"Oneiroi Stone, that's the name of that thing."

On the top floor of a high-rise building, a *** looked at the chaos in the southeast city in front of the window, and said softly: "The last time the Oneiroi Stone appeared was in the year 2115 of the imperial calendar. At that time, the Oneiroi Stone was discovered by a wild explorer and brought back to his home. ”

"You must know that in that era, in the twenty-second century, the population of the entire empire was not as large as it is now, and it had just experienced a whole thousand years of war, and even two thousand years of recuperation could not slow it down."

"At that time, there were many natural disasters in the empire all year round, and rebels and rebels were roaming around the empire. There are no genetically modified and hybrid crops of all kinds of crops, and there are no large quantities of mechanical products to provide people with enough non-human labor, so production has become very difficult. ”

"Once there is a natural and man-made disaster, it will inevitably cause a reduction in crop yield, and after the crop yield is reduced, the people will starve, and the starving people are easily agitated, so there are more and more rebels, and it has become a vicious circle, even if the remnants of the Three Thousand Emperors are still there, it is not enough to suppress the entire empire."

"So until the 3,000-year-old technology completely exploded, the population of the entire empire was only one billion people on average, which is equivalent to one-tenth of what it is now, and it is even less. Most of these people live in the countryside and make a living from farming. City? That's something of strategic significance. ”

"The land is vast and sparsely populated, there are many mountains and forests, and the natural environment of the empire is still relatively primitive, unlike now, most of the places are artificial products that have been repaired after thousands of years of adjustment after the destruction of the industrial revolution, which is very beautiful and very attractive to curiosity."

"So some people like to travel, some people want to like to see the scenery, and some people like to take risks."

"Adventurers, in those days, were a very, very awesome profession. Because no matter who you are, as long as you can become an adventurer, you can be recognized by all forces, even if your cultivation is not profound, even if your background is not so noble, you can become the object of everyone's pursuit. ”

"That's the value of experience."

"Explorers are such an experiential profession, they rely on rich survival skills in the wilderness, knowledge of the geography of mountains and rivers, and historical research, to find those forgotten treasures in the famous mountains and rivers, which no one can discover."

"These treasures are divided into many types, mainly into three types, one is naturally formed, one is left over from history, and one is from outside the sky."

"There are a lot of naturally formed treasures, all kinds of natural treasures, all kinds of mineral vein elixirs, as well as strange creatures, terrain with various functions, and even mountaintop platforms and caves that can be used as living places, and peaks and caves that can become famous places to visit, these can be regarded as treasures."

"And most of the treasures left over from history are those ancestral lands left behind by those races that were quietly destroyed in the Great War of All Races but were not recorded, or for unknown reasons, everyone left or completely disappeared, and their treasure troves contain many treasures worthy of study and priceless."

"As for the outside of the sky, there are very few, what is generally visible is the extraterrestrial meteorite, people used to think that extraterrestrial meteorite is two completely different things from iron ore, but now science has also proved that extraterrestrial meteorite is just a higher strength ferroalloy formed by high temperature and high pressure in the process of meteorite falling."

"It can be said that extraterrestrial meteorites are common extraterrestrial treasures. And uncommon, like some meteorites of special planetary minerals, such as Starlight, and Oneiroi Stone. ”

"The name of the Oneiroi Stone comes from an ancient text. What is recorded in the classics is not about the Oneiroi Stone, but about a very peculiar person in ancient times. It is said that this person spends all the year in his sleep, and when people see him sleeping, they can often see countless illusory individuals appear around him, evolving this person's dreams in reality. ”

"The people of the time called this man Oneiroi."

"Actually, the dream god is not a god, the reason why it is called the dream god is actually the meaning that you can become a god in a dream."

"What is God?" The man asked, "God, in ancient times was a very general term, and people called the creation of nature God. Wind, frost, rain and snow are God's gifts, natural and man-made disasters are God's punishments, and even auroras, earthquakes, solar and lunar eclipses are all called God's foreshadowings. ”

For the people of that time, God was the way of heaven, the being who ruled the world and created it. The beings of heaven and earth can create many things, they have created tools, they have created vehicles, they have created weapons, and they have even created cultivation, but they have no way to create life directly. ”

"So when they see that there is someone who can turn the person in the dream into a real existence, even if this existence is not long-lasting, even if this existence is very illusory, they still regard this person as an existence that can create living beings in dreams and become gods in their dreams."

"That's why the name of Oneiroi comes from this."

"We can't go into the details now, whether the Oneiroi has the Oneiroi Stone to be able to do this, but in the later records, the Oneiroi Stone did have such a name because of the story of the Oneiroi, when it first appeared."

