si-mexico Chapter 545 The Awake and the Obsession of Dreams
Chapter 545 The Awake and the Obsession of Dreams
Even if Kong hadn't stopped Xu Ning, Xu Ning would have already sensed something was wrong and stopped in his tracks.
Just moments ago, the sky was clear and bright with a gentle breeze, but as soon as they approached, dark clouds suddenly gathered, and even faint thunder rumbled in the air. This dream was clearly resisting their intervention.
Xu Ning glanced back at Nasita, and the little girl pondered, "It seems that Elleman's dream is not very deep, so the dream as a whole is too fragile. Once we invade, the dream will be destroyed, and he may wake up immediately."
"Let me use my dream abilities to stabilize this place first, then we can go and talk to him."
Xu Ning pulled Kong back two steps, signaling Nasita to use her powers.
The two could clearly see that as Nasita walked forward, four-leaf clovers sprouted behind her little feet, gradually covering the entire hillside.
When Nasita waved to indicate that they could go, Xu Ning immediately ran over with Kong.
Ellerman seemed to sense the arrival of the group and turned around with his wife and daughter.
"It's you guys... and even the Grass God has come."
Looking at Elleman, who was completely different from his dejected appearance during the day, and then at the happy family of three, Xu Ning was at a loss for words.
Ellerman, on the other hand, seemed quite talkative, taking his wife's hand and smiling as he said, "Hello, this is my wife, Myna, and this is my daughter, Haida."
“Manal, these two are the experts I told you about. They’re very capable. Even those seemingly fierce guys from the Gilded Brigade are quite respectful in front of them…”
Manar greeted the two of them with a gentle expression.
Xu Ning gestured for Elleman to step aside so they could talk. After they walked a few steps away, Xu Ning asked, "You know where this is, right?"
Ellerman chuckled, "This is the hillside that Mynar and I often come to..."
At this point, Ellerman suddenly paused, as if he had come to his senses, and turned to look at his wife.
"...This must be a dream. Of course, in reality, Manar can no longer sit here and chat with me."
Xu Ning watched as the joy on his face gradually faded, sighed inwardly, and advised, "People always have to face reality."
Elleman smiled wryly and said, "I know, and I am very grateful to you and the Grass God for caring about me so much. However, I once promised to grow old with Minaer, but I failed to do so. Now I just want to make up for the time I owed her in my dreams."
"Although some people say that there are more beautiful visions in the deepest part of dreams, I don't actually ask for more. I just hope to spend a little more time with her, just a little bit..."
Xu Ning remained silent for a long time, feeling that he couldn't find any reason to persuade Elleman.
Ellerman went back to be with his wife and daughter. Nasida saw Xu Ning drinking alone there and came over.
“I found a narrow corridor in a dream, from which should lead to another layer of dreams.”
Xu Ning nodded. "Ellerman just said that someone passed on a message to him, saying that there is something even more beautiful in the deepest part of dreams. Since you have found the passage between dreams, it means that dreams have once again connected into a network like the void, right? I think the key we are looking for should be there."
After receiving Naxi Da's confirmation, Xu Ning raised the gourd and pointed to the family of three over there, "Are some of those virtual characters from the dream?"
Nasita replied, "Apart from Elleman, the other two are products of dreams, because I cannot hear their thoughts."
When Xu Ning heard Nasita speak her mind, he was struck by a thought. He suddenly remembered his own commemorative camera with a commemorative mirror, which also had this function. However, he rarely used it when fighting enemies or exploring. Nasita's words were a reminder to him.
"Can you even hear my innermost thoughts? Come here, listen to what I'm thinking right now?"
Xu Ning imagined what Beidou looked like when he was a child and asked Naxi Da to guess with great interest.
Nasita smiled and shook her head. "Only those who have opened their hearts to me can I read their minds. Almost all the Sumeru people have used the Void Terminal and regard me as their faith, which is why I can easily read their thoughts. As for you and Kong, you are both strangers, and I cannot read your hearts."
Xu Ning secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said a half-hearted "what a pity" before calling out to Shang Kong and Naxida to go through the dream passage together.
Outside the passageway were huge, messy plants, some fungi, some ferns, but each one was as tall as a ten-story building.
"Whose dream is this? It's so chaotic and fantastical."
As the three trekked through the jungle, Xu Ning couldn't help but complain a little.
Nasita patiently explained, "Dreams are supposed to be chaotic and fantastical. This might be the true face of a dream. We're about to cross this place."
The group walked to a crevice, their figures flashed, and they disappeared again.
The owner of this dream is a staff member of the Order of the Church named Debbie, and the location of the dream is the coffee shop that Xu Ning and Elhesen visited.
Even Kong couldn't help but marvel at the exquisite details in this café; it seemed the owner of this dream must be a die-hard fan.
However, Xu Ning was observing Debbie.
Compared to Ellerman, Debbie was more clear-headed, but seemed to be more obsessed.
The words "awake" and "addicted" were strangely combined in the dream, something Xu Ning had never expected.
As Debbie said, the news of the ship hitting the reef and sinking had already been published in the Steambird newspaper, and her two friends had already perished at sea with the ship. However, she still could not accept the loss of her two close friends.
"I know what I'm doing, so please let me stay a little longer."
Even as Nasita entered the next dream passage, Xu Ning still couldn't discern where Debbie's sense of propriety lay.
This is a lonely girl. Her only two friends who could understand her are gone. She has no one to talk to or listen to. Loneliness envelops her like an iceberg. It is here that she can find some happy memories from the past.
Just like the exquisite café in the sky, she put far more effort into this place than into Elleman's hillside.
After entering the passage, Xu Ning asked, "We're not actually getting deeper into the dream, are we?"
Kong was a little confused by Xu Ning's words, "How come we've been going deeper and deeper all along?"
Nasida turned to look at Xu Ning with some surprise and said, "You've discovered it. There really isn't any deeper level of dream. It's just that the owner of each dream is becoming more and more attached to this place."
“For normal people, they do not rely on dreams, nor do they take dreams seriously; dreams are just an ethereal thing.”
"But if the dreamer abandons reality and embraces the dream, then the dream will no longer be insignificant. People will put more and more effort into building their dream world, and the sense of reality will become stronger and stronger."
When Xu Ning heard Nasita mention the word "realism," a thought seemed to flash through his mind, but it vanished too quickly before he could grasp it.