The consciousness was floating up and down in the void.Ryan,who felt that his whole body was being extremely pulled,had a quite clear mind.
He had never imagined that his ending...would turn out to be like this.After that,the past memories flashed through his mind like a fleeting show,constantly replaying.
The scent of sandalwood used in sacrifices wafted to his nose.
Someone,with the aroma of mugwort still lingering in his entire nasal cavity,unexpectedly,in the midst of despair,also sensed a blinding golden light.
Tick -tock~Tick -tock~Tick -tock...
The sound of the pocket watch hands rubbing against each other kept repeating.
He clearly felt that between his eyebrows there was also a bronze -like gear that kept rotating.
In Ryan's ears,a clear and crisp female voice actually came through.
"Hey!Time's up.It's about time you woke up,isn't it?!"
"..."
"Hey,you've been asleep for too long,haven't you?!"
"..."
"Hey,wake up quickly!Hey!!!"
"Xiao Yuji!!!"
With a heart -rending roar,Ryan abruptly opened his eyes wide and beheld a sight that was truly pleasing to the eye.
It was an Eastern classical beauty dressed in a hanfu.
Although the other person had eyebrows and eyes as picturesque as a painting,it would be even better if the girl in front of him didn't frown so much...
"Beautiful girl...Xiao Yuji?!"
Ryan suddenly sat up from the sofa.Finally coming back to his senses,Ryan,for a moment,was in a trance and couldn't tell where the boundary between the dream and reality was.
"You're so strange!Why were you sleeping so soundly?Sure enough!Is it a bit too much to use you as a test subject?!"
The heart that had been hanging in mid -air finally settled down.
The girl who had been talking to Ryan just a moment ago,in the next instant,placed her thumb and index finger against her chin and began to mutter to herself in a low voice.
"Oh,my goodness!So I'm your experimental subject?!"
Looking at her with disbelief and great shock,his sharp eyes caught sight of a yellow talisman with special symbols drawn on it pasted on his own forehead through the mirror behind the girl.
With lingering fear,he tore off that piece of talisman paper in one go.Just as he was about to complain and grumble,he was left speechless.
Because the symbols on it were too...damn familiar.Weren't these the same special talismans from his dream?
With a complicated expression,he glanced at the girl opposite him.Holding his forehead with one hand,he slumped back onto the sofa again,feeling weak.
"Hey!Brown Ryan.Are you ok?"
Finally,the rather straightforward Xiao Yuji reacted.Tilting her head,she kindly asked the other person.
"It's simply terrible,hey!Miss."
Still feeling the lingering fear,he patted his chest.Facing that beautiful face in front of him,he really couldn't get angry,so he could only feel frustrated and keep silent.
"But you don't look well.And your face is a bit pale.The most outrageous thing is that even during the hypnosis process,you kept calling my name."
Puffing out her cheeks in annoyance,Xiao Yuji,who was completely puzzled,really couldn't figure out why she would appear in the other person's deep consciousness (subconsciousness).
Obviously,before this,the two of them were just strangers with no connection at all.
Her eyes,as beautiful as the "Jianshui Tong"with their clarity like autumn water,blinked curiously,and a trace of clarity and innocence actually emerged in her otherwise cold eyes.
"Ah,forget it.I can't seem to get angry with you."
He let out a long sigh.
Even though the sound of the pocket watch hands rotating was still ringing in his ears and affecting his eardrums,Ryan finally gave up accusing the girl.
"Can you tell me about your dream?!"
Xiao Yuji thought that only by touching on the key points of it could she know where the problem was with the talisman in her hand.
She was single -mindedly focused on affirming and improving her own abilities.
"I was shot right here by someone.And I clearly saw the branches of the bronze divine tree piercing through time and space.
After that,a large expanse of golden light flashed around me.Then in that golden light,I saw your face."
Scratching his hair in disbelief,Ryan,who also had a great deal of doubt about this,attributed all of this to the fate between the two of them.
"You mean...you're dead?In your subconscious,you've been...killed?!"
Looking at the other person with great suspicion,after much hesitation,Xiao Yuji turned on the flashlight on her phone and unexpectedly shone it into the other person's eyes.
"Oh shit!What are you doing?!"
Ryan suddenly raised his hand and blocked the intense beam of light that was coming straight at him.
Not understanding what the other person was actually doing,Ryan felt that the excruciating pain that seemed to be burning his whole body quickly disappeared.
"When the blinding white light shines into the retina,there are no obvious symptoms of dizziness...
So,you're awake?Then why did you feel like you were dead?!"
She seemed to be talking to herself while also addressing someone.Xiao Yuji always felt that she had missed some crucial factors.
"I did feel that I...was already dead.Unless the me standing in front of you now is your hallucination.
Or perhaps...I only remember that the hour hand,the minute hand,and the second hand all pointed to the direction of 12:00at the same time."
Half -jokingly and half -seriously,he spread his hands.Trying to be humorous,Ryan,however,looked into a pair of extremely cold and serious eyes.
"Twelve o'clock?!Have you ever heard of such a term?!That is —Zero Point Rebirth?!"
Looking at Ryan opposite her seriously and calmly,Xiao Yuji's attitude almost scared someone who wasn't too slow to react.
"Do you mean the Zero Point Field Hypothesis?!"
That is,after a person's physical body completely dies,his consciousness doesn't dissipate.Instead,it will gather in a place in the universe called the zero point field?!"
A sudden shiver ran down his spine.The more Ryan thought about it,the more terrified he became.He was completely scared by his own conspiracy theory.
"Since the birth of the universe,the zero point field has recorded and preserved all the information in the universe.
It is composed of the fluctuations of quanta.There,a person's consciousness will turn into a holographic projection.
Of course,they are in a higher consciousness dimension that we humans can't reach."
Answering seriously and methodically,Xiao Yuji,who always felt that there seemed to be a bug in time for her,suddenly became a bit panicked.
"Because consciousness exists forever,so...death actually doesn't exist?Even more so,it will connect with the unconscious world in my heart —?!"
Then,am I,the me standing in front of you now,alive?!Or am I already dead?!"
Stretching out his index finger and pointing at himself quietly,for a moment,even Ryan wasn't sure about the situation in front of him.