Chapter 928

Looking at it, Franca found that the Star Dream Grocery Store was really like an antique shop in the Northern Continent, and added very obvious mystical elements.

The only things that didn't fit this style were the shelves themselves and the phone the shopkeeper was playing with, and the tablet computer placed in front of her.

"Good morning, Madam, we came to pick up the reply." Lu Mian walked to the cashier counter and said quite politely.

The shopkeeper, wearing a black dress and playing with her phone, fished a letter out from under the cashier counter and placed it on the counter.

"Thank you." Lu Mian reached out to take it, not opening the letter on the spot.

Franca pointed to the brass book:

"Madam, can I flip through that book?"

"You can." The shopkeeper wearing the black dress didn't raise her head, nor did she warn Franca not to damage the antique.

Franca walked lightly to the right shelf and picked up the book that looked like it was forged from brass.

The cover of this item was cold and hard; it was indeed made of metal.

Franca flipped through it quickly and found that it was still paper inside, blank.

Nothing special... Franca muttered in her heart.

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly saw lines of text appear on the blank page, but these words were fleeting, so fast that even a "Witch's" eyesight couldn't capture the specific content.

Did my eyes deceive me? Franca waited patiently for twenty or thirty seconds and waited for new text to appear on the brass book, but she still couldn't see any word clearly before the corresponding content disappeared.

In this situation, even using the method of "dream divination" afterward couldn't recall the specific image.

It really is strange... Franca secretly said, putting the brass book back in its original position.

At the same time, she caught a glimpse of a dark green figure flashing past behind this shelf from the corner of her eye.

That was a snake that had grown white feathers and small wings!

Franca was startled, instinctively retreated two steps, turned her body to the side, and reminded the shopkeeper:

"Boss, there's a snake in your shop!"

Be careful!

"Don't be afraid." The shopkeeper wearing the black dress raised her head, revealing her beautiful face, "That's my pet."

"Is that so..." Franca breathed a sigh of relief and followed Lu Mian out with Jianna and Anthony, who were wandering around the grocery store, returning to the gray sedan parked nearby, using frost to forcibly lower the high temperature in the car brought by the sun.

After sitting in the driver's seat, Franca frowned slightly and said:

"The snake I just saw looks very much like a feathered snake of the 'Death' pathway, um, a shrunken, harmless version.

"The shopkeeper wouldn't be keeping a mythical creature of the 'Death' pathway as a pet, would she?"

A complete mythical creature represents the angel level!

Lu Mian was opening the letter in his hand and said calmly:

"It's not impossible. Except for people with special items and special connections, those who can enter the dream are at least true gods."

This... Were we just dealing with a true god? And she even answered my question? Franca was astonished, and saw a person carrying large and small bags walk to the driver's seat and knock on the car window.

"Is something the matter?" Franca asked vigilantly, rolling down the car window.

That person looked ordinary, piled on a smile, and handed the things in his hand to Franca:

"Want to buy? The latest type of wiretaps and pinhole cameras."

"..." Franca's mouth moved, "Big brother, this is illegal."

That person still wanted to continue promoting, but was sternly refused by Franca, who stiffened her face.

After closing the car window, Franca started the car, while Lu Mian checked the reply from the Major Arcana cards, written mainly by Ms. "Magician."

At this time, Franca suddenly froze:

"Don't be in a hurry, first confirm if anyone has installed wiretaps and pinhole cameras in the car."

Under the circumstances where everyone is suppressed to Sequence 7, relying on the spirituality and divination of "Witches," one can indeed effectively prevent mystical wiretapping and peeping, but they had completely ignored the scientific level before!

Lu Mian and Jianna could understand what wiretaps and pinhole cameras were used for. One relied on the "Hunter's" observation ability to quickly search for abnormal traces, and the other confirmed the situation in this regard through "magic mirror divination" of their own spirituality.

"None." Jianna gave the result of her divination.

"It's good that there aren't any." Franca breathed a sigh of relief. "Later, we must remember to guard against scientific means. Fortunately, that big brother who sold contraband just now reminded me, otherwise we might suffer because of this at some point! Uh..."

Speaking of this, Franca cast her gaze toward the rearview mirror.

She saw the man who just sold wiretaps and pinhole cameras turn at the street corner and disappear at the end of the road.

"Wouldn't he be a friendly force? Specifically here to remind us?" Franca muttered keenly.

Lu Mian was silent for a few seconds and said:

"He should be."

"Who could it be?" Franca looked at the road ahead, her attention more focused on driving.

Not long after, she parked the car in a parking space on the side of the road diagonally opposite the police headquarters.

Lu Mian used frost to create a medium-sized screen and displayed the reply from the Major Arcana cards on this mirror for easy viewing:

"Confirmed, the 'Despair Witch' Beyonder characteristic, related materials, and special mirror world fragments you harvested are all real.

"Don't be excited yet. This doesn't mean every Beyonder in the dream city can extract Beyonder characteristics. It must be those whose own consciousness entered directly like you.

