127: Chapter 127 Dream?

[ Blackness fills your entire vision. ]

[ Your only sensation is black, very black; everything around you is black. ]

[ You open your eyes, and everything around you is absolute blackness. ]

[ Subconsciously, you attempt to mobilize the spiritual power within your body, but there is nothing. ]

[ It is not the feeling of Spiritual Qi exhaustion. ]

[ It is as if your entire cultivation base is gone. ]

[ This feeling is very strange. ]

[ Let's use an analogy: everyone has two legs and takes them for granted; whenever you think about it, your left or right leg moves according to your will. But now, if one of your legs were cut off, it would be an extremely strange sensation—your brain subconsciously wants to move that leg, but there is nothing there anymore. ]

[ You are experiencing that exact feeling right now; your Mahayana cultivation base, the very foundation of your existence, has actually vanished at this moment. ]

[ You do not know what has happened. ]

[ Strangely, you do not feel even a trace of panic; on the contrary, your heart is extremely calm, unnervingly so. ]

[ You move your hands. ]

[ Both hands are fine. ]

[ You move your legs again. ]

[ Hmm, the legs are fine too. ]

[ You can think right now, which means you are alive. ]

[ "Let me think." You subconsciously stroke your chin. ]

[ You should still be in the simulator. ]

[ Main body, I'm not dead, right? If you aren't cowardly, respond to me. ]

"First, you are indeed in the simulator; second, even if I responded, you wouldn't be able to hear it." Lin Heng watches the content on the simulator, his mouth twitching involuntarily.

Well, that is indeed something he would say.

"Third, and most importantly, I, Lin Heng, am not cowardly!!!" Lin Heng says.

[ You think for a moment; the main body naturally will not respond. If the simulation were continuing, he would probably be shouting that he is not cowardly. ]

Lin Heng: "..."

Lin Heng inexplicably wants to slap himself right now.

But he just thinks about it and decides against it.

[ You look around, but you cannot see anything, nor can you feel anything. ]

[ You should be standing on some kind of tile-like block. ]

[ You remember joining the Human Federation military, then being swallowed into a spatial collapse, and immediately after opening your eyes, you arrived here. ]

[ Is this inside the collapse? ]

[ No, according to the Federation's existing theories, this is impossible. The inside of a collapse should be a world similar to a meat grinder, where neutron quantum bombs cause reversible distortion in space, followed by rapid spatial repair. If a human were sucked in, their entire body would be twisted along with the space. ]

[ It is very obvious that you are currently in a stable space, so you quickly rule out this possibility. ]

[ Wait a minute, thinking about it like this, you suddenly think of a very serious problem. ]

[ Why do you have such great love for the Federation? ]

[ The Human Federation is not a highly evolved utopian society. ]

[ Although it is a federal system on the surface, the existence of the Human Emperor means that, frankly speaking, the Human Federation is just a somewhat feudal Empire. ]

[ This is very strange! ]

[ Is such an Empire really worth you risking your life for? ]

[ This is not you. ]

"I thought the Federation was just so great that it made Prisoner 7 risk his life without hesitation," Lin Heng says, looking at the content on the simulator. "Turns out there's more to it."

[ Suddenly, you feel something behind you hugging you. ]

[ In that instant, all the hairs on your body stand up. ]

[ Your brain starts racing. ]

[ The inscription of a Formation is completed in your brain in an instant. ]

[ Damn it. ]

[ You have no cultivation base right now; you cannot mobilize Spiritual Qi. ]

[ It wouldn't be a ghost behind you, would it? ]

[ You dare not look back. ]

[ You can feel that thing... it's very soft. ]

[ It feels quite nice. ]

[ And then... it smells very fragrant. ]

[ You don't know what the other person used to bathe, but an inexplicable scent drifts through this pitch-black space and into your nose. ]

[ The person hugging you from behind must be a human, and it should be a... woman! ]

[ She wraps her arms around your waist, then frees one hand, moving it up your waist until it finally reaches your face. ]

[ Her hand is very light as it gently brushes across your face. ]

[ Immediately after, she presses her forehead against your back. ]

[ You do not speak; you dare not speak. ]

[ She does not speak either; she just holds you with both hands. ]

[ This pitch-black space is very quiet; there isn't even the sound of wind. ]

[ The only sounds you can hear are your heartbeat and the sound of the other person's heartbeat. ]

[ Crying—you hear it; she is crying. ]

[ Her hands holding you seem to tighten a bit more. ]

[ You don't know why, but hearing her cry makes your heart speed up inexplicably; it is a very strange feeling. ]

"That's right, Prisoner 7, you were just scared shitless," Lin Heng says.

