NO.152 THE TRUTH OF THE FANTASY CONTINENT (2)
Dreamland?
When he saw this name, Zhang Yaoyang couldn't help but gasp, the first thing he thought of was nothing else, but his own illusion realm.
Before the name of the illusion world was changed, the system said that the island in his mind was the so-called illusion dream realm, if it looked like this, wouldn't it mean that this place was actually an imaginary space that existed in someone's mind?
No, Zhang Yaoyang immediately overturned this idea, as an expert in playing with dreams, he can't be deeply trapped in other people's dreams without knowing it, he can clearly sense that this world is by no means anyone's territory, and no one's mind can accommodate such a majestic world, then, in fact, the answer is already coming out-
This world is actually a projection of the real world, an imaginary space composed of countless human subconscious and imagination!
This concept is actually very easy to understand, just like the subspace setting in "Warhammer 40K", subspace is a universe associated with the material universe, a parallel world of reality, where there is rich spiritual energy, and it is a bizarre spiritual world constructed by the spirit of countless intelligent beings in the universe.
Of course, the dream realm may be far from being compared with the subspace, after all, the subspace corresponds to the entire Warhammer universe, while the dream realm corresponds only to the earth, the spiritual world shaped by the humans on the earth.
"No wonder, the Illusory Dream Continent is basically the Illusory Dream Realm shaped by the dream energy of the whole world......" Zhang Yaoyang muttered in a low voice, at this moment, he had completely understood that everything in this world, just like the illusionary world in his mind, belonged to the world of the same nature, and as for the source of energy, it was the human beings who kept dreaming all over the world.
Human beings are constantly dreaming, and the excess energy generated by brain waves is used to support the operation of this world, although a person's dream energy is very small, but don't forget, there are seven billion people on the earth, and one or two billion people are sleeping all the time, how huge is the energy generated?
Because of this, the whole world is constantly moving, and after absorbing countless subconscious minds and imaginations, countless dreams woven by human beings have finally formed this bizarre world.
Then, Zhang Yaoyang continued to read these books, he read them very quickly, and in a few days, he swept through all the knowledge of the Dream Continent, and indeed thoroughly understood the worldview of this spiritual world - he found that the civilization process of the entire Dream World was still in the medieval castle knight civilization, and the productivity was extremely low, and even the so-called civilization fire was only developed to the stage of divine power of the monarch.
The divine right rules the Dream Continent, and the centralized system is a city-state system, and if you can have a manor of your own, it is a baron, and if you have a city, at least a viscount, you can be an earl, and if you have more than ten cities, you can be a duke.
Here, the Duke is the highest hereditary title on the whole continent, and above is the Messianic Church, where the Pope replaces the king's rights, but it is not necessarily true to say that it is completely dominant, because the Church's control over the major nobles is extremely weak, and it is more like a warlord world divided by princes like the Three Kingdoms.
In addition to the bizarre humanity and nature, there are also a thousand strange creatures and environments, as a huge spiritual world, cats have become the strongest existence here.
Cat?
Zhang Yao raised his eyebrows and continued to look at it, as if it was a symbol of faith in the dream realm, in addition to the universal belief in Messianism, there are also some people who believe in the 'cat god', because the power of cats in the dream realm is real, they have the ability to jump in space, they can jump to the moon at any time, and appear in most places on the earth, but even so, they are not aggressive, and there is no threat to the three major races of humans, moon beasts and ghouls.
After a preliminary tour of the geography and humanities of this world, Zhang Yaoyang gradually determined that the area of this world is far smaller than reality, about the area of a continent, like an island suspended in the ocean of consciousness, and the moon overhead, although it looks very large, but in fact, the real size is far less than the Dream Continent, only as big as a province in reality, just because the distance is too close, so it causes a visual impact effect that occupies half of the sky.
As for what is too close to cause the sea tide to flood the Dream Continent, or the gravity of the earth attracts each other and causes the moon to crash, sorry, these are not there, after all, this is an idealistic world, and the physical laws here are far less strict than reality, not even one percent of reality.
Reality and the Dream Continent are like two opposite sides but coexisting in the world, one is the material world, the other is the spiritual world, but the material world is dominant, the spiritual world is more like parasitic on the body of the material world, like a parasite absorbing the nutrients of the material world to survive, the civilizations of the two worlds develop silently, but neither of them knows the existence of the other.
Of course, it would be too outrageous to say that both sides absolutely do not know the existence of each other, obviously, there are many people in the real world who have come to this magical world when they are dreaming, but I don't know why, the humans in the dream world are very hostile to the humans in the real world?
Soon, Zhang Yaoyang found the answer in a book of "Alien Records", but the answer he got made Zhang Yaoyang look weird: this turned out to be a proverb - anyone who comes to the Dream Continent from the purgatory world has the power of calamity in their bodies, and these people will always try to use the knowledge of evil and taboos to shake people's beliefs, they teach lowly serfs to blaspheme, lowly black slaves to defend human rights, and even teach civilians all kinds of power to subvert imperial power, this power, they named "technology"......
Seeing this news, Zhang Yaoyang was speechless, it turned out that the reason why the Dream Realm was very hostile to the humans in the real world was actually the ideological and cultural invasion of the real world brought by many human beings, these cultures interfered with the power of the Dream Continent, and the technology and technology brought by the real world seriously weakened the magic of the church, and all the upper echelons were afraid.
What's even more bizarre is that Zhang Yaoyang even saw a story in a certain book about the demons of purgatory secretly imparting taboo knowledge to the untouchables, and they taught the serfs a rebellious social system, which spread like brainwashing, causing unprecedented large-scale unrest in serfs in more than a dozen cities.
Of course, this rebellious social system has long enjoyed the treatment of burning books and pit Confucianism after the rebellion was put down, and the books in Zhang Yaoyang's hands only barely recorded a few keywords, which were: "Marxism-Leninism", "communism", "political power", "fantasy characteristics", "working people", "great rejuvenation", and so on......
This deed happened more than 400 years ago, and the culture and ideas it spread shocked the churches and city-states of the entire continent, and finally designated these cultures as 'demonic forbidden arts' and 'cults', and launched a coalition in the name of divine punishment, completely slaughtering those dozen cities, and making millions of beings completely disappear in the Fantasy Continent.
As a result, everyone believed the proverb that "the world of purgatory will surely bring calamity and doom".