"The explorer who went into the mountains in search of treasure found a stone in a mountain pit that emitted a golden light, and he was so fascinated by the beauty of the stone that he had to hold it to sleep. This is what the explorer's own notes recount, and it is basically true. ”

After taking the stone out of the pit, the explorer brought the ore home, and the glow of the ore attracted the explorer's neighbors. The explorers triumphantly showed them their harvest, and the stone attracted the attention of local officials. ”

"The official is already very old, and he has been an official in this small place for many years, and if he does not have great merit, I am afraid that he will not have the possibility of promotion in this life. Originally, he had resigned himself to fate, but as a result, such a stone appeared in his jurisdiction. ”

"So the official said to the explorer that this stone has a golden and noble breath on it, it is the breath of the supreme in the world, and it is an auspicious gift from heaven to the empire, and he cannot be allowed to take it as his own as an ordinary explorer, and it should be handed over to the empire and presented to the three thousand families as an honor."

Of course, in view of the composition of the profession of explorer, the official pressed almost all of his family wealth and proposed to give the explorer a suitable price. But in the face of such a huge amount of wealth, the explorer refused, and no one knows why. ”

"The explorer took his precious stone with him every day, ate and slept without leaving an inch, and later it was discovered that there seemed to be an extra woman in the explorer's house. The sudden appearance of this woman, who doesn't know where she came from, and who has never even been out of the house, makes people feel very strange. ”

"When people ask the explorer if he has found a wife, if he has picked up a beautiful woman from outside, the explorer will look at the questioner with a wary face, but say nothing, and then turn away. As a result, more and more people suspected that there must be someone hiding in the explorer's home. ”

"After the unsuccessful purchase of the ore, the local officials were unable to forcibly seize the citizens' finances because of imperial law, so they were at a loss. Upon receiving the news, the official was overjoyed, and he immediately demanded that the explorer's room be searched under the pretext of investigating the missing person, using the confessions of the surrounding residents as evidence. ”

The explorer, of course, disagreed, but the officers forcibly controlled his movements, stormed his door, and found nothing. The officials were disappointed, finding nothing, and there was no reason to snatch the explorer's treasure, so they turned around and were about to leave. ”

"At this time, the explorer went crazy. He looked at the empty room, let out a beast-like howl, burst out with unprecedented power, and even broke free from the two cultivators who controlled him, and then rushed towards the officials, as if he wanted to kill someone. ”

Taken aback, the officer ordered his men to knock the explorer unconscious, and fled the explorer's village in a hurry. Then it didn't take long for the official to die, and he died very strangely, as if he had been trampled to death by some kind of giant beast, and no trace of the giant beast was found at the scene. ”

"This case has become an unsolved case, and no one thought that it would be done by that explorer."

"The explorer is getting mader and mader, he always says a woman's name, he likes to look at the empty room in a daze, and after a daze he goes mad, and then when he is tired he falls asleep. When you fall asleep, you will suddenly wake up, and then look around you, and go even more crazy. ”

"I don't know when people began to die in the village, and the reasons for death were all kinds of strange reasons, some because they were bitten to death by wild animals, some because they were stabbed to death, some because they were stoned, and some even because they were drowned."

"But there is no doubt that no trace of the murderer was found at the scene. No one thought it would be an explorer doing these things. Because he was already insane, and he was crazy when he was awake, and it was impossible for him to commit such a planned crime. ”

"Until one day, a golden figure was found coming out of the explorer's room."

"People in the village are terrified, and many people don't dare to sleep at night, for fear that they will be the next to die. Finally, one day, a person who got up at night went out to pour the urine bucket, and happened to see a person with a pale yellow light coming out of the room of the adventure record, and this person actually looked exactly like the explorer. ”

"He was frightened, and quickly called the most daring people in the village, and told them about it, and someone thought of a legend about the cultivator, and suggested that it might be a spiritual travel."

"Yamano Villager, where do you know what the hell is about a soul outing? They also think that ghosts and spirits are the same and can be seen. So when they saw the golden figure, they thought it was a spirit, so they quietly touched the explorer's window, looked at the explorer inside, and found him sleeping with a stone in his arms. ”

"Then a scream came, and they were startled, and when they rushed to the place where the scream came, they found that someone had been killed, and the murderer had not been found."

"The successive murders have attracted the attention of the upper echelons of the empire, and the province has sent a special case team to investigate here, and there are two master realm cultivators in the task force. After many fruitless investigations, they heard the story of the spirit's journey from the mouths of the villagers. ”

"Immediately, they began to realize that the so-called spirit outing was fake, so the task force stationed in the village, and waited for the situation to change at night, and sure enough, they saw a golden figure appear in the explorer's room."

