"It seems that your guide really didn't tell you anything, Jerusalem is a spiritual world that can connect the brains of all the powerful, you can understand it as ......" Qilu opened his hands, "The dream of all the powerful people in the world,

"Jerusalem, the headquarters of the Nianshi, is a city that has been built by generations of Nianshi over countless years, it is a purely spiritual city, it is completely virtual. Strictly speaking, this place should be called the New Jerusalem because it is the restoration and reconstruction of Jerusalem, the most glorious and great city of mankind.

"Teachers are here to communicate and learn from each other, and in addition to the arena we are in now, it has a lot of other infrastructure, such as libraries, museums. But we can't use it yet, it's only open to the Nianshi,

"The people who come here are temporarily separated from their bodies mentally, and their 'physical bodies' are in a state of unconsciousness in the real world, as if they are in a deep sleep. ”

Snow Scar connected what Qilu said with his previous inference, and immediately understood: he was not really here, but his spirit was here, as if he was in a dream, and his "physical body" was still in the snowy jungle, in the cave behind the waterfall.

Previously, Jean was surrounded and suppressed by the soldiers of the Snow Country, and chose to come to Jerusalem to ask for help under the crisis, but because he had to be in a state of "deep sleep" to enter such a spiritual city, Jean did not trust the snow marks of "being in the same room", so he took him into the pilgrimage road and came to Jerusalem by mistake. Because Jerusalem is a high degree of restoration of the city that once existed in reality, and it is very real, without any trace of virtual space, plus the snow marks have never had such an experience, so he did not realize that he was in a dream for the first time.

After all, he was only a teenager and lived in an isolated mountain village, how could he guess this?

Knowing the truth about Jerusalem, a sense of nothingness suddenly came over him, and the spirit of the snow marks that had been tense like the strings of a violin was relaxed when it was about to be put on the shelf, and he lay down on the ground, looking at the clouds in the sky and the scoreboard that was always in the center of the sky, and felt as if the ice cream was slowly melting.

"If it's a dream, when can I wake up?"

"It's not accurate to say it's a dream, but it doesn't matter...... You can always choose to wake up, try it, and imagine in your mind what it would be like to leave Jerusalem. ”

As soon as Snow Mark woke up at the thought of leaving Jerusalem, the mechanical female voice that she had heard before immediately appeared in her ears: "Are you sure you want to leave Jerusalem? You are now in the arena fighting, and if you leave, your results will be nullified......"

The voice appeared out of thin air in her head, as if she existed in her head.

"Did you hear that?" Snow Scar tilted her head and looked at Qilu in surprise.

"Oh no, no, I can't hear it, but I know what you're hearing. Qilu nodded clearly: "This is 'Natalie' reminding you, it must be said that if you leave, the results in the arena will be invalidated." ”

Snowmark nodded, "Natalie?"

"Yes, Natalie is the executive of Jerusalem, and she is able to pass a ...... Airwaves talk to everyone. Well, I don't know exactly how it works, we have never seen her in person, only heard her voice, I think she is not a person who exists in the real world like you and me, but an 'npc' created with Jerusalem - Non Player Character, a self-acting mental life form. Anyway, she'll show up when there's something important to inform you about," Qilu held out his finger and nodded on his temple, "in your mind." ”

"Are you sure you want to leave Jerusalem? You're in the arena fighting right now, and if you leave, your results will be forfeited......"

Natalie asked again. The tone of her voice was almost identical to the previous sentence, monotonous and stereotypical.

Snow marks negate in the mind.

"Listen to me, I'm always ready to get in touch with you if you need to. Natalie ended the conversation.

Snow Marks understood that his consciousness could leave Jerusalem at any time and return to his body, when he would wake up in a cave behind a waterfall in the snowy jungle, as if he had had a long dream.

Maybe Jean will still be around.

Natalie, like the guards in the square, is an "NPC", a complex robot rather than a real person. "NPCs" have an independent set of behavior patterns, and can react to the actions of others according to certain patterns, such as guards who will come out to stop people when they attack each other. The Weapon Shop Owner will collect money and change when you buy weapons.

No wonder they all look so ...... Mechanical, because they are inherently a mechanic.

Natalie, on the other hand, is like a robot assistant who is always there, able to answer her questions accordingly and handle some of her daily chores in Jerusalem. I think that the last time I heard Natalie speak, it was when she first entered Jerusalem, when she counted down the countdown and announced the coordinates of the landing, and the snow marks were completely unknown, and now I felt a little sudden.

"High-tech...... You're going to have to burn diesel. ”

In his mind, he envisioned a huge machine, so big that it would obscure the sky, and it would operate beyond the skies of Jerusalem, and its role would be to lead the various NPCs of Jerusalem with countless invisible threads, controlling them to make all kinds of actions and speak all kinds of languages. Jerusalem is like a big stage, and the machine is bigger, so it can move so many characters and do their jobs.

It was based on the puppet show he had seen in the town, where puppeteers manipulated small puppets with cross-shaped wire plates above the small stage to bring them to life.

This was the greatest possible thing Snow Mark could have imagined with his barren insight.

He is like a person who has traveled from the agricultural era to the industrial age, what he has seen and heard is beyond imagination, but fortunately, he has never sought to solve problems, and he does not think about problems that he can't think clearly, so he does not get entangled. It didn't matter to him what the principle was, as long as he knew how to use it, like a rifle, he didn't know how this thing could shoot bullets with such power, but he knew it could kill. Point at the target, pull the trigger, and the game is over, concise, unpretentious, and robust.

"Everything in Jerusalem is a creation of the mind, how about it? ”

Snow Scar didn't respond to Qilu's show-off, and he didn't have time to sigh at the magic of Nian and the great achievements of the Nian's masters.

He stood up and paced the dry ground, restless and frustrated, blaming Jean for not telling him the truth, fearing for his mother's safety, and bewildering about his current situation: if the whole city was a dream, what was the point of being here?

In the final analysis, this is still a spiritual world, not a real world. Those so-called rewards must also be virtual things. So why fight to the death in this arena?

When he first arrived, Snowmark thought he had arrived in a real-life city, a city that was the best proof that "the outside world is not scorched earth", and that it was Jerusalem that made him realize the strong desire for freedom that was hidden deep in his heart. It could be said that the city enlightened him, but now, Qilu tells him that this city is not real, how can he not be lost.