prynovel Chapter 3886 The Mystery of Sleep
Chapter 3886 The Mystery of Sleep
Chapter 3886 The Mystery of Sleep
The major ethnic groups in the Mirror Domain actually have corresponding numerical levels of division.
The reason why Laplace chose the "letter" proposed by Ingres was more due to his consideration of Ingres' identity. As the owner of the Dream Crystal, it would be more authoritative for him to name it.
After hearing that it was Ingres's opinion, Huici did not ask any more questions.
Although he had not been a member of the Dream Mirror Organization for too long, he could still see Angel's extraordinary status within the organization.
“Although it’s a little troublesome to remember, it’s just a few characters.” Huici silently recalled the letters that Laplace had mentioned before, and matched them with the danger levels in his mind. In this way, when he encounters a copy in the future, he will be able to immediately react to the letter level corresponding to its danger level.
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As they moved forward, Laplace also saw the style of the Ersi tribe's settlement.
Compared to humans, the Ersi people are much larger, with almost everyone being over four meters tall. Therefore, their buildings are several times the size of human buildings.
Moreover, the Ersi people have obviously decided to build a permanent city here, so they have spent a lot of effort and built many buildings... Even though these buildings are basically just started, for people like Laplace, walking here still gives them a sense of entering the land of giants.
There were people from the Ersi tribe walking back and forth on every street, which made Huici feel very stressed. Their bodies were so majestic that even if they were just walking at a normal speed, Huici felt as if the surrounding mountains and rivers were moving.
The only thing that made Huici feel a little better was that everyone in the Ersi tribe had a curtain on their face, covering their facial features. Not being able to see their faces made the feeling of horror a little less.
However, feeling the ground constantly rising and falling due to the footsteps of the Ersi people, two dizzy and entangled coils appeared in Huici's teacup head's eyes, showing his inner uneasiness.
Huici was afraid of the Ersi people, and in turn, the Ersi people actually avoided them. It was mainly because of the existence of Chaos Mouth that made them feel creepy...
This resulted in the situation that wherever they went, the Ersi people nearby would avoid them, and the noise of their avoidance made Huici terrified... forming a cycle of mutual fear.
After walking for several more minutes, they stopped in front of a simple crystal house.
Huici quietly looked forward and found that there were more than a dozen Ersi people standing densely around the crystal house. From his perspective, it was like rolling mountains. Moreover, they were moving.
Huici continued to feel dizzy.
Laplace couldn't help but sigh when she saw this, and motioned Gabriel to take good care of Huici, and she walked forward.
After a brief greeting, Laplace learned that among this group of Ersi people, only the one with the eagle pattern painted on his face curtain was the father of the unconscious person, and the others were just there to watch the fun.
Of course, there is also a person in charge, she is a female member of the Ersi tribe with a face veil with a purple flower pattern. She is the team leader in charge of the construction of this area.
Some abnormal situations occurred in her area, so she naturally had to come and deal with them.
After she greeted Laplace, she drove away the crowd of people who were watching the fun.
When the surroundings became a little quieter, Huici and Gabriel followed.
“…This is the specific situation.”
Laplace learned the general situation from "Shiso", which was basically the same as what she had heard before.
"Perilla" is the team leader in charge of the construction of this area. His code name is the same as the flower on the curtain, which is Perilla flower.
The father of the unconscious person, the one with the eagle pattern painted on the curtain, was code-named "Mountain Eagle".
Zi Su and Shan Ying were their code names, not their real names. The Ersi clan rarely used their real names, and basically only used them within the family. They mostly used code names to address others. Most of the code names were consistent with the patterns on the face curtain.
"Shall we go in and take a look first?"
Under the guidance of Yamahawk and Shiso, Laplace and others walked into the house.
For the Ersi people, this crystal house is actually of normal size, but for other ethnic groups, this house is very spacious, even larger than some banquet rooms.
As soon as they entered the room, they saw a huge crystal bed next to the window.
Lying on the bed was a slightly smaller-looking member of the Ersi tribe.
The "mini" here only applies to the Ersi tribe. To Huici, this Ersi tribe member is still a giant, at least three meters long.
A bunch of white fruits was painted on his face curtain, so his nickname was "White Fruit".
A veil covered his face, occasionally forming a bulge due to his breathing.
Judging from the frequency of the bulge, he should be sleeping soundly.
If nothing unexpected happens, this person is the unconscious person.
Laplace walked to the bedside and observed carefully for a moment, but found nothing unusual. He seemed to be sleeping normally and breathing normally.
Laplace asked Shanying about the situation again, and found that it was not much different from what Shisu said.
Laplace couldn't figure out what was going on with the white fruit for a moment.
Just when he was at a loss, Huici, who was not far away, suddenly said, "It feels a bit dangerous..."
Everyone heard his voice, but Shanying and Shisu didn't understand what he meant. Only Laplace seemed to have thought of something and turned to look at Huici.
"Who are you saying is dangerous? Bai Guo?"
Huici was stared at by everyone, feeling a little embarrassed, and lowered his voice a bit: "It's not Baiguo."
"Then who are you talking about?"
