The school's dormitory was also not like what Colin had expected.
It's not a dormitory where all the students will live, this school's dorms are separate.
Colin, Matthew and two other classmates named Kane and Orson moved to live in a large modern house located in a bustling neighborhood.
Colin thought that perhaps the school felt that building a large area just for dormitories would attract too much attention, so they separated them all. However, Colin has nothing to complain about with his living situation here.
The university also doesn't have rigid rules for dormitories, so even if they held a party here, no one would come to complain.
As for students' private lives, the university doesn't care at all.
However, Colin did not intend to play around or enjoy anything. After saying goodbye to the three others, Colin locked himself in his room.
He activated the system.
Sinking into virtual space, Colin activated his body projection, then closed his eyes and began to relax his mind.
The key to opening up the Seventh Sense is to connect yourself with Source.
And Colin gradually sank, deeper, deeper,...
Everything, every existence in this world has a Network. Because everything has a Network, so everything has its own Source.
He didn't know how much time had passed. The more Colin's mind sank, the more it became like an onion being peeled off layer by layer, until in the end only the most primitive point remained.
It was an amazing feeling that Colin had never felt before in his life.
At the last point of his primitive mind, Colin sensed a vague existence of something.
It was an extremely contradictory feeling.
It seemed like Colin was looking at it from the outside as something completely separate from him, but as soon as that definition appeared, Colin's vision was transformed.
Now, Colin is looking at it from within himself, like an internal part of himself.
"This is… the Source?"
The human mind basically cannot accept the existence of something with two opposing characteristics. People can only recognize one type of characteristic.
If this thing is bright, then it's not dark. If this thing is big, then it's not small. If this thing is inside, then it is not outside. If this is wrong, then it's not right... The same goes for the opposite.
Although heard and experienced briefly through three-dimensional simulation. But experiencing this "paradox" so intuitively was beyond anything Colin could have imagined.
The Source is the center within the Network, and also contains the Network.
Colin didn't know that, because he was too focused on unnecessary things, his mind was quickly depleting.
When Colin woke up, he discovered that his head hurt like a hammer, and even though he sat still, his whole body was still covered in sweat. It was as if he had been in motion for a long time.
"Your mind needs to rest, please come back here in fourteen hours and thirteen minutes."
That is a system warning.
In exhaustion, Colin fell asleep right on the sofa. It wasn't until there was a knocking sound outside his room that Colin woke up from his sleep.
When he went to open the door, Matthew was also startled to see Colin's appearance.
"Dude! Are you doing drugs? I thought you died in there."
"Not really… although in a sense it's true. So why are you looking for me?"
"Ah, Kane and Orson and I want to go out and play, want to join?"
"No."
Colin flatly refused.
His condition is quite bad, and even if his condition is good, Colin will still refuse. He wants to grasp every second and every minute to develop himself.
"You guys still haven't succeeded in opening your Seventh Sense and still want to go out?"
"Don't be so serious, man. This can't be rushed."
Matthew shook his head.
Matthew was actually right this time.
Opening the Seventh Sense is a journey of delving deep into each individual's own consciousness. With the main end point being success in connecting the primordial self with Source.
For those who do not have the natural talent to open the Seventh Sense, this journey requires a lot of patience, adaptation through each step, training the mind to make it stronger.
Colin burned the stage and reached the final step.
But his mind was not stable enough to take that last step, defeated by the existence of the Source.
Thinking of this, Colin sighed. He already knew where he was wrong, he was too hasty.
Matthew probably couldn't think that deeply, but the blond man's reminder really helped Colin a lot.
"Okay, let's go."
"Huh? Where are you going?"
"Get out? Didn't you just say?"
Matthew laughed loudly, putting his arm around Colin's shoulder.
"That's it! That's the spirit! We're still young, so how can we enjoy life with such a serious face all day?"
"Relax, man. Let me show you how the city people entertain themselves."
A few hours later, after returning from the party, Colin was still alert with no signs of fatigue.
Even though that trip into his mind failed in the final step, that journey still brought Colin certain benefits.
However, when Colin returned to his room, he received a message from the system.
A new message has been sent.
Colin suspected that this was Matthew teasing him, but thinking about it, it wasn't. After all, he had just thrown the drunk blond guy into Matthew's room.
In curiosity, Colin opened the message.
What appeared before Colin's eyes was a photo. A photo of a person sitting back on a sofa looking extremely normal.
However, Colin's expression became cold when he saw this photo. Because the person in this photo is him.
This must have been taken while Colin was lost in his own mind. But who took it and sent it to Colin?
The system has a communication function that helps people with the system to communicate with each other. And in order for the two sides to connect, one side needs to know the other's ID number.
Only three people know Colin's ID number: Matthew, Andy, and Selina. Even the two classmates who lived with him and Matthew didn't know his ID number.
Colin tried looking up the ID number of the system that sent him the message, but all he found was a blank, this thing had no ID number.
Temporarily rule out the possibility that Colin was sold out by the other three people, so the person who knows his ID number must be someone with higher authority over the system than a user like Colin.
"Someone from the university did this?"
"But why? Threaten me?"
While Colin was guessing the other side's purpose, the other side suddenly sent him a second message.
"We'll meet Again."
"Wait!"
"Who are you?"
Colin tries to send a message back, but the display in cyberspace is collapsing quickly.
Colin now realized that it was very possible that what he had just tried to contact was actually just a virtual account created to hide information. Once it is deleted, the entire message will disappear and there will be no trace left to trace.
"Damn it!"
Colin was very impatient, but he couldn't do anything.
Leaving the virtual space, Colin sat back on the sofa, but he did not relax, he was still deducing about the mysterious person who sent him those messages.
"We will meet again?"
"So that means I have met this person, or at least this person has come into contact with me without me even knowing or realizing."
"Who could it be?"
Colin couldn't think of a suitable answer.
As for the sneaky photo, Colin had estimated the distance at which the photo was taken, and that place was empty space. There is nothing where a hidden camera could be hidden. Colin guessed it was probably supernatural power.
Right now Colin is still just a normal person, he can't do anything so he can only ignore it.
"What a trouble..."
Colin was sad, then quickly regained his composure. Currently, his mind has completely recovered, and Colin can experiment with going deep into it again.
A few days passed quickly, the monthly test was approaching very quickly.
When Colin received the notice to prepare for the test, he had just come out of his mind.
"Students, please pay attention."
"The monthly test will start tomorrow morning, the duration is three days. Students please bring your student ID card and identification items (if any) when participating in the test."
"Successful passing of the test will result in an additional 10 points."
"For detailed content, please see below."
"Hope everyone can get through it."
Looking at the red notification in front of him, Colin felt extremely pressured.
As Colin walked out of the room, he met Matthew, who was now showing a rare seriousness.
"Dude, what should we do next?"
"Call Kane and Orson, we have to go back to school to buy items."
In recent days, Colin has contacted lecturer Camilie many times to ask for her opinion, but Camilie has never responded. Currently, Colin can only cope on his own.
"Kane and Orson? I haven't seen them return today."
"Contact them."
Each class has ten students, divided into two different groups and each group will take a separate test.
Colin's group consisted of himself, Matthew, Kane, Orson, and a fellow student living in another dorm named Paul.
Because it is not mandatory to assemble at school. So the group decided that tomorrow morning they would gather at the dormitory.