868 chapter: See you again, demon girl Anna
“Speaking… blue, do you like eating soul quality?”
After messing around for half a day, I mixed a creature from the dreamland, but there was not much harvest when I had my own ideas.
“Souls? Don’t like it!”
The blue clearly responded with such an answer.
“Then do you think… what is the soul quality belonging to? Is it a snack, or is it edible, but… classifiable into non-edible trash?”
“Hmm… strange… I think it’s non-edible trash.” Blue quickly gave such an answer.
“Not very like… it can also be eaten, but I can’t eat it.” This is bad luck.
“Crunch~! Huh…” this is a sour fruit.
“This… from the perspective of knowledge, I think the theory that can be eaten… but I know that in real worlds, carnivores eat meat, but humans don’t eat much… probably…” this statement is a star.
“Yes, the star is indeed very strange.” As for the star saying, I thought of myself. Do you like eating soul quality?
Regardless of unstable soul crystals or shapeless soul states, I will not go to eat it.
Even if using it to enhance life levels cannot be described as eating,
that is a very complex process.
For a life form of my soul essence, it requires other ways to absorb.
Although I always say foolish dreams are dream creatures, they are not like the dream creatures in the primordial dream… they don’t like eating soul quality.
Or rather, they are not made from soul quality; they are merely a group of pure dream consciousness, which is why they are “occupied” by the dream demons carried by the dream creatures.
So far, to summarize all that I have verified after all my experiments in the simplest way, it can be said like this.
Dream demons are the “organs” through which dream creatures absorb soul quality, and they are also the primal desire driving them to do so.
Nightmares also attach to dream consciousness, constituting an essential part of the dream realm.
All these operational rules only apply to the primordial dream, just as fish exist because the ocean provides such an environment.
Among them, the concept of the primordial dream exchanging with reality is the only “information” and “soul quality.”
Among these two, information only makes up a series of concepts such as data in reality, while soul quality… can also be converted, but it is not actively converted by the primordial dream, rather it relies on dream creatures for conversion.
Alternatively… understanding the composition of the primordial dream and its relationship with reality may not provide any help to the current stage of research, but in practice, it helps a lot; it’s just that this understanding does not focus on any specific area of research.
Just like a person who does not understand ecology, cannot comprehend the habits of various organisms, does not understand the dynamic balance between predators and prey, how can they understand the composition of the food chain?
How can one know what to do and what not to do once entering an ecological circle?
The primordial dream is such an “ecosystem,” and I am trying to adapt to it.
As for wanting to conquer it? That is still too far. Even if I master the dream realm, I wouldn’t dare to speak such grand words.
Just as my experiments were still ongoing, there was suddenly some noise at the door of the laboratory.
I temporarily put down my actions and curiously looked over.
“Xiao Han~ Wow… is it really only you here, little witch?”
“Eh?”
Hearing the other party’s voice and that tone, even before I saw her, I already knew who the witch coming over was.
“Is it Sister Aina?”
“Yes, oh, it’s been so many days since we parted from that Fool Village, and we finally meet again!”
Aina walked in from the doorway, and this time she was not alone; three other witches followed her!
These three either were ones I had met in Fool Village during my time in the primordial dream or were brought out from the primordial dream by me; in any case, they are all familiar witches.
“Actually, not many days have passed~ So how is it, after leaving the primordial dream, have you recovered your spirit?”
“Of course! You can’t underestimate the recovery ability and adaptability of an extraordinary witch!” Aina brought her sisters, who were tight-knit companions, to the side of the laboratory.
Then they instinctively didn’t move forward any further, because as soon as they entered, they felt that familiar aura from the primordial dream!
“Wow… it’s really a controllable primordial dream descending! This time, we’re going to siphon some of your light, Xiao Lian!”
“Truly amazing… it’s the first time I’ve seen such a small yet orderly primordial dream! Filled with aesthetics of domination.”
“It seems the academy head has already clarified everything to you? ‘Seeing their reactions, though surprised, it was evident they knew in advance; I knew they must have heard it from the academy head before coming.'”
“That’s right! We were the first batch to arrive. Principal Mei made it all mysterious when calling us; frankly, before coming… we couldn’t believe it was true at all!”
“Then this time, do you think seeing is believing?” I stepped from the central area of the laboratory to the edge where they were located.
“This time, I have completely surrendered…” Aina was in Fool Village and didn’t witness the order at that time in the primordial dream; however, after coming out, they had heard it mentioned more than once!
So she was very clear that Xiao Lian’s achievements in the primordial dream surpassed theirs.
Although they were witches of the soul major topic, that was merely the soul major topic and not the direct primordial dream topic; moreover, this branch still did not have a specific witch topic!
“Wait! Xiao Lian, you have… a real body? You just maintained a real body at the edge of the primordial dream region?” At this moment, Aina, after patting my shoulder, was instantly shocked!
She thought I was in the vicinity of the primordial dream and presumed it was a soul consciousness body.
To be clear, this was the primordial dream descending!
Even though… it’s a controllable primordial dream… well, in reality, they were unsure of the principle; they came here simply because Principal Mei said that there was a safe, achievable controllable primordial dream descending.
“Is there any problem? Oh, perhaps you misunderstood; my consciousness sinks into the primordial dream, unfolding the dream realm, and this controllable primordial dream descending into reality is maintained by this method. My body can move, can comprehend…”
That is: for multi-threaded operation of consciousness, after all, I need to interact with some experimental apparatus and materials in reality to facilitate my experiments.”
