don't open your eyes [unlimited]

On the other side, the jungle has completely turned into a mess.

A bruised giant lion shook several times before finally falling heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of smoke and dust that was half a person's height.

The staff of the two departments directly under the "cocoon" were also not having a good time. It could be seen that they had spent a lot of effort in order to fight this ferocious monster that suddenly appeared and spewed fire.

At this moment, the two of them opened their panels and were urgently checking their own data.

The directly subordinate department will only display the serial number to the outside world. The serial number of the person who talked to Ling Su before is D-2, and his companion is F-3.The numbers represent their ability ratings, and insiders can know their level just by looking at them.

The initial levels given by "Cocoon" are all five levels, and third-level personnel can independently solve all dream domains below A level.The two-person combination sent for this mission is actually enough to handle routine tasks in any situation.

"Not quite right." F3 turned off the panel, looked at his teammates beside him, "Are the monsters in this dreamland too strong?"

After entering the jungle, the first thing they encountered was a leopard.The situation at that time was still normal, they just disposed of it casually, recorded the subconscious fluctuations, and continued to search deeper.

But the difficulty of fighting this two-story giant lion far exceeded their expectations.

After forcibly triggering the explosion, F3's spiritual power has been damaged by more than 60%.

This dreamland will continue to consume mental power, and he has to stop for a while to rest, lest his health bar accidentally drop below the warning value, directly triggering a survival crisis and being ejected from the dreamland.

D2 nodded, and he took out a strangely shaped instrument to record the consciousness fluctuations left by the giant lion.

"This kind of combat power is not like the original emotions and consciousness in the dream realm." D2 looked at the constantly fluctuating data on the instrument, "It is almost comparable to the 'invader'."

Many times, people encounter never-before-seen monsters or murderous killers in their nightmares—these images are usually projections of some kind of fear or stress.In some special cases, it may also be that the subconscious mind is still not satisfied with the horror movie it just watched, and is reminiscing without authorization.

And the common feature of these original phenomena is that no matter how fierce and terrifying they are, they don't actually have real combat effectiveness.

Since he is a derivative of the dreamer's subconscious in the dream, as long as the dreamer has the cognition that "monsters can be defeated", even if he just stretches his legs, he can trip a prehistoric giant and throw it away.

This is also the true principle of most of the weapons they carry-these weapons actually act on the subconscious mind of the dreamer.By implanting some short-term cognition into the subconscious mind of the person concerned, the threat of the dream is weakened, so as to solve the crisis in the dream realm.

This kind of cognition lasts for a very short time. Most of the time, as long as the dreamer wakes up, everything that happened in the dream will be automatically cleared by the brain.

……

But this giant lion that appeared out of nowhere has completely exceeded the fighting power that the original business phenomenon in the dream should have.

"Aren't the intruders all human?" F3 looked at the hideous wound on the giant lion's corpse, "Now even the zoo is connected to Dreamland?"

"In the records reported before, there are indeed records of small animals such as cats." D2 said.

D2 walked over and twirled the bark that was scorched by the flames ejected by the giant lion, and the ashes fell from his hands: "But if this kind of thing is really a projection of a certain creature in reality, it would be too exaggerated... "

While they were talking, the island under their feet still did not return to calm.

The crazy struggle of the giant lion after being seriously injured destroyed many trees and caused the whole island to shake violently.Even though they were close to the center of the island, they could still feel that the ground level was changing constantly.

"Speaking of which, why is the island shaking so much?" F3 helped the tree trunk to stabilize his body.

D2 also didn't know the reason, and shook his head: "Probably because the Dream Realm itself is not stable enough. After the giant lion went mad, it caused subconscious fluctuations."

Due to the differences of the dream owners themselves, each dream domain behaves differently when it is unstable or even collapsed. Any weird phenomenon may appear, but it is not so curious to just shake it for a while.

F3 just asked casually, without thinking too much, turned on the virtual screen and looked: "Those three people are still at the beach."

They have background permissions and can view other people's profiles and locations. F3 put away the virtual screen: "This kind of ground shaking is probably equivalent to landslides and tsunamis at the edge of the island."

D2 put the instrument back into the backpack: "That's also impossible."

Although the special incident handling team also directly cooperates with the authorities, after all, it is mainly aimed at ordinary people who were innocently involved in the dream realm. This time, they were involved in this A-level dream realm because they were implicated.

In their view, the data and even the rating qualifications of Ling Su and the others were not enough—especially the newcomer who had only entered the Dream Realm three times, it was a complete mistake to be brought in.

Another unpublished meaning of the A-level dream realm is "cognitive invasion".Anyone who enters the dream realm will be continuously and slowly invaded by the dream realm's own cognition, and the impact of this invasion will still exist even after leaving the dream realm.

To put it simply, people who have not received training suddenly have such a dream of seriously losing SAN, which is likely to leave a psychological shadow that cannot be eliminated...

"If they were fatally injured in the dream, 'cocoon' would force them to withdraw when they were about to die."

D2 said: "For them, this is still a good result."

