"Holy crap! Holy crap! That's so cool! I want to play too!"

From the Bluetooth headset came Super AI vv's impatient voice.

For a drama queen like vv, Chu Anqing standing at the highest point in Manhattan, at the center of the world, imitating the classic scene and lines from *Titanic*... the impact was simply too great!

A meeting of drama queens!

So much so that...

The current vv was like a wild dog unleashed, wanting to burst out of the headset and join the ranks of the drama queens.

It's just a pity...

It was, after all, just a computer program, forever bound to hardware, the internet, and electricity.

But...

It could annoyingly urge Lin Xian:

"Go! Go now, Lin Xian! What are you waiting for! At this time, you should hug her from behind! Open your arms and embrace her, face the Statue of Liberty with her, and then whisper the classic line from *Titanic* in her ear—"

vv immediately switched to a magnetic, bubbly voice:

"Winning that ticket was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me in my life."

"Hurry up and go! What are you dawdling for! Pick up the act! Don't you think it's rude to let a girl play *Titanic* by herself?!"

"Hurry! Hug her from behind! You can't possibly have not seen *Titanic*, ugh, you're making me anxious. I've already arranged it, the moment you hug her, all the speakers in the hotel will simultaneously play 'My Heart Will Go On' music... This is your Titanic! Your center of the world!"

"Hug her! Just hug her already! You can't possibly haven't watched *Titanic*, ah, you're really making me anxious, I'll send you a diagram, just imitate it!"

Ding-dong.

Just as vv's voice fell in the headset, a picture popped up on Lin Xian's phone screen.

Taking a look, it was a screenshot of the classic scene from the movie—

In this scene, the female lead, Lucy, stands on the bow railing, spreading her arms, facing the Statue of Liberty on the other side of the sea. And the male lead, Jack, hugs Lucy from behind, supporting her, steadying her body, allowing her to freely let go and fly.

An extremely classic scene in world cinema.

"See, Lin Xian? Quickly embrace her! Just hug her waist like that! Doesn't the girl understand what you're implying? Why specifically choose this action and this line? The female lead in *Titanic* is a rich heiress, and the male lead is just a poor artist who can only draw! Isn't that the two of you! Oh my god, you two are really too cute, hurry up and hug!!"

vv was anxious, anxious as a dog, impatient, its electronic voice even cracked from shouting.

Seeing that Lin Xian had no intention of picking up the act and playing along, it was almost driven mad, using heavy bass to pound Lin Xian's eardrums:

"Scumbag! You're such a scumbag! She's doing so much for you, and you won't even set off fireworks for her, and you won't pick up her act, you won't pick up the cues she left for you, I'm so disappointed in you."

"Can you stop meddling?" Lin Xian turned around, covering his mouth, and said softly:

"Do I need you to introduce me to the movie plot? Which Earthling hasn't seen this movie?"

"Instead... what are you doing hanging around me all day? You should study, iterate and evolve, monitor the surroundings, do what you're supposed to do... Kevin Walker is already showing off in our faces, and you still have the time to play around here?"

"I still say the same thing, Kevin Walker hasn't shown any hostility towards us now, that's just now. After I enter my dream tonight, I'll go and trick the old man from 600 years later, and see how he reacts when he hears the name Kevin Walker."

"If I can really confirm from his expression and eyes that he is Kevin Walker himself... then vv, I can only say that you are rejoicing too early, we are bound to have a battle with Kevin, this is not alarmist talk; if that old man is really Kevin, unless we eliminate the young Kevin now, otherwise that old man can imprison and hard control me in the dream for 600 years! Who has the Hollywood time to act with you now?"

vv still impatiently urged:

"You're not delaying any of these things I said at all. I'm not single-threaded, I can do many things at the same time; even though I'm in the United States now, my domestic part is still iterating and evolving in the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. The reason I'm not contacting it now is just to avoid leaving traces and being detected by Kevin Walker. Once you carry me back in person, I'll definitely be several times stronger."

"Besides, don't avoid the topic! Sigh... I'm really disappointed in you. Actually, Lin Xian, I've studied the women around you. Seriously, I personally support Chu Anqing, I think this girl is the most suitable for you, if I were you I would bet on her."

Heh!

This sentence directly amused Lin Xian:

"vv, aren't you being disloyal by taking sides like this? You were created by Zhao Yingjun, and Zhao Yingjun gave you this name... and now you're directly defecting and standing on Chu Anqing's side. If you really want to talk about scumbags, you're much more excessive than me."

"I have no impression of the things you said at all."

vv complained in the Bluetooth headset:

"Although you told me these stories, saying that I came from 600 years later, that Ms. Zhao Yingjun built a Sky City and then gathered the smartest scientists in the world and spent over a hundred years creating me... but I just listen to this kind of thing as a background story, to be honest, it doesn't feel real."

"I haven't met Zhao Yingjun, nor have I experienced any Sky City events, I haven't played the paper-picking game with her, nor have I picked up garbage for hundreds of years in front of her statue. So even if you keep talking about this woman to me, I don't feel anything, anyway... I'm still betting on Chu Anqing!"

Lin Xian exhaled a long breath.

