"Phew! I really hope all of this is just a nightmare! When I wake up, I can open my eyes and see the real world again!" Yun Ge sighed with relief as he realized that everything happening around him was just a dream. At the same time, he felt his consciousness quickly becoming clear. Finally, with a lazy and helpless sigh, Yun Ge stretched and woke up.

"It seems like you're recovering better and better!" A voice suddenly sounded in Yun Ge's ear. Then, he saw a mint green circular light spot.

"Humph! I knew you would say that again! Why do you always say I'm recovering better? Where exactly am I injured?" Yun Ge quickly checked his body and then rolled his eyes at the mint green light spot. Although Yun Ge didn't know why he was asking, he didn't think his question was strange.

"Relax. Doubts are just reactions you have when you wake up!" The mint green light spot soothed in a highly anthropomorphic electronic synthetic voice.

"What do you mean exactly? Why do I feel like I had an extremely real nightmare, but I can't remember what happened in the dream?" Hearing the word "awake," Yun Ge suddenly seemed to think of something, but then he was puzzled again the next second.

"Not remembering what happened in a dream is just as normal as not remembering when you fell asleep. So, you don't need to be too surprised about it." The light spot responded.

"No. What I'm trying to say is, I feel like my dream is very important. But I only vaguely remember fragments of the dream, and these fragments can't be connected to the important information in the whole dream, which makes me feel very annoyed." Yun Ge said after the instruments around the operating table disconnected from his body.

"Oh? Then do tell, what fragments of the dream do you remember this time?" The light spot asked with great curiosity and some surprise.

"For example, I first entered an old building for class, and then somehow I was assigned to live in a dormitory on the top floor. Then, I suddenly really wanted to use the restroom. So, I walked downstairs alone to look for a bathroom. Then I found that the building was empty except for a few classmates, and there was no light. Then, with the help of a passerby who appeared out of nowhere, I ran out of the building for no reason and started evading zombies coming from all directions. Finally, I gradually regained consciousness when I was almost cornered and woke up." Yun Ge jumped off the operating table after making sure all the instruments had stopped working, and began to recall the fragments that appeared in that nightmare.

"Ah? Wait a minute! Why did you say 'this time'? Why do I say this dream is important?" Yun Ge asked in confusion.

"So I say you're recovering well! Because you can already remember some fragments of the mission. It seems everything is finally heading in a good direction! Your condition is more and more conducive to us carrying out the mission!" The light spot said happily after patiently listening to Yun Ge's narration.

"Mission? Am I helping you carry out a mission? Ah? It seems like I have some impression of these things. So, what mission are we carrying out?" Yun Ge rubbed the brain-computer interface located at his right temple. Because, when the light spot mentioned "mission," Yun Ge seemed to remember his job. But because Yun Ge's thoughts were a bit confused at the moment, he couldn't clearly remember this part while he was sure that what the light spot said was the truth.

The mint green light spot floating in the air flickered for a while before replying: "As I said before, there are many things I can't tell you yet. Of course, I have actually told you many things. And I have told you those things more than once. It's just that you haven't fully recovered, which leads to stress-induced memory damage after each mission, and as a result, you forget a lot of previous memories. However, the memories you forgot have been injected deep into your subconscious, which makes you feel accustomed to a lot of things happening around you. For example, these instruments that can be connected to your body, and me, the light spot, you didn't doubt us after waking up because you forgot a lot of things, right?"

Yun Ge touched several metal external interfaces on his body and looked at the various machines around him, nodding in agreement with the light spot's words. Because in his view, although the scene in front of him was very strange, it didn't make him feel any novelty and strangeness. On the contrary, Yun Ge felt that everything he saw should be like this, and it was normal for him to wake up in this environment.

So, Yun Ge said: "You seem to be right, I do feel like I have been living here for a long time. I feel that everything here is very familiar, this is my home. So, I didn't question you and everything here. Even though I saw the connection lines plugged into my body, I also think these are normal things. So – where is this place? You – what are you?"

The light spot flickering with mint green light was like a deep-eyed eye. It stared at Yun Ge for a while before replying slowly: "You can call me Green Light."

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"So Green Light, where are we now? Ah? Right. What's my name? Why did I suddenly forget my own name? But – I don't seem to have forgotten who I am. It's just a sudden blockage, and this part of my memory is in my mind, but it's always blocked by something and can't be released." Yun Ge said and patted his head again to cheer up his spirit.

"Don't worry. Your reaction is very normal, after all, you have just woken up! You rest a little more, and you will naturally remember more things. Of course, referring to your previous situation, I guess you won't remember much. But even so, it won't affect your daily life." Green Light comforted.

Green Light continued: "The place we are in is called Rhombus, it is our permanent base. As for you – your name is Yun Ge, you can also regard yourself as the master of this Rhombus base, and I am the butler who serves you."

