Aoki never thought that he could get a real answer from Su Huilan, and the question was kept in his heart for so many years. In fact, he doesn't remember how many years have passed, and he doesn't even remember when he started living in Liuying Lane.

He used to chat with the neighbors of Liuying Lane, and the neighbors said that when he first came to Liuying Lane, he was dressed like this and stood under an old willow tree, with a bird on top of his brain. At first, everyone thought that he was there to shoot advertisements or photos or something, because Liuying Lane is an old street, people often come to take pictures, and the crew has come to film. So the neighborhood didn't take it seriously at the time, and later found that there were no photographers nearby, and there were no cameras or anything, so I began to wonder if this person was sick.

Neighbors said he stood under the willow tree for a day and a night, and when they saw him again, he was staying in a bar like a flower.

Aoki also asked Bishenghua how he got to the bar. Every time he asked this question, Bi Shenghua touched his forehead and asked worriedly, if you drink too much or have a fever, is your brain not sick.

He didn't quite remember the dilemma of standing under the big willow tree for a day and a night.

The willow tree is very old, it is said to be the first willow tree planted in Liuying Lane, and the other willow trees are all used to cut out the paper strip from this tree. In the spring, the old willow tree hangs down many graceful green branches, covering the withered and curvy trunk, to announce to the world that it is still alive and well.

Aoki has no memory, just can't find the memory of before, at least what happened after that is still very clear, but he just can't dream. But he always felt that it was not that he had no memory, but that something was wrong with his brain. He gets a headache every time he recalls, it's like wearing a mantra, and he gets recited as soon as he recalls.

Su Huilan looked at Aoki in a daze and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Aoki said, "It's nothing. ”

Su Huilan smiled and didn't speak.

Subconscious thinking is something that cannot be hidden, if it is an ordinary person, what he thinks is equivalent to mobilizing his memory, and it will be presented in the dream. But Aoki couldn't even dream, and certainly couldn't know what he was thinking. He didn't even need to use mental power to hide and shield his thoughts.

"Let's get out." Aoki said.

Su Huilan nodded: "It's time to go out." ”

Coming out of Su Huilan's dream, they returned to that hall.

He found that when Su Huilan exited the dream world, there were no signs and feelings of the collapse of the dream realm of ordinary people, and he didn't know if it was because she had special skills in mind control, or if there was something special about this game.

The two of them were standing in front of the mirror again.

Aoki was thinking, Su Huilan just entered the mirror just now, so did she also come out of the mirror little by little when she came out? He should come out and wait first, so that he can see how Su Huilan came out. But now it's too late to regret it, and I can't ask people to go in again.

Standing in front of the mirror for a moment, Aoki asked, "Where are the save and exit options for this game?" ”

He and Su Huilan are now in that coffin-like box, which has severed the perceptual connection between their consciousness and their bodies through some mechanism, and has directly entered this game scene into their brains. So, how does the box know when they want to leave the game?

From a game perspective, there should be a mechanic that allows players to quit at any time.

Su Huilan said: "Now it's just up to us to test the internal logic of the device and the game, and the save and exit functions are not yet done. However, I've heard that this feature may not be available in the future. ”

"Uh...... So how do you end the game? Aoki was a little speechless, which game would not have an exit option?

"You can force it down."

"Forced shutdown? We are in the box, the body perception is cut off, and we can't move our hands and feet, how can we forcibly shut down? ”

"The first generation of the Space Box was not perfect," Su Huilan said, "so when we came in, Professor Mei helped us set the time. ”

"So we can only wait here now?" Aoki wants to say that this is a scheduled shutdown, not a forced shutdown.

"That's right."

"How long did the professor set us up?"

"Two minutes. Including the time to turn on and off, we will not actually spend more than thirty seconds in the dream. Su Huilan smiled, "This is also the most fascinating thing about this game in the future." ”

Aoki nodded in agreement.

The biggest problem with games now is that it consumes too much time and energy of players, affecting people's learning and work. As for the game "Dream Guide", players play in it for a long time, and the real world may only take a few minutes, which does not delay work and study at all, and does not affect life.

When you're waiting for the elevator, when you're out of class, when you're calling a car and waiting for the driver to come, when you're making out with your wife, when she's taking a shower, when you're making ......instant noodles, you can wear the space box (if the offspring product of that thing is convenient enough to use), and that's enough time for you to expand your territory and make a career in the game world.

However, Aoki couldn't help but be a little worried.

"Can humans really be content to play for a few minutes?"

"Maybe." Su Huilan's answer didn't seem to be very confident.

What has ever been satisfied with human beings? If you get addicted to this kind of game, it will be even more terrifying than a normal game!

Aoki always felt that the development of this space box and the Dream Guide had deviated from the original intention of the professor.

Two minutes pass quickly in reality, but in the world of pure consciousness, the passage of time is almost non-existent. If it is not for the need to stimulate brain cells to retrieve memories, and brain cells are an active substance after all, they will only be excited and active in a certain chemical environment, and chemical reactions take time, otherwise, people's consciousness stays in a dream-like space, and it really becomes eternal in one second.

Aoki and Su Huilan were waiting in the hall, and the atmosphere was a little awkward and boring.

"Actually, we can go out for a walk." "The lower the excitement of our brains, the slower the passage of time, and there is still some scenery to enjoy in this prehistoric town," Su advises. ”

"It's fine." Aoki readily agreed.

The two of them walked out of the hall of the pyramid and into the streets of the town. Aoki glanced back, and the pyramid towered into the sky, and the upside-down pyramid above it was in the clouds, as if it was about to fall down at any moment.

"Do you think the two pyramids will turn upside down?" Su Huilan asked.

Aoki was shocked: "Why? ”

Su Huilan chuckled: "No reason, I just think this design is very strange." ”

Aoki wasn't sure if Su Huilan knew anything, but she was obviously reluctant to say anything more.

They were walking right in the town.

There is no one else in the town now, and I don't know if there will be more players in the future, whether it will be overcrowded here, or if other people will only be immersed in their own game world and don't care about this town at all.

"What's the point of having such a town?" Aoki asked.

"I don't know, there's always a use for him."

"It's not reality, it's not anyone's dream, what is it?"

"Here is a scene designed in the game, through the computer simulation of human perception in such a world, including vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, vestibular system sensing, etc., and then through the continuous action of high-frequency light pulses in the space box, these perceptions are directly input into the brain, so that our consciousness will think that we have come to this scene, and it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood."

Su Huilan said with a smile, "In layman's terms, this is an illusion. ”

"Hallucinations?" Aoki pondered, "What's the difference between a hallucination and a dream?" ”

Su Huilan said: "The difference is that hallucinations do not rely on the person's own memory, nor do they require mental power to support the space. ”

Aoki agrees with Su Huilan's account of hallucinations and dreams, but he always feels that this prehistoric town and the pyramid hall are not so simple.

This is not a human dream, could it be another dream? For example, the dream of the computer.

At this moment, he remembered the ghost again.