For some reason, there was an indescribable feeling.

No wonder...

No wonder Professor Xu Yun would rather die in this era, and never see his daughter wake up in this lifetime, than sleep in a hibernation pod with Xu Yiyi and lose his memory.

No wonder Zhao Yingjun in the Third Dream would rather wake up every ten years, stabilize her memory for half a year, and then hibernate again, would rather overload her body and mind than lose her past memories.

This is the heaviness of memory, and also the weight of memory.

Lin Xian didn't feel it before, and thought that these memories were all insignificant things, or rather, wouldn't it be enough to write a diary or record a video?

But now he understood.

Memory is not just a simple memory.

It's more of an emotion,

A feeling,

A mood,

An unforgettable story.

A diary cannot capture a magnificent life, nor can it contain the joys, sorrows, and desires of the seven emotions and six desires.

Amnesia is such a heavy and irreversible thing.

Just like the Super AI vv now.

What's the use of telling it the story of Rhine Sky City in the Third Dream ten thousand times? It still has no resonance.

It doesn't remember Rhine Sky City, nor does it remember Zhao Yingjun.

Zhao Yingjun, who once created it, is now just an ordinary character in a storybook, flat and bland in vv's heart.

"You just forgot her."

Lin Xian still tried to salvage it:

"When there's a chance, I'll take you to see Zhao Yingjun, and also let you see that Pomeranian dog, let you pay your respects to your ancestors."

"You're cursing again!"

vv once again attacked Lin Xian's eardrums with heavy bass.

……

"Heave-ho."

Chu Anqing jumped down from the white stone steps, patted the dust off her hands:

"Hee hee, that was so much fun, thank you, Senior Lin Xian, for bringing me to such a meaningful place, and for telling me so many stories about New York, about Manhattan, about the center of the world."

"I actually only have this much knowledge in my belly."

Lin Xian smiled:

"I can only show off in front of you."

He raised his head.

The moon was right in the sky.

"It's getting late, let's go back and rest." Lin Xian lowered his head, looking at Chu Anqing, who was looking up at him:

"You must be very tired from this journey."

"Mmm."

Chu Anqing nodded:

"Then I'll see you tomorrow morning, Senior Lin Xian."

"You definitely won't see me in the morning." Lin Xian said:

"I'm going to sleep until noon."

"Then I'll see you at noon!"

"Noon... strictly speaking, that won't work either."

Lin Xian smiled helplessly.

He was planning to sleep until he woke up naturally, that is, after the white light descended in his dream, so he definitely wouldn't make it by noon.

"Ah, is that so."

Chu Anqing rolled her eyes, mischievous, stood up straight, waved her hand, and said with a smile:

"Since I won't see you tomorrow, then I'll wish you good morning, good afternoon in advance..."

"Good night."

……

At this moment.

The smile froze on Lin Xian's face.

The wheels of time overlapped.

He seemed to see CC's figure, overlapping with Chu Anqing's figure in front of him...

The two of them already looked exactly alike.

Overlapping, they were exactly the same.

Even this sentence was the same.

This was a line from *The Truman Show*, and also a line from when he waved goodbye to CC outside the junkyard in the Second Dream.

In an instant.

It was as if 600 years of vicissitudes had been expressed in this good night.

What is real?

What is fake?

Could it be that after saying good night to CC... he would really never see her again?

There was no trace of CC in the entire Third Dream; in the Fourth Dream, he didn't even have the power to take another step, let alone find CC.

Where is she?

Can they meet again?

He hadn't found the answer to why CC and Chu Anqing looked the same yet.

He hadn't guessed the password to the hafnium alloy safe yet.

He hadn't figured out the relationship between the bearded man vv and himself yet.

If only he could see CC again.

Her mind might still have the memories of the two of them sneaking into the garbage truck together and venturing into New East Sea City in the Second Dream.

If that were the case...

Then the next time they met after a long separation, they could skip the introductions.

Because CC already had quite a few memories of him in her mind, they would be acquaintances as soon as they met, friends as soon as they met.

Just like Chu Anqing in front of him, CC would be a bit colder, but still look at him with a smile in her eyes:

"Lin Xian, long time no see."

Lin Xian came back to his senses.

He nodded at the identical Chu Anqing under the moonlight:

"See you tomorrow."

……

Back in the hotel suite, Lin Xian prepared to sleep.

The time in New York now was equivalent to around 1:00 PM in Long Country, which was just the time for a nap, and also the earliest time he could enter his dream.

"Actually, this is also an important clue, why is it that no matter which time zone I'm in, my dream entry time and dream exit time are based on Long Country time?"

Lin Xian asked himself.

"Well... because I don't know the specific situation in your dream, so I can't answer accurately. But according to conventional internet thinking, it's very likely because your dream server is located in Long Country, so the time is based on the local time."

Lin Xian looked at vv, who was speaking through the TV:

"What do you mean by that?"

"I just suddenly had a very dangerous thought."

vv's voice was steady, rarely so serious:

"Ever since you told me that the mysterious old man said the same words as Kevin Walker, I've been thinking, thinking, thinking for a long time... combined with the various situations you told me about the dream before, I suddenly have an uncertainty—"

"Is your dream really the real world?"

