Bai Zhe woke up and sat on the edge of the bed with a bent over.

Reaching out and touching the back of his neck, the skin around the interface was a little red and swollen.

He was stunned for a while, and it may have been a long time before his consciousness broke free from the aftermath of yesterday and dreams.

Turn over and step on the ladder to get out of bed.

The sudden weightlessness caused him to clench to the handrail, and his feet slammed into contact with the ground, causing a burst of pain. I accidentally stepped on the air, but fortunately I didn't sprain my ankle.

He shook his arm, there was no strain, and his luck was not bad. So while moving the cervical spine, I walked to the washbasin.

Pour a strong mouthwash into your mouth and hold for 15 seconds. Spit out the frothy, light green liquid and take two gulps.

Draw a cleaning wipe and carefully wipe your face clean.

Saving water resources is the responsibility of everyone in Nova residents.

Open the refrigerator and randomly select a 2% off promotional nutritional paste, cheese cream stinky mandarin fish flavor. This is the end of the day.

It tastes quite fragrant, but it stinks. Bai Zhe swallowed two-thirds of the nutritional ointment, stuffed two tonic pills and pressed it, but no Yue came out.

After doing all this, he went to the table and sat down, continuing to be in a daze.

He was unemployed, just two days ago, or three days.

Bai Zhe's job is to write the script for Dream Shadow, as well as to separate and embellish the original material for the production of Dream Shadow.

Dream shadows are immersive, multi-sensory images that are retouched, supplemented, and edited based on real memories and experiences, usually from a first-person perspective.

Dream Shadow not only makes people feel as if they are experiencing other people's memories, but also builds all kinds of surreal experiences on the basis of real memories.

After Bai Zhe's Deep Fantasy Studio switched to making Dream Shadow without a plot, he was naturally laid off without severance pay.

Although Deep Fantasy is only an inaccessible studio, this job will at least allow him to save a few hundred credits a month while saving money.

He used most of his savings to buy an old model of Dream Shadow Material Extractor, opened a series of software functions, and learned to make short-term low-fidelity Dream Shadows.

The sudden layoffs destroyed Bai Zhe's plans. He has lost his only source of income, and the Dream Shadow he has made by himself is not yet profitable.

There are only 21 days left before the next rent payment, and he can't afford to renew his rent for even a month.

Yesterday, Bai Zhe planned to apply for other small studios, but he didn't do anything. If you start from scratch, you may be able to repeat it again in the future.

Do you want to leave the dream shadow industry completely?

This fourth-generation dream shadow is not easy to sell, and the software functions that have been opened cannot be resold...... Besides, what can he do after giving up Dream Shadow.

He is a NEIR patient, i.e., has neuropathic electronic implants rejection.

Cyberprostheses, neuro-artergic exoskeletons, and even the most basic electronic skin and nerve interfaces can cause him to go into shock.

All conventional models of electronic implants cannot be used. The interface behind his head is the only implant in the body, and a special model developed for NEIR patients sells for 11 times more than the standard version.

If he didn't implant this interface, he wouldn't even be able to use the Dream Shadow.

No factory will recruit NEIR patients, nor will the lowest-level repetitive jobs.

An average worker with a Type D hand assist prosthesis that was screwing more than three times faster than him could not keep up with the speed of the production line.

As for the Colosseum, Bai Zhe would never go back, even if people like him were very welcome there.

He's going to keep making Dream Shadows. This thought echoed in Bai Zhe's mind, becoming more and more intense. He must continue to make Dream Shadow.

In the short term, there will be no significant improvement in his equipment and technology. He needed inspiration, a one-of-a-kind inspiration, to add to his dreams experiences that no one else had ever seen before.

Ten years ago, the most popular killing and grass, these two major themes have now been rolled to the extreme, and Bai Zhe has no way to obtain this kind of high-quality materials.

My life in recent years has been really lackluster. As for the Colosseum experience, first, the time is long, and second, he is very resistant to extracting that memory for others to see.

He also has no reliable channels to collect materials from other people.

Try Dream Capture?

Bai Zhe recalled last night's dream, but all that remained was an indescribable dark impression and blurred visual fragments.

Only a very small number of people can capture clear and stable dreams, and they are the talents who are highly favored by dreamers.

Many people feel that their dreams are very real when they dream. But in fact, if the material extractor is connected to the whole process during the dream, 99.99% of the people extract distorted fragments, which are worthless.

He turned on his mobile phone-type personal terminal, projected the screen onto the silver metal wall in front of the desk, projected the keyboard onto the desktop, entered the boot password, and verified his fingerprints. Idle.

Turn on the Dream Tracker, pick up the connector, put it down, and turn it off. Idle.

Bai Zhe pulled his hair, and hideous pictures flashed in his mind from time to time. The chainsaw sliced through the black-red bone horns, splattering corrosive liquid emitting white smoke on the skin, and columns of blood spurted from the torn veins.

He subconsciously covered the huge scar on his left neck, and took a deep breath to expel those images from his mind.

Inspiration. He needed real inspiration.

Take a look at the news and you might find some ideas.

Just as he was about to open the Star City News Express, Bai Zhe noticed that there was an app icon on his desktop that he hadn't seen before, and there was no such thing last night.

Damn binding, install crapware, uninstall!

There is no uninstall option and it is not possible to uninstall.

"Creation Assistant", the icon is a scarlet quill. Bai Zhe stared at the dynamic red feather, and suddenly felt bad in his heart.

He had never installed any special software on this terminal, how could he suddenly be poisoned. It's unlikely to be a targeted hack, and there's no valuable information on it at all.

Thinking of this, Bai Zhe immediately opened the Dream Shadow material library. Everything is in good condition and the account is working properly.

Odd.

He tinkered with the terminal for more than ten minutes, restarting it repeatedly, scanning for anomalies, and making no progress.

him. He's become such a ghost, what is there to be afraid of.

Bai Zhe clicked on the quietly fluttering red feather, and the new interface opened was very empty, with only a small icon in the upper left corner.

It was a strange eye, the area that should have been the white of the eye was charcoal black, but the pupil was pure white.

The person who designed this logo is amazing. The eyes look very three-dimensional, with a sense of biology and the luster of gemstone jewelry.

The shape is not human eyes, cat eyes, or snake eyes. He couldn't judge the prototype of this eye, only that it was strange and beautiful.

It blinked suddenly. Bai Zhe's heart twitched, and all the cold hairs on his arms stood up.

A rich black liquid oozes from the edge of the eye socket and flows down the screen.

Hell, why would designers use creativity in this kind of place?

He was so frightened that his thoughts were surging in his head, and some images flashed unconsciously.

Bai Zhe didn't hesitate and clicked on that eye.

The screen shows a large number of graffiti-like and garbled character patterns, intersecting and overlapping.

Those chaotic strokes, letters, symbols, and patterns seemed to be wriggling, impacting Bai Zhe's optic nerve.

"Ahh

He rubbed his eyes, and the violently stimulated lacrimal glands continued to secrete tears.

He stood up away from the screen, and when he opened his eyes again, the characters on the screen became orderly.