F3 spread his hands, didn't say any more, and stood up while supporting the ground.

Due to the continuous blood loss buff on the island, after resting for so long, his mental power barely recovered to 50%, and he was basically out of the survival crisis in a short period of time.

This jungle has almost been completely destroyed by the giant lion, but the dense forest ahead is even darker and unpredictable, as if there is a more terrifying threat lurking in the darkness.

"It would be great if we could directly see the location of the target." F3 sighed, "We don't have to find it hard."

"I can't do it for the time being. At present, I can only track the conscious body of the known dream pattern." D2 shook his head, and walked into the jungle with F3.

Although a large number of high-tech R&D personnel have been summoned, the results are still limited due to the short period of time for the mutation in Mengyu.The reason why they can see the location of Ling Su and others is also because the dream pattern of the special event handling team has been registered in the "cocoon" database.

"The headquarters has found a way to enter the dreamland of slow-moving 40 times the time flow rate for research, and there may be new research and development breakthroughs in the future..." D2 stopped, "What's wrong?"

He found that F3 did not continue to move forward, he was a little puzzled, and looked back.

F3 stared at the depths of the dense forest, he swallowed dryly, with some cold sweat dripping from his forehead: "There is something."

"There's something in there."

F3's body was a little stiff, he turned his face slowly, and looked at his teammates: "Just now, I seemed to see many pairs of green eyes."

……

The waves roared.

As soon as Zhuang Die took over the cluster of small flames, he suddenly felt a strange warm feeling from his fingertips.

Flames got into his fingers.

There was no abnormality in that hand, but the pads of the fingers were itchy, as if someone had gently fiddled and wiped them back and forth with a feather, winding all the way up the palm and arm.

Before Ling Su could finish posing, he was hit on the head by the waves falling from the sky: "..."

"Should!" Song Huaimin barely stabilized his figure on the rock wall, thumping the reef with one hand, vehemently condemning the situation and the captain who was still in the mood to tease the team members, "Not doing business properly! When is it? It's impossible to distribute leaflets like this. No one will ask you! You can go and clean the car windows of people one by one at the intersection while the red light is on!"

Ling Su got up in time, supported the reef with both hands, blocking most of the waves for Zhuang Die.

He raised the flashlight and respected the knowledgeable deputy captain: "Old Song, how many strange occupations did you encounter when you were working... huh?"

The light of the flashlight vaguely seemed to have caught something, Ling Su stopped talking, grabbed a piece of iron rod to stabilize his figure, and leaned over to examine it carefully.

These reefs have been exposed to wind and sun for a long time, and they have already weathered and become brittle. Under the violent impact of the waves, many of them have begun to shatter and collapse, and have been sucked into deeper sea water.

Song Huaimin's punch just now caused a larger area of ​​reef to fall off.And when the entire reef not far away was completely destroyed, a rusty metal door was exposed underneath.

Like the various mechanical artifacts discovered earlier that do not belong to this small island, this door is also designed to be extremely precise.It's just that due to the long-term erosion of seawater, the anti-rust layer has completely peeled off, and every place is covered with thick rust.

"Why is there a door here..." Song Huaimin was a little surprised, he jumped down, and Ling Su stretched out his hand to help him stand still, "Could it be the entrance to those people's secret base?"

According to Zhuang Die's reasoning, the hostage-taker has a safe enough place, which can at least shield the BUFF that continues to reduce mental power on the island, and can support a longer period of concealment.

If the island is hollow, there may be a secret base underground, or the laboratory that is always indispensable in the movie...

Ling Su shook his head: "If it's an entrance, it won't be hidden under the rocks, and it won't be able to open at all."

Song Huaimin was still a little unwilling, put his hands on the door and shook it vigorously twice, but found that the door didn't move at all.

He knelt down to examine it carefully, and found that the hinge was completely rusted and could not be moved, and even the screws screwed on it could not find any cross patterns.

The waves kept hitting the rock wall, and the shaking of the island never stopped.Song Huaimin wiped the icy sea water, and couldn't help but said: "This island is really evil..."

Zhuang Die suddenly said, "Is this Paradise Island?"

Song Huaimin was taken aback by him: "Of course, you don't remember where we are?"

The fluctuation of the SAN value, which represents the degree of sanity, will not be as obvious as the mental power, but the impact will be more troublesome, and it may even change a person's cognition in severe cases.

Song Huaimin frowned and pointed at Ling Su: "Is this person so strange that he loses his SAN value when he sees him? I always feel this way too, stay away from him in the future..."

Zhuang Die is very rational now, he stabilized his figure: "I remember, but combined with what we found on the road, we can draw a very obvious conclusion."

"There is a periscope in the crevice of the rock, and the broken iron rod we saw also only exposed one end."

"After the explosion, we have been shaking for so long and it hasn't stopped."

The first sentence written in the brochure is "This is not heaven".

From the perspective of belief, it is true that a discussion between heaven and hell, purgatory and the world can be carried out, but if you only look at the literal meaning, there is actually a simpler explanation.

This is not really Paradise Island at all.

