Xiao Chen stared blankly at the security door in front of him. It was brown, with couplets pasted on both sides and curled corners. It was as old as the door, yet so familiar.
Xiao Chen habitually patted his trouser pocket and found a bunch of keys inside. The key ring was a small gold-plated dragon. He picked out a key from among four or five keys and stuffed it into the doorway, but his hand began to tremble involuntarily and he couldn't get the key into the keyhole several times.
The door opened from the inside, revealing a middle-aged woman wearing a bib and holding a spatula. She was a little overweight, but well-maintained. As soon as she saw Xiao Chen, she complained, "What are you doing at the door? There's so much rustling going on. I thought there was a thief."
Xiao Chen opened his lips slightly, his eyes were red, he mumbled a few syllables, and finally shouted: "Mom..."
"What are you standing there for? Go wash up, change your clothes and clean up your room. It will be embarrassing when Linlin comes to see your messy place." Xiao Chen's mother grumbled, but took the bag from Xiao Chen's shoulder and hung it on the hanger. "You two are far away from each other, and you don't have many opportunities to meet each other. Don't let it go. Linlin is a really good girl. She has a good temper and is a decent person. She is also from our hometown Qingdao. She came all the way to Guangzhou to see you. You have been here for three days, and you haven't spent much time with her..."
Before Xiao Chen's mother could finish her words, Xiao Chen hugged her.
"Oh, this is terrible! What's going on? Ah? Xiao Chen, what's wronged you?" Xiao Chen's mother was shocked by this hug. She couldn't remember the last time her son hugged her. This incident today made her a little nervous, because she could feel her son's arms getting tighter and tighter, and still trembling slightly.
"It's okay." Xiao Chen held her hand for a while and then let go. He sniffed and laughed, "It's nothing... I just feel that if I really get married, I will spend even less time at home."
"You kid. Why are you so homesick?" Xiao Chen's mother looked at Xiao Chen and said, "Don't think I'm annoying. You should also pay attention to the rest of your life."
Xiao Chen's mother turned around and prepared to go to the kitchen.
"mom… "
"What happened today?" Xiao Chen's mother turned around and looked at him, "Are you really okay?"
"No, Mom. I just want to say that you... you look pretty good." Xiao Chen gave a thumbs up, "Really."
"Oh, you're in good shape today. Let's start with mom, right? Okay, okay. Perform well in front of Linlin later."
Xiao Chen returned to his room and found that the layout and furnishings were basically the same as he remembered. The only difference was that there were a few more photos of girls in the photo frames, his girlfriend when he was in undergraduate school, Lin Lin.
He had seen one photo before, which was taken on Pingjiang Road when they went to Suzhou together during college. But he had never seen the other photos before, and two of them were obviously dressed like they were after graduation and working. The two looked even closer than they were in college, and they looked very happy together.
Xiao Chen distinguished the backgrounds. One photo showed two people skiing in Northeast China, one was at Kanas Lake in Xinjiang, and another was at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Xiao Chen had been to all these places, but never with Lin Lin. He and Lin Lin broke up in their junior year because of their tempers. Could it be that these subsequent stories were some kind of yearning in his heart
However, Xiao Chen had no idea what Lin Lin would look like after graduating from college. He was also somewhat curious about what she would look like in this dream.
He saw a pile of washed clothes on the bed in the room, and he waved his hand, using his mental power to make the clothes fly into the air and fly towards the closet. As if controlled by an invisible hand, they were put on the hangers and hung in the closet.
It was indeed a dream. Xiao Chen turned around and saw a ball of waste paper in the corner, so he wanted to erase its existence, but the ball of paper did not move at all. He used a little more mental power, and soon, starting from that ball of paper, this dream became as fragmented as the previous one.
A sense of loss welled up in Xiao Chen's heart, and he secretly blamed himself for being too reckless, causing his dream of returning home to be shattered.
He couldn't help but wonder, can't I influence the world in my dreams
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Xiao Chen experienced several more dreams, some were in the past world, and some were in the new world, but these dreams were different from the previous two dreams. In those dreams, he was able to use his mental power to change objects, destroy monsters, build buildings, and even break through the limitations of the planet.
Xiao Chen stood on the platform with his hands behind his back. In front of him was a wide bridge, and outside the bridge was a huge window. From there, he could see a blue planet the size of a ping-pong ball, suspended in the star-studded universe. Below the window was an unmanned control console, with the screen and light strips flickering, giving it a sci-fi feel.
Luo Ling, dressed in a simple white uniform, walked up to the platform and said, "Captain, the ship is about to enter the warp phase and head to HD 40307g. We will generate a warp bubble in ten minutes."
"I like this dream." Xiao Chen smiled.
"Captain, are you still asleep?" Luo Ling asked curiously.
"Ah, don't worry about it." Xiao Chen held the railing of the platform with both hands and asked, "What is the name of this spaceship? How many levels of warp engines does it have?"
"What's wrong with you? This is of course the 'Flying Xiao Chen', which has the most advanced level 8 warp engine currently in the Republic." Luo Ling replied.
Xiao Chen sighed: "This is really an interesting world, but my first mate, I think you don't look as good in a white uniform as in a black one."
He waved his hand, and Luo Ling's clothes suddenly turned black. Her figure seemed to be more curvaceous.
Luo Ling looked at her clothes in confusion, but did not react any further, as if everything was natural.
"Also, these windows are too small." As soon as Xiao Chen finished speaking, the structure of the spacecraft began to change like plasticine. The transparent portholes continued to grow larger and extended to the top of Xiao Chen's head. More and more starry skies appeared in front of them.
Luo Ling still looked unsurprised, and instead said, "This really gives us a better view."
Xiao Chen smiled and said, "Don't you find it strange? I can change everything here just by moving my mouth."
"What's so strange about this? I can do it, too." Luo Ling looked at the floor, and an octagonal transparent area appeared from the middle of the floor.
"It's so absurd, it seems to be just an ordinary dream. This is the third world I have controlled today. I will go one step further and control four dream worlds."
"Captain, I don't quite understand what you are talking about."
"It's nothing. You just need to know that I will be here to accompany you through the long journey, but the other me is about to leave this world." Xiao Chen said.
His consciousness began to split, all his perceptions became double, his thoughts also became double, and then another him walked out of the captain, smiled at Luo Ling, and then slowly faded out of this world.