Chapter 17: Dreamscape: The Return

Fortunately, Park Yonghwan had this idea, otherwise, the security department would not have discovered the “Wolf’s Kiss” members entering the country.

Ning Shuangshuang’s team also wouldn’t have been able to take corresponding sweeping actions so quickly, but as a result, they neglected Ruan Dan, allowing him to infiltrate the homes of Qin Yun and Du Guozhong.

Fortunately, they coincidentally encountered Du Qiu, who caught both of them.

However, the mission of the “Wolf’s Kiss” members entering Tang Country was not to target the shipyard as the security department believed. So, was this sweeping operation considered complete?

“Team leader, do we still need to take specific measures against Qin Yun and the others?” a team member asked.

“The mission continues!” Ning Shuangshuang said seriously, then she turned to a team member on her right and asked, “Deng Quan, has Ruan Dan confessed yet?”

Hearing the question, Deng Quan frowned and said, “No, this guy is tough to deal with, completely indifferent like a dead pig not fearing boiling water. From the time we caught him, he hasn’t said a word.”

Ning Shuangshuang said, “We have all seen Ruan Dan’s mask; the level of realism is very high. If subsequent ‘Wolf’s Kiss’ personnel also use this disguise, it will be very difficult for us to detect them.

This method of disguise also requires our great attention; it poses a significant challenge to our future security work.

Everyone has seen the follow-up video surveillance at the scene of the capture of Park Yonghwan. The person who appeared the next morning can now be determined to be Ruan Dan based on his height.

According to what Park Yonghwan said, they came for Zhang Shangqing’s family members.

But why, after Park Yonghwan was captured by us, did Ruan Dan also infiltrate Du Guozhong’s home?

This indicates that after Ruan Dan knew of Park Yonghwan’s capture, he must have reported to his superiors.

He only took further action after receiving new instructions from the higher-ups. Therefore, the subsequent ‘Wolf’s Kiss’ will definitely send new reinforcement personnel.

Given the lesson learned from Park Yonghwan, the new personnel will definitely disguise their entry into our country, and then we can only wait passively.

Although this case does not match our original target, it involves the safety of the family of the martyred heroes, and we still cannot allow foreign mercenaries to run wild within Tang Country’s territory!

Therefore, please ensure that each protection team is responsible for safeguarding the protected individuals without any slack. Did everyone understand?”

“Understood!” came the neat reply from the meeting room.

Ning Shuangshuang scanned the crowd and said, “Apart from continuing to execute the tasks at hand, we still need to find out what the crystal cube that Park Yonghwan mentioned actually is.

Xiao Zhou, you fly to South America tomorrow and investigate at the peacekeeping police station to see if they know anything about the crystal cube.”

“Yes.”

“Be aware, and note if there are any other foreigners who have been searching for the crystal cube in the past three months,” Ning Shuangshuang added.

“Understood, if there are, they are very likely to be the people who hired ‘Wolf’s Kiss’.” Xiao Zhou nodded in agreement.

“Team leader, can we ask the families of the two martyrs to find out if they have seen anything like a crystal cube?” a team member suggested.

Ning Shuangshuang nodded and said, “Yes, the family of martyr Zhang Shangqing will be inquired by Hao Kai since you were on the scene that day. For the family of martyr Du Guozhong, I will ask myself.

Deng Quan, you need to intensify the interrogation of Ruan Dan. We must clarify the situation of the subsequent ‘Wolf’s Kiss’ personnel. Meeting adjourned!”

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The night was as dark as ink.

It was just after eight o’clock in the evening, and Du Qiu was already planning to go to sleep because he wanted to spend more time in the dreamscapes, so he could learn more about them.

But just before sleeping, Ning Shuangshuang called him.

“Officer Ning, do you need me for something?”

“Did your father leave any crystal products brought back from South America?”

Ning Shuangshuang’s question made him tense up.

Du Qiu didn’t dare to hesitate and quickly replied, “Some of the things my father left behind are indeed at my place of residence.

However, I’ve been too busy to sort them out recently and don’t know if what you’re asking for is among them. I’ll organize it when I find time tomorrow, and if there is such a thing, I’ll inform you.”

“Alright, thank you! Good night.”

“Good night.”

Du Qiu hung up the phone and routinely placed his hands on his temples. It seemed that the captured man had confessed, and the security personnel already knew about the existence of the crystal pillow.

However, it sounded like they did not know that it was a pillow.

He had to delay until the replica arrived, and then when Ning Shuangshuang next asked about it, he would show her the replica.

Of course, the most important thing was to quickly clear up whether the matters in the dreamscape have real-world value.

Du Qiu had previously tried to sleep with the crystal pillow during the day to see if he could enter the dreamscape, but for some reason, this thing only worked at night.

He also found that sleeping with the crystal pillow would allow him to fall asleep within five minutes, without any chance of insomnia.

Therefore, he planned to go to bed early to strive for a longer time in the dreamscape.

Du Qiu turned off his phone and, lying on the crystal pillow, entered dreamland.

Like the previous two times, after traveling through countless star systems, he was again caught in a white vortex. At this moment, the depths of his consciousness still heard, “……upload successful!”

Du Qiu still could not make out the words before those four, but then he focused all his attention on sensing that splendid constellation.

When the distinct feeling of “seeing” this constellation appeared, Du Qiu did not directly “look” at the center of the stars, which all had the size of chicken eggs.

Instead, like the previous night, he “looked” around at other stars and thus continuously received related information, even accompanied by corresponding functional operating images.

At this moment, Du Qiu suddenly realized that he clearly remembered the functions corresponding to the constellations he saw last night.

This discovery made him immensely happy; it meant that he could become fully familiar with the entire constellation’s functions.

In the future, if he wanted to study a specific function closely, he could directly find the corresponding constellation to examine it.

After confirming he was familiar with all the functions corresponding to the entire constellation, Du Qiu again “looked” towards the central constellation with eggs the size of chicken eggs.

A stream of information arrived instantly as expected.

“Seed 1008600363 accepts descent; current task list……”

Seeing this information again, Du Qiu noticed the word “seed” for the first time.

Could it be the name of this machine? Does the meaning of this “seed” match the word in his mother tongue?

Considering that the dreamscape displays in Chinese, it appears it should be consistent.

But this is clearly a massive resource gathering and refining machine, so why call it a seed?

Looking at the list of tasks, it’s indeed about gathering resources and carrying out various purifications. Of course, many tasks involve material synthesis; aside from that, there’s nothing else.

Du Qiu didn’t plan to continue looking for the production method of the energy block tonight, as he had wasted much time on it last night.

He felt he should understand this intelligent machine called “seed” as a whole and see how intelligent it is and how it precisely controls and executes so many gathering and production tasks.

Du Qiu started with the gathering modules.

With the comprehensive familiarity he had gained before, he indeed found the corresponding constellation right away.

He had “seen” that constellation before descending and had once again witnessed the magnificent scene of those 49 vast pipes.

Now, after the descent, he realized that observing the corresponding constellation brought even more information than before.

Evidently, there is a difference between descending or not.

Without much thought, Du Qiu eagerly read through the information, which was all written in the pictographic programming language.

Besides the resource gathering processes, it also included a lot of programs controlling the gathering devices, which featured an abundance of exquisite algorithms, interface designs, and perception parameter calculations, among others.

Although these programs are significantly different from the intelligent machine control systems in the real world of Blue Star, it seems that because of the descent, Du Qiu could completely understand them.

The more he understood, the more he felt a sense of wonder; these machine control programs are simply too marvelous.