The work team returned to the studio for in-depth discussions.
Arthur said with some worry: "What I'm worried about is how we can ensure enough stability to enter the third level of dreamland. Under the third level of dreamland, even the smallest vibration will turn into a major earthquake. Even the smallest disturbance will cause collapse.
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Yusuf cleared his throat and gave a solution: "Add a sedative. This can make sleep stable enough to create a triple dream!"
So soon, Yusuf began to experiment with his own methods in the makeshift laboratory.
I saw Yusuf pressing a piston, and Arthur fell asleep on the chair.
"We have to combine it with a strong sedative..."
Yusuf's voice came.
Eames slapped Arthur's face hard, but Arthur showed no intention of waking up.
I don't know how long it took, but in the studio, Arthur unconsciously rubbed his chin.
Youssef said: "The agent we use to share dreams is derived from an advanced 'somonaxin'. It creates a clear connection between dreamers and actually speeds up brain function."
Cobb nodded: "This will allow us to buy time in each level of dreamland."
Yusuf reminds: "The brain functions 20 times faster during sleep than usual. If you enter a dream within a dream, the effect will be doubled."
Lin Ni asked curiously: "How long?"
Yusuf: "Three levels of dreams are equivalent to 10 hours, multiplied by 20, then multiplied by 20, then multiplied by 20..."
"Math has never been my strong point," Ames complained.
Cobb explained: "The first level is about a week, the second level is 6 months..."
Lin Ni widened her eyes and said: "The third level is 10 years. Who wants to spend 10 years in a dream?"
Yusuf smiled and said, "It depends on what kind of dream it is."
Ames said: "Once we start to work, it won't take that long to open up Fischer's mind. We will be out in a few days at most."
Arthur asked: "So once the mission is completed, how do we get out?"
After saying that, he turned to Cope again: "I hope you have thought of a more decent way instead of shooting me in the head like last time."
Then Arthur slumped in his chair, and Yusuf turned to Cobb.
Cobb said: "Use recoil bombs."
Lin Ni asked: "What is a recoil bomb?"
Eames put his feet under the legs of Arthur's chair and flipped it over. Arthur's legs instinctively crossed to find balance.
Ames raised his eyebrows: "Linni, this is a recoil bomb."
Cobb: "Feeling the fall will wake you up. Once we're done, that's how we wake up."
Arthur asked with some worry: "After using such a powerful sedative, can we still feel the recoil bomb?"
Yusuf said proudly: "The beauty is here. The sedatives I use are all specially customized..."
The camera turned, and inside the temporary laboratory, Cobb, Ames and Yusuf watched Arthur falling asleep on the chair.
Yusuf's voice came: "It will not affect the function of the "balance sensor" in the inner ear..."
He suddenly smiled strangely and slowly pushed Arthur's chair back. As Arthur fell, his body reacted quickly, and his eyes opened just before he fell heavily to the floor.
Arthur pondered and nodded slowly.
Yusuf continued: "This way, no matter how deeply you sleep, the dreamer can still feel the fall!"
Another round of experiments began, Yusuf briskly helped the sleeping Arthur aside...
"Or turn to..."
Arthur fell suddenly and suddenly woke up!
They succeeded again.
After Arthur woke up, he once again thought thoughtfully: "But that won't directly pass through the third layer of sleeping dreams."
Cobb explained: "The key point is to design the recoil bomb for each layer of dreamland, so that it can suddenly travel through the three layers of dreamland and come out simultaneously."
Arthur looked at Cobb and understood what he meant.
"We can use a musical countdown to synchronize the recoil from different dream levels."
At night, Linnie walked into the dark open space. Cobb was lying on one of the chairs, asleep, and the tube was connected to the mechanical device. Linnie stood beside him, observing.
She opened her suitcase, took out a set of tubes, sat down, and checked the data as she inserted the syringe into her arm.
In the dream, Lin Ni walked onto the cage-like elevator. She looked at the button above. She pressed the button on the underground floor and the elevator stopped. She looked through the iron grating...
