Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 276 Critical Point

"Then...how can I wake up?" The hound glanced at the gun in his hand, "Could it be...you have to shoot yourself in the head again?"

"I'm afraid it's useless, otherwise we should have fully woken up before then." Ke Lan shook his head, "Besides, subconsciously, I always feel that part of the damage I receive in this layer of dreams will be reflected on us. above the actual body."

"What do you mean? I didn't understand?" The hound looked puzzled, "What do you mean...will be reflected on the real body?"

"Do you remember that little operation I performed on Martin earlier?"

"Remember." The Hound nodded.

"When I gave him a closed injection, he didn't know that the syringe contained lidocaine solution and glucocorticoid, but why did the drug still anesthetize him?"

"That's right... You just asked me to smell something in your hand. I didn't know it was a biscuit, so I didn't smell anything. Logically speaking, the anesthetic should also be harmful to him without knowing it." It works...it's really weird."

"So I think we should be in a half-dream and half-awake state... just like those crazy hunters, they shot at the monsters they saw in their nightmares, and they shot and killed the passers-by... And just now, I It is possible that Martin was actually injected with a sealing needle in reality."

"That is to say, if I kill myself now, will I really die?"

"Yeah." Ke Lan nodded.

"Then can I try to slap myself twice to wake myself up?"

"It's unlikely, you can try it." Ke Lan said, "Although it is said to be half-dream and half-awake, our self-awareness is very clear..."

Before Ke Lan could finish speaking, the hound ran up to Layton who was guarding the perimeter, and kicked Layton's ass!
"Oh! Why are you kicking me, old man?!"

"I'm just trying to see if I can wake you up, Ke Lan. Well, Ke Lan, you're right. It really doesn't seem to work." The hound spread his hands.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Am I not sober now?" Layton shouted.

"Then you try to use this gun to shoot twice at that stone pillar." The hound suddenly threw the pistol in his hand to Layton.

"What?" Layton took the pistol and asked with some confusion.

"Just do it," said the Hound impatiently.

"Okay..." Layton raised his gun, aimed at the stone pillar, and pulled the trigger——

"Bah! Bah!"

Seeing the flashing fire from the muzzle of the gun, the hunting dog beside him was stunned for a moment, and said, "I just wanted to try it, but I didn't expect it to be like this..."

Layton: "Try what?"

"What do you think this is?" The Hound stretched out the hand that was behind him, and there was a pistol magazine lying in the center of the palm.

"A magazine? What else could it be?"

"You're looking at this gun in your hand."

After being told by the hound, Layton noticed that the gun in his hand had no magazine at all!

"What... what's going on here? What the hell?" Layton pulled open the sleeve in some surprise, and pulled out a bullet casing that was still warm, "Why is this? The first If the gun is fired, it can also be explained that it is a bullet left in the chamber. Where did the bullet of the second shot come from? No, old dog, this gun was remodeled by me, and there is no such thing at all. A magic mechanism is right!"

"Because you thought the gun was full of bullets at that time, so it has bullets in it." The hound took the pistol and pulled the trigger again, but this time it only made a crisp "click" sound, "this It was Ke Lan who discovered it... We have not woken up at all, and are still in a dream world."

"Here...this world is also a dream?" Layton froze for a moment, then slapped himself forcefully.

"Oh, it hurts—no, I can feel the pain, how could this be a dream?"

"That can only show that we were 'stuck' into this dream by some kind of coercive means." Ke Lan walked over and said to the two of them, "Moreover, the instigator also connected our dreams together, just Like a computer local area network."

Ke Lan paused, and continued: "But the human brain does not have a wireless network card. If we want to connect our thinking and consciousness together, we can only use a 'wired connection' in the physical sense..."

"You mean we have a network cable plugged into our heads?" Layton said in astonishment.

"Although this statement is a bit strange, it is true."

"Does that mean that if you unplug this network cable, you can break free from this dream world?... But I can't touch anything..." The hound raised his hand and touched his head, but Nothing was touched.

"The maker of this dream should have tried to shield us from our perception of 'this network cable'... Otherwise, it would be too easy to unplug the network cable." Before Ke Lan finished speaking, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang stand up.

"Why is your cell phone ringing?" Hound asked, "There is no signal here... Oh, I almost forgot, this is a dream, anything can happen."

"But I didn't think about the mobile phone." Ke Lan's face was a little serious, "I even forgot that there was a mobile phone in my pocket."

He put his hand in his pocket and took out his phone. What was displayed on the screen was an unread email from "ACMS_0420".

Ke Lan opened the email with a hint of doubt. However, to his surprise, the email was written in Alpha characters.

"It's alpha characters!" Although the hound couldn't understand the meaning of alpha characters, it was still easy to recognize them. After all, there was more than a little bit of difference between this thing and the common characters used by humans.

"What... what is written on it?" Layton also leaned forward and asked.

"Uh, it's a method..." Ke Lan couldn't hide the astonishment in his eyes at all, he said in a dubious tone, "This email describes a method, a method that can make me break free from the dream world. Methods."

"Is there such a good thing? Someone will give you a pillow when you doze off?" The hound was also taken aback when he heard it, "Then... how to do it?"

"I... I don't know how to describe it in words..." Ke Lan said with some difficulty, "But I can try it myself..."

After speaking, he sat down on the ground cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Empty your mind and get rid of distracting thoughts... This state is very close to the "zazen" in Buddhism, but it is completely different from "zazen".

Ke Lan needs to find, use his consciousness to find a critical point between dream and reality. Only when he finds this critical point can he break through the shackles imposed on him by the dream maker...

(End of this chapter)