If the "conscious layer" is compared to a photo, and the "preconscious layer" is compared to a realistic oil painting, then the "subconscious layer" is an abstract oil painting.
Realistic oil paintings can also be seen as depictions and imitations of reality, while many elements in abstract oil paintings make it difficult to distinguish the real thing.
Chen Ziang woke up from the sofa and saw that the living room had changed greatly.
The original shabby wallpaper was given a new look, the dining table was replaced by heavy mahogany, the sofa was turned into side-by-side armchairs, a bamboo mat was placed where the carpet was placed, and a large number of portraits were hung on the wall, almost all of which were different.
People you know.
My sister Chen Xiaozhu was sitting on one of the armchairs. She was wearing a complicated and exquisite princess dress, holding a folding fan in her hand, fanning herself gracefully like a palace lady.
Like the upper level dream, although this Chen Xiaozhu is not blind, it is just a phantom.
As for why she is wearing a princess dress... I can only say that anything may appear subconsciously, and there is no need to get to the bottom of it.
Chen Ziang wandered around the living room for a while and found that everything here was changing randomly, abruptly, and constantly.
The mahogany dining table suddenly turned into a bar with a tablecloth, the armchairs were replaced by soft beds with curtains, and the mats on the ground turned into grassy grass, as if growing directly from the gaps in the floor.
Chen Xiaozhu had disappeared from the chair and turned into a tearful Suzuna Tsukimiya, kneeling on the grass and crying helplessly, with tears flowing down from between the fingers of her hands covering her cheeks.
Looking at the spiritual pressure meter on his wrist again, the ambient spiritual pressure at this time has reached 30.
In a world with an environmental reiatsu of 30, the weird things that may appear are very dangerous, and are not comparable to those low-level weird things with an activity depth of 0-10.
If you stay at this depth for a long time, even if you are not killed by the weirdness, your own spiritual vision will gradually approach 30. As a result, even if you return to reality in time, the risk of encountering these weirdness will increase sharply.
However, although the subconscious level is bizarre, it is still his own spiritual realm.
To find those dangerous and unknown mysterious knowledge, you must go down to the lowest "collective subconscious level".
According to the relevant knowledge of "dream walking", in the vast collective subconscious layer, there is an ancient city called "Enrank", where a large number of nightmares live.
Nightmares are a relatively rare mysterious race that is willing to communicate with humans, so Chen Ziang plans to go to the ancient city of Enlank to seek a cure for his sister's disease from Nightmares.
He closed his eyes again and activated the power of dream walking.
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Chen Ziang struggled to wake up and found himself lying on the grass by the river.
He grabbed the mandala sword beside him, then quickly stood up and looked around cautiously.
The river next to it looks like the Tone River, but there are no dams around it, only clear water flowing through it.
There are large grasslands on both sides of the bank, dotted with star-like blue flowers, which are constantly swaying in the wind... No, they are not swaying in the wind, but these flowers themselves can move.
Chen Ziang raised his head and found that the sky was based on a gradient of violet, with solid streamers of light like clouds, and countless bright and dark stars.
...It’s such a weird and dreamy world.
"Hello." A voice suddenly sounded next to him.
Chen Ziang quickly turned around with his sword to block, but the visitor didn't seem to have any intention of attacking and just stood twenty meters away.
The other party was wearing a dark black, gorgeous and complicated robe, with a slender neck sticking out of the collar, and an expressionless face... to be precise, it was a smooth face with no facial features, and it was bent backwards
A pair of horns with spiral patterns.
From the shoulder blades on its back (if this monster has shoulder blades), a pair of huge bone wings protrude, folding elegantly like a fan. Under the cuffs are the same dry hands, holding a handle of material
An unknown staff with extremely complicated outlines.
Chen Ziang keenly noticed that the opponent's hand holding the staff had six bony fingers.
"Don't be nervous, human." Although the other party had no mouth, his voice sounded directly in Chen Ziang's mind like telepathy.
