I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 848 Replica

"Are they all replicas?"

No wonder Mengdu has such abundant resources...

It only takes one "original item" to produce thousands and thousands of identical products.

Looking at the dazzling array of goods on the shelves, Mo Ling finally understood why these supplies were so complete.

He was still thinking about how to do this when Li Luo beside him knocked on the block, indicating that it was time for him to leave.

"I'll think about it later..."

There are so many strange places in Mengdu. Since these replicas have been put up for sale, there must be no problem. There is no need to dig into the details.

Thinking of this, Mo Ling shook his head and controlled the cube to catch up with Li Luo.

Li Luo followed the map and walked into the winding path. The Mengdu Research Institute was quite far from their current location, and it would probably take some time to walk there.

This dream is good in every way, except that there is no means of transportation. In such a big city, the only way to get around is walking.

"No wonder I didn't meet many people on the road. They should all be staying at home."

Surfing the Internet on DreamNet is much more interesting than going out...

Looking at those "buildings made of building blocks" of different sizes and thinking of the small shop just now, Mo Ling suddenly had a guess: "Are these buildings also copied?"

These building blocks are divided into different specifications according to their size and whether they are solid or not, and then the building blocks of different specifications are copied and stacked together, forming the unique appearance of Dream City today.

Also because only copying is used, the buildings all look the same and can only be embellished with various neon lights.

"If nothing goes wrong, those neon lights are also copied."

If you want to build a city but have only a few "templates", it is easiest to make a "building block city". You don't even need roads, you can just use those building block buildings to separate them.

Thinking of this, Mo Ling roughly guessed why dreams took this form.

Along the way, he saw many identical small shops. The layout of the shops and the arrangement of the shelves were exactly the same, and even the electronic signboards hanging on the doors were exactly the same.

It's like a series of fixed chain stores, each store adopts the same model.

Mo Ling even stopped and found the shelf selling sesame biscuits with ease...

"The arrangement of sesame seeds is the same."

"Number, thirty-three, that's right."

It seems that the supplies of this entire city all come from the same "entity".

Mengdu has copied countless products and sold them in stores everywhere. In fact, all these copies come from the same source.

Is it a relic? Wouldn't such a large-scale use have some terrible cost?
Unconsciously, Mo Ling began to think again.

He clearly intended not to delve into the matter further, but when he saw the ubiquitous "traces of replication" in Mengdu, he couldn't help but think about it.

His strange reaction of stopping from time to time was also noticed by Li Luo.

"What's wrong?" Li Luo looked at the cube and asked curiously.

Having been together for so long, she would be able to notice anything wrong with Fang Kuai at the first glance, and she also guessed that Fang Kuai must have discovered something.

"Have you found the Teti troops?"

The cube shook, and after waiting for a while, an electronic screen appeared on the top of the cube.

Li Luo took it and looked at it, and immediately understood.

She opened her backpack and took out two items of supplies she had just purchased, but she couldn't see anything with her naked eyes, so she stuffed them back.

She raised her head again and looked at the surrounding buildings for a while. "I can't see it."

She shook her head helplessly at the cube.

Indeed, without Mo Ling’s vision, it would be difficult to find the “replication traces”.

When humans scan the shelves with their naked eyes, they subconsciously and spontaneously categorize the same products.

Biscuits, cola, canned food, hand sanitizer...

After being categorized, no matter how similar the products are, our subconscious mind will ignore these similarities because products of the same kind should be similar.

No one will care whether the liquid level is consistent, no one will count the number of sesame seeds on the cookies when eating them, and no one will remember the shape of every chicken leg they have gnawed. The brain will spontaneously filter out these meaningless things and clear the information that "occupies the memory".

After learning about the "copying" incident from Fangkuai, Li Luo began to search for it on the Dream Web, but there were very few records about it.

Some bored people on the forum did bring up this issue, but it was explained away as "quality control." Even if most people noticed it, they wouldn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Mengdu has been developing for so long that if there were any problems, they would have occurred long ago. Everyone knows that Mengdu’s “abundance of materials” is abnormal, but everyone tacitly acknowledges its existence.

This is the abyss, and there are all sorts of ways to do this.

"As long as I can eat enough and have something to use, that's enough..." Most people hold this attitude and will not delve into the logic behind it.

The dream is so big, the abyss is so huge, if I were to get to the bottom of everything, I would have been exhausted to death long ago.

Li Luo looked at the electronic screen, then at the cube, and spread his hands helplessly.

However, she thought of something and somehow opened the social interface and found the man who "bowed his head and served the powerful."

"Do you know why the supplies in Mengdu are so abundant?"

The other party replied very quickly, probably because he was surfing the Dream Web.

“It’s a copy.”

This reply immediately stunned both Li Luo and Mo Ling in the cube.

He actually knows?
Before Li Luo could ask further questions, the other party started explaining on his own.

"This is also achieved using dream energy, but I don't know the specific method of implementation."

"My uncle once told me that it was a kind of fixed shape of dream qi. Because dream qi is a convergent substance, it can be changed into different forms by changing the type of particles around it."

"Just like radioactive substances, unstable nuclei emit radiation and then transform into another type of nucleus."

"The radiation emitted by unstable atomic nuclei can be alpha rays, beta rays, gamma rays, positrons, protons, neutrons, neutrinos or other particles. Different types of decays will transform into different atomic nuclei."

"It's the same with dream energy. The particles it focuses can be alpha rays, beta rays, gamma rays, positrons, protons, neutrons, neutrinos or other particles. When focusing on different particles, it will be shaped into different substances. Based on the mass of these focused particles, we can calculate what substance it will be shaped into after focusing."

"By using different combinations of particles, you can make the dream energy appear as you want."

"My uncle told me that this is how the materials in Dream City came from. But I don't know the specific connection between the gathering and duplication of dream energy. Why is it copied instead of created directly?"

"I also asked my uncle, but he said that this is confidential information of the research institute. Even if I am his nephew, he can't tell me casually."

"Also, this was something that another research team was working on, and he didn't really understand it."

……

The other party gave a very detailed introduction, and after reading it, Li Luo nodded in understanding.

Are all these products made through dream energy?
It seems that dream energy is really an important thing in Dream City, and it can be found everywhere.

Perhaps, the name of Mengdu is also related to dream energy.

(End of this chapter)