When the Real-Scene Dream came up, Qingmu immediately thought of the Zhulong Mountain Cave in Southern Yunnan.
He explained to Situ, " Real-Scene Dream is when the dream and reality are highly consistent. What you do in your dream, you will do in reality. Your subconscious not only retrieves memories to construct the dream, but also controls the thalamus and cerebellum, making you act normally as if you were awake, but your behavior will be consistent with that in the dream. Sleepwalking is a specific manifestation of Real-Scene Dream."
He recalled Mo Yu when he first came to the bar, "A sleepwalking Real-Scene Dream isn't necessarily the most complete Real-Scene Dream, because the sleepwalker's behavior is the same as in the dream, but the scene may not be the same. For example, the process of a Tushu getting out of bed, going out, and going downstairs to the toilet might be the process of leaving a classroom and going downstairs to the cafeteria in the dream; when a sleepwalker is sexually assaulted, they might be in a romantic relationship or just having a medical check-up in a hospital in their dream..."
Qingmu paused here, staring intently at Situ, trying to read something from Situ's face, but unfortunately, Situ's face remained completely expressionless.
"Why did you set up those mirrors in the first place, causing those girls at Wuzhong Conservatory of Music to fall into a sleepwalking state and never wake up?" he finally couldn't help but ask.
"Can't wake up? He was definitely awake when I left!" Situ said.
Qingmu shook his head and said, "The mirror maze you set up for Li Qian is still there. Li Qian used it to organize many girls to go out and prostitute themselves, and these girls themselves have no idea."
Situ had remained calm until now, when a slight look of surprise appeared on his face, but it was fleeting. "It seems I overlooked something!"
He walked to the fire, gently added some dry branches, and said to Ivan, " Ivan, bring out some more of our meat; I think everyone is hungry."
Ivan somehow got some pieces of meat, skewered them with branches, and roasted them over the fire. Soon they sizzled and oozed oil, and the aroma filled people's noses.
Alice suddenly felt nauseous and pointed at the piece of meat, gagging, "This... could it be...?"
Situ smiled when he saw her expression and said, "Don't worry, this is a big fish we caught at the beach. We've done some simple processing and cut it into pieces for easy carrying."
He then took a small, crystalline substance from his pocket. "This is salt. Spread some on when you eat it later; it tastes really good."
"My God! You turned seawater into salt? How did you do that?" Alice exclaimed in amazement.
"It's not sea salt. There are natural salt mines on the island. We just picked up a few pieces." Situ broke the salt pieces into small salt grains and distributed them to everyone.
At first, everyone was afraid that it was human flesh, but now that they know it's sea fish and even has salt, their mouths are watering.
The Crow cawed merrily, "The crows are starving! The crows are starving!"
Everyone sat around the fire, watching Ivan skillfully roast the meat, and then waited with drooling anticipation for it to cook.
Only Qingmu stood to one side, staring unblinkingly at Situ: "You haven't answered my question yet."
Situ asked, "Is this question important?"
Qingmu said, "Of course! This concerns a decision I'm about to make."
What decision?
Should I treat you as a friend, or kill you?
Situ paused for a moment; this was the first time people had seen him with such a noticeable change in expression. However, he quickly broke into a smile, a hearty and cheerful laugh.
He said, "You really are an interesting person, I admire you. Xiaoxiao made the right decision to have Meimei recognize you as her godfather." He then looked at Qingmu, a hint of melancholy in his eyes, "Are Xiaoxiao Meimei doing well?"
"Everything is fine!" Qingmu nodded and said, "I met your wife on Rapa Island. She had been looking for you, but I sent her back. She entrusted me to find you."
"Thank you!" Situ said gratefully, then fell silent.
He gazed at the firelight, his face radiant with happiness, as if he were seeing his beloved and daughter reflected in the flames. Qingmu watched quietly, not disturbing his longing.
After a while, Situ came to his senses.
"Your question can't be answered in just a few words, so please allow me to ramble on a bit." Situ sat down and helped Ivan grill the meat, saying as he did so, "You must have discovered some secrets to be here. I noticed the uniqueness of these islands a long time ago, and I have Mr. Yeger to thank for that."
He glanced at Mrs. Larry and continued, "I've always suspected that the world is in a man-made, Group Real-Scene Dream, but that's another topic, and I can't elaborate here. What I want to say is that every large-scale Group Real-Scene Dream has very high environmental requirements, demanding extremely harsh conditions, making its natural formation highly unlikely. Therefore, I suspect there are some man-made dreamscapes on Earth, but I haven't been able to find them. Later, Mr. Yeger's discussions of the Maya civilization and Gendaya Civilization inspired me, leading me to focus on these islands in the Pacific Ocean."
Qingmu and Su Huilan simultaneously recalled Petru's nautical charts. They exchanged a glance, then looked at Petru, only to find him listening intently as well.
" Mr. Yeger mentioned a sacred site on the island called Tapu, which the locals call a relic left behind by the Gendaya People. However, Mr. Yeger did not discover the Mental Power of the Tapu, only saying that it possessed divine energy. This is not his fault; he is not Awakened, and precisely because of this, he deserves our respect even more."
The islands containing Tapu are arranged in a certain pattern, and I suspect this pattern is the Real-Scene Dream. I wanted to find out its pattern, so I studied it for a long time, and even lived here with my wife and daughter for several years."
As Situ spoke, Aoki suddenly remembered seeing Meimei's house in her dream. The scenery in those layers of dream remnants was so beautiful that when Meimei saw Aoki admiring the scenery in Wuzhong Riverside Park, she said that her house was much more beautiful than the park. So it turned out that it was some island in the South Pacific!
Meimei is a natural lucid dreamer. She said that Situ forbade her from dreaming about her father, and she actually did it. She even built a secret little house so she could meet her father in her dreams.
At the time, Qingmu thought it was just childish innocence, but now he realizes it might all have been orchestrated by Situ. Meimei said no one taught her how to dream; that seemingly innate ability to awaken, besides being a gift from an excellent father, was more likely because Situ had already laid out a Heavenly Road to awakening for her within her dreams...
Thinking about it this way, Qingmu had to admit that Situ was very powerful, extremely powerful! But a sense of worry also arose in his heart: if such a powerful person were not restrained, the destruction he would cause to the world would be devastating.
He thought of Kitano Masatake again...
Situ continued, "I have grasped some patterns, but the Ghost Island at sea are troubling me greatly. I cannot accurately pinpoint the location of all the islands, nor can I measure the relationship between the strengths of all the Tapu's Mental Power Field. Without that, I cannot find the control hub of the entire dream."
Therefore, I had to find a way on my own. I used the known patterns to conduct deductive experiments on a small scale, hoping to deduce the location and intensity of all the Tapu. However, simulating the Mental Power Field was a challenge. I couldn't use my own Mental Power to influence the subjects every time I conducted an experiment, as this would hinder my observation and adjustments.
Then I thought of a mirror.