old dream

Chapter 209 Reality Reconstruction
The pulse beat 10 times, which is about [-] minutes later.

Under the waterfall of the huge cauldron, Colin did not find Hilpert, but Hilpert found Colin.

Even though she was in the blue star sky, the spirit element on Lantern Girl's body was almost the same as that of ordinary people.So Colin didn't notice her existence until she got closer to less than ten meters away.

"How long?" Hilpert, who was trapped here, asked directly.

"Seven days."

"Really." Lantern Girl said thoughtfully:

"It's much shorter. I counted it to a hundred days."

one hundred days?Colin was dumbfounded.

After disconnecting from reality, the sense of time is completely disorganized.

According to her own senses, the lamp girl has indeed stayed here for two and a half months.But if her consciousness was already in turmoil and she couldn't return to reality, then the next hundred days would be enough to completely break her sanity.

Unlike what Colin imagined, the current Lantern Girl is completely awake, and she roams freely in Urju Hell, as if she is the new jailer here.

The spatial sections distributed in the field of vision are everywhere, and they are the product of Ke Lin's incomplete imaging, dividing this place like a kaleidoscope.

From it, Colin saw that his body was covered with clay puppet-like cracks.The image shown by the lamp girl is almost indistinguishable from reality.

No, she seemed to have gotten sharper.Just looking at Hilpert, even though she didn't wear a sword, Colin still felt a sharp phantom pain.

A layer of mist has been lifted from her body, just like the erratic inhumanity in the past, which is just a disguise on her surface.

"I went for a walk around... I have seen the Styx River in ancient Urju, and watched the wonders adjacent to the giant tower." Lantern Girl said:

"No.90 for seven days, I was bored counting the burning tombstones in the 33rd area. At that time, I noticed that you entered this frequency limit. So I rushed to the 32nd area."

Hilpert held out a hand and said:
"Now, it's time to lead me back."

Bringing her back to reality is also the purpose of Colin coming here.

Colin seemed to be skillfully holding Hilpert's outstretched hand. After 2 minutes, he started to feel a little embarrassed.

Because the two just stood face to face for a while, nothing happened.

"……what should I do?"

After a while, Colin had no choice but to ask.Although he ran down to save people, he realized that he didn't know how to bring a person who was stranded in the virtual world back to reality.

Hilpert looked at him sideways, as if for the first time he found it interesting to tease others, especially when the opposite was a serious and strong young man.

"Just one opportunity is needed." Lantern Girl said:
"An opportunity to remind me of reality."

The reason why Hilpert got lost in the imaginary world was not due to his weak mind.It is because she has suppressed herself for a long time, alienated herself from life, and her sense of "reality" is too weak.

In this dreamlike deep dive, she easily lost her impression of the physical world.

So now, Lantern Girl needs a seed of memory to reconstruct reality.

"Some people say that forgetting one's own coordinates is tantamount to death, and then becoming a ghost that only flickers in dreams." Lamp Girl bowed her head and said with a smile:
"So now, I've probably been dead for a hundred days."

"If this is the afterlife of Lantern Girl... maybe it's not bad." When he said this, Hilpert's tone was complicated.

If you explore the frequency of the imaginary world at the angle of Sincily, will you find the lamp girl who died before?
It's a pity that there are still too many things waiting for her to go back and do in reality.

"Let's exchange it." Lantern Girl said.

Exchange inner imaging results.

The image contains coordinate information, and the real image also contains the coordinates of the material world.It is enough to evoke those feelings that have temporarily sunk deep inside, and then complete the reconstruction of reality.

"How to do it?"

"Spiritual guidance."

While speaking, Deng Nu held his other hand.The heart shell covering Colin's hand had already peeled off, so Hilpert directly touched something.

This is not physical contact, but spiritual resonance.

...Although it sounds more intimate, it is also more dangerous.

Even for the first type of lineage whose food source is to explore the imaginary world, an apprentice will only experience spiritual guidance twice in his lifetime:
Receive the "map" before embarking on a journey, and hand over the "map" accumulated throughout your life to the younger generation when you return from the journey.

But, Ke Lin thought, would the Lantern Girl see something in her heart?

"There's no need to worry that much."

Seemingly aware of Colin's hesitation, Hilpert whispered softly:

"We'll still keep secrets from each other, because 'spiritual guidance' is nothing but a defective product."

"The kind of communication you imagine that connects people to each other will never happen."

Lantern Girl slowly said the next sentence, but she couldn't hear the emotion in her words. I don't know if she felt sad or relieved by this fact:

"Because 'the heart of the other' is no less mysterious than the virtual world."

The lamp girl was soaked in the abundance of hundreds of people in a state of turbulent consciousness, but only some broken feelings leaked out.Then in the next moment, these external emotions caused tension, and they immediately faded in memory like quicksand that could not be grasped, and were processed and reorganized into old mental images.

Everyone's joys and sorrows are not the same.

Inner feelings cannot be exchanged without borrowing a certain symbol system, such as voice expressions and actions.

But a person's heart is by no means something that can be fully summarized by symbols alone.

I tell someone I'm "happy," and even if he's infected by my happiness, he doesn't feel my own happiness.

What is conveyed in the resonance of "spiritual guidance" is also only abstract symbols and the relationship between symbols, rather than the original feelings they represent.

It is just a "guide", because it only directs the imaging in everyone's heart through meaningless symbols.

Colin felt the ground under his feet was spinning and rising, and the waterfall of white iron juice poured back into the crucible, and then closed it, surrounded by cells like pomegranate pulp. It turned out that they were located in the center of a huge tower.

The images in his eyes are being reorganized, but still use his memories as raw materials.The more complete imaging scheme in Deng Nu's mind bridged those kaleidoscopic prism-like gaps and made the space more rationally organized.

The pulse was beating 100 times. Maybe the heartbeat accelerated just now, but there were still more than [-] minutes.Approaching the safety line that Colin set for himself.

After the spiritual guidance was over, Colin took a step back, but almost fell.He found himself in the sky, inside a tall tower, the edge of which was only a few inches wide under his feet.The high tower is also a huge furnace, and the iron juice falling from countless steel pipes is like the vertical lines of sketches, making the bottom of the furnace appear more distant.

Hilpert's eyes were still closed at this time.What Ke Lin reconstructed was only this frequency, but what she reconstructed was the entire real world, so it would naturally take more time.

While reimaging, Colin was thinking about one thing.

If the technology of direct mind-to-heart communication does not exist in this world, then, just as "imaging" is just a compromise, another hidden danger will be buried in An He's system.

Because on the issue of the imaginary world, no one can prove that a certain concept that scholars say is really the same concept in fact.

The optic nerve processes electromagnetic waves of different frequencies into the colors we see.Perhaps this is also a kind of "imaging".

So the red in my eyes and the red in your eyes, are they really the same color?

This is an unprovable problem, but it seems harmless in reality.Because you can go beyond your inner feelings at any time and directly measure the objective electromagnetic waves, so that everyone can agree on the definition of a certain color.

But things in the imaginary world can only be observed through subjective "imaging".If you can't directly communicate your inner feelings, then even keeping the same definition may become an unsolvable problem.

When Colin thought this way, Hilpert also opened his eyes.

For a moment, she seemed a little confused, blinking her eyes and looking around, not very well adapted.

But after a while, she suppressed her discomfort and turned to Colin and said:

"Let's go back."

(End of this chapter)