Chapter 987

Hearing Luo Shan's question, Jenna was stunned for a moment:

Why ask such a question suddenly?

How could she suddenly feel that this is a dream?

How did she know? Who told her?

After Jenna came back to her senses, she deliberated and asked back:

"What dream?"

Luo Shan looked at her for several seconds:

"The 'Reporter' has an ability to observe the truth, to observe different scenes within a certain area, it's just that it can't be maintained for too long. I've often used it recently to determine if there's anyone hiding in the house or if there are traps.

"After coming back at night, I used it once and saw you and Luo Fu communicating, and heard Luo Fu ask about being kicked out of the dream."

So it can be like this... So this is observing the truth... Jenna's first reaction was "Don't panic, I'll make up an excuse for you on the spot," but after seeing Luo Shan's eyes, which contained deep sadness, confusion, and pain, she closed her mouth and remained silent.

Luo Shan paused and said:

"So, Luo Fu becoming like another person last time was because the consciousness from outside the dream was kicked out?

"So... is this really a dream?"

Jenna remained silent for several seconds, her tone also becoming low:

"This is Zhou Mingrui's dream."

Luo Shan opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything. Her expression gradually became hollow.

Jenna continued:

"Some people want Zhou Mingrui to continue sleeping until the apocalypse arrives, and some people want to wake Zhou Mingrui up and let him lead everyone to fight against the apocalypse."

While saying these words, Jenna felt heartache for Luo Shan while keeping her spirit highly concentrated, waiting for the possible dream rejection.

She had almost spoken the essence of the matter.

With Lu Mian already kicked out of the dream, Franca suffering from illness, and the police department highly valuing the vicious case of Zarathustra being shot and killed, Jenna hadn't prepared for further experiments.

And even if she were to do experiments, the target would be Peng Deng or Zhou Mingrui. It was unlikely she would reveal the truth to Luo Shan now. That had to be done step by step, laying the groundwork slowly.

No one would accept that they are fake, that their existence is meaningless. This would bring unpredictable stimulation to Luo Shan. Jenna found it hard to imagine what kind of changes this would cause in Luo Shan.

Compared to this, her being kicked out of the dream didn't count as a particularly serious problem at all. Anyway, she could enter again.

Of course, it would be best not to be kicked out, otherwise, relying on the sick Franca might not be enough to control Lu Mianna and keep the latter from secretly going to Mushu Hospital.

Luo Shan's lips began to quiver, and it took a long while before she said shakily:

"So, I'm just an illusory image in someone else's dream?"

Without waiting for Jenna to respond, Luo Shan raised her hand to touch her face and shook her head violently:

"I don't believe it... I don't believe it... I don't believe it! This isn't a dream, and I'm not fake!"

At this moment, Jenna wanted to instigate the other party to shift their attention, to instigate the other party to find new meaning, but when the words reached her lips, they couldn't turn into sentences no matter what.

Luo Shan shouted for a while and finally returned to quiet.

She looked at Jenna again and said:

"Every time, every time I observe the truth, I see gray-white mist. Every scene has it. What, what are these?"

Jenna hesitated for a moment and said:

"Maybe, maybe it's the boundary of the dream."

Luo Shan fell silent once again, staring fixedly at Jenna's eyes as if grasping at the last straw.

She slowly lowered her head, and while turning her body, she muttered to herself:

"No, it's not like this... I don't believe it...

"I don't believe it..."

She turned her back completely to Jenna, facing the translucent barrier and the monsters hidden in the deep black outside the barrier alone.

…………

Trier, beside the Selenzo River, inside a cafe with outdoor seating.

Lu Mian wore sunglasses, had his hair draped down, bathed in the bright sunshine, held a cup of Intis coffee, and looked at the wide river surface, the classical buildings on the opposite bank, the steel ships spewing steam, the prosperous and bustling river island, and the airships passing by from time to time with his thoughts drifting, enjoying the rare leisure.

He didn't have anything that needed to be done for the time being.

He originally wanted to take advantage of returning to the real world to go to Bansy Island to find a special scene that could allow the corpse oil candle to exert its maximum effect, but after much consideration, he gave up this plan:

Bansy Harbor had uncertain risks. If it caused him to be trapped there and unable to enter Mr. "Fool's" true dream, or if he died directly, it would significantly affect the subsequent advancement of the awakening plan.

Lu Mian could distinguish which of these two things was more important.

He had also considered whether to go to New White Bai Yin City, enter the underground, borrow the "Gift of the Land," a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact, and bring it into the dream city to enhance the team's strength. Anyway, for him, sleeping anywhere could allow him to return to Mr. "Fool's" dream with the help of the lucky gold coin, and New White Bai Yin City was also a safe place.

In the end, Lu Mian prioritized caution and didn't make this risky attempt.

He had Omebella's bloodline on him, the dream city had Green and other "Great Mother" blessed ones who regarded him as the "Great Mother's" child, and the underground of Mushu Hospital also hid the "Great Mother's" influence and erosion on the dream city. If he added the "Gift of the Land" transformed from the true Omebella corpse, Lu Mian didn't dare to imagine what kind of problems would arise.

