【Infinite Ensemble】

[Volume 0 • Chapter 3 • Consciousness, Intelligence, Dreams]

[Introduction: Dreams Map Reality,]

〈Verse 0: Taboo of the Dragon God〉

What is Dream? Why do we dream?

Dreams are not difficult to understand, in fact, it is just a spontaneous act of reason.

Kindness... How so? Brain tissue, it is like a "perpetual motion machine", a "computer" that will never stop running, until the moment when life is completely returned, until the last brain waves are disconnected, until the superficial consciousness stops working, even if there is only one active individual left in it, it will try to carry out incomplete silent operation.

When we are awake, it will keep thinking, and when we are sleeping, some stubborn people will not stop, so they will activate the release of electrical signals during the REM period, so as to make us dream.

To learn more about why people dream, you can start by searching for the "activation-integration" theory.

Dreams are a wonderful thing, as long as you are a normal person, you will definitely dream every day, the difference is only after you wake up, whether you can still remember what happened in the dream, or even forget whether there was a dream last night.

As for why this chapter begins with a forced wave of brain science-related knowledge, it stems from Blackjack's mysterious dream a few days ago.

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Have you ever felt the same way about having the same dream for days in a row during a strange period of time?

Each time the dream becomes clearer, the chances of having it again will be greatly improved.

Until one day, you are awake and have this dream again, and the only thing that is different in the dream is that this time you are watching everything that happens in the dream from the perspective of God.

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The exhaustion of the body caused Blackjack to fall into a deeper state of sleep, and correspondingly, the interval between single sleep cycles was extended, and the duration of REM period also took up more sleep cycles one at a time.

After a restful night's sleep, until the last REM period near the end of the sleep cycle, Blackjack once again entered the long-forgotten dream.

Probably due to the effect of [instantaneous memory-rapid forgetting-linked memory-memory enhancement] in another important region of the brain, the hippocampus, Blackjack's dream this time was exceptionally clear, as if it was not a dream at all, but was in reality.

If Blackjack wasn't a disembodied bystander at this time, perhaps Blackjack might have been completely confused by the dream.

In the dream, he watched the shouting in the dream indifferently from the perspective of God, and recalled what happened to the person he was in the first dream.

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I am a police officer, and today is my first day of employment after completing my internship. After receiving the notice yesterday, I didn't sleep well all night, and I went to the police station early this morning to report, and received a full set of equipment for the official patrol police, police uniforms, police badges, high-voltage catapult electric shock batons, and a radio communicator that can connect to the entire police station.

Driving the patrol police of the last neighborhood I took over, that is, the police car left by my predecessors, I kept my emotions high all the way to the neighborhood that I patrolled.

This neighborhood is the most remote neighborhood on Tongcheng Avenue in the Dongfan District of Takayama City, so this neighborhood is patrolled by newly appointed police officers like me in the police station. Because the neighborhood is remote and the average foot traffic is low, I am the only patrol officer in this neighborhood.

When I arrived at the jurisdiction, I was like a proud rooster, slowly patrolling the territory that would be under my control for a long time in the future.

My enthusiasm soon cooled down in the deserted streets, and the hunger pangs that I had neglected began to dominate my brain, and that's when I remembered that I had forgotten to eat breakfast today.

Recalling the street I just passed, there was a coffee morning tea shop on the left turn at the last intersection, and there was a small shop next to it.

Well, it's a beautiful day to have morning tea and then go to the store to buy some snacks to pass the time.

I came to the coffee shop, finished breakfast, and then asked the clerk to refill a cup of milk coffee for me, leaving 20 oceans on the table, more than a tip, because I was in a good mood today.

With milk coffee in hand, I walked out of the coffee shop and turned around and walked to the next store.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the store, with a "pop", I heard a man's low scolding from the store, followed by a middle-aged woman's panicked voice begging for mercy.

