Chapter 89: The Nightmare’s Call
Returning from Happy Home for the third time, Yuan Zhu still didn’t meet the Captain, but received letters from other teammates stored with No. 3 (Mechanical Maid).
Meng Xiyue and Zhou Chu, these two Taixi residents, each left Yuan Zhu a letter with a mailing address. They planned to establish contact in reality and become pen pals for timely communication.
The former boasted in her letter that she had successfully become a research subject, a big treasure in the professor’s eyes.
Regrettably, the Academy had long known about Space of Gods, so she wasn’t rare. But the good news was that the Academy attached great importance to Space of Gods and deeply desired intelligence on Bubble World.
Her Mentor decided to invest heavily in cultivating her, training Meng Xi into an excellent explorer skilled in both civil and military affairs. Not only was tuition fully waived, but various restricted resources were also opened. While serving Mao Mao King, she also helped the Academy collect various intelligence and information.
At the end of the letter, Meng Xi warned him to cultivate diligently and Get Stronger. Otherwise, he wouldn’t deserve to be her teammate in the future and could only be her bag-carrying subordinate.
As for Zhou Chu’s letter, the entire content was full of various warnings and vigilance against the 10 most popular Supernatural scams in Taixi.
Don’t casually believe promises from strange Anti-Law God Demons (that’s me referring to Mao Mao King)!
Precautions for Supernatural System novices. 6 Measures to prevent Pollution.
Trust the Security Bureau, believe in the Pale Great Law. When seeing injustice on the road, actively Report. Model citizen, bless future generations.
Prerequisite conditions for switching from Holy Light System to Law System: How to keep one foot in two boats during the early stage of Seal Casting, laying a solid Foreshadowing for future job-hopping.
In short, the entire letter urged people to do good, lean towards the Security Bureau, and approach the Pale Great Law. Moreover, between the lines, it hinted at him becoming her Informant, together closely watching Mao Mao King and collecting her Crime Evidence.
Full of rebellious spirit, without any concealment. Yuan Zhu had started to get used to her style, and the Captain and Mao Mao King also chose to ignore and indulge it.
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In addition, Lu Rang and Mai Lili also left their respective addresses, so they could totally build a base under the Running line.
Everyone was an Employee of Mao Mao King, gradually mastering Supernatural Powers, and knowing each other’s backgrounds. They could completely form a group, establish a Startup Group, and advance and retreat together.
Many primitive Startup Groups on Du Ling Star formed this way initially. Some perished in the torrent of the times, while others grew bigger and stronger, changed facades, laundered themselves, and rose to High-Ranking positions.
Zhou Chu’s letter severely warned the three of them not to lose control of their mindset due to suddenly gaining Power and walk down the path of Crime. Yuan Zhu read it with a speechless expression, feeling like an Anti-Fraud APP was installed on his head, reminding him nonstop to obey laws and disciplines.
As for the strong and fat Black Butcher, he remained aloof and didn’t participate in any exchanges.
Besides receiving a bunch of contact information, Yuan Zhu also learned from No. 3 that Mao Mao King had no plans to start a new journey recently.
This Happy Home was indeed too lax, the Boss behind the scenes lacked ambition, and the Captain didn’t know to advise. It couldn’t compare at all to the neighboring Unlimited Flow, which raised Gu every day with missions and sky-high Death rates.
If it continued like this, how could Luxury Children’s Wear be sold throughout Bubble Layer? When could it become an Anti-Law Great Demon God? You really disappoint the Employees too much, Mao Mao King!
Although he didn’t meet the Captain, he still briefly described the Disease Garden matter for No. 3 to relay, to see if the other party was interested. At the same time, he gifted several portions of disease flowers, plants, and Fruit contaminated with Disease Pollution, wanting the Captain to take a look.
In case this Pollution involved some major force he couldn’t afford to provoke. Worst case, he could withdraw from the Haunted House and pretend nothing happened. If there were no hidden dangers, then he would intensify destructive mining!
Besides these matters, Yuan Zhu also probed sideways about the mental connection issue perceived in Tiger Demon Form.
Unexpectedly, this No. 3 really had some skills; not only did she sweep the floor clean and polish the table shiny, but her own knowledge base was also very rich.
After drinking a bottle of Cheap Industrial Alchemy Element (Meeting Gift) gifted by Yuan Zhu, the No. 3 maid shook unsteadily like she had drunk fake liquor, her Body out of control, and even her speech became silly.
The politeness and etiquette she always maintained were all thrown aside. She started pouring out her bitterness to him, complaining that Happy Home was too small, and she was just a caged bird.
Every day, she could only feed sheep, grow Tomatoes, clean, and tailor Children’s Wear… She occasionally saw other Squad members, who mostly treated her as a constructed service staff.
Only Yuan Zhu was different; he brought her Gifts and invited her to drink Cheap Alchemy Elements from the Present World of Du Ling. The taste was indeed rough, full of impurities, very pungent, and even polluted her Alchemy Core, giving her a novel experience she’d never had before.
This made her even more Desirous of escaping the cage to freely soar and explore in a broader World.
As for the mental connection issue encountered by the Tiger Demon? The Mechanical Maid was already muddled in mind at the time and blurted out a lot, like Sea of Consciousness, forming a summoning Ritual… Yuan Zhu only half-understood these, except the last one, which opened a door for him: the Call of Dream.
