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Chapter 527 Breathing
Claudia, Mianyue, and Wanli Fengdao all lay against the wall, their lungs empty.

Li Sheng reached out and closed the eyelids of the three people, took a deep breath, and stood up straight.

He switched to the bottled lungs from the Wanli Fengdao, held a four-dimensional cube in his left hand, an ice axe in his right, and two high-pressure gas cylinders on his waist, each with a pressure gauge showing less than 50% gas remaining.

It's time to get going.

Li Sheng took a deep breath and stepped into the tunnel.

The surrounding air was thick and heavy, and the air pressure was noticeably high, making my brain feel as if it had been plunged into ice water, causing a stinging and numb sensation.

This numbness originates directly from the laws of the Dreamland and has nothing to do with real air pressure. Even if Li Sheng puts on a pressure suit, it cannot change or reverse it.

He walked slowly along the tunnel wall, the numbers on his Casio F91W digital watch jumping faster and faster at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Clang clang clang.

The hammering sounds ahead grew clearer. Li Sheng, panting heavily, changed his walking posture, shifting from lifting his feet to moving his feet close to the ground—slowing down his thinking speed would slow down the actions commanded by the brain.
Taking a step involves a considerable amount of time with your foot suspended in the air, so using a shuffling motion would be more energy-efficient.

His limbs grew increasingly heavy, and he experienced double vision. Li Sheng decisively removed his left lung and replaced it with a new air cylinder.

found it.

The astronaut, with his back to Li Sheng, held an ice axe and rhythmically and firmly chiseled at the metal dome.

The ice axe blade reflected a faint arc of light, which was not radioactive fluorescence, but rather the bright light produced by high-frequency vibration cutting.

Shards of metal fell in a flurry. The astronaut sensed movement behind him, glanced at Li Sheng, then turned back to continue chiseling. A calm voice came from the speaker inside his spacesuit, "Are you the only one left?"

His spacesuit was more advanced and maintained a better pressure differential, so much so that to Li Sheng, the sentence sounded like it was being sped up twice.

"I'm the only one left."

Li Sheng nodded, he first

Having prepared in advance, without uttering a word, he mimicked Will, rotating the ice axe handle to the designated position, activating the high-frequency cutting mode, and swinging it towards the wall.

At the same time, the assembled puppets are connected to a loudspeaker with a built-in AI program, which then speaks the lines he has in mind at twice the speed.
"Only you and I remain on the road to the gold mine. Ten years later, your son drives a Bentley into high school, your father-in-law smiles every time he sees you, your villa is as cool as 20 degrees Celsius in 40-degree weather, you drink Moutai for breakfast, and young models and mistresses pester you to marry them every night. All of this is simply because you stayed with me and didn't run away, and you even bought at the bottom of the market."

What's in my hand?
If the astronauts were from Earth, they would definitely say something like, "Dude, are you talking about cryptocurrency or Counter-Strike cosmetics?"

The astronauts didn't understand any of this and continued silently chiseling at the wall.

Li Sheng pressed the horn button again and said, "So your current personality is Will, or the Lv40 superhuman from tens of thousands of years ago?"

"This question is like asking someone if they are the same person at age 8 and age 80."

The astronaut paused for a moment, then said indifferently, "I am both Will and the Lv40 superhuman you mentioned. In your language, my ID is [Survivor].

Li Sheng raised an eyebrow and casually remarked while chiseling at the wall, "So, buddy, you're a Transformer, aren't you?"

"Turning anything into gold? Never heard of that."

The astronaut said indifferently, "This town under the dome is my hometown, located in a very, very far corner of the battlefield."

I am the most intelligent engineer in my race, and the first to discover that the world is heading towards death.
Heat death is inevitable; the only way to survive is to carve out a dome before the end.

He swung his ice axe, cutting off large chunks of metal. "I used my last moments to invent high-frequency oscillation cutting technology, using the ice axe to chisel through the dome and excavate tunnels."

I succeeded. The moment the tunnel was opened, the air circulated violently, and the high-pressure gas accumulated under the dome flowed out to the outside.

