Chapter 222 Lord of Dreams
April 23, 8:30 in the morning,
Chen Yun sat quietly on the bus driving on a smooth road.
The sunlight outside the car window penetrates the sparse clouds and shines on the road leading to the village near Qixi City Prison.
The road winds through a peaceful rural scenery, and the bus travels through the countryside.
From time to time, several quaint stone bridges and gurgling streams pass by on both sides. The scattered cottages give people the illusion of tranquility over time.
The passengers in the car occasionally exchanged a few words.
Chen Yun's eyes wandered between the peaceful scenery outside the window and the expectations in his heart.
After the ninth evolution in the morning, Chen Yun briefly tested and summarized the many changes in his body.
Then we took the bus and came here.
Chen Yun has always been impatient when it comes to testing new abilities.
The ability to enter a dream sounds particularly interesting.
In many stories, having the ability to enter the dreams of others undoubtedly adds endless possibilities and attractions to the plot. As a mysterious realm of human psychological activities, dreams are not only a display of the private inner world, but also the boundless universe of creativity and imagination.
The ability to "dream" allows Chen Yun to cross the boundary between reality and fantasy and directly participate in the stories in other people's dreams. This experience is both exciting and full of unknowns.
In dreams, logic can be subverted, physical laws are no longer constrained, and emotions and memories are presented in the most primitive and direct way.
Chen Yun may be able to understand other people's deep desires, fears, and even unresolved knots through this ability. He may even use this ability to help others solve their psychological problems or discover hidden secrets.
Human dreams have always been complex and changeable, and they are also full of curiosity.
However, the new ability called Dreaming sounds good, but its specific use is not yet known.
So this requires some experimentation.
But Chen Yun would not rashly use ordinary people to conduct experiments. He would rather find people who could be used as experimental subjects based on his three views.
When judging whether a person is good or bad, Chen Yun prefers his own subjective judgment.
Think of this.
Chen Yun suddenly felt that he might need to form a talent pool of D-level personnel.
Just like an SCP organization in a certain fantasy setting, it has a large group of D-class personnel composed of death row prisoners who specialize in doing various dangerous jobs, including serving as experimental consumables.
This is still very necessary for him.
There is a high probability that Chen Yun’s future experiments will require a lot of people, and many people will be needed as consumables.
If there is a talent pool of D-level personnel.
Then there will be no need to make a special trip to prison.
When you need to conduct human experiments, just go and choose a few D-class personnel.
In this case, it would be much more convenient.
Thinking about it, Chen Yun has already arrived at the station.
Most people got off the bus here.
This is a village in the suburbs.
Chen Yun didn't plan to get off the bus here, but wanted to take a further distance to get off near the prison.
But a dog at the entrance of the village made him feel a little concerned.
When Chen Yun stepped out of the bus, the sun instantly embraced him, bringing a warm and fresh breath.
He looked around, and his eyes finally landed on a dog lying quietly under the shade of an old locust tree at the entrance of the village not far away.
The dog seemed to be immersed in a sweet dream, and occasionally its ears twitched slightly, as if it was chasing something in its dream.
This made Chen Yun's eyes light up.
Scientific research shows that during the rapid eye movement sleep stage, dogs' brain activity is very similar to that of humans during dreaming, which means that in their dreams they may experience replays of daily activities or more abstract emotional experiences like humans.
Maybe besides humans, he can explore the subconscious world of other living beings?
He slowly approached the sleeping dog, curiosity welling up in his heart.
His mental power tried to activate the ability to dream without hesitation.
However, it seemed as if it had hit a wall and returned without success.
This made Chen Yun stunned.
Could it be said that... non-human beings cannot dream?
Even they can dream?
Thinking.
Chen Yun tried to activate Dreaming again.
But until a few children from the village ran past playfully and woke up the sleeping dog.
Chen Yun still failed to activate the dream.
"Could it be that..."
