Dream

"Wu Wei, can Qin Yunhai receive this message?" Lan Meng asked Wu Wei.

Wu Wei spread his hands.

Lan Meng rested her forehead in her hand, feeling quite helpless.

"You should really go and persuade Qin Yunhai again; murder is against the law."

"It won't come to that. Impulsiveness only strikes in a fleeting moment, and it leads to irreversible consequences. Yunhai has calmed down now; he won't do anything extreme anymore." Wu Wei was confident about this point.

It is just like those people who want to jump off a building to commit suicide; if they make up their minds in the moment and jump with their eyes closed, then everything is over and done with.

But if they hesitate and drag their feet, they eventually lose the courage to go through with it.

Qin Yunhai had already passed that window of time.

Seeing that Wu Wei wasn't worried, Lan Meng stopped racking her brains over it.

She turned her gaze back to the message, her expression continuing to turn strange.

What kind of woman must one be to do such a thing, and then shamelessly say such words?

Does her conscience really not hurt?

"Wu Wei, do you still think she hasn't been influenced by a Heart Demon?" Lan Meng asked.

In Lan Meng's view, a normal girl could absolutely never do something like this.

To this, Wu Wei could only say she was too young and too simple.

Although Wu Wei also thought it was world-view shattering, honestly speaking, he often saw such bizarre people elsewhere.

"I've seen many strange men and women online whose values and behaviors are vastly different from ordinary people. Compared to them, Chi Yu isn't exactly a standout."

"But Chi Yu used to act very normal," Lan Meng questioned.

Because of her connection to Wu Wei, she had some understanding of Qin Yunhai and Chi Yu.

In the past, in everyone's eyes, Qin Yunhai and Chi Yu were quite a good match; no one could tell that Chi Yu would be this "bold."

"So, whether she was suppressing her true nature or if it was truly seduced out by a Heart Demon, it still requires investigation."

Wu Wei said something redundant, then suddenly his body stiffened.

"What's wrong? Did you think of something?"

Noticing Wu Wei's anomaly, Lan Meng felt a bit nervous.

"I suddenly realized I forgot to discuss the relationship between smog and cultivation with Yunhai. If we could really parse it out, we could actually cultivate a few practitioners on a small scale."

For example, using high-powered air purifiers to cleanse a specific area of air, allowing practitioners to avoid inhaling smog.

Or, perhaps modifying cultivation manuals to absorb smog instead of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Of course, the latter was temporarily very difficult for Wu Wei.

But the former, as long as he had the will, was not impossible to achieve.

Lan Meng had already become somewhat immune to Wu Wei's wild, unconstrained thinking.

She waved her hand and said helplessly, "We cultivation families have all tried that; it's useless."

"Too many monks and too little gruel, right? The bit of spiritual energy left after purifying the air with air purifiers isn't enough to support a cultivation family?"

Wu Wei's judgment was completely logical, and the facts were indeed as such.

Lan Meng nodded and said, "That is indeed the case. And even if we concentrated resources to cultivate only a few people, or even just one, the effect is far worse than before. If you cultivate to the end and a dignified practitioner can't even deal with a bullet, then what is the point of putting in so much effort?"

Some of these old-school cultivation families truly haven't given up, still dreaming the beautiful dream of ascending to immortality.

But families like the Lan Family had long since given up, successfully transforming by utilizing the wealth accumulated during the era of cultivation, and were currently leaders in the new world as well.

Wu Wei admired the Lan Family's decisiveness.

But in Wu Wei's eyes, the path of cultivation wasn't necessarily a dead end.

It was just that the current conditions were not met.

"The spiritual energy of heaven and earth hasn't disappeared; it's just been polluted by smog. As long as we can strip the smog away, it will be the same as before. Or, using a special breathing method to avoid the smog could achieve the same effect."

"Wu Wei, isn't everything you're saying a fantasy? If we had that ability, we wouldn't be called the Age of Dharma Decline now." Although Wu Wei was her idol, Lan Meng still scoffed at this statement of his.

Wu Wei scoffed even more at her perception.

"If you don't even have the ability to imagine, how can you turn it into reality? Lan Meng, you need to broaden your imagination. The Age of Dharma Decline merely refers to the decline of cultivation; it doesn't mean we can't achieve all of this through technology."

"What does technology have to do with cultivation?" Lan Meng retorted.

"Someone once said that the end of science is theology. While I don't entirely agree with that statement, if technology can truly develop as I envision, then future scientists will effectively be no different from gods."

Lan Meng's thinking was once again impacted.

"So, Lan Meng, read more books. The ocean of knowledge is far more attractive than the temptations of the opposite sex. Our lives are so short; don't waste them on those useless things," Wu Wei advised earnestly.

Wu Wei still felt guilty about that so-called marriage contract.

Lan Meng rolled her eyes.

After talking for so long, it turned out the point was here all along.

"Wu Wei, tell me, if a person has no dreams, how are they any different from a salted fish?"

"Not bad. My dream is to reach the very end of science and take a look. Now, I have one more dream: to catch up to the potentially existing Lord of Time and Space and the Main God, and then, to surpass them."

And all of this required his total, wholehearted devotion.

Lan Meng felt absolutely nothing, simply saying with great seriousness, "My dream is to sleep with you."

Wu Wei: "(?＞?＜)☆"

What kind of expression should I make?

"Don't waste your breath. Once I, Lan Meng, have set my mind on something, it won't change. But rest assured, by staying by your side, even a pig would make progress, let alone me. Do you think I have a masochistic streak, actively crowding around you and Qin Yunhai? It's all because I want to elevate my own level."

Wu Wei looked at Lan Meng with surprise. "I didn't expect you to have such self-awareness."

Lan Meng trembled with rage, her figure swaying.

"In your eyes, am I really that useless? At the very least, I win scholarships every year, and I often get full marks on my exams."

"You get 100 points because that is the limit of the test. I get 100 points because the test only goes up to 100. We are not the same; you need to recognize that."

"Wu Wei, do you know that you're destined to be single forever?"

"I don't think so. No matter how aloof a male god is, there will always be girls fawning over him—take me, for example. I'm quite helpless about it myself."

Lan Meng took a deep breath.

Is it that I, Shizuka, am not alluring enough, or is your, Nobita's, taste just too high?

It seems his standards have always been quite high, hasn't it?

What should I do now that I'm even more heartbroken?

"Alright, enough chatter. I'm going to pay a visit to Professor Chi. Where are you headed?"

Professor Chi, the father of Chi Yu.

The influence of a family on a young person is always significant.

Of course, the reason Wu Wei was visiting Professor Chi was also because he was an authority in the field of biology.

He truly had some questions he needed to consult Professor Chi about.

And while he was at it, he would observe whether there was anything wrong with the Chi Family.