Chapter 160 Dream Killing

Mu Tianlei paused and continued:

"Back then, our Border Star Garrison Corps had been using the second-generation version of virtual reality in order to improve the training efficiency and skill level of our soldiers."

“It’s just that the scenes are not realistic, the immersion is not strong, the information exchange is slow, and the effect is not satisfactory.”

“In fact, everyone said at the time that the hardware-related technology was sufficient to complete the iteration of the next generation. But in terms of software, it was still impossible to create a sufficiently suitable immersive scene model.”

"To this end, we have recruited all the experts in virtual reality, brain neurology, dreams, souls and other related fields in the Federation to gather on the Border Star, trying to work together to create a virtual reality that is truly highly immersive, highly realistic and highly interactive."

Li Yi said thoughtfully:

"So, Commander Mu met Wu Huanling at that time?"

Mu Tianlei shook his head and said:

"No, it didn't. It took three years and three different types of prototypes, all of which failed."

“When the degree of simulation is high, the interaction efficiency will decline; when the interaction efficiency is improved, the scene will be relatively vague; when both the degree of simulation and the interaction efficiency are high, it is easy to have irreversible negative effects on the human brain.”

"In short, it's hard to take care of both."

"I met this special person, Wu Huanling, five years after the project failed and the three prototypes were sealed."

"Only four or five people are left in the entire project to continue researching."

"As for the rest, they have all returned to their original units one after another."

"At that stage, someone restarted the project and summoned a group of people to the border planet to transform the three sealed prototypes. The person in charge was Wu Huanling."

"Wu Huanling participated in this project as an expert student five years ago and delivered a series of perfect software solutions."

"At the beginning, he led the development of the third software with high realism and interactive efficiency as a student."

"And the result lived up to expectations. After his modification, the functions of the three prototype machines were optimized sufficiently, which is quite remarkable."

"One of them, during testing, showed a function related to dreams."

Hearing this, Liang Zhishen at the side couldn't help but ask: "Commander Mu, in other words, Wu Huanling was not the dream virtual mother machine developed in our Yao Chi ship? But it was made on the border star? In the Yao Chi ship, is it the second one?"

Mu Tianlei shook his head and said:

"I don't know which one it was. I only know that that night, when the third prototype displayed a completely different picture from the original design, and we tried to adjust it again and again but couldn't get it back, everyone stood up. The core participants of each project had eyes filled with fear as if the sky was falling."

"Terrified, why are you scared?" Xu Weilu asked curiously.

Mu Tianlei said:

"I was only responsible for protecting the safety of this group of people at the time, and I had no idea what they were so scared of. It was not until I asked them later that I learned that their worldview had been impacted and their previously established fixed cognition had been impacted, and was at risk of collapse."

He smiled and continued:

"After listening to this, I just felt that those people were crazy. They didn't collapse when so many incredible things of ancient divine technology were displayed in front of them. Instead, they collapsed because of some bizarre images. I'm afraid they were driven crazy by the pressure of the project."

Li Yi vaguely understood this feeling and said:

"Perhaps it's because virtual reality is the only thing humans have mastered, and there is no advanced knowledge related to divine technology."

Mu Tianlei said:

"Maybe. From my perspective at the time, the second group of experts summoned were more focused than the first group, but also more obsessed. They forgot about work and sleep, could not tell the difference between day and night, and looked dazed... In short, that night was indeed the beginning of everything."

"beginning?"

This word and Mu Tianlei's tone clearly hinted at something bad happening. Everyone gathered around unconsciously, curious about what had happened.

Mu Tianlei smiled and said, “At that time, no one realized that the picture showed the experimenter’s dream.”

"So, the experiment is still going on. Because the risk factors at the time were taken into consideration and the medical standards were high enough, after seeing the incomprehensible images, one of the experts involved in the project proposed to be the experimental subject himself."

"Then, after several experiments, the experts who served as experimental subjects gradually realized that the images presented were dreams."

"No one understands the reason, but they are all trying, increasing the number of experiments, and the number and frequency of being used as experimental subjects is also increasing."

"One day half a month later, experts who frequently participated in the experiment began to die. Three months later, even though the experiment was no longer continuing, people continued to die."

Hearing this, Li Yi said thoughtfully:

"The cause of death, wouldn't it be heart failure?"

At this point, Li Yi had already connected the whole story in his mind.

However, he did not rush to interrupt.

"Yes, that's right."

Mu Tianlei nodded slightly and said:

"At the time, although the principle was unclear, after more than a dozen experts died one after another, everyone concluded that the dream function of the third prototype was too dangerous and was the main cause of the heart paralysis."

“So, this third prototype is sealed.”

"The development of virtual mother machines related to dreams also fell silent."

