Chapter 208 Dream Two-in-One

Chu Xiuyan was completely confused.

He listened to Cui Zhiyong's chattering, even with gestures, for nearly half an hour, telling the adventure story, from the Huangshi Village in the mountains to the rainy ruins, then to the desert fortress full of yellow sand, and the mysterious deep-sea capital with many secrets. The whole process was described vividly and vividly.

However, Chu Xiuyan had no impression of it, not even a sense of reality.

"Stop for a moment," Chu Xiuyan couldn't help but interrupt Cui Zhiyong. Seeing that he was still a little unsatisfied, he quickly denied, "Although you tell a good story, how could I be so wild? I'm just a lawless, spoiled brat... It seems that dreams are really illogical. They didn't even analyze my personality thoroughly. You know, I've long been over my second-year syndrome."

Cui Zhiyong was shocked: "Why are you scolding yourself? And look at the surroundings. If you have the guts, just confront those two fire dragons and the monsters that are still fighting? The amusement park said that it has overcome its chuunibyou!"

"..." Chu Xiuyan coughed lightly, stood up, patted the sand on his knees, and said to Cui Zhiyong who was sitting cross-legged on the ground: "Anyway, the story will end here. You should leave, Cui Zhiyong."

"Does it feel weird to hear you calling my name?" Cui Zhiyong sighed.

Chu Xiuyan looked at him, looked away, and said inexplicably coldly: "You will wake up from the dream sooner or later? You should get used to it."

He bent down, grabbed Cui Zhiyong's arm and walked towards the coast.

At this time, the waves were still hitting the rocks, and the salty and wet sea breeze made people feel like sneezing.

The moment Chu Xiuyan turned around, Cui Zhiyong, who had been pulled up obediently, suddenly shook off his hand quickly and ran into the lush and green forest.

Chu Xiuyan: “…”

He crossed his arms, turned around and stared at the lush forest, and said speechlessly: "Don't tell me that you are almost thirty years old and still want to play hide-and-seek with me? Isn't that childish, huh."

Pause for three seconds.

"Childish devil!"

After a few more seconds of silence, seeing that there was no sound in the woods, Chu Xiuyan glanced to both sides imperceptibly, then pretended to be calm and walked towards the outskirts of the woods.

"So tall and big? A tree..."

He pretended to look at it for a few times, then quickly used both hands to hold the tree trunk and pulled it up, throwing it into the forest.

"call out!"

With a whistling sound that broke through the air, a green tree rose from the ground and rushed through the forest, with leaves and wood chips flying all the way. Trees made a heart-pounding breaking sound, and fell to the ground one by one, raising a cloud of dust.

Soon, the entire forest was shrouded in a thick cloud of dust.

When the smoke and dust cleared and the situation seemed to have returned to normal, suddenly there were screams of fear among the trees.

"What are you going to do? Just? Even if I run away, you won't kill me--"

Chu Xiuyan stood in the messy woods, spread his hands, and said, "You can't blame me for this. I just saw a very tall and big tree on the road, so I wanted to throw it over to share with you. Who can blame you for not being able to catch it, Brother Water Monster?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he froze for a moment, subconsciously raised his hand to touch his throat, and a trace of annoyance flashed across his face.

At this time, Cui Zhiyong, who was still hiding in the woods and unaware of anything, was still complaining loudly: "A normal person like you? Who dares to take such a big tree? I am a giant? Bastard!"

Chu Xiuyan kicked the tree stump beside him and shouted, "Alright, alright, I see you, come out quickly and go back to your home..."

His voice stopped abruptly.

A few meters behind him, on the beach, a two-meter-high door appeared out of thin air.

"Tsk, here we go again..."

Chu Xiuyan stared at the door with some displeasure, and after a few seconds he quickly walked towards it, his right hand quietly grasping a sharp blood blade.

The mysterious door opened.

The last time someone walked out of there was a blonde, blue-eyed, strange girl who called herself the God of the Sea, and a guy with curly hair. Then he beat them all up. Tsk, he couldn't beat the guy who called himself a god, but he still managed to drive them all out in the end.

And now, a furry head popped out from that door?

