Chapter 261 January is over, but the dream continues
Staring at the word "fraud" in the spiritual world book, Xia Lin's pupils slowly shrank.
Even until Asgard disappeared and dreams began to flow back, Xia Lin remained motionless.
Soon, he sighed softly.
“No wonder…”
Therefore, there is a reasonable explanation for the phenomenon that the random combination skill CD does not match the skill description.
"This dream of all living beings has been disturbed by the power of the evil god."
"The skill panels of all Ash Walkers do not match the actual situation."
I thought of the word "fraud" in the book of the spirit world...
This phenomenon is the embodiment of fraud! Since the evil god must be a level 11 or even level 12 existence, the ember walkers in this ember zone cannot be exempted from the evil god's skill judgment, resulting in all being deceived! However, Xia Lin is different.
With the Spirit World Book in hand, when he faces the evil god, he is naturally immune to the evil god's extra skill weighting. This enables Xia Lin to see through deception and discover the truth in certain special situations.
I also thought of the advice given by the King of Kings.
Soul light will attract evil spirits.
But Xia Lin seemed to have underestimated the attraction of the soul light to the evil god.
“Also, we don’t know whether the evil god’s power is interfering with this ash zone because the evil god’s body is within the coverage area of this ash zone, or whether only a part of his power has infiltrated.”
After thinking about it, Xia Lin made a judgment.
"It's most likely the latter."
"If the evil god's real body was in this ash area, my previous actions probably wouldn't have been so smooth."
"The previous dreams would not be so normal."
The evil god is powerful but unwise.
Where they are, the rules are distorted and everything changes.
They are unable to contain their power, and they don't know how to hide.
Therefore, if the evil god's body is in the ashes area, then it must be the most handsome guy in the whole field.
As I was daydreaming, the dream came back to me and everything returned to the way it was at the beginning.
In the bedroom, Xia Lin opened his eyes.
This time, he didn't even need to walk to the window and look out to clearly see that this dream of all living beings was on the verge of its limit.
A large number of black cracks appeared in all directions.
It was not a space rift, so it could not tear Xia Lin's body apart, nor could it cause any harm to Xia Lin.
They just exist, as if verifying the falsity of the dream.
Whistling noises came from all directions.
It was noisy, like the low voices of thousands of people, but when one listened carefully, one could not understand the meaning of the sound.
In the portable space, the mobile phone given by Wenrou suddenly rang.
Xia Lin took out his cell phone and looked down.
Wenrou: Wait for me! These two simple words are highlighted with an exclamation mark.
Xia Lin replied "OK" and put his phone away again.
Just then, footsteps were heard behind him, causing Xia Lin to look back.
It was the maid in the last dream.
You can see that the maid's figure and appearance have been completely blurred, like a black afterimage.
She seemed to be saying something, but Xia Lin couldn't understand a word.
Perhaps she saw the confusion and bewilderment in Xia Lin's eyes. The maid who looked like a shadow twisted her body, and the constant noise around her became louder.
After an unknown amount of time, Xia Lin's expression changed.
Because he saw that the black shadow gradually twisted into the appearance that Xia Lin was familiar with.
"Insufficient willpower..."
Xia Lin vaguely caught these four words again.
Looking at the maid in front of him, Xia Lin's eyebrows twitched as he saw the face that belonged to Sylvie, but was obviously a little dull.
He let out a long sigh.
"Okay, I admit that this might be my fault."
"But there's nothing I can do about it. You really don't understand the pleasure of brushing up your attributes."
"As for the power of will..."
Feeling the expansion of the wish power value between his eyebrows, Xia Lin gave a specific number.
"About one million."
In the previous brush process, Wenrou gained willpower, while Xialin gained attributes.
But in fact, Xia Lin also gained a lot of wish power - the act of selling out the country could satisfy the wishes and needs of Dongfangsu and the Eastern Kingdom, and naturally provided Xia Lin with a lot of wish power, but not as much as Wenrou.
"But I can't give it all to you."
Xia Lin said this.
In the previous communication with Wenrou, the two came to the conclusion that "when the willpower is sufficient, this ashes area may undergo bad changes."
But at the moment, this conjecture seems to be wrong. The collapse of the dream is most likely because Xia Lin carried out the dream reflux without damage and did not give the dream power to all living beings, causing the energy of the dreams of all living beings to be gradually exhausted.
In fact, Xia Lin couldn't tell which one was right and which one was wrong.
"Well, I'll give you a thousand points first... Let's at least stabilize this dream first, what do you think?"
Unfortunately, the dazed Sylvie didn't make any response, but just stared at Xia Lin with his dead eyes without blinking.
No hint either...
This made Xia Lin very distressed.
As soon as the thought came to his mind, a trace of the wish power that was swelling between his eyebrows flowed out and dissipated into the air.
