In the distance is a majestic mountain.

And the end of the mountain seems to be a mountain, the mountain has been extending to the horizon, I don't know whether it is the light of the purple moon, or the reason for the deep starry sky, the continuous mountains show a faint deep purple, and have been extending to the end of the heaven and earth.

The towering mountains seemed to be hidden in a deep gray mist, only faintly revealing the layers of endless mountains and dangerous peaks, as if the waves of the sea were set off by the waves, as if the endless mountains and the earth were rolling like waves, and with the waves of the sea of fog, they were about to overturn and lap down at any time.

For a moment, Li Pan was in this purple world, almost forgetting his name, and there was an inexplicable tremor in his heart, and he subconsciously wanted to fall back.

Suddenly, "Woohoo! A dog barked to bring Li Pan back to his senses.

He took a step back, but still stood still, and turned his head to see a large black dog crouching at his feet.

It looked like a black bear dog, with a large head and a wide mouth, a pair of dark eyes, a meter high at the shoulders, black and thick hair, a tail rolled up, strong and powerful, and a bright chest, as if it had something hanging around its neck.

Li Pan squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch the dog's head, and saw the silver key peeking out from between the thick neck hairs, and gradually came back to his senses.

Oh, probably dreaming now.

First of all, it's definitely not Mewtwo simulated by a virtual machine, the physical reality is different, and I don't hear whether the system beeps to fast-forward, whether to increase realism, whether to skip ads, or whether to renew the membership.

Obviously, it is not a drug-alcohol, paralyzing brain birth hallucination, because his consciousness is still under his control.

"Whew!" The black bear dog barked again, and spurred towards the ridge, looking like a black cloud from a distance.

If he didn't know anything, Li Pan would probably be so confused that he wandered around this dream.

But he was reminded by Mr007 before, and he also saw the key on the dog's neck, and Li Pan also knew that this is probably the so-called, 'Formal Wear/Guardian's Trial' now.

Now Li Pan also knows a little bit about the urine nature of the monster company, and a big dog is much more reassuring than a pen with an eye, so he is no longer panicked, so he follows the guidance of the black bear dog and climbs up the ridge.

So a man and a dog climbed towards the dark purple mountains that shone in the mist, facing the stars.

The black dog had to stop from time to time to wait for him, and when Li Pan arrived, he touched the dog's head, and then continued to jump out to lead the way.

I don't know what this black dog is going to take him to, but this mountain is really weird.

I don't know if it's an illusion in a dream, but Li Pan seems to feel that when he is climbing the mountain, it seems that the stars in the sky are also moving with them.

In this strange dream, time and space are unbelievably long, Li Pan feels that he has been walking, walking, at least for more than ten days, climbing along the bare ridge, but he has never been able to get out of the confused gray fog, let alone the end of the distant mountain.

Fortunately, the black dog has always been with him, and sometimes the dog is really more reliable, more loyal, and more trustworthy than a human.

Maybe 'company dog' sounds like a good name to some people, right?

In fact, he himself was almost trained as a dog by the company.

After all, only a very small number of top families are so wealthy that they can complete their studies at their own expense and get a diploma, and most of them have to apply for the company's student loans, and go to the technical schools and universities opened by the company. Some poorer families can't even afford to go to a company technical school, and will send their children to a military school with relatively low tuition fees, although they are counted as reserves after graduation, and they will be called into the army in case of a company war, and the chance of survival is slightly lower than that of nine deaths, but at least the military school has food and shelter, and there is a chance to achieve a class leap, such as the recent fleet battle, no one has sailed the ship after death, and a certain number of places will be issued every year, recruiting cannon fodder, and the infantry reserve will be upgraded to a starship soldier.

Li Pan remembered that when he was in the military academy, he was once dragged down from the bed in the dormitory by a group of people in the middle of the night to beat, just because he had the highest comprehensive score, and it was a peaceful era at that time, the company war had just ended, and a large number of soldiers were forced to retire, and there was only one starship non-commissioned officer quota in the current period. Even when he was almost killed by hackers, it was probably his good classmates who secretly took the puppet to the military academy and opened the back door for hackers.

What's even funnier is that Li Pan, who has been fighting wits and courage with these scum for several years, finally won the first place in the written test is still in the interview, because of 'untidy appearance'. After all, no matter how you say that sentence, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, but from the general to the director of the enlistment office, he also has a son, so everyone who understands it.

Well, although the starship soldiers are 'already lying in coffins', at least they don't have to participate in stratospheric airborne operations, wearing mobile military uniforms and carrying portable nuclear bombs, and hitting the Starcastle fortress with their flesh like moths to the fire, right?

