S-level high-risk personality, you call this a pitiful thing?

Chapter 52: Real World 52
Li Zhengyang sneered, "This is the dream core? It doesn't look like a big deal."

"This is just the simplest form of dream core expression, with some pictures."

Chen Li pulled out a few more pictures.

Chen Shuting pointed to one of the photos and said, "Hey, I seem to have seen this place somewhere."

Li Zhengyang also stroked his chin and thought: "Now that you mention it, I seem to have seen it before, but it was all when I was a child."

Chen Li said: "These photos basically show familiar buildings or perfect scenery, but after looking at them for a long time, they don't make people feel nostalgic, but only feel some indescribable weirdness."

Ji Yu suddenly said, "It's a matter of tone and shape. The pictures are mostly liminal spaces, unrealistic terrain and structures. The tones are lighter, the colors are muted, or brighter than what you normally see."

Chen Li nodded in admiration, "God Ji knows so much."

Ji Yu didn't even look at her.

"I have seen the term Dream Core on the Internet. In addition to the scene, there should be a lot of representative elements in it."

"That's right." Chen Li pulled up a few more photos and said, "These may make you feel uncomfortable, but it's better to see them in advance than to see them after you go in."

“Dream cores tend to contain a variety of symbols that have a surreal quality. These symbols can be helpful for storytelling or to create a scenario that one might see in a dream.

"Common symbols include facial features, such as individual eyes and teeth. Or rainbows, wings, places and people you are familiar with, bubbles, flowers, mushrooms, strange creatures, clouds, and even... you may see another version of yourself."

If people didn't react much to the first photos, then the photos after these symbols were added were a bit uncomfortable to look at.

With a huge eye as the center and a circle of angel wings around it, the background is like a fairyland on earth, full of colors and dreams, beautiful and mysterious.

Or there is a person standing in the photo, her face is a black and white eye, surrounded by pure white flowers, she is wearing a pink gauze dress, holding a colorful cake in her hand, standing under the beautiful blue sky and white clouds.

Clear water, clean tiles, a bottomless dark swimming pool, and a cute yellow rubber duck floating on the water. Just one look at it makes people feel so terrified that they dare not look any longer, as if they will fall into the endless abyss and be submerged in the water in the next second.

"The analysis team is already analyzing the specific construction and plot of this world, and the results will be out in a week at the latest."

Li Zheng said: "Let's stop here for the analysis of the next copy. There are other things to talk about."

Chen Li stood up and changed the USB drive.

"This is another secret document, and it also contains predictive content. Everyone knows that we have national points, but we have never known what the national points are used for, right?"

Several people nodded.

Chen Li said: "The content of this document predicts that when all countries' points reach this number, the strange world will open a new copy mode."

At present, the total national points of Daxia Kingdom are 220 points, and the cumulative points of all countries in the world are 49920. The number shown on the document is 50000.

Chen Li briefly described the contents of this predictive document.

Basically, as long as the national points increase by another 80, some new mode copies will appear in the weird world. As long as the next copy is passed, the contents of the file may be realized.

Chen Li: "Then the dungeon may have more [linkages], which means there may be dungeons with multiple people or teams. I called everyone here today because we can't be sure when the next dungeon will end, so I want everyone to get to know each other in advance."

Everyone suddenly realized it, but Lan Tong secretly felt that Lu Li actually knew a lot.

Say one, and it’s accurate.

Li Zheng asked: "Xiao Lan, how is your talent research going? I heard from Xiao Yu that you don't know much about your talent."

In an instant, all eyes fell on Lan Tong.

Lan Tong: "I don't know. Every time I use my talent, I am pushed to my limit."

"Then you should add each other's contact information first. After all, you are neighbors and may fight side by side in the future." Li Zheng did not ask too many questions. Instead, he calmly accepted Lan Tong's explanation.

Lan Tong exchanged contact information with a few people and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, she suddenly heard He Na ask.

"Didn't they say that all the veterans would come today except for Lan Tong, the newcomer? Why don't I see Ji Ci?"

Chen Shuting reminded softly: "Brother Ji Ci seems to be no longer in the safe zone."

Lan Tong didn't listen any more and turned and left.

……

Life in the safe zone is both comfortable and boring.

After the other Chosen Ones came back, Lan Tong continued to play games in the house every day. Occasionally, she received party invitations from other Chosen Ones, but she always turned them down with regret.

She would only agree if Ji Yu invited her to play duo.

If Ji Yu didn't play well and let Lan Tong down, she would get angry and scold Ji Yu and kick him out of the room to play by herself.

If Lan Tong didn’t fight well, she…wouldn’t admit it.

When Lan Tong is not playing games, he basically sleeps in bed. He is a very good sleeper. He occasionally checks the public network on his phone, but there is nothing interesting there.

There was no news from Li Suan. I heard that the southern master they were looking for had gone traveling and had not been around for the past few months. Lan Tong had no choice but to wait.

She saw an interesting trending search on the public Internet. It seemed that a chosen one in the same copy as her in Sakura Country committed suicide. It was said that he died on the day he left the copy.

The entire network was expressing regret. He used more than 800 resurrection pills, but ultimately chose to commit suicide after leaving the copy because he could not face the painful memories.

There are also some conspiracy theories that suggest that it was the Sakura Country that did the trick on him, but no one can really say for sure about this kind of thing, and the entire internet is just watching it for fun. Some even made a list of [Resurrection Pill Usage Ranking].

Basically, all normal Chosen Ones have been used in the Novice World. Ayumu Sagawa from Sakura Country topped the list with 879 stars, while Lan Tong and Ji Yu both ranked at the bottom with 0 stars.

Lan Tong also learned about the news about the person named "Ji Ci" who was last heard in the villa on the public Internet.

It turns out that this man named Ji Ci is the SSS-level Chosen One who changed his nationality to the Sakura Country. Now Da Xia is also lacking a Chosen One. When the next copy is opened, a new Chosen One will have to enter the strange world.

Lu Li still went out drinking often at night like before, but the difference was that after she had someone else in the bar, she never played a musical instrument again.

When invited to drink by other chosen ones, she would just toast from a distance and drink by herself.

As time went on, the other chosen ones who frequented the tavern seemed to ignore her.

The other new Chosen Ones had established good relationships with them and often participated in activities together.

But I heard that the relationship between other people and Ji Yu was not very good either. The other new chosen ones took the initiative to visit Ji Yu, but were turned away by Ji Yu.

Midway through, Lan Tong received an interesting phone call.

The other party didn't know how to get through to the villa's landline phone.

He opened his mouth in Chinese with a strange accent, saying that he wanted to find someone to pick up Lan Tong for dinner, and it seemed that he had some news to tell her about the next copy.

Upon hearing this, Lan Tong just said, "Send me the file, don't bother me with the ranking" and hung up.

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(End of this chapter)