"The other two experimental machines successfully passed the test and became the true prototypes of the third-generation virtual reality mother machine, and began to be promoted."

At this time, Liang Zhishen thought of the relevant incident that happened in the Yaochi ship more than ten years ago, and a light bulb suddenly lit up in his mind, and he said:

"I understand now. The third prototype's murder in the dream was actually caused by Wu Huanling?"

"During the experiment, he used the dream virtual mother machine to achieve the function of killing people? Then he sealed the prototype and after returning to the Yaochi ship, he started to create a new dream virtual mother machine? He also secretly found some people to conduct experiments until the matter was exposed?"

Mu Tianlei said:

"Although there is no evidence, I think this is the case. When I heard Lao Teng mention the murder in the dream of Yao Chi ship, I immediately thought of Wu Huanling."

"So we immediately started investigating, and later found that the memory cortex of the brains of those experts who died of heart failure had corresponding atrophy."

"Therefore, some experts have suggested that Wu Huanling's purpose is to use the dream virtual mother machine to steal the knowledge and memory of other experts."

"Although this motive is a bit ridiculous, if you think about it carefully in combination with the series of things he has done, it may not be impossible."

Xu Weilu's scalp tingled when she heard this. She said, "It seems that Wu Huanling is a vicious criminal with extremely high skills. Although he is not an evolver, his skills and destructive power are stronger than those of higher-level evolvers."

After all, those experts are precious assets of mankind, and the death of one of them is a huge loss to mankind.

The others also had their own ideas, but they all shared the same view: they were deeply wary of this character who didn't even seem to be an evolver.

What Li Yi was thinking about was Lao Zhang and the gourd man.

Logically speaking, according to Mu Tianlei's statement, Li Yi's idea should be to tie Lao Zhang's death to Wu Huanling. For example, Wu Huanling killed Lao Zhang in his dream in order to obtain Lao Zhang's decryption knowledge.

But at this moment, Li Yi's thoughts were focused on the earliest copy of the experimental notes he had obtained.

He judged that Wu Huanling's killing of Lao Zhang should be an independent incident, and the reasons for the previous murders in dreams were different.

After all, after so many years, if the experiment was really wanted, it would have been completed long ago, instead of waiting for more than ten years to do the same thing again.

Something else must have happened that caused Wu Huanling to start committing crimes again.

It’s a pity that there are no clues at the moment. Even if it’s just a guess, there is no evidence.

Thinking of this, Li Yi asked: "Commander Mu, where is this original dream virtual mother machine sealed?"

Mu Tianlei said:

"Of course it's on the border star. I'll say hello there and ask Xiaozhuang to bring the sealed prototype over. Maybe with this thing, we can achieve what you call the separation operation and separate the mysterious thoughts. In this way, we can obtain a large amount of inherited knowledge in the ruins without damage."

"By the way, send one or two soul experts over to see if they can solve Lin Huiyi's problem."

Everyone thought this was good.

Li Yi also felt pressured and prepared to make up for the relevant knowledge provided by Xiaozhuang during his return journey.

Otherwise, even if you know the specific principles, but you don’t know how to operate them, or Xiaozhuang’s understanding of dreams is not enough, it will be in vain.

With Li Yi's natural familiarity with dreams and the absorption of a large amount of memory fragments, he probably has an advantage over Xiaozhuang.

…

After the medical soldiers took Lin Huiyi away, everyone set up a rest area.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Next, there will probably be many big battles.

During this period, you naturally have to maintain your energy and spirit.

Time flies.

Eight hours later, the starship approached the outskirts of Planet 33.

The alarm also reached the rest area where everyone was.

"Three A-class and ten B-class divine mechas have been detected, starting from the surface of Planet 33 and heading towards the starship. All mecha operators are requested to quickly reach the mecha hangar, prepare for battle, and quickly set out to meet the enemy!"

When Liang Zhishen heard this number, he smacked his lips and said, "It seems that during this time, this mysterious thought has awakened quite a few divine mechas."

Li Yi said: "Don't panic, Commanders Lin and Lei didn't come alone this time, they also brought some high-level mecha masters with them. We are evenly matched this time, so as long as we perform well, we may be able to give them a hard blow!"

Teng Juli also smiled, with a fighting spirit in his eyes:

"That's right. As long as we kill all these mechas, Mysterious Thought will be left alone. Isn't that right? We can control it at will, right?"

Liang Zhishen patted Teng Juli on the shoulder and said:

"It's a good thing that you are optimistic, but don't be too enthusiastic, or you may not be able to stay calm in battle and make mistakes due to misjudgment. Sometimes, the more excited you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes."

As they were talking, everyone had quickly put on their driving suits, quickly entered the mecha hangar, and started up their respective divine mechas.

