Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 3 Black Dream
The man was tall, thin and hunched. He was wrapped in a gray windbreaker and wore a wide-brimmed hat. His face was completely covered by a mask and sunglasses.

He took off the glove on his left hand and rolled up his sleeves, revealing a metallic wrist with a laser-engraved sheep's head tattoo on it that was particularly eye-catching.

“Is the cargo ready?”

"of course."

Li Nanke took out the data disk that he had prepared long ago, which contained the dream he had just transformed last night, "A Tragedy Caused by a Cat".

The man with the sheep's head tattoo took the data disk and, without checking it, he simply took out five bundles of banknotes from his windbreaker pocket and handed them over.

Yangtou is Li Nanke’s old client. Of course, the real buyer is definitely not Yangtou. It may be the person behind Yangtou, or the person behind Yangtou is just an intermediary. Li Nanke knows this very well, but he does not delve into it.

Both parties trade in kind, leaving no traces of cloud downloads or transfer records. This is the best protection for each other.

After the transaction was completed, Yang Tou did not leave as usual, but said, "There is another new job. The price is double 10 credit points. It requires excellent skills. Do you want to take it?"

"Double...what kind of work?"

"You'll know only after you pick it up." Yangtou took out a translucent gray box containing a data disk.

This new job, which pays a lot, is that the artificial dream is a physical data disk, rather than asking Li Nanke to prepare his own modified artificial dream as in the past. This is very telling.

The data disk of Sheep Head contains artificial dreams, the contents of which are likely to be illegal dreams that have not been publicly released.

Because it is illegal, it cannot be circulated and downloaded in the cloud and can only be distributed offline through physical disks, so it is called Black Dream.

"Reforming the Black Dream, which is already illegal..."

The job of a dream weaver seems to be just to transform normal dreams into dark dreams according to the employer's requirements. It seems very simple, just like adding a new plot to a movie or adding various MODs to a game.

But in fact, transforming dreams is very difficult and risky.

For Dreamweaver, third-party plug-ins are just auxiliary and can only play the role of transcription - that is, recording dreams. What really depends on the Dreamweaver's own talents.

Sometimes Li Nanke would laugh at himself, wondering if he had overdrawn his neural activity for the rest of his life, which led to abnormally developed neurons in his brain, and as a result, he suffered from the neurological disease ALS.

People like Li Nanke, whose neurons are abnormally developed, can break through the inherent limitations of the dream synchronizer and force their own synchronization rate to 100%, or even exceed the safety limit of 100%.

This brings unimaginable dream freedom and sensory experiences that are more stimulating and intense than reality.

Imagine if the pleasure of mating in reality is 10, but in a modified dream, the pleasure of mating in it is 11, 12 or even 15 or 20.

In dreams, all sadness and joy, all happiness, anger, sorrow and joy, all senses and emotions will be artificially amplified, allowing people to experience unprecedented new feelings. What consequences will this lead to?
Then the boring reality will become a 'dream', and the dream will become the real 'reality'!
This is not alarmist. The example of mating is relatively mild. If we replace the low-level pleasure of mating with the extreme pleasure of taking drugs that exceeds the biological tolerance range, and then transform the dream to amplify the senses...

Talent is the first basic requirement to become a dream weaver, and the second requirement is the willingness to take great risks.

There is no need to elaborate on the dangers of too high a synchronization rate, and major corporate groups have already conducted countless experiments.

When dreams are more real than reality, on the one hand, the real memory is weakened and the boundaries of dreams are confused, causing loss. On the other hand, if some bad experiences are encountered in dreams, the consequences will be catastrophic and unbearable for the user.

However, too high a synchronization rate is not entirely without benefits.

After all kinds of sensory perceptions break through the 100% limit, they can gradually awaken the extrasensory perception dormant in the human body, which is commonly known as the heart sense, the sixth sense (ESP), and avoid various crises in dreams with instinctive danger perception. However, some of the fine skills, muscle memory and nerve reflexes in the original dream will deviate due to insufficient synchronization, and ultimately fail to learn and inherit the physical body in reality.

But Li Nanke can. The artificial dreams in the dream library, such as battlefields, shooting ranges, dissection tables, and fighting rings, have provided him with a large number of extraordinary skills and experiences.

Moreover, his extremely high synchronization rate allows him to learn various skills at an unparalleled speed, much faster than hard training in reality.

It is also because of this that he can successfully transform various types of dreams and become a senior dream weaver.

Faced with a high-paying invitation to transform Black Dream, Li Nanke did not hesitate, took a deep breath and said, "I'll take it, but the reward is not enough... I need more money!"

Yang Tou gave him a deep look and said, "15, this is the highest bid."

"make a deal!"

Sheep Head handed him the box containing the data disk, turned around, pushed the door and left.

Before leaving, he said, "Have a good sleep first, don't worry too much. As usual, I'll come back to pick up the goods in a week."

Li Nanke looked at his condition in the mirror. His face was pale, his lips were colorless, his eyes were bloodshot and lifeless, and even his expression seemed numb and stiff. He was visibly listless.

It's just like a gigolo who has stayed up all night for three days in a row and was severely exploited by a rich woman.

Li Nanke hasn't recovered from the high synchronization rate stimulation last night. If he tries to modify his dream in this state, it would be strange if he doesn't die suddenly.

He tore off a piece of paper, wrote "The boss is out on a blind date, come back another day to buy dreams" and pasted it outside the rolling door. Then he pulled down the rolling door, locked it, and closed the door to visitors.

Li Nanke opened the box with a solemn expression and took out the data disk and a page of printed paper.

[Dream: 'The Sea of ​​Abes']

[Dream Description: Abbes was a small settlement built on the port of the western continent in the Middle Ages. Originally, shipbuilding was the main export industry, and fisheries were also developed. However, after the country's long war of faith, the town of Abbes gradually declined and gradually disappeared from the map.]

[At the end of the 19th century, an explorer accidentally stepped into this town that was submerged by the tide of the times, but for some reason, the explorer finally fled the town like crazy. No, the explorer was crazy! Maybe he accidentally glimpsed the horrible secret of the town...]

[Dream details, specific transformation requirements, and various node information have been embedded in the dream and can be viewed after synchronizing the dream. ]

"They don't even give the lower limit of the synchronization rate standard. This Black Dream is really dark!"

During the last visit, the doctor told Li Nanke that he only had two and a half years left, and if he was lucky, he would have three years at most. This was the latest deadline for taking special medicine. Although taking the medicine at that time could save his life, the sequelae would make it difficult to recover.

If you don't take the specific medicine as soon as possible, even if you are cured, you will still be a disabled person with a crooked mouth, squinting eyes, drooling, paralyzed in bed, and with tubes inserted all over your body.

Transplanting a prosthetic spine can solve the problem of partial paralysis, but full-body muscle paralysis cannot be solved by just a prosthetic spine, unless all the flesh except the brain is replaced with prostheses...

Not to mention the high cost, if all the body parts were replaced with prosthetics, Li Nanke would probably go crazy before he even gets off the operating table.

He had no choice. In order to survive, he had to grit his teeth and bear it even though he knew that this dark dream contained considerable risks.

(End of this chapter)