[ The other person is sobbing in a low voice; the sound of her crying is very soft, but it is enough. ]

[ In this pitch-black hellhole, it is loud enough, at least enough to drown out the sound of your two heartbeats. ]

[ You are held by her just like that, listening to her crying, and you feel the clothes on your back getting wet. ]

[ Pain, it hurts, it hurts so much!!!! ]

[ Suddenly, you feel your entire body being twisted, a pain as if your whole body is falling apart. ]

[ Wait, wait a little longer, I want to see her. ]

[ You can feel that the girl behind you is obviously panicked too; she lets go of you. ]

[ Although it is still pitch-black all around, you know she must be standing there at a loss, not knowing what to do. ]

[ What a fool. ]

[ Light begins to appear all around. ]

[ Wait, wait a little longer, I beg you, just wait a little longer!!! ]

[ You want to turn your body to see her face. ]

[ But unfortunately, your body seems to be twisted by the entire space, completely out of your control. ]

[ No, no!!! ]

[ In an instant, countless Formations are set up around you by you, and you mobilize all your spiritual power, just wanting to twist yourself around. ]

[ Wait, why do you suddenly have spiritual power? ]

[ Forget it, don't worry about such trifles. ]

[ Success. ]

[ There really is a girl behind you, but she is only a phantom image, and it looks like she is about to disappear. ]

[ It is getting brighter and brighter all around, just like a star suddenly unleashing its radiance. ]

[ She is about to disappear; she wipes the tears from the corners of her eyes, her eye sockets very red. ]

[ "You are, you are!!!" You know who she is. ]

[ You cannot see her specific facial features clearly, only a phantom image, but that is enough. ]

[ You are certain that she is a very important person to you, an extremely important person; that unforgettable memory, you will not forget. ]

[ You will absolutely not forget!!! ]

[ She is... she is... who is she again!!!!! ]

[ She smiles. ]

[ Her mouth opens, and she seems to say something. ]

[ She said to you... ]

"What did she say?" Lin Heng says.

[ The white light all around becomes incredibly bright in an instant, just like Pangu splitting the world; suddenly, there is light. ]

[ You open your eyes, and it is somewhat dark before you; your eyes have been covered by someone, seemingly with gauze. ]

[ Someone helps him remove the gauze. ]

[ Light leaks in through the gaps, stinging his pupils and causing them to contract. ]

[ In his blurry vision, a person wearing a Federation official uniform is standing by the bed, holding a document, jabbering on about something he cannot hear very clearly. ]

[ "Corporal Lin Heng, I am truly happy for you; you are one of the forty survivors of that battle..." ]

[ You feel your body in great pain, likely caused by the distortion from the collapse, but the Federation hospital has already treated it. ]

[ After recuperating for a period of time, you will be able to recover. ]

[ Then, the official straightens his body and announces in a tone so formal it is almost rigid that he is awarding you the Federation's highest honor badge on behalf of His Majesty the Human Emperor. ]

[ A silver-white metal badge is gently placed on the tray at his bedside, making a very light, crisp clinking sound. ]

[ You do not care. ]

[ You lie on the hospital bed with hollow eyes, just glancing at the badge casually. ]

[ You seem to have just had a dream, a dream so real, impossibly real. ]

[ "I think I just met someone very important to me." You mutter to yourself. ]

[ You try hard to recall exactly what you just experienced. ]

[ You are very certain that you met someone. ]

[ You are very certain that you know her name. ]

[ You are very certain that she is a very important person to you. ]

[ You are also very certain that she said something very important to you. ]

[ But you cannot be certain whether that actually existed or if it was just a so-called illusory dream. ]

[ You only remember that you seem to have just had a dream, but you do not remember any of the specific details at all. ]

[ You seem to have just experienced something, but as far as you are concerned, that is all. ]

"What the hell, is Prisoner 7 confused from dreaming?" Lin Heng says, looking at the content above.

Although he knows Prisoner 7 just met some woman, it didn't say who that actually was.

"Suddenly my head hurts," Lin Heng remarks.