Eternal Night

Chapter 42: Cosmic Dream
Killing the supreme ruler of a country with a population of hundreds of millions and a vast territory...

Moreover, it was not a sneak attack with guns while he was parading, but rather they broke into the Forbidden City which was heavily guarded by troops. This was almost impossible.

“That’s basically impossible.”

Xu Shilan and Yamade said at the same time.

Yamade said: "You said that you became stronger after the weekend, at least twice as strong as before. That is impossible. Let me ask you, how big is the difference between you and the master of Huajin in that world?"

Wu Xianxiao thought for a moment and said, "If I can enter a controllable demonic state, it should be a 50-50 fight. After all, we haven't fought before, so we have to fight to know the outcome."

Yamade immediately growled, "You said it yourself, you used the controlled demonic state twice during the weekend, and your negative mental backlash rate increased by 1%, right? The more you keep using it, the faster you'll die!"

Wu Xianxiao shook his head slightly. At this time, Xu Shilan also said: "Even if you use the controllable demonic state and can rival the master of Huajin, can you fight two people alone? Can you fight a thousand soldiers alone? Can you use your body to collide with the line-up of spearmen? Can you resist the cannon with your body?"

Wu Xianxiao shook his head frankly and said, "I can't do it."

Xu Shilan spread her hands and said, "Then what right do you have to kill the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty?"

Wu Xianxiao said, "Because she will come to me on her own and let me kill her."

Yamade and Xu Shilan were both stunned, and Wu Xianxiao said, "Because this is the world of baseline reality 0.9, as long as I don't interfere with the course of history on a large scale, which I actually can't do in such a short time, then the highest ruler of the Qing Dynasty will come to the vicinity of the Peace Hotel in four months, and will come as a refugee. I don't know the number of her entourage, but it should be no more than a thousand, and most of them are palace maids and eunuchs. That will be the best time to kill her!"

Yamade and Xu Shilan fell into deep thought again. Yamade said as she thought, "If there is a four-month buffer period, then I should be able to make a simple version of a disposable Gauss weapon, and long-range sniping should be possible."

Xu Shilan also said: "Or make some super-high-power explosives. If there are radioactive elements, I can also help make some nuclear-like weapons for ambush. A thousand or so refugees should be able to handle it."

Wu Xianxiao's forehead was suddenly filled with black lines. He looked at his two teammates for a long time before shaking his head.

What kind of people are they? No wonder they are maintenance personnel, consumables, and pure super terrorists!

Uh, I'm also a maintainer, consumables...that's fine.

Wu Xianxiao said, "We can consider it. There are still about four months left. We can plan slowly."

They both nodded, and Yamade asked, "So are you planning to return to the Peace Hotel Dream World? Now?"

Wu Xianxiao thought for a moment and said, "The time Lin Heier and I agreed on is tomorrow. I am also very tired today. I will sleep in Gaia and have a night's rest to get enough rest. I will go to the Peace Hotel Dream World tomorrow and spend seven days there to complete the garrison mission every thirty days and seven days. After that... I guess I will have to go to the Fo Ni Yaksha Dream World of the Song Dynasty. You guys..."

Yamade laughed and patted her chest and said, "Then we can go together, right? After all, without you as our main force, it would be very dangerous for the two of us to go to the world of baseline reality 0.9. We might as well go with you."

Xu Shilan also smiled and nodded.

Wu Xianxiao's heart warmed up, and he lowered his head slightly and said, "Okay... Let's go to the Peace Hotel Dream World first, and then go to the Song Dynasty Buddhist Mud Yaksha Dream World, complete the 30-day garrison mission in the Buddhist Mud Yaksha Dream World, and then... I will take you to set up your shelter!"

The three of them relaxed at once, talking and laughing.

Although Yamade and Xu Shilan both escaped death, one of them is a veteran of three world wars, and licking blood from the knife is not an enough description, while the other one's experience is unknown, but from what she said about avenging her brother, and from the fact that so many terrorist crimes were announced by the mastermind, it seems that she is also willing to risk her life in her heart.

Although the three were not completely safe at this time and even the problem of eating had not been solved, they at least had a medical base station and more than 2,600 carbon-based nanounits. At least they didn't have to worry about saving their lives in the short term. However, the road must be taken step by step, and the three of them relaxed a little at this time.

Wu Xianxiao distributed the remaining steamed buns to the other two. They each ate the steamed buns, drank some water, and then made three nests using the miscellaneous cloth and other items in the maintenance base station. They lay down and chatted for a while. Then, Yamade was the first to yawn.

Xu Shilan suddenly said at this time: "Do you think that Gaia is actually a virtual scene in the dream network?"

Yamadea immediately opened her eyes from her squinting state, and Wu Xianxiao did the same. After a moment, Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "The brain in a jar was proposed by someone in the 20th century. The key is that we can't verify it, right?"

Xu Shilan smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, we can't verify it..."

