Chapter 97: Nightmare Comes True

Yu Xiaomo! Are you done or not?

Do you know you're annoying?

Facing the guy who constantly nagged beside him and would occasionally do little tricks, Zhang Jie had already endured to the extreme.

I... am annoying?

Hearing Zhang Jie's angry voice, Yu Xiaomo froze for a moment, then her cheeks gradually flushed red, not knowing if it was from anger or something else.

If I'm annoying, then I'm annoying!

Who... who needs you to like them!

Yu Xiaomo loudly retorted, turned her head in anger and walked away, her legs moving quickly, not looking back.

She... is she always like this, aunt?

I still thought you guys had a good relationship.

Liu Delie, who was walking home with Zhang Jie, spoke in a fluent dialect, and although the strange dialect was quite amusing, Zhang Jie had no mind to laugh.

Who has a good relationship with this guy.

Watching Yu Xiaomo's figure disappear around the corner, Zhang Jie pulled Liu Delie and walked to the side.

Don't bother with her, she's just a nuisance.

Unbeknownst to them, at the distant corner, Yu Xiaomo peeked out an eye and looked back secretly, seeing Zhang Jie leave without looking back, she snorted in spite and turned to leave.

At age nine: your words to Yu Xiaomo still had some effect; on the way to and from school she no longer came to pester you, leaving only you and your good buddy Liu Delie, but when you went to and from school together, you always felt a gaze secretly watching you, though you never found its source.

Your relationship with Liu Delie keeps getting better; don't look at Liu Delie being just as weak as you, but he's not timid at all, just like when he once fought Xiao Pangzi; as he says, whether you can win is one thing, whether you dare to step up is another.

Just like that, Liu Delie became your loyal supporter; whenever someone dared to say something bad about you, he would definitely step ahead and rush in to fight.

Some kids are just mouthy, with no intention to fight, but unfortunately they met Liu Delie; one sentence that annoyed him and he'd rush in without a word, a brute who directly cured those kids' mouthiness.

Thus, your fame was completely stirred up by Liu Delie; you two even became the people nearby elementary schoolers couldn't provoke, your nickname 'Brother Jie' gradually spread, and likewise Liu Delie's nickname 'Crazy Dog' spread as well...

You were extremely satisfied with Liu Delie, this good brother; you even specially applied to the teacher to become desk mates with him, leaving only Yu Xiaomo as a lonely person sitting in the original seat; from then on, whenever you and Liu Delie played around, you could feel her resentful gaze.

But as sworn enemies, constantly comparing grades and being sarcastic is essential, especially when you start gradually distancing from her, Yu Xiaomo seems to want to blend in with you this way.

But you don't buy that; if your favorability toward Liu Delie is 100, then toward Yu Xiaomo it's -100; although her behavior now is more restrained than before, your view of her isn't easily changed.

Besides these little interpersonal hiccups, there's also something that gives you a headache.

Since your body hasn't fully developed, you can't stay in dreams for long, but since your first dream you've occasionally had nightmares; the dream content is bizarre yet follows a pattern, and no matter how the dream develops, three scenes always appear.

The first is a cliché world destruction, sky collapsing and earth splitting, a common nightmare, nothing much to say.

The second scene: you in splendid gear, surrounded and beaten by a group of people, ultimately dying in a nightmare, much more realistic than the first.

The third nightmare, compared to the first two, is even more realistic: the nightmare descends into reality, those killed by it remain as blanks, and in the dream you die in various ways.

Because it's too real, that unparalleled feeling of suffocation when near death always wakes you up, hence your constant headaches.

Since nightmares are born from human nightmares, when the Dream Realm Synesthesia System hadn't appeared, sleeping was absolutely forbidden; for a long time humans used paralyzing drugs to force sleep, numbing the brain, so dreams naturally wouldn't arise.

But since the Dream Realm Synesthesia System exists, all nightmare occurrences are forcibly absorbed into the Dream World, allowing humans to sleep normally.

Whenever you think that the nightmare born from your own nightmare might harm people in the Dream World, you feel a wave of discomfort.

Your nightmare frequency keeps increasing, and on an otherwise ordinary day, something unexpected happened....

Ha....

Zhang Jie was once again awakened by his own nightmare; in the dream, the sensation of suffocation when he was killed remained vivid.

Half-drawn curtains aside, warm sunlight streamed in, shining on Zhang Jie's buttocks.

Feeling the burning sensation coming from his buttocks, Zhang Jie's senses were pulled back from the nightmare, but that suffocating feeling still lingered in his chest.

Zhang Jie, who had been sleeping face down, pushed himself up, took two deep breaths, and the suffocation gradually faded.

He squinted at the bed he had just been lying on, and his brain finally reacted.

Oh, it turns out sleeping face down pressed on his chest, no wonder this time the suffocation was so obvious.

Zhang Jie dazedly turned over; today is the weekend, even though he just had another nightmare, he still wanted to sleep a bit longer.

Beside Zhang Jie's bed, a few black silhouettes stood silently; Zhang Jie, turning over like a salted fish, merely glanced at them with his eyes narrowed to a slit before comfortably burrowing into the blankets.

His eyes, narrowed to a slit, had just closed when his slow-witted brain suddenly realized something.

Brain: Wait a moment!

Brain: No way!!!

Zhang Jie suddenly opened his eyes; his brain, not yet fully rebooted, froze for an instant, and he stared wide-eyed at the four nightmares standing before his bed.

Zhang Jie:?

Not bro!

(Here's an attached picture of the nightmare for reference~)