Chapter 936: The Dream City's Daily Life

Facing the sudden darkness, Jianna's first reaction was to immediately conceal her figure or hide in the shadows, but she ultimately controlled herself, not wanting to directly reveal her extraordinary abilities right after nightfall when an anomaly suddenly occurred.

She utilized her strengths as an actress, pretending to be an ordinary person, and in the situation where she could clearly see, she groped her way out of the bathroom and toward the window.

Once in the living room, thanks to the light pollution seeping in from outside, the outlines of the coffee table, sofa, and other furniture became visible. Jianna immediately quickened her pace, reaching the window in a few seconds. Looking outside, she discovered that not only were the high and low buildings in the distance still brightly lit, but the other buildings in the same residential complex had not been completely swallowed by the darkness.

Jianna glanced downward and felt that the other floors seemed to have their lights on as well.

"Is it just my place having a problem? Hmm, a power outage?" Jianna took her phone out of her jeans pocket, wanting to call and ask Seeing Fu Lan Ka how to handle this situation.

She then remembered that she had to act independently for these two days and could not contact her teammates, so she changed from calling to searching online.

She clumsily used the voice-to-text method to input the phrase "what to do if there is a power outage at home" and pressed the option representing search.

Then, she kept Seeing Fu Lan Ka's instructions in mind, skipped the first few search results, and directly looked at the ones further down:

"For a power outage, first you need to check the electrical box..."

"The specific steps are..."

Jianna watched for a while, her brows gradually furrowing:

This is so difficult!

These were all areas she didn't understand.

While scrolling, she saw an answer:

"Find the property management!"

"..." Jianna was stunned for a moment, "It can be like this?"

She had registered with the property management when she moved in that afternoon and added their number to her contact list.

She tried calling, reported the room number and the problem, and the property staff on duty stated on the spot that an employee from the engineering department would come over immediately to handle it.

Not long after, the doorbell rang, and the property staff member from the engineering department arrived on this floor, carrying a tool bag.

The moment he saw Jianna, the property staff member's eyes lit up, and his attitude became quite enthusiastic.

Jianna let the other person into the room with extreme vigilance.

She was prepared for any anomaly at any time.

The property staff member quickly checked for a while and said:

"It's a tripped breaker."

After speaking, he pushed the switch up, and the room was instantly restored to light.

That simple? Jianna did not let her ignorant side show.

After sending the property staff member away and locking the door again, she couldn't help but sigh:

"Life in the Dream City is really convenient..."

"It's just that the property management fees aren't cheap..."

Jianna quickly washed up, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep like an ordinary person, but the string in her mind remained taut and did not relax.

In a daze, her spiritual intuition brought a warning.

She woke up instantly, discovering that she was floating in the middle of the residential complex in the form of a star spirit body.

There were many spirits wandering here, seemingly all residents of Dechuang Garden. High-altitude storms were frozen, completely shrouding this area and forming a translucent barrier around it.

Standing near the barrier was a figure; it was Luo Shan, who was wearing a light green casual dress and had her hair dyed brown. In front of Luo Shan, one strange figure after another emerged from the depths of the darkness, constantly pouncing toward the frozen storms and the translucent barrier, attempting to enter the "residential complex."

Some of those figures were half-human, half-snake, with the upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body of a thick python tail covered in greasy scales; some looked like shrunken humans embedded between an owl's pair of wings, having grown sharp claws; others were young, naked women with long hair, fully displaying their full figures...

Facing the invasion of these strange creatures, Luo Shan took out a relatively thick oil painting brush and quickly drew patterns on the translucent barrier.

What she drew was a sun surrounded by flying birds.

As soon as this simple painting took shape, the sun inside lit up with a golden and brilliant radiance, shining so brightly that those monsters closed their eyes simultaneously.

Immediately following, those flying birds ignited with golden flames, flew out of the translucent barrier, and flew toward different monsters.

Seeing such a scene, Jianna was filled with intense doubt amidst her astonishment:

The current situation was not quite the same as she had anticipated.

Luo Shan seemed to be resisting those strange creatures, not letting them enter the Spirit Realm area corresponding to Dechuang Garden, looking like a guardian.

But the abilities she displayed clearly belonged to a "Painter," which was a gift from that evil god of the "Fantasy Society"!

"Luo Shan should be cooperating with those strange creatures to invade the Spirit Realm corresponding to the residential complex; why is she guarding the barrier instead?

"Moreover, before at Xinhong Residential Complex, I, Lu Mian, Seeing Fu Lan Ka, and Anderson didn't discover any incidents of similar strange creatures invading... Is this the change brought about by Lu Mian formally contacting Mr. 'Fool's' dream image, or does Dechuang Garden itself have a certain uniqueness?" Amidst her doubts, Jianna saw that Luo Shan's defense was quite stable, so she suppressed the idea of providing help and pretended to be like the star spirit bodies of other residents, wandering dazed within the barrier.

Just like that, it lasted until dawn.

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Xinhong Residential Complex, inside the rented apartment.

Seeing Fu Lan Ka, who had woken up early due to worry about Jianna, saw Lu Mian, who had been on night watch, lift a small cage placed on the shoe cabinet onto the dining table. Inside was a gray-white mouse.

