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Just when Ying was about to run away to pee, the small theater in the distance reached its climax.
"Hey! Humph, I knew you, a monster, would come over and take my blow!" Yu Jin stood up from the ground and slapped Nashida in the air.
"Ah~~~~~, I'm dead!" Nashida drooped her eyes, then quickly left the stage and ran back to Ying and Paimon.
"What are you doing?" Ying asked puzzledly when she saw Nashida coming over.
"Just keep watching." Nashida covered her face, not wanting to say anything more. Acting in such a small drama was definitely a dark history of hers.
Seeing Nashida's fate, Yu Jin quickly took out a Void Terminal and threw it on the ground. Then, he pretended to pick up the Void Terminal again.
"So this monster is actually a spirit from the Void Terminal?! No wonder it eats people's dreams. Fortunately, I am smart and wise, so this monster will never have the chance to cause harm to the world again!"
"Ding ding ding! The plot of this theater is fictional. Any similarity is purely coincidental!"
After finishing the last sentence, Yu Jin couldn't wait to run to Ying and Paimon.
"How?"
"Senior, you acted very well. Don't act like that next time."
Ying rubbed her dead fish eyes. She felt that if she looked at this kind of thing for too long, something terrible would grow in her eyes.
"Who asked you this? I meant whether you have any insights or something like that?"
"Look, if there is thunder, it is just a coincidence!" Yu Jin repeated the last sentence word by word.
Ying seemed to understand something when she heard this. She began to recall the little play just now, combining the above with her current strange experience.
"Um……"
After closing her eyes and pondering for a while, Ying finally opened her eyes.
"I see. Senior, are you trying to say that we are now trapped in a recurring dream?"
"Very close. Think about what Nightmare said?" Ember said, patting Nashida.
"Got it~, let this human keep dreaming~, I'll eat each one I make~, eat all of his dreams and memories~, then I'll be full~"
Nashida rolled her eyes and then weakly repeated her previous lines.
"Senior, are you saying... that we are forced to dream by the Void Terminal? And we keep having the same dream over and over again?!"
"I understand. No wonder I have a sense of déjà vu. It's not reincarnation. It's just the same dream repeated many times."
With Yu Jin's distinctive hints and some small reminders, Ying quickly realized their current situation.
"Ah! Is it so scary? We haven't done anything since we came to Xumi, so how come we are involved in such a big incident?" Paimeng exclaimed when he heard it.
In fact, if Ying hadn't told her, Paimon wouldn't have felt anything like déjà vu at all.
After hearing what Ying said, Paimeng felt like he was being swallowed by a huge whirlpool.
But she was used to it. Every time she followed Ying and Yu Jin, she would always be involved in some big things.
Looking at the ember in front of him staring at him, the little panic in Paimon's heart immediately disappeared.
Anyway, the embers are there, so why should she worry?
"Paimon... do you feel anything unusual?" Nashida raised her head and asked worriedly when she saw Paimon standing beside Ying with a relaxed look on his face.
She originally planned to guide both Ying and Paimon and let them come to their own conclusions, but she didn't expect that after Paimon got the truth directly from Ying, there seemed to be no problem?
"No? I feel great. If I really want to say it..." Paimon looked at the crowd on the street and said in a low voice:
"Is that person over there a ghost?"
"Huh... Don't worry about this. They are all Xumi people who have the same dream as you."
Nashida shook her head. What Yu Jin said was indeed right. Both Ying and Paimon were very special.
"That's good." Paimon smiled foolishly. Since it's not a ghost, there's nothing to be afraid of.
No matter whether it is a dream or not, let’s eat all the delicacies in Xumi first!
Ying's heart is no bigger than Paimon's. After she realized that this was a dream created by the Void Terminal, she first pulled off the device next to her ear, and then pinched her thighs hard several times.
"Hiss... didn't you say this was a dream? Why is it still painful? And why haven't you woken up even though it hurts so much?"
Ying rubbed her thighs, tears glistening in her eyes. Thinking it was a dream, she didn't hold back, but she almost cried and there was no sign of waking up.
"It's useless. The void terminal in the dream is fake. It won't work even if I take it down."
"Then can we tear down their void terminals outside?" Yu Jin suddenly thought of this and asked.
"This..." Nashida was stunned when she heard this, and then she began to think about the feasibility of this method.
"This should only work for Ying and Paimon. If you do this to other people, I'm afraid the consequences will be the same as telling them directly that this is a dream."
Nashida shook her head. The key to the problem was that the void terminal guided everyone to sleep by modifying their subconscious mind.
If you interrupt or wake them up rashly, what your subconscious mind thinks deep in your mind will be completely different from what it sees, and no one knows what terrible consequences may occur.
"Is that so? This is really troublesome." Yu Jin scratched his head when he heard this, but when he saw the blur outside Xumi City, a new idea came to his mind.
"Maybe...we can run out of the city and try it?"
