Dream world transcoding video is to use instruments to collect human brain wave changes in a specific area of the dream world, and convert it into a video number that can be watched through a special transcoding method, which is similar to a surveillance camera in the real world.

However, as an immature technology, Dream World transcoding video also has many flaws.

First of all, due to the complexity of human brainwave transcoding algorithms, even if the full computing power of the supercomputer in the institute is activated, the video transcoding will have a delay of about an hour, and real-time tracking cannot be achieved at all.

Secondly, although the monitoring of transcoded video is 360 degrees, there must be a person as the coordinate point of monitoring, that is, its role is only equivalent to the interview car, and it cannot be monitored in a large area around the clock like a monitoring satellite.

Finally, although the transcoded video can be captured with both visual and auditory signals, because this collection is omnidirectional, the sound contains too much noise to distinguish the human voice, so all transcoded videos are silent.

Although it is possible to interpret the conversation of the people in it in a way that uses guò lip language, due to the time difference, this practice is basically meaningless in the actual operation process.

The only way to get in touch directly with the Dreamland personnel is to make a landline phone that is also specially transcoded.

That is, the phone call that Li Mengnan and the others received when they first entered the dream world.

"Brother Wei, is there a big difference between a dreamwalker and a supporter?" The rookie researcher asked.

Euonymus didn't get bored by the other party's continuous questioning, in fact, every rookie researcher who just joined HX would ask such a question, after all, as rear supporters, they could only see the surface side of the quiet and peaceful dream world, and the really dangerous side of the dream world they had never seen before.

"The difference isn't something that can be described in terms of size." Euonymus took a few puffs of cigarette and dropped the cigarette butt with only one filter left, "You're also a person who has been to the dream world, do you feel anything about it?" ”

"It's real, it's no different from the real world."

"That's it, it is precisely because of this reality that ordinary people, after entering the dream world, even if they know that it is just a purely spiritual world, cannot do anything beyond the ability of the real world.

This is actually the boundary set by the brain for the body, which is meant to protect the body from self-harming actions, but in the dream world without a real body, this innate boundary becomes an obstacle to gaining power.

This boundary is the watershed between ordinary people and dreamwalkers.

If the body element of ordinary people is 1, the body element of the dreamwalker who has broken through this boundary is at least 1. 5 or 2, do you understand? ”

"It's that low?"

The rookie researcher was very surprised, he had thought that the Dream Walker would be the kind of being very rebellious, although it was very powerful if his physique was twice as strong, but it was still too different from his expected value.

"Hehe, you will think that this value is low, because you don't understand the calculation method of Dream Walker's strength, although the body element is the basis of Dream Walker's combat power, it actually accounts for a very small proportion of the total combat power...... Forget it, I can't explain it clearly if I don't see it with my own eyes, and when I have the opportunity to enter the dream world together, I'll tell you in detail. ”

……

On the other side, Li Mengnan and the others had already completed all the preparations and were resting in a small hotel at the moment, recuperating for the night's mission.

The weapons and equipment were purchased in an outdoor goods store, and due to the limitations of national conditions, the only thing that could be bought was a few wilderness survival knives, and the only one that qualified for the murder weapon was a handmade knife collected by the shopkeeper.

In order to make up for Hao Yiming and Ke Cailian's almost zero melee ability, Li Mengnan had to prepare some additional steel pipes of about one meter and a half, remove the plastic handle on the handle of the survival knife, fix the blade to the head of the steel pipe with screws and iron wires, and then simply wrap some strips of cloth to prevent slipping, and make five extremely rudimentary spears.

As for the source of the start-up capital, there is nothing to say, Li Mengnan casually wandered around the train station, and dozens of wallets were in hand.

As a trickster, even though this skillful skill is not a profession, there is no pressure to make a cameo once in a while.

At around 3 p.m., Li Mengnan and his entourage returned to the amusement park in two taxis with weapons wrapped in woven bags and disguised as building materials, along with two large bags of food and emergency medicines.

With sunset still a few hours to go, Li Mengnan plans to take advantage of the last time to walk the path marked on the map from beginning to end, so that in case of emergency, he can also know what to expect.

Obviously, he was not the only one who had this intention, and as soon as he entered the gate of the amusement park, Li Mengnan unexpectedly met Wen Jiahao's group who seemed to have just returned.

"Oh, buddy, what a coincidence!"

Different from the attitude of ignoring in the morning, Wen Jiahao's attitude at the moment was quite polite, obviously hearing about Li Mengnan from his fellow Yue Laosan and Hei Qiang.

Stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling person, although Li Mengnan does not agree with the bloody and rude style of Wen Jiahao and his party, at least so far, there is no sense of contradiction and conflict between the two sides, and at night they may have to work together to face unknown dangers, there is no need to tear up their faces because of this senseless trivial matter.

"Are you going to explore the way, too? Do you want to be together? Wen Jiahao sent an invitation to Li Mengnan, as if he wanted to express his goodwill.

