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Chapter 516 Oral Addiction
Li Sheng opened his eyes, feeling himself lying flat. It was extremely dark around him, and the sensations from his hands and back made it seem as if he was lying on a dirt slope.

He braced himself on the ground with his hands and sat up abruptly, using the insect's main gene to alter the density of photoreceptor cells in his eye and the structure of his retina.

On a macroscopic level, this manifests as the continuous changes in the shape of the pupil and the color of the iris, and the growth of a reflective membrane behind the retina—a structure found in nocturnal animals such as cats, dogs, and sharks. This membrane increases the amount of light reflected at night, enhances night vision, and produces visual effects such as green and golden hues under light.

Commonly known as titanium alloy dog ​​eyes.

However, no matter how much the light-gathering ability is improved, it is impossible to focus the light into a clear image—there are no photons in the surrounding environment at all.

However, this did not stump Li Sheng. He casually took out an active infrared night vision device, stuck it on his forehead to pretend to be a unicorn, and looked around.

There was only a desolate pile of rocks, with no weeds or vegetation on the ground.

Besides Li Sheng, there were several other extraordinary individuals lying there.

"What have I done here? Is this still in China?"

Wanli Fengdao sat up, rubbing his forehead. Beside him were Reyes and Claudia, who was casting a light sphere spell.

A little further away, there are mushroom kings, rabbit-like roly-polytetramomo, and centipede octopuses in the fish tank.

"Wait, where are the people?"

Claudia summoned a bright orb of light, which rose twenty meters into the air, illuminating the surroundings as if it were daytime.
The white horse tombstone, gray rain, griffin, and the astronaut who caused the mist, which were also caught in the colorful fog, were not found in this desolate area.

"I can't open my task log either!"

Reyes said nervously, clicking on the player panel with his mind had no effect, and the mission log and the most crucial exit kill field option had also turned gray.

"Don't rush yet."

Li Sheng raised his hand to interrupt Reyes's words. With a thought, the Yin-Yang Blade appeared steadily in his hand. He gently sliced ​​the blade across his palm, and his entire right arm entered the insect form.

He said thoughtfully, "I understand now. At this moment, we in the real world should still be sleeping in the colorful mist of the killing field. We are currently existing in the Land of Dreams in the form of consciousness."

The evidence includes the ability to access items in the inventory and the malfunction of the [Ten Thousand Eyes Communication Headset]. CQ.

Reyes and Claudia exclaimed in surprise, "...A consciousness?"

"It can be understood as your essence: wisdom, perseverance, belief, etc."

Rabbit Ranger Mianyue picked up the fish tank and pondered, "Considering that the higher the level of the chosen one, the more self-aware they are, this place is not much different from the real world, except that they cannot return. They will be thirsty, hungry, and injured."

The question is, whose dream is this?

Based on the information provided directly from the killing field, Dreamland will tailor-make a dream world for users, creating a dreamscape that provides wonderful memories.

Calling this area a "bird's-eye view" would be an exaggeration; there are absolutely no birds, beasts, insects, or even any living creature other than the player.

Who would deliberately conjure up such a lifeless and silent "dream"?
Is the Three Kingdoms Kill Delta game developer complaining about having too many family members at home?

This question remains unanswered. Li Sheng turned to Wanli Fengdao and asked, "Brother Xiaodao, do you still have your mission items with you? CQ."

"Here I am."

Wanli Fengdao nodded, weighed the four-dimensional box in his hand, and the Fungus King also took out the safe containing the ice axe.

The atmosphere fell silent for a moment, then Claudia hesitated before asking, "What do we say now?"

According to the original plan, everyone should have entered their own sweet dreams and woken up naturally at the appointed time. But now something is clearly wrong.

Not only were the White Horse Tombstone and others not nearby, but the surrounding environment also didn't resemble a dream.

“Now.” Li Sheng rubbed his chin, gripped the levitation engine, floated up, and flew to a height of a thousand meters, gazing into the distance.

Most of the area was wasteland, with a dark town faintly visible in the far distance, nestled on the edge of the plain. In the town center stood a tall clock tower, and further away was a stone castle.