Huici thought for a moment and said, "It's the aura around Baiguo. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel that there is a dangerous aura around Baiguo. This dangerous feeling is a bit like... a copy of the fairyland."
After Huici finished speaking, he felt something was wrong. Because if it was really a copy of the fairyland, there should be a crystal object representing the entrance to the copy, and if Baiguo entered the copy, his body would not be able to stay there.
Thinking of this, Huici quickly added: "It's just a little bit similar."
Shanying and Zisu were still confused. Shanying tried to understand Huici's words, "You mean, my son has entered the fairyland?"
Huici quickly waved his hand to distance himself from the issue: "I didn't say that."
Zi Su also spoke up at this time: "It shouldn't be a fairyland. All fairylands have visible crystal creations, just like there is a fairyland copy of a collapsed mine outside our base. Its crystal creation is a circular wellhead."
"Besides, Bai Guo is right here and has not disappeared. It is just sleeping. It cannot enter the fairyland while sleeping."
Shiso was trying to comfort Shanying and tell him not to think too much, but when she finished speaking, she heard Laplace's voice: "You may enter the fairyland even if you sleep."
Laplace had not thought about it in the direction of a "copy" before, but when Huici mentioned the degree of danger and Zisu mentioned that "you can't enter Wonderland by sleeping", she thought of a possibility.
A copy hidden in the "Deep Dream" - Dream Zoo!
The Dream Zoo is a very special dungeon. There is no clue about it in the outside world, and its main body is hidden in a deep dream. If you want to enter this dungeon, you can only enter the dungeon in a "virtual state" after falling asleep.
Laplace is quite interested in the "Dream Zoo" dungeon because there is a special NPC in this dungeon, "Dream Chaser" Alan.
This Alan is one of Laplace's abandoned incarnations.
She originally just wanted Alan to sleep in the Forest of Memory, but when Angel pulled the Forest of Memory into the Crystal Origin of Dreams, the abandoned time bodies inside, including Alan, were given new functions by the power of the fairyland: they became special NPCs of the copy.
Mei Ji, Gu Qie, Shi Zhen... are all like this.
A Lan was naturally among them.
However, the Dream Zoo instance where Alan was located had not been activated before. The reason was that the conditions for descending into this instance were a bit harsh.
It has two prerequisites. One is to have a settlement, and the other is that the same person has two consecutive days of dreaming, one day is a good dream and the other day is a nightmare.
The condition of the settlement was met a long time ago.
However, the latter dream-nightmare condition has not been successful so far.
Even a few days ago, Angel bought Qinghong and Evil Abyss from the Head Mirror Clan, trying to use this method to artificially create sweet dreams and nightmares.
But the final result was not satisfactory.
Qing Hong and Evil Abyss can indeed make people have sweet dreams or nightmares. Luigi even experienced it in real life, but after experiencing it, he also found a problem: Qing Hong and Evil Abyss were not stimulating enough for him.
Sweet dreams didn't make him much happier, and nightmares didn't make him much scarier.
To put it bluntly, perhaps Luigi's life experience is too rich, and Qinghong and Evil Abyss do not meet Luigi's standards for having sweet dreams or nightmares.
For this reason, when Qinghong and Eyuan were pulled into the Dream Crystal Origin, they deliberately found an ordinary native to experience it.
But after the experience, the feedback from this native was actually similar to that of Luigi. After using Qinghong, he felt like he was flying, flying over the rainbow clouds, flying over the cloud gardens flowing with honey, passing by the islands floating on the sun, and enjoying the weightless ups and downs in the golden wheat fields.
The nightmare is falling into the abyss of black mud and being chased by the undead...
"Qing Hong brought me a good experience, but when I was alive, I was also able to fly with the help of mechanical devices. And I'm not too afraid of the undead and black mud in the nightmare." This is what the indigenous people who used to be members of the Crystal Eye tribe, but are now pulled into the Dream Crystal Origin by the Holy Corpse Crystal, said.
After experiencing Qinghong and Evil Abyss for two consecutive days, this native did not trigger the dream zoo.
From this we can also see that the standard for good dreams and nightmares must come from the experiencer's own heart.
Qinghong and Eyuan are "dream experiences" created by the Toujing tribe. What the Toujing tribe considers to be good dreams and nightmares may deviate from the cognition of other tribes.
Because of this incident, the advent of the Dream Zoo came to a standstill.
Dreaming is too hard to control.
Be it Luigi or Laplace, neither of them is obsessed with the Dream Zoo copy anymore, just let everything take its course.
And now, Laplace looked at Baiguo who was in a deep sleep, and suddenly remembered the Deep Dream dungeon where Alan was.
Could he have gone to the Dream Zoo?
Laplace looked at Shanying and asked, "During the two days before Baiguo fell into a coma, did he sleep or dream in the Dream Crystal Plain?"
Shanying scratched his head and said with a little shame: "This... this, I'm not sure."
Zi Su also spoke up at this time: "Mountain Eagle has been digging for building crystal materials near the Crystal Hill these past two days, and can only come back a limited number of times a day. Even if he came back, he probably wouldn't be able to see Bai Guo."