Hao Yiming was about to refuse, but Li Mengnan pulled him behind him, and smiled indifferently: "Okay, it's more lively when there are more people." ”

A hint of discoloration flashed in Wen Jiahao's eyes, but he quickly hid it behind his smile and said, "Okay, our group of people are all strong laborers, helping you open the way ahead." ”

After that, he took the first step and walked in front with Yue Laosan and the others.

After leading the two teams to open a certain distance, Hao Yiming came to Li Mengnan's side and said puzzledly: "Brother Li, this group of people is not a good person, why should we get so close to them?" Anyway, it's just pathfinding, can't we go by ourselves? ”

Li Mengnan took out a box of soft Chinese cigarettes he had just bought from his pocket, divided one for each person except Ke Cailian, waved his hand and smiled: "Rather offend a gentleman than a villain, haven't you heard this sentence?" The enemy we have to face is not them, so there is no need to make additional enmity and cause trouble...... And maybe we'll need the fighting power of these people tonight. ”

The route marked on the map is not complicated, starting from Fountain Square, passing through a children's playground, a mirror maze, a haunted house, and finally to a fairytale castle in the heart of the amusement park.

The entire distance is less than 300 meters, and it is roughly an S-shaped route.

In less than half an hour, the two groups had walked the entire route, and except for an empty six-story castle building, the rest of the place was full of dilapidated wreckage, and nothing wrong was found.

However, Wen Jiahao unexpectedly found that Li Mengnan, who was following behind, would throw something on the ground every ten meters away, and couldn't help but be curious: "Li Mengnan, what are you doing here?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just some fluorescent beads, and it's dark here at night, so it's easy to make a mark." Anyway, the other party could see it at night, and Li Mengnan didn't hide it.

"Heh, I forgot about this stubble, you are really careful."

Wen Jiahao originally thought that the prisoners this time were all reckless men with empty muscles like Yue Laosan Heiqiang, but he didn't want to have a figure like Li Mengnan whose mind and wisdom were not below him at all, so he couldn't help but have a trace of vigilance in his heart.

One mountain can't accommodate two tigers, and one body can't have two brains, if it weren't for Li Mengnan pulling a group of old and weak alone to form another team, Wen Jiahao would really have to consider whether to find an opportunity to get rid of him.

The sun, whose face was obscured by the distant mountains, tried to exude the last glimmer of light before nightfall, and the entire amusement park seemed to be shrouded in an invisible shadow, and the cool night breeze blew, and the surrounding ruins and ruins became more and more desolate.

It was 6 p.m., and most of the volunteers who had left in the morning had returned, and only five women had not yet arrived.

However, the people who returned had apparently treated the mission as a night expedition, and had no weapons at all except for a few flashlights.

Not long after, the last rays of sunlight disappeared from the sky, and the whole land was completely covered in night.

In the dim moonlight, only a vague black outline could be seen in the huge playground, but the fluorescent road signs thrown by Li Mengnan in the afternoon shone sparkling light on the dark ground, winding towards the castle in the distance.

"Let's not wait for a few of them, let's go now."

Wen Jiahao turned on the flashlight, and a bright white pillar of light pointed straight into the distance.

Later, two men and four women all joined his side, and the original team of only four people suddenly expanded to ten, and this overwhelming numerical advantage also allowed him to firmly occupy the position of team leader.

"Looking at that kid's appearance, I dare to say, as long as there is danger later, he will definitely be the first to be scared to pee his pants." Hao Yiming snorted coldly with disdain, he always looked at that Wen Jiahao very unpleasantly.

"That is, when it comes to being reliable, we have to be the boss of both civil and military." Guo Debiao touched his round belly and nodded in agreement.

"Both civil and military? What about Wencheng Wude...... Do you want to show you the rivers and lakes now? Li Mengnan glanced at the two living treasures in the team angrily, took off the flashlight from his belt and was just about to turn it on, when he suddenly felt that the whole space seemed to tremble violently.

It felt like someone had set off an extremely loud cannon battle hundreds of meters away, and the air was shocked by the instantaneous spread of the shock wave.

Immediately after, a strange scene appeared.

The playground, which was originally dark, was suddenly lit up with colorful lights, and amusement facilities such as Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and roller coasters appeared in what was originally an open space, and they operated on their own to the cheerful background music that reverberated over the playground.

In the distance, clusters of brilliant ceremonial flowers continue to rise in the fairytale castle, and the flickering colored light casts a magical layer of color on it.

Although it was an extremely beautiful and romantic scene in front of them, everyone present only felt that their hands and feet were cold, and a cold air rose from their feet and instantly rushed to the top of their heads, and the hairs on their whole bodies exploded instantly.

That terrifying feeling is like seeing a dry bone on the side of the road suddenly flesh and corpse, and there will be no change in the other party's appearance after resurrection.

If there is only one who can still maintain his composure, it is only Li Mengnan.

After all, as a trickster, he knows best that the world of dreams is possible, just changing a scene, and not directly appearing in the realm of lore, he can already be regarded as a mercy to the group of people in the HX Research Institute.

What's more, his "fear" has already been sealed by the old man in some way, not to mention this little trick, even if a group of bones crawl out of the cemetery and dance on horseback, he can still move the bench and eat melon seeds without changing his face to enter the theater mode.

