Electronic Nezha

Chapter 117 Breaking Defense
I stood on the fifth floor, laughing heartily.

In my dream, my dad was still my dad, and my mom was still my mom, but why was Lao Wang such a coward?
The Queen snapped, "Be serious!"

An octopus soldier used his long, flowing tentacles to wrap my dad's and mom's mouths—he stood between the two old people, his tentacles forked to the left and right, and he did it all by himself.

The spaceship began to shine its lights down, and the ground was soon covered with countless octopus soldiers.

The Queen said, "Liu Chuanfeng, if you don't want your family and friends to get hurt, you must agree to my request."

"What do you want?"

"signature!"

I was surprised: Does signing something in a dream count? This really made me realize something; I thought I could do whatever I wanted in my dreams.

At this moment, Li Ping shouted, "Old Liu, you can't agree to whatever she wants!"

Hey, Li Ping has more guts than Lao Wang.

Hu Chunyan mumbled in a daze, "What's going on? Am I dreaming?"

I said seriously, "This is not a dream, Sister Hu. This is reality. Aliens are about to take over the Earth. Tell me your wish quickly. I'll plead for you because of my past relationship with their queen."

Hu Chunyan said, "What wishes could I possibly have? I just want to live."

The Queen said, "Liu Chuanfeng, as long as you sign, I guarantee that after we take over Earth, we will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and your treatment will remain unchanged."

Old Wang said to me, "Fengzi, you should agree to her first. I've never been in a relationship before. Even if we break up with them after I get a girlfriend, it's fine."

Li Ping frowned and said, "Look at how pathetic you are."

The Queen asked, "What's your decision?"

Looking at the hostages downstairs, I wondered to myself, if this was a dream the Queen had carefully crafted for me to make me submit, then why didn't she just have these people weeping and pleading with me to surrender? Why did they still have such strong personalities?

Later, Liu Zhenhua's words reminded me: This is in your dream.

Yes, the dream is my dream. The Queen is just an intruder. Most of the material in the dream is mine, such as childhood memories and the bonds with my family.

My impressions of my parents, Lao Wang, and Li Ping, whom I see frequently, are deeply ingrained in my mind, so their behavior bears their own imprint. On the other hand, I know nothing about Hu Chunyan, so she couldn't express any specific wishes.

This makes me wary again: although I said I got a lot of information out of the Queen, in fact, I exposed even more of my secrets, my past, my family, and my social situation. Every time I was hypnotized, it was a battle of wits and strength. I must not be careless. To reduce the risk of exposure, I must not think too much about anything.

The Queen said impatiently, "Liu Chuanfeng, things have come to this point, how long do you intend to drag this out?"

I lit another cigarette—the last one had burned down to the filter and gone out by itself. The details in the dream were truly amazing, but I could still smell perfume in my nose.

"Such a big matter, you want me to think about it for ten minutes?"

"You have one minute!"

"five minutes."

The Queen retorted angrily, "This is not a bargaining game with you."

"Three minutes. If you don't agree, there's nothing more to discuss."

"I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer in three minutes."

I sat cross-legged on the ground, examining the spaceships. I was certain these spaceships weren't the material I had in mind, because I don't like hard science fiction. I've watched all of Star Wars movies just to follow the plot, and I don't really remember the spaceships in them.

The spaceships on the planet Latos that I see in front of me look pretty cool at first glance, with gun barrels here and cannons there, making them look rather haphazard. It's hard to say how well these things would fly in space, but they would definitely consume a lot of fuel on Earth. If you hung some flags or something on those cannons, even a nuclear-powered one would be shut down in the strong winds of the north.

"Did you build all these spaceships?" I asked.

"What do you mean? Our planet has its own Ministry of Industry."

"Ministry of Industry, please tell me, should the spaceship's hull be made of carbon steel or stainless steel?"

"It's confidential."

"Can I go in and have a look?"

"What kind of requirement is this?"