It was a soft voice like a young woman:
"I am the high priest from Enrank Temple, you can call me 'Niko'."
The other party introduced himself in a smooth and generous manner, obviously well versed in the etiquette of human society.
Chen Ziang didn't want to tell her his real name, because the real name also had a special meaning in the mysterious world, so he coldly said a made-up pseudonym:
"Ask."
"Mr. Ask." Nicole said with a smile, "If it is convenient for you, I would like to invite you to Enrank City as a guest."
Chen Ziang was silent for a long time and asked:
"Is this common? I mean, humans come into this world and are invited as guests by you?"
"Yes and no." Nicole said leisurely, "Human beings are not frequent visitors to this world, but they are not extremely rare either."
"As for inviting you as a guest, this is the intention of the Lord of the Deep Sea."
"Is this what the gods meant?" Chen Zi'ang thought in astonishment.
"Don't worry." Nicole laughed again, "The noble Lord of the Deep Sea has no ill intentions towards you. Isn't it the best proof that you can gain the power to come to this world?"
That's not necessarily true. In the concept of gods, the boundary between goodwill and malice is extremely blurry... Chen Ziang's thoughts changed slightly and he confirmed again and asked:
"Can you make it more clear? What do you mean by being a guest?"
"It seems that Mr. Asker is still quite wary." Nicole smiled nonchalantly, "Well, we can talk while walking."
She waved the staff gently, and a path of light rushed out from the top of the staff and flew in a certain direction in the distance.
"Please?" Nicole said.
Chen Ziang sighed secretly, thinking that there was no reason to back down here.
The two walked side by side along the direction guided by the light path. Chen Ziang was thinking about the problem when he heard Nicole say:
"Although the Lord of the Deep Sea has not explained it, our clan can actually guess the general reason... Mr. Asker, do you know about the 'Three Realms War'?"
"War of the Three Realms?" Chen Ziang asked in shock.
"The so-called three realms are 'shadow', 'mist' and 'flesh'." Nico explained patiently, "They correspond to the three supreme gods in the abyss."
"Probably a long, long time ago, these three gods had a conflict, so the three realms began an endless war with each other."
"We, the Nightmare Clan, belong to the Shadow Camp and serve the Supreme Chaos. Since the Lord of the Deep Sea has shown goodwill to you, it is probably because you have certain qualities that can bring victory to our Shadow Camp..."
"Trait?" Chen Ziang asked warily.
He wanted to continue asking, but the severe headache that followed interrupted his thoughts.
Due to learning too much knowledge, Chen Ziang's spiritual vision began to increase sharply, and his human sanity was also crumbling - in his vision, chaos, shadows, and creeping dark things, with the movement of Nicole,
As the words fell, it seemed as if tentacles were stretched out from the abyss and wrapped around him densely.
But a cold feeling quickly developed between his eyebrows, but it was Nicole who held a badge and placed it in the center of his forehead.
"O ignorant child, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a corner of the real world in his cradle, he was suffocated by fear, terror and uneasiness." She said as if singing, "Please accept this cloak, the shadow will protect you.
You no longer lose yourself."
Chen Ziang's headache had receded like a tide. He tremblingly took the badge handed over by Nicole and said hoarsely:
"Thank you. This is..."
"Shadow Cloak." Nicole replied, "It can help you isolate the influence of the fog, so that you will not be tortured by knowledge to mutate, and it can also lock your spiritual vision, so that you will not fall into endless weirdness.
Under attack."
Cloak? Chen Ziang looked at the badge carefully.
The badge is a round shape with sharp edges, and above it is... hmm?
He was quite horrified to find that he seemed unable to identify the shape of the badge and the pattern imprinted on it.
It looks round at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it has countless distinct edges and corners. The seal on it is also in an unstable state between "clear" and "fuzzy", and he can see each clearly.
However, if you turn your attention to the whole, you will only get a vague and unknown pattern.