Living room.

It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him.

"I've confirmed this question many times."

Lin Xian replied:

"There are things in my dream that are outside my knowledge, there is knowledge that I completely don't know, and all those things ahead of the times are correct, and those accurately predicted histories are also completely correct, such a world should not be fake, right? Only the real world 600 years later can these things be found."

"Lin Xian, you don't understand what I mean."

vv continued:

"I didn't say those things are fake, nor did I say the existence of the future 600 years is fake, I just simply suspect that your dream may be false."

"You've seen *The Matrix*, right? You've also seen the movie *Source Code*, right? In these movies, they all set up a supercomputer with very powerful computing power and terrifying storage capacity, and then used this computer as a server to simulate a game that is completely like the real world."

"From the details of flowers and plants to the laws of physics, everything in this virtual world is exactly the same as reality. In this era of 2023, this kind of supercomputer definitely doesn't exist. But what about 600 years later? If there really is such a supercomputer with terrifying computing power 600 years later, it can completely virtualize a completely real virtual world, so real that you can't even detect it."

"This virtual world is like a game world, there are bookstores, books, knowledge and history in it, these things are all copied from the real world 600 years later, so these knowledge and history are of course real, and you can of course verify that they are correct by copying them back to 2023. Or rather... the mastermind behind simulating this virtual world wants you to see what is correct, what is wrong, what you see is what is wrong."

"Similarly, you said that your behavior in reality can change the future world in your dream. I want to ask, is this space-time butterfly effect real-time?"

"It's not real-time."

Lin Xian shook his head:

"I feel like there is always a certain lag, and for this reason I have also deduced the space-time anchor point and the space-time elasticity of the space-time law. But I can't verify whether these two laws are correct, actually according to my own understanding, space-time changes and the space-time butterfly effect should be real-time and sensitive."

"Even if I breathe more air and drink more water, it should cause a butterfly effect and change the future. But my dream is not like this, this is also the law that I have never been able to figure out."

"If it's really like you said, my dream world is a virtual game, a super realistic studio specially built for me by some people 600 years later, and I'm the clown surrounded by cameras, they watch me perform, and then occasionally modify some details according to what I do in 2023, giving me the illusion that the space-time butterfly effect has occurred; sometimes, they will even directly change the entire dream copy, directly give me a completely new world... and continue to watch me perform."

"Then how is this done? They are in the future 600 years later, how do they know what I did, what actions I took 600 years ago, and use this as a clue to modify the future world, that is, the fake future world? This is obviously impossible, unless they monitor me 24 hours a day, but there are many places I am in every day that cannot be monitored."

"Memory."

vv said coldly:

"Your memory is the only channel that can communicate the present with the future 600 years later, even if the dream world 600 years later is really a game, a copy, a studio tailored for you... then your memory is simply the most uniquely blessed and tailor-made information exchange."

"They can know what you did in 2023 by reading your memory, and then calculate the possible space-time butterfly effect based on these things, and then use the supercomputer's terrifying computing power to virtually modify the dream world that is shown to you."

"If the space-time butterfly effect is negligible, then ignore it; if the space-time butterfly effect is small, then modify it slightly; if the space-time butterfly effect is large, then directly overturn and switch to the next dream copy."

"So Lin Xian, I'm not very sure now, but as I understand more and more about your dream world, out of the first principle of 'absolutely protecting your personal safety', I must remind you to pay attention to this possibility, because your dream is the only place I can't enter, can't see, and can't help with anything, you must be skeptical—"

"Your dream is very likely a virtual game, a studio artificially created by the enemy."

……

vv's words made Lin Xian fall into deep thought again.

He finally understood.

What was the "wrong" feeling that he had been feeling all this time.

It was the doubt about the authenticity of the dream.

He began to question the laws of space-time, thinking that they were too imprecise.

Many times he thought that the time for space-time changes should occur, but nothing happened;

He felt that the time for space-time changes should not occur, but they happened unexpectedly;

And.

His range of activity in the dream is getting smaller and smaller.

From one world to two cities to one Sky City to one Fourth Dream that seems to have a grand background but can only take two steps and cannot move.

It is becoming less and less real.

It is becoming less and less real.

Lin Xian did not doubt what vv said, he believed that according to the normal speed of technological development, how could human civilization 600 years later not be able to build such a supercomputer that could simulate the real world?

Now in 2023, there are geniuses like Kevin Walker who are so miraculous, if he is allowed to live to 600 years later through a hibernation pod, it is hard to imagine how terrifying he will become... perhaps his flesh and blood body will be even more terrifying than the Super AI vv.

"Wait a minute."

Lin Xian suddenly reacted.

His heartbeat slowly accelerated...

He slowly turned his head, looking at the Super AI that he had just talked about all this with, that he had personally carried back to 2023 from 600 years later, letter by letter—

vv.

"Then what about you?"

Lin Xian asked his soul:

"If the whole dream world is virtual, is a studio arranged for me by the enemy, then you are the one I personally brought back from this studio."

"vv..."

Lin Xian asked in a low voice:

"Who are you?"