Chapter 90: Paradox

It's getting dark.

Zhu Jue turned his back to the door, looking at the fiery clouds that dyed half of the sky red and the floating boats that shuttled through the air as decorations, and the sky in the distance was completely dark.

There were already a lot of burned incense on the low table in the living room behind him, and after spending most of the day, Zhu Jue's spirit was barely back to normal, with the support of incense, he seemed to suddenly have a lot of leeway in reading special books.

Even so, Zhu Jue still didn't have the desire to flip through the black folio, which was his instinct after opening the book last night.

Not yet, at least not yet!

"The situation on site is not too good. ”

After arriving at the site and conducting a short exploration of the ruins that Olivia had set out for this morning, she contacted Zhu Jue as soon as possible, so that there was still a clear noise around them when the two of them were talking, which sounded a bit like the rumble of an excavator.

"It's not too good, it's too general, what is it that makes you feel wrong?"

His fingers flicked the wind chimes squatting on the window frame, and there was still a moment before Zhu Jue and the black swan agreed to fall asleep, but he didn't mind chatting with Olivia.

"The entrance to the ruins was completely buried due to the previous earthquake, and that's all there is to it, and it won't take a few days for our machines to reopen a path...... The Guild's exploration team found a lot of magmatic rocks in the rubble piles after the magma had cooled. ”

On the other end of the phone, Olivia was weighing a fine-textured stone in her hand, and a geologist in a brown vest was running to the scene with a group of staff nearby, and a high-powered searchlight several meters high was surviving, and the fire cloud at the top of the mountain peak on the left was turning gray, and after a few seconds, he said,

"There are no volcanoes in the place where the ruins are located, not even extinct volcanoes!"

Without volcanoes, where does magma come from?

"It can't be a volcano buried underground...... If you really want to bury it, don't you dig it up now, don't you drill into the crater?"

Thinking about the possibility of what he said casually, Zhu Jue didn't have much research on geology.

"Now we have to wait for the machine data to come out before we can make a closer judgment, but judging from the strength of the orders issued within the Archaeological Association, the remains of the underground here should be extraordinary, even if one archaeological team has been damaged, the Association still sent a second archaeological team over...... Needless to say, I need to help, and I'll get in touch when I have new discoveries. ”

Hearing the paging of the other support teams, Olivia could only hang up the phone for a while, throw away the rocks, and run over to check on the situation.

Irregular stones fall to the ground, stacked on top of each other on the valley floor.

At one point, they all seemed to tremble briefly, as if nothing had happened.

......

"Wind chimes, do you dream?"

Locking the door, Zhu Jue sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a bottle of dream medicine that could lead to the harbor of Derath.

Zhu Jue is used to taking wind chimes with him wherever he goes, but this potion should be configured for humans, and he doesn't know if wind chimes can be used.

"Otherwise, you should stay in the real world, anyway, the time here is only an hour, just when I fall asleep, don't let anyone near me until I wake up!"

Zhu Jue thought about it and decided not to let the wind chime try, firstly, the effect of this medicine is uncertain about the existence of the wind chime, in case there are any side effects, it will be too late to regret it, and secondly, after Zhu Jue's consciousness enters the illusionary dream realm, the body in the real world will enter a deep sleep state, if someone finds the door, it is indeed unsafe to have no protection around.

Oh~

The wind chime called lightly, turned its head and pulled the futon next to it, in its opinion, it was normal to keep it by itself when it was sleeping, it had done it at night in the past, and this time there would be no exception.

"Haha, you're still the most sensible, I'll sleep first. ”

After drinking the medicine of falling into a dream, Zhu Jue lay down on his back, his right hand casually rested on the wind chime, and he lost his movement after a while.

Dizziness for a moment, this feeling is a bit like a person suddenly surfacing after a dive.

When Zhu Jue opened his eyes again, his whole body felt as relaxed as if a layer of restraint had been removed...... This is true in every sense of the word.

Looking down at his sleek body, Zhu Jue tugged at the corners of his mouth, concentrating his thoughts, and it didn't take long for a set of clothes exactly the same as the last time he entered the dream realm to appear on his body. But the embodied things are limited to this, whether it is a space ring or a wind chime, even if Zhu Jue concentrates more attentively, he still can't realize these two existences.

Regarding this point, the black swan also said in advance that once he drinks the medicine of falling into a dream, it seems that it is a simple way to let people enter the dream realm, but Zhu Jue's current state can actually be more similar to the soul out of body that the ancient cultivators said, his body and other "mundane things" will remain in reality, and only the spiritual will or soul can enter the dream realm.

