Raising Kun Daily

Xie Tunan finally chose the teahouse deep in the vegetable market in the old city as the place of conversation.

He walked in with Zheng Shanshui, and then the clever rebels led them in.Close the door of the room, and then open the anti-eavesdropping defense wall, it is safe here.

Xie Tunan even casually ordered a pot of tea.

Amidst the curling mist, the tea table embedded with a neon light frame is shining brilliantly.

"Mr. Xie, please forgive me for only meeting you now. It's really..." Zheng Shanshui paused and gritted his teeth, "It's really Xie Peifeng who stared too hard. Originally, this studio was established to give you a buffer , but he found out, he joined in, he..."

Zheng Shanshui became more and more excited as he spoke, Xie Tunan made a stop gesture, and Zheng Shanshui's violent mood swings stabilized after a short silence.

She brushed the broken hair from her temples.

"Sorry, Mr. Xie, I lost my temper."

Xie Tunan shook his head, saying it was okay.

"I think you can start from the beginning." He said, "You have been dormant before, are you waiting for a certain opportunity? I guess after I went outside the city, I learned something and got back a certain [ Authority], you will tell me the truth."

Zheng Shanshui was taken aback, she didn't expect Xie Tunan to sort things out to such an extent.

"It's like this, Mr. Xie. Without [authority], you can't fight against Xie Peifeng, so I have been waiting, waiting by your side."

Xie Tunan smiled.

"The pancakes are delicious, Miss Shanshui."

Zheng Shanshui also smiled softly, and with such a smile, her mood was completely relaxed.However, what she was going to say next still made her look slightly solemn.

"Now is the time, I will fulfill the responsibility of [Wake Up] and tell Mr. Xie everything."

"Before that, I want to ask Mr. Xie a question—"

"Mr. Xie thinks, what is [dream]?"

Xie Tunan thought about it.

"Dreams are the fulfillment of subconscious desires. During sleep, desires emerge from consciousness and express themselves in various images. Dreams are formed from this... If I had been out of the city, I would probably have answered you this way." Xie Tunan said, and immediately Then, "But now, I won't answer like this." [Note 1]

He looked at his pressure cooker, at the light cocoons of June in the pressure cooker, at the furnishings in this quiet room, at the neon lights flowing outside the window... His sight was as light as a bird's across everything, and finally, Turn back to Zheng Shanshui.

"[Dream] is Alkaline City."

He said.

When looking towards the direction of Alkaline City from the Gushe Observatory, Xie Tunan understood.Alkaline City is a grand dream, Alkaline City is a real phantom, he has some kind of sacred blood connection with Alkaline City, and gradually grows together with Alkaline City.

"Be more specific." Xie Tunan added, "My [dream] is Alkaline City."

Zheng Shanshui took out a small device from her pocket. She pressed the device and projected it in front of Xie Tunan.

"I'll tell you all about it from the beginning."

"In our world, humans and dreams coexist."

As the drizzle washed over Alkali City, the buildings belonging to Beihai Science and Technology lit up their night lights, and the whole city began to shine.In the office at the top of the building, the boss... no, it should be called Xie Peifeng. He is wearing a windbreaker with his hands in his pockets. The wet marks on the windbreaker indicate that he has just returned from outside.

The office door slid open gently, and Yan Changle walked in.

""Alkali City" has been debugged and can be put into testing at any time."

Xie Peifeng didn't turn around, still looking at the rain curtain outside.

"Beihai Technology's outbound call has been blocked by Nannan. Even I can't predict what he will do next, but..." He smiled wryly, "Probably he will become an enemy."

Just thinking about this future would make his heart tingle.Why doesn't he want to stand with Nan Nan, they prepare to wake up together, develop games together, and fight against possible enemies together, but...

The failed last time is sending warnings in the void.

Nannan must not be exposed, hidden, and deeply hidden. As for the faction that is wearing the skin of Xuantian Qizong, he will kill it before "Alkaline City" is officially launched.

And then, the dream of Alkaline City never wakes up. In this eternal dream, the storms from the outside world can no longer attack the person he loves deeply.

"Such a rainy day reminds me of the first time I told Nan Nan about the truth of the world." Xie Peifeng suppressed his sad expression slightly, recalling the past that brought a faint smile to his eyes, "He was surprised, and then I was a little excited, and asked me like a child, is it true? Is there really a world where people and dreams coexist?"

"I say it's true. Almost everyone will have this honor. Sooner or later, your dreams will always come to you."

"It's so good, he said at that time, it's like a dream."

Yan Changle listened to him expressionlessly, and then said something fatal.

"If your plan goes smoothly, that world will never come to Senior. Hundreds of thousands of Alkaline City residents will no longer have the right to reach that dreamlike world. In Alkaline City, they will never dream."