"In other words, if you die in the dream city, influenced by 'Fooling,' your real-world bodies will also die, extracting Beyonder characteristics. After this is fed back to the dream city, the Beyonder characteristic will be 'grafted' to the acquirer, achieving the fooling effect where false can become true, and true can become false.

"You should already understand what I mean. The resurrected female corpse is approximately equal to a real consciousness entering.

"What is her name, what is her origin? You ask Ludwig. I will only talk about it simply. She was once equivalent to the True Creator's marionette, so she is now too. Don't ask why. Don't ask about high-level matters of the 'Diviner' and 'Marauder' pathways. In short, with the help of this connection, and with the help of the identity Mr. Fool's subconscious wove for her in the dream, she entered this dream and obtained a new life through the 'Great Mother,' having humanity and consciousness that doesn't look like a marionette.

"Returning to the question of that Beyonder characteristic, if you use it to concoct a potion and hold a ritual in the dream city to advance to demigod, your real-world bodies will also follow to become demigods. Remember, influenced by abilities like 'Fooling,' false dreams may become real reality, and may also make what you think is true become false.

"Moreover, the dream city is currently limited to the Sequence 7 level. The mental influence of the potion and the minimum requirements of the ritual will also be suppressed to this level. For example, a plague that originally required infecting 30,000 people and bringing them pain and despair might now only need to infect 300 people. Taking a risk on the basement floor of the Eye of Dawn Hospital might complete the ritual.

"Did you have a thought like 'This works too?' But I want to tell you, all the gifts of fate have already been marked with a price in the dark. Advancing to 'Despair Witch' using this method has very large hidden dangers. You need to solve huge difficulties later to truly count as a Sequence 4 demigod.

"Think about it, in the dream city, the various problems brought by you taking demigod potions are actually suppressed to Sequence 7, so you can bear them relatively easily and can use Sequence 7 level rituals to assist in advancement. But after leaving the dream and returning to reality, those problems suppressed to Sequence 7 will break free from fooling and instantly return to the Sequence 4 level. At that time, the corresponding person will likely lose control directly.

"Of course, this is not unsolvable, just relatively difficult, not simpler than holding a complete ritual in reality.

"The only method we can think of now is to thoroughly digest that Sequence 4 potion before leaving the dream, before this dream is no longer maintained. And this digestion will be grafted to reality, allowing most of the hidden dangers suppressed to the Sequence 7 level to be solved in advance. When the person returns to reality, they will be a Sequence 4 demigod in good condition. Reality is truly fooled at this moment.

"The difficulty of this method lies in the fact that how long the dream can be maintained and when you will be locked onto by the True Creator and kicked out directly are not things you can decide. It is full of unknown risks. Wanting to obtain a good opportunity and enough time to digest the potion is very, very difficult."

Seeing this, Franca, Lu Mian, and the others looked at each other, unable to speak.

This works too?

They originally thought that they were using fake angel status and sealed angels to simply act and quickly digest the potion, which was already the limit of taking advantage of rule loopholes. Who knew, looking at these "Fooling" and "Grafting" words, they felt their brains were also fooled.

One can really truly advance in the dream...

The potion was fooled, the ritual was fooled, the spirit was fooled, and the boundary between false and reality was also fooled...

Of course, it's also possible that only they themselves were fooled, thinking they really completed the advancement and really became demigods, but actually just got hysteria...

Hahaha, everyone was fooled! Everyone was fooled! Franca couldn't help but go crazy in her heart.

"Is this the terror of great existences?" Jianna took a light breath.

Lu Mian laughed in a low voice:

"Many things we think are unbreakable and unchangeable are perhaps just playthings of great existences."

"They can be rounded if they want to be rounded, and flattened if they want to be flattened..." Franca followed by muttering a couple of times.

With the help of this letter, they truly and realistically felt what a great existence was.

They continued to look at the letter displayed on the ice crystal screen:

"After reading the previous part, did you have such a thought:

"In the future, after Mr. Fool wakes up, can he be asked to use similar dreams to help lower the difficulty of rituals and advancement, let those in need become demigods, and give them enough time to digest potions in the dream?

"First, we must be clear that relying on Mr. Fool himself is difficult to achieve, because such a real dream, a dream that allows fooling to confuse false and real, comes from other domains.

"Secondly, not every demigod can ultimately digest their own potion. They will live their whole lives in the dream. Moreover, if the dream cognition isn't restored to the Sequence 4 level, their lifespan will also be suppressed to the corresponding low-middle sequence. But if the dream cognition is restored to Sequence 4, those problems hidden by fooling will break out.

"Thirdly, in order to help a Beyonder advance, causing Mr. Fool to sleep for years, decades, or even hundreds or thousands of years, is it really appropriate?

"Finally, many potion acting tendencies are evil. If you really want to create a large-scale plague in Mr. Fool's dream, not to mention that the True Creator will easily notice, Mr. Fool will be the first to kick you out."

Why do I feel Ms. "Magician" is implying me... I really didn't think about it. This dream is the same as reality, completely unlike a game. How could I have anti-social thoughts? Even if it were a game, I only stopped acting like a human after I got tired of normal gameplay... Franca grumbled.

(End of chapter)