Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 3 Not Everything

At ten o'clock in the evening, it seemed as if the city had just begun to close its eyes, but it was not asleep at all.

"You love me~I love you~Ice and snow are sweet~"

The red door front and the sound of sweet songs indicate that this milk tea shop at the entrance of Chunhua Community is still open for business.

In the store, there is a white bar on one side, and there is a person on duty at the bar.

He is He Ping, an employee of the store.

At present, he is responsible for both taking orders and mixing milk tea.

Fortunately, it was ten o'clock in the evening and there were not too many people.

So he paid more attention to the person in the store.

That person is weird.

On that August day, he wore a gray turtleneck windbreaker, a round-brimmed hat, and a pair of sunglasses.

He has a square face and untidy beard.

As for age? He looks to be in his 40s or 50s?
He Ping was not sure either, as very few older people drank milk tea.

The weirdo sat there at nine o'clock and started drinking milk tea.

From Orange Juice to Taro Ball Pops, I've already had more than a dozen cups.

He drank cup after cup, even the most unpalatable coffee, without hesitation.

He Ping was amazed that he drank for more than an hour without going to the toilet.

Isn’t he afraid of being overweight or having diabetes?
At this time, another person came in through the door.

The man was dressed in a suit and carrying a briefcase.

Although he is a little fat, he looks handsome. He is just not very old, probably in his twenties or thirties, but his hair is a little bald.

He Ping asked, "What would you like to drink, my guest?"

The man just said, "No, find someone."

After saying that, he came to the opposite side of the strange man in the windbreaker.

He said, "Here I come!"

The man in the windbreaker said, "You shouldn't have come!"

"I should come!"

"You are late!"

"I had to be late!"

"Why did you have to be late? Is there anything more important than our meeting?"

“Because of overtime!”

"..."

“That’s indeed a reason!”

He Ping listened to the tone of their conversation and felt that they were somewhat ill.

At this time, two young girls came into the store and ordered two cups of milk tea. He went to do his work and did not listen to the nonsense of the two patients.

The man wearing the windbreaker is named Shizi Chen, not "Shizi" and "Chen", but "Shi" and "Zi Chen".

He is a senior investigator with the Bureau of Investigation.

An investigator, as the name suggests, is someone who investigates some special matters.

Just like right now.

He said in a low voice: "Did you bring the things?"

The bald young man opposite him is his colleague, named Lu Nanxing.

Lu Nanxing also said in a low voice: "Why do I speak like this?"

Shi Zichen said, “You know.”

Lu Nanxing fell silent.

Of course he knew that if the way they spoke had changed, something must have changed "here".

The two of them came here just to investigate "this place".

"Here" changes frequently, and the way people speak changes involuntarily.

Sometimes, he speaks with a lisp; sometimes, he speaks in an elegant voice, even reciting poetry; sometimes, his speech becomes very strange, like now.

"When did it start?" Lu Nanxing said, touching his hair.

Shi Zichen said: "Just now, a little after nine o'clock, I drank my fourth cup of milk tea!" Upon hearing this, Lu Nanxing said nothing more and just handed the briefcase in his hand to Shi Zichen.

"Everything you want is in there!"

Shi Zichen: "All?"

Lu Nanxing said: "Of course, the information of all 4,500 companies in the city is in it!"

"It's all due to excessive overtime work," he added.

"You did a great job!" Shi Zichen said with satisfaction.

His colleague is very capable and can save him a lot of trouble.

"Here" is a dream, a legendary dream.

Some people call it "the other shore", some call it "the homeland of the vacuum", some call it "the pure land of Possa" or "the fairyland of the void", and some call it "R'lyeh" or "the city of silver"...

In the eyes of different people, "here" has different names.

And in the Investigation Bureau, this place is called the "City of Dreams"!
The way to enter "here" is through dreams.

It does not exist in reality, but only in dreams, and only occasional people can enter "here".

The Investigation Bureau also tried many ways before finding a way to get in "here".

The two of them are the first batch of investigators to enter the "Dream City".

Many predecessors had come here before them, and they combined their experience and conducted investigations here.

When the time is up, they will leave the "Dream City" and pass the investigation results to the next group of investigators.

Batch after batch, generation after generation, one day, the Investigation Bureau will fully investigate the "City of Dreams"!
Uncover the secrets of the "Dream City" and prevent the "Dream City" from interfering with the real world!

There are many strange rules in the "Dream City", and the most important one is that if you want to live comfortably here, you have to work overtime.

The more overtime you work, the happier you are.

If you don't work overtime, you get unhappy.

Objects dropped from the sky, a car that suddenly runs out of control, and inexplicable fugitives can all cause you to suffer misfortunes in your dreams in unpredictable ways.

If you die in a dream, you will not really die, but leave the dream.

For those who accidentally enter the "Dream City", leaving is not a bad thing, but for investigators, they must stay in the dream.

So, they can only work overtime.

Lu Nanxing's originally thick long hair has turned bald, and like a programmer, he is full of the aura of a strong man.

"Why am I the only one working overtime? Am I the only one losing my hair?" Lu Nanxing couldn't help but complain when he thought of this.

He is less than thirty years old!
How can you lose hair while dreaming? No wonder some people think that the "Dream City" is a real world.

Shi Zichen said nothing, but took off his hat.

Under the hat was the Mediterranean Sea.

Working overtime and staying up late will cause hair loss everywhere.
He works overtime, so does that mean he won’t work overtime anymore?

"Everything is worth it for work!" Shi Zichen put his hat back on and said in a low voice.

They have the mission of the Investigation Bureau, so even if they lose their hair here, it is worth it.

"What would you like to drink?" Shi Zichen opened his briefcase, which contained a stack of documents.

Lu Nanxing is relatively young, and he usually drinks tea like "Bawang Tea" which costs dozens of yuan per cup. He rarely drinks "Bingwang" milk tea.

"Whatever!" he said.

So Shizi Chen shouted to the bar, "Give me ten cups of grape and taro balls, with lots of sugar!"

How do you know you are dreaming?

Some people say that you can use a spinning top, and the spinning top in a dream will not stop.

Some people say that you can do a big math problem, such as Fourier transform. In a dream, people cannot calculate it.

Some people also say that walking on a straight path with your eyes closed. If you walk with your eyes closed in a dream, you will walk to a strange place.

And in the City of Dreams, our predecessors summed up their experience.

That is drinking milk tea.

Drink "Ice King" milk tea.

Even after drinking more than a dozen cups, I didn’t feel full or sick of it.

Dreams are so absurd.

Drink "Ice King" milk tea and be a dreamer.

(End of this chapter)