Harris, with a head of curly hair, had bloodstains all over his face and a black eye. He awkwardly pulled at the door frame, looking at Chu Xiuyan who was approaching with an uneasy look. He swallowed nervously and said quickly, "Wait, it wasn't Poseidon who asked me to come this time, and I didn't step into your world - look! I'm still in the passage!"

In response to him, a blood blade came from the air and slashed across his cheek. The icy wind it brought made him shiver and tears came out in an instant.

He sobbed? He burped.

Chu Xiuyan did not hide his attitude of not welcoming the other party, and kicked the door panel that fell on his territory, intending to close it again with force.

"Wait a minute! I know you don't like us. I don't really like you either. After all, you beat me up the first time we met. It hurt... But, Lord Poseidon said I have to build a good relationship with you..."

When he said "build good relationships", the little curly-haired boy sobbed and shuddered, but in the end he closed his eyes and stood against the door fearlessly, rummaging in his arms, and took out a thick booklet and threw it on the beach.

"Anyway, this is a book about the kingdom of dreams. If you are interested, you can take a look at it."

Chu Xiuyan glanced casually at the books on the beach, "What is this? Is this a flattery?"

He sneered.

Harris mustered up his courage and said, "Although we don't like each other...but the mission is the mission. I will try to come to you more often."

Chu Xiuyan: “…”

The expression on his face disappeared completely, and he stared straight at the serious-looking little curly-haired man in the door. After confirming that the other party was really there, his mind was full of that subtle and speechless task, and he kicked again, directly pressing the door back heavily.

There was a bang, and a frightened gasp could be vaguely heard from the door. The sound of "dong dong dong" running away quickly could be clearly heard, but after a long while, the mysterious "space door" was still standing in the same place.

Obviously, he was forgotten by the other party.

Chu Xiuyan rubbed his hair irritably.

Having not heard any noise outside for a long time, Cui Zhiyong slowly emerged from the woods. The first thing he saw was a door, followed by a seemingly inconspicuous but very thick book that fell on the beach.

"What is this?" Cui Zhiyong walked over and wanted to pick it up, but the next second, a foot stepped on the cover.

Cui Zhiyong slapped the leg in annoyance, pushed away Chu Xiuyan who seemed to be resisting, and then simply squatted on the ground. But just when he was about to turn the page, a faint voice suddenly sounded above his head.

"There is a demon sealed in this book. Once the demon is freed, it will eat the human who released it."

Cui Zhiyong's hand shook, and the book flew far away.

When the book fell to the ground, the pages were just unfolded, and the densely packed black words on the two pages seemed to be mocking Cui Zhiyong's fuss.

Chu Xiuyan stared with his dead eyes, looking thoughtfully at someone who was moving with great amplitude.

Cui Zhiyong: "...I trust you."

"Oh, okay? Thank you." Chu Xiuyan said.

Cui Zhiyong: “…”

They stared at each other for a few seconds, then pretended nothing had happened and looked away. One of them lowered his head and took a few steps forward to continue picking up books, while the other raised his head to look at the fire dragons fighting in the sky.

The book spread out on the sand is called "The History of the Construction and Development of the Dream Kingdom", or Dream History for short. On the last page, there is an overlapping map, with both a bird's-eye view and a three-dimensional view. It is like a group of stars surrounding the moon, with about fifteen cities surrounding a high tower, and the outermost circle is densely packed with villages and towns.

Next to the tall tower there is a small note saying "Tower of God, a place with high affinity for the power of dreams? Built by sages and designers."

And the surrounding cities? The names of the fifteen cities are marked one by one, "Barbari", "Burlap", "Kabab"... "Aletta (latest)"

When he saw the last name, Cui Zhiyong's eyes widened instantly.

"Cloud Flame! Look here, the name of the Holy City of Aleta! I remember that it seemed to collapse at that time, but this latest labeling, does it mean that it disappeared in the real world and then moved to the dream world?"

Cui Zhiyong raised his head and wanted to discuss with Chu Xiuyan, but as he spoke? As he spoke? His voice suddenly became quieter.

Chu Xiuyan was looking up at the two fire dragons fighting in the sky, with no expression on his face, as if he was just "watching", but inexplicably, Cui Zhiyong felt a little flustered.

"Hello, Yunyan?"

