Dozens of Sun Wukongs brandished their golden cudgels and attacked from different directions, surrounding the gentleman on both sides.
The gentleman looked around, unsure which one was the real one. He swung his whip and hit several of the monkeys, only to find that they were not illusions, but entities: "Clones?"
Sun Wukong seized this opportunity and struck him on the head with a stick: "Go to hell!"
The golden cudgel hit the gentleman's head, but when he saw that he couldn't move it, Sun Wukong bared his teeth, and the golden cudgel grew ten times bigger, and hit him again: "I don't believe that your head can't be smashed."
Ai Yu listened to the noise coming from not far away and connected with Sun Wukong in his heart: "Brother Monkey, how is it?"
If the damage was too serious, Ai Yu would not be able to argue with Li Yuzhen.
Sun Wukong somersaulted back and put his golden cudgel back into his ear: "I'm dead, not even a trace of me will be left."
Ai Yu nodded, took back Sun Wukong and others, and suddenly felt relieved. She exhaled and flew to other places.
Amidst the rubble, a few pieces of black iron stone seemed to be glued together by miracle. The poet bent down and picked them up, sighing, "Oh, my dear, look at how miserable you are."
The black stone made a sound, sounding exhausted. "Ai Yu, you are indeed amazing. And that monkey definitely didn't use his full strength."
The poet wiped the dust off the stone in his arms and said, "It's okay, dear. Lao Er will heal you."
"How many brothers are here this time?" asked the gentleman.
"I don't know. I heard quite a few people came. I'm not on the mission list, I just wanted to watch the fun. My dear, you know that the king is very easy to talk to." The poet called his griffin, "Let's go, my dear, you should go back and rest."
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Zhang Zhiyi and Liu Qiyu worked together to finally tie the giant fly to the ground, but the ground beneath their feet collapsed. Zhang Zhiyi immediately released vines to lift the two of them upwards, but the vampire seized the opportunity and broke free.
The vampire seemed to have heard a call from afar, flew high into the sky, and soon disappeared.
Zhang Zhiyi supported Liu Qiyu: "Are you okay?"
"fine."
Zhang Zhiyi frowned: "He flew very fast this time, and my vines couldn't catch up with him."
"Then I can't catch up." Liu Qiyu found a flat place and randomly found a stone to sit down and rest.
But the vampire who had just flown away fell down again for some unknown reason.
At first, the two of them only saw a black dot falling. After taking a closer look, they realized that it was the big fly from before.
A griffin fell from the sky. When it landed two meters from the ground, a young general jumped off the griffin, holding a ring-handled knife, aimed at the vampire, and stabbed him again.
Liu and Zhang were stunned. "Who?"
The griffin landed on the ground, its wings folded. Ai Yu stood on its back, her long hair flying. Her eyes met the two of them, her hands in her pockets, and she said calmly, "It's me, Ai Yu."
Liu Qiyu silently gave a thumbs up: "Amazing."
Ai Yu responded and looked at Huo Qubing: "Is he dead?"
Huo Qubing chopped off the vampire's head and mouthparts: "Dead."
"Yeah." Ai Yu took Huo Qubing back, squatted down and patted the griffin at his feet, "Let's go."
Zhang Zhiyi couldn't help but discuss with Liu Qiyu: "Is this the S-level freshman that everyone discussed so enthusiastically at the beginning of the school year? He's really amazing."
"Yeah." Liu Qiyu nodded and helped Zhang Zhiyi to stand up. After all, he was no match for someone with obvious shortcomings like him.
At this time, all the students in Class 10 received a message from Ling Shuangxi: All students outside, go to the Qimen Base in Binhai District to gather.
Ai Yu had just flown out a short distance when she turned back to pick up Zhang Zhiyi and Liu Qiyu: "Let's go together." Although she was not familiar with these two, they were classmates and should help each other.
"Thank you." The two of them didn't waste any time and immediately got on the griffin's back.
Ai Yu sat cross-legged on the griffin's back, looking down at the entire Flower City with boredom. The capital city that used to be brightly lit was now dark in many places. Ai Yu pondered for a moment, thinking that this must have been a big blow to the economy of Flower City. He wondered if his father would be tired.
Zhang Zhiyi and Liu Qiyu sat behind Ai Yu. The former asked, "Ai Yu, how old are you?"
"Sixteen." Ai Yu didn't understand why Zhang Zhiyi suddenly asked this question.
"Sixteen? Really sixteen?"
"Um."
Zhang Zhiyi and Liu Qiyu exchanged a glance and sighed helplessly, "How terrifying! At just sixteen, he already possesses the ability to kill special-grade star beasts."
"Yeah." Ai Yu nodded, then shook his head. "Teacher Li said that special-grade star beasts are indestructible. So they might be able to regenerate."
"Is this true?" It was the first time Zhang Zhiyi heard such words.
"Um."
Zhang Zhiyi gasped, "So... can humans really drive away the star beasts?" He looked up at the dark night sky, a look of worry on his face, "What exactly is going on?"
Liu Qiyu patted Zhang Zhiyi on the shoulder: "Don't think too much."
"That's true. As Moon Envoys, we just need to do our best to protect ordinary people." Zhang Zhiyi closed his eyes and nodded. "One day, Qimen will figure out where the star beasts came from and where the disappeared starry sky and dreams went."
"Yeah." Liu Qiyu curled his lips slightly, "We have to trust scientists."
Zhang Zhiyi then remembered that Liu Qiyu seemed to have a lot of research into dreaming. "Speaking of which, how far have you gotten so far? Have you figured out why we dream and why we can't dream?"
A person's normal sleep cycle is divided into non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. When a person is in REM sleep, the unique brain waves during sleep, called PGO waves, appear in three places: the pons in the brainstem, the lateral geniculate body in the thalamus, which is the visual part, and the occipital lobe, where the visual cortex is located.
When people dream, the thalamus no longer responds to signals from the eyes, but instead forms a new visual pathway with the brainstem and visual cortex. At this time, neurons in the brainstem randomly discharge to form electrical signals, which are numerous and chaotic and travel along the thalamus all the way to the visual cortex.
Neither the thalamus nor the visual cortex can distinguish whether the signal comes from the eyeball or the brainstem. Just like when a person is awake, they can only use the unconscious system to process various fragmented signals based on stored knowledge and memory to form a complete, unified and meaningful story, which is what we experience as dreams.
The experimental results found that dream deprivation can lead to a series of physiological abnormalities in the human body, such as abnormal changes in blood pressure, pulse, and body temperature, and weakening of the autonomic nervous system function. It can also cause a series of adverse psychological reactions in people.
Some believe dreams are the product of the subconscious mind's disguised expression of unfulfilled instinctual desires. Others believe they are the work of the collective subconscious, the lowest level of the unconscious personality. Still others believe that genes, through dreams, can give people experience in dealing with similar crises.
I personally tend to think that dreaming is a sign of good genes, in general. People haven’t lost their dreams, quite the opposite.”
“People are dreaming all the time.”
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