Chapter 29: Awakening
In the dream world forest, Dorothy, who was in dragon mimicry, looked at the small blue ball of light presented by the little fox in front of her, and she couldn't help but feel happy. She thought that it was just right that she got nothing in the dream world tonight!
'This little fox is quite cute...'
Dorothy was happy inside, but she didn't show anything on her face. She nodded to the little fox and silently touched the small blue ball of light with her fingers. The ball of light turned into mist and attached to Dorothy's body. The little fox couldn't help but be startled when he saw this scene.
"This... you just absorb it without any treatment? Aren't you afraid of the poison inside? You are really a high-ranking being. Your spirit is so strong that you completely ignore the small poison in the secret biography..."
Seeing the dragon in front of her doing something that subverted her cognition, the little fox was shocked in her heart, and then she was even more delighted that the other party accepted her tribute.
"Well...goodbye, little one..."
With these last words, Dorothy, who clearly felt that her mimicry had reached its limit, flapped her wings and flew into the air, heading for the distant woods. The little fox also lay on the ground obediently, watching the dragon fly away.
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In the real world, in Igwynte at night, in an apartment building on the side of Nanyanghua Road.
The moonlight poured into the dark room. Dorothy slowly opened her eyes on her bed, then covered her head and slowly sat up.
"Hiss... I feel so dizzy... Was what just now... a dream?" Dorothy murmured, then shook her head quickly and added.
"Nonsense, of course it was a dream!"
Then, Dorothy, in her pajamas, got out of bed with a drowsy mind, walked slowly to the seat in front of the desk, turned on the gas light and sat down on the seat, then glanced at the clock on the table next to her, which showed that it was only about one o'clock in the morning.
"One o'clock... I fell asleep around twelve o'clock and stayed in the dream for almost an hour. Most of the time, I was messing around with the spells in my own dream, and the time I was in the dream world was only about fifteen minutes. Most of the time, it was because my mental strength was too weak to maintain the mimicry for a long time..."
"If I hadn't met that little fox, my trip to the dream world tonight would have been in vain..."
Thinking of this, Dorothy began to recall the secret teachings she had just received from the little fox. One good thing about the secret teachings obtained in the dream world was that you didn't have to spend time reading them, as long as you absorbed the information, it would all be in your mind.
The secret book given by the little fox is called "Tracing the Ghostly Road", which is also a secret book about the dream world. It records the various adventure stories of a dream explorer named Alvin Royce, what he saw and heard in the dream world. The book records how he often avoided being hunted by various brutal dream creatures, sometimes got lost in the dream world, sometimes mistakenly entered other people's dreams, and then met the people he met in the dream in reality, and various wonderful and interesting things happened.
Compared with the previous book "Dream Explorations" which was a fairy tale fable, this book "The Path" is presented in the form of an adventure diary and has a certain documentary nature. Dorothy suspects that the things recorded in this book may be true. The author named Alvin may be one of the pioneers of early human exploration of the dream world, because the descriptions of the real world in his book are still in ancient times, which is a long time away from the present of the Industrial Revolution.
However, the book "Tracing the Path" given by the little fox was not complete. It only contained some of Alvin's early exploration experiences. There was nothing too important, but Dorothy still found something to gain from it.
"Dream positioning" is a method invented by Alvin to determine the coordinates of the current position in the dream. The coordinate information in the dream is completely inconsistent with the reality. Every time a person enters a dream, the place where the dream cocoon is formed in the dream world is completely random. Because every time you enter a dream, you will face a different environment, it is very difficult to find your position in the dream world.
Alvin sensed a "huge mental fluctuation" radiating from the center of the dream world and covering the entire dream world. He used the invisible source of the fluctuation as the reference coordinate and lighthouse to create a dream world coordinate system. This allows people to locate their position no matter where they are in the dream world. It is a very practical technology.
Dorothy was very happy to learn this method of positioning, which meant that it would be more convenient for her to explore the dream world in the future. However, she was also pleased with another point in the book.
'There is a radiation source in the center of the dream world. That radiation source continuously radiates powerful mental waves that cover the entire dream world and can even be used as a beacon? What exactly is that radiation source?'
Dorothy just thought about this question for a moment, then shook her head and ignored it. This level of question was not something she could handle at the moment, so she didn't answer it even after thinking about it.
In addition to the secret information, there are still some traces of her own spirit left in the information ball given by the little fox. These traces are very useful, but this thing is similar to the "smell" in the dream world. If Dorothy roams in the dream world next time, if the little fox is within a certain range of her, then Dorothy can sense her existence.
Finally, Dorothy extracted the spirituality from the fragments of "The Path", and accumulated 3 points of "inspiration" and 2 points of "shadow".
Now Dorothy has 8 o'clock "Qi", 5 o'clock "Cup", 4 o'clock "Shadow", and she is just a little bit away from the 10 o'clock "Qi".
"Huh...keep up the good work! All we have to do next is to complete the ceremony and we'll be promoted~"
Muttering, Dorothy stretched herself lazily, and just as she was about to go to sleep, she suddenly found that her fingers, which were stretched out and shining in the moonlight, were flashing with bright fluorescence.
That was the ring that Dorothy had worn on her hand from beginning to end, a dark black ring with a simple moon pattern on it. This ring was left by Dorothy's parents and had a faint fluorescent effect at night.
"It feels like it's brighter than before... Is this an illusion?"
Dorothy thought about it, but in the end she could no longer resist the drowsiness brought on by the mental exhaustion.
"Forget it, go to sleep... I can't stay up late, my life is more important..."
After saying this, Dorothy drew up the curtains, rolled up her bedding and went to sleep.
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In the dark night, in a room somewhere, a carpet with intricate patterns is spread on the floor of the room. Several miniature incense burners are placed in various corners of the room in a mysterious layout, and the incense emitted from them diffuses in the room.
In the very center of the room, there was an armchair, and on the chair, a young girl was sleeping.
The girl was about twelve or thirteen years old. She was wearing pink silk pajamas. She had a slightly chubby face, long grey curly hair that fell to her waist, and a headband with a small bow on top of her head.
Gradually, the girl's eyes, which were originally asleep, trembled slightly, and then slowly opened, with a trace of confusion in her eyes. At this time, a low and slightly hoarse voice beside her pulled her out of her confusion.
"What happened to you in the woods, Salia? I noticed that you didn't look very well after you fell asleep."
Hearing the voice, the girl named Salia turned her head and looked in the direction of the voice. She saw a black cat standing on a high stool next to her, looking at her with a serious look.
"grandfather……"
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