All the machines driven by air pressure differences started up again. The scalpels in the townspeople's brains also resumed their high-speed operation.

But it was all too late.

A brain that has been reset can no longer return to a normal computing state. Even if air is injected again, it will only awaken zombies. This topic was too heavy, so even Li Sheng didn't ramble on about whether robot zombies were sweet or savory rice dumplings.
Instead, he asked seriously, "And then?"

The astronaut calmly said, "As the sole survivor of my race, I sealed off the metal dome, wandered around, became a Chosen One, learned of the existence of the Killing Field, and also knew that my people were most likely a mechanical race designed, created, and then abandoned and sealed away by the Killing Field."

Li Sheng couldn't help but ask, "Does the killing field actively create races?"

"Otherwise, where do you think those security guards came from?"

The astronaut glanced at him. "I grew stronger and stronger, gradually abandoning my original body and transforming into a giant mechanical life form driven by a nuclear fusion engine, becoming what is known as Lv40, until the end of my life."

Li Sheng's heart stirred slightly. The enemies he had encountered all had increasingly bizarre methods of survival.

It features a group of virtuous individuals like Gou Chen, the Joker's Relic chip possession and reincarnation technique, and a large-scale iterative cloning scheme.

Even Li Sheng himself, if he wanted to cling to life, could use a patchwork doll and a compassionate soul-enhancing glove to upload his consciousness to a server for backup, and import it into a cloned body when needed.

It's hard to imagine that a Level 40 superhuman wouldn't have a trump card for survival.

He was about to ask a question when the astronaut suddenly stopped what he was doing, leaned against the wall, and slowly sat down.

"After I died, perhaps because my last wish was too strong, my essence split into two parts: one part became a mechanical python, and the other part became the original Will."

The former follows instinct: hunting and eating.

The latter returns time and again to the land of dreams, reliving childhood memories, and attempting to rewrite the ending.

The astronaut's speech slowed down; he too was nearing the end of his gas supply, and with his still-functioning right hand, he struggled to swing his ice axe.

"Rewrite?" Li Sheng continued chiseling at the wall, and asked in astonishment, "What do you mean?"

"A chosen one once told me that the Land of Dreams is a component of the Hidden [Wishing Room]."

The words were left unsaid; the astronaut lowered his head and fell silent.

"Leave it to me."

Li Sheng took the last high-pressure gas cylinder hanging on his waist, replaced the empty right lung, picked up the ice axe beside Will, and used both axes to smash it down heavily.

Metal flew everywhere, and all that remained was Li Sheng's heavy breathing.

50 centimeters, one meter, two meters.

The debris and slag piled up underfoot, making breathing as difficult and strenuous as pulling a broken bellows.

Four meters, six meters.

My brain was running wild with uncontrollable thoughts, like eating undercooked mushrooms, with all sorts of bizarre and fantastical images flashing before my eyes.

The new Three Kingdoms was voted the greatest TV series of the 21st century; Optimus Prime was arrested for soliciting prostitution after ordering a ride-hailing service through a mobile app; and the principal scattered nails all over the running track to protect the self-esteem of students who couldn't afford spiked shoes.
This is not a hallucination caused by exhaustion, but rather a disorder in the brain's lobes due to unstable air pressure.

The ice axe fell heavily, and with no strength left in his hands and feet, Li Sheng slid down, his head facing forward, against the seemingly impenetrable metal wall.

Dang Dang Dang——

Suddenly, a series of rapid chiseling sounds rang out from behind the dome, and a bright light illuminated the darkness, stinging Li Sheng's retina.

In his blurred vision, the liquid metal of the gray rain passed through the narrow cracks and entered the tunnel, gently lifting him up.

The pressure balance was instantly shattered, and a raging wind swept from the castle into the tunnel, bypassed Li Sheng's body, and blew into the beach world behind the crevice, where the average air pressure was even lower.

The pressure gauges on both sides of his lungs had reached zero, but Li Sheng no longer needed to breathe. He opened his arms and let the gale pass through his trachea and rush into his brain.

(End of this chapter)