Just when this wish disappeared out of thin air, Xia Lin saw that the whole dream became more stable.
But not much...that is, there are fewer black cracks, the noise is weaker, and the prismatic cracks in the sky have shrunk a little.
This proves a point.
The power of wishes really seems to replenish the power of dreams.
“I see…”
Xia Lin pinched his chin and nodded in understanding.
"Don't worry, I'll feed you little by little... Anyway, my wish power is useless."
Take it step by step, and there will be room for maneuver if the situation becomes unfavorable.
Another thousand points of wish power disappeared.
The dream became more stable.
After spreading tens of thousands of wishes, the entire dream world finally returned to normal.
In front of him was a woman who should be a maid but had Sylvie's face. A smart light suddenly flashed in her eyes.
She spoke suddenly.
"one day……"
After saying these two words, she shuddered and put on a submissive expression again.
"Your Majesty, Lord Jevon and Lord Piero wish to see you."
Xia Lin nodded and left the bedroom.
But in my mind I was thinking about the "day" that Sylvie just mentioned.
"What does this day mean?"
After thinking about it to no avail, Xia Lin decided not to think about it any more for the time being.
When he arrived at the meeting room and saw Jeven and Piero, he immediately spent another 10,000 points of willpower.
"What do you want from me?"
Xia Lin asked this while sitting in the main seat.
Then Jervin and Piero looked at each other in bewilderment. Soon, they answered in unison: "I don't know... we forgot..."
Xia Lin pretended to be angry and drove the two away, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"That's right."
In their last dream, the two remembered the countless times time had flowed back.
——This is the sign that the dream is about to collapse.
The 10,000 points of willpower that Xia Lin just spent in the second round solved this problem.
At this point, even the power of the evil god appeared. Instead of understanding the truth of this ashes area, Xia Lin had more doubts.
He didn't dare to continue playing tricks.
Although it seemed that the power of will could repair this dream, Sylvie's "one day" just now made Xia Lin feel an inexplicable sense of urgency.
Rather than improving attributes, the most important thing right now is to go through this dream completely.
Thinking of this, Xia Lin took out his cell phone and sent a message to Wenrou.
"How long will it take?"
No response.
…
Time goes back to just now.
Just as the dream flow ended and Wenrou sent a message to Xia Lin, she immediately raised her legs and wanted to go to Xina Kingdom to meet Xia Lin.
However, before Wenrou could move, the familiar figure appeared again in front of her.
Lucifer.
"Again!?"
Wenrou almost swore.
This guy always appears in front of her at the critical moment.
At this moment, Xia Lin has not yet used his willpower to repair the dream, resulting in mosaics everywhere in Wenrou's eyes.
But in that layered mosaic, Lucifer's figure was exceptionally clear.
The gentle expression slowly became serious.
Lucifer is very strong...
This is an opponent that she must concentrate on dealing with.
Look carefully at Lucifer's eyes for the tenderness of this moment.
She saw confusion and dullness in those eyes.
But this is not a good thing...
…
Wenrou, who had fought with Lucifer twice, knew that Lucifer had two states.
One is a vivid state - in this state, Lucifer's tone, movements and expressions are very normal, like a real person, or a native in a dream.
In this state, Lucifer's strength is similar to Wenrou's, and neither can do anything to the other.
In addition to this, Lucifer has another state - the state in front of him with a dull and sluggish expression, like a puppet! In this state, Lucifer's skills and moves all changed, evil and strange, but the strength was even more amazing than in normal state!
It's like the second stage of the boss.
But unlike the boss in the game, he does not use the size of his health bar to determine when to enter the second stage, and Wenrou still hasn't found the pattern.
In the previous two battles, Lucifer was in the first stage when they first started fighting.
This is the first time that the transformation occurs right at the beginning.
Thinking of how powerful Lucifer was in the second stage, Wenrou took a deep breath.
Just as he was about to exhale, thick, snowflake-like black spots suddenly emerged from Lucifer's body!
Along with it, there was also a roaring noise.
"Data mezzanine."
The sound is dull, like a synthesized mechanical sound.
But he controlled the emerging black spots and quickly formed a square cage in all directions.
Thus, both dreams and reality were deceived.
Everything in this space, including Wenrou, was transferred to another area! A violent dizziness, like the feeling of reflux in every dream, surged over, causing Wenrou to close her eyes involuntarily.
But when she opened her eyes again, what she saw was a strange space with a black background and filled with green 0s and 1s.
"This is……"
Wenrou couldn't help but murmur softly.
The response was gentle, but it was just a violent stream of data.
A faint sound was heard.
It was the same dull tone of Lucifer in the second stage.
"Fraud. Existential reconstruction."