Although the scene in front of them was very strange, after all, nothing terrible appeared, and after a short period of panic and commotion, the volunteers quickly settled down under Wen Jiahao's comfort.

"Li Mengnan, now only you and I have weapons...... We're in front, you're in the back, and the unarmed ones are in the middle, no problem, right? ”

Regarding Wen Jiahao's suggestion, Li Mengnan nodded to express no objection, and then walked to the end of the team with Guo Debiao and the other four.

Hao Yiming was a little incomprehensible to Wen Jiahao's selfless behavior, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Li, this kid has such a good heart?" I thought he was going to let us go to the front to be cannon fodder......"

"Do you know which direction the danger will come? The front is not necessarily cannon fodder, and the back may not be safe. ”

Having said that, Li Mengnan still followed the afternoon drill, lined up the five people in a back-to-back circular defensive formation, holding a homemade spear and vigilantly observing the surrounding grass and trees.

……

At the same time, within the HX Institute.

"Director Wei, five of the twenty volunteers can be judged to be brain dead, and fourteen of them have high-frequency brainwave activity of different procedures!" A monitoring report of the volunteers' vital signs was reported from the observation room.

"I guess the world has appeared." Euonymus muttered to himself while looking at the brainwave monitoring number sent on the screen, and couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Li Mengnan's frighteningly smooth brainwave activity chart: "This kid is too strange, how can there be no emotion at all in the face of the inner world?" This is a problem......"

The rookie researcher came over again with a cup of coffee and said, "Brother Wei, what is the inner world, ask for popular science." ”

Euonymus unceremoniously grabbed the other party's coffee and poured a few sips, wiped his mouth and said, "Do you know what a dream world is?" ”

"Brother Wei, you also know that I just came, and there is a lot of work left to me by the previous term, except for going to the dream world to see a circle, I haven't had time to read those explanatory texts, probably only know that the dream world is another projection of our real world, and you can only enter the ...... in a state of pure consciousness."

The rookie researcher scratched his head embarrassedly.

In fact, human beings have known for a long time the existence of the dream world -- the so-called Western Pure Land of Bliss and the Netherworld and the Ghost Realm of Buddhism, the so-called heaven and hell of Christianity, and the so-called Yellow Spring of Taoism.

Taking Buddhism as an example, Buddhism has a state called 'Amoro consciousness', which translates as 'pure consciousness' and 'immaculate consciousness', or true mind, self-nature pure mind, pure bodhichitta mind, reality mind, Buddha nature, etc., and the easier to understand title is 'ninth sense'.

Legend has it that the realization of the ninth sense is that the realm of God does not pay attention to the human body, the body exists in the form of thoughts, the body can be made at will, and there is no natural state of aging and death...... Does this sound familiar to you? ”

"This ...... Isn't that the status of the 'providers' in the institute? ”

The rookie researchers know a little about this, and if "supporters" like them are at the bottom of the HX Institute, then "dreamwalkers" like euonymus are only in the middle, and the top layer is the "provider".

These "donors" are not normally involved in the operation of the HX Institute, but it is precisely because of their existence that the HX Institute, a civil society organization, has such a transcendent status and sufficient financial resources comparable to that of a small and wealthy country.

"That's right, strictly speaking, those who provide don't reach the realm of 'Amoro Consciousness', but only get infinitely closer to that state through technological means."

Wei Mao nodded and continued: "Jung, a Swiss psychologist and founder of analytical psychology, proposed in his 1922 article "On the Relationship between Analytical Psychology and Poetry" that the human unconscious has two levels: individual and impersonal.

The former reaches only the infant's earliest memory, the unconscious, which is composed of impulses, desires, vague perceptions, and experiences; The latter includes the whole time before the actual start of the infant, that is, including the remnants of the life of the ancestors, and its content can be found in the mind of a qiē person, with a universal character, so it is called the 'collective unconscious'.

The dream world we enter is in fact a collective unconscious network formed by the interconnection of the deepest consciousness of all human beings on the entire earth...... It is precisely because of this that we can see the extremely realistic projection of the real world in it. ”

"So, the inner world is ......"

"Yes, just as the real world has day and night, the dream world divides this division between positive and negative feelings.

In the daytime, what the dream world expresses is indistinguishable from the real world; And at night, under the influence of this negative energy, the dream world will turn into another kind of hellish appearance - this is the inner world. ”

……

"Calm down! Calm down! ”

Wen Jiahao clenched the machete in his hand, and although he still remained calm on the surface, only he could hear the slight gurgling sound of his teeth shaking uncontrollably.

Right now, a group of fifteen people is squatting in the grass outside the guardrail of the children's playground at the first target point.

In front of them, a scene full of innocence was presented - in a small playground, dozens of children as young as five or six years old chased each other around the playground, and from time to time burst into bursts of cheerful laughter.

These children who appeared out of nowhere were not the key to forcing them to stop, but these children were not the ordinary appearance they saw on the road during the day, but just transparent glass figures with the outline of children!