Chapter 263: Inception and The Truman Show (Part 1)

In the room of the manor, on the soft sofa, Victor leaned his body against the armrest of the sofa. He turned his head to look at Shiler, who was sitting behind the table fiddling with a globe, and asked him, "What did you call us all here for?"

Cobblepot was fiddling with a lock on his pocket, seemingly wanting to adjust its length. Yin Wensi, sitting opposite him, was holding a wine glass, shaking the wine liquid inside. The liquid presented a golden luster and also foamed with white bubbles. Jack was lying horizontally on a single sofa, squinting his eyes and taking a nap.

Shiler leaned against the back of the chair, kept flicking that globe in his hand. When he put the globe on the table, the earth model on the globe was still rotating slightly. He looked at Victor and asked, "Didn't you notice anything different here?"

"What's different?" Victor looked up and sized up the entire room. This was the reception hall of Shiler's manor, with a row of soft sofas, two single sofas, and several cushions. Between the sofas was a coffee table. One side of the room was Shiler's table, and behind the table was a row of huge shelves all filled with various sundries.

Victor had also been here before, and he didn't see any abnormality. Just when he wanted to continue asking Shiler, he looked at Shiler again and felt that something was wrong. He asked Shiler, "What's wrong with your head?"

At this time, Shiler's head had turned into a rotating globe, and the others didn't feel anything abnormal about this at all. Only Jack, lying opposite, opened one eye slightly and made two "hiss hiss" gasping sounds from between his teeth.

"Alright..." Shiler with a globe head stood up from behind the table. This should have been a very weird scene, but Victor didn't feel anything abnormal at all, as if it were completely normal for him to become like this.

"Think back carefully, Victor, how did you get here?"

"Of course I walked over from school, I..." Victor was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Am I dreaming?... Is this in my dream?"

"You said it backward. This isn't your dream, but my dream."

Victor revealed a surprised expression. Shiler walked to Victor's side and sat down, turning his globe head to look at Victor. Victor wasn't sure if he really made the action of turning his head, because the globe had been rotating all along.

Except for Jack, the other few people all sat up straight slowly, and then looked at this space as if they had just woken up, surprised.

"Of course, human conscious space cannot be connected, just as dreams cannot be connected. Things imagined by one person in their brain, another person cannot see, cannot touch, and cannot observe at close range..."

"But..." Shiler with a globe head turned his head toward Yin Wensi again, and he said, "The reason I can pull other people's consciousness into my conscious space has to start with you, Yin Wensi..."

Yin Wensi looked at the globe head topped by Shiler. He didn't know what to say for a moment. This scene was incredibly terrifying if placed in reality, but he didn't feel any problem in this conscious space, because there were many more weird things, for example, they were sitting on the ceiling now.

The sofa and coffee table they were sitting on were all stuck to the ceiling. The chandelier was not far from Yin Wensi's hand. I don't know when, the entire space was turned upside down, but they didn't find any abnormality.

Also, for example, Yin Wensi focused his vision on his nose and found that there was a small Joker red nose on it. He didn't feel that there was an extra thing in his vision at all.

Jack pinched the red ball on his nose with his hand, making two "ji ji" sounds. He opened his mouth and smiled happily.

"Are you saying we are all in your dream now? Professor?" Yin Wensi scratched his head and said very puzzled, "But as you said, how could several people's dreams be put together?"

"Since you already know from Alberto the truth of his birth, have you ever thought about what the Court of Owls and the old priest relied on to create Alberto's personality?"

"Uh... Alberto didn't tell me about this aspect. He didn't seem to know his origin either, just appeared out of thin air one day..."

"That's why I said, this has to start with you..."

"Let's organize our thoughts. In the last incident, we learned that a thing called 'fine wine' appeared in the basement of Cat Getan Cathedral. After the Court of Owls studied it without results, they brought in the priest. The priest researched some results and handed them to the Court of Owls. Then, they created your brother's personality, so what should the key to this question be?"

Yin Wensi wasn't stupid. Just as he wanted to answer, Cobblepot snatched it in front of him and said, "It's that kind of 'fine wine'."

"That's right. Before, when I communicated with the Godfather and the priest, the priest indicated to me that in the church, he possessed abilities that ordinary people don't have. That is a special ability similar to mind-reading, which can feel some mental characteristics of the other party."

"It was also because of this ability that he saw my difference, so he hired me to be your family tutor, Yin Wensi. Understand now?"

"So that kind of fine wine has the function of making people obtain mind-reading ability?"

The globe head shook slightly. In fact, everyone didn't see whether he really shook his head, because the globe had been rotating.

"That kind of fine wine, or rather, I prefer to call it Wine God Factor, you can understand it as a liquid brain wave amplifier..."

"Brain wave amplifier?" Victor frowned and said, "I have also done research on the theory of brain waves. I have also heard of the theory of controlling human spirit by interfering with brain waves, but you say, a special liquid can amplify human brain waves, isn't it a bit too..."

"We don't need to crack its principle, we only need to know its effect. In short, the priest handed the research results of fine wine to the Court of Owls, and the Court of Owls used the Wine God Factor to create Alberto's personality..."

