91. Mysterious Dream Fairy Tale (14)

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"Xie San, look up, do you see anything?" Qin Fu'an asked Xie Zeyuan, who came out from behind.

Upon hearing this, Xie Zeyuan paused slightly and looked up at the darkening sky.

Then he tilted his head in confusion.

"What?" he asked, puzzled.

"It's nothing." Qin Fu'an didn't intend to answer for him. After waving his cat paw at him, he was carried by Little Sunflower to sit on the dilapidated bus not far from the door.

After the car drove away, Xie Zeyuan, who was left alone, looked up at the dark sky once again.

He could certainly see those surging souls.

But so what?

Xie Zeyuan had no intention of getting involved in the story between Qin Fu'an and Xie Yunhuai, nor did he want to delve into what kind of creature Xie Yunhuai really was in the game. Compared to these things, he was more interested in what kind of expressions the big shots of the guilds who were also watching the live stream would have when their members died, and whether they would hate him to the bone.

This is really something to look forward to...

Meanwhile, on the other side, inside the car.

Qin Fu'an raised his round cat paw and gently patted the little sunflower sitting on the stool, staring blankly out the car window.

"What's wrong?" Little Sunflower looked down at him.

Under its earnest and focused gaze, the lucky cat simply said cryptically, "It seems I'm not special to you. No wonder you mistook me for someone else."

"What?" The little sunflower blinked blankly. She recognized the words individually, but couldn't understand them at all when they were put together.

"It's almost dawn." Qin Fu'an changed the subject and asked the child, "After dawn, will the sunflower doctor in Fairy Tale City still remember everything that happened in the dream?"

Little Sunflower was stunned once again, seemingly not expecting Qin Fu'an to ask such a pointed question.

Its lips unconsciously tightened, and after several seconds of silence, it softly replied, "No, if the toys could remember what happened in their dreams, they would be forever consumed by hatred."

So, in dreams, they can know what's happening in the fairytale city and that the toys in their hands are new humans who have infiltrated the fairytale city. But when they wake up, the toys don't have this awareness because they don't remember anything that happened in their dreams.

"Then you will forget me too?" Qin Fu'an asked thoughtfully.

This time, the little sunflower's response to him was a long silence.

And the two little hands that hugged his body even tighter.

"Night will come soon," the little sunflower finally replied after a long silence.

Qin Fu'an could understand that it meant that after dark, the two would meet again in their dreams.

Most importantly, dreams are not repetitive; rather, they have continuity.

The day and night in this instance are like two unrelated time periods.

The toys live in the fairytale city by day with their real bodies, and spend their nights in the illusory dream world with their souls.

It gives me a feeling of Zhuangzi dreaming of being a butterfly and the butterfly dreaming of being Zhuangzi.

Soon, the empty, dilapidated bus came to a stop in a place that looked familiar to Qin Fu'an.

At the same time, he also saw more familiar toy children and toys.

Even Xie Zeyuan was among them.

"We're here." Little Sunflower picked him up from his seat and started walking down.

"Don't die." The little sunflower lowered its head and earnestly instructed the lucky cat in its arms.

Then, carrying it, I was the first to walk through the gates of Fairy Tale City, which is also the entrance to Happy Valley.

The next second, the scenery before Qin Fu'an changed rapidly, and finally everything returned to normal. All that could be seen was a change in the sky.

And all the toy children who brought their toys back here have vanished into thin air.

Only the players who had been restored to their toy forms remained.

Qin Fu'an noticed that Xie Zeyuan had also disappeared.

"You run pretty fast." He raised an eyebrow, subtly glancing at the players who were sizing each other up, while his feet silently retreated.

Besides yourself, there are thirteen other players here.

Moreover, all thirteen people seemed to know each other, so in just a brief encounter, everyone immediately turned their attention to Qin Fu'an.

"A green-eyed bear should definitely be one of the targets."

"What are you waiting for? Let's attack together!"

"Let's use him as bait first; maybe we can catch Xie Zeyuan!"

Within two breaths, the three forces quickly reached an agreement and all focused on attacking Qin Fu'an.

At the same moment, the black block bear did not run away immediately, but instead rushed towards the nearest music box.

In the instant it rapidly approached, the black block bear suddenly produced a small iron hammer.

"bite--!"

As the hammer struck the music box, a crisp sound rang out. Qin Fu'an had already applied force without holding back, using the small hammer to completely smash the already broken half of the music box.

After intimidating them with one move, Qin Fu'an swung the small hammer in his hand, raised an eyebrow arrogantly, and asked them with a smile, "Are you sure you want to fight me? With your current broken and tattered bodies?"

That's right. The damage these toys suffered in the dream was transferred to their current toy bodies after they woke up in the fairy tale city.

Correspondingly, those players who died in the dream world were left with only a pile of mangled corpses in Fairy Tale City.

Qin Fu'an was busy collecting the bodies and didn't want to fight with so many people for the time being.

Of course, if a fight were to break out, he wouldn't mind taking all the hatred directed at Xie Zeyuan upon himself.

Thinking about it this way, I'm actually starting to look forward to it.

However, perhaps due to the titles and honors he had earned in other instances, even though he hadn't used his innate abilities, the players who had initially surrounded him subconsciously stopped attacking.

Hesitation leads to defeat, and in the few seconds that they stopped attacking, their initial momentum gradually declined.

Looking at the tattered music box in front of Qin Fu'an, some of the players who had gathered around began to back away.

Once the first person retreated, a second and a third followed... until the encirclement finally broke apart.

