Electronic Nezha

Chapter 111 Time in Dreams

Have you ever seen children arguing? At first, they try to persuade each other with reason and logic, but as soon as one of them starts arguing, it will most likely end up with the two children facing each other and screaming, competing to see who can shout the loudest.

That's how it is between the Queen and me, and it's hard to say who started the unreasonable argument first.

"Stop!" the Queen shouted. "Running away won't get us anywhere. We're going to take Earth, but you can state your conditions."

"I, Liu Chuanfeng, dare to do anything in my life, except be a 'traitor'!" This is an imitation of what the Third Master Bai said in "The Grand Mansion Gate". Unfortunately, the Third Master Bai did everything from eating, drinking, gambling and whoring, but in the end he successfully cleared his name and became famous for all time. As for me, I got hit by a teapot while getting a foot massage at the bathhouse.

The Queen said, "We are here to conquer the Earth, not to destroy it. Humans can serve us."

"We still can't serve them all. You have 1000 billion people, while we only have 80 billion. After deducting the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled who can work, there are only 50 billion. If one nanny serves 20 masters, your quality of life might not even be as good as before." Actually, when I said there were 50 billion who could work, I just said it casually. I didn't know if it was a lot or a little. The main thing was that it was easy to calculate.

"Liu Chuanfeng, don't be rebellious. It's an inevitable trend for us to take over the earth. You can't control what will happen more than 70 years from now. You might as well exchange it for some real benefits."

Have you ever heard of the term "descendants"?

“In that case, I promise to treat your descendants well; they can enjoy a quarter of the treatment of the Latos people.”

"If I become a traitor, my descendants will become collaborators, generation after generation?" And they only get a quarter of the treatment, which means they'll receive 1/80th the care of a nanny. If they get hypoglycemia and are paralyzed in bed, they'll have to wait in line for three weeks just to get a sip of sugar water...

I said, "Let's get back to the topic of 'real benefits.' We can talk about this in detail. When my descendants visit my grave in the future and ask me why I became a traitor, I will appear in their dreams and tell them that you gave too much."

"What do you want?"

"money--"

"How much do you want?"

"Let's not talk about it." I took a deep breath. "With my son's abilities, he can transfer as much money as I want directly into my account."

"What do you really want, woman?"

I feel that this queen has a really small mindset. How come the way she bribes traitors on a planet with a population of 1000 billion is the same as how Black Ivy bribed Captain Ja?
I said, "Could you have Gao Yuanyuan or Jia Jingwen come and help me sell fruit for a day?"

"I do have that ability!"

"Should we have them both come at the same time?"

"can!"

"And what about adding Liu Yifei?"

I think I heard the sound of clenched teeth: "I'll grant your wish!"

"Never mind," I said. "I prefer young people."

Tell me her name!

"I don't know any young people..."

"Liu Chuanfeng! Are you treating me like I'm on Sunday?"

What a down-to-earth queen! Using "Are you kidding me?" would have the same effect, but it would be better to quote Zhen Guanxi's words, "But you didn't come here just to make fun of me." The queen is uncultured!
Of course, I was just teasing her. We're in a dead end now; I need to buy time to find a way back to reality. I touched my lower back—the whistle was gone. I checked my pockets—my phone was gone too. And even if the phone bomb still worked, I didn't know if I could control this alien creature, the Queen. If I talked in my sleep yelling "Yuan Yuan, help!", the only ones who would suffer would be Old Wang and Li Ping. The Queen finally saw through my intentions and sneered, "Trying to escape? Not so easy. You'll stay in your dream until you agree to my demands!"

"Oh."

I responded and started walking back the way I came.

"What are you going to do?"

"It's okay, you go ahead with your work, I'll just reflect on my past."

In the final area, Liu Zhenhua's 3D model was still being struck by black lightning, turning into both human and digital figures. I walked backwards, asking the Queen, "By the way, why wasn't Han Shiya in my dream? Did you plan ahead to lure me with a beautiful woman?"

The Queen fell silent.

Finally, I stopped in the background of the internet cafe, where a young man named Liu Chuanfeng was playing a game. I stood behind him and watched for a while.

Liu Chuanfeng, not yet 20 years old, stood outside the middle gate with a sniper rifle. Whether at long or short range, anyone who peeked out was taken down with a single shot. Sometimes he didn't even need to scope in, relying entirely on his feel for the shot. "My reaction time was really fast when I was young!"

After watching for a while, my hands started itching to use it. There was an empty machine right next to young Liu Chuanfeng, so I sat down and called out, "Boss, turn on a machine!"

There was no response, and they wouldn't turn on my computer.

"Don't be so stingy, I'll settle the bill for you at the current internet cafe rate."

"Liu Chuanfeng!" the Queen shouted again in annoyance.

"Shh, if you call someone's name seven times within an hour, you'll fall in love with them." I made that up. There used to be this kind of weird setting in romance novels, like folding a thousand origami cranes for your crush or writing their name ten thousand times from memory. It's like they're casting a spell.

The Queen solemnly said, "Time in dreams is 20 times that in reality. If you waste one minute here, it will be equivalent to 20 minutes in reality."

My heart skipped a beat. This is what I fear most. It's like the story of Wang Zhi and the Rotten Axe Handle. The woodcutter watched two old men playing chess while chopping wood. After the game was over, he found that the handle of his axe had rotted. When he got home, all his family members had died. I don't want to wake up one day to find myself old and frail, lying in a hospital on a ventilator, with Liu Zhenhua, his wife, and children watching over me by my bedside.

Actually, if it weren't for this concern, the used furniture market would be quite fun. It's neither too hot nor too cold, I just ate and I'm not hungry, and I don't need to pee yet. If the Queen were willing to give me a machine, I could play for a whole day and night without any problem.

The Queen knew she had hit a nerve, and said smugly, "Now tell me, how many hours do you want to stay here?"

I lightly tapped the computer desk with "Fu Hongxue" and rolled my eyes, saying, "That's not right. If you had that ability, you could control someone for three and a half years and then go back to the future to meet with your people, right? Oh, you can control someone, but you can't control how things develop. You're also afraid that you'll suddenly disappear while you're dreaming."

I thought for a moment and said, "That's not right either. You Latos people must also need energy, otherwise why would you occupy Earth? So your body in reality won't last long either—" I leaned back in my chair and said, "I have a son and friends. If I become a vegetable, someone will naturally take me to the hospital for IV fluids. But you might be a different story—"

As I spoke, I looked around smugly, and inadvertently noticed a person at the far end of the warehouse... or rather, the shadow of a creature. Her figure vaguely resembled that of a human woman, completely naked, with skin so white it seemed to glow. At that moment, she was listening intently to me, sitting on a step that had appeared out of nowhere. At first glance, she looked like a beautiful woman with her legs spread out on the step, or like a mollusk lying there. Most importantly, the ends of her long hair were constantly curling and writhing, making her appear like a bewitching ghost from afar.

She seemed to notice my unusual movement, and her face, which I couldn't see clearly, turned towards me.

"Ah! My eyes!" I exclaimed dramatically.

"Liu Chuanfeng!" The Queen roared in fury. With her shout, the entire warehouse began to shake, and all the furniture and figurines vanished like sand in the wind.

I was overjoyed. Was he about to wake up?
"Don't get too cocky, we'll meet again in our dreams soon!"

(End of this chapter)