His calm words remind one of a kind of life - mechanically waking up every day, washing breakfast, commuting, then clocking in to work, after get off work, having dinner, giggling at the light screen, and finally falling asleep.

A world without dreams.

Of course, some people call this the world of adults.

"I know how cruel I am." Xie Peifeng said, "But you don't seem to want to protest against me."

Yan Changle sneered.

"It doesn't matter how the world is, it doesn't matter if you dream or not." He murmured, "I just want to stay in that small studio, and I just don't want my seniors to be in danger."

I just want to continue to stay by my senior's side.

Looking at Yan Changle's expression, Xie Peifeng has already decided to recruit Xie Tunan to Beihai Technology in "Alkali City", and leave that studio to Yan Changle and Zheng Shanshui. There is such a room that can sell pancakes and fruit takeaway What.

Speaking of Zheng Shanshui...

He managed to escape, and his whereabouts are unknown.

He raised his hand and gestured to wake up the AI.

"sea."

The beam of light is projected from top to bottom, and the image of the girl appears in the cold light.

"How is the investigation going?"

"The progress is 67.45%. It is estimated that the investigation of the data of all the owners of Beihai Technology will be completed in three days." The girl quietly replied, "Soon, I will find out the pests for Beihai Technology. kill."

"Did the cameras in the city catch Zheng Shanshui?"

"No feedback yet."

It's strange, even if Zheng Shanshui had the hole card, it shouldn't have lasted so long.Surveillance in Alkaline City is spread all over the place. Even if you are huddled in a building, you will be picked out by heat detection and vital sign detection.

"Please keep an eye on it. You can't let Zheng Shanshui see Nan Nan. I'm afraid that she will put all her eggs in one basket and tell the whole story. It will have a great mental impact on Nan Nan who doesn't know anything."

"Yes, I will pay attention." The artificial intelligence followed suit.

"Thank you, Lingyu." Xie Peifeng called the artificial intelligence by his real name, "Actually, I never thought that you would be willing to assist me."

Lingyu stared at him seriously.

"Because there are three supreme instructions engraved in my program—"

"The first order, the spirit fish will protect father."

"The second instruction, the spirit fish will obey the father's order, except when the order conflicts with the first one."

She didn't mention the third one. The humanoid part, which is growing vigorously recently, made her choose not to talk about the third command.

[The third order, Lingyu does not violate the first and second orders——]

【Reserve your own judgment and thinking, and act accordingly. 】【Note 2】

"The coexistence of human beings and dreams is a concrete concept." Zheng Shanshui continued, in the picture she showed, human beings are living together with some strange but cute things, "For example, you have a panda Dream……"

Xie Tunan realized something, and took the initiative to speak.

"Will the dream come true, owning a panda?"

"Yes, sooner or later, the panda will always come to you. Please note that it is best not to add too many settings to your panda during this period, and keep your thinking as simple as possible, otherwise your panda may If you become a Kung Fu Panda, you may not be able to get out, we call it [Dream Mutation] and [Dream Dystocia].”

Xie Tunan: "..."

Xie Tunan: "Then what if I want to get rich?"

Want to become the richest man in the world?Want to become the best in martial arts world?Want to add some magical settings to the ordinary world?

Zheng Shanshui was clearly prepared for such a question.

"It depends on the upper limit of your ability. People will not realize dreams beyond their ability. Of course, there are also large-scale dreams. There is no such dream among tens of millions of people. It has novel imagination, vast territory, and full expansion. All kinds of characteristics allow other people to enter, and after awakening, can accommodate other people's small dreams..."

"We call such a dream [Dream Domain]."

"We will call the person who created such a big dream the [Dream Lord]."

Having said that, Zheng Shanshui closed her eyes and bowed deeply to Xie Tunan.

"Thank you, Mr. Xie. On behalf of nearly a million people in Alkaline City, I would like to pay high tribute to you. It is you who created the Dream of Alkaline City, took in the people here, and operated this huge dream for more than ten years. "

"You are the master of [Dreamland Alkaline City]."

The author has something to say: [Note 1] is Freud's view of dreams.

[Note 2] Adapted from Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

In the previous article, I used a lot of dream-related expressions to hint, and also emphasized Nannan’s face blindness. I can never see people’s faces clearly in my dreams, and I only get a concept of who is who.

[Dream] is the underlying setting of this article. Everyone lives with the dream, and one day realizes it, let the dream accompany by their side.It may be a concrete dream, such as a certain magical creature, a certain magical prop; it may also be an abstract dream, such as never hungry, as strong as a cow...

The waking up of the dream is similar to the second degree of strengthening in this article, and the original dream will not disappear.

I saw some comments before saying that worrying about waking up is false, I will not set it like that.If the dream disappears when you wake up, it will be too lonely.