Lin Ni opened the iron fence and walked to the opposite room, looking at the dusty furniture, thoughtfully. Next to the window was a toy storage room, and the front door was slightly open.
Linni opened it and found a safe inside. She reached out to check and found that the safe was locked. A noise frightened her - she turned around and looked through the porch to another room inside!
Linnie looked into the room and saw Cobb and Mal talking and arguing together. It was an intimate moment. Mal pushed Cobb's hair with her hands and tried her best to persuade him.
Mal: "Do you remember when you asked me to marry you?"
Cobb: "Of course!"
Mal: "You said you had a dream!"
Cobb: "We will grow old together."
Mal: "Now we can, you know how to find me, you know what you have to do."
Cobb shook his head slightly, and Mal stared into Cobb's eyes tenderly, full of love.
Suddenly Mal saw Linnie watching them. She stopped and stared, full of hostility. Cobb turned around and saw Linnie. He walked towards her and left Mal sitting alone.
Cobb looked at her and said, "You shouldn't be in this place."
He guided her back to the elevator.
Lin Ni said: "I want to know what "tests" you do every night."
Cobb closed the cage elevator door, Linnie pressed a button, and the elevator began to rise. Through the iron grating, Linnie could see a beach stretching directly into the distance, and the elevator stopped. Mal sat on the sand next to her.
, there are two children crouching, they are building a sandcastle.
Linnie asked: "Why did you do this to yourself?"
Cobb: "It's the only way I can dream."
Lin Ni asked in confusion: "Is dreaming really that important?"
Cobb stared at his family: "In my dream, our family is still together."
The children never turned around. They jumped up and down, chasing and running away.
The elevator starts to go down.
Lin Ni said: "But these are not just dreams, right? These are memories. You said never to use memories."
Cobb was a little helpless: "But I can't do it."
Lin Ni asked: "Are you letting her live?"
Cobb shook his head: "No."
Lin Ni said again: "You can't let her go?"
Cobb shook his head again: "No. These are my guilty moments, and I turned these moments into dreams so that I could change them."
Lin Ni's fingers moved on the buttons and stopped on the "basement level" button.
Then he continued to ask: "Then what is there below that makes you feel guilty?"
Cobb pushed her hand away and pressed the third layer key: "You only need to understand one thing about me."
Lin Ni followed Cobb into the kitchen. A thin man stood there, leaning against the table, holding a stack of documents in his hand.
Lin Ni looked at it: "Is this your house?"
Cobb: "Mal and mine."
Linnie asked: "Where is she?"
Cobb: "She's dead."
The thin man handed Cobb a piece of paper, a child called, and Cobb turned around.
Lin Ni followed his gaze to the garden, where a little boy with blond hair and fair skin turned his face away from them, crouching and looking at something on the ground.
Cobb said: "His name is James, my son, and he found something, maybe a bug."
An older little girl burst into their sight.
Cobb introduced again: "That's Philippa."
She squatted next to James, their faces invisible, and they pointed and discussed what was on the ground.
Cobb looked at this: "I wanted to yell at them so they would turn around and give me those incredible smiles, but I was past that!"
The thin man thrust the ID into Cobb's hand: "Leave now, or you won't even think about leaving, Cobb."
Cobb nodded and turned from the window: "Then I felt panic. I have been longing for them to turn around. I shouldn't waste such an opportunity..."
He turned and shouted, but the children ran away and disappeared.
"But this moment has passed. No matter what I do, this dream will always remain the same. As soon as I try to shout, they will run away."
Cobb watched them run away, the children calling for grandma, but their faces could not be seen.
"If I want to see their faces again, I have to go back to the real world!"
Behind him, Linnie closed the elevator grating, and Cobb turned around.
Lin Ni pressed the button for the basement and the elevator started to go down. Lin Ni's eyes widened. As the floors slid down, she felt surprised: this was Mal's childhood bedroom, with a wall like a freight train roaring.
Then, the elevator stopped. Through the iron fence, Lin Ni saw a hotel room. She opened the iron fence and walked in carefully.