Laplace nodded in understanding. Now that the Dream Crystal Plain was in ruins, all tribes would definitely focus on construction first. Not to mention between father and son, even between husband and wife, due to the different nature of their work, it would be difficult for them to meet even if they were in the same area.
Of course, this is only the situation in Dream Crystal Origin. In reality, they are definitely still together.
However, because they can be together in reality, they have never thought about meeting each other even though they are only separated by a street in Dream Crystal Plain.
Laplace: "So is there anyone who has been with Bai Guo during this period?"
"I think so." Zi Su said, "Bai Guo is a young cub in the tribe. We don't arrange any work for them. We just let them adapt to the life in Dream Crystal Origin. Usually, the cubs will get together and explore the outside world."
After a pause, Zi Su said, "Is this question important? If it is, I will go find Bai Guo's playmates right now."
Laplace: "Go find it."
Whether it is important or not, Laplace does not know yet, and can only be determined after identification.
Zi Su did not delay and walked out of the door quickly to find Bai Guo's playmates.
In less than a minute, Zi Su walked in with a small giant with large bones and flesh carved on the face curtain.
It is introduced that this little giant, who is a head taller than Ginkgo, is its best playmate "Rougu".
During these two days, Rougugu and Baiguo were together.
Even when Baiguo was unconscious for a whole day, it was Rougu who first discovered it.
As Rougu entered the room, he looked at his friend with concern.
It was not until Laplace asked that he took his eyes off Bai Guo.
The question Laplace asked was the same as before, which was to ask whether Baiguo had slept or dreamed in the two days before his coma?
After hearing this, Rougu nodded without any hesitation and said, "Yes!"
Laplace: "Tell me more about it."
Rougu hesitated for a moment before saying, "Baiguo's personality is a bit... lazy, well, casual."
Rougu originally wanted to say that Baiguo was lazy, but he felt that it was not good to comment on his friend's shortcomings in front of outsiders, so he racked his brains and changed the wording to one that was not actually that good.
"In the outside world, Bai Guo often slept from morning till night. After entering the Dream Crystal Plain, he found out that he could sleep here too, so he would take a nap from time to time."
"For example, the day before yesterday, we agreed to help Sister Chongcao and dig a canal by the river. But he overslept, and when I went to find him, he was still talking in his sleep."
Laplace: "What are you talking about?"
Rougu thought for a moment and said, "It seemed like something like 'Don't go'. He woke up and said that he had a nightmare in which we went out to play without him. But it was clearly him who didn't wake up..."
Rougu was silently complaining, but Laplace caught the key word "nightmare".
"Apart from nightmares, has he had any good dreams in the past two days?" Laplace asked.
Rougu tilted his head and thought for a moment: "I'm not sure about this."
After Rougu finished explaining the situation, he was taken out by Zisu. Before leaving, Rougu helped out for his friend: "Baiguo isn't particularly careless. I asked before. The main thing is that he can dream when he falls asleep here..."
The Daytime Mirror Realm has been disconnected from the Dream Realm for a long time. Even though there is a trend of reconnecting now, it is difficult to enter the dreamland while sleeping in reality.
However, if you rest in the "transit station" of Dream Crystal Origin, there is a high probability that you will dream.
This is also the reason why Baiguo is keen on sleeping in Mengzhijingyuan.
Laplace smiled and nodded, indicating that he understood.
After Rougu left, Shanying asked hurriedly, "Ms. Laplace, what's Baiguo's condition like..."
Laplace motioned him to rest assured: "There are still many unclear points, but don't worry, he will be fine."
Although Rougu didn't know whether Baiguo had a good dream or not, from various details, Laplace had basically determined that Baiguo had most likely completed the prerequisites of the dream zoo and was pulled into the dream zoo.
The dream zoo is indeed very dangerous. There are very powerful beasts in it. This can be seen from the danger sense that Huici just had.
but.
People who enter the dream zoo are all in a "virtual" state. Even if they are killed by evil beasts in the dream zoo, it will not have much impact on the outside world. At most, their spirits will be depressed for a period of time.
As long as it is not life-threatening, everything else is trivial.
However, although Laplace has now roughly confirmed that Baiguo went to the Dream Zoo, there is still no definite evidence.
There are currently two ways to obtain evidence. One is to go to Angel and ask him to view the situation in the dream zoo from a God's perspective.
Or you can find Luigi, because he has a ticket to the Dream Zoo, the "Wind Chime Garden Special Ticket", which allows you to enter the Dream Zoo.
Of course, there is no need to let Luigi enter the Dream Zoo. As long as you confirm that this ticket can be activated at present, you can know whether the Dream Zoo copy has arrived.
However, these two people are currently in the dungeon, so we can only ask them after they are offline.
Thinking of this, Laplace decided to tell Shanying and Shiso his guess first so that they wouldn't worry about it for the time being.
However, before Laplace could speak, she heard a familiar voice in her ear.
"Hey, this Ersi man lying on the bed feels a bit strange..."
Laplace was stunned for a moment, and then he realized who was speaking.
"Angel?!"