“Is that possible? Just by approaching the primordial dream, I can instinctively have my soul leave my body. How did you do it, Xiao Han? Consciousness cutting, or…”
“I mastered a very special clone technique, allowing my body to synchronize with the dream and reality.”
“Alright, alright~ Aina could only smile and not ask further.”
After all, Xiao Han said it was a special technique rather than a specific named technique, indicating that this technique was not convenient for dissemination, and Xiao Han also didn’t want to bring it up more, so she was curious but didn’t pry further.
But she couldn’t help but exclaim at the comprehensiveness of Xiao Han’s abilities; it seemed a bit too much…
After roughly understanding the situation in the laboratory, I started to arrange some necessary facilities for them.
After all, strictly speaking, they weren’t here to help me do anything; they wanted to borrow this controllable primordial dream that I maintained to do what they wanted to do.
So the usage rules for this hour of “primordial dream” also need to be assigned.
At the beginning, the primordial dream was roughly the size of a fist; that was in its initial stage. After gradually stabilizing the core dream nucleus, the current deep-layer primordial dream had reached the theoretical value I previously simulated, which is one-eighth of a square’s size.
Although that’s just the size of a small ornamental fish tank, it’s definitely enough for experiments.
And since Aina and the others had previously fallen into the primordial dream, they became a bit more cautious, but that death-seeking mindset inherent in witches could not be suppressed.
After discussing, they decided to rotate and exchange their soul consciousness’s existence in the laboratory.
In other words, one would be in reality while the other would exist as soul consciousness within the overlapping dream of the laboratory; this would help better collect the primordial dream data they wanted.
So they needed to prepare lying down spots, otherwise once they entered the dream, their original bodies couldn’t just lie down on the ground, right?
After all, this is a normal laboratory, and it wouldn’t make the professional scholars’ research environment so harsh.
“Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to ask one thing.” At this moment, Aina then opened her mouth to ask.
“Is there anything else?”
“Right, just now you mentioned this controllable primordial dream; it is based on your dream realm to be completed, so does this mean… to maintain this primordial dream’s descending, you need to be present without leaving?”
“That’s right… not wrong.” I nodded.
Although in reality, I achieved dream overlap through the realm, without my maintenance, it can exist for a long time, but that doesn’t mean it won’t fade away.
Just like the situation with the expanding realm, the entire expanding realm is constantly being reclaimed by the primordial dream; the dream I dispelled is also gradually fading.
After all, dream overlap itself is a “special” state; the continuous repair between reality and dream will maintain the most stable relative state.
That is to say, reality and dream coexist without interfering with one another.
But this applies to shallow dreams.
For deep dreams, specifically to the extent called “primordial dreams,” as soon as I “let go,” it will slowly dissipate.
As for why the expanding realm dissipates so slowly… that’s naturally because the primordial dream has formed a larger scale, and it’s not something that can fade away in a short time.
“Is this alright? Xiao Yuan, this means you will need to stay in the laboratory for a long time; according to your characteristics… you don’t seem like the type to stay in the laboratory long, right?”
“Huh? Me?”
“Isn’t it? Although I don’t know you well, I know that your experiments generally focus on efficiency; there hasn’t been an experiment that lasted over a year.”
“Seems that is true?” I indeed couldn’t rebut this point, “I didn’t expect I would have such a stereotype? But Aina, you can rest assured ~ what I’m doing this time is somewhat difficult; I also don’t know how long it will take, maybe a year or two…”
After all, what I ultimately aim to achieve is to endow the concept of true life to reliant dreams!
“If something goes wrong, I still have my clones ~ so don’t worry ~”
After all, I currently have many clones in the expanding realm and Witch Academy, and if something needs doing, the clones can handle it!
But as I thought of this, I suddenly remembered one thing… that is, if I stay in the laboratory all the time, I won’t be able to compete in bed with Sister Bai!
I might not even be able to go to the instance realm!
Actually, I could briefly go, after all, leaving for a short while is still possible.
But the time for competing in bed wouldn’t be enough…
I slapped my face; the feelings between Sister Bai and me are definitely not just a matter of physical pleasure, but more importantly, it’s about the resonance of our souls!
The separation of matters is not necessarily required!
“Xiao Han? What’s wrong?”
“Oh! It’s nothing… just thought of some other things; not being able to leave the laboratory is indeed somewhat thoughtless, but it’s not something I can overcome.”
After all… my feelings with Sister Bai are very important, but merely a matter of satisfying a desire won’t become an obstacle that trips me up in my growing relationship with Sister Bai.
Furthermore… my agreement with Hui Meng… is equally important!
“So Xiao Han, you might as well act within your capacities; after all, we don’t demand such things; we are merely here to borrow some conveniences.”
“It’s fine; if I have time, I will try, to see how to use some other means to maintain this special controllable primordial dream descending.”
“Still not advisable, Xiao Han; such things are time-consuming and labor-intensive; you might as well follow your own pace.”
“That may not be the case ~”
After all, understanding the principle enables application; ultimately, it’s just about using some technique to create something that can replace my function in the primordial dream realm.
What’s important has never been the power to replace the dream realm, but rather the techniques that can maintain the descending of the primordial dream; the dream realm is merely a means to achieve this, but not the only means.
Just like your phone can crack a walnut, but a hammer can also crack a walnut; however, the technological content between the two cannot be generalized.