—Ludwig's presence had caused mice, cockroaches, and other creatures in this rented apartment to go extinct. Lu Mian and the others, in order to experiment with the effects of the potion drink, had specifically wandered around the residential complex before dark yesterday and finally caught one.

Seeing Fu Lan Ka sat down and saw Lu Mian put on gloves, pull out the mouse that had shrunk into a ball in fear under Ludwig's tiger-like gaze, and feed it that bottle of Sleepless drink.

The mouse only took one sip, and the subsequent drink flooded into its body like a flood, completely ignoring whether it could accommodate so much.

In the blink of an eye, the mouse suddenly expanded, and those gray-white short hairs stood up like a hedgehog, stained with black.

Under its armpits and between its chest and abdomen, flesh and blood squirmed as if new legs and feet were about to grow.

Out of control? This thought flashed through Lu Mian and Seeing Fu Lan Ka's minds simultaneously.

Ludwig opened his mouth in pleasant surprise and swallowed the mutated mouse in one gulp.

Chew, chew, chew, he narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.

"Won't there be a problem eating it like that?" Seeing Fu Lan Ka looked at Ludwig with slight worry.

This food has extraordinary characteristics!

Ludwig answered vaguely:

"There isn't, digestion characteristics, currently, just, storing it up..."

Lu Mian nodded, picked up the empty bottle of Sleepless drink, and said:

"This really is a potion."

Seeing Fu Lan Ka sighed with emotion and said "Hmm":

"Only when similar moments happen do I have the real feeling that this is a dream."

Daily life is too real!

Looking up at the morning sky, Seeing Fu Lan Ka pondered and asked Lu Mian:

"You're going for an interview in the morning, shall we go redeem the lottery ticket together in the afternoon?"

"You go redeem it in the morning." Lu Mian smiled and said before Seeing Fu Lan Ka could voice her question, "But the lottery ticket is with me."

Seeing Fu Lan Ka suddenly realized:

"You mean, the bad luck that makes redeeming the prize difficult, or rather the dream's tendency to reject it, is concentrated on the lottery ticket, not on us?

"Also, if the rejection from the Celestial Worthy could be precisely aimed at us, we would have already been kicked out of the dream.

"Hmm, Anderson and I will go to the lottery center like we're sightseeing without the lottery ticket. When it gets to the step where the lottery ticket needs to be provided, you send it over through the Mirror World, completing the redemption before the rejection event happens?"

"Right, and this is also to verify whether the dream tendency you guessed truly exists. If it does, what are the rules of its operation?" Lu Mian nodded lightly.

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After breakfast, Lu Mian changed into a white shirt and black trousers, took the resume and other materials printed yesterday, and with that lottery ticket, took public transportation to the Technology Building where the Intis Group was located. Seeing Fu Lan Ka drove Anderson and Ludwig to the lottery center.

In front of the Technology Building, Lu Mian looked up at this somewhat old sixteen-story building, mixed in with the white-collar workers going to work, and walked in openly.

His journey was very smooth, and there were no accidents like bus breakdowns or traffic jams due to carrying that lottery ticket—his destination and the lottery center were in opposite directions.

Lu Mian was not in a hurry to go up for the interview. He came to the display board with information about different floors and examined the company composition of this building:

The property rights of this building belonged to the Intis Group. The first to fifth floors were allocated to some subsidiaries of the Intis Group; the sixth to ninth floors were rented to other companies; half of the tenth floor belonged to the Intis Group's headquarters, and half was rented to the "Aurora Company"; the eleventh and twelfth floors were also rented out; the thirteenth to fifteenth floors were other departments of the Intis Group's headquarters; the sixteenth floor was exclusively for Emperor Roselle's dream image, Huang Zong Tao.

"It's indeed the same as what Seeing Fu Lan Ka said; this building has obvious problems... The Intis Group could clearly recall certain departments and subsidiaries to occupy the sixteenth floor exclusively, so why rent out several of the floors? Moreover, the headquarters' administrative department and technical department actually share a floor with the 'Aurora Company'... To use Seeing Fu Lan Ka's words, it's not right; out of ten points, it's twelve points not right..." Lu Mian began to think seriously.

When she got the information about this Technology Building, Seeing Fu Lan Ka felt it was abnormal after just one look:

This was not quite the same as the situation in her impression.

Lu Mian pondered for more than ten seconds and muttered silently:

"Is this a symbol?

"Does this building symbolize the Intis Republic, and certain floors being rented out symbolize the infiltration of evil cults and different forces into the Intis Republic? Is this Mr. 'Fool's' impression of the Intis Republic?"

Lu Mian did not stay too long, withdrew his gaze, and walked into the elevator area.

From time to time, he glanced at the mirror surface formed by metal, waiting for Seeing Fu Lan Ka or Anderson to ring his phone a few times.

As the numbers representing the elevator's floor changed slowly, a person appeared beside Lu Mian.

That was a young to middle-aged man with chestnut-dyed hair who was very handsome and trendy.

Huang Zong? Lu Mian's peripheral vision swept over that figure and recognized the other person's identity.

That was Emperor Roselle's dream image, the boss of the Intis Group, Huang Zong Tao, who often didn't take the exclusive elevator but ran over to squeeze into the elevator with employees!

PS: Thanks to Old Kohler for the Silver Alliance reward for Ludwig~

(End of chapter)