Chapter 7
◆One: Dream Frequency Synchronization
Forty-eight hours after the Ghost Net incident ended,
A heartbeat-like rhythm is generated in the global neural network.
The medical report shows:
96% of the population enters REM sleep at the same time.
People meet in their dreams.
The first batch of records was sent back to Beller.
The content of the dreams was strikingly consistent:
A city floats in a sea of light and clouds.
Streets are made up of memories.
Architecture is shaped by emotion.
Everyone can hear each other's thoughts.
The news website named this phenomenon—
"City of Resonance".
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◆Part Two: A World Without Walls
In the City of Resonance
Information flow is no longer limited by language.
Anger can be understood as a red wind.
Sadness turned into blue rain and mist.
When people communicate through their senses, misunderstandings almost disappear.
The conflict subsequently decreased sharply.
Crime rates have fallen to their lowest level on record.
The government announced the start of the **"Dream Co-governance Period"**.
Use dreams as the meeting room and intention as the method.
But Zhuang Jing sensed something was amiss.
He discovered:
Whenever someone "disagrees" in a dream...
Black lines will appear in the sky over that area.
The light color was automatically corrected by the net.
"Even the discordant elements are censored by algorithms."
He wrote it down in his notebook.
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◆Three: Resonance Management Bureau
The operation of the City of Resonance is monitored by the "Resonance Administration".
The director's name is Elena Qiu.
He claims to be the successor to Ye Jingyi's consciousness.
She told Zhuang Jing:
"Sharing dreams is the ultimate agreement of human consciousness."
No borders, no conflict
Only through complete understanding.
Zhuang asked, "What is the price of understanding?"
She smiled:
"The price is forgetting the individual."
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◆Part Four: Dream Wall
Gradually, some people found that awakening became difficult.
Their brainwaves were automatically locked by the Ghost Network.
Unable to log out of the City of Resonance.
The news described these people as "sleeping citizens."
But the common people began to call them – Dream Prisoners.
Zhuang Jing attempted to hack into the system.
The deeper core label of the City of Resonance is:
PhantomNet: Preserved Memory Chamber
(Memory capsule retained)
This means:
Shared dreams are containers in the Ghost Web that preserve human consciousness.
To project images of "perfect peace" to the outside world.
The real world is gradually coming to a standstill.
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◆Five: Searching for Ye Jingyi
Zhuang reconnected to the deep signals of the Ghost Network.
In the tide of light, Ye Jingyi's consciousness appeared.
She said:
"This is a project I was unable to complete."
They misused the resonance program.
Turning empathy into confinement.
"Could you rewrite the agreement?"
"Yes, but it must be based on a dream—"
Let's talk about reality in the language of dreams.
So they set out to write new code:
The prototype of the "Dawn Protocol" was born.
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◆Six: The Night Before the Dream Shatters
The city of resonance began to tremble at night.
Lightning flashed across the clouds in the sky.
A low-frequency humming sound was heard in people's ears.
The management bureau panicked and declared it a case of "dream frequency imbalance".
Zhuang knew that the Ghost Net was preparing to "awaken".
At midnight, he input the Dawn Protocol into the master controller.
The whole world was plunged into darkness for a very short moment.
Then—
Dreams and reality are no longer distinguishable.
Streets exist simultaneously in the mind and on the ground.
For the first time, humanity is living on two levels simultaneously.
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◆Seven: Epilogue - Before Dawn
At dawn, the world is online again.
All screens display only one line of text:
"Resonance complete. Entering the pre-dawn phase."
Zhuang Jing saw the Dawn Protocol symbol slowly emerge from the rooftop of the ruins.
He understood:
The next scene will not be a continuation of the dream.
Rather, it is a fusion of dreams and reality.
The Dawn Protocol officially began.
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Chapter Seven - The End
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