Of course, Zhu Jue also thought about sending the space ring and wind chimes into the dream realm through the space crack in advance, so that Zhu Jue could meet them inside, but for Zhu Jue, he had to consider not only whether his things would be lost during transportation, but the time overlap between him and the wind chimes.

Because no matter how long he stayed in the dream world with the help of the dream medicine, he still only passed an hour in the real world, and the wind chime entered in the flesh, the time consumed in the dream world was exactly the same, but the excessive time in real life was very different.

It stands to reason that there should be some kind of contradiction in this, and Zhu Jue also asked the black swan specifically for this when he thought about this question, after all, the latter has used the dream medicine many times.

The explanation given by the black swan for Zhu Jue's doubts was that no matter how long his soul stayed in the dream realm after entering it, when he returned to the real world, he could not use the spatial rift in the time corresponding to the existence of the dream realm......

As a simple example, Zhu Jue now drinks the dream pill and enters the dream realm, and stays in it for three days, so after he wakes up, since only an hour has passed in the real world, theoretically speaking, he can of course enter the dream realm again with his body through the spatial crack, so is it possible for him to meet himself who is doing trouble in the dream realm at this time?

In fact, if he dared to do so, there would be only one result, the moment he entered the dream realm, his soul would return to the position he had been in three days earlier, just an hour after entering the dream realm, and his physical body would immediately disappear, and everything in the dream realm would be back on track.

Looking back, Zhu Jue, who has lost his physical body, will never wake up from a dream again, and can only stay in the dream realm forever!

This is the rule of the fantasy realm, there can be no two identical souls in the same world, unless the soul can be completely split, this is the result of a gentleman taking a lot of temporary workers, it can't be faked!

And this is one of the reasons why the gentleman strangled them to death for three days when he took them into the dream realm, he needed time to buffer, after all, he often used the dream medicine to enter the dream realm.

Correspondingly, if the wind chime enters the dream realm after Zhu Jue sleeps, it can undoubtedly see Zhu Jue in the dream realm, and even during the time period when Zhu Jue stays in the dream realm, as long as the wind chime passes through the physical body, it can completely see the Zhu Jue of the two worlds.

This may involve the theory of parallel worlds, this part Zhu Jue didn't understand anyway, and the black swan was almost in a daze when he talked about it......

Then some people may ask, Zhu Jue will wake up in an hour in the real world and will know everything that happened to him in the dream world, so if he does something wrong, can he let the wind chimes help him correct it?

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel!

Because the result of this will undoubtedly involve more cause and effect, without Zhu Jue by his side, any decision made by the wind chime will lead to a change in the established facts, which in turn will lead to a change in Zhu Jue's memory, which itself is a paradox.

Not to mention that if Zhu Jue had an accident in the realm of illusionary dreams, he would never wake up in the real world, and there would be no link to explain the situation to the wind chimes.

"Mr. Wind Chime, you'd better not try this kind of outrageous behavior, the gentleman has had similar experiments in recent years, and the result is that all the test subjects have died without exception, and it is not just ordinary humans who exist in the realm of dreams, and some mysterious forces do not allow the rules of the world to be challenged!"

This was what the black swan said to Zhu Jue at the end of the call, and at the same time, it also dispelled all the strange thoughts in the latter's mind.

Indeed, the gentleman is not a stupid person, he has been controlling the spatial rift for nearly 8 years, and many of the ideas that still exist in Zhu Jue's mind have already been tried one by one.

There is no doubt that failure is the end result of the vast majority of attempts!

Straight to the point.

At this time, Zhu Jue was in his own dream.

To be exact, it was a tall building in the dream realm, and he took a few steps forward to stand on the edge of the building, and the cool breeze at dusk was blowing, and at this time Zhu Jue suddenly found that the surrounding environment turned out to be Dawn City, and his current location should be on the roof of a building somewhere in the center of the city, as if he didn't sleep after drinking the potion just now, but left the house and came here.

The only thing that seemed to confirm that he was in a dream was the suspended parallel staircase that stretched outward in front of him and the wooden door at the end.

"Mr. Wind Chimes, the entrance and exit of this dream pill in the dream realm are set on the coast of the port of Dillas, and there may be some mental shock when you enter. ”

The voice of the black swan sounded from behind her, drinking the same formula of the dream medicine, she naturally appeared in Zhu Jue's dream, reminding Zhu Jue who used the dream medicine for the first time.

"Let's go, I can't wait to see what the harbor looks like in the dreamland. ”

Zhu Jue saw that the person had arrived, and did not stop, and stepped directly on the stairs, leading to the door that connected to the dream realm.

"I want to ...... You may be a little disappointed. ”

Hearing Zhu Jue's words, the black swan recalled the appearance of the port of Dellas, and his expression was a little strange.