It's just because the name of this dreamland is "Paradise Island", and as soon as they entered the dreamland, they came to an island-like environment, so they established a mindset.

"The anchor chain is directly protruding from the reef. Such a thick anchor chain must be used to fix a huge monster."

Zhuang Die said: "For example, a giant submarine on Paradise Island that is too big for us to recognize."

"This submarine has been stranded for too long, so long that it has been covered with reefs, and even vegetation has appeared..."

Zhuang Die suddenly stopped talking: "No."

Ling Su asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhuang Die didn't answer, he shook his head, opened his panel and looked.

His mental power consumption suddenly doubled rapidly, and his health bar, which was hovering around 75, suddenly dropped by more than half, and it continued to decrease at a faster rate.

A cold, suffocating sense of oppression enveloped him.

Everything around him became hazy and distorted, he could see Ling Su's inquiry, but he couldn't hear the voice.Zhuang Die wanted to speak, but when he opened his mouth, he was choked up by the salty and cold liquid.

Zhuang Die choked hard, held his breath, and stared at the value on the panel to calculate the time.

... If this continues, his health bar will drop below the warning value in about 1 minute.

Zhuang Die quickly took off the backpack, opened the zipper and searched for it.

50 seconds.

Seeing Ling Su's gesture, Zhuang Die shook his head.

He couldn't ask Ling Su and Song Huaimin for help.

If he guessed correctly, the core of this dream realm lies in "cognition" - their state does not depend on the environment, but depends on their own consciousness.

As soon as you become aware of the truth of your environment, you are immediately trapped by that truth.

In other words, as long as Ling Su and Song Huaimin heard him say the last sentence, he would pull them into the same state as him.

40 seconds.

The sound of the heartbeat became more and more obvious, rumbling against the eardrum.

Zhuang Die's vision became less clear, and his fingers were numb from the cold, so he could only fumble around in the schoolbag stiffly.

He found what he was looking for.

30 seconds.

The lack of oxygen made his thinking slow down.

Zhuang Di squatted down, groping to find the rusted screws on the hinge.When he finally found the round bulge, the bone-piercing coldness gripped his consciousness.

Tiredness wrapped him in the sound of sea water and sank.

Zhuang Die lowered his arms, almost unable to bear the need to breathe.

……

The next moment, a crisp finger snap sounded in his mind.

The strange warmth suddenly pulled him out of that state.

Zhuang Die suddenly opened his eyes, he stabilized his arm, and screwed the [screwdriver specially used for dismantling things] drawn by lottery with force.

In the blink of an eye, the rusty door automatically disintegrated into floating parts.

Zhuang Die held the door with both hands, and thrust himself in with his arms.

That icy feeling also flooded in instantly, but was soon firmly blocked by the broken Ling Su rubbing a new door.

Song Huaimin had also entered the interior of the submarine. He didn't know what happened to Zhuang Die, and he was half kneeling in front of Zhuang Die, asking loudly, trying to figure out Zhuang Die's situation.

Ling Su stopped in front of him, and the two seemed to have some disputes.

The isolated voice came back to Zhuang Die's ears indistinctly.

"……rest assured."

Ling Su pressed Song Huaimin, his voice was intermittent, and his tone was different from the usual seriousness: "I won't let him have trouble."

The feeling of the whole body gradually recovered.

When the uncomfortable feeling that accompanied him like a shadow completely faded away, Zhuang Die found himself leaning on Ling Su's shoulder.

Ling Su's coat covered him, the temperature was very similar to the feeling of Little Flame in his consciousness, a little lazy and comfortable.

On the personal panel, Zhuang Die's mental power has returned to its original value. To his surprise, the SAN value and skill bar that could not be viewed before have also been unlocked.

"Explore the rewards for the hidden plot..."

Zhuang Die was pondering, and was startled by Song Huaimin's face blocking the virtual screen: "Vice-captain."

"What the hell are you two doing!" Song Huaimin himself didn't feel anything unusual, but he was so frightened by these two that he almost dropped the connection. "First you suddenly went wrong, and then Ling Su started swimming in the air again..."

Zhuang Die looked up at Ling Su.

Ling Su blinked at him quietly: "I guessed a little late, the vice-captain is not very smart."

Zhuang Die agreed with this point of view, he raised his head and added in a low voice following Ling Su's example: "It's safer to react slowly.

Ling Su nodded: "But..."

"Don't talk small things in front of me!" Song Huaimin was furious, "What are you talking about!"

Ling Su sighed.

He had no choice but to slowly move to the corner of the wall with his little curly hair in his arms, sat down with his back to Song Huaimin, and whispered into Zhuang Die's ear, "You are the smartest."

Song Huaimin: "..."

Ling Su hugged Zhuang Die, his chin lightly rested on Zhuang Die's shoulder, the warm air made Zhuang Die's ears a little itchy.

Zhuang Die wiped the water that did not exist on his face.

He suddenly felt that this feeling was very good. He wrapped his coat tightly and raised the corners of his mouth, taking two deep breaths.