"Malegobi, hurry up and give the money to Lao Tzu, or you believe it or not, Lao Tzu will stab you to death."

"It's not that I don't give money, business has been very little during this time, there is no money in the store, here is all the turnover today, there is really no penny."

"Grass and mud horses, this special 130 yuan ocean, why do you send it to call Huazi, stinky blue pool, do you give money or not, if you don't take the money out, Lao Tzu will kill you today."

"Please, don't hurt me, I really don't have any money."

When Blackjack heard the conversation in the store, his first reaction was to go up and arrest the bandits, and after a little thought, the other party now had a hostage in his hand, and he would definitely threaten the hostage's life directly, so he quickly turned around and left, and went to drive his police car to patrol the alarm.

He planned to startle the snake first, let the bandits let go of the hostages and escape first, and then this damn scum is round or flat and not let him be kneaded by Black Jack.

The idea is good, but the reality is always unexpected, when Blackjack drives a police car to alarm the bandits, and the other party is about to escape, Blackjack suddenly discovers that the robbers are actually taking another hostage.

A legal little Lori who looks pleasing and has a lovely demeanor.

In fact, this is the little Lolita who bought lollipops alone in the store just now, and the little Lori, who is not familiar with the world, doesn't know what a robbery is, but she thinks this strange uncle is very fierce, she has been entangled in it for a long time, and has bought a few of her favorite lollipops and is ready to pay and leave quickly.

I didn't expect this strange uncle to see himself, and said that today is not unlucky, the money was not grabbed, and he picked up a little Lori, and he didn't lose anything.

Then the blame uncle forcibly picked her up and was about to leave without her consent, and she hadn't paid the lollipop yet.

The cute little Lori is not afraid at all, and she still thinks about paying for the lollipop.

The robbers were also unlucky, they only went out once in a long time, and they had the courage to rob a store, but they didn't expect the store owner to be a poor bastard.

Then the little Lori who appeared suddenly made him fascinated, as if he was about to make a kidnapping case out of his mind.

In this freedom-based city, kidnapping is tantamount to murder, and if caught, it is punishable by life imprisonment.

To make matters worse, the robbers were just about to leave the store when a damn police car suddenly drove up, and instead of returning to the store, the outwitted robber broke down the door and ran away.

呲~! The tires of the police car emitted black smoke, and the skidding caused by the forced braking almost caused Blackjack to crash into the robbers.

Jumping out of the police car, Blackjack pulled out his baton and aimed it at the robber who had pulled out the knife again.

It was inconvenient for the robbers to take the little Lori to move, but now they were frightened by the out-of-control police car, and they lost the opportunity to escape in a hurry.

The robber is not stupid, although he doesn't know why he suddenly lost his mind and kidnapped little Lori, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know how powerful the baton in Black Jack's hand is.

The two confronted each other, and Blackjack had called for temporary support from the police from another neighborhood in the neighborhood just in case, but now he had to use words to delay time and distract the robbers, waiting for an opportunity to subdue them.

"I'm a patrol officer in this neighborhood, and today is my first day on patrol duty."

"If you let go of the hostages, I can help you reduce the accusations as much as possible, which is good for everyone."

Blackjack hadn't really encountered this situation either, and in a critical situation, he was talking to the robbers by feeling.

"Hmph, drop the hostages? Do you think I'm going to believe the of your bunch of leather dogs? ”

"You must have called for support, as far as you waste dogs are concerned, today is also my grandfather's bad luck, just planted on your head."

The robbers are not stupid, but they are also very smart, and these are the fruits of the so-called progress of civilization.

"You drop the baton now and let me go, I promise not to hurt her, and if you point the baton at me again, I will kill her."

The robber is also sober now, he just wants to leave quickly, in order to threaten Black Jack, the knife in his hand is flat on the neck of little Lori.

Little Lori finally reacted to what had happened now, and snorted painfully at the right time and cooperatively.