Chu Xiuyan was annoyed for several sentences, lowered his head and looked at Cui Zhiyong, "What are you doing?"

"I mean there is the Holy City of Aletta..."

Chu Xiuyan: "I heard it, and then what?"

"And then?..."

Cui Zhiyong's voice gradually disappeared under Chu Xiuyan's gaze, and he frantically tossed his hair and howled, "Why are you so different before and after losing your memory? No, you were clearly in a state of amnesia when you came to Huangshi Village? Ah——"

Chu Xiuyan was a little stunned when he heard the second half of the sentence, but he quickly recovered and said, "Because I am just dreaming. I just need to wait for the people outside to save me, then wake up and return to the original world. That's it. I don't need to do anything extra... Even if I can do everything here, this is not my world after all."

In fact, what Chu Xiuyan and Cui Zhiyong said were not the same thing at all.

Chu Xiuyan still believed that he had entered a lucid dream after the car accident. The doctors outside were still rescuing him, so he just needed to wait to wake up. Everything that happened here was a false dream. Even if it seemed logical, it was just an illusory story. Everything was meaningless. Compared with the complicated and confusing series of stories, he preferred to fish comfortably, or watch fire dragons fight, or fight fire dragons himself.

Cui Zhiyong thought about the first encounter in Huangshi Village until now. He had lost his memory twice. The boy had changed too much. He was lawless when he had the gray fog ability before, but now he has become extremely cautious when he has the omnipotent dream power.

Although it would be nice to just stay in one place and wait for Zhang Chun and the others to come and rescue him, for some reason, Cui Zhiyong felt like something was wrong, and the feeling of panic became stronger and stronger.

He walked back and forth a few steps and threw the book on the ground. "Okay, you stay here, I'll investigate it myself!"

Chu Xiuyan narrowed his eyes and looked at Cui Zhiyong for a while, then said, "Your tone and expression are a little strange... Are you panicking because I look so different from the impression you had of me?"

Cui Zhiyong stumbled and broke his defense in an instant, "You——"

He kept saying "you you" for a long time but couldn't think of any words to say in response. He picked up the book from the ground angrily and walked towards the door with a sullen look. However, he stopped the moment his palm pressed on the door and turned to look at Chu Xiuyan reluctantly, "Are you really not going?"

Chu Xiuyan did not respond.

Cui Zhiyong regained his senses, looked at the silent boy, then looked at the door, and muttered, "What if I leave like this and the ocean god sneaks in to trick you..."

"Quiet."

Chu Xiuyan sighed, raised his hand, pinched a coin between his fingertips, and stared deeply at Cui Zhiyong, who was in a state of confusion. "Zhimian, I will go with you, Huamian, just stay here with me."

After saying that, he tossed the coin high into the air.

The coin flipped in the air, flashing a faint light, and finally fell back into the boy's palm, where it was snapped and held down by another hand.

Cui Zhiyong asked nervously, "What is it?"

Chu Xiuyan saw a flowery face through the gaps between his fingers, but when he opened his hand, what was exposed to the air was actually numbers.

Cui Zhiyong hesitated again, "Isn't this bad? You have lost your memory now. Going to the Ocean God's territory is a bit dangerous, isn't it?"

Chu Xiuyan rolled his eyes and said, "You are so troublesome. Let's read this book first to understand the Dream Kingdom, then go there secretly, and then secretly open the door and come back, okay?"

Cui Zhiyong: "What if someone discovers it?"

Chu Xiuyan: "Bring back the person you found."

Cui Zhiyong suddenly realized: "That makes sense!"

Chu Xiuyan remembered the large number of comments about "Octopus Slime Monster Brother" in the pamphlet, one of which was "Not very smart but very interesting".

...Although dreams are all fake, if you think positively, at least the feelings brought by the experience are real.

He looked at Cui Zhiyong's back as he carefully touched the door frame, then looked at the space door that led to the unknown world, and couldn't help but sigh.

Okay, let’s dream first.

After waking up from the dream, draw the story in the dream into a comic and post it on the Internet. Maybe it will become popular?

…

at the same time.

[Ocean] was worrying about how to make Yunyan voluntarily accept his power. Forcing it to resist would only lead to a more serious backlash, which was an inevitable disaster for both the boy and the world.