He was worried that as soon as he brought the "Gift of the Land" into the dream city, he would discover that his dream image had appeared on the negative first floor of Mushu Hospital, and then the "Gift of the Land" would merge with his body, allowing Omebella to be completely reborn.

And such an Omebella might be able to withstand the "Great Mother's" descent.

He couldn't do this, and he couldn't do that, so Lu Mian had to give himself a day off. As for making a new "Ice Mirror Charm," he had to wait a bit longer because his bad luck hadn't completely dissipated yet.

Yes, although he had used the "Ring-in-the-Ring" within the dream city, after returning to reality, he still bore the negative effect of bad luck.

Correspondingly, the "Ring-in-the-Ring" effect of his "Ring of Binding" could only be used seven more times, and using the "Ring-in-the-Ring" twice had caused his bad luck to stack to six hours, and it didn't occur immediately.

—The types of "Ring-in-the-Ring" he used on Zarathustra's mirror projection and the historical void image were different. One was to make the scene reappear, and the other was to fix the position.

"The essence of the negative effect reflecting into reality is that using Beyonder items in the dream will cause the Beyonder items in reality to also be triggered, and thus the corresponding negative effect is also produced?" Lu Mian sipped his coffee, letting his body and spirit relax.

He remarked silently:

"Stealing half a day of leisure from a floating life..."

After a while, Lu Mian gazed at the gently rippling, still quite clean water surface, breathing the cool breeze blowing from the river, and thought naturally:

"Will that other 'me' also be spacing out like this now?"

He had thought about the problem of the identity conflict of the corresponding image after he was kicked out of the dream as a female, but he didn't remind Jenna and Franca, only telling them to be careful of the influence brought by Omebella's bloodline.

He felt that this situation might allow some of Aurora's traits to gradually wake up in his dream self.

…………

Eight o'clock in the morning, Dechuang Garden.

Franca had just woken up muddledly when she saw Lu Mianna standing in front of the bay window, looking at the already brilliant sunshine outside, not knowing what she was thinking.

After resting for a night, Franca's illness had improved quite a bit, and she was no longer weak all over, to the point where even walking was a problem.

"What, what are you looking at?" She probed and asked Lu Mianna.

Lu Mianna didn't turn her head, her tone sounding slightly ethereal:

"I really want to go out for a walk. It's not too hot at this time."

"Wait until the storm passes," Franca suggested. "How about we play computer games?"

"What games?" Lu Mianna turned her body back.

"..." Franca suddenly fell silent.

There's no computer, what computer games are there to play?

There's even less of a console!

Every penny they had had to be saved to prepare for renting useful items or completing key tasks at the Star Dream Grocery Store when necessary. In daily life, non-essential expenses were always saved whenever possible.

"Mobile games then..." As she spoke, Franca stopped again.

What games could be played on this mobile phone worth a few hundred dollars without lagging?

"Let's play Fight the Landlord!" She had no choice but to say so.

At this moment, Jenna walked in and helped her to the bathroom to wash up.

After closing the bathroom door, Jenna paid attention to the movements outside while fearing that Lu Mianna would suddenly run out, and lowered her voice, telling Franca about Luo Shan's matter.

Franca sat on the toilet, her mouth half-open, and she was completely stunned.

After hearing Jenna finish, she sighed and lamented:

"We still don't have enough understanding of the 'Reporter' Sequence's abilities..."

She understood Luo Shan's current feelings very well. If an authoritative person told her that the life she had lived since crossing over was fake, her past was also fake, and she was just an illusory character existing in a dream, then she would definitely suffer a huge blow. Not collapsing on the spot was already considered quite good.

Even if she had thought about using Luo Shan to wake up Mr. "Fool," the hope Franca had before was to use fabricated stories to persuade her, not to tell the other party the truth.

Some truths are best never known.

That represents despair.

Franca pondered for a while and said as if grasping at straws:

"Can we find an excuse to round it back? Not saying that I'm telling her you were lying, but designing some things so that everyone 'discovers' that the dream theory was also just a layer of camouflage, not the final truth. I feel Luo Shan can accept such a development. People will deceive themselves about certain things. Doesn't she keep saying she doesn't believe this is a dream?

"And, we can't produce enough powerful evidence to prove this is a dream!"

Jenna fell silent for a moment and said:

"We can only handle it like this for now. During this period, we have to find Anthony to think of a way to soothe Luo Shan, or let him provide treatment directly."

Franca nodded gently, suddenly showing a thoughtful expression.

She looked at Jenna and said slowly:

"According to our previous hypothesis, Luo Shan is a dream character shaped by Mr. 'Fool's' subconscious, combined with the corresponding image in his memory. Broadly speaking, she is equivalent to a part of Mr. 'Fool.'

"After she heard the truth about the dream, the dream city didn't have any abnormalities, and you weren't kicked out of the dream..."

(End of chapter)