Yamade suddenly asked, "If this is really a virtual reality, a virtual scene in the dream network, why would the unified human government do this? There must be a reason."

Xu Shilan lay on her back and stretched her hand upwards and said, "A social experiment? A simulation of the limits of the human spirit? Or an exploration of the afterlife? Or something else? You may not know, but I know it very well. The thirteen singularity technology groups are capable of doing such things. Although the unified human government is not completely controlled by the thirteen singularity technology groups, these thirteen groups also occupy a large share of it. They have done a lot of completely insane experiments..."

Wu Xianxiao didn't say anything, because in his memory, there were many crazy future groups described in those online novels, science fiction novels, and comic movies. Although these were literary works, art came from reality, and reality was often more exaggerated. He didn't doubt what Xu Shilan said. Yamade was really puzzled. He was born and grew up in the middle and late stages of the Third World War, when humans united to fight against biochemical beasts. He couldn't understand how such a thing came about. He thought about it and said, "I've been listening to you talk about the thirteen singularity technology groups. I know what singularity technology is. It is the so-called technology beyond imagination and beyond theoretical limits. What kind of crazy experiments have these thirteen singularity technology groups done?"

Xu Shilan smiled, and her smile was even a little eerie. She said in a tone that made Wu Xianxiao and Yamade shudder: "I won't say much about the rest. I'll just tell you about an experiment that I witnessed with my own eyes and even half participated in... the post-mortem resurrection experiment."

"Return...after death?" Wu Xianxiao and Yamadea both repeated the name.

Xu Shilan continued in this tone: "It is not a change or transfer of ideology, nor is it a soul leaving the body. It is a real annihilation, a complete and absolute extinction. It is an absolute annihilation at the quantum level. Then, relying on an extremely terrifying and extremely unethical method, tens of millions of lives are sent to the afterlife in this way of absolute annihilation. Then, their clones are used to simulate personality and consciousness in an attempt to achieve some kind of effect similar to quantum entanglement, in order to confirm the information of the afterlife..."

Xu Shilan stopped talking, and the two men didn't say anything. After a long while, Wu Xianxiao asked, "Did it succeed?"

"I do not know."

Xu Shilan shook her head and said, "This experiment was expected to last three hundred years, but when it was only halfway through, the Fourth War broke out, and I was no longer on the list of people who knew about the experiment. After that, I began to avenge my brother."

Only then did Wu Xianxiao and Yamadea truly understand the madness of the thirteen Singularity Technology Groups and why the Fourth War broke out.

Wu Xianxiao asked, "So, the People's Revolutionary League is just?"

Xu Shilan laughed sarcastically and said, "If it is justice, then how did the Earth disappear? How did the solar system become the source of chaos, and why did we have to embark on this interstellar journey? It's the same thing as a unified government for mankind."

The three of them fell silent, and Yamade suddenly asked: "So...are we in the dream network now? Have we become the experimental subjects?"

Xu Shilan shook her head and said nothing.

Wu Xianxiao said firmly: "I don't know, but I won't try. My parents froze me and sent me to the future. They didn't want me to struggle with this kind of philosophical field and then test it with my own life. Instead, they wanted me to survive. As long as I'm alive, there is hope. So I won't think about whether reality is an illusion, nor will I think about how to prove whether this place is true or false. I only know..."

"Eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired, fight your enemies, protect your allies... it's that simple!"

Yamadea and Xu Shilan listened quietly, neither of them saying anything.

I don't know how long it was before I heard Amadea's snoring. He actually fell asleep.

Wu Xianxiao was also about to fall asleep, when Xu Shilan suddenly said, "It's great, life is so pure..."

Wu Xianxiao was silent for a moment and said, "Go to sleep. Tomorrow we will enter the Peace Hotel Dream World."

After another minute or two, Xu Shilan suddenly whispered, "Perhaps we are not in a virtual reality, nor are the remnants of the thirteen Singularity Technology Companies conducting some large-scale social experiment. Here..."

"Perhaps we are experiencing a dream of the universe."

A dream of the universe...?

Wu Xianxiao gradually fell asleep.

Xu Rongyu was practicing boxing under the guidance of Lin Heier. Although he was still limping, he tried his best to straighten his back and cherish this rare opportunity.

Suddenly, Xu Rongyu and Lin Heier's eyes flashed, and Wu Xianxiao, Yamade, Xu Shilan and a bird appeared in front of them, directly out of thin air.

Lin Heier and Xu Rongyu were stunned at first, and then smiles appeared on their faces.

Wu Xianxiao looked at the two of them, then at the remains of the charity cemetery that had been cleaned up. He clasped his fists and said solemnly, "You two are indeed trustworthy people. Today is the third day... I have met you!"

Lin Heier and Xu Rongyu looked at each other, and Lin Heier naturally clasped his fists in response. Xu Rongyu also immediately clasped his fists respectfully towards Wu Xianxiao.

"I've seen it before!"

It was noon, the sun was shining brightly, and everyone had a genuine smile on their face.

(End of this chapter)