Luo Ling reached out and touched the spoon, and was able to push it to swing left and right in the air. She exclaimed, "How cool! Can you bend it with telekinesis?"
Xiao Chen tried, but his idea of bending the spoon did not receive any response. He quickly stopped, and he knew that this was also a dream with limited power. He could not do what he could not do in the real world. If he tried harder, the dream might be shattered.
He explained to Luo Ling the difference between the two dreams. Luo Ling rolled her eyes and thought for a while before saying, "Maybe that dream was a dream, and now your mind has entered your own body in a parallel world. Once you overuse your mental power, you will be forced offline instead of the world collapsing!"
"How do we prove that this is a world?" Xiao Chen asked.
"This is very simple." Luo Ling took out the bag behind her and took out a book called "Partial Differential Equations" and said, "Generally, there are no details in dreams. Even if your secret method of "Dream Tower" can make the dream very detailed, it is impossible to make things you don't know, or even things that don't exist in that world, right? This is the textbook I used in class this afternoon, you can take a look."
Xiao Chen took the book and casually opened a page. The title read: Sturm-Liouville Eigenvalue Problem.
He was dizzy from seeing the rows of functions, integrals, and equations. As a liberal arts student, he couldn't even recognize all the Greek letters, let alone understand the meaning of the equations. But he was sure that these words and equations had clear logic and were definitely not something his brain could make up in a dream.
He flipped through a few more pages. Every page was clear and obvious. He even turned to the table of contents at the front and checked the page numbers between the table of contents and the main text. Everything matched perfectly, proving that this was a real mathematics textbook.
When Xiao Chen handed the book back to Luo Ling, his hands were shaking a little.
Luo Ling sensed the heaviness in his heart and asked softly, "Did you think about the dream you had before?"
Xiao Chen nodded and said, "If that's the case, doesn't that mean that you really died in the first world? And the one I saw in the second dream was also my real mother?"
"Nothing is impossible. If parallel worlds are really created as a result of different choices at a certain point, as described in science fiction, then you just made different choices at different critical moments. We may have just taken the wrong path in the first world, so we are in a desperate situation."
"I saw you being killed with my own eyes... I can't imagine how it felt if you weren't there. Seeing you sitting here again, and knowing that there was a you in the school in that world, managing a camp. This feeling is really, really..."
Seeing the sadness on his face, Luo Ling naturally held his hand and comforted him, "Didn't you say that a magician should be someone with a strong character? The Xiao Chen I know is also an optimistic and open-minded person. You will definitely experience many such scenes in the future, perhaps even more terrifying and weird than this. If your mentality is not right, you will not be able to endure it."
"I know." Xiao Chen forced a smile, "But that's you..."
"It seems that no matter which world we are in, you still care about me." Luo Ling tilted her head and looked at him with a smile.
Xiao Chen's face actually turned red. He pulled his hand back and said, "In our world, you wouldn't say such things to me."
"Sorry, I'm used to it. After all, we've been together for more than half a year here. Look, the cashmere sweater you're wearing was bought by me. Looking at you like this, I can't really tell you apart from him." She thought of something and couldn't help but laugh even harder. "But, in that world, it seems you're still a long way off."
"It's really hard to say about fate. Maybe the timing is not right yet."
"Do you need some advice? No one is better at chasing myself than me."
“Don’t!”
"You better hurry up. I believe that even in that world, I will have many suitors. For example, Qin Mu will definitely be one of them."
"This old guy, did he chase you before the school time travel?"
"That's right. On my first day of reporting, he wanted to treat me to a meal. As for me, I can't say I have a crush on him, but I definitely don't dislike him either. After all, he's a handsome guy."
"But I believe that I defeated him in this world, and I can do the same there." Xiao Chen forked a shrimp with force, and then stuffed it into his mouth and crushed it, as if it was Qin Mu. Then he couldn't help laughing, and this time it was a sincere laugh, "Thank you. I feel much better."
Luo Ling smiled back at him and said, "Okay. Now, we can talk about some serious matters."
"Serious matters?"
"Don't you think that it is valuable for you to be able to travel back to this world again? Apart from anything else, at least I can provide intellectual support here, even if some science doesn't work there. But I can help you brainstorm in many ways."
"What do you want to do?"
"I can create a public account called 'Building a Different World'. I'll put the situations you encountered in the background introduction, regularly publish difficult topics, and invite some professionals to participate in the discussion. I still have some connections in this area. When the time comes, for example, how to manage slaves, how to establish a financial system, how to use local resources, etc., I can ask everyone for advice."
"That makes sense. I can take this kind of programmatic stuff back with me."
"And you can also repay me well. For example, I want you to teach me the so-called meditation method. I'm afraid there is no magic power here, but I want to try whether I can cultivate your mental power here." Luo Ling pointed to the spoon on the table.
"However, all of this must be based on a prerequisite, which is that I can come into this dream again." Xiao Chen said.
Luo Ling took out a pen from her bag, opened the book "Partial Differential Equations", and wrote three words on the title page: Tower of Dreams.
"Well, this book will become something unique in the world. If you think of it in your dreams, maybe you can come to me again?"
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When Xiao Chen woke up from the carriage, he saw Catalina, who was sitting opposite him, staring at him. Meeting his gaze, she lowered her eyes slightly and asked, "Brother Xiao, you woke up so soon?"
"How long have I slept?"
"Look outside the window. The carriage has only gone halfway." She glanced at the electronic watch on her wrist. "About fifteen minutes have passed."
Xiao Chen experienced six dreams in total, and even the last one lasted far longer than a quarter of an hour. After he and Luo Ling finished their meal, they strolled around the streets and even watched a movie Luo Ling had booked in advance. It was not until he accidentally fell asleep in the cinema because of the art film that he escaped from that world.
If the speed of time in the parallel world is different from that here, then there is a lot of potential. But, can I still go back