Since Zhao Pengcheng was imprisoned, the organization has cut off contact with him. He doesn't know much about the outside world and changes, but thanks to Aoki, on the one hand, he learned some things from Aoki's mouth, and on the other hand, he experienced another life that he didn't know if it was a dream or a parallel world, which made him know a lot of things that others didn't know, and also changed his consciousness and attitude towards life in essence.

He began to think about the meaning of life, about the nature of time. He felt that time was a kind of spiral, and perhaps even a chaotic existence.

The universe is vast and boundless, and time is endless, which is just an illusion of human beings. Because the life of a person, even from the origin of mankind to the present, is negligibly short in the time dimension of the entire universe.

When humans observe the expansion of the universe, they assume that the universe will continue to expand and then begin to collapse at some point in time. Humans think that time transitions smoothly, and there is a speculation that time moves forward calmly until the moment when the universe collapses, and then begins to return the way it came.

In fact, time may well be something that is here for a while and there for a while. The universe is expanding for a while, collapsing for a while, and time stops at the beginning of the universe for a while, and stops at the moment when the sun goes out. And the stories of life and death on the earth are really not very remarkable.

Zhao Pengcheng actually didn't know what he was before he became a human. Perhaps because they do not have the aging cycle and the laws of life and death like life on earth, their race does not need to think about the meaning of existence. On the contrary, human beings, who are extremely dependent on matter, are trying to interpret the universe and life.

But Zhao Pengcheng knows that human beings are working in vain. All the great physicists and philosophers did in vain, because time is chaotic. No matter how much effort and achievements human beings make, one day they will be wiped out due to the sudden jump in time. As long as we cannot get rid of our dependence on the material world, human beings will not be able to exist forever.

But they are not the same. Their consciousness can exist apart from matter, and time is the concept of the material world. Without the movement and change of matter, there is no existence of time. Essentially, the chaos of the material world leads to the chaos of time. Consciousness that is detached from matter is not affected by time, and no matter the moment time jumps, they still exist, but they need to find a new parasite in order to establish a new connection with the material world.

As for why he wanted to establish a connection with the material world, Zhao Pengcheng guessed that it was to obtain energy, or to evolve. Memory is a good thing, and it must be remembered in order for the race to progress. The essence of memory is to store and transmit information through the orderly arrangement and identification of matter, and matter must be involved in it.

Human dreams are the deep collation of brain memories by the subconscious. Humans who are dependent on consciousness and matter can create dreams, while pure consciousness does not dream.

Perhaps their race was once a life like humans whose consciousness and matter were tightly bound, but in order to escape from the spell of time leap and escape from the chaotic material world, they had to abandon their memories and become pure consciousness.

Because he has no memory, Zhao Pengcheng doesn't know much about other things about the race, and in the past, they only had one idea to let the race continue. Of course, after hearing that the invasion is successful, they will slowly be injected with racial memories. This memory comes from the ancestors of the race, who condensed the entity through powerful psychic power to preserve ancient information.

Zhao Pengcheng didn't know if the ancestor really existed, or if it was just a legend, or a symbol, to make up for the regret that their race had no memory?

He felt that the last option was more likely. But if there is really no memory, where do the first instructions and the thoughts of the community come from? It is impossible to be so orderly in the matter of invasion by virtue of the instinct of survival alone.

Zhao Pengcheng found more and more that things were not so simple, and there must be something hidden. Sometimes, he really wants to have a showdown with the organization, tell me the truth, or let me meet my ancestors.

But he knew he couldn't because he wasn't qualified enough. And now, even if he wanted to contact the organization, he couldn't.

The Dream Corridor was the most direct link between him and the Order, and it became the only one after he was imprisoned. After the end of the corridor was sealed, he was very lost, although in their race, loss was an emotion that should not be there.

However, the corridor was not taken away, indicating that the organization had not completely abandoned him, and that there was still hope for him to return. For a long time in the past, he had felt lonely and longed for the organization to send someone to him. And now he doesn't matter, he has new ideas, new plans, and new partners.

However, just when he was already giving up hope, the corridor suddenly opened.

He also went to work as usual that day, and the delivery date was originally due the next day, but the manufacturer suddenly called the prison and asked for delivery on the same day. Because the factory added money, the prison agreed.

The prison workload was already close to full capacity, and suddenly it had to meet the deadline and had to work overtime. Zhao Pengcheng was originally only responsible for drawings and calibration, but now he had to pick up the soldering iron and solder wire and solder them one by one. The inspectors and drivers of the factory came and waited in the afternoon, and even ate dinner with the prisoners.

The inmates worked overtime until midnight, but Zhao Pengcheng could not leave, and he had to inspect the goods with the inspectors of the factory and hand them over. When the goods were loaded onto the truck and sent away, it was already the middle of the night, and it felt like the sky was almost dark, Zhao Pengcheng couldn't support it, and fell asleep leaning on the warehouse.

I don't know if it was the prison guard's negligence that day, or if he was too tired to wake him up, but he slept comfortably in the warehouse until dawn anyway. The next day, his discipline came to take a look, but he didn't say anything.

When he fell asleep, Zhao Pengcheng dreamed in a daze, dreaming that he was sitting in the co-pilot of the truck, talking and laughing with the driver. In front is an open suburban road, lined with trees on both sides, and the misty city is in the distance.

It wasn't a dream he had on his own initiative, but he soon realized that he was. He came to his senses. The wagon was gone, and he stood alone on the road, looking at the end of the road that stretched into the distance, thinking about a serious question.

Then, he had an extra scalpel in his hand, and there was still a trace of strange power fluctuations left on the knife.

This is the spiritual power he gathered at the beginning, which was originally used to kill Aoki, but later killed the prison guard. The fluctuations on this knife are the spiritual power infused by the remnants of Aoki. He has not been willing to dissolve, on the one hand, it is used to warn himself that there are still such powerful human beings in this world; On the other hand, he learned from Aoki how to exercise and use mental power. This method is much more clever than what he used in the past.

He believed that Aoki had deliberately left these things for him, which was a little sincerity of cooperation. Of course, in the next cooperation, he must also be sincere.

Zhao Pengcheng kept playing with the knife in his hand. Lately, in every dream, he has to play with this scalpel. He felt that his mental strength was getting stronger. He still remembers that in another life he experienced, he spent a whole decade to make himself stronger, and it was just about the same as he is now.

At this moment, he felt a familiar fluctuation in the dream space. He hurriedly reined in his mental strength, and the scalpel disappeared into his body.

The space passage appeared, and in the midst of the fluctuations, a thin and energetic foreigner walked out, glanced at Zhao Pengcheng and said: "The spirit is good, it seems that the strength is stronger than before, it seems that the human prison is not bad!" ”