The simple black oil painting frame floats in the dark dream world, and the doll girl sealed in the oil painting has a question mark on her head about the current situation.
"This shouldn't be possible! I'm out of control of this thing, and I still have a body in the real world!" Erin circled around in the oil painting, "I have to carry it when I'm outside.
I recognized this painting as soon as I left, treating it as multiple pieces of luggage with me. How come the situation is even worse in the dream world... Theoretically, shouldn't there be more freedom after entering a dream?"
She raised her head and looked directly at Yu Sheng.
"You ask me, who should I ask? I also think you should be freer after falling asleep," Yu Sheng spread his hands, "I also wanted to see what you look like when you are 1.67 meters tall, but in the end you are still a paper man."
Irene looked very irritable and had no interest in arguing with Yu Sheng. After circling the chair in the painting countless times, she finally resigned herself to sitting back on the chair and grabbed the furry toy.
Bear, rub it hard in your arms.
"Now I'm locked up with this guy again... But that's okay. At least I do have the ability to move freely in the real world. The dream world isn't that important. Well, it's not that important."
"...I sometimes envy your optimism." Yu Sheng said sincerely.
Irene immediately bared her teeth at him, but whether in reality or in a dream, the threat of her bared teeth was never a deterrent.
Yu Sheng walked around the oil painting floating in the air and came to the sleeping silver fox.
"What's next? Just like last time, I lie on her tail? Then we both sink together?"
"It's still the same as last time, but this time, the connection will be more 'direct'. I will find a way to keep Hu Li's consciousness in a nearly awake state. This will make it easier for you to communicate with her and perceive the situation around her later."
Irene said, floating next to Yu Sheng, "But at the same time, 'hunger' will also notice you, and it will come to you... I can't help you with what happens after this, at the level of consciousness
You can only rely on yourself to make contact and fight."
Speaking of this, she paused, as if to reassure Yu Sheng, and added: "But I can be the last insurance. Once I sense your mental instability, I will forcefully drag you out.
, it’s still as uncomfortable as the last time I woke up suddenly, you’d better be mentally prepared.”
"...To be honest, I really don't want to do it again," Yu Sheng sighed immediately, but nodded quickly, his previous determination not wavering at all, "Okay, let's get started."
He once again found a stable depression between the fox's big tails, and then caught Irene who jumped directly from the air. Drawing one person at a time, leaning on the fox's tail, he descended again in this groggy dream.
sink.
I don't know if it was because of the connection foundation from the last time, but the second sinking process was faster and smoother than Yu Sheng imagined. He almost felt that his eyes were in a trance. When the perspective stabilized, he had already seen
The figure of the demon fox girl arrived.
She was squatting quietly among the gravel, staring blankly at something in front of her.
Yu Sheng's perspective came behind Hu Li, and he followed the other person's line of sight and looked forward——
He saw a huge piece of wreckage, which looked like what it looked like after the crash of some large aircraft. Between the twisted metal frame and the broken deck, one could still vaguely see its former grandeur, and there was a faint brilliance, like it was not scattered.
Like a spirit breath, it slowly moved among the shattered wreckage.
The entire wreckage fell to the foot of the mountain. After the collapse, the molten rock almost swallowed it up and merged into a part of the mountain. Even with just a glance, you can see what an amazing impact it was.
If all the people who boarded it were ordinary humans, there might not be any survivors at all.
Yu Sheng glanced at the crash scene in shock, but he did not forget his original purpose of coming here. He approached the demon fox girl and spoke softly to avoid scaring her: "Huli."
The ears on Huli's head suddenly became twitchy, then he stood up suddenly and looked around, as if he wanted to see the source of the sound. After searching to no avail, he responded hesitantly: "...Benefactor?"
"It's me, don't look for it, I'm in direct contact with your consciousness."
"My benefactor! You are really here! I thought I heard it wrong last time... My benefactor? What's going on?" There was a look of surprise on Hu Li's face, and she was still subconsciously searching her surroundings with her eyes.
, "I, I was in a daze in the valley, but suddenly, I arrived at this place, and I was, dreaming? Is it a dream?"
