Chapter 12: Visions
"Uncle Black, why are those people crying?" On the way to the break room, Virgil cautiously hid behind Blake and asked with a puzzled expression.
"Their most beloved ones are gone—you'll see later—don't want to do that, you've read a lot in the past three months, haven't you?" Blake was as optimistic as he could, touching Virgil's head and trying to change the subject.
"But it is said in the book that 'loneliness is the best destination for a person', and when all the familiar people around him are gone, it is the time for a person to truly face himself. I don't think it's anything to be sad about. What's more, one should be ready to lose everything at any time. Virgil said puzzled.
Blake smiled and didn't contradict him, just pointed to the bed in the corner and told him, "That's your place from now on, the bed is a little hard, you're going to be there." ”
Virgil pursed his lips and said in his heart, I have slept on granite, and I am still afraid of this iron bedboard? The three-month journey was really tiring. He climbed into bed, tore off the quilt and began to sleep with his head covered. Seeing this, Blake and his party left softly and headed for the conference room on the right side of the corridor.
A week ago, Virgil learned a way to control his dreams in an e-book, and now it's time to put it into practice.
He started in the sky of Titan, and a picture of orange hues gradually unfolded in his mind. The storm clouds shifted, forming a whirlpool. Everything began to turn. Saturn's rings gradually distorted, and the smooth disk began to become uneven and began to shift towards the edge of the field of view. At the edge of the field of view, a bright spot of light was rapidly rotating around the center of the field of view—it was the sun. The stars all flew out of view along the curve, dragging long bands of light into a series of clockwise involute lines. Now, the only thing that is clear in the whole sky is the giant Saturn.
Saturn turned its bulky body, slowly exposing the Arctic region and moving towards the center of the sky. Saturn's north pole is impressively covered with a huge hexagonal shape, which is the hexagonal storm. The center of the hexagon gradually aligns with the center of the storm cloud vortex, and the two rotate clockwise, faster and faster. Noise began to appear in Virgil's ears, louder and louder. He felt that his eardrums were about to burst, his brain began to lose control, the scene in front of him gradually blurred, and his brain was about to explode.
Suddenly, the sight disappeared and Virgil woke up from his dream. Looking at the timer, only nine seconds have passed in the real world. As for the noise, I'm afraid it's the sound of the central air-conditioning host running, but it's far less loud than what he heard in his dreams, at least dozens of times weaker, but this is the only reasonable explanation. Does a dream have the function of amplifying the senses? Maybe.
Not reconciled, Virgil closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to enter the dream again.
The sky still swirled, and Virgil felt a sense of lightness as he lifted off the ground and flew towards the center of the vortex.
Passing through the hexagonal storm, the scenery is abruptly different. The orange sky vanished, and in front of me was a ruined wall. As far as you can tell from the remaining stone pillars and walls, it was once a castle. The towering watchtowers had collapsed, the golden spires had been disposed of haphazardly, the charred wooden rafters were still emitting wisps of white smoke, and the deformed iron doors leaned crookedly against the walls.
"Crusoe, duel with me...... Crusoe, duel with me......" A low cry came from the ruins, resonating with Virgil's chest.
Unable to ignore the voice, Virgil followed it. There is a magical power to that shout, and once you hear it, you will never forget it. He lowered his body, using the collapsed stone wall as a cover, gradually approaching the source of the sound.
The sound came from a square. The square was the heart of the castle, and was flanked by tall and splendid palaces. In the very center of the square was an altar with some symbols carved into it that he had never seen before. The symbols are based on geometric figures, especially circles, triangles, and squares, and rely on rotation, translation, and symmetry to form a myriad of patterns. Directly above the altar is a wooden coffin, which is also engraved with symbols. The sound came from the wooden coffin. Virgil felt a chill run down his back.
Suddenly, the wooden coffin burst open, and out of it came a young man in a black uniform with a volcano-shaped logo on it. The man was holding a longbow, his face was bruised, and his pale yellow pupils revealed a terrifying murderous aura, and he roared angrily: "Crusoe, duel with me!" Then an arrow was fired straight at Virgil, but fortunately it missed, but instead hit the stone wall in the back. The arrow sank into the stone wall, and a burst of lightning erupted, and the entire stone wall collapsed.
"Crusoe, duel with me!"
The man stepped down from the altar and another arrow fired, causing Virgil to scream in fright, and the moment he opened his eyes, he instantly returned to reality.
Blake and his party heard the screams and hurried over, only to see Virgil's face pale, covered in cold sweat, his hands and feet twitching, and his condition was not very optimistic. Blake hurriedly shouted, "Where's Dr. House!" Dr. House! ”
Dr. House was originally a Martian advance team medic who came to Titan aboard the Orion space station after the outbreak of the lunar colonization war.
Dr. House hurried in and began to check on Virgil's condition. Colonel Wayne was calm, thinking that Virgil might just be having a nightmare, and that it would be enough to calm his emotions. Virgil was terrified and said nonsense: "There is a young man in a black uniform, who wants to kill me......"
Colonel Wayne was disgruntled, and angrily rebuked Superintendent Fairman: "Take off this dog's skin and see what you scared the kid into."
Fairman's director, the second monk, was at a loss, and he didn't know how to appeal. I'm obviously in the conference room, why am I scared of the child, not to mention, I'm not young. But he could only carry out the order and quickly took off the uniform of Olympus.
As if he was afraid of missing this opportunity, Dr. House hurriedly said, "It's better to have a full check-up, this condition worries me." So he took Virgil and went to the infirmary.
Virgil gradually recovered from his dream, stared at Dr. House with wide eyes, and said, "What are you doing, I'm fine." But his arm couldn't twist his thigh, and he eventually followed him into the infirmary.
"Check it, check it, don't inject it." Virgil looked helpless.
Dr. House replied in the affirmative, "Don't worry, I promise not to fight." He took out his stethoscope, touched it here, pressed it there, and in his frustration, secretly cut a handful of hair from Virgil's body, and no one saw it. After fiddling for a while, he confidently gestured "OK" to Blake and his party.
Virgil left the infirmary without looking back, and threw down the sentence "one more move".
Blake gave Dr. House a strange look and left. The others saw that they were okay and left immediately.
Dr. House sat at the table for a while, and after Blake and the group left, he quickly taxided Virgil's hair and threw it into a machine.
The machine closes, and the mechanical sound starts: "Genetic sequencing has begun...... Sequencing complete...... A gene sequence file has been generated. Dr. House looked around and pressed the send button on the control panel. Then he shut down the machine as if nothing had happened.