Next to Him, is the girl in a black dress who is writing a story around the tea table, calling herself [Sky]? Elena.

"That guy has a strong control over dreams and good adaptability. Compared to the ocean, he is more suitable for dreams." Elena looked up at the ocean making tea. "But what you are worried about now, besides how to let him inherit the power, is there a deviation in his personality?"

[Ocean] sighed: "Originally, what I valued was Yun Yan's respect and protection for humans. His mentality was also very good, but I didn't expect that after losing his memory, his aggressiveness would be so terrible."

Elena twirled her pen and said, "Is there a possibility that the guy lived with humans for a long time, and his personality was improved?"

【Ocean】Falling into deep thought.

At this time, the third communication signal from far away appeared.

He hesitated for a moment, but finally answered the call.

A picture appeared in front of me, which seemed to be an empty meeting room. There were several voices that seemed to be arguing, but there was no one in the picture.

[Ocean] said hesitantly: "Hello?"

Then, a man with a crew cut and swollen eyes appeared on the screen, and he greeted Ocean skillfully: "Good evening, Lady Elaine... Don't squeeze me! I haven't finished yet... Uh, it's like this, I'm now acting as a middleman between two forces, everyone knows that sentence, right? You can quarrel, but you can't hit me, I'm really weak, I'll die if I'm not careful!"

The [Ocean] listened quietly and said, "Sawyer, move aside and let me talk to the humans on land."

The screen was blank.

Only the sound came through.

"Hello, Poseidon, I'm Zhang Chun, and I'm currently speaking to you as the representative of the ruined city..."

Sawyer on the side interrupted quietly: "Well, I'm not very proficient in remote dream communication technology, so you guys just use it."

The one in the black dress, Elena, laughed.

Zhang Chun paused strangely for a moment, skipped the nonsense and got straight to the point, asking: "Sea God, what is Yun Yan's current condition?"

[Ocean] thought about the noisy? amusement park, and the? energy of the black-haired? boy when he was fighting, and said, "Very spirited."

"How long can you hold out?"

[Ocean] paused for a moment, not expecting the other party to dare to ask about his own affairs. Elena beside him also gradually became solemn.

“…Three days.”

[Ocean] whispered, "After Aletta entered the dream world, the power of the dream world became stronger and stronger, while the ocean became weaker and weaker. I must make a sacrifice within three days."

To his surprise, the human voice still sounded very calm.

"Okay? I understand." Zhang Chun continued, "Excuse me, when you sent out the messenger team to operate on the land, in addition to inviting various forces to the Holy City of Aletta, you also wanted to place some kind of medium that could allow the dream world to interfere with reality in various parts of the continent, and then bring the continent into the dream world before the tsunami or flood comes, right?"

[Ocean] didn't understand why the other party wanted to confirm it again when he already knew about it. He hesitated and said, "Yes, but that was a backup plan based on Yunyan's refusal to make a choice."

Zhang Chun nodded. "So, as a god, you still care about the life and death of humans on the mainland, right?"

[Ocean] Feeling more and more strange, his patience gradually disappeared, and he no longer followed the other person's words, "What do you want to say?"

"I mean, Yun Yan has always encountered evil gods, arrogant, cold, and on the opposite side of human beings. In addition, we have subtly hinted that he has always held a disgusting attitude towards gods, even including his own deification."

After this paragraph, [Ocean] instantly understood something and was extremely angry. He even temporarily put aside the subtle? strange feeling?

"Is it because of you!? No, wait, this means... you are using him to fight against God?"

Zhang Chun did not respond.

This attitude was considered tacit consent in the eyes of Ocean, who was almost furious. "How dare you! How dare you use him like this! Shameless and despicable!"

He is not good at cursing, and he just repeats those two curses over and over again.

Zhang Chun also waited for him to scold for a while before speaking again: "But he trusts us."

[Ocean] blushed with anger, "Get lost!"

Zhang Chun ignored it and continued, "I think he won't listen to anything you say now, nor will he believe it, so he won't inherit your power. In this case, in three days, tsunamis and floods will definitely appear and wreak havoc on the earth. By then, we will be the ones in trouble... So, we can help you."