"Only for humans?"
Whispering.
Although he had doubts in his heart, Chen Yun was not discouraged.
He understands that every ability has its own uniqueness and limitations, and that exploring and understanding these rules is itself part of the growth of ability.
Next, he walked around the whole village.
Simply saying that a sleeping dog cannot fall asleep does not fully explain anything.
More experiments are needed.
Fortunately, cats and dogs like to sleep all day long, so in a village, Chen Yun met many sleeping cats and dogs, and also tried many experiments on non-human creatures, including Some other sleeping inhuman creature.
But after a long time, there was no result.
In other words, after working hard all morning, the results are the same.
All the non-human creatures he encountered had the same result - he was unable to sleep, which made his new ability suddenly add a lot of mystery.
At noon.
Chen Yun decisively speeded up his pace in the direction of the prison.
For him, the direction of the prison is not only a place for experiments, but also the key to solving the mystery of his abilities.
Walking through the village and onto the path leading to the prison, Chen Yun's steps became more determined.
Along the way, villagers occasionally cast curious glances, but he just nodded politely.
Not long.
He came to the parking lot outside the prison.
For non-prison visitors and prison staff, this is almost the limit.
Fortunately, this distance is almost enough.
As long as you are within the range of mental perception, you can directly activate the dream state.
Chen Yunna has reached a mental perception range of 500 meters, allowing him to feel many details in the prison even in the parking lot.
In the silence of the parking lot, Chen Yun's mental power was like invisible tentacles, gently brushing through every corner of the prison. This extraordinary perceptual ability allows him to capture many subtle details.
He could feel the structural layout inside the prison. Hidden behind the cold concrete walls were rows of closed cells, each room carrying different stories and emotions.
The air is filled not only with the smell of rust and disinfectant, but also with deep-seated anxiety, regret and expectation. The occasional low voice of conversation and the echo of distant footsteps were extremely clear in his mental perception, as if he could distinguish every subtle emotional fluctuation. He sensed a prisoner sitting quietly in the corner of the cell, repeatedly rubbing a family photo in his hand, his eyes full of longing for freedom and family. On the other side, under the dim light, an old prisoner wrote a letter home with trembling hands, each word and sentence full of reflections on the past and expectations for the future.
in……
Including a rapist who just went to bed for a lunch break without any remorse in his mind.
See this.
Chen Yun dropped a stone on the ground in the village.
Use your fingernails to carve it into a top, then put the top on the ground and spin it in a ceremonial manner.
The next moment.
Chen Yun sat on the bench, facing the sleeping rapist from a distance and activated his dreaming ability without any scruples.
The buzzing sound of the spinning top seemed to be some kind of start-up signal.
Chen Yun closed his eyes and devoted himself to the dream journey that was about to begin.
The feeling is similar to an out-of-body experience.
His consciousness was like an invisible wave, crossing the boundary between reality and dream, penetrating into the depths of the rapist's dream with a clear purpose.
At first, he encountered layers of vague, specious images.
It's like walking through fog.
These fragments flashed quickly, fragments of memories from that person's daily life, mixed with chaotic emotions and indescribable desires.
However, as Chen Yun's mental power deepened.
The picture gradually stabilized, and a vague dream scene began to unfold before his eyes.
In the dream, the rapist was in a desolate place, surrounded by towering black rocks. There is a blood-red moon hanging in the sky, and the whole scene is full of depression and uneasiness.
In this twisted space, he seemed to be chasing something, with greed and fear shining in his eyes.
Chen Yun did not interfere with the natural development of dreams, but acted like a bystander, silently observing more details of the surrounding dreams.
Discovered through his observations.
First of all, the dream itself is very vague.
Perhaps it is not noticeable to those who are dimly conscious and are actually dreaming.
But to him, a sober outsider.
The clarity of the entire dream world is completely like pixel blocks, and some images in some corners are even distorted and weird.
