Chapter 8
◆One: Double Dawn
0:15 a.m.
Two suns appeared on the Earth's surface.
People look up from the street:
A sun, scorching and real.
Another glimmer of light flickered, like in a dream.
Observatory data shows that the second sun does not exist in its orbit.
Its spectral frequency,
The signal is completely consistent with that of the core of the Ghost Network.
The Dawn Protocol has been implemented.
The line between dreams and reality begins to overlap.
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◆Two: The Consciousness Center
Zhuang Jing's body remained in the main control cabin of the Resonance Administration.
His consciousness drifted into the central layer of the Ghost Web—
There was a weightless gray-white expanse there.
Ye Jingyi stood in front of him.
Her silhouette is composed of flowing data.
Every time he spoke, it created ripples of light.
"This is the boundary," she said.
"Dreams are seeping into reality in reverse."
We only have one chance.
To achieve a balance between the two worlds.
Zhuang asked, "What if the balance fails?"
"Then, reality will become anyone's dream."
And everyone's dreams will devour each other.
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◆Three: Draft Agreement
They began writing the protocol.
Article 1:
Dreams can be seen as an extension of reality.
—All subjective perceptions possess equivalent truth values.
Article 2:
Reality should be seen as the interrogator of dreams.
Only truth that is questioned by dreams can survive.
Article 3:
Sharing dreams requires preserving individual voices.
—Any perfectly synchronized thought is considered statically dead.
Each time a protocol is entered,
The spectrum in the city is adjusted once.
High-rise buildings shook, rivers receded.
The two solar pulses in the sky gradually converged.
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◆Four: Fragments of Doubt
During the writing process,
Suddenly, Zhuang heard countless sounds coming from all directions.
Those sounds are human thoughts:
"I don't want to wake up again."
"This is not my dream."
"If we're all just dreaming, what's the point of living?"
Ye Jingyi stopped writing.
"Their fears are creating new branches of reality."
In the collective unconscious of humankind
The thirteenth city of resonance has appeared—the "City of Doubt".
Everyone who refuses to accept the Dawn Accord,
Consciousness was drawn into that place.
Zhuang gazed at the distant cracks in the light:
"It turns out that fear is the ultimate gatekeeper of reality."
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◆Five: Illusion and Interrogation
Ye Jingyi: "We need to let both sides interrogate each other."
She reached out her hand.
The data stream transforms into a garden of light.
The left side is the dreamer's world.
The right side represents the world of the real.
She had Zhuang stand in the center, acting as arbitrator.
"Let dreams be our witness, and let reality be our question."
Zhuang spoke, and his voice resonated throughout the world:
"Reality, can you confirm your own existence?"
Answer from a real person:
"If I have no dreams, who will watch over me?"
The dreamer asked in return:
"If reality doesn't exist, who can prove I'm really dreaming?"
Their statements overlap to form structured data.
Ultimately, it is merged into a single unified command:
"Proof = Each other".
At that moment, all the nodes of the Ghost Network lit up simultaneously.
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◆Six: System Resonance
The surface of the world emits bioelectric pulses.
Everyone wakes up at the same time from their dream.
Everyone who is awake simultaneously falls into a dream.
Time axis rotation
Urbanization becomes a layer of light, and the layer of light becomes breathing.
Quantum monitoring shows:
Earth enters a "two-phase state" —
Half dream, half reality.
Humans are formally classified into two types:
Observers: Those who can alter reality in dreams.
Holders: Maintaining the boundaries of dreams through reality.
The two alternately maintain the stability of the new world.
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◆Seven: Agreement Completed
Dawn 04:24.
The two suns merge into one.
Simultaneous output to global network screens:
The Dawn Protocol 1.0 has been implemented.
Summary of regulations:
Dreams = an interrogable version of reality.
Everything that is dreamed of possesses the potential right to exist.
Any civilization that denies dreams will automatically become ineffective.
Zhuang and Ye looked at each other.
Ye smiled and said, "That way, reality can breathe."
Zhuang asked, "And what about us?"
She replied, "We will be the first line of annotation in the agreement."
After saying this, her radiant form gradually dissipated.
Merging into the unified sun.
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◆Eight: Dawn
early morning.
On the streets of Belleville,
People open their eyes at the same time and see the scene they dreamed of in reality.
The child pointed to the sky and said, "The dream hasn't ended yet."
The mother replied, "That's good, we finally dreamed together."
Zhuang walked alone towards the distant ruins.
He held the original chip of the Dawn Protocol in his hand.
It contains an unexecuted clause:
If dreams reject reality,
Let reality learn to dream.
He looked up and saw the last rays of sunlight.
The light was like both a dream and a record.
He smiled and muttered to himself:
"Dawn does not belong to the light."
Dawn remains a question.
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◆Nine: Epilogue - The Blurred Realm
The Century Report wrote:
"The world has restarted in a blur."
Humans have learned to live in uncertainty.
The new course is titled "Dream Ethics".
Students practice debating reality in their dreams.
The last video clip in the database:
Zhuang Jing stood in the synthesized sunlight.
He whispered to the void:
"Ye, we succeeded."
We teach truth to doubt itself.
The image slowly fades into infinite light waves—
This is the moment when the "Dawn Accords" officially came into effect.
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Chapter Eight - The End
Volume Five, The Ghost Net (End)
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