At that moment, [Ocean] seemed to realize something, "Aren't you companions?"

"Of course, but you are not an evil god, so we have no conflict of interest. Yunyan developed hatred for the gods because of us, which led to the tsunami that ravaged the earth. So we can go back and persuade him to become a god, and future tsunamis will be prevented in advance. This should be a win-win situation."

[Ocean]: "You are so despicable that it makes me laugh."

Zhang Chun: "So what's your choice?"

[Ocean] almost wanted to agree immediately. After all, the people on his side couldn't even get close to him no matter how much they tried to persuade him.

But at the moment of speaking, a subtle feeling came to his mind, causing him to shut his mouth instantly, seeming to be hesitant.

After considering for a moment, He made up His mind and said, "No, I don't trust you..."

"This is not a matter of trust or distrust, Elaine." Elaine, who was eavesdropping attentively, suddenly changed her previous quietness and said in a lazy tone: "You don't have much time. That guy is in such a mess now. I'm afraid that three days will not change anything. Why not let these despicable humans give it a try? After all... they are just humans."

[Ocean] hesitated and looked at Elena who was yawning beside him. His originally conflicted thoughts quickly fell on agreeing. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "Since Elena also agrees, then... let's cooperate."

After saying this, “He” inexplicably felt relieved, and then? He quickly added: “Those with space-related abilities and domain-related abilities cannot enter the dream world, and the human riding the black snake cannot come either. In addition, only two people can come at most?.”

Zhang Chun said straightforwardly: "Okay, then in one hour we will open the dream world passage and lead directly to where Yun Yan is."

[Ocean] nodded, then hung up the call and drank a sip of tea with satisfaction, but slowly, that subtle? strange feeling? appeared again.

"Something is still wrong..."

As soon as the voice fell, Elena on the opposite side raised the booklet and handed it to Him, "Elena! Look, look, this is the new short story I wrote!"

The Ocean was distracted.

At the same time, in the real world, there is a ruined city.

After Sawyer closed the contact screen, Zhang Chun, who had been separated by Zai Zhe's domain barrier, let out a deep breath, and the manuscript clenched in his hand was crumpled into a ball.

"Okay, no stuck words! Perfect!"

Zai Zhe snapped his fingers, removing the domain barrier, and Zhang Chun, with a transparent figure, stood in front of everyone again.

"You actually said it out loud. You are indeed Zhang Chun. If it was that fellow, Boss Lion, I guess he would be trembling and wailing that he had failed Yun Yan halfway through." Wu Gaoyuan walked to Zhang Chun with a smile. "By the way, the last person the Ocean God referred to was me, right? What do you mean by a human riding a black snake? This nickname is not nice at all."

Sawyer moved a chair and sat in the corner, raised his hand and said, "Excuse me for interrupting, Zhang Chun, when you were talking to Lady Elaine just now, were you staring at me the whole time? Did it feel scary?..."

Boss Lion came over with a grin, "The next step is to go to the Dream Realm to find Yun Yan. I think I can go there, right? After all, I'm a power-type mutant."

Mo Wei pushed up his glasses and retorted coldly: "President? You are a domain-type superpower."

Boss Lion turned around in shock: "What? Am I not a space-based psychic?!"

He slapped Zhang Chun on the back in horror, "Zhang Chun, Zhang Chun, what department am I in? A superpower?!"

The next second, standing there, Zhang Chun fell forward quietly.

The lion boss froze: "..."

There was a dead silence all around, and then there was a slight whisper.

"Did Boss Lion just make a mistake? Did he kill Zhang Chun?"

"What should we do? Should we jump up and fight him with a roar?"

"Fighting is useless! Hurry up and call the healing psychic!"

Falling to the ground? Zhang Chun slowly got up and said calmly: "I'm sorry, I was thinking about something just now and didn't pay attention to the attack from behind."

Lion Boss: "Well, I didn't use much strength..."

Zhang Chun: "Anyway, the plan went smoothly. Now it's up to Chu Li and Wan Mingxu."

At the same time.

In the dream, Chu Xiuyan and Cui Zhiyong were secretly opening a space door left by a little curly-haired person, preparing to go to the dreamland to find out.