The light streams quickly reorganized and condensed into countless figures that were either familiar or unfamiliar.
That is the dead Goode and Asgard.
That was Sequence Three from Wenrou’s planet—a certain Cinders Walker who died in this Cinders.
That was the dull Xia Lin.
Even be gentle to yourself!
Wenrou took a breath suddenly.
"It's not the second stage... this is the third stage..."
Then he looked up at the countless figures that had solidified.
Gentle sigh again.
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"I see."
The power of ice and snow condensed into a Fang Tian Hua Ji that was more than two meters long.
Wenrou held the halberd in one hand, shook it out into a beautiful halberd flower, and spoke in a cold voice.
"Lucifer."
"You deserve to die."
This statement received a response.
"I need your accumulated willpower, ma'am."
"Please give it to me."
His voice was still dull: "After all, you don't have any other choice."
…
Wenrou quickly realized what Lucifer's words meant.
In front of him, his fraudulent reconstructed body also condensed a Fang Tian Hua Ji and rushed towards him first!
When she moved, it was like thousands of troops charging into battle, her imposing aura totally inconsistent with her appearance!
This extremely beautiful woman is actually a melee fighter!? However, fake is fake...
Wenrou could tell at a glance that the strength of her fraudulent reconstruction was only about one-fifth of her own.
The whistling halberd wind drew a cold arc.
The surging power of ice swept in all directions in an instant.
However, this space called the data sandwich was extremely stable. A blow that could tear the space apart in reality could not shake the data sandwich space at all! Under this shocking blow, all the fraudulent fictions were instantly solidified into ice sculptures, and then quickly disintegrated and dissipated, as if they no longer existed.
"I can beat 10,000 guys like this."
Wenrou made a neutral comment on Lucifer's methods.
The one who responded to her was Lucifer's dull voice.
"Then I'll give you 10,000."
There was a sudden heat between my eyebrows.
The power of will was involuntarily released and dissipated in the data mezzanine space.
This scene was very similar to Xia Lin using his willpower to repair his dream! As the data interlayer space was nourished by the willpower, it seemed to have gained new energy.
More data streams emerge, forming more fraudulent fictions!
Densely packed, exactly ten thousand! This time, Wenrou finally realized that things were getting troublesome.
She felt the wish power pulsating between her brows and realized that the nearly 7 million wish power she had accumulated would probably all become Lucifer's power.
However, before the fictional army could charge at Wenrou again, flames of iron and blood suddenly appeared beside Wenrou, and condensed into a strong and burly figure in blood armor.
"Sure enough, it's here."
The Ashes Walker named Xing Fanwu loosened his hand and brushed off the black spot in his palm that he had captured in the last dream reflux.
Glancing sideways at Wenrou, Xing Fanwu nodded slightly, and then looked at the huge army of fictional bodies in front of him.
"Lucifer, right?"
"I have a question for you."
"Have you ever heard of the name Vera?"
In silence, Lucifer spoke slowly.
"You are..."
"Vera's boss... She is my Star Sequence Two, and I am Sequence One."
Lucifer did not respond.
However, some of the wish power at the gentle center of his eyebrows was lost, turning into more data streams and fictional entities.
…
In the peaceful dream, there is no change, no chaos.
Without Xia Lin's activities, without the hot-tempered old man Asgard, without the two extraordinary strong men Wenrou and Xing Fanwu, and without the madman Good, the other walkers in the Ashen Zone are still quite normal.
They are relatively weak in strength and have average personalities, without any characters with distinctive tempers - and such characters usually do things in a more conventional manner and will not easily cause too much interference to the dream plot.
Xia Lin, on the other hand, went through the plot honestly under the identity of Sina XIII.
At the same time, he also kept the doubts about Wenrou's disappearance in his heart - this temporary teammate was extremely strong, and he thought he could handle it by himself even if he encountered any trouble. There was really no need for Xia Lin to worry about it.
According to the wishes of the six local pillars, the three kingdoms declared war on the Dragon Nest in the Western Region.
During this period, Xia Lin met Sylvie, but after asking around, he found that there was nothing unusual about this Sylvie - he was just an NPC in the dream, following the established logic and did not give him any more clues.
Without making any further attempts, Xia Lin watched the development of the plot calmly like a good child.
…
The war between the three kingdoms and the Dragon's Nest in the Western Region entered a white-hot stage within a week.
Another week later, the Eastern Kingdom's ruler Dongfang Su confiscated the homes of the frontline generals and executed their relatives, forcing the generals to rebel, leading to the collapse of the Eastern Kingdom's front line.
——This is obviously the work of the local six pillars.
Three days later, Sina XIII replaced his general with an incompetent royal relative, resulting in a crushing defeat on the Sina Kingdom's front line.