Blackjack saw that the situation was not good, and this was self-defeating, and he didn't let it go, and he was afraid that the robbers would be angry and embarrassed.

"Okay, okay, I'll throw the baton away, you don't hurt her."

Blackjack raised his baton and shook it, he was about to throw away the baton, but suddenly pointed the baton at the robber and quickly pressed the high-voltage electric shock ejection button on the baton.

Originally, Blackjack didn't plan to take risks, damn robbers have a leather dog, and Blackjack is also evil to the guts, fuck your scum and let me die.

The robber's eyes followed Blackjack's hand, and his eyes flickered as Blackjack shook his baton, and when he came back to his senses, he found that Blackjack had pointed his baton at him, and he secretly cried out in his heart.

The robber thought to himself, your leather dog, I'm not having a good time today, and you don't have to think about it either, he rushed before Black Jack hit him, and angrily slashed the knife in his hand at the neck of Little Lori.

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Blackjack's strange dreams went through a total of three time periods, the first period of which lasted for five or six nights before becoming clear, but each time the dream ended here, and each dream was exactly the same, not under Blackjack's control. Everything was natural, and Blackjack didn't feel anything wrong in his dreams at all, until he woke up and felt weird.

My daily life has nothing to do with the events in my dreams, why I keep dreaming that I am a police officer and a disaster police officer lately, every time I think about this, it makes Blackjack confused.

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Blackjack's memories are synchronized with what happened in the dream, except that the memory is from a first-person perspective, while the dream is from God's perspective.

After the robber became angry and hurt little Lori, the whole world became sluggish in the dream, and then Black Jack briefly lost consciousness in the dream.

It can't be said that I lost consciousness, but the actual situation is like suddenly turning off the lights in a closed small dark room, and because it is a dream, I can't feel my own existence properly, so it feels a little like losing consciousness.

In the past, Blackjack didn't have any special feelings and reactions after losing consciousness, but this time the God's perspective gave Blackjack a different sense.

He saw a drastic change in the dream, like a puzzle that had been broken and then reassembled into another picture.

Consciousness returned, and there was a blur of sight, a feeling that was utterly unreal.

Looking around, there is something different that catches your eye.

As soon as his gaze condensed slightly, a pair of vertical pupils composed of sky-blue diamond-shaped crystals suddenly appeared, and those strange eyes seemed to directly see through Black Jack's soul.

Blackjack had woken up here many times before when he had this dream, so he was very impressed with these eyes.

There was only one pair of eyes left in the empty blurry dream, but Blackjack just stared at them as if he was nothing.

I don't know if there is an accurate concept of time in the dream, but after a while, the direction of the eye emits words that are as strange as the eyes, full of old and rigid mechanical friction sounds.

"Foolish human, your actions have succeeded in arousing my wrath, meet my wrath, and you will become my new slave, as a lowly apostle of the great dragon god, and go to earth to reap the gratitude of mortals for the gifts of the dragon god."

Although this is Blackjack's dream, Blackjack has no power to resist the control of this so-called dragon god, and can only be forced to accept its influence and do some messy things.

According to Blackjack's post-mortem analysis of this dream before, the cute little Lori who was hurt should also be an apostle of the dragon god, and she is responsible for harvesting mortals' affection and love for the dragon god.

Blackjack himself, on the other hand, continues to be a police officer, and confronts his old rival, the robber who is also controlled by the dragon god, again and again.

As for the reason why the so-called dragon god controls and influences them to do these things, it must be that they want to obtain people's emotions through them.

It's weird, Blackjack didn't know what was going on with him at that time, he took a dream so seriously, and he was going to do some online data search and dream analysis.

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The second period of dreams is a constant creation of emotions, and Blackjack only stayed in this stage for three days, that is, three nights with the same dream.

The dream soon entered the last time period, the time period that kept Blackjack awake, and it was also the last time Blackjack had this dream before, and he had only dreamed once.

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