Overturned Tower

But there is only one point that Russell can immediately make clear:

Like Morgan and Xiao Liuli before, declaring that "the sky should be blue" is actually risky.

Whether it's a delphinium or an underdog or a Morgan, they were all born with a chip implanted.Can't enter the dream world, so I can't see this scene.

However, for the elves and the "born without a code" in the lower city, this kind of language will cause food for thought.

Although they definitely didn't know which sky Russell was referring to in this sentence, they would also think of the unique scenery of the "prime wasteland", and then wondered whether Russell knew a mage or had entered the dream world.

This is a crooked attack.

"...Tsk."

Russell smacked his lips, calmed down, and began to walk forward.

...In fact, seriously, the problem is not too big.At least not too big right now.

Fortunately, Russell entered the dream world early enough, and not many people knew about it.Only he can make up for this loophole in time... It's just that Russell can't easily explain to outsiders how he got the code name "Ultramarine".

But Russell immediately thought of another interpretation: ultramarine blue is the most calming color, and it is also the most vivid blue.

In front of unfamiliar people, let's use this set of rhetoric first...

——In the future, the only people who can know that the true meaning of "Ultramarine" is "sky" are those who can be completely trusted by Russell.

"...What is this," Russell complained, "it feels like the man in the middle is the masked hero of Skyman."

Coincidentally, Russell is really a "hero" now...

"However, this environment... is too real."

Russell covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and walked on the sand with difficulty under the protection of the goggles.

The blazing sun above his head and the hot wind blowing towards his face further accelerated Russell's physical exhaustion.

The dream world blurred the characteristics of time, so that Russell couldn't even judge how long he had traveled.But at least it has far exceeded the time when he can transform into a blue songbird... and now Russell has not transformed back, nor has he been kicked out of the dream world.

At least the first hurdle has been passed - this shows that the vulnerability of the chip-based "spiritual firewall" speculated by the head of the deer at the beginning is indeed useful.

The principle of this chip to intercept others from entering the dream world should be divided into two parts.

As long as the chip is installed, he will not enter the dream world... The evidence is that Russell entered the dream world for the first time today after recovering the memory of his previous life.The difference is that he was replaced with a "chipless" body.Moreover, the elves in the old era did not assemble chips, but only assembled chips for the new elves born after the Sharia War, probably to maintain their ability to enter the dream world.

At the same time, even if this chip is not equipped, as long as it has been equipped with this chip for more than three years, even if the chip is taken out, it will not be able to enter the dream world-the evidence is those uncoded people in the lower city.

The only thing that is uncertain is what the "three-year" standard is.

"Is it the physical body, the mind... or the awakened psionic essence?"

Russell thought.

His own example at least proves that this kind of seal is not based on memory.

After he awakened the sealed memory of his previous life, the memory of more than 20 years in this life is still intact; after he became a blue songbird, this memory still exists.If the chip is continuously feeding him some kind of disruptive thinking or memory fragments, then even if Russell awakens the memory of his previous life and changes his body, he should not be able to enter the dream world.

After entering the dream world for so long, Russell has not changed back, nor has he been kicked out... This proves that the review mechanism of the dream world is very loose.

If Russell is still not kicked out when he enters the next area.

Russell can directly conclude that the mechanism of conflict between the dream world and the chip only takes effect "at the moment of entering the dream world".

If the blockade of the chip comes from the physical body, then those "new mages" in the lower city should not be the only ones who bypass the blockade of the chip and enter the dream world.

After all, the psionic power of the transformation system is not only possessed by Russell.This is a fairly common category... because "wanting to become something" is a common fantasy.Peter Pan's psychic powers can also be classified as transformation - because he becomes "his childhood self".There will always be someone's transformation form, which is a state without a chip... For example, Peter Pan used to be like this.

The peculiarity of Russell is not that he has multiple transformations, but that he himself does not know what his next transformation will be, and he still holds the opponent's psionic power without transformation.

