Chapter 17: Foreknowledge of Death

Fort William, Library.

The young students sat around the table and talked happily about the brilliant dreams of the previous night.

"I have never had such wonderful dreams, I dreamed that I became a cloud, soaring in the sky. There are no words to describe the feeling. ”

"I dreamed that I became a reed, drifting by the river in the night... It's small, but it's full of life. ”

"My dream is unique, one day I will build it and sell it on the Internet, it will definitely take the Federation by storm and make me a monopoly."

Only Char, Susanna, and Kaisha did not participate in the discussion about dreams.

Suzanne is still the same as she is, with headphones on, the whole world has nothing to do with me, immersed in rock music, and does not communicate with anyone.

Char originally had a depressed look with dark circles under her eyes and a haggard expression. He only slept for two hours last night and had a nightmare where the dark circles under his eyes got heavier, and he yawned incessantly, looking listless.

The blonde girl Kai'Sa sat alone in the corner, her body curled up in a ball, her face pale and her expression frightened.

Only Char knew that Kai'Sa also had a nightmare last night, and judging by her appearance, it seemed that she had not yet come out of the shadow of the nightmare.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Ander, who was dressed in a straight suit, walked into the library with a smile on his face: "The morning dream discussion is over, and I have prepared a hearty breakfast for you." Half an hour later, everyone came back and we started our morning study. You'll want to experience last night's dream! Every evening, we will conduct a test, and the student who achieves the highest score will be rewarded with a Dream Elixir. ”

Most of the students tasted the sweetness of the dream potion, and immediately cheered and walked briskly towards the cafeteria.

"Char..."

Char was about to leave, but was stopped by Kaisha's whisper.

"Kaisha, what's the matter?" Char turned her head and looked at the delicate blonde girl with a friendly smile on her face.

"Char... Looking at the way you looked, you didn't seem to sleep well last night? Don't... You're having nightmares too. Kai'Sa asked cautiously, curling the ends of her hair with her fingers.

"It was a nightmare indeed." Char's mind conjured up with the appearance of a dream girl, and she couldn't help but shiver and shiver.

"What a nightmare... Is it also about death? Kai'Sa suddenly became excited, grabbed Char's hand, and said excitedly, "I know that I am not the only one who has had a prophetic dream and dreamed of death. I... I'm going to die, I'm going to die in this castle. This castle... It's quirky. I can't describe it in words, you have had nightmares too, then you must understand my words. ”

"A prophetic dream about death?"

Char gently brushed the girl's cold little hand away and smiled, "I'm sorry, Kaisha." I had nightmares, but my dreams were different from yours. Moreover, dreams are false after all, and if we want to become dream builders, we must distinguish between dreams and reality. ”

"I thought you'd understand me..."

Kaisha's pale little face was full of disappointment, and she turned and chased after Susanna's back.

Char went to the banquet hall, and after breakfast, he went back to the library to start the first day of classes with the other students.

The morning class is memorization.

All participants are immersed in the course.

Literature, history, philosophy, art.... A large amount of knowledge is like a torrent, forced into the brains of the students.

The black-haired boy Ouyang quietly unscrewed the medicine bottle and stuffed the "memory medicine" into his mouth.

He has not yet evolved to the level of the Sequence 1 "Reader" and must rely on drugs in order to remember so much knowledge in a short period of time.

There are also a few students who insert the chip into the socket behind the brain, and use the auxiliary brain to read the course in the chip.

Char opened the holographic bracelet, his consciousness appeared in the sea of books, grabbed a book casually, read it at a glance and ten lines, engraved the knowledge clearly in his mind, and immediately changed to the next book.

At breakfast, Kai'Sa didn't know what to talk to Susanna, and she temporarily escaped the haze of the nightmare and immersed herself in reading.

Suzanne was wearing headphones, her head shaking slightly, not knowing whether she was listening to rock music or listening to it to memorize.

Time flies.

Char had just read a hundred books when the morning class was over.

The high-intensity memory consumes a lot of energy, and Char's stomach growls.

After a short lunch, the students did not take a lunch break and began the afternoon class, continuing reading.

After reading five hundred books, Char's brain began to swell and ache, his temples pounded suddenly, and his brain capacity was stretched to its limit.

The same is true for the rest of the trainees.

Ouyang, in particular, kept bleeding from his nose and looked in a trance, and the side effects of the drug began to appear on his body.

In the evening.

Ender arrives at the library and announces the start of the first day of testing.

The test is simple, and it's still about memory.

A large number of complex images flashed before the students' eyes, and they stayed on the retina for a shorter time, each image was only a short second.

There are a total of 100 images, and the students draw the images they have just seen from memory, and each image is one point, a total of 100 points.

I have to say that the difficulty of this test is extremely high, far exceeding the preliminary test of the Oneiroi Group.

Char racked his brains and only completed seventy-three images.

However, the other students completed fewer images, generally around fifty.

Ouyang completed sixty-one images, ranking second.

The penultimate was Susanna, who handed in a blank scroll and did not finish a single image.

Kai'Sa was the penultimate in her drawings, sloppy and clearly perfunctory, completing only seventeen images.

In the envious and jealous eyes of the other students, Char successfully got the reward of the first day - a dream potion.

"I worked so hard, why did I lose to him?" Ouyang looked at Char's back, his eyes full of resentment.

After dinner, Char returned to his room and yawned as he opened the Dream Elixir.

This dream potion is very important to Char.

It's not just about addressing the after-effects of AND.

Once Char falls asleep, she returns to the empty playground and meets the Dream Girl.

Only with the help of the dream potion can Char's soul leave the body, and in this special dream situation, he can let the tired body rest.

The syringe slowly pushed the purple liquid into Char's veins, and after a burst of hot and cold in his body, his consciousness floated in the air again, entering a state of soul separation.

Char's consciousness did not go to the other students' rooms, and flew directly out of William's Castle, floating above the castle, enjoying the hard-won tranquility.

(I had a dream in which I collected, recommended, rewarded, everything.) I woke up and the result was next time definitely. It's not easy to write a book, ask for collection, ask for recommendation, ask for diffusion)