Chapter 109 Ouroboros Fantasy

Shao Yanzhe thought he was seeing things. He turned his head and stared intently at the shadow.

A minute passed, and the shadow did not react at all.

Five minutes passed, and the shadow did not react at all.

He blinked his slightly sore eyes and began to wonder if he had just seen things wrong.

Just as he thought he was about to look away, the shadow, as if possessed by a wicked person, suddenly began to wriggle.

Bang!

Startled by the sudden movement of the shadowy figure, Shao Yanzhe jumped up, knocking over the chair behind him, which crashed to the floor with a loud thud.

The shadow seemed startled by the loud noise; its wriggling motion paused, and then it quieted down again, returning to its original shadow shape.

It looked as if nothing had happened at all.

Shao Yanzhe took a deep breath, slowly backed away, reached the door, quickly grabbed his car keys, opened the door, and left the house.

He ran to the underground parking garage, opened the car door and got in. Just as he was about to drive off, he suddenly looked to his right and saw a pale human face pasted on the right-hand window.

His heart skipped a beat, and a sudden throbbing pain shot through his head. It was as if some image flashed by, and his hand trembled, almost pulling the key out of his hand.

Perhaps because he had just witnessed an unscientific scene, he developed a bit of resistance and miraculously calmed down. He turned his mind back, started the car, and drove it out of the garage.

He only felt better when the car was bathed in sunlight.

Shao Yanzhe touched his heart, which was gradually calming down, and felt that he had accepted the unscientific thing he had just heard about too quickly.

He didn't seem too surprised when he saw those things.

The car was driving on the road. At this time, there were very few vehicles on the road. He slowed down and found a parking space in the sun to stop.

Shao Yanzhe pressed his temples with his fingers, and his head finally felt a little better. At the same time, he began to recall the fleeting images that had flashed through his mind earlier.

It seemed to be an ancient woman dressed in white, her face as pale as the thing in the garage, and her body was so light that it felt weightless.

He tried to recall where he had seen this scene before.

But the more he tried to recall, the more his head ached, so he had to stop for the time being.

He began to think about other things, whether those unscientific things he had just seen were real or just his hallucinations.

Unable to come up with a solution, Shao Yanzhe took out his phone and started searching on Baidu.

What causes the eye to see things that seem unscientific?

Soon, the answer to this question appeared before him.

Delusional disorder!

Upon seeing this answer, Shao Yanzhe was speechless. He shouldn't have searched on Baidu. It would have been better to go to the hospital and find a professional doctor.

He drove to the same hospital as before, registered, and entered the consultation room, where he saw a familiar person—the same doctor he had seen when he woke up last time.

"Hello, what are your symptoms?" the doctor asked after glancing at him. His tone was very casual, and he didn't seem to recognize that Shao Yanzhe was his previous patient.

Shao Yanzhe was not surprised by this. It would be a problem if he recognized him, since a long time had passed since his last hospitalization. The reason he recognized the doctor was because he had a good memory.

He briefly recounted his previous experience to the doctor, then stared at the doctor anxiously, waiting for an answer.

The doctor looked at him, his gaze gradually becoming serious. He suggested, "I recommend that you have an eye exam first. If there's nothing wrong with your eyes, then it's not an eye problem, but something else entirely."

Shao Yanzhe quickly retrieved the results of his eye examination and handed them to the doctor.

"There's nothing wrong with your eyes," the doctor told him, putting down the test results.

Shao Yanzhe's eyelids twitched: "Then all those things I saw before were real?"

The doctor smiled and said, "How could such things possibly exist in this world?"

"That……?"

"Perhaps you have a minor mental issue. If you don't mind, I can test you now. I have some expertise in neurology," the doctor suggested, adjusting his glasses.

Shao Yanzhe hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement. Because he was preoccupied with his own thoughts, he didn't notice anything amiss.

Seeing this, the doctor took out a dozen or so A4 sheets of paper from a drawer under the table and handed them to him: "Finish these questions."

"good."

Soon, Shao Yanzhe returned the completed paper.

"I think you do have some minor mental issues. You have moderate delusions and mild schizophrenia, which is why you see those things," the doctor concluded.

Shao Yanzhe's heart sank completely; he hadn't expected that the previous Baidu results were actually true.

"Then what kind of treatment do I need?" he asked.

The doctor kept clicking the mouse on the computer software and quickly printed out a prescription.

"You need to take these medications for a while, according to the dosage I prescribed, and then come back for a follow-up check-up in a month."

"Thank you, doctor... thank you!" Shao Yanzhe realized that his previous words were somewhat inappropriate and quickly corrected himself.

"You're welcome. By the way, if you see anything unscientific later, don't take it seriously or communicate with it. It's just something you've imagined. Just pretend it doesn't exist. It can't harm you. Communicating with it will only worsen your symptoms," the doctor said.

