Author: Binary Sword Fairy

Chen Yan hung up the phone.

At this moment, on the second floor of a closed tavern on Birmingham Street in Yanan City, there is an old woman sitting in a wheelchair in the corner of the pale room under the moonlight. The old woman is already very old, as big as her entire body.

The man has lost his shape, and although his eyes are open, the look in his eyes is almost completely distracted.

There is a portable medical stent tied to the right rear of the wheelchair, and an inverted hanging bottle hangs above the stent. The infusion line extending from the mouth of the bottle is connected to the pinhole on the back of the old woman's hand that is sealed with medical tape.

.

On the left side of the wheelchair hung a bag that collected bile. The thick yellow liquid in it represented the deterioration of her body.

Next to her was Thomas Gilbert, who had just "grown" from her foot.

He grew out of a toe on her foot like a sprout, and was gradually shaped into the appearance of "Thomas Gilbert" by an invisible force.

And now, the growth is complete.

Thomas Gilbert reached out, took out the razor from the brim of his octagonal hat, and swung the knife to cut off the connection between the sole of his foot and the stone sculpture.

A viscous pale liquid flowed from the severed part. Thomas Gilbert applied the liquid to the wound on the sole of his foot, and the wound healed quickly.

Under the moonlight, he knelt in front of the old woman, his face expressionless as if recovering from a serious illness, and his blue and white pupils had no expression.

He first knelt down towards her, then prostrated himself on the ground.

Under the pale moonlight, there were some water stains in the old woman's completely distracted eyes - she was crying.

"aunt."

Thomas Gilbert spoke to the stone sculpture, with a gentle tone like a child admitting his mistake to an adult after doing something wrong:

"I won't screw up again this time."

The old woman sat there quietly, as if she didn't hear anything.

Thomas Gilbert kissed her instep, then stood up with his head lowered, respectfully left the room backwards, and locked the door of the room.

…

…

a few hours ago.

Dais Island Pier, on the boat, when Chen Yan was dreaming.

Wishlist lay on Chen Yan's quilt, watching the constant struggle due to fear on Chen Yan's face, and put his fingers on Chen Yan's forehead, as if in meditation.

In the field of vision that only she could see, where Chen Yan's forehead was touched by her, countless memory fragments of the world burst out, flying messily in the cabin, forming a crazy spinning piece of paper centered on Chen Yan's forehead.

swirl.

This was the first time that Wishful encountered such a situation, and he felt a little panicked.

'What the hell is going on...'

She stared at the memory fragments of the world flying around, exerted all her strength, and blushed.

'stop!'

The "engine stalling sound" that only she could hear sounded, and the wildly rotating vortex came to an abrupt end.

Wish to see an unusual fragment of world memory at a glance - it is a black fragment of world memory!

‘Finally I saw it!!!’

I wish I could stay next to the counterfeit for three days and three nights just for this moment!

So he twisted his body and plunged towards the fragment.

Unprecedented feelings appear in the desire's senses -

It was hazy, like a dream that had gone through countless years.

Complex murmurs flooded into my mind, and endless colorful lights and shadows appeared one after another.

Until the sound of rain got louder and louder, I wish suddenly opened my eyes——

In the dark rain alley, several skinny wild dogs covered in malignant tumors were surrounding a young man wearing a black one-piece raincoat.

The boy's weapon against these dogs was only a black plastic stick. Although he was very embarrassed by the wild dogs, he was not injured under their siege.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, covering the sky and the sun. There was darkness between the sky and the earth, and there was no trace of sunlight at all above and below the sky.

The colorful neon lights that came from nowhere illuminated everything in the rain alley. The lights attracted the attention of the wild dogs. The boy took this opportunity to suddenly turn his head and run away.

The wild dogs with extremely sensitive nerve reflexes followed closely behind, and their abnormal barking mixed with electronic sounds was like a death spell.

It wasn't until the boy stepped out of the rain alley that the barking suddenly stopped without warning.

The wild dogs stopped in the rain alley. The thin line of rain between the rain alley and the main road seemed to be a steel seal engraved in their genes, and no step could be overstepped.

The boy didn't look back, he just folded up the black plastic stick and stuffed it into his pocket, as if all this was normal to him.

When Wishes came to the boy, she saw something wrapped in isolation paper in his arms. She guessed that this thing might be the reason why the boy was chased by wild dogs.