Qin Fu'an felt a little regretful, but not surprised. He ignored them and squatted down on the ground with his small hammer, tapping and banging on the music box in front of him, which had already lost its ability to resist.

The clanging and banging sounds echoed continuously at the empty entrance of Happy Valley, as someone attempted to launch a sneak attack. Qin Fu'an then acquired two more immobile corpses.

Now, the remaining ten players completely dispersed and left.

Watching their limping, unsteady figures as they left, Qin Fu'an turned his gaze to the carousel not far away.

"Have you had enough of the excitement?" he asked in a deep voice.

Soon, a delicate cotton doll slowly rolled over the hiding pony and walked towards him.

"How did you know I was there?" Xie Zeyuan asked, then took out a crumpled ball of paper from his pocket and smoothed it out little by little.

Qin Fu'an lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, scoffing lightly: "How fast can a ball of cotton walk? Anyone with a brain knows you're hiding."

Xie Zeyuan: "...Have you considered how the guilds watching this live stream feel?"

"Why should we consider their feelings?" Qin Fu'an said, placing the disassembled parts aside. He added coldly, "If they had any brains, they would have come back here and killed you easily."

Xie Zeyuan coughed lightly, trying to save face: "Actually, I'm not that easy to kill, really."

This time, Qin Fu'an didn't even give him a simple "hmm".

Xie Zeyuan: "..."

Clench your fist, calm down!

It also squatted down in front of Qin Fu'an and used its flattened paper soul-locking chain to tie itself to the three toys.

Qin Fu'an glanced at it and found that eight dazed souls were hanging on the crumpled paper chain.

"Why are you making so much filth?" Qin Fu'an stepped back in disgust.

The cotton doll untied the paper ball and put it away, carefully crumpling it up again and placing it in her pocket.

Then, in a cool tone, he replied, "Maybe one day I'll be able to collect your corpse and revive your soul? You'd better not say you're something unclean yet."

The two never seemed to be able to have a proper conversation.

The audience shook their heads in disbelief, while the little sunflower who had been peeking in breathed a sigh of relief.

He really is a bad person. Not only did he steal the repairman's fairy tale coins, but he also uttered such an awful curse.

The little sunflower cradled its round face with two leaves, hiding behind the grass and seriously considering how to lure the repairman to its little clinic.

Why don't we think of a way to remove the repairman's head, hollow it out, and then put it back on?

In that case, the repairman with the blank mind probably needs some kind of psychological counseling or treatment, right?

The little sunflower wasn't quite sure, but it was very interested and eager to try it out as soon as possible.

"Let's go back first." Qin Fu'an put all the dead toys into his spatial storage.

Before leaving, he tilted his head slightly and looked at the low weeds not far away.

A glimpse of pale yellow flashed before his eyes. Qin Fu'an's eyes held a smile as he looked away before leaving with Xie Zeyuan.

"Did he find me?" Little Sunflower asked nervously, looking down.

A round little ball bounced gently and answered softly, "I don't know~ I'm too short, I didn't see anything."

Little Sunflower: "...He must have found me."

Little Ball: "Then what should we do?"

"……have no idea."

The little ball rolled around in surprise: "Dr. Sunflower, are there things you don't know? But I think Mr. Repairman is a good toy. Even if he finds out, he won't hurt you."

The little sunflower stared at it for a long time, then sighed sadly, "Never mind, you're too young to understand."

Little ball: "???"

"Let's go back. Tell the kitten to put glue on the fairy tale coins next time so that other bad guys won't steal them!" Little Sunflower was clearly still upset about Xie Zeyuan stealing the fairy tale coins and making it mistake one of the people.

The little ball responded blankly and slowly rolled behind it towards the Sunflower Clinic.

The reason it followed Dr. Sunflower was, of course, because it was a child laborer at the small clinic. The reason it was able to find Captain Lucky Cat to be Qin Fu'an's patient so quickly was because Captain Lucky Cat was a patient that Little Ball had temporarily found at the Sunflower Clinic.

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"Let's consolidate the existing information." Inside the ticket booth, Xie Zeyuan sat listlessly on the stool. He had gone from a human-shaped fairy tale coin to a cotton doll; he really couldn't muster any energy.

"The most important thing right now is that we only have 4 toy hearts."

"The requirement to pass is 100 hearts." Xie Zeyuan rested her big head in her soft little hands and said with a troubled expression, "Two people would need 200 toy hearts, but I've observed that there are only a little over a hundred toys in the entire Fairy Tale City combined."

This was the conclusion the two of them reached after roughly counting the items on their way back from the entrance of Happy Valley.

"So there's hidden information in this instance. It's either in Fairy Tale City or in the dream world. If we can't find this hidden information, we might be trapped here forever."

Xie Zeyuan spoke lazily about the worst possible outcome for the two of them.

Qin Fu'an stood on a stool, pulled out several toy corpses and threw them on the ground. While dealing with them, he replied, "No rush. It's only the second day. After we clear out all the players, we'll have plenty of time to slowly explore the hidden information of this dungeon."

"All of them?" Xie Zeyuan tilted his head slightly.

Qin Fu'an smiled and said, "The major guilds must have released information in advance, preventing other players from entering the dungeon during this time period. So, luckily, apart from the two of us, everyone else in this dungeon is an enemy."

Xie Zeyuan nodded in understanding: "I understand, it's a saga of gratitude and resentment."

[Author's Note]

I thought I could be on time...

This is a really long chapter! See you tomorrow!

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12 bottles, damn it!

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