spiritual scholar

alienation dream

"We are being attacked by an evil entity, please send help!"

Seeing the message, Su Xiao was speechless.

You’ve got to report your location and the type of attack when you call for help. How is anyone supposed to know what’s going on over there with such a vague message?

Su Xiao quickly responded, "Report your location and specific situation."

"Evil entity, evil entity attack! I’m hiding in the subway restroom... so sleepy..."

Before the person finished speaking, the communication was cut off.

Su Xiao began to operate in the air quickly. To others, it seemed like he was using an invisible computer.

Through the virtual image projection of his augmented reality glasses, along with the built-in camera and motion capture system, Su Xiao could manipulate the virtual image to perform complex operations.

To an onlooker, it seemed like he was flailing in the air, but in reality, he was accessing the nearby map information.

The surrounding people watched Su Xiao nervously, not daring to interrupt. Rosalie stood beside Su Xiao, her left hand on his shoulder, serving as a true bodyguard.

"Having high trust level is good; I can access the map and location information here..."

"The temporary spiritual network’s positioning is inaccurate, but it’s barely usable without relying on satellite signals..."

After a brief moment, a three-dimensional map appeared before Su Xiao. This map covered the range of his temporary spiritual network, with numerous blue dots indicating the locations of units connected to the network.

Among them, due to the presence of practitioners Rosalie and Feng Liping, the markers for Su Xiao’s group were green.

Su Xiao’s eyes moved rapidly, searching for the unit that sent him the message.

Generally, an ordinary person’s brain can handle four tasks simultaneously. Right now, the number of units sending information to Su Xiao far exceeded four, causing sweat to break out on his forehead as he struggled to keep up.

Too much information! Even though Su Xiao was now in a state of heightened perception, greatly enhancing his information processing ability, he still found it overwhelming to handle such a large information flow.

"Hongjun, activate intelligent filtering," Su Xiao commanded.

Then he began to browse the filtered information sorted by importance.

"Hey," the synthetic human Feng Liping said, "let me handle the information. I’m a practitioner and I understand emergency command."

Su Xiao didn’t hesitate, quickly delegating part of the command authority to him:

"Help me evacuate the civilians. Let those who can come closer approach us; those who can’t should find a place to hide. Also, give them some psychological comfort so they’re less panicked and the information they send is more useful."

Su Xiao didn’t let Rosalie get distracted by handling intelligence because he still needed her to protect their group.

While speaking, Su Xiao continued to sift through the cascade of messages, searching for useful ones, and connected with one of them:

"We saw the evil entity here, it’s huge, covered in shadows, with many eyes!"

The speaker seemed to be a girl, her voice trembling with fear.

Su Xiao quickly responded, "Do you have a photo?"

"I took one, wait a moment... many people here have fallen unconscious. Is it due to the entity’s psychic energy?"

Su Xiao looked at the photo sent to him.

It was taken from above at the subway entrance, with the surrounding buildings forming the frame. Inside the frame, the originally empty area was now filled with people lying around.

They appeared to be sleeping, uninjured, just lying there, many with tightly furrowed brows as if having nightmares.

"Where is the evil entity?" Su Xiao asked.

There’s no evil entity in this photo. "Can’t you see it... uh, I clearly saw the entity! Why isn’t it showing in the photo? This is crazy!"

The person’s voice became extremely fearful and tense, almost breaking.

Su Xiao reassured, "Calm down and describe the entity in detail."

"Shadow, a large shadow, eyes, not just one eye..." The person stammered, "I, I suddenly feel so sleepy, am I going to die?"

Su Xiao seemed to realize something and shouted, "The Calm Mind Spell! Did you activate the Calm Mind Spell!?"

"It’s activated... my phone... has power... hasn’t turned off..."

Before finishing the sentence, a heavy thud was heard.

The person didn’t speak again.

Su Xiao bit his lip tightly.

He manipulated the virtual screen in front of him, typing into the search bar.

"Hallucination," "dream," "shadow," "eyes"

Although the network was disconnected from the outside world, Su Xiao’s phone had a built-in database.

A vast amount of information appeared, too much for Su Xiao to read through.

He added more keywords in the search bar.

"Mass hysteria," "psychic plague," "memetic effect"...

No! She said she activated the Calm Mind Spell.

And almost everyone’s phone now automatically activates the Calm Mind Spell...

Su Xiao deleted those keywords and added new ones.

"Acute infectious disease," "virulent disease"

This time, the search results were very few.

Su Xiao looked through them and quickly opened one.

After reading its description, Su Xiao’s intuition told him this was it.

Virulent Infectious Virus: Dream Distortion Source Carrier: Dream Clan Category: Bioweapon/Virus Biosafety Level: BSL-4 Transmission Methods: Level II airborne transmission, Level II waterborne transmission, aerosol transmission, Level II bird transmission, Level II rodent transmission, Level II livestock transmission, Level II insect transmission, Level II blood transmission, Level II contact transmission, Level I psychic transmission

Main Symptoms: Hallucinations, such as seeing numerous eyes in the shadows. Falling asleep and entering a dream state, experiencing extremely frightening nightmares. Without the Calm Mind Spell protection, there’s a risk of dying in the dream...

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Su Xiao urgently shouted, "Quick, wear KN95 masks!"

He opened a compartment in his small satchel, took out a white mask, and put it on his nose and mouth.

He also sent this information to all units connected to the temporary spiritual network, emphasizing: "There are emergency safety kits on the streets, in supermarkets, stores, and hotels with enough masks. Don’t start fighting each other for them!"

"Activate the Calm Mind Spell, don’t turn it off. We’re in the city, and rescue will arrive before the power runs out!"

The nearby ice cream vendor hurriedly said to the couple and the middle-aged man, "Do you have masks? I have some in my car, you can have them."

Rosalie didn’t need a mask; her full-face helmet provided better protection than a mask.

Feng Liping took a mask from his pocket and put it on, looking at Su Xiao with unstoppable astonishment and shock.

So strong, he assessed the emergency situation so quickly! It’s been less than three minutes, right?