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The canned food I found in the kitchen and the little cooking wine left over became my only source of food and water, and after this dream, it took a long time for the discomfort caused by drinking too much cooking wine to dissipate, and as an alchemist, I prefer the cool and sweet ale and the wine with a long aftertaste, this kind of cooking wine is probably only enjoyed by the rough miners who work under the mines all year round, and the hunters who are accustomed to going out at night.

In one of the bedrooms, there were all kinds of dolls, but unfortunately because of the time, these dolls had become terrifying and hideous, and they had an unsettling smell in the room where the curtains had been drawn. The pink curtains and red strawberry sheets confirmed my previous judgment that the child who lived here was a little girl. On the bookshelf in the room, there are several fairy tale books covered with a layer of darkness, pick up one, but the fairy tale books are not as I imagined because the time is too long and spread out directly, the cover is painted with a frog squatting on a lotus leaf and a few tadpoles, and the cover is written in a very awkward font "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother".

In the other bedroom, I found a zippo lighter, the bronze surface is printed with a luxuriant tree, there is a soft grinding feeling to the touch, the "click" sound of lifting the lighter cover is crisp and pleasant, and the sliding lighter wheel is only a moment of bright sparks. The oil had long since evaporated, and luckily I found an unopened bottle of lighter oil in a drawer in the master bedroom. Whether it's a zippo lighter or a noun for lighter oil, it still pops directly into my mind, although I know the use of these two in an instant, but such a tight and beautiful thing, still makes me feel the vastness of this world, if you can take this thing called zippo lighter out of the dream, it will probably cause an uproar, right?

In addition to this, I also found a small toolbox and a rucksack, which contained various types of taper in addition to needle-nose pliers, and the rucksack did not deteriorate like clothes and other fabrics. I put lighter oil in my rucksack, a tool box, two white candles and a fruit knife with a knife holster found in the kitchen, and after thinking about it, I put the fairy tale book in my backpack again, although it seems to be a story for children, but there may be information about this world culture on it, and if I can learn more, maybe I will use my memory to bring more things out of this dream.

After doing this, it was already getting dark, so I cleared a large enough space in the center of the living room to make a bonfire by piling up the paper that I didn't know what to do with and the wooden parts that had been easily folded off the furniture. The orange flame rises up, and there is nothing like a campfire in the lonely and cold night. I cut a slice of luncheon meat with a fruit knife and roasted it on the fire, and after a while, the aroma of fat filled the air around me with the pleasant sound of "zizi", and I took a deep breath and endured the scalding to pick up this piece of luncheon meat that had been burned around the edge and put it in my mouth, slowly enjoying the rare deliciousness. Naturally, there are sausages and the like in the Empire of Light, but in comparison, it seems that the luncheon meat eaten in dreams these days is more delicate and fragrant, and most importantly, according to the degree of decay of these things around them, it is a miracle that these luncheon meats can be kept for such a long time, if

Being able to find a way to bring back this sausage preservation technique may change the situation on the mainland.

I took a sip of cooking wine and ate a slice of luncheon meat, and by the end, I felt as if I had been drunk, so I leaned back on the sofa away from the fire and slowly fell asleep. Although it was a strange thing to sleep in a dream, it was the case that I fell asleep in a dream.

At this point, the content of today's dream is over, and it seems to be a little longer than the previous two days, which is of course a good thing, if I guess it's because I have become more and more in tune with the dream world since I entered it. These days, I have directly asked for leave at home, after all, even if I go to the lab, I will be reprimanded for always showing food, right...... When exactly will I become an independent alchemist?"

Lu Tao finished reading this day's diary, and began to summarize the contents of the previous diaries, there is no doubt that this dream from the first perspective is actually a post-apocalyptic world, which looks infinitely close to the feeling of Lu Tao's modern society after encountering the apocalypse, and the level of technology in it is also the same as that of Anmen City, where Lu Tao was before, and the name has not changed, as for why it has become like this, it is unknown.

According to the timeline, this is unlikely to be the future of Lu Tao's world, the Empire of Light is at least more than a hundred years ago, so the time written in this diary should be even further, as for the date above, Lu Tao doesn't know how to calculate the year here, so naturally there is no way to calculate the exact time through the date above. However, relying on time alone is also not safe, Lu Tao has already encountered the inconsistency of the flow rate of the inner and outer worlds before, even if the timeline here is reversed, it is not something that cannot be explained.