Only the focus of the rapist's vision was clear enough, and the rest was blurry as if out of focus.
This is not due to visual impairment.
But the whole world is really changing like this.
The construction of dreams seems to follow a certain algorithm, giving priority to the information that the dreamer cares about, while ignoring the details that have not been noticed.
This mechanism is similar to the concept of level of detail (LOD) in computer graphics rendering, which only loads high-precision images when necessary to optimize resource allocation.
Chen Yun speculated that this may be because ordinary people are not mentally strong enough to imagine rich and realistic details.
Secondly, dreams seemed to exist only as far as the rapist could see.
The places in the dream world that he didn't see would disappear in an instant, only to reappear until his eyes came to them again.
This is somewhat similar to the different definitions in the pictures I saw before, as if to save computing power.
Only the places that the rapist could perceive in the dream were simulated, and there was no need to simulate the rest.
This actually made Chen Yun, who was standing in the endless void without a picture, where the rapist had not noticed, a faint thought.
This is quite...
There is a sense of "I think, therefore I am".
The areas that the rapist did not see do not exist. Among the areas that he saw, only the areas that he focused on were clear, and the rest were blurry.
Chen Yun was deeply attracted by this strange dream structure logic in this boundless void.
He realized that dreams are like a mirror, reflecting the outline of the subconscious, but at the same time being limited by the limitations of consciousness itself.
Everything in the dream depends on the focus of the dreamer's attention in the dream, and also relies on the dreamer's subconscious mind. All laws are completely different from reality.
This phenomenon of "I think, therefore I am" is a revelation of the nature of dreams: in this dream composed of thinking and spirit...consciousness can determine everything.
So, in this wasteland composed of fragments of thinking, Chen Yun decided to make a bold attempt.
He tried to integrate his will into the margins of this dream, not to change the content of the dream, but to expand the boundaries of the dream to maintain the existence of those scenes that disappeared due to the shift of sight.
Even... just for a moment.
As Chen Yun's mental power slowly extended, he felt a subtle resistance.
It's as if dreams have their own rules that cannot be easily tampered with by others.
But his determination was firm, and he tried to plant a ray of light in that endless void bit by bit, so that the scene that originally dissipated when his eyes left gradually solidified and formed a stable background.
The next moment.
A miracle happened, and the scenes that should have disappeared with the shift of sight began to slowly become fixed.
No longer dissipated directly due to the rapist's distraction.
Although still blurry, it no longer disappears with the wind.
At this moment, Chen Yun seemed to be weaving his own logic on the tapestry of a dream, giving this desolate place a hint of continuity and stability.
This attempt made him realize that although dreams are the product of the dreamer's consciousness, they seem to be guided and reshaped to a certain extent through the intervention of stronger spiritual power.
Think so.
Chen Yun decided to experiment further. He tried to slightly affect the boundaries of the dream to see if he could guide the evolution of the dream through his own mental power.
Now that you have tried to fix the image that should have disappeared, you should try a more advanced operation: directly change the dream.
Chen Yun concentrated.
A gentle wave of thought was sent to a vague corner of the dream.
There was originally a blank space.
Now, a peaceful forest scene slowly emerged. The trees were swaying gently in the breeze, and the sun cast dappled light and shadow through the leaves.
This picture looks extremely real.
Because it was simulated by Chen Yun, it looks full of details.
To his surprise, this change did not cause overall turbulence in the dream. Instead, it was like a pebble thrown into a lake, causing only local ripples.
This proved his conjecture: dreams have a certain degree of plasticity, at least for spiritual power holders like him.
The attempt was successful.
It means a very serious question.
That is, after falling into a dream, Chen Yun can not only be a bystander, but also use his mental power to influence the dream and become omnipotent in the dream.
This may have no practical significance in the real world.
But this ability...
Very interesting!
He can rely on this outrageous ability to proclaim himself...
Lord of dreams!
(End of this chapter)