"They quietly followed the figure forward, and then they saw the figure enter a certain room, pick up the guillotine next to it and was about to commit murder, the cultivators of the task force immediately stepped forward to stop it, and smashed the golden figure to pieces."

The disappearance of the figure did not affect the explorer, who seemed to know nothing and remained asleep. The task force began to be curious about the appearance of this golden figure, what was the cause of this magical phenomenon, and how did it happen? ”

So they stayed near the explorer's room the next night and watched the changes in his room. Sure enough, in the middle of the night, they noticed that a golden light spread out from the stone in the explorer's arms, and gradually changed into the golden figure they had seen. ”

At that time, the people in the investigation team were stunned, there is such a magical thing in this world, which can directly conjure a living person? And this person is able to get out of the room and commit crimes! ”

They woke the explorer up on the spot, only to find that the explorer knew nothing about what he had done. The investigation team took the explorers away, no one knew why, and no one in the village died again. Later, when they interrogated them, they found out that it was all because of the stone. ”

"The explorer was a bachelor who had a favorite girl when he was young, and the girl had a similar interest in him, and when he went on an expedition into the mountains, he died at the mouth of a beast. Since then, the explorer has never had a heart on anyone. ”

"After getting the ore, he accidentally dreamed of his first love in a dream, and when he woke up, he found his lover standing in front of him, which shocked him very much. The things created by the ore were essentially similar to the ore, and of course he soon realized that his lover was there because of the ore, or even because he was dreaming. ”

So the explorer protected his ore, ate and slept without leaving an inch, and when there was no one, he stayed with his lover for a long time, which was the happiest time of his life. When the local officials came to him, of course, he was reluctant to hand over the stones, because this was an important medium for his lover to be able to return to his side, and if there was no stone, there would be no lover, what was the meaning of his life? ”

But when they stormed his room under the pretext of searching, he found that his lover was gone, completely gone, and the explorer went mad. Again and again, he tried to find his lover from his dreams, but failed again and again. ”

So he set his hateful gaze on the official.

In his dream, the ore embodied his revenge, and the official died, and the death was unknown. But after the rejoicing, the explorer's heart became more and more irritable, for he had not seen the death of the official with his own eyes, and he did not even remember the events that had appeared in his dreams. ”

In the midst of the madness, Adventure Chronicle repeated the process of killing officials again and again in his dreams, trying to remember even a little bit, but it still came to nothing. So he killed one after another, killing the people in the village, and then looking for the memories of his dreams. ”

"It's all in a file that is almost lost, a record made by the task force when they were investigating and interrogating the explorers. Because of the things of the Oneiroi in ancient times, this ore was called the Oneiroi Stone and was completely sealed. ”

"But in those days, as you know, the so-called sealing was nothing more than turning something into someone's private collection, and it never came back again. So with the death of the person who kept the Oneiroi Stone at that time, and his family also left the city after a few generations, the Oneiroi Stone never appeared again. ”

"Unexpectedly, this appearance attracted the attention of the origin again."

"Or is it that the Origin has been waiting for the Oneiroi Stone to reappear? Because the Oneiroi Stone is so important to them, being able to create spirituality, even the slightest broken spirituality, is very important to them. ”

"So real people, are we going to snatch the Oneiroi Stone too?" The person standing next to this figure listened to the story and hurriedly asked.

Chu Xuanming smiled slightly: "Of course we want to snatch the Oneiroi Stone, and we are determined to get it!" ”

"But what is the use of the Oneiroi Stone for us?" The man was puzzled.

"The Oneiroi Stone is really not very useful to us, but the origin of the Great World is a variable. If you can have a thing of hostage origin in your hands, many things will become convenient. Why do you think so many forces that have received the news have moved one after another for such a thing? ”

"I see."

Chu Xuanming looked at the chaotic southeast city outside the window, and said proudly: "Chu Tiansheng thought that if he beat me to a serious injury, he would be able to contain the power of the Chu family. As everyone knows, although my law is not aggressive, it has done everything you see in my illusion. The illusion of space is not something that can be broken by just anyone, showing weakness to the enemy, is it only you Chu Tiansheng who can do it? ”

The subordinates next to him immediately offered their sycophants: "The real person is wise and martial." ”

Chu Xuanming smiled: "Now, it depends on how Chu Tiansheng will act." Oh yes! There is also a good show of Ann Xiaoyu and Origin! ”

But An Xiaoyu felt that there was nothing good to watch on the origin and his side.

The golden wheel of the wheel king slowly turned beside him, and he said with a solemn expression:

"Shaozun, let's shoot!"