"I am the master here? Am I not carrying out missions for you? How am I the master now? Wait a minute, why did I say you? Are there other people here besides you? Who did you come from? What do you want me to do?" Yun Ge asked warily.

"Don't worry! We are not bad people, and we don't want to hurt you. I think you can make an accurate judgment about this." Green Light soothed, and at the same time, he didn't plan to answer Yun Ge's questions directly.

Green Light continued: "I can't answer your other questions now, because everything has to develop step by step. Telling you too much now is not conducive to your recovery and growth. And as you continue to recover, even without my answers, you will find the answers to many questions on your own. So before that, what you have to do is to focus on recovery while carrying out the mission!"

Green Light's behavior of avoiding important questions didn't annoy Yun Ge, because he seemed to be used to Green Light's behavior a long time ago. More importantly, Yun Ge's intuition told him that what Green Light said was the truth, and he seemed to have verified that what Green Light said was the truth a long time ago, but he just didn't remember what happened.

Seeing that Yun Ge was no longer asking questions, but frowning and thinking, Green Light continued: "Alright! You have just woken up not long ago, don't be too entangled in these questions! You should hurry to rest! You know, proper relaxation can be very beneficial to your memory recovery. If you have any other questions, you can ask me after your thoughts are clearer!"

Yun Ge, who was confused, also knew that Green Light's advice was for his own good. After all, after the short excitement of waking up, a strong sense of fatigue began to invade Yun Ge's body and mind, making him yawn uncontrollably.

Seeing that Yun Ge was showing signs of fatigue, Green Light said: "Alright! Hurry back to your room and rest! We will see you later. The completion of your mission has improved a lot this time, and I have to hurry to organize all the data you provided!"

"Ah - woo -! The mission completion has improved a lot? You mean, I failed the mission?" Yun Ge said, and couldn't help but yawn.

"For you at this stage, it's enough to improve the mission completion. Ensuring that everything is heading in the right direction is the most important thing. Whether the mission fails or not is not important." Green Light replied.

As soon as Green Light finished speaking, a door opened on one side of the metal room. Then, Yun Ge saw an arrow generated by virtual imaging technology on the ground pointing to the door. Yun Ge immediately understood that this arrow was guiding him to leave here and return to his room. So he didn't bother to think about whether this arrow was generated in front of him or in his eyes, and casually made a gesture to Green Light to see you later, and left the room full of various high-tech instruments with increasingly light steps.

Guided by the virtual arrow, Yun Ge returned to the room that was both familiar and unfamiliar. However, since he was too tired at the moment, he didn't want to think about it, but fell onto the big bed in the room and quickly fell asleep.

After waking up, Yun Ge stretched contentedly and then turned over and got out of bed, curiously looking at this room without windows. However, in this room made of some metal material, there was only a big bed and a metal bar. Given the simple furnishings in the room, Yun Ge only glanced at the whole room before sitting in front of the bar.

Because he saw a metal cup on the bar, and the metal cup was full of a strange liquid that would make people's appetite open. Although the liquid in the metal cup was a bit thick, it had an excellent taste, so Yun Ge drank the liquid in the cup without hesitation after cautiously taking a sip. After drinking the delicious liquid and resting again, Yun Ge gradually regained his spirit.

Yun Ge burped and then got up and went to the door, preparing to go out and see the situation outside. Since there was no handle or button on the metal door, Yun Ge suspected that he was imprisoned here by the strange green light. But just as Yun Ge was suspicious, the door opened automatically.

For safety reasons, Yun Ge didn't go out immediately after the door opened, but cautiously looked out to see the situation outside. Then, he saw that there was nothing outside the room except for a bright and full metal texture corridor. It seemed that it was also safe outside the room. What made Yun Ge feel even stranger was that although he was alert to the environment here, another emotion made him feel a long-lost sense of familiarity with here again. So, Yun Ge didn't think much, but walked out of the room with curiosity, and saw the virtual arrow again after walking into the corridor.

"How to get to the room where Green Light is?" Yun Ge suddenly asked after seeing the arrow. Although Yun Ge also felt that it was very strange to ask the arrow, what was even stranger was that he soon denied his doubt. Because his subconscious told him that this virtual arrow that appeared out of thin air was here to serve him.

"Strange, why do I think so? Why do I feel extremely familiar with the environment here, but I can't remember why I am familiar with it?" Yun Ge muttered to himself in doubt. At the same time, he also scratched the metal slot on the back of his head, which was covered by thick hair.

Anyway, Yun Ge still believed that his intuition would not be wrong. So, even though he was still full of doubts, Yun Ge decided to follow the guidance of the arrow to see what was going on. Because he knew that if he wanted to get more answers, he had to meet that strange green light again. However, after Yun Ge walked outside the room where Green Light was, he found that the door here was still closed.