"Yes, I... used some means here to forcefully guide your dream. Only in this case can I contact you - but now is not the time to explain the details," Yu Sheng said quickly, "Listen
, Hu Li, I am going to save you, and for this I need to open a special door, which requires your cooperation - do you believe me?"
"Come, save me?" Hu Li was startled for a moment, then suddenly realized and immediately shook his head, "Don't, don't come over. My dear, it took a lot of effort for you to get out. This valley is very weird. It's hard to escape once you get in."
!You, don’t come! Never..."
Yu Sheng interrupted the panicked girl: "I have a way! Hu Li, listen, I have a way. I have found a stable way to enter and leave the valley. Now I just need your help to open the door.
Don't worry about that monster, I can deal with it - do you understand? I'm very powerful, and I also found a helper this time, who is also... well, powerful."
Yu Sheng tried his best to comfort Hu Li, trying to make him feel relieved, but Hu Li had a trace of confusion on her face. Her thinking was slow, and it seemed that she had a hard time keeping up with Yu Sheng's words. After a while,
, she didn’t know how much she understood before she said in confusion: “So, my benefactor is also an immortal?”
Yu Sheng had no idea how Hu Li's mind jumped to this point.
But he can be.
"A very powerful immortal." He tried to make his voice sound more reliable.
Then the demon fox girl laughed.
"My benefactor, what should I do if you want me?"
"You don't have to do anything, just feel your surroundings with your heart. You will feel someone snooping in your heart, or even feel someone looking around you through your eyes - don't resist, that's me."
"Well, okay."
Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Negotiating with Hu Li was easier than he thought. Then... he only had to face the second problem.
"Eileen," he whispered in his heart, "let's begin."
The next second, accompanied by a slight trance, Yu Sheng felt an indescribable... pull.
A brand new "connection" appeared, established between him and Hu Li. Different from the vague connection established through blood before, he could clearly feel that the newly established connection was stronger and more...
…rough.
Part of his consciousness was directly out of control and merged into a series of new perceptions, just like the nerves were suddenly connected to a whole set of extra limbs. Although the feeling transmitted was a bit blurry and delayed, he still... began
Feel the scent around the beaver.
Cold, rotten, with a rotten smell of decay, the wind stirred in the valley and blew through the dark woods.
Night is eternal and hunger is everlasting.
The demon fox girl stood in the woods, widening her eyes and trying to look around.
In fact, she didn't understand what her benefactor was doing at all, and she didn't know whether it was right to just stare at her surroundings like this. She just followed her own understanding and tried to complete what Yu Sheng asked.
Then, she felt the "connection" mentioned by her benefactor.
She was startled, but she felt no malice.
Hu Li has always been keenly aware of even the slightest malice, but this time, there was no malice at all.
She only felt a little relieved, and even...she didn't seem so hungry anymore.
…
At the moment when the overwhelming feeling of hunger and the tide of madness suppressed in the depths of hunger came to him, Yu Sheng seemed to feel a huge wave hitting him head and face - like a collapsed mountain in the dark night.
Hunger and madness were like substance, like huge shadows, like solidified darkness, almost instantly overwhelming every inch of his perception.
Yu Sheng didn't even have time to call Irene's name. He just tried hard to remember the "characteristics" of the valley from Hu Li at the critical moment, and then he was completely overwhelmed by this crazy black tide.
However, deep in the dark tide, he found that he was still awake.
Hunger gnawed at his soul, and his soul withered and died. Yu Sheng watched "himself" being swallowed up in the blink of an eye in the dark frenzy, and his perspective was like that of an indifferent bystander.
The hunger subsided, and the withered and dead soul woke up again. Yu Sheng opened his eyes in the darkness. For a moment, he was not even sure whether he had experienced "death" again, or whether he had just had the illusion of being swallowed for a moment.
He was wandering in the depths of darkness, unable to feel the passage of time or the end of space, and he was not even sure if he was really moving.
He could only feel... that eyes were always on him.
It's not a line of sight, but this entire darkness and chaos is part of that line of sight.
He was like a tiny grain of sand, only as big as the tip of a needle, being watched and overwhelmed by boundless hungry eyes.
Chapter completed!