"Reasonable"
1391 Words
“Dreamscape?” Su Xiao pretended to turn his head upon hearing the voice, his expression puzzled and his tone questioning.
“Yes, this is a dream deep within your mind,” the man said, his eyes filled with slight regret and pity as he looked at the bloodstains under the truck, appearing lifeless: “I am a practitioner from the Northern District Team of the Shuangle City Emergency Incident Rescue Squad. You were attacked by an evil entity and fell into a nightmare. I’m here to rescue you.”
Su Xiao had his suspicions, but he continued to act bewildered, intending to probe further: “...Since you claim this is a dream and you are an outsider, can you prove it? Dreams can’t generate things I haven’t seen but are complex. Although it’s abrupt, can you recite a poem or something?”
“Dingdong drips of the jade tower’s clock invade the jades of the harp, shadows shift on the high wu-trees, the moon just emerging.”
He paused for only two seconds before reciting a line of poetry filled with emotion yet spoken without any.
Su Xiao thought to himself, “This poem would never appear on a college entrance exam, I have no memory of it at all.”
Even evil entities have more culture than humans now?
After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao said, “Indeed, I have no memory of this poem. At least you are not a figment of my dream. Can you explain the situation in detail?”
“You are calmer than I expected,” the man said. “No wonder you performed exceptionally in emergency situations. Think carefully, dreams may obscure some parts, but they won’t completely cover your memories.”
“Recall carefully, those memories are hidden in your mind, don’t let the surface of the dream deceive you.”
Su Xiao mused inwardly, could this person really be here to rescue him? But its previous appearance was entirely non-human…
Never mind, better to continue pretending for now, at least I need to hide the information revealed by the ‘Three Feet Above the Head There are Gods’ state.
Su Xiao’s expression gradually shifted from suspicion to affirmation. He started to become agitated, his expression turning angry, his whole body tensing up: “Practitioner, what should I do?”
“That damned evil entity, how dare it use such a scene to provoke me…”
Su Xiao appeared to fully believe the man’s words.
The man’s expression relaxed: “First, you must suggest to yourself, continuously telling yourself in your mind, to turn off the Cleansing Mantra.”
“Only when you turn off the Cleansing Mantra can I bypass its protection to rescue you.”
Ha.
Originally, Su Xiao had only suspicions, but now he was certain.
Using the ‘Three Feet Above the Head There are Gods’ state, he continued to observe and found more evidence: the man’s body was not normal, essentially made up of countless intertwining tentacles, with some small gaps that appeared and disappeared rapidly. Ordinary people might overlook this, but Su Xiao, in the ‘Three Feet Above the Head There are Gods’ state, saw these minute details directly.
“f**k you.”
Su Xiao spat out cultured words.
“Hmm?” The man frowned, seemingly not hearing what Su Xiao said.
Su Xiao curled his lips, then awkwardly uttered a phrase: “Kvio lumo.”
The sound resembled a nightjar’s mournful cry, a tone indescribably deep and strangely captivating, dreamlike yet maddening.
It was the sound of mourning for the death of a very close relative in the Dreamfolk language.
Before he finished speaking, Su Xiao’s fist had already smashed into the man’s face, turning it into writhing, irregular tentacles, which were smashed apart, revealing the dark shadow of his brain and the cluster of eyes inside, yet he didn’t seem to…
“Kvio lumo!”
Su Xiao continued to shout, his other hand pulling out several pencils from his bag, and in the next moment, all these pencils were transformed into ‘magic wands’ imbued with sword energy by Rosalie’s help.
Su Xiao gripped the pencils and stabbed at the man.
Violent sword energy exploded, severing more tentacles. Su Xiao’s arm and body bled continuously but he felt no pain.
Because Su Xiao was under the protection of the Cleansing Mantra, the damage suffered in the dream was not real, directly blocked by the mantra.
Without the Cleansing Mantra, the Dreamfolk could even make a person infected with the Dream Aberration Virus die of pain in the dream, showing no external injuries, but the brain believed it had been tortured to death.
Of course, simply invading human dreams, without the Dream Aberration Virus’s help, they could at most make a person have recurrent nightmares, causing nerve weakness, but not killing them in the dream.
“Kvio lumo!”
Su Xiao pulled out an alloy sword from somewhere, shouting while slashing furiously, and after slashing, he pulled out an oversized Zhanmadao (horse-chopping saber).
Su Xiao also donned an exoskeleton suit similar to Rosalie’s style, which seemed quite appropriate for fighting an evil entity, didn’t it? The Zhanmadao slashed down hard, shattering upon the Dreamfolk’s tentacle slap, with fragments rebounding onto Su Xiao, leaving countless b****y cuts.
No pain!
Protected by the Cleansing Mantra, do I fear you?
Using the maneuvering gear of the exoskeleton suit, Su Xiao swiftly retreated by jetting compressed gas, then pulled out a man-portable nuclear rocket launcher from the combat backpack that turned into a school bag, with a grim expression aiming at the Dreamfolk and pressed the trigger without hesitation.
Man and Dreamfolk battled fiercely at the crossroads, breaking the dream!
After the massive mushroom cloud, the surroundings were no longer a street but a surface resembling the moon, with a dark sky, indicating the far side of the moon.
The body of the Dreamfolk was mostly shattered, its appearance indistinct, floating above a crater, confronting Su Xiao. Around them lay many people in modern clothing, seemingly just arrived and extremely frightened.
“Mommy!”
A little girl shrank into her mother’s arms, trembling as she watched the scene before her.
Those people also woke up, many appearing very panicked and scared, looking at the two figures confronting each other in the crater.
The Dreamfolk was furious.
This human continuously foiled its plans.
Its physical body projected into the real world was killed by him.
For Dreamfolk, entering the real world’s body is essentially like a human’s dream body in a dream, not real. Being killed is just like a human having a nightmare of being killed, not a big loss. But this Dreamfolk’s long-distance projection to Earth meant its consciousness couldn’t return to the far side of the moon and could only enter dreams of those infected by the Dream Aberration Virus nearby.
It planned to deceive and kill a few people before human experts arrived, with Su Xiao as its primary target.
However, it was dragged out in a dream and severely beaten, failing to kill this detestable human and even getting hurt itself.
The Dreamfolk stared furiously at Su Xiao. Now they were both in a dream it wove, with the setting being the far side of the moon.
Having many Dreamfolk on the far side of the moon is reasonable!
Groups of Dreamfolk floated up around it, some resembling bizarre insects, others like sea creatures, some indescribable, some shadowy, all their eyes fixed on Su Xiao.
The Dreamfolk had gone mad, deciding to terrify Su Xiao even if it couldn’t kill him.
“Ah!”
“Help!”
Seeing the terrifying and numerous Dreamfolk, the surrounding ordinary people screamed in terror.
Su Xiao smirked grimly.
Above his head, a sleek, technologically advanced silver warship slowly appeared.
“Being trapped on the far side of the moon, a rescue from the Sino-Lunar Fleet is reasonable.” Su Xiao sneered, his voice echoing in the vacuum of the dream:
“Sino-Lunar Fleet, Air and Space Arsenal Guard Ship, hull number KW-527, Guangning.”
“Kinetic weapons group, aim, resistive magnetic railgun, fire.”
As he finished speaking, a rain of metal descended.
Boom boom boom boom boom! The cold torrent of high-speed metal battered the stunned and dazed Dreamfolk and its conjured kin, engulfing them completely.
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