Shaking his head, Lu Tao gave up the idea of guessing the facts, and continued to flip back. To Lu Tao's surprise, there seemed to be a few pages missing after this page, and it could be seen from the date that the time had jumped by several days.

"On October 11, 554 A.D., I continued to dream, and in the afternoon, I searched for a few more small shops, but unfortunately, it seemed that because of my distance from the city center, most of the things in the small shops were destroyed, possibly bears, possibly wolves, possibly wild boars, or all of them. I even saw a wild boar with long fangs, walking leisurely on the deserted road with several of its children, even if it saw me, it did not say anything.

Stopping and stopping, in the evening, I finally reached the edge of this unknown city. A road from south to north seems to be the dividing line between the city and the wilderness, with ruins on one side of the road, but overgrown with all kinds of plants, tall and low, with all kinds of trees, in the dim sunlight, look deep and eerie. Without the shelter of buildings, the sky has become much wider, and some of the stars that have arrived in advance can be faintly seen, and the air exudes a certain fragrance from plants and earth.

Entering the wilderness at night can be considered suicidal, so I decided to find a house next to the highway that used to be a garage, and take a room on the second floor of the garage for myself. There was a wire bed in the room, the blanket was no longer usable, I casually threw the dusty and tattered blanket from the window on the second floor, there were still a lot of car parts piled up in this narrow second-floor room, large and small, I really didn't have the energy to study these parts that looked very strange, and I lost interest in the dilapidated cars I saw on the street before

After walking for half a day today, I already felt that the bones of my whole body were about to fall apart, such a long journey was too intense for an alchemist like me, and I don't know why my physical strength was still so low in my own dreams, and I could still feel such a real tiredness, so I could only hurriedly eat a pack of compressed biscuits that I had found earlier, use the rucksack that I had taken out as a pillow, lay down, and then draped a gray coat I found in the afternoon.

Sleeping in my dreams has become my daily routine, and this kind of sleep can relieve some of my tiredness in dreams, but it can't relieve my tiredness in reality, which can only be said to be a pretty magical thing.

After plunging headlong into the field, I realized that I had not prepared enough. Shoes that had been fine in the city before looked a little thin in the wilderness full of stones and weeds, and I could often feel that the stones under my feet were very awkward, and after a few times, some parts of the soles of my feet were already burning and hurting. These shoes, including the clothes on my body, were all on my body when I first woke up from a dream, and they were very different from the clothes of the Empire of Light.

When I took off my shoes, there were no blisters under my feet, but they were a little red, and I threw the socks I had just taken off as far away from myself as possible, and I didn't wash my feet or socks for a few days, and the white socks that had changed color were really unbearable. I leaned against a large rock and waited for my slightly wet sock to get hard before putting it back on and moving on.

In addition, it is actually good to discern the direction by the position of the sun, but this method often fails at noon, and the direct sunlight at noon is really scorching, and I can't find anything without shade, so I have to find a large enough stone to find a shady place. In fact, except for a few trees that I saw at the beginning of crossing the road, if I continued deeper into the field, there were basically no trees, and there were few low shrubs.

It is also a trouble to sleep at night, the faint wolf howl in the distance makes me very frightened, there is no tent and I dare not light a fire, I can only find a relatively flat big stone as a bed to sleep on, and then hold the crowbar from the garage before, relying on the residual temperature of the stone to live a cold and slow long night.

Finally, after three days of walking, I saw a great river in the middle of the wilderness, and the sparkling sleep reflected the smell of the sun, which was incredibly dazzling.

After that, I woke up, this time the dream world has gone through three days, and in the real world it was only one night, according to this trend, I don't know if one day, I will be immersed in this world and unable to extricate myself, never to get out again, according to what the person I met yesterday said, I at least know that I am not the only one in this world, there are human settlements in other places, as long as I find these places, maybe I can understand the reality of this world, and get the knowledge I dreamed of, which can be used to make those steel behemoths buried in the streetsor those household appliances that look very strange......"

Lu Tao continued to turn back, but found that the next page was a blank paper, Lu Tao was stunned for a moment, and turned the page back, only to find that it was still white paper, and the back half of the book was all white paper.

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