Chapter 53: First Hearing of the Fantasy Dreamland
Lines of text unfolded in front of him, and a slightly shabby room appeared in his vision. Several young men in Qingyun military uniforms gathered around the dining table, and a pot of steaming hot stew was placed in the middle of them.
Although it was just a static CG, Feng Xue could clearly feel the relaxed atmosphere of these people.
As the picture unfolded, three options also appeared in front of Feng Xue——
[1. Rest. ]
[2. Entertainment. ]
[3. Training. ]
There was still no prompt, but the training item was undoubtedly to improve one's own skills, and the remaining two seemed to be options for restoring san value, but considering that "the previous node may affect the subsequent plot", it may also be an option to restore irreversible damage to the body.
In addition, it is also necessary to consider that there should be more than three options in the safe corner. Maybe the next time you enter the same node, you will encounter other options.
But now...
Feng Xue glanced at the san value that had dropped to 39 unknowingly, and after thinking for less than a second, he chose to train.
How did that sentence go?
No matter how strong you are in the game, it is fake.
Compared with the training that can actually be fed back to reality, the option of restoring san value is so low!
Of course, if it can be fully restored at once, that's another story, but with Feng Xue's understanding of the value dropped by the gold finger, he estimated that at most 15 points of recovery would be the best.
As the choice was made, the picture became blurred, and then the picture turned to the dilapidated village.
In the window of the room behind him, he could vaguely see his companions who had fallen asleep, and a line of text also appeared at this moment——
[Although it is a rare rest time, you who have a difficult task do not intend to miss any opportunity to exercise, but due to the environment, the skills you can exercise are really limited. ]
[Please choose the skills you want to improve. ]
The skill list unfolded in front of him, and Feng Xue frowned slightly. The node text was not a polite remark, and the skills in front of him were indeed limited.
But this time Feng Xue did not hesitate at all. He did not even consider how much the upper limit of this node could be improved, and he had already made a choice.
Because he saw "Architecture" in the skill list.
However, to his regret, the safe corner node is not like the self-training of Longchang Enlightenment, but like a skill unlocking ticket, it adds a lot of knowledge out of thin air.
"The knowledge of professional-level architecture is only up to the dream seeker? But the standard for reaching the dream seeker level is to construct the so-called "dream key" through imagination, and then actively log in to the "dreamland"? Damn, why is this name so unlucky!"
Feng Xue frowned as he browsed the information at a glance, but soon, his uneasiness that just because the "name" overlapped with a system in his previous life was covered by greater confusion.
Because he suddenly found that his golden finger was not brought by his own travel!
Or rather -
Not all!
For example, the 20-sided dice that has never been used since it appeared (see Chapter 1 Snowy Night Orphan for details), and the san value on the top of the head that has a similar function to the blood bar, all belong to the system of the architect of this world!
To be precise, it is the pinnacle of the architects of this world, the powerful one known as the Creator, who added rules to the Dreamland in order to make the architects' exploration of the Dreamland safer!
According to the knowledge of the professional architect unlocked this time, the so-called Dreamland is the spiritual world formed by the intersection of the G·I force field emitted unintentionally by all the intellectual life forms in this world. To some extent, it can be considered as the common dreamland of all creatures.
Exploring this dreamland can improve one's own affinity for G·I particles. At the same time, the "matter" in the Dreamland itself is the "crystallization" of G·I particles. By "occupying" it by some means, it can be "recorded", which greatly reduces the difficulty of constructing corresponding things in reality.
However, the Dreamland is not a benefit for humans, but a curse, because this world contains the self-consciousness of countless lives and has a direct connection with every human being. This means that when the architect explores the Dreamland with a spiritual body, the complex spiritual imprint in the Dreamland will also reversely erode the architect's spirit.
This led to the fact that when the architecture system first appeared, exploring the Dreamland was almost a taboo. All humans who entered the Dreamland and whose realm was lower than that of the Shadow Chaser fell into madness without exception.
Without the support of the Dreamland, only super geniuses with extraordinary talents could reach the realm of Shadow Chaser.
However, later, as the "Creators" embedded rules into the Dreamland, the difficulty of exploration also decreased.
Today, even a heart-asking guest may accidentally enter the Dreamland by chance, and for the person, it is no longer the bad luck that was thought hundreds of years ago, but a God-given opportunity.
According to the knowledge obtained this time, since the first creator, there should be a total of nine creators who have completed the embedding of rules, but only six of them are really understood, namely -
1. The Dreamland will extract the G·I particles of each architect to construct a role card, and the architect's spirit will explore the Dreamland by manipulating the role card.
2. After each architect enters the Dreamland, his mental state will be quantified as a san value, with a maximum san value of 100. Whenever he is polluted by the Dreamland or his mental state declines, his san value will decrease. When the san value reaches zero, the character card automatically collapses and triggers a pop-up mechanism to eject the architect from the Dreamland.
3. After entering the Dreamland, each architect will get a dice. In each exploration, he will have a chance to roll the dice and strengthen himself in a specific direction according to the number of dice points. The larger the number of dice points, the more specific the direction of strengthening and the higher the degree of strengthening.
5. After defeating the monsters in the Dreamland, you can get spoils of war.
6. There will be prophet huts in the Dreamland that issue tasks, and you can get corresponding rewards by completing tasks.
7. Nightmares and sweet dreams can transform into each other.
…
“The fourth, eighth, and ninth items are missing, and the seventh item is also a bit confusing. It should be a hidden annotation or the following text.” Feng Xue repeatedly reviewed the knowledge in his mind, and after confirming that he did not read the wrong number or missed one, he finally determined that the knowledge corresponding to these three items might have surpassed the professional level.
But…
“The fourth item exceeds the professional level, but the fifth, sixth, and seventh items are still for the professional level. This shows that the number is not arranged according to a limit. In other words… is it an established order? Then the seventh item means that only this riddle can be known by the professional level, and the subsequent parts must be higher to reach?”
Thinking about these things in his mind, Feng Xue once again turned his attention to his golden finger.
Whether it is the new body after entering the node, the san value as the blood bar, or the unused dice, they are all directly related to these rules. Even the collections and nodes are similar to the rules of the prophet’s hut and monster drops.
This made it hard for him not to wonder whether his golden finger was a by-product of the time travel or a native product of this world.
But...
If it was native to this world, what principles did those collections with obvious meme elements rely on to work?