Shao Yanzhe nodded solemnly: "Okay, I've got it. Thank you, doctor!"

He turned and left. The doctor watched his retreating figure, a smirk playing on his lips, a fleeting glint of smugness in his eyes hidden behind his glasses.

Shao Yanzhe left the hospital carrying the medicine prescribed by the doctor, and drove to another house with a heavy heart. He walked in the neighborhood, his steps somewhat heavy.

"Meow!"

Suddenly, a cat's meow rang out.

Upon hearing this, Shao Yanzhe turned around and looked behind him.

Upon seeing the two-legged beast's actions, Xuan Yao squatted down, raised his head, and stared at him, his tail swishing excitedly behind him.

He really is the most powerful cat demon, the first cat to find a two-legged beast!

He waited for the two-legged creature to come over, thinking he would be moved to tears. Out of pity for the two-legged creature, he would reluctantly allow it to pat his noble head.

Soon, he saw the two-legged creature walk over excitedly and reach out its hand to him.

Xuan Yao closed his eyes, waiting for his hand to touch his head.

As a result, after waiting for a long time, I still couldn't get that familiar touch.

"Meow~ Meow"

But at that moment, I heard the affected, coquettish voices of other cats.

Xuan Yao suddenly opened his golden-black heterochromatic eyes, turned his head to look to the side, and saw that the two-legged beast's hand, which should have landed on his head, was now gently stroking another black cat!

"Erpang, you've gotten fat again! You need to eat less!"

"Meow!" the black cat meowed again.

Xuan Yao:! ! !

You two-legged creature! You're finished!

How dare you ignore me like this!

Enraged, Xuan Yao's golden eyes shone even brighter. He charged at the black cat that Shao Yanzhe was petting, but it was as if he had hit an invisible wall, causing no harm to the black cat at all.

He paused for a moment, then tried to scratch Shao Yanzhe's trouser leg, only to find that his claws were also gripping an invisible wall, unable to touch him at all.

His anger subsided quickly, and after trying again and confirming that he and the two-legged creature were blocked by an invisible wall of air, he became increasingly anxious.

why is that?

Why can't he reach the two-legged creatures?

It seemed that Shao Yanzhe couldn't see him either; otherwise, given his far superior looks compared to the black cat, he would never have given up on himself to pet the black cat instead!

"Meow!"

Damn it! Don't let me find out who did this!

Otherwise, I'd definitely scratch his face until it's covered in bruises!

Xuan Yao watched as Shao Yanzhe played with the black cat for a while before entering the building.

He then followed him, noted down the floor and apartment number he entered, and then left the complex to look for the other people.

When Xuan Yao arrived at the agreed meeting point, he saw that Zhou Jiming and the others had already returned, but they looked somewhat absent-minded.

He didn't care about that, and instead said directly, "I've found Shao Yanzhe!"

The group, who had been somewhat distracted, were startled and looked at him.

"You found Brother Shao? Where is he?" Zhou Jiming was the first to ask.

Everyone else was waiting for his answer.

Xuan Yao gestured for them to follow: "Come with me!"

After he finished speaking, he headed towards the residential area where Shao Yanzhe lived.

Zhou Jiming and the others followed. On the way, Xuan Yao briefly told them what had happened.

“I’ve also noticed what you’re talking about. I almost bumped into someone before, but I found that the person couldn’t see me at all. It was as if we were in two different worlds. I could see the other person, but they couldn’t sense my presence. This is very strange. At the beginning, the people here could sense our presence.” Wen Yanqing said.

The "beginning" she was referring to was when they entered this dream. Many people were looking at them, and she was quite certain that they were looking at them.

When did they separate from this place?

She frowned and thought carefully, and soon came to the answer.

“I remember now, when we split up, it seemed like fewer and fewer people were paying attention to me, that was probably when.”

The others recalled carefully, their faces showing sudden realization. They all remembered the difference at that time, but at that time, their attention was focused on the unfamiliar things around them, and they did not notice anything amiss immediately.

"So what should we do now?" Zhou Jiming asked, tightening his grip on the fan handle as he looked expectantly at Wen Yanqing.

Wen Yanqing frowned slightly in thought: "In this situation, either the owner of the dream discovered us and became hostile towards us, or the culprit who caused Brother Shao's poisoning did something. But from what Xuanmao has told me, I know that Brother Shao is unaware of our existence and would not have actively rejected us. So it can only be that the snake demon hiding in the shadows did something to us without our knowledge."

Before they came in, Bai Ling had mentioned that the ouroboros would actively enter the dreams of those who were poisoned, using the dreams to make the dream owner completely sink into the dream, thereby devouring the dream and strengthening itself.

"I'm afraid the ouroboros discovered our presence when we entered this dream. It didn't want Brother Shao to meet us and ruin its plans, so it erased our existence," Wen Yanqing said with certainty.

"Therefore, the simplest way to eliminate our current state is to violently destroy this barrier."