A dream is a multi-dimensional space created by consciousness, and what dimension it presents depends on the memory that constructs the dream and the spiritual energy of consciousness itself. Therefore, human dreams seem to be three-dimensional, but they are essentially a multi-dimensional space where time and space are superimposed, and Aoki's powerful spiritual power allows him to disassemble and change the rules of dreams from the perspective of spiritual ontology.

The place where Aoki and the crow are now located is a zero-dimensional space with no dimensions, no exchange of matter and energy, and no time. No matter how long they've felt here, it's just a feeling, and time doesn't mean anything here.

Zhao Pengcheng may be secretly complacent in his dream at this time, or slowly regain his spiritual power, and when his mental power recovers to a certain extent, he can leave the dream.

At that time, he would wake up, and Aoki's consciousness across the table from the meeting room was still trapped in Zero Space, looking like a vegetative person with a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, a person who was alive but would never wake up.

"Won't we ever go back?" Raven asked.

Aoki said, "Zhao Pengcheng is not in the same time and space as us now, and he and we will not have any influence on each other in space or time. Maybe we feel like a hundred years have passed, and he's only been there for a day, or he's been in prison for thirty or forty years, and we've only said a few words. ”

"Holy!" The crow jumped to its feet and cried, "me...... It's horrible! Let's say a few words of kung fu, and he spent decades in prison? Then my sauce elbow is going to grow hair! Oh no, decades of sauce elbow quack...... And also...... And like a flower, hasn't she become an old woman? Oh and...... And you and me, where are we? Quack, I mean, where is our flesh? ”

"It's hard to say." Aoki laughed, "Maybe I've been cremated, and you'...... I don't know if it's going to be made into a specimen, or if it's going to be made into soup......"

The crow shook its head desperately, croaked, and cried out, "I don't want to be boiled...... Croak...... I'm still young...... I'm still ......."

It croaked, suddenly thought of something, looked down at Aoki and said, "What are you looking for me for?" I won't just want to find a backpad, let me be here with you for centuries, until Ruhua finds a veterinarian to give me an injection...... Croak! ”

Aoki said, "I came to you to get out." ”

The crow said, "How to get out?" If you can get out, why don't you go out, why do you look for me? ”

Aoki said, "Dreams can't be closed, there are always zero-dimensional spaces around it, otherwise we wouldn't be able to enter other people's dreams so easily." I don't know what method they used in this corridor, which is equivalent to visualizing this zero-dimensional space, or it is a kind of trap-like zero-dimensional space that naturally exists. So when Zhao Pengcheng disconnected the connection between the dream and this zero-dimensional corridor, he thought that I would be trapped here, but he didn't expect that I still had a bird as capable as you......"

"Oh, yes, you're right, this is the most correct sentence you have said in your life, I am very capable, quack!" The crow cried happily, "But...... What can I do? ”

Aoki said, "You forgot your own abilities? ”

The crow thought for a moment and said, "What else is there but your consciousness that I can find this bit of wherever I go?" ”

Aoki said, "That's it, it means you can ignore spatial distance." ”

The crow still didn't understand "What's the use of that?" ”

Aoki said, "My mental power can't get out of an independent zero-dimensional space, unless it happens that this zero-dimensional space floats near someone's dream space, but the probability of that is lower than the probability of winning all the lotteries in the world." But you can, because you don't care about the distance. While you may not be able to accurately find another space without conscious coordinates, you can travel through nearby zero-dimensional space. ”

The crow said, "You don't want me to fly around with you like a headless fly until I bump into a zero-dimensional space connected to the dream of that person named Zhao Pengcheng?" ”

Aoki said, "Well, that's pretty much what it means. ”

"I think it's more reliable to wait for the proprietress to take me to the injection, although it will-" The crow's ass shrunk, and its tail feathers trembled twice, "It hurts!" ”

Aoki said, "If you're in a normal dream, that's certainly going to wake you up." But you are now in a zero-dimensional space where time does not exist, and the confusion of time and space may nullify this induction. And you can't take my consciousness directly to the real world, we're not in the same place, I have to go back to myself from some dream. ”

The crow said, "But if you find the zero-dimensional spaces one by one, how long will it take to find them?" ”

"Theoretically, it could take an infinite amount of time, because you could fly farther and farther," Aoki said. But it doesn't matter, what we have is time, and here, we live with the universe. ”

"Whoa, crazy! Lose your marbles! The crow cried.

Aoki smiled and said, "Actually, it won't take that long, because Zhao Pengcheng's dream has been connected to this place, and it will definitely leave clues." As long as you put your mind to it, you will definitely find it, and maybe you will find it in a few hundred years. ”

"Quack...... Hundreds of years...... "The crow still thinks Aoki is crazy, "At that time, Zhao Pengcheng's tombstone has turned to ashes, are we going to crawl out of his grave?" What about going out, we don't even have scum left in our own flesh! ”

Aoki said, "No, it won't. As soon as we go back, the two planes will be superimposed, and the superimposed moments will affect each other, and his time will return to the moment when I left. So, it was necessary to find the place where I left his dreams. ”

"Oh, okay, okay, I hope you're right." The crow stopped talking nonsense, croaked, and its claws clung to Aoki's hair and flew away, flying along the end of the corridor at great speed.

Aoki hung under the huge claws of a bird, like a thin piece of black figure cutout, floating in the endless void.

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Zhao Pengcheng laughed in the mirror for a while, and then relaxed and sat down on the bench in the dressing room to rest. The scalpel fell to the edge of the bench, looking dull and unsharp.

He bent down to pick up the knife, placed it in the palm of his hand, and rubbed it lightly with the fingers of his other hand. The blade gradually became shiny, and the thin blade regained its sharpness. After a while, the blade slowly turned red, as if it was sucking all the light and temperature around it onto it.

The entire dream space was darkening, but the knife was getting brighter and brighter.

When the blade turned into a rich wine-like purple red, the red began to flow to Zhao Pengcheng's palm, along the visible bulging veins, and back to his heart.

The room became darker and darker, and the color of the knife gradually darkened after it was extremely bright, and all the light returned to Zhao Pengcheng. His spirit returned to its original state, and confidence filled his entire face.

With the collapse of the dream space, Zhao Pengcheng's figure also disappeared in the darkness.

Then, the light fell again, and he awoke.

He saw sunlight streaming in through the skylight of the prison interview room, and Aoki, who was sitting across the table from him, stared blank and motionless, as if he had lost his soul.

The prison guard next to them was looking at them with a strange look......

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