The connection between the Tiger Demon and peripheral members of Wish Association was weak, mainly because these peripheral members were all Mortals with limited Spirit intensity, unable to support the Call of a Higher Existence.
Therefore, Yuan Zhu could convert the calling scene into the weaker inhibitory Dream Layer. Conducting communication and Calls between Deity and Believer in Dream World would drop the difficulty index by more than tenfold!
Dream has always been the prime training ground for various Evil Spirits to impart Knowledge and spread Supernatural Power, whether righteous or evil paths; all liked to conduct various exchanges in Nightmare Layer.
Yuan Zhu even felt that this Nightmare Layer could be equated to Sea of Consciousness, except one collapsed inward and downward, belonging to the Inner World Direction; the other expanded outward and upward, belonging to the Outer Universe Direction.
Coincidentally, he had once had a dream-entering experience, so after Procuring a batch of Cheap Supplies from Mao Mao King Discount Area, he hurriedly returned to Reality.
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Yuan Zhu looked up at the Clock on the wall; it was around 9 PM.
Time was still sufficient, so he rushed out of the Bedroom straight to the Shop near his Residential Area, splurging 6 yuan to buy two bottles of Yellow Millet Echo.
Back home, he felt that most people weren’t asleep yet at this hour, so he suppressed his inner impulse and sat bored in the Room for a full two hours, adjusting his Holy Light. Only when the hands reached 11:00 did he down a bottle of Echo in one gulp, lie back in bed, and wait to fall asleep.
After returning from Yellow Millet Town last time, he specially collected intelligence on Nightmare Layer and consulted the seniors at Rain Courtyard, wanting to figure out the connection between Nightmare Layer and Bubble Layer.
Coincidentally, Rain Courtyard had also opened professional courses for Nightmare School in recent years. They had been cooperating with the old white folks on the East Coast to jointly research and explore the mysteries of Nightmare Layer, so they knew quite a bit of inside information.
Nightmare and Bubble have a completely overlapping relationship, coexisting in one layer to form Nightmare Bubble Layer. But at the same time, the two can also be treated separately.
The more entity-oriented World is Bubble Layer, while the more illusory and Chaotic Spirit (Dream) System is Nightmare Layer.
Nightmare Bubble Layer has no Logic, Time, causality, or other constraints, thus Chaotic and disorderly. Those Bubble Worlds that are born and randomly shattered in an instant have unobservable timelines and Space axes, with their own coordinates changing at high speed; ordinary people can’t capture or lock them.
The native residents of Du Ling Star, lacking professional God Demon organizations like Space of Gods to help, had boundless greed in their hearts and immense Desires to Develop one Bubble World after another.
In their eyes, Nightmare Bubble Layer contained infinite Resources and Treasures, while also harboring equal amounts of risks and Crisis.
Ultimately, contemporary Du Ling Humans fumbled out a Brand New exploration method, calling it Nightmare School.
Starting from the more illusory and hazy Dream, leveraging the Dream that all beings have, Escape into the Chaotic and disorderly Nightmare Bubble Layer, groping out ever-changing Dream Paths, then using Nightmare Layer to leap and shuttle, infiltrating into unknown Bubble Worlds.
The entire process is perilous and full of unknowns, but it is indeed a pathway to bypass the Spirit Layer Firewall and communicate with the Bubble Layer.
Therefore, the Nightmare Layer can be seen as a Chaos coordinate map of a chaotic and disordered world (Bubble Layer). Everyone is constantly changing, yet they can strangely match and lock onto each other, forming rugged and dangerous ‘small paths’ for Nightmare Scholars to traverse before they expire.
The Nightmare School is an exploration school specialized in researching and exploring dreams, summarizing ‘paths’ and drawing maps. They obtain abundant cultivation resources from the Bubble Layer. And they sell time-limited ‘mature paths’ to the outside.
But just imagine the Bubble Layer’s Pollution Index and degree of chaos, and you will know the probability of distortion and miserable death for this school.
It has a flavor very much like exploring the Warp to excavate treasures in the Warhammer world.
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Yellow Millet Town is a Nightmare Node attached to the outer wall of the Spirit Layer, very close to Du Ling New Continent West Coast, and legally registered, developed into a super entertainment city that never sleeps.
Since the original ideology of the Nightmare School has already proliferated and spread, unable to be suppressed any longer, the authorities simply organized these school organizations together, legalized them, and placed them under surveillance. Maximizing control over the dangers.
One Yellow Millet Town after another thus became works of the ‘Nightmare School’, under official surveillance.
Yellow Millet Town absorbs a large number of West Coast residents by drinking ‘Yellow Millet Echo’, entering this extravagant and dissipated spirit world to enjoy ‘dream metaverse’ entertainment service experiences similar to surfing the internet.
Yellow Millet Town secretly harvests the ‘dream energy’ of entrants on a large scale, accumulating it to open up Nightmare Map paths.
In addition, there are many additional services here: ordinary people can briefly cross spatial distances, exchange intelligence and conduct business negotiations in dreams. Or carry out other legal (or illegal) transactions. And enjoy various unimaginable entertainment services.
In short, it’s absolutely more indulgent than in reality, with an even more realistic and stimulating experience.
Someone like Yuan Zhu, a quasi Cult Leader, can also exploit the unique properties of Yellow Millet Town to secretly summon peripheral members of Running’s Wish Association and hold a conference together in the dream.