Beyond the rain lane is a wide street. If you look up, you can see countless billboards scattered in the air between the buildings like chaotic fish scales. This is where the light and shadow of the previous neon lights come from.

Due to the large number of billboards, the neon lights emitted were refracted by the heavy rain, causing the entire space to be scattered with chaotic light of various colors. These lights followed the chaotic dance of the "line dancers" dancing on the dynamic billboards.

Rapid changes occurred, and the different lights of countless dynamic billboards were intertwined, as if they were performing a chaotic dance of demons.

The streets were crowded with people, and people in black raincoats were rushing to and fro. It seemed that it was not much different from Walker Street during the commute in Yanan City - except that the scene in front of me was more unreal, like... a dream.

'What's going on...'

Wishes follow the boy's back.

'This is obviously not what Chen Yan has experienced, not when he was in Tianshen State, and it is probably not even what he has experienced before traveling through time - if he has experienced such a dangerous life, if he has lived in such a crisis-ridden environment,

Later Chen Yan would not be so...kind to others.'

'Where is this place...and what is going on with this Chen Yan here?'

The young man Chen Yan had a clear purpose. He passed through a crowded street and entered a back alley without even distinguishing the billboards as road signs. After walking for a while, he turned around and knocked on a back door.

The young man Chen Yan was obviously a regular customer here. The electronic peephole only spent a short time scanning his face, and the back door was opened.

Wishes followed him into the door, and his eyes were immediately attracted by a large number of retro computers that came into view.

This is a room...

cybercafe?

To be precise, it is a black Internet cafe - the front desk of the Internet cafe is right next to the back door, and there is no other safe exit except the back door. The interior of the Internet cafe is smoky, but those things are obviously not cigarettes, but something worse than cigarettes.

There were not many people in the black Internet cafe, but there were constant yells and shouts at the computers. The young man Chen Yan had obviously adapted to such an environment. He put something wrapped in isolation paper on the bar of the Internet cafe and said:

"Do you keep my machine?"

In the bar, a "halfling" with his lower body hidden in a paint bucket replied in a tone of greeting a friend: "I'll keep it for you."

When I looked carefully, I saw that this "halfling" actually didn't have a normal lower body - his "lower body" was hidden in a dirty abandoned paint bucket.

Inside the paint bucket is a large number of chips connected by dense circuits. Both the circuits and the chips are obviously second-hand, because the traces of use are particularly heavy and extremely serious traces of use can be seen. Even the circuit boards of some chips are damaged.

Aging has occurred.

'This is...a brain robot?'

Wishes was surprised that he didn't recognize this person's true identity for a moment.

'No, they are intelligent humans that are more advanced than brain robots.'

'Although it looks old and shabby... the technology is very advanced. It's just because of the aging of the materials and the unorganized and undesigned wiring that it looks so bad.'

Desire looked through the man's skull and saw the brain inside. She moved her gaze downwards and quickly saw the man's other body organs - those organs were not the flesh and blood tissue of normal carbon-based organisms, but some kind of eyesight.

It looks like a biological organ that has been "crystallized".

‘Crystallization? It means that his organs have the properties of certain silicon-based substances—his biological tissues have become silicon-based!’

'This siliconization is obviously controllable, and the organs in his body even look like some kind of mass-produced general-purpose model...

This means that the technological capabilities of this era have enabled the biological tissues of carbon-based life forms to undergo more perfect silicon-based transformations!

This is much stronger than the [carbon-based silicon neutralization] that was simple and crude and had extremely strong side effects in Chen Yan’s time. Although the two essentially use the same idea, their technical capabilities are not at the same level.’

The siliconized body parts pieced together this person's life.

'What kind of era is this...'

'Even an intelligent human being is too real... This person looks just like a real person. If it weren't for these cables, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.'

Desire moved her gaze to this man's face.

'Hmm... This face looks familiar. Isn't it the elder brother named William who Chen Yan worshiped in prison before?

Since William has appeared, it means that this place is still very likely to be just some kind of dream - it stands to reason that dreams are the rearrangement and combination of all elements in people's subjective consciousness and subconsciousness, and any outrageous dream that appears is normal.

As long as known elements appear in the dream, it can be determined that it is a dream and not something else.

Well... if you think about it from this perspective, isn't the technology reflected in Da William the "ultimate upgraded version" of "Carbon-based Silicon Neutralization"!
To be continued...