"So, where is he now?" Yin Wensi looked left and right. Shiler explained, "His house is being built at a critical part, so it's you who came here."

"In short, after I confirmed this point with the priest, I knew that the Wine God Factor might have a relationship with people's conscious world."

"And in my hand, I happen to have several other liquids related to this. I asked another biological friend to mix them according to a certain proportion to achieve an effect of amplifying brain waves to the extreme. I call it 'Crazy Wine'."

"When it was just made, I couldn't determine whether it was effective, so..." Shiler turned his head toward Jack. Jack shook his head and said, "So, when I was drinking with you, you added this thing to our wine..."

"Then, the conscious worlds of the two of us indeed connected, and there was also an annoying guy who ran out of your conscious world and wanted to trick me into entering your conscious world to sit in jail for him."

"Just now, I invited you all to my manor, and then treated you to wine. A few drops of this Crazy Wine were added to everyone's wine, so now, we are sitting here—"

"Welcome to my conscious space, everyone."

In an instant, everyone woke up. Victor recalled how he came to Shiler's manor on a rainy day, and then drank a sip of wine. Cobblepot and Victor also recalled the process from entering the door to taking off their coats and putting away their umbrellas. Shiler explained, "When you first come in, you will have a period of adaptation, you might not be able to distinguish between reality and illusion, so you won't feel any abnormality."

"Just like you won't feel strange when seeing a high-rise building turned upside down in a dream. From waking up to entering a dream, it needs a process of adaptation. Of course, if I reveal the truth, the speed of this adaptation will become faster."

"I understood all the principles..." Victor turned his head to look at Shiler and asked him, "But why did you turn your head into a globe?"

Shiler reached out and flicked the globe on his head, and then said, "Not just me, you can also change. Although this is my conscious space, when our brain waves blend together, you also have a certain degree of autonomy here."

Just after he finished speaking, Jack's head turned into a fried chicken wing with a "bang", and a big smiling face appeared on the fried chicken wing. Jack's voice came from the wide-open mouth: "This is what I ate tonight, the taste is not bad, of course, some of it inside wasn't cooked, it was really bloody..."

Yin Wensi stared wide-eyed at Jack with a fried chicken wing head beside him. He could even smell the fragrance of fried food coming from it.

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"This... what should I do?"

Before he could try, a strangely shaped freezing gun appeared in Victor's hand. They looked curiously at this gun in their hands and said, "This is the latest model I conceived before, I haven't had time to make it yet, I didn't expect it could be materialized so realistically."

"In conscious space, that is, in a dream, what you can do completely depends on your imagination, that is, 'what you believe is what you get'. And, the more detailed you imagine, the more detailed it appears. I think your gun should have been completely conceived, right?"

"That's right, the design drawing was finalized a week ago. So, it can also be fired?"

Saying that, Victor pulled the trigger, an ice cone was fired, and the Joker opposite was instantly frozen into an ice block.

"As long as you believe it can be fired, it can naturally be fired, just like people in dreams believe they can fly, and they really can fly."

"Hey, you made my head cold! Don't you know that cold fried chicken is the most disgusting food in the world?!" The big mouth on Jack's chicken wing head shouted loudly.

Cobblepot pinched the red ball on his nose, and then with a "bang", the one worn on his nose turned into a sharp cone, just like the kind often worn at parties.

Yin Wensi scratched his head and said, "Then can I change the color of my hair? I have always wanted dark brown hair like the Godfather, but dyeing hair is really too troublesome."

Just in the process of his speaking, his hair slowly changed color, from bright gold to dark brown. Shiler's globe head shook and said, "I think gold is more suitable for you."

"Is there a mirror?" Yin Wensi turned his head back and forth, seemingly wanting to find a mirror-like item to look at what he looks like now.

"You only need to 'think' about it."

Yin Wensi thought about it, and then drew a square in the air with his finger. This crooked square turned into a mirror and fell down. Yin Wensi grabbed it in a panic, and then looked at himself and said, "Indeed, gold hair still looks better..."

Saying that, his hair changed back.

Victor picked up the wine glass in front and asked Shiler, "So you pulled us into your conscious space, what are you going to do?"

"Actually, there is no serious business to do, just invited you to watch some fun."

"Watch fun? What fun is there to watch?"

"It is because there is no fun to watch that we need to create some fun. Not just me, I think Mr. Jack should also think so, right?"

Jack turned his head into a toilet brush again, and at this time was constantly flicking the bristles on it with his fingers, saying, "Cat Getan without Batman is really too boring. If I don't find some fun for myself, I will go crazy!"

"Alright, then what are you two going to do?"

Shiler moved his body to the other side, leaned against the armrest of the sofa, and said, "Now there is a very professional psychology expert, that is, my peer, who is sitting in Arkham Mental Hospital. In a while, I will go over to hand over work with him..."

"I will have a theoretical discussion with him, and then invite him to drink together..."

"Are you going to pull him here too?"

"No no no, this is the auditorium, and he..."

The opposite Jack smiled and continued his words: "He will be an actor, a very clumsy actor." ===== CHAPTER 264 =====