"To judge whether a car is good or bad, you have to look at its interior. I'll take a tour of the interior of your planet's spaceship first. If I think Earth has no chance of winning, then I'll sign."

"Request rejected!" "Oh, never mind. How many light-years did it take you to get to Earth?"

Hey, did you see that? There's a trap in what we said. A light-year is a unit of distance.

"Using... light-years isn't time, is it?" The Queen's words carried a hint of uncertainty.

"Was your title of Queen inherited or earned through seniority?"

"Exceptionally capable!" the Queen declared emphatically.

"How many points did you get on the college entrance exam on your planet? You're an administrative queen, so are there also marketing queens, planning queens, and finance queens?"

The Queen said, "Liu Chuanfeng, you talk too much nonsense."

"Can you smell something strange?"

The Queen lowered her head and sniffed herself, then asked, puzzled, "What's that strange smell?"

It seems she didn't smell the perfume, so she doesn't know that I already knew it was a dream.

I said, "That's why it's strange, with so much seafood, why doesn't it taste like seafood?"

The Queen said sternly, "Liu Chuanfeng, this is the first and last time I'm warning you: you're not allowed to call us seafood!" She was quite sensitive.

"Alright, I won't insult you by bringing up your weaknesses. I won't call you seafood, and you shouldn't even think about messing with Earth. If you agree, come find me when I wake up, and I'll have my son find a way to send you to where you belong."

The Queen exclaimed in shock, "You already knew?"

"Want to know how I figured you out? Turn off the mixer and I'll tell you."

The Queen remained silent.

"Your imagination is so lacking, and you don't work hard enough, which is why I asked you what your college entrance exam score was. If you had watched all those classic science fiction movies after you came to Earth, you wouldn't have created such an ugly spaceship in your mind."

"Have you said enough?"

I've actually said enough, but the wake-up setting takes ten minutes to trigger, and during that time I can only talk nonsense.

"And also, you said you'd keep me in your dreams. Whether you have the ability or not is another matter, but those 20 times the time you claimed were just empty words, you little liar."

The Queen sneered, "It was an accident that you escaped last time. Don't worry about 20 times or not. I can control dreams and survive at the same time. I'll leave you here for 10 years. You can survive with human technology. When you wake up, you'll be 50 years old, thin as a skeleton. It will take another 10 years to fully recover. You'll have missed the most important things in life. Is it worth it?"

I clicked my tongue in amazement and said, "Oh, you're a bit of a writer too, aren't you? You're not good at building spaceships, but you can write sentimental little essays with ease."

"Hmph, I'm not in a hurry. Maybe you'll regret it after two or three years here."

At that moment, I felt a tingling sensation on my wrist, and the world before my eyes shook slightly.

"what happened?"

I stood up and said, "Alright, then I'll show you how I get out." I stretched my arms out in the air and said lazily.

"Here comes the knife."

"Fu Hongxue" appeared out of thin air, tracing various arcs as it landed in my hand, still a small wooden knife that couldn't be fully grasped.

The Queen sneered, "How many of us can you kill with that thing?"

Ignoring her, I raised the knife in the air and shouted, "Artillery units and mortar positions, listen to my command! Coordinates 123, 321, 1234567, fire!"

Boom boom boom, whoosh whoosh whoosh—

Countless bright lines rose into the sky on the horizon behind me, and all sorts of shells rained down in front of me.

Bang bang bang, boom boom boom—

The octopus soldiers were blasted to pieces, their ink sacs burst open, and their tentacles flew everywhere. Several of them hung on the window in front of me, steaming and turning a darker color.

I stared at the discolored octopus tentacles, lost in thought…

Although the part of my brain that controls smell is rather dull, I have plenty of experience eating grilled squid—octopus is even more expensive than squid, after all—so a faint, almost imperceptible aroma arose, and my throat bobbed a few times…

Unexpectedly, my action broke the Queen's defenses again. She roared, "Liu Chuanfeng, what do you mean by swallowing your saliva?!"

(End of this chapter)