Please ask the dream.

Chapter 305 Dreamland

Hearing that Su Xiaowei was willing to speak, Feng Xue immediately set up a sofa and placed it on the Rainbow Bridge, motioning for everyone to sit down and talk. Su Xiaowei looked at the sofa, and the corners of her mouth twitched. Was this guy really pretending to be a newbie to trick them?
But then I thought about it and felt that it was okay. Maybe only people who don't know what the road to heaven is can build something like this? It is precisely because they don't know that they can imagine things that go against common sense. This is really an architect!

But since the sofa was already made, she didn't resist, found a place to sit down, and said:

"Generally speaking, the Dreamland is divided into layers. Do you know this?"

"I don't know." Although Feng Xue knew that his golden finger was layered, he always thought that it was because the round pigeon last night that served as the template for the golden finger was layered. Now it seems that this world is also layered?
Su Xiaowei, who had just thrown out a common sense that everyone knew as an opening remark, was silenced by Feng Xue's words. Luo Tian, ​​who was standing beside her, sighed and explained:

"People's thoughts have 'weight'. The heavier the obsession, the deeper it will sink, while the more mundane the thoughts, the more they will float on the surface. So after countless years of sedimentation, thoughts of different weights have become layers like the stratification of a solution. The deepest layer, which is composed entirely of the deepest obsessions, is the City of Shadows."

When Luo Tian said this, Su Xiaowei finally accepted the shocking fact that "the person in front of her really knows nothing" and added:
“To be precise, it’s not the Shadow City, but the place where the Shadow City is. After all, even if you reach the deepest layer, you may not necessarily encounter the Shadow City. If you use a layered solution to describe the entire dreamland, then the Shadow City is the crystal of the solution precipitated at the bottom layer.

"To explore the Dreamland is to connect to the first layer of the Dreamland through the shallow thoughts of 'dreams' that will be forgotten once you wake up, and then explore deeper.

"However, this layer is not a real physical layer, so the closer you get to the Shadow City, the deeper it is. For example, in this dreamland, the deepest part is actually the top of the mountain with the highest altitude, while the wasteland, desert, and forest are completely indistinguishable.

"This is relatively easy to find. The fantasy dreamland in my hometown is even more outrageous. Not only is it a huge plain, but the deepest part is directly in places like residential houses and temples. What's even more outrageous is that those temples themselves are still changing. Maybe there is a way in this time, but it will be in a different place next time..."

When Su Xiaowei said this, there was obviously some resentment in her tone, and Luo Tian beside her also felt the same way:

"Yes, the fantasy dreamland in my hometown is an ancient battlefield. After entering, you have to deal with the reverberations and wandering souls of ancient soldiers while searching for the city. The most annoying thing is that sometimes you go through so much trouble to enter the city, only to find that there is no 'gate' in the city..."

"Wait a minute, what are the reverberations and flowing souls you have here? And that 'gate', is it something similar to this Cloud Gate?"

Feng Xue interrupted Luo Tian's words. He had finally found someone who could inquire, so naturally he had to ask everything he needed to ask.

"You even... Forget it, let's start from the beginning." Su Xiaowei looked at Feng Xue's clear but foolish eyes, and finally sighed, thinking about the enlightenment books she hadn't read for more than ten years, and said:

"The thoughts and consciousness of intelligent creatures will flow into the Dreamland. Even if the owner is dead, the consciousness will still remain. After who knows how many years, the same consciousness will merge and transform." The memories of people living in the same area will become the background of the Dreamland. For example, my hometown was once famous for its many heroes, so the Dreamland also has a martial arts theme.

“But what enters the dreamland is not only ordinary memories, but also the cognition of oneself, thoughts about life, and memories of events. Among them, those thoughts with strong subjective will will become similar to living things after fusion.

"Depending on the amount and strength of the fused wills, these creatures will also be different. Those that only have the ability to move and can only act according to a specific program are called reverberations. You can think of them as wild monsters in the game. The bandits, robbers, birds and beasts that are common in the shallow layers of the Dreamland are of this type.

"When these reverberations gain enough consciousness, enough to build up 'logical' capabilities, they will become intelligent to a certain extent. Note that it is intelligence, not wisdom. They are just like NPCs in games. All dialogues are set, and they interact with you only out of logic. This is called a wandering soul.

"Further up, there are individuals who have truly gained wisdom. Regardless of their intelligence, they all have independent thinking abilities and have become true Dreamland creatures. We call them residents. It is worth mentioning that many residents are the remnants of ancient civilizations, so they are very hostile to the countries that caused the extinction of their civilization or even their species. Shinra architects are especially vulnerable. Basically, as soon as they enter the Dreamland, they will be besieged by residents. The Sin Priests we saw before can actually be considered 'residents'."

"So the Farahs and Silizes we met before are the embodiment of the will of the remnants of civilization? A single-ethnic version of Alaya? But isn't this too weak?" Feng Xue complained in her heart, but Su Xiaowei did not stop there, but continued:
"Above the inhabitants, there are higher-level beings, which we call 'kings'. These beings have a strong immortality, and even if they die, they will be resurrected after a period of time. They are not only powerful, but also vengeful. However, some of them are willing to communicate. They accept the rules embedded in the Dreamland by the Creator. Kings like this are called prophets by us. However, it should be noted that prophets are not necessarily kings. Some are NPCs born under the rules of the Creator, so not all prophets can be 'bribed'!"

Su Xiaowei put emphasis on the word bribe, which shows how deeply impressed she was by Feng Xue's use of the Philosopher's Stone.

Feng Xue could only laugh dryly and then continue the topic -

"What about the 'door'?"

"The door is the door." Luo Tian took over the conversation, pointed at the Cloud Gate not far away and said:
"Didn't the fourth creator go too far when adding the rules, and end up hurting himself? Although he changed the rules temporarily, part of the rules that were originally written in were still implemented - the part about the price."

At this point, Luo Tian said with a somewhat helpless tone:
"Perhaps the creator thought that by adding some negative effects to the rules, he could increase the strength of the positive rules he engraved, so he wrote a lot of restrictions on that unknown rule, such as the need to find a 'door' to the bottom of the Dreamland, and passing three tests before entering the door. In the end, the rule still exceeded the scope of his ability and could not be engraved, but these negative problems remain until now."

"You can't say that..." Su Xiaowei seemed to feel that Luo Tian was a little emotional, so she corrected him:
"In fact, it cannot be said that these restrictions are useless. At least they can screen out those guys who are obviously not strong enough but still want to take a gamble."

(End of this chapter)