…

Outside the huge starship, two A-class and 15 B- and C-class divine mechas, with flames on their backs, flew out from the divine mechas.

Among them, Lin Wendong was driving a 191-meter Celestial God Sequence A-level Jupiter mecha.

The Jupiter mecha has broad shoulders and a thick back, thick arms and legs, a square body, and is covered in thick armor. Its face is as bumpy and uneven as a meteorite. From a distance, it looks like a huge stone. Its shape is very special, which is very different from the mainstream divine mecha shape.

Mu Tianlei is driving a 185-meter-long Thor-sequence A-class speed thunder mecha.

The shape of the Speed ​​Thunder Mecha is completely opposite to that of the Jupiter Mecha. It has a slender body, well-proportioned body, and is covered with blue-purple leather all over. It is covered with lake blue steel armor. The steel armor is a long lock-type, like a series of thin steel cables intertwined and arranged vertically, and is extremely light.

It turns out to be a rare speed-type divine mecha in the Thor sequence.

The other 6 B-class units are the teammates who came to support this time.

They are all top-level mecha divisions of the garrison corps and experts in the mecha team’s assault squad.

Li Yi had seen those six people before. They were all middle-aged men, with firm steps, long breaths, and deep and defiant eyes.

Therefore, it can be judged at a glance that each of these six people is a first-class fighter with rich practical experience and a lot of hot blood from the enemies on their hands.

Their divine mechas are all B-class and around 100 meters in height. The shortest one is 89 meters, and the strongest one is 112 meters, which is quite good.

Obviously, in terms of comprehensive strength, in Li Yi's group, only Jiang Chaoqun can compare with that group of masters.

As for Li Yi, his current total divinity foundation has gradually caught up to the middle stage of the upper mecha master. Coupled with his strength like flowing water, his skill advantage is too great. For him, it is no pressure to sweep through ordinary B-level.

At this moment, Lin Wenjian spoke on the public channel:

"Three A-class machines, the two at a height of 180 meters will be handled by me and Lao Mu."

"The other A-class machine, which is about 170 meters long, will be fought by the six commandos together."

"There are ten B-class machines left. Li Yi, your team will be responsible for blocking them. As long as you can hold on for three to five minutes, when Lao Mu and I have dealt with the two A-class machines, the pressure will be relieved. Do you understand?"

Li Yi had no objection.

Although Jiang Chaoqun is the only B-level player in their group, everyone's technical and tactical level is not low, and the gap with B-level players is not that big, otherwise they would not be able to make it into the top 100.

The only disadvantage is that there is one less person in terms of numbers, so someone has to fight one against two.

Li Yi thought for a moment and said, "Jiang Chaoqun, you have to fight the two strongest 100-meter machines first. For the others, we will have the top four against the bottom four. Lin Xiaohu, Teng Juli, Zhang Pengting, and you three will fight the next three 90-meter machines. The rest of you, go all out to fight the remaining 85-meter machines."

Although the ones with a range of 85 meters are the weakest, they are still not enough for the mainstream people with a range of around 75-80 meters.

Everyone responded in a deep voice, knowing that this battle would be more dangerous than the last time they faced the Thunderbird mecha.

Because last time we fought against the Thunderbird Mecha, we had strong teammates who took the lead on the front line.

But now, everyone is under a lot of pressure.

The strong ones are responsible for killing the weak ones, and the weak ones need to withstand the pressure from the strong ones.

Li Yi shouted to boost morale:

"I will try to explode and kill one of them first! You guys have to hold on! As long as the other side defeats one of them first, we will win!"

“We will win!”

Everyone shouted and began to control the divine mecha to charge forward.

At this moment, more than a dozen streams of flames flashed and burst forward!

The first three to fly out were the Jupiter, Speed ​​Thunder, and Pluto mechas! At this moment, with the help of Li Yi's repulsion characteristics, the conversion efficiency of the gravity thruster of the Pluto mecha has risen sharply, and its speed is naturally very fast. At this moment, with the burst skill of version 3.0, its acceleration is only two levels lower than that of the Speed ​​Thunder mecha!

Far surpassing the 112-meter B-class Fengshen-series wave-beating mecha behind it!

In an instant, driven by the annular halo behind it, the Pluto mecha quickly killed the opponent it had already chosen.

Originally, the 173-meter A-class mecha in front was about to charge towards the Pluto mecha, but the Pluto mecha seemed to have predicted it and turned sideways in advance, avoiding the charge of the A-class mecha and killing the 85-meter B-class opponent.

Although it seemed that the opponents had already chosen different targets, they were now using their speed to defeat their slower opponents and were the first to arrive, so they naturally took the initiative.

Under the crazy kinetic acceleration, the Pluto mecha swung its arm and slashed forward with a fierce blade light!

(End of this chapter)