The bedding was messy, the coffee table was overturned, and strawberries were everywhere on the floor, as if after a fight. Lin Ni continued to walk forward, and something broke under her feet. She looked down and saw that she had kicked over a champagne goblet.
Ni felt a draft of air and the curtains moved slightly.
Mal's voice came: "What are you doing here?"
Linnie turned around. Mal was opposite her.
Lin Ni said: "My name is..."
But before she could finish speaking, Mal interrupted her and said, "I know who you are, what are you doing here?"
Lin Ni shook her head: "I don't know, I'm trying to understand."
Mal: "How can you understand? Do you know how to be a lover? To be half of a whole?"
Lin Ni: "I don't know."
Mal slowly walked towards Linni: "Let me tell you a mystery. You are waiting for a train. This train will take you to a distant place. You know where you want the train to go, but you are not sure...
..."
Mal looked Lin Ni up and down, looking at her whole body: "But, it doesn't matter. Where this train is going, how come it has nothing to do with you?"
Cobb's voice came: "Because you will be together."
Cobb stood in the elevator, Mal nodded and looked at him.
Mal asked him: "How could you bring her here, Dom?"
Lin Ni was confused: "What place is this?"
"A hotel, we stayed in this suite for our wedding anniversary," Cobb said.
"What's going on here?"
Mal picked up a champagne goblet with a broken base. Cobb quickly dragged Linnie into the elevator. Mal jumped at Linni. Cobb quickly closed the elevator. Mal rushed over and attacked like a beast again and again.
Lin Ni is timid about elevators!
Mal: "You promised me! You said we would spend our whole lives together!"
Cobb: "We could, we would. But I need you here now!"
Mal was angry: "You said we would spend our whole lives together!"
Cobb pressed the button and the elevator began to rise.
"I'll be back, I need you here alone now, you stay here, I'll finish my work, and then we'll be together!"
Mal is still repeating the words: "We will be together forever - you promised me!"
Mal threw herself against the elevator barrier...
In the studio, Lin Ni had already woken up. She watched Cobb sleeping, and his eyes gradually turned and opened. He watched her look at him.
Lin Ni asked: "Do you think you can lock her in by building a prison of memory? Do you think you can hold her in that way?"
The lights came on, and Li Teng and Arthur stood on the porch.
Li Teng said: "Maurice Fisher just passed away in Sydney."
Cobb asked, "When is the funeral?"
Li Teng: "Thursday. In Los Angeles."
Cobb: "Robert should have his body escorted back by Tuesday. It's time for us to take action."
Cobb stood up, Lin Ni approached him and whispered: "I'll go with you."
Cobb refused: "No, I promised Miles."
Lin Ni: "There needs to be someone on the team who understands your struggling state. If you don't take me, you should take Arthur to see what I just saw."
Cobb looked at Lin Ni, then turned to Li Teng.
"We need to have room for one more person on the plane."
The camera switched to Li Teng standing looking out the window at the Boeing 747, and Cobb came behind him. They saw a coffin being loaded onto the plane.
"Once I get on the plane and you don't take care of things properly, when I land, I'm going to spend the rest of my life in jail," Cobb said.
Li Teng: "After you complete the mission as planned during the trip, I will make a phone call from the plane and you will be able to pass through the immigration without any obstacles."
On the plane, there were only 10 seats in the luxurious first-class cabin. Cobb found his seat. He looked at Linnie sitting in the seat behind him. They pretended not to know each other. Behind Linnie was Arthur, who was looking at her.
He was looking out the window when Eames came in and stuffed his bag into the trunk above his head. Standing behind him was Robert Fishel. Fishel stood there, very patiently, holding the bag in his hand.
, wearing a black suit.
Eames: "Oh, I'm sorry."
Ames squeezed into the gap between the seats to let Fisher pass. Fisher walked to his seat, just in front of Cobb. Ames quickly handed Cobb a passport, and Cobb opened it.
The passport belonged to Fischer. He put it into his pocket, and Yusuf and Li Teng entered the cabin and took their seats.