Hey, this is really weird, why can’t I correct the wrong chapter number?
Chapter 699 The Limits of Imagination
2024-05-30
"Hey... Hey! Are we really going to run out?"
At the outermost part of Xumi City, a group of people were clinging to the non-existent city wall and looking around again and again.
"Of course, otherwise why would you jump down from that big tree?" Yu Jin replied to the guilty Paimon.
"How strange, there shouldn't be so many guards in Xumi City." Nashida saw the mercenaries coming and going near the exit in the distance and felt something was wrong.
Normally, most of Xumi's guards are patrolling the city, but looking at the current situation, most of the thirty-man group are probably stationed at the border of Xumi City.
"I see." Upon hearing Nashida say that there shouldn't be so many people defending Xumi's city, Yu Jin immediately nodded in agreement.
Then he exerted his strength with his legs and jumped over the two-meter-high wall like a goat. He had never seen such a short wall. If they didn't surround Xumi City, Yu Jin would have thought that someone's courtyard wall was too long.
"Come here quickly, don't get discovered!" Yu Jin's voice urged from another part of the city wall.
After hearing that, they stopped hesitating and quickly jumped over the wall of Xumi City, which couldn't even be considered a city wall.
"boom!"
"It seems to be no different from the city?"
Ying looked around but couldn't find anything special.
"Nonsense, we can touch the wall if we lean on it. If we can see the difference now, then the whole House of Eminence is full of good-for-nothings."
Yu Jin looked around and then ran out first - it was the guards' patrol break now, and if he didn't leave, it would be a waste of time.
"Hey! Wait for us!" Seeing this, the other people immediately followed in a panic.
Yu Jin didn't run very fast, even Paimon, who never liked sports, could catch up with him, not to mention Ying and Nashida.
After running some distance out of Xumi City, Yu Jin, who was in the front, suddenly stopped and began to think with his head down.
"What's wrong?" Several people walked over slowly with confusion.
"You'll know if you come and take a look. I can't be becoming presbyopic, right?" Yu Jin didn't explain too much. He just waved to the people behind him.
Ying and Nashida saw this, looked at each other, and then continued to act.
When the footsteps of several people suddenly crossed an invisible boundary, everything in front of them suddenly began to change drastically.
The dense jungle became barren, and the green turned into endless yellow sand. In just a short moment, everyone went from the rainforest to the desert.
"Ying, when did you use the teleportation anchor point!" Paimon asked loudly from the side, and then started to pinch his throat.
She was used to it. After each teleportation, instead of waiting to be induced to vomit by the dizziness, it was more convenient and quicker to induce vomiting manually.
"Idiot! How can there be a teleportation anchor in a dream?!" Ying punched Paimeng on the head, almost pressing her into the yellow sand.
"We are... this is..."
"This is a new dream." Nashida saw Ying hesitating and unable to explain clearly, so she answered for her.
"That's right, we have come to a new dream!" Ying can now teach Paimeng a lesson with confidence.
"Is it still a dream outside the dream? Nesting dolls?" Yu Jin stroked his chin and thought. From a distance, I thought it was still a rain forest outside Xumi City, but who knew it would be another completely different dream?
Nashida began to observe everything in the dream from the moment she entered it. She lowered her head and grabbed a handful of sand.
"Is it so real?" All the fine sand in his hand fell down. The reality of this dream was comparable to that of Xumi City.
"But the people here..." Nashida closed her eyes and began to sense the number of void terminals in this space.
"It's less than one percent of Xumi City." After opening her eyes, she came to the conclusion.
"So, is there any conclusion?" Yu Jin asked Nashida, who was thinking about something with her head down.
As for Ying and Paimon, they have already started preparing to climb the cactus and pick cactus fruits.
"From a dream, we can't draw many conclusions. As far as I know, it takes less than one percent of the population to maintain a dream as detailed as Xumi City, so the maintenance of the dream should have nothing to do with the number of people involved."
Nashida quickly gave her guess.
"so……"
"Keep going and see what new dreams there are beyond the boundaries of this dream."
Nashida nodded to Yujin, who immediately picked up Ying and Paimon who were jumping up and down on the giant cactus.
The dream worlds appeared one after another. After the yellow sand, it turned into a rainforest again, and after the rainforest, it was a swamp that had never existed in Xumi.
The group kept moving forward, and everything they saw was constantly changing. Not only were there ice fields and volcanoes, which were not seen on Xumi before, but in the end, there were even mushrooms bigger than mountains and castles in the sky, which were real dreamlike things.
"Wow! Stop chasing me, I won't eat you anymore!"
A new dream, and this time the protagonists are also fantastic enough - they are food with legs and facial features.
The flying rice grains, the pancakes floating in the air, and the bouncing dough, everything is full of fairy tale colors.
However, they all have one thing in common, which is that they seem to only have Paimon in their eyes.
All kinds of food seemed to have targeted her, driving her from east to west, and then from west to east.