The castle's design is exactly the same as the one depicted in the suicide note. Furthermore, there is no true "high altitude"; one can reach out and touch a solid alloy similar to the building materials used in the killing field—the entire space, equivalent to a medium-sized city in the real world, is completely covered by a giant metal dome.

Li Sheng landed back on the ground and exchanged information with the other players. "My suggestion is to explore towards the town at 11 o'clock first. It would be best if the Griffin, Tombstone, and Gray Rain were there. Even if they aren't, we can still gather information and figure out whose dream we are in. CQ."

"We're fine."

Rabbit Ranger Mianyue nodded, then hesitated slightly before asking, "But why do you use 'CQ' at the end of your sentences? Is there a special reason for it?"

"I'm contacting Gray Rain using a wireless device."

Li Sheng pointed to the miniature earpiece he was wearing in his ear and, while leading the way, casually explained, "'CQ' is the universal call signal for radio communication on Earth. It means calling any radio station. Reyes and the others know that."

"Uh, I really don't know," Reyes said, rubbing his hands together awkwardly. "I started my own business and didn't receive any training from the major guild's operator system."

Claudia scratched her head, while Wanli Fengdao stroked his goatee. "I think CQ is your new catchphrase. You have to add it to the end of every sentence."

Similar to 'meow~', 'poi', 'desuwa', 'this piece', 'desuwa'.

"???"

This time, it was Li Sheng's turn to be dumbfounded. He said incredulously, "Who in a normal situation would do something like that in a dangerous environment?"
Do you think I'm the kind of person who can't stand not causing trouble? CQ.

What do you think?!
Amidst the rolling eyes of the crowd, Li Sheng strode forward, and sounds gradually came through his earphones.
"Hello? I'm here."

A relieved voice came from the other end of the earpiece, "I'm with Tombstone Sister, Griffin, and I are on a sunny beach, relatively safe. Where are you guys?"

A beach? Sunny?
Li Sheng paused for a moment, then quickly said, "I'm with all the other players at a rocky outcrop. Have you seen the astronaut and the Entropy Cloud?"

"The astronauts didn't see it; the entropy cloud just flew away."

Flying away could not be a dreamland, only accepting native species of the killing field as official visitors.

Entropy Cloud offers three slots, so it will take Gray Rain, White Horse Tombstone, and Griffin to the sunny beach it wants to go.

Li Sheng and the others were taken into the astronauts' dream.

With too little information at hand to make a judgment, Li Sheng said quickly, "Activate [Silverwing Light Path] and locate the signal source on my side."

"clear."

The effect of [Silver Wing Light Path] is to optimize mechanical lifeforms. After Gray Rain is activated, it is much stronger than Skynet in the Terminator movie - Skynet's floating-point operation is 60 trillion operations per second, which feels inferior to an RTX 4090 graphics card.

"found it,"

Gray Rain asked in confusion, "You are 50-90 kilometers away from me, and the signal comes from a 35° cone-shaped direction, so it is impossible to pinpoint your exact location."

"Ok?"

Radio direction finding technology is quite mature in the real world. Whether it is the Doppler direction finding method, the time difference of arrival direction finding method, or the Ulan Weber direction finding method, it can improve the positioning accuracy to ±5°, with an error in the hundreds of meters or kilometers.

Before Li Sheng could ask any further questions, a long, clattering sound of machinery came from behind the distant hills.

Like thunder, like the roar of a beast.

The players were all too familiar with the voice of the mechanical python Alpha; all the metal objects they carried tilted and floated slightly. Radio communications were also completely cut off, leaving only static.

The group exchanged glances. Claudia silently extinguished the light sphere spell, while Li Sheng took out seven pieces of graphene-coated clothing from the three-dimensional warehouse that could absorb electromagnetic waves and shield electromagnetic signals, and distributed them to the other players.

Dressed in silver, the group resembled patients suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity or eccentric homeowners opposing the 5G base station in their neighborhood, and walked hand in hand quickly toward the town in the darkness.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

(End of this chapter)