Chapter 5-5- Who changed it for her?
Under the guidance of AI, Yvette spent an entire afternoon learning how to use this retro-style "art of health preservation" and completed the initial introduction.
But after practicing, she was sure that meditation could not save her.
Once she leaves this dream, she will immediately face the survival crisis of food shortage, and the effect of meditation will not become apparent until a few years later. By that time, the daylily will be cold and there will be no use for it.
Then, it was around four or five in the afternoon.
After Dr. Tabitha's reminder, she had to take off the visual terminal and go to the large cafeteria at the end of a corridor on the floor with the doctor to have dinner.
"...Little girl, you are in the growth stage, so you should eat more." In the cafeteria, the uncle who was helping Yvette serve food said enthusiastically.
Glancing at his completely replaced metal mechanical right arm, Yvette smiled sweetly: "Thank you, uncle."
After getting the food, she found a seat in an empty corner and sat down. Her smile immediately faded and she began to think.
In her interactions with the uncle in the cafeteria, Dr. Tabitha, and the staff she met on the way, she felt that the people here were normal and friendly.
This made her doubt her "human experiment hypothesis".
After all, if they were really conducting human experiments, there was no need to treat these orphans so well, with single rooms, visual terminals, a dedicated large activity room, and such gentle treatment... Wouldn't it be better to just lock them up and provide them with basic water and food? It would also save the budget.
However, we can't rule out the possibility that Dr. Tabitha and the others are kept in the dark. But if there is a chance to leave, if she can survive, she can look for any clues in the ruins of the base...
Thinking of this, another idea suddenly came to Yvette's mind - what if this dream is eternal?
Will she be trapped here forever?
but……
Going out is also trapped, coming in is also trapped. Choosing the lesser of two evils, staying in this dream seems to be a little better?
…
In the next few days, Yvette spent most of her time in the computer classroom. In addition to learning Kuroshio language, she also constantly used the AI program here to inquire about common sense and intelligence about this world, looking for ways to survive after escaping the dream.
But the AI's answer made her heart sink to the bottom.
Even if she were in the wild, it would be fine. At most, she could survive in the wilderness, but she had to be in a metal base with no way out. Where could she find food when even cockroaches and rats couldn't survive?
Although the magic light vine looks good, it is full of poisonous alkaloids. Even if you don't die from poisoning after eating it, you will die from intestinal obstruction because the cellulose is difficult to digest. It cannot be used as an emergency food at all.
Overall, the only way to survive is to stay in this dream and never go out!
After clarifying this, Yvette suddenly felt a little funny.
If the protagonist of a normal novel were trapped in this kind of bizarre dream, they would definitely try their best to escape. However, she not only didn't want to leave, but also tried hard to stay in the dream for a while longer...
Obito is right.
What's wrong with the world of illusion!
In this way, Yvette spent six months in her dreams, in a contradictory state of mind, trying to survive and waiting to die in despair.
Late that night, watching the wall gradually disappear, Yvette knew that she was finally going out.
To be honest, she had stayed in the dream for so long that she thought it was permanent. Unless she starved to death in the real world, she would never be able to get out.
Now it seems that this is not the case, it’s just that the dream lasted longer.
With mixed feelings, she changed into the white dress she wore when she came here. After an anxious wait, when all the scenes disappeared, what appeared before Yvette's eyes was deep darkness.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw the tenth floor of the ruined base covered with magic vines.
She finally woke up.
But unlike before entering, the fog around him had disappeared, as if it had never existed.
Well, just like what the AI said, magic is also about the conservation of energy. The mist dissipated, which means the energy was used up...
As for the exact nature of this fog, the AI program in the dream offered a reasonable hypothesis, believing it to be a magical field formed by the spirits and memories of a large number of deceased individuals, who, after their deaths, had not yet had time to disintegrate, had for some reason intertwined and merged. It also cited relevant information on cults researching undead technology to demonstrate the feasibility of this scenario.
Considering that this place had indeed suffered a huge disaster and many people had died, Yvette decided to accept this explanation for the time being.
Then she stood up, patted her skirt, and felt that she was in good physical condition, so she decided to look for any recyclable items on this floor.
Suddenly, a small discovery made her stop abruptly.
If I remember correctly, before she entered the dream, she was only wearing a white dress and nothing else. But now, she had underwear, white tights, and clean little leather shoes on her feet - all of which were what she was wearing in the dream!
Who changed it for her?
But to be able to exchange it so exactly, could it be that she really brought it out of her dream?
Yvette's heart began to beat violently. There were two possibilities now. One was that there was a mysterious person hiding here who could peek into her dreams and secretly put extra clothes on her while she was sleeping - but this was obviously nonsensical and could be ruled out almost instantly.
The second thing is that this dream is not just a dream, it may also be a special way of traveling through time. She used this dream to really go back to the past and bring things back!
Damn it, I should have brought some tools!
Yvette regretted it deeply, and then after a while, she suddenly realized something. She immediately took off her pantyhose and began to check the soles of her feet - she had been walking barefoot before she fell asleep, and her feet were stained with a lot of gray and black. On the first day of the dream, she was thinking about this matter and specially washed her toes before going to bed.
If her feet are still clean now, it means that she has indeed made a physical journey, otherwise it is still a dream.
A few seconds later, in the cyan light, Yvette's thin eyebrows slightly frowned - still dirty, she did not travel through the physical body.
So where did the extra clothes on her come from?
Could someone else be hiding here? Some ghost or evil spirit? Were the dreams she'd been experiencing just illusions created by the evil spirit?
Thinking of this, Yvette felt a chill rising from the bottom of her heart, and the scene around her became terrifying, as if countless eyes were secretly peeping at her in the darkness.
But fortunately, as a person who pays attention to logical thinking, she adjusted quickly. After a few deep breaths, she negated this low-probability event.
Of course, the main reason is that she knows very well that the most taboo thing in this situation is to scare yourself.
Don't let yourself be scared and develop mental problems before external factors appear, otherwise the fake will become real.
So in the end, after checking everywhere in the negative tenth floor and finding no clues, Yvette could only attribute this abnormal phenomenon to the strange dream fog.
And then...
Returning to the underground ninth floor where she had lived in her dream for half a year, looking at the magic light vines in the hall, Yvette couldn't help but grin her teeth and reveal a helpless expression.
It’s numb, let’s do it!
The worst that can happen is starvation and reopening!
(End of this chapter)
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