The dragon disaster spread into the territory of the Kingdom of Shina.
Countless people scolded Sina XIII for being incompetent, but Xia Lin said that he didn't want to be like that either.
This operation was time-consuming, laborious and thankless - the attribute gain was only about 3,000 points, which Xia Lin really didn't think much of.
In short, just act according to the situation and the most important thing is to pass the plot.
Suddenly, chaos intensified, dragon disasters spread, and the country was on the verge of collapse.
However, as time went by, Xia Lin slowly discovered something was wrong.
"The timing is wrong..."
Yes.
That's the problem.
Twenty-eight days have passed in the dream.
But the intensity of the dragon disaster has not yet reached its peak.
People in Xina continued to sing and dance, but not many people had the desire to "end the war quickly."
This made Xia Lin contact Sylvie immediately and got a definite answer from him.
“Everything is going as planned.”
"Seven days."
"After seven days, things will inevitably evolve to the degree we need, and when that happens, we will take action to harvest the power of will."
28+7=35.
Xia Lin was completely confused this time.
The main quest requires the Ash Walkers to survive for thirty-one days, which is four days short of thirty-five days.
"So we can complete the main mission without doing anything?"
Xia Lin thought so in his mind, but immediately denied this inference.
If this were true, the Ash Walkers who had entered this Ash Zone before would not have been wiped out.
After waiting quietly for another two days, Xia Lin still didn't see the local six pillars take action.
And just when the dream time reached exactly 30 days, the entire dream world suddenly froze.
Only those who walk in the Ashes Zone can feel the message conveyed by the power of vows in their brows.
[To continue the dream deduction, 1000 points of force will be consumed. ]
At this point in time, the power of vows directly revealed the concept of the dream of all living beings!
Before Xia Lin made a decision, someone had already paid the wish power - during the 30-day dream life, other Ash Zone travelers naturally also gained a lot of wish power.
And as the payment is completed, the dream resumes.
However, on the thirty-first day, nothing happened...
[To continue the dream deduction, 10,000 points of force will be consumed. ]
Xia Lin fell silent.
Before he could pay the wish points, someone had already paid 10,000 wish points.
So, the dream continued again.
The current time point has come to one month and two days in the dream.
At the moment when the dream was just resumed, all the still alive Ashland Walkers opened the attribute panel and looked at the main task description.
The big words "Unfinished" on it are eye-catching and glaring.
January is over, but the dream continues.
Xia Lin suddenly realized the problem.
"There's a problem with timing!"
"The time given in the main quest is not the time you survive in the dream, but the time you survive in the reality of the Ash Zone!"
I thought of that dreamy and misty sea of light.
In this Cinders reality, the time rules are distorted, making it impossible to accurately calculate time! The next second after this thought came to Xia Lin, he suddenly thought of the tip that the strange Sivir gave him at the beginning of this dream.
"one day……"
Black light emerged from behind Xialin, and Bilbo summoned Xialin in reverse, dragging Xialin into the reality of the Ash Zone.
At the moment he woke up from the dream, Xia Lin quickly opened the attribute panel and looked at his skill bar.
The words [Random combination: Cooling down completed] quickly twisted and changed into [Random combination: Remaining cooling time: 2 days and 17 hours]! Under the disordered time rules, Xia Lin found the time anchor point again!
In the hiding place, Xia Lin opened his eyes despite the splitting headache.
He immediately went to find Wenrou's place, but discovered that she had disappeared without a trace.
No traces, no clues, no messages.
Xia Lin thought for a short while and stopped considering Wenrou's problem. He just walked out of the room and looked at the reality of this ashes area.
It is still a dreamy and blurry picture, and there are still bubbles of life floating everywhere.
However, looking at this beautiful scenery again at this moment, Xia Lin did not feel it was wonderful and dreamy, but felt that it was full of dangers.
"Syvil reminded me before, these two words, one day..."
"And at that time, I saw that the random combination still had 3 days to complete the cooldown."
"The random combination of CDs currently only has 2 days and 17 hours left, which probably means I only have 17 hours left."
The time seemed to be enough, but considering the wish power required to continue to deduce the dream, it increased tenfold in the past two days...
Xia Lin let out a long breath.
He quickly fell asleep again, but chose not to let the dream flow back.
So everything continued in the dream.
The thirty-second day went smoothly.
The thirty-third day arrived.
[To continue the dream deduction, 100,000 points of force will be consumed. ]
Xia Lin laughed and decisively woke up from the dream.
Reappearing in the reality of the Ashes Zone, Xia Lin shrugged helplessly.
"You ask for too much. I can't afford it. I won't accompany you anymore."
"If you want to play it this way, then I have to change my way of thinking about solving the problem."
After mumbling, he opened his personal information panel.
(End of this chapter)