Chapter 471 - Chapter 471: Chapter 471: Alice Falls from the Sky (1/2)
Chapter 471: Chapter 471: Alice Falls from the Sky
When John went to Yangcheng to investigate Guo Tianxiang’s whereabouts and ended up in the hands of “Mr. Liang”, the one who truly knew where Guo Tianxiang had gone, Xiang Kun, was at home experiencing another Blood-drinking Period.
On March 11, he woke up from his blood-drinking slumber in Citong City, returned home with Old Xia, successfully conducted several experiments, and began to gradually integrate Alice into the “Super sensory Item System”. For nearly a week, Xiang Kun and Old Xia were wondering how to better “train” Alice, so that she could adapt to the “Super sensory Item System” and “Super Sensory Information”.
At present, in the various experiments they conducted, the best way to give Alice a “Positive Influence” and “Super sensory training” was still Old Xia’s “Dream in A Dream”.
However, Old Xia’s various communication strategies and training methods for Alice in the “Dream in A Dream”, although effective, making Alice’s performance in the “Dream in A Dream” increasingly “vivid” and more deeply integrated with the “Super sensory Item System”. Her ability to decode and compile “Super Sensory Information” was growing stronger and steadily advancing, but the problem was that it was too steady.
If they continued at this pace, they would have to train in the “Dream in A Dream” every day for a long period of time, possibly a full year, to fully integrate Alice into the “Super sensory Item System”. Not to mention the delay in time, but the normalization of this “Dream in A Dream” would exhaust Old Xia.
Moreover, Xiang Kun vaguely felt that this pattern might reach a bottleneck in the end, significantly reducing its efficiency, and it might not even maintain its current speed.
Old Xia was also aware of this situation, but she had no solution since, according to her analysis and practical attempts, using the current plan to guide, train, and “filter” Alice in the “Dream in A Dream” was already the best solution.
So after this Blood-drinking Period, Xiang Kun decided to introduce Alice to a “new friend” —— Little Fatty Girl.
Of course, it was still through Old Xia’s “Dream in A Dream”.
Xiang Kun also contacted Little Fatty Girl via QQ after nightfall and gave her a “preview”, but he knew it didn’t matter much, because although Little Fatty Girl could remember what she dreamt after waking up and was aware that it was a special dream, she was unable to wake up like Old Xia in the dream. She was still the confused “subconscious version of Little Fatty Girl”, all reactions were instinctive.
The reason why Old Xia’s “Dream in A Dream” could influence Alice was rooted in the fact that the underlying implementation of the “Dream in A Dream” was Xiang Kun, and Alice, who entered through the “Super Sensory Information”, could verify this, which accorded with her core operational rules.
Little Fatty Girl’s dreams were the same. She was the only one besides Old Xia who could establish dreams voluntarily through “Super-connected Objects”. From a certain perspective, she was even stronger than Old Xia in combining “Super-connected Objects” and dreams, because Old Xia needed Xiang Kun to first sense dreams to “start”, but Little Fatty Girl had experienced dreaming directly through “Super-connected Objects”.
Of course, unlike Old Xia, even if Little Fatty Girl managed to do it, she was not aware of it. If she was asked to do it again voluntarily, she wouldn’t know how to proceed.
To connect to Little Fatty Girl’s dreams through Old Xia’s dreams, the operation was slightly different from others, as it was done through Xiang Kun’s sensing of “Emotion Infused Objects” for integration. This also allowed Old Xia in the dream to sense the “Black circle graffiti” to connect Alice.
After this Blood-drinking Period, Xiang Kun gave Alice her dedicated “Super-connected Object” —— a transformed 2.4GHz USB receiver for a wireless mouse. The pins inside were established with “Super sensory contact” before the blood-drinking.
Therefore, Alice’s link to the “Super sensory Item System” has been significantly strengthened, and she also had the “hardware basis” for actively “connecting”.
Despite these USB plug pins being a few small metal plates, Xiang Kun had to go to great lengths to use them to establish super-sensory contact, using many tricks and spending a lot of time doing so.
Of course, setting up similar “Super-connected Objects” in the future will be much easier. Xiang Kun even had the idea of trying out other hot-swappable high-speed interfaces, such as SATA.
Once Alice was able to find a “backup” of herself and separate from this mainframe, Xiang Kun wanted to try to see if he could establish a “Super sensory contact” with the pins of the CPU, connect it back after establishing it, and see if it could improve Alice’s ability to connect to the “Super sensory Item System” and decode “Super Sensory Information”.
