of dreaming, isn't it?"

  "I won't try something unverified so rashly." Shen Yu's face was expressionless.

  "You're actually afraid that I'm not telling the truth, and you want to use your dreams to get rid of me, right?" Zhen Tianqi opened her eyes, and the dark, ink-like pupils rolled with increasingly deep colors. "Actually, as long as I'm willing, there won't be any tools in my dreams that can make you feel weightless. If you want to take the elevator, it will always be broken or overloaded; if you want to jump off a building, someone will always pull you back." The smile on her lips grew colder and more sinister. "I'm telling you clearly, Shen Yu, since you chose to cooperate with me, you don't have the right to doubt me. If I want to, as long as you still need sleep, I can make you die silently in your own dreams."

  She withdrew her smile and her face returned to its pale, expressionless state, looking like a bloodless doll against the backdrop of the gloomy sky outside the window.

  "I chose to cooperate with you because we temporarily have the same goal. If this goal no longer exists, I will abandon you at any time and choose the next collaborator. Shen Yu, you only have cooperation, but no choice."

  Mira stretches out her claws and wants to vote click~~~~~