So in the end, Li Pan suddenly lost the opportunity and interest to be a serious dog.

It's far away.,In short, it's a pity.,In a place like the night capital,Keeping pets has long been the privilege of a very small number of people.,After all, the Tokyo Metropolitan City has been wiped out thirteen times.,I don't know how many times the nuclear war company has washed the ground.,0791The Earth's ecosystem has already collapsed N times.,Now so many people are so desperate to live in the broken place of the Night Capital.,It's also because the entire surface except for a few metropolitan areas.,And the private estates of those rich people can survive.,The ecology of most places is seriously polluted.。

Wild animals may carry viruses and biological weapons left over from the previous generation, and all family pets, cats and dogs, are monopolized by genetic biology companies, and cannot be bred domestically at all.

Eh, don't say it, cockroaches, rats and flies are still strong these days, of course, it doesn't mean that human technology can't really exterminate these pests, the main thing is that no one is willing to pay for it......

So Li Pan took advantage of the opportunity in his dream, but he stroked the dog, rubbed the dog's head angrily, and while climbing the mountain, he taught the black bear dog to lie down and roll in a circle, and the left hand and right hand were shot and turned around.

In the end, the whole dog was annoyed by him, ran forward with a smoke, jumped into the fog and ignored him.

The further he went, the heavier the fog became, and in the end, even the distant mountains and the starry sky above his head were completely invisible, and Li Pan could almost only rely on the barking of dogs in the fog to determine the direction.

Then suddenly, a wall made of black bricks appeared in front of him, so Li Pan knew that he had finally arrived at the destination of the trial.

This wall looks like a Chinese-style compound old house, extending into the fog, and I can't see how high it is, Li Pan groped along the wall and the barking of dogs, and finally touched the main entrance, the gate also looks like some kind of Chinese-style archway, and the handwriting on the plaque is not clear.

The black dog squatted at the door and gave Li Pan a look.

"Why don't you go in? Okay, wait for me here. ”

Li Pan rubbed the dog's head angrily again, and then walked into the yard.

The fog inside was a little lighter, so Li Pan could see the surrounding pattern.

It seems to be...... A Taoist temple?

There is a huge Dan furnace in the courtyard atrium, the Dan furnace is made of some kind of iron, it is cold and cold, but there are curling gray smoke rising on the top, connecting the fog in the sky, and even people can't help but give birth to this endless gray fog, all of which are illusions born from the Dan furnace.

Li Pan circled around the Dan furnace and found that the doors of the courtyard of the West Zhou wing were closed, and only the main hall was open, so he stepped forward.

The main hall is also dark and not slippery, there is no light at all, there are three ancient seal characters written on the plaque, what is what, Li Pan does not recognize any of them......

And on the altar of the main hall, there is a huge statue carved in stone.

Li Pan looked at it carefully for a while before recognizing it.

It seemed to be a coiled snake, covered with thorny dragon scales, black and black, and it was impossible to look closely, and the snake's head was coiled around its body, and seemed to be shrunk into a deep sleep.

This giant python's waist is two meters wide, carved lifelike, if Li Pan didn't recognize this dark purple, it was probably the mountain stone mined outside, and he almost thought that it was really a giant python coiled in the temple.

And on the stone shrine in front of the altar, there is no incense burner tribute, only a stone box, Li Pan noticed that the stone box is pull-out, it seems that there is something in it, so he reached out to lift the stone box, and opened it with difficulty, and saw a roll of black bamboo slips in the box.

There seemed to be inscriptions on the black slip, and Li Pan really couldn't see it clearly, so he walked outside the hall with the bamboo slip and held it up to compare it with the ancient text on the plaque.

I still don't recognize it, but there are four words on the bamboo slips, and when you open it, you can see that it is still dense, and each bamboo slip is full of writing.

Just as Li Pan was a little hesitant, he didn't know what to do next in this trial, and hesitated to go to the door to ask the dog.

At this moment, the dog at the door "Whoop!" "Gotta bark! It's clearly a warning to him!

At the same time, in Li Pan's afterglow, he seemed to catch a glimpse of something moving in the main hall.

Then he heard a sound, click, click, click, like the loud sound of rocks crashing against each other during a landslide.

What else could it be, Li Pan stiffened his neck, slowly turned his head sideways, and saw that in the temple, the giant python really came to life and raised its head in the shadows...... Wait, it looks like a human head!

"it!"

Li Pan ran away, rushed out of the temple with a smoke, and the dog saw him come out, "Whoa!" He shouted and pulled his legs and rushed down the mountain.

