Chapter 356 The View from the Car Window



Watching Mu En cheerfully lead his underlings to search for the target he had mentioned.

Gu Xinghe was like a master standing still, watching his silly dog ​​lead a group of friends out to play.

Although compared to the "four-step process" of the previous life.

This time, Gu Xinghe's encounter and parting with Silver Moon Snow Wolf Mu En seemed particularly hasty and rushed.

But Mu En, who only felt that it was a new game called "Finding People" with Gu Xinghe after "Hide and Seek", did not feel that this was a farewell.

Instead, they quickly began searching for the target person needed to win this "search for people" game.

After realizing that he had not been abandoned by his master, the Silver Moon Snow Wolf, who loved freedom by nature, quickly began to pursue freedom again.

Although the "unexpected surprise" of Moon temporarily allowed Gu Xinghe to leave the train.

But Gu Xinghe still remembers his initial goal when he entered the dream world—

While attempting to complete your side quests, also explore the magnificent and fantastical Dreamland.

So, after playing with Mu En for a while, Gu Xinghe used the mist he had left on the train to transform back into the Dream Train.

Back on the train, although from Gu Xinghe's perspective, he had just left the room to handle his own affairs.

But from the perspective of the Winged Man, Gu Xinghe, who hastily said goodbye to him, had actually just returned to his room from the observation car.

Therefore, at this time, in order to prevent the winged people, who seemed to have been controlled by his thoughts, from falling into deeper ideological indoctrination, he took action.

Gu Xinghe did not go out to inquire about the train's situation, but instead stayed in the room observing the scenery outside the window.

Although not as large as the windows in the observation cabin, and more visually appealing in design.

However, each passenger's cabin and the aisle of the train also have windows that allow passengers to observe the outside scenery.

At this moment, Gu Xinghe pulled back the small curtains on the car window in the room and looked outside—

Similar to what I saw through Semi's dream before, and what I've been observing ever since entering the dream world—

No matter how you look at it, the scenery of the sky in the dream world has never changed.

At this moment, the unchanged, dim sky looked like a scene at dusk.

It is located during the transition period between day and night.

Time in the dream world was permanently suspended in this fleeting twilight.

But perhaps, within this stagnant time visible through the car window, something is actually changing.

It is different from and changes from the time point of twilight that appears to be.

Gu Xinghe remembered that Zheng Yiqiu had led him from outside the train to the room.

When passing by the windows of the train carriage while boarding, Zheng Yiqiu would deliberately keep her distance from them.

It was clear that when they picked up Gu Xinghe from the car...

At that time, what you could see through the windows of a stopped train was just some fairly "ordinary" scenery.

Perhaps it was simply because Gu Xinghe was located next to the cemetery in Seto City at the time.

So if there were people on the train looking out the window at that time...

They might be startled by the rows and rows of neat tombstones outside the car.

However, there were clearly no ordinary beings on the dream train who would be frightened by the eerie atmosphere of the cemetery.

Perhaps among all the people on the train, Wang Penghai and Zheng Yiqiu are the most ordinary.

Although judging from Zheng Yiqiu's series of experiences—

After becoming a player in a dungeon game and completing the beginner dungeon, you are mysteriously transported to a dreamlike realm.

He was then rescued by a magical dream train that travels through dreamscapes, and became a member of the train crew.

—He doesn't seem to be any particularly ordinary "ordinary person" after all.

But thinking about this, Gu Xinghe had a new understanding and explanation for why Wang Penghai and Zheng Yiqiu were chosen to be members of the Dream Train crew—

Among various games that require in-game purchases, some people have put forward the following argument—

The existence of ordinary players is also part of the perfect gaming experience for players who spend money.

Therefore, the Dream Train seems to have simply selected two "ordinary" individuals to become members of the train crew.

But these two individuals appear to be "official service personnel".

Could it also be part of the perfect travel experience that passengers boarding the dream train will have?

However, Zheng Yiqiu's dodging movements revealed a sense of panic and confusion.

Although it can be explained as part of the Dream Train's intention to provide passengers with a pleasant experience.

But in reality, it also shows that Zheng Yiqiu obviously knows some inside information.

And this is her action of avoiding things that she clearly observes as normal.

It feels like the view seen through a car window, which is not the same as the actual scenery in the outside world.

Moreover, the scenery Gu Xinghe could see through the window of the moving train was clear.

Furthermore, taking the train as a reference point, its backward "sliding" speed is also uniform.

But logically speaking, if we consider the speed at which the dream train he saw rushing towards him before he boarded the train...

And considering the train's speed as he feels it now while he's on the train.

Under such circumstances, it would be impossible for a normal person to see the scenery outside the car window with the naked eye.

The contrast between the object, which should have disappeared quickly, and the deliberately slowed-down "slow motion" creates a highly contradictory sense of dislocation.

In fact, Gu Xinghe had noticed this earlier when he was observing the scenery outside the window of the observation car.

However, he believes this might be due to the train's unique operating mechanism as a marvelous object.

Since the Dream Realm has no concept of the passage of time, Gu Xinghe thought it was not surprising that the train could do this.

However, combined with this sense of dislocation is a sense of unfamiliarity born from familiarity.

Gu Xinghe discovered that the "ordinary" scenery in the dreamscape he had observed through the train window was actually a dream.

After staring at something for a long time, even familiar scenery can gradually become unfamiliar to you.

Just like the dream world, which "creeps into dreams with the wind and silently nourishes things," subtly altering the subconscious of its inhabitants.

Even the "ordinary" scenery seen through the car window seemed to have its own life.

It sensed being watched.

When you try to look at the scenery outside the window, those things outside the car window will also "look back".

Thus, this "looking back" causes some perceptions to shift, and familiar scenery becomes unfamiliar.

Perhaps this is a "side effect" of the dream train deliberately "slowing down" to create a sense of temporal dislocation.

This is also why Zheng Yiqiu dared not approach the car window.

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