Chapter 146: Dream

"No.", Ye Xi'an pointed at Ji Jiangci and then at herself: "You should be mine."

Ji Jiangci understood Ye Xi'an's words, his eyes dimmed, and several thin vines grew from his root system, quietly winding up her ankle to her calf: "Then I am yours, you need to give me benefits."

Ye Xi'an was stunned; she now had nothing, couldn't use her mental power, her space was gone, what benefit could she give him?

Right! She had to take advantage of being human and quickly ask about the situation.

"Let's not talk about that for now, Ji Jiangci...."

"Huh?", Ji Jiangci frowned, looking disapprovingly at Ye Xi'an.

Ye Xi'an immediately understood his meaning, embarrassed she shouted: "Meng, ahaha."

Shouting that name is really chuuni.

"Hmm."

"Do you know why you appeared here?"

Ji Jiangci tilted his head, still lacking a human expression on his face: "I've always been here."

"You've been here since birth?" Speaking of birth, Ye Xi'an glanced at Ji Jiangci's lower half; what exactly is he now? If he's a plant, does he still have the concept of birth? Or could he be a cutting from another plant person that took root and grew?

Such a ridiculous thought made Ye Xi'an almost unable to hold back laughter; she quickly shook her head and changed her question: "Do you remember what you were like when you first gained consciousness? And have you seen any other people?"

Ji Jiangci nodded; his memory has always been good.

"You want to ask about my childhood?"

"Yeah."

"When I was young, I was just a little grass...." Ji Jiangci began recounting his past to Ye Xi'an.

When he was young, he was just a grass drifting with the wind, liking to grow on Dream Stone, absorbing its energy to grow faster; later, a group of strange-looking things would always pull him off the Dream Stone.

To survive, he could only drive his root system to run to another Dream Stone and take root; over time, his form gradually changed, becoming his current appearance.

And his upper body actually resembled those strange-looking creatures, but he was far more handsome than them.

"Strange-looking creatures?" Ye Xi'an frowned, guessing that Ji Jiangci meant beastmen; his ability to speak likely came from listening to beastmen talk and learning it himself.

"Yes, and you're similar. No..." Ji Jiangci stared closely at Ye Xi'an's face: "You're also far more handsome than them."

Ye Xi'an didn't notice the "also" in Ji Jiangci's words, thinking he was complimenting her looks: "Have you seen them recently?"

"No!" Ji Jiangci's usually expressionless face showed a hint of pride: "I've hidden all the Dream Stones; if they can't find them, they won't come."

Ye Xi'an was stunned; all the clues connected.

Qiu Yi previously said that Zhimeng Xing had undergone a mutation, and the Dream Stones suddenly disappeared.

The Mission System warned operators not to be bewitched by sweet dreams, or they would be eaten in the dream.

Also, the flowers that suddenly bloomed on the ground before she fainted and the scattered light points, as well as Ji Jiangci's bizarre yet true experience.

The truth was about to surface; she scanned the vines in the cave, and though when she first arrived the vines' branches and leaves were clearly lush, at some point the leaves had already fallen all over the ground.

Ye Xi'an felt a pang in her heart; something was preventing her from understanding the truth, she pinched her leg hard, and the sharp pain cleared her mind a bit.

She grabbed Ji Jiangci's arm: "Ji Jiangci! We're dreaming! Wake up quickly!"

Meanwhile, Ji Jiangci merely lowered his head to look at his arm, which was snowy white like lotus root, and a flicker of emotion he had never felt before appeared in his eyes.

He didn't know what that emotion was, only knowing that if this truly was a dream, he hoped he would never wake up.

Moreover, he wasn't dreaming at all.

"My name is Meng; if you get it wrong again, I'll get angry." Ji Jiangci said, also clumsily mimicking the expressions of those strange creatures he had seen before, making a grimacing angry face.

"I'm not joking!" For Ji Jiangci to still be acting cute at this moment, Ye Xi'an almost wanted to punch his lion head.

But she calmed down, then felt she was being too hasty; yeah, Ji Jiangci has amnesia.

No, Ye Xi'an's usually soft and weak eye corners suddenly turned sharp; it should be said that Ji Jiangci has become the culprit behind the secondary mutation!

I don't know what mischievous motive he had, but he actually transferred his own memories to Ji Jiangci.

Could it be that he thinks his life is a sweet dream, capable of trapping Ji Jiangci? But seeing Ji Jiangci still grimacing, Ye Xi'an slapped her forehead and indeed had trapped him.

"Wake up, my husband!" Ye Xi'an is no longer afraid of Ji Jiangci at all; she embraced his shoulders and gently shook him, trying to wake him.

Just as Ye Xi'an was about to say something more, she suddenly felt the world before her rapidly rising, and she turned back into a cat form.

"Meow~"

"Miaomiao?" Ji Jiangci looked somewhat dejected at the vanished Ye Xi'an; although he usually prefers fluffy things, why does he now look forward to Miaomiao's transformed appearance?

But it's fine; this Miaomiao is also adorable.

In a cave with some withered yellow leaves, a ragdoll cat sat glumly at the entrance.

Heaven knows how anxious she feels watching the leaves day by day wither; she now almost certainly believes that the vitality of these leaves in the cave represents Ji Jiangci's life force, and the true dream is draining his energy.

But in this state she is utterly powerless and has no idea how to escape this dream.

She wondered if dying would let her get out, but she feared that if she died in the dream, she would truly die.

Sweet dreams, sweet dreams, Ye Xi'an kept repeating these two words in her mind; since the dream keeps people by fabricating sweet dreams, perhaps destroying this sweet dream would work?

Thinking this, Ye Xi'an looked at the tidy cave; every day when Ji Jiangci wakes up, the first thing he does is clean the cave spotless—truly a model husband and wife, top scholar material; even with amnesia, he still loves cleaning.

Sorry, Ji Jiangci; for your life, I can only say sorry to you.

"Meow——"

A tiny ragdoll cat let out a sharp meow and charged toward the central hammock.....

Meanwhile, Ji Jiangci, hunting far away, seemed to share a telepathic link with Ye Xi'an, suddenly turning his head toward the cave on the mountainside.

"My Miaomiao is calling." he said.

The next second, his lower-body root system surged violently, and his running speed was actually not inferior to Bao Jing's at all.

But when he returned to the cave, he was dumbfounded.