This is an absolutely impossible situation under normal circumstances.

Psionic energy itself is a kind of "profound desire", so why don't you know what you want to become?And since the desire is to become someone else, how can there be power when there is no change?

This is totally in conflict.

However, according to the deer head statue... Except for the crazy mages on the ground, only those "born without a code" in the lower city can enter the dream world.

This shows that this prohibition is not imposed on the body.

Then there is only one possibility.

That is, the "desire" to awaken psionic energy itself will be polluted by chips.

Because Russell's psychic power comes from the memories and experiences of his previous life - the moment he was born in this world, he awakened the psychic power with a redshift level of two.

——As Russell's parents said back then.

I am afraid that only those who are "born with knowledge" can circumvent this restriction.

That being the case, even if Russell wears this chip for more than three years, he will not be banned from entering the dream world.

If we say that spiritual powers such as "deadly love" and "eternal hibernation" are actually flowing and inherited among the people in a form that has nothing to do with blood, family background, or spiritual relatives... then It can be understood that all the psionic energy in this world can be made into an "illustrated book".

Therefore, the old elf on the airship was not surprised that Russell used Alice's psychic power.

In his opinion, Russell might be the psychic successor of Alice's "Invisible Device".

Perhaps among the elves, there are atlases that record the secrets of these psykers.

Demon containment institutions such as "reconstruction institutions" can also be spiritual energy research institutions.

Then the bad day and the head of the deer—and the elves, who have never seen Russell's psychic power, can be explained.

Because Russell's spiritual power does not exist in this world at all.

"I see……"

Russell muttered, raising his head to look at the brilliant sun.

It was a sun as bright as ever seen on the empty island, under that gray sky.

"Even if there are thousands of different psionic abilities in this world, and these psionic abilities are all recorded in the book, all of them have been analyzed by the elves, and the countermeasures have been sorted out..."

"—My psionic power must also be the thousand and one kind they have never seen before."

Chapter 20 The White Lion

"...Ah, the sun is so dazzling."

Russell was blinded by the dazzling sunlight and lowered his head in a daze.

He didn't know how long he had been baked by the sun... He felt like his back could fry eggs.

But the unreal thing is that Russell didn't sweat at all.

He even felt that the blue song robin's legs were a little numb, and there was no sweat stain on his body, and the dust did not stay in his hair and clothes.

It's as if they are illusions that can only be touched for a moment... like sand, and like sand-like hot snow.

Russell walked forward while thinking wildly, and couldn't help complaining: "How long do we have to go..."

Although Lu Shouxiang told him that the dream world has no concept of time.

But Russell still took the mechanical pocket watch in disbelief—and it didn't move at all, so Russell just left it where it was.

Anyway, this is just a projection, and it will not cause the pocket watch in reality to be lost.Otherwise, even if it can't turn, Russell will definitely carry it all the time.

After all, that thing is very expensive.

This thing is rare in this day and age.When everyone can retrieve date, time, weather and other data from the brain screen anytime, anywhere, the greatest significance of pocket watches lies in... nostalgia and Cosplay.

The entertainment industry in this era is unprecedentedly developed, and people can never finish watching all kinds of entertainment works even if they watch them 24 hours a day.Even if you look at it with critical eyes, the speed of seeing it is not as fast as the speed of exiting.Because of this, the subsidiary industries of the entertainment industry have become very developed.

For example, "customized clothing" for characters in animation, novels, and film and television works.

But because there is no such backward thing as "offline comic exhibition" in this world... After all, such high-quality handmade products are not popular at all in this era.No one is willing to squeeze with other people, and similarly positioned "comprehensive entertainment exhibitions" are all held in online virtual spaces.It can accommodate almost unlimited people... because everyone can set up model collision and "intelligent display of people flow", maybe everyone sees "other people" completely differently.

According to the degree of "crowded" to "sparse" you want, you can precisely adjust the slider of thirty scales.

