Recap
This time, even Liu Yi was smarter than him, “It’s already past midnight, and no one is dreaming. This means that as long as we start going back along the nested dreams, no one will have any more dreams, right? Because we have already started to ‘gradually wake up’!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of “bang bang bang” banging on the door sounded again, and the teacher NPC outside started yelling again, “In the middle of the night, why aren’t you sleeping, what are you doing gathered here!? Open the door! Open the door for me!”
“We have to keep moving forward, right? Let’s hurry up and start!” Wang Yueran whispered.
“Speaking of which, the source of fear in Jin Nan’s world is bugs!” Liu Yi’s face was distorted.
Trigger warning: Bugs
Jia Qing was stunned, suddenly thought of something, and said guiltily, “Speaking of which, if it wasn’t for me telling him about bugs getting into his ass before going to bed, he might not have…”
Song Yang paused when he heard this and said to him calmly, “There are many death factors in the instance, anything can happen. Excluding external influences, the players themselves are also different. Some will harm their companions, and some will retaliate. Some will play pranks, and the same pranks may also happen to themselves. In the end, whoever can survive depends on their own abilities.”
Jia Qing sniffed and nodded sullenly.
The main reason he felt depressed was because this was the first time someone else’s death might be related to him.
Wang Yueran was also unusually cold about this matter, “Don’t forget, that guy wanted to kill Grandma at first, and he already used Xia Jing as a scapegoat once before!”
Xia Jing’s eyes lightly swept over Song Yang, he smiled silently, and then withdrew his gaze.
Song Yang’s peripheral vision also lingered on the young man’s profile for a moment.
This guy was also a representative of “different faces for different people”.
The NPC had already started banging on the door. Song Yang signaled everyone to gather around, and his cold voice slowly flowed into everyone’s ears, “Now, you feel itchy all over, as if there are bugs crawling on you. You realize that there might really be bugs that have gotten into your clothes, and these bugs can also get into your body through various holes and mess up your internal organs…”
With Song Yang’s words, Wang Yueran and Liu Yi’s expressions became distorted.
“Plop”, “plop”, bugs started falling, landing on them.
They reflexively shook, and because of fear, they could only close their eyes, feeling the bugs gradually pile up on them like a mountain. These bugs got into every hole, into their mouths and noses, ear canals, and even belly buttons…
But all of this was fake, it was a dream.
As long as they left this dream, they could continue to move forward.
They were getting closer and closer to breaking through this instance…
Dizziness hit them.
In dormitory 417, Xia Jing and Jia Qing suddenly opened their eyes on the bed.
They had stayed in Jin Nan’s world for more than two hours, and these two hours became more than two minutes in the dream world left by Xu Jin.
In other words, it had been more than twenty-four hours and two minutes since they entered Xu Jin’s dream.
The bugs all over the dormitory were gone, and Jin Nan was sitting on the bed quietly like them, leaning against the wall with his head lowered, sleeping motionlessly.
Jia Qing climbed over, carefully pushed him, and called out “Hey, bro”. Jin Nan’s tall figure tilted to the other side and slowly fell down.
Jia Qing pursed his lips.
As Xia Jing said, those who were killed by fear in their dreams remained in their dreams forever.
Another knock sounded on the door. This time, without Xia Jing needing to, Jia Qing ran to open the door and let Song Yang, the old lady, and Wang Yueran in.
The NPC was arriving faster and faster, and had already started banging on the door frantically.
“Quick, we need to move on!” Song Yang whispered.
The six people gathered again, closed their eyes, and Xia Jing said in a gentle voice, “You saw a green-eyed ghost when you were a child. You don’t know what it is, you don’t know why it came to your bed, you don’t know what it wants to do to you…”
As his words sounded, everyone could feel a chill behind them, and they froze in place, unable to move.
A slow, cold breath appeared close behind their ears.
Someone was silently clinging to their backs.
Their hairs stood on end.
“You are too scared to move, you are very afraid, your heart is beating fast, beating to the point of exploding, you feel like you are about to die…”
But all of this… was fake!
Fake, fake, fake!
At a certain moment, they found that they could move!
Everyone suddenly opened their eyes, but not only did they see the slender humanoid shadow behind everyone, they also saw the shock in each other’s eyes.
—Why was this time different from the previous two times, why were they still here?!
Song Yang reacted and shouted in a low voice, “We have to kill it!”
At the same time, Xia Jing was the first to turn around.
The dark ghost shadow was floating in the air, its eerie green eyes seeming to smile at him.
Xia Jing chuckled softly, took out a dagger from his spatial bag, his heart beating abnormally, impacting his chest, the veins on the back of his hand and neck protruding, his blood flowing faster, his whole body as if it was about to explode and die.
But his eyes were always calm.
He held the dagger in reverse grip and slashed at the ghost shadow. The blade drew a silver arc in the darkness, and the ghost shadow was split apart like clouds and mist. Then Xia Jing disappeared from the dormitory!
The others immediately followed suit nervously, and dizziness hit them again—
This time, Xia Jing, Song Yang, and Wang Yueran woke up from dormitory 417.
They had stayed in Xu Jin’s dream world for more than twenty-four hours and two minutes, which in Huang Mo’s dream world, was twenty-four minutes more than twenty-four hours.
After Wang Yueran sat up, she saw Xu Jin lying quietly on the bed and couldn’t help but cover her mouth and cry.
A knock on the door sounded, Song Yang got out of bed to open the door, and Jia Qing, Liu Yi, and the old lady ran in.
They had just woken up in dormitory 414 and saw Jin Nan’s body on the bed.
Liu Yi noticed at first glance, “Xu Jin’s bed sheet has turned white!”
“The beige bed sheet and the teddy bear were all products of her dream,” Xia Jing said slowly, “Just like the bugs in Jin Nan’s world and the water in Wang Yueran’s world, they were all markers of dream overlap.”
As they escaped from the dream layer by layer, these markers would naturally disappear one by one.
And now, they had finally arrived at the initial world.
It should also be Huang Mo’s dream world.
“Then, what is the marker in Huang Mo’s world?” Jia Qing couldn’t help but ask.
Wang Yueran wiped her tears and said with wide eyes, “Speaking of which, we still don’t know why Huang Mo died!”
As soon as she finished speaking, outside the door, the NPC’s banging on the door arrived as expected.
“In the middle of the night, why aren’t you sleeping, what are you doing gathered here!? Open the door! Open the door for me!”
The intense “bang bang bang” knocking on the door seemed to hit everyone’s hearts, and the NPC’s roar made them even more anxious, completely unable to think calmly.
Jia Qing was already at a loss, “What should we do now?”
Wang Yueran tried to rack her brains, “Speaking of which, how do we know that the world we are in now is still a dream world? We were all sleeping when Huang Mo died, and we didn’t experience the same dizziness and double vision. Maybe this is the real world, and the main monster is in this world?”
Xia Jing turned to look at the clock on the wall and quickly answered this question, “Because we all started this game by waking up from sleep, and Huang Mo’s death time has also been confirmed to be midnight, which is a very clear signal in this instance.”
Wang Yueran scratched her head after hearing this.
But they hadn’t communicated with Huang Mo after entering the instance, so they didn’t know what his source of fear was at all!
Song Yang was tugged on the sleeve by Xia Jing.
Since they met, the young man had always kept a lukewarm, distant attitude. This was the first time he had touched him, and Song Yang was a little surprised.
Xia Jing kept staring at the clock on the wall, without even turning his head.
But this time, what he was paying attention to was no longer time, but—
“Song Yang, do you think this clock looks familiar?”
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