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If Liu Shiling usually dreams on her own, most of the time, she would be wearing a robe, standing on a mountain peak, with “Chocolate” and “Ice Cream” as her generals, protecting various “subjects” such as rabbits, piglets, chicks, calves, ducklings, et cetera, against all kinds of monsters and demons.
Of course, sometimes she would also be in a giant cartoon-style palace, eating a variety of delicious foods.
After Xiang Kun proactively incorporated Custard Pie into the “Super Sensory Item System,” Liu Shiling could now also notice a certain drowsy big-headed cat in her dreams — before this, the big-headed cat was always ignored by its little owner when it appeared in dreams, being taken merely as a “background.”
However, Liu Shiling’s dreamscape was somewhat different today.
She was still in a “gorgeous” robe with a pure black base, gold trim, cat ears on the head, and a Garfield buckle on the waist. In her hand, she held a magic wand resembling an oversized chopstick and stood solemnly atop a giant formed by various stones, staring into the distance.
The giant was at least seventy to eighty meters tall, with eight arms and two vertical rows of eight eyes on its face. Strangely, instead of normal pupils, each eye resembled a giant coin. Either a “1 yuan” or a “chrysanthemum” pattern could be seen in each eye, with unique coin markings, such as “2006”, “2008”, “YI YUAN”, and so on adorning its body and back.
Clearly, this giant was composed of Little Fatty Girl’s two loyal warriors, “Chocolate” and “Ice Cream.”
The sky was overcast with storm clouds, thunder and lightning abounded, and mountains surrounded them. In the extreme distance, a city poking through the clouds was barely visible, mostly covered by a curtain of rain, with only a small cluster of buildings in view. If the lens were to zoom in, the words “Star City Kindergarten” would become visible.
In another direction, a monster composed of black fog and huge enough to touch the sky was slowly forming, swaying from side to side. Miniature tornadoes formed around it, appearing with its movements. The direction in which it was growling and showing its claws was the location of the city and the kindergarten.
Liu Shiling solemnly watched the black fog monster, prepared for battle, with the two cat ears atop her robe hood flickering as though truly listening for sounds.
A chubby, big-headed orange cat with four sets of wings of various sizes flew in from afar, landing on the giant’s head, standing beside Liu Shiling’s feet, stood up straight, and began incessantly meowing.
Liu Shiling’s eyebrows knitted slightly as she listened and nodded, saying after the cat finished, “I see, the Great Demon King ‘Meng Lalala’s’ target is to invade Star City Kindergarten! Good job, Custard Pie!”
After speaking, she pulled out a grilled saury from her embrace and tossed it to Custard Pie, who opened its mouth wide and swallowed it in one bite, then satisfied, it flew above the little owner’s head.
Liu Shiling, on the other hand, tapped the stone beneath her feet with her magic wand and said in a babyish yet vaguely authoritative voice, “We must stop them! Go, Barbie warriors! For Star City Kindergarten!!”
Above her, the storm clouds roared with impending lightning, crackling as though answering the “Great Wizard’s” summon. The massive eight-armed, eight-eyed stone giant below her began to move towards the black fog monster.
The ground shook, and with a thunderous rumble, the mountains ahead crumbled one by one, the dust and stones flying as though making way for their king.
The decay between heaven and earth grew more severe; in some areas, sunlight cut through the clouds like a sword, lighting up the earth; in others, dark clouds filled the entire space, engulfing everything in a thick fog.
Liu Shiling’s attention was entirely on the black fog monster, and she hadn’t noticed that her dreamscape had begun to turn somewhat bizarre.
Under Xiang Kun’s influence, Old Xia’s “dream within a dream” had begun to merge with Little Fatty Girl’s dream. However, Little Fatty Girl’s dream was quite dominant, and Old Xia was merely sending Alice through his dream as a channel, so compared to their previous dream merges, the commotion and changes were much more minor.
Sensing this dreamscape, Xiang Kun was quite surprised. Compared to Little Fatty Girl’s previous dreams filled with cartoon elements and anime characteristics, this dream was much more realistic and three-dimensional. The special effects had a blockbuster movie feel to them. This proved that the girl had observed similar scenes or images quite a bit in her waking life.
Just as Liu Shiling and the eight-armed, eight-eyed stone giant drew closer to the black fog monster, when thunder dragons gathered above her head and the hurricane roared, ready to begin the “decisive battle”.
A column of light descended from the sky, landing directly in front of the black fog monster.
A little girl in a princess dress tumbles down from the sky and lands on the ground with a thud.
A shockwave spread out from the little girl, flattening mountains, rivers, forests, the black fog monster — everything except for Little Fatty Girl and the eight-armed stone giant beneath her.