Li Pan ran with the dog with all his might, I don't know if he was too nervous or too afraid, he even felt that his feet were soft, and the ground under his feet was like a trampoline undulating and unable to focus, and he was turned and rolled along the way, and fell several heels, but fortunately he didn't break his feet, got up and continued to run in the direction of the dog's barking!

Ran and ran and ran, and then suddenly it was dawn.

Yes, the day dawned, and the light shone overhead, dispelling the mist that covered the heavens and the earth.

Li Pan couldn't help but look up, and then saw that in the wind and fog, two huge golden suns were clearly exposed, and the golden ball of light was falling from the distant starry sky at a rapid pace!

All of a sudden, the dog "whoop—whoa!" The barking sound seemed to be driven away by the wind, and it was far away from Li Pan's perception.

And Li Pan was paralyzed from his neck down, and he couldn't run anymore, so he knelt directly on the ground, clinging to the raised rocks on the ground.

Because it was not an illusion, beside him, at his feet, the distant mountains, really rolled like the vast sea, the earth shook, and the mountains collapsed. The sky was swept away by the winds of the moving mountains, and the earth rose like a tsunami! Mountains lead! The galaxy hangs upside down! Cover the starry sky! Cover up the Milky Way!

In Li Pan's vision, the endless mountains rolled upside down, like a snake, roaming in the galaxy, rushing towards the void, endless, deep space whirlpool.

In this frenzied and magnificent scene, Li Pan couldn't help but shed blood and tears, he seemed to be able to hear the sound of the blood vessels in the skull, the sound of the blood vessels in the Krakala cracking, and he could feel the warm liquid overflowing from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

But he didn't blink, because he really saw it.

It's a snake.

An indescribably gigantic snake.

Those two golden suns are the eyes of the snake.

It rolled up, poked its head out of the darkness, and looked at Li Pan.

Li Pan also recognized its face.

That's his face.

……

Li Pan opened his eyes violently and felt his heart pounding in his chest.

As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw his own face again, like a monster with the body of a snake in a dream, staring at him not far away, and almost screamed in fright. So much so that he almost forgot to breathe when he stared, and it took him ten seconds to hold back his reaction.

That's just a reflection in the bathroom mirror.

He was sitting in his small one-bedroom, one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment, and the timer on the mirror flashed, indicating that it was two o'clock in the morning.

Although in the dream, he seemed to be climbing on the back of the mountain, no, the snake for days, but in fact he only slept for an hour when he returned to the apartment after work on the first day.

“…… Made's strange dream......"

Li Pan's voice was hoarse, he wiped his sweat, and suddenly felt wrong.

Then he saw the bamboo slip in his hand.

"Wotfa ......"

Li Pan trembled and climbed to the window, cautiously glanced out, only to see the dirty and crowded slum building, not the huge snake before he breathed a sigh of relief.

For a while, he didn't know which truth was more terrifying,

It was he who had really arrived in the other world just now and stole a bamboo slip from a human-headed python.

Someone sneaked into his apartment in the middle of the night and shoved a roll of bamboo slips into his hand......

Li Pan quickly got up and took a shower, he didn't have any external injuries on his body, he didn't burst blood vessels like in the dream, and the newly bought prosthetic body was also fine, it seemed that the only point of contact with that strange dream was this bamboo slip.

"Xingtian, bring up the video of the apartment from an hour ago. And my sleep status, physiological signs. ”

However, Li Pan didn't dare to slack off, and quickly did a full-body test, fortunately, he was still normal from the monitoring, that is, after coming back, he sat on the sofa and began to sleep, and there was no hacker Ninja sneaked into the apartment, and even when he got off work, the tooth marks on his hand for the female vampire were still there.

But there's a small problem.

Neither in the video nor in the mirror, there is no bamboo slip.

Obviously, Li Pan himself can see and touch with the naked eye, but in the mirror, in the video, and in the system, but there is nothing, nothing can be observed!

The person in the mirror looked up at the air in his hand repeatedly to confirm that he was acting like a madman.

Not optical invisibility, not camouflage.

Really, something that only exists in dreams.

"Made, Monster ......"

Li Pan couldn't understand it, he couldn't think clearly, so he had to attribute this strange dream and monster to the 'trial of formal wear' for the time being.

Frowning and glaring at the bamboo slip in his hand, he intuitively felt that this 'trial of formal wear' did not seem to be over.

However, since he has 'returned' to the real world of 0791, Li Pan copied the ancient handwriting on the bamboo slips one by one and retrieved them on the Internet.

Then looking at the results of the translation, Li Pan was speechless, and for a while he suspected that someone was messing with him, and for a while he fell into deep self-doubt, and even wanted to take the initiative to apply for a psychiatric evaluation to see if he was really crazy.

This is actually the "Nine Yin True Scripture", do you dare to believe it......