Energy-Body Light-Speed Spatial Teleportation Technology Based on Dream Characteristics
Next is [fog].
The race He chose resembled Goblins, short and agile, with grayish-green skin and pointed ears. They liked to live in burrows, were good at digging, and were adept at living underground.
Furthermore, they were already capable of smelting metals even in a primitive era, indicating considerable potential.
[Food] is an ordinary human branch, seemingly unrelated to the other Survivors.
This guy, unaware of what had happened, became much more sober and stopped searching for shit to eat like before; he started acting like a normal person again.
As for Dora...
Su Luo searched for a long time.
Finally, he found Dora's civilization on a large archipelago far from the mainland.
This guy's playing Boom Beach here.
Su Luo looked down for a moment and realized that her start was similar to everyone else's.
This shows that Dora's cognition is perfectly normal; she's just putting on a show to amuse everyone.
Su Luo didn't disturb its performance art. It was either crazy or had some need to dress up as Dora. In any case, it had nothing to do with Su Luo. As long as it could understand human speech, that was fine.
With her attention back on track, Su Luo began to observe Mu Ri again, planning to leave once he had weathered this particular event.
The tree had been Burn for twenty nights. Mu Ri led the hunting party around the edge of the forest, always keeping a safe distance from the flames.
Along the way, they found many prey that had been burned to death by the flames. Some were already cooked and could be eaten directly; some were half-cooked and needed further processing; and some were still struggling, so they finished them off with a spear.
The hunting party was happy. They could obtain food without exerting any effort or taking any risks.
Mu Ri was also very happy. During his free time when he didn't have to hunt, he developed dozens of symbols to describe common things.
For example: Sun, moon, mountains, rivers, trees, flames, men, women, children, wild animals, food, water, companions...
He simplified, abstracted, and fixed the shapes of those things, determined their pronunciations, and then forced the members of the hunting party to memorize them.
He actually discovered that some of the symbols he came up with were very similar to some of the symbols on that magical panel.
He originally intended to copy directly to save effort, but whenever he tried to see the symbols on the panel clearly, they would become blurry, as if deliberately obscured by something.
The control panel wouldn't let him slack off, so Mu Ri to create it himself.
"Where to next...?" the burly man asked again as he ran up.
Behind them, members of the hunting party were binding the mountain of prey with vines; there was simply too much prey for them to carry away.
"Let's go... to other tribes. We need to make trades, and we need new companions."
Communication has become much smoother, and I find these symbols and pronunciations Mu Ri useful.
Su Luo finally had some free time and returned to the Dream Library.
He walked to the familiar desk, sat down, and reached for a book on the shelf.
The book cover is simple, with only a few words: Fundamentals of Underwater Industrial Modification.
He didn't open it.
He simply placed his hand on the cover and closed his eyes.
Not a single page was turned.
The knowledge on the pages began to flow at an alarming speed; the Text, formulas, and principles, as if drawn by an invisible force, surged from the pages and flowed into the depths of his consciousness through his fingertips.
Each line of Text is understood, digested, and then archived.
This process was very fast. Incredibly fast.
A dozen minutes later, Su Luo opened her eyes and put down the book in her hand.
"This one's not bad," he murmured to himself, "Next one..."
He reached for the bookshelf and took down another book.
Learning the basics of a sub-discipline in ten minutes is a last resort.
In his Library, bookshelves representing various disciplines are stacked layer upon layer, arranged meticulously, stretching as far as the eye can see.
The technology, Spell, Skill Book knowledge gathered from various sources of the Yuncang Civilization... it's all here.
There is so much knowledge that it is almost impossible for him to learn it all now. A large part of the knowledge will only be retrieved and applied when needed.
Just as Su Luo picked up the next book, she paused, sighed, and put the book down.
The Machine Fortress woke up.
He had been in a coma since leaving the Tower, and has finally woken up.
The coma of the Machine Fortress's Consciousness Entity is quite unusual; Su Luo is unable to awaken it yet and can only wait.
Taking a step, Su Luo arrived in front of the Machine Fortress where some of her memories had been restored.
"How about it?"
"... good."
Machine Fortress looked up somewhat blankly, then Su Luo handed him a note.
"I'm in a hurry. Answer these three questions quickly, and I'll help you transform into Semi-Dream Creature in the Future."
Su Luo condensed all the questions she wanted to ask onto the slip of paper.
The Machine Fortress picked up the note, paused for a few seconds, and then slowly said, "I have indeed regained some memories. It was during the construction of the Tower... I'll try my best to answer your questions."
He looked up at Su Luo.
"First question: How does the 'depth' of Dreamscape expand?"
Su Luo nodded. He had been exploring this problem for a long time. He had accumulated a lot of data on the Dreamscape Depth, but he just couldn't improve it. It was as if he had missed something crucial.
"It's simple," Machine Fortress said casually, "Just merge the Dream Worlds of other people."
Su Luo's expression suddenly became complicated.
"By stripping others of their Dreamscape, turning them into Dreamscape Fragments, and merging them into one's own Dreamscape," the Machine Fortress continued. "The 'depth' of the Dreamscape will increase. Then various miracles will occur—time acceleration, spatial expansion, self-consistent rules..."
Machine Fortress spoke of these things with surprising calm, "The Eternal Night Court is a grand Dreamscape ruled by the gods, its main body a fusion of the gods' Dream Worlds, its 'depth' provided by all living beings."
How many of you are there among all living beings?
"At least hundreds of billions."
"Could I make use of the Eternal Night Court?"
The Machine Fortress did not answer, paused for a moment, and moved on to the next question;
Why enter the Dream World instead of staying in the real world?
"Because the real world is countless times more terrifying than the Dream World. If we stayed in the real world, we would have been wiped out long ago, unlike now, where we can still barely survive."
His voice became even calmer, unusually calm:
Su Luo nodded thoughtfully. "So, the Land of Darkness once experienced an extremely exaggerated disaster? Or perhaps this disaster was periodic?"
He grasped the meaning behind the words spoken in the Machine Fortress.
The Land of Darkness is filled with terror. So terrifying that even the most powerful civilizations of yesteryear preferred to wait for death in their dreams rather than show themselves.
"One last question, about your light..."
He closed his eyes and began to recall. After a moment, he opened his eyes:
"I'm not entirely sure either, but it's very likely that folk song."
"A folk song? The one carved on the wall?" Su Luo asked.
Machine Fortress closed his eyes again. He hummed a tune twice—an ancient, distant tune, as if it came from the end of time. Then he spoke, his ethereal voice echoing in the Dreamscape:
"Using light as shackles... using wishes as chains..."
He opened his eyes.
"If it's the first line of the ballad, it might be a technology our civilization has lost—[energy-based light-speed space teleportation technology based on Dreamscape properties]."