In this world, almost all public exhibitions are held in this form.As long as there is an eye mask that can enter the virtual space, or a little more advanced, even a similar module can be directly built into the head prosthesis.

The burn mark on Bad Ri's face has a similar function.

Although it wasn't necessarily for entering the virtual space, he must have connected some kind of head prosthesis to leave such marks on his face.

And playing other people is a kind of "high-class hobby" in this world.

Because it is so easy to replace the prosthetic body, there is almost no risk of plastic surgery... After all, even a blue song robin can be cut alive and directly transformed into a little glass.

If rich people want to play other people, they can restore them perfectly from appearance, height, hairstyle to clothing and attire.And readjust it when you get bored, or switch to another set.

Russell really liked the feeling of playing someone else.

It's just that he couldn't afford such expensive "ancillary services" back then, so he could only buy a pocket watch and a decent-looking dress after his salary was paid.By the way, this pocket watch is even more expensive than the dress.

Fortunately, he can now directly use his psychic energy to complete this step—to complete the most extreme performance!

At the beginning, he was not very proficient with the blue robin, which was a bit "cumbersome" to him... But after trekking in this sandstorm for an unknown amount of time, he gradually got used to it.

If it weren't for the fact that there is too much dust here, and he is worried that his mouth will be filled with sand when he opens his mouth, Russell would like to sing loudly now.

He is too idle.

...Ah, I really want to listen to the song.

Listening to books is fine, walking is so boring...

——But at this moment, Russell suddenly felt that the resistance of the wind suddenly became smaller.

The sand and dust sweeping across the sky also gradually disappeared, and the whistling and rubbing sound of the sand and dust also became quiet.

Russell realized something at this moment, and raised his head subconsciously.

He immediately saw a tall black tower reaching the sky standing in the distance.

But if the deer head hadn't told Russell that it was the "Tower of the End", Russell would not regard it as a tower at all at this moment.

It looks like a crack from a distance.Absorbing all the light, it becomes deep and deep.

It's like looking into a canyon from above, and at the end of it, it becomes a horizontal crack like an abyss.

However, the strange thing is that the crack seems to be vertical when viewed from Russell's side.

This feeling of dislocation will make Russell subconsciously want to tilt his head ninety degrees.It's like when a netizen posted a picture of lying down.

"That's the Tower of the End, rookie."

Just when Russell was trying to tilt his head, a low and indifferent voice suddenly sounded from beside Russell.

Russell was startled.

When he raised his head just now, he looked around specifically—Russell was very sure that there was absolutely no one here before.

And on this endless primitive wasteland, there is no place to hide at all.

But when Russell followed the voice, his pupils suddenly tightened.

—It was a white lion.

Undoubtedly, he is a severely spiritual patient, with a face that is exactly that of a lion, and has a long white mane, fluttering in the wind that has not completely stopped.

The white lion does not stand upright, but is slightly bent.This inability to straighten the waist should also be a negative feature of spirituality.

But even if he didn't fully straighten his upper body, he was still half a head taller than Russell today - you know, the vest that Russell uses now is a 1.7-meter-high blue robin!This means that if the lion stands completely upright, its height may be close to two meters.

And the moment Russell looked at the lion pupils, he felt a kind of inner, almost instinctive fear.

His heart suddenly started beating violently, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably... After about two or three seconds, he slowly calmed down.

Then, a feeling of astonishment appeared in Russell's heart:

...what was that feeling?

Even in the face of death, he was never afraid... Why is he so afraid?

"Good quality."

The lion stared deeply at Russell, and made a lukewarm comment.

Although there is no representation, it gives Russell a sense of "locked in".

Never turn your back—Russell's spiritual intuition warned him so.

So Russell simply took a deep breath.With that horrifying sense of fear, he forcibly looked back at the lion.

The lion's pupils are light blue with a greenish tint reminiscent of a lake.

Unlike the sense of danger on his body, his eyes looked quite calm.