Chapter 345 Deep Dream
Chapter 345 Deep Dream
Seraphiel, the saint of the lantern dream, was sleeping with her believers in the newly built church.
This was the first church built by Lantern Dream in the royal capital. It was very small and located in a remote area. It was just a large house with little decoration built in a corner of the outer city area.
But for the Lantern Dream, this is the first stronghold born in the light.
Although the coordination with the Central Church in the capital was bumpy, with the coordination of the Northern Church, Lantern Dreamland finally gained a foothold in the capital.
Because it is a formal church and the believers are also the goddess, under the strategy of giving eggs to believers taught by Lind, many shallow believers of the Goddess Church also joined the Lantern Dream with the spirit of since they are already here, and became shallow believers of the Lantern Dream Sect.
The current Goddess Church is divided into three factions: the Central Church, led by Lilith, which believes in the traditional Goddess. The Northern Church, led by Flora and Isa, which believes in Linde in addition to the Goddess. And the Lantern Dream, which has been modified but still has some extreme beliefs.
At present, there is no fundamental conflict among the three factions because the goddess has awakened and all three factions have received the oracle. Under this background, no matter how the three factions view each other, they can only maintain a peaceful attitude.
Today, the three factions have a clear division of labor. The Northern Church is directly responsible to Lind, the Central Church is responsible for secular missionary work and management, and the Lantern Dream is more research-oriented.
Of course, Lantern Dreamland was able to change its previous reputation as a cult, and it did not simply rely on believers to give out eggs. Lantern Dreamland used brain servant technology in reverse and did help many people resolve psychological trauma. Most importantly, it was free of charge.
"Thank you very much, Saint Lady."
A middle-aged man dressed as a worker saluted Seraphiel in the stiff posture he had just learned and thanked her.
"Thanks to you, my son's hysteria was cured. I really don't know how to thank you."
Seraphiel said sleepily, "It's okay. If you have time in the future, you can come to the church to pray on prayer days."
Although it is no longer possible to burn people's brains directly in order to build dreams like before, there are more believers now, and the quantitative change has turned into a qualitative change. While the research is being advanced in an orderly manner, the Lantern Dream has already had excess computing power to help people around the church solve some spiritual problems.
After hearing about it, many nobles even came to the church in the lantern dreamland to sleep.
After sending off the last batch of shallow believers, Seraphiel led his followers into the dreamland.
Now this public dream has begun to take shape, and many believers are working hard to build this public dream to make all the parameters of this dream closer to reality, so that various experiments can be carried out in this dream in the future.
This was unimaginable to the former Seraphiel. In the past, the public dream could only rely on the power of the goddess. Several people huddled in a small room, and even their images could only be replaced by the simplest black shadows to save computing power.
But now this dream has even made it difficult for people to tell whether it is a dream or reality.
As the Governor said, a cult that is destined to develop on a small scale is unlikely to support systematic research.
However, the dream before her is far from enough for Seraphiel, because Seraphiel's goal now is the common dream of all mankind, that is, the deep dream in the legend, or the collective subconscious of mankind.
In the church of the public dream, Bernice suddenly woke up. Even in the dream, Bernice still felt her heart beating violently, as if she had just returned from the brink of life and death.
"Bernice, how do you feel? Have you entered a deep dream?"
Seeing Bernice wake up, Seraphiel in the dream immediately surrounded her with his followers.
In order to enter the deep dream, Bernice needs to dream within a dream. This is actually quite dangerous. If you are not careful, you will fall into the deep dream and never wake up again. Even with the help of the goddess' oracle lantern, the lantern dream still lost some loyal believers.
"My Lord... am I still dreaming?"
"Yes, you have returned to the shallow dream."
After hearing what Seraphiel said, Bernice looked at the oracle lantern on the bedside and breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that she was indeed back.
"My Lady Saint..."
Bernice stroked her heartbeat in a public dream and said, "I saw the past, present and future."
“I saw my birth, my experiences, even my death, and countless versions of myself.”
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There is a new blackboard in Lind’s study, and now the blackboard is covered with densely packed information. Some of it has been erased by Lind, and four big words were written in the erased place: Alaya Consciousness.
But after careful consideration, Lind erased these four words and wrote the word "Ocean of Consciousness" in the language of this world in its place.
After all, this was just a religious concept in the previous life, but now the ocean of consciousness is a real place that can be explored, and its properties cannot be exactly the same.
Lind still hopes to summarize the ocean of consciousness with something as understandable as possible, rather than mysterious religious concepts.
After getting help from 550C, Lind discovered that this collective subconscious was more dangerous than he had imagined. According to some statements from his previous life, this collective subconscious contained all of mankind's life experiences and karmic traces from ancient times to the present, and even included the human consciousness gene library. As long as a small part of the data in this ocean of consciousness was modified, it would have a huge impact on real humans.
Some long-standing human habits and even prohibitions will be modified because of this.
No wonder both the Tower and 550C are so eager to eliminate the time bomb in the ocean of consciousness.
At this moment, the familiar synthesized voice of 550C once again rang in Lind's mind: "Citizen, are you sure you want to open this Pandora's box?"
“It’s not like I want to open this Pandora’s box.”
Lind put down the chalk, wiped his hands, and said, "But if we don't open this Pandora's box, there is no way to solve the problem."
"Besides, someone has already opened the magic box."
Lind cast his gaze in the direction of Anjou. Of course, it was not Anjou that opened the Pandora's box, but the former old empire. Lind had to prepare for the worst.
Then Lind handed the information on the table and the Holy Grail terminal that had been set up to Lucanus in the shadows: "Send it to Saint Seraphiel in the Lantern Dream."
Just as Lucanus was about to get up and leave, Lind suddenly asked, "Lucanus, how far has the research on the Old Empire progressed?"
Lucanus looked at the information Linde had written all over the blackboard, wiped his sweat, and said, "My king, you have gone a little too far in your research."
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