sleeping formula

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"Welcome, Mr. Sakata."

After he agreed to Okita Sougo's job, Sakata Gintoki immediately felt like he had strayed into a tiger's den.More specifically, when he sat in front of Hijikata Shiro, the invisible pressure he felt was tens of thousands of times that of Sougo, and his willpower to restrain his desire to escape should be applauded.

"Nice to meet you."

"Just look at the list and order what you want to drink." Hijikata beckoned to the waiter, "Expresso, thank you."

"Latte, thank you." Gintoki handed the menu to the waiter, and smiled gratefully.

"I'm sorry for you, but when you were chatting with Sougo that day, I watched you through the camera." Hijikata said, "Honestly, your performance was amazing."

"I thought I was just talking about my own thoughts, and there was nothing to show." Yinshi shrugged.

"That's right." Hijikata smiled, "Then I'll get to the point. Before that, I must remind you that Shinsengumi's mission mode is teamwork. So everyone can take a vacation together when they are free, and even I can spare time. Time to give you some individual guidance; but once you get busy, even newcomers won’t give you a honeymoon period, okay?”

Silver nodded in understanding.

"Very well, how much do you understand about 'dreams'?"

"'A Broadway to the Subconscious?' 4"

"Stop talking about dropping book bags." Hijikata snorted, "That's not an idea, it doesn't show what you understand."

"Okay, let me put it another way." Gintoki said, "Fountain of Time 5, do you know?"

"In Chicago, I know." Hijikata thought for a while and said, "What's wrong?"

"The spirit of the phrase "Timegoes, yousayAhno, Alas, timestayswego.6" is engraved on it. I went to see it once, and I was very impressed." Gintoki continued, "Isn't the dream similar? Time is clearly flowing, and the dream No matter how much time passes, it seems like a still picture when I am awake.”

"It's an interesting statement," Hijikata said with a smile, "it's close, but it's not entirely correct. The real time is also flowing when you're dreaming, but it's much slower than the speed in your head. It looks like time. It’s just static. Five minutes in the real world is an hour in the dream.”

"The speed of the brain is twelve times faster." Yin Shi calculated and said in surprise, "This kind of time utilization is really efficient."

"It's a good idea," Hijikata immediately complained mercilessly, "When the dream becomes your reality, you know how terrifying it is to get lost in between the two."

Yinshi immediately fell silent when he heard it, he knew it was not a joke.

"Well, since you dropped the book bag and mentioned the relationship between dreams and the subconscious mind, I have to explain how the brain works." Hijikata took a sip of Expresso, "Do you remember any experiences you've dreamed about before?"

"Most of them are forgotten, and some are still vague." Gintoki replied.

"Then every time you dream, doesn't it seem that you are in a certain scene from the beginning?"

Yinshi thought for a while and said, "Indeed. It's like a flash of inspiration."

The earthworker took out another piece of paper and drew two arrows, forming a complete circle.

"This is how the brain works: In dreams, we create and perceive the dream world at the same time, and the cycle repeats until we wake up. And this process is so perfect that it is imperceptible."

The earthworker draws a line through it with a pen and cuts the circular circle.

"So, we use this "loophole" to cut into the dream of the target to complete the task." Hijikata quickly drew a red circle on one of the arrows, "Architect, that is, your job, is to take over the creation of the dream. Is it okay to let Target’s brain perceive and accept and strengthen this scene, is it okay here?”

"It's okay, I'm just a little surprised." Yinshi replied truthfully, "Don't Target feel that all this is unreal?"

"You can try to answer this question yourself." Hijikata said, "Use one sentence to describe where we are now."

"An ordinary coffee shop."

"So is there anything unusual?"

Gintoki thought for a while, then suddenly raised his head to look at Hijikata's interested expression.

"Really?" Hijikata smiled, "You came from a little farther away and found me sitting here. There is no beginning and no end—this is a dream."

"So I can literally understand the work of Architect, which is the world in architectural dreams."

"That's right, exactly."

"Then what kind of people are there in the team you mentioned?"

"First of all, a mission is usually a group of five. Extractor is temporarily represented by me, literally trying to get the information we need from Target's subconscious; Forger is Souwu, literally Any place where we need to "falsify" is within his scope." Hijikata lit a cigarette, "PointMan is a girl from China named Kagura, who is very courageous but careful, and is responsible for monitoring everyone in the dream. The situation; Chemistry is responsible for the sleeping pills that everyone enters the dream, and Shimura Shinpachi is currently in charge."

"Then the others?" Gintoki asked.

"Not everyone in the group will go to the dream world, like Yamazaki is in charge of general affairs."

Earthwork looked at his watch.

"It's almost time, do you have any questions?"

"Ah, I want to know, after leaving the dreamland, can you really remember what we said here?"

"Just like your usual dreams, you will forget what you can forget, and you won't forget what you can't forget."

"what?"

"I'm lying to you." Hijikata took another sip coldly, "Come in through dream sharing, and people who have been trained will remember the content of the dream, only Target will not remember. Although the current Target is me, but because of me I am used to such occasions, so I can naturally write down what happened in my dream.”

The sound of music sounded in the distance, as if calling Gintoki to return to reality.

"And Mr. Sakata, don't make that sour plum face that looks like eating a turtle." Hijikata said, "You don't know how ugly and funny your expression is so exaggerated."

The author has something to say: (4) "Die Traumdeutungistder K? nigswegzur Kenntnis des Unbewusstenim Seelenleben."

(5) "Time Fountain", located in Chicago Park, consists of two groups of stone sculptures erected on both sides of the fountain. The stone sculptures on one side have the history of the development of human civilization, symbolizing the linear view of time; the other side is an archangel The statue looks at the "past, present and future" of human beings coldly, symbolizing the point-like (or circular) view of time.

(6) Translation: time goes by, you say?Oh no, God, time stands and we pass.The sentence is taken from the poem Paradox of Time.