Chapter 998: Psychological Shadow

Dawn Hospital?

Franca and Jenna suddenly had a feeling of being struck by lightning, a tingling sensation rapidly rushing from their tailbones to the back of their heads.

How did they end up at Dawn Hospital?

Is it real or fake?

Franca didn't need to take out a mirror to get an answer through "Mirror Divination"; her spiritual intuition had already told her that this was highly likely the real Dawn Hospital!

Although she didn't understand how she and Jenna, who were sleeping soundly in Room 2303 of Dechuang Garden, had arrived at Dawn Hospital without knowing it, she chose to believe her spiritual intuition.

Jenna had a similar judgment. After giving Franca a look, she stood still, closed her eyes, and quickly entered a meditative state, imagining that she was standing on the edge of a cliff.

The imagined her jumped down, leaping toward the abyss with no visible bottom.

She fell faster and faster, but the darkness didn't shatter, and the event of waking up from the dream didn't happen.

Jenna opened her eyes and shook her head slowly at Franca.

Her meaning was that one couldn't exit the dream city and return to the real world here!

"Hiss... Will the above-ground floors of Dawn Hospital have similar restrictions? I'm afraid this is in the underground area of Dawn Hospital..." Franca instantly had a new speculation.

Her spirit, which was already highly tense, approached its limit even more.

"What's wrong?" Luo Shan was still blank.

Hearing Luo Shan's question, Franca suddenly generated a series of associations:

"Just now, Luo Shan said this was her dream...

"But this is the real Dawn Hospital, and it's not a small probability that it's the underground part of Dawn Hospital...

"Her dream connected to this place, causing Beyonders within a certain range to be transferred here?

"Why can it connect, why can it transfer?

"Wait, according to our previous judgment, every character in the dream city is constructed by the dream's subconscious based on its own cognition and social relationships, Luo Shan is too, and the dream's subconscious is a mixture of Mr. Fool's subconscious and the Celestial Worthy's subconscious; that is to say, Luo Shan is equivalent to a part of the dream's subconscious, equivalent to a differentiation of Mr. Fool's subconscious.

"She generated a psychological shadow due to the stimulation of the fact that the current world is a dream city, which means that the part of the subconscious differentiated by Mr. Fool generated a psychological shadow, and the underground area of Dawn Hospital is where Mr. Fool's psychological shadow gathers and manifests...

"This is linked together. Hmm, the psychological shadow manifested in the underground area of Dawn Hospital shouldn't just originate from Mr. Fool, but also contains the Celestial Worthy's; a more accurate statement is that they originate from the dream's subconscious, and the dream's subconscious is a mixture of Mr. Fool's and the Celestial Worthy's subconscious. Mom, will we encounter the Celestial Worthy's psychological shadow later?

"However, this also has a good side. If we know what the Celestial Worthy's psychological shadow is and can escape alive, then we can infer a way to weaken the Celestial Worthy.

"Hmm... Just having occult similarity and close occult connection isn't enough to make Luo Shan appear out of thin air in the underground area of Dawn Hospital with me and Jenna; it also needs power to push, to utilize...

"Luo Shan heard 'The real can become fake, the fake can become real, The Fool that doesn't belong to this era...' at the very beginning... This shows that she was actually targeted by a certain force, which confirmed the problem, but that force was fishing or waiting for an opportunity before, so it didn't act immediately?

"Zarathustra's group? No, if it were them, Zarathustra would definitely guard against the possibility of Zhou Mingrui being invited to a hotpot restaurant for a meal..."

As Franca's thoughts raced, she didn't dare to waste time on deep thinking and analysis. She deliberated her words and said to Luo Shan:

"This might be the underground part of Dawn Hospital, and it's not something you dreamed up; it's real."

Without waiting for Luo Shan to ask, Franca made up a reason based on her previous guess:

"There is highly likely an enemy hiding in your room or nearby, who took advantage of your sleep to exert influence and used your 'Shaman' world to transfer us here out of thin air."

Luo Shan blinked and said:

"No wonder I was about the same as usual when I started dreaming, and after that, I became clearer and clearer, clearer and clearer...

"Why transfer us to the underground of Dawn Hospital? Is there a big problem here?"

While the two were communicating, Jenna searched through her "Traveler's Bag."

She originally wanted to make a phone call or send a WeChat message to try to call the police or get in touch with Lu Mian, but she and Franca had put their phones next to their pillows before sleeping, not holding them tightly or carrying them with them. Therefore, both of them were now "phone-less."

Jenna took out the last "Ice Mirror Charm" and held it in her palm—she also had another "Ice Mirror Charm" that could be used four times, which Lu Mian had remade for all team members after being kicked out of the dream the day before yesterday.

"I don't know, I only know it's very dangerous here, we must leave as soon as possible." After Franca responded to Luo Shan, she looked forward and backward, "Hmm, hurry and find the elevator lobby, and go up to the first floor through the elevator or stairs."

Luo Shan's spirit also tightened, following Franca's movements, and she looked around.

At this time, Jenna activated the "Ice Mirror Charm" to see if she could leave the current area through a mirror she carried with her.

But after she was enveloped by the charm's light, she discovered that the world behind the mirror was deep and dark, giving her an extremely dangerous feeling.

She didn't dare to pass through the glass mirror surface and enter the mirror world.

"The mirror world also has abnormalities." Jenna raised her head and said to Franca.

While speaking, the "Ice Mirror Charm" in her hand turned into tiny crystalline fragments, quickly drifting away and disappearing.

"Normal." Franca wasn't surprised by this, "In this kind of place, perhaps one can only leave through normal methods and predetermined exits. Let's go find the elevator lobby now."

Luo Shan first said "Hmm," and then remembered her ability, asking with anticipation:

"Do you have pigments and brushes? Pencils or pens are fine too."

"You want to draw a door to go out?" Jenna had a realization.

"Yes." Luo Shan nodded heavily.

Franca frowned slightly:

"Are you sure the door you draw leads to the upper floor or entrance of Dawn Hospital, and not to other areas of the underground section?"

"I can draw the door to my house, so I can return home, but this has a distance limitation. I'm not sure if the distance between Dawn Hospital and Dechuang Garden meets the conditions..." Luo Shan's voice gradually lowered.

Franca quickly made a decision:

"Let's find a realistic exit first, find the elevator lobby first. If we can't find it, or are trapped, then we'll take a risk with the 'door' you draw."

Seeing Jenna nod in agreement, Luo Shan could only temporarily give up the idea of drawing a door to leave.

After giving Luo Shan a fountain pen and a sharpened pencil each, Franca turned her body, half relying on observing the environment and half following the guidance of her spiritual intuition, and walked toward the other end of the corridor.

Not long after, the three saw a door, a pair of wooden doors with glass.

Franca walked at the very front, brought her face close to the glass on the door, and tried to observe the situation behind the door.

But behind the glass was pitch black; even with the "Witch's" dark vision, she couldn't see clearly what was hidden inside.

Franca felt as if she had been blindfolded with a black cloth, rather than losing light due to the corresponding environment.

After doing a simple "Mirror Divination," Franca extended both hands and pushed open the natural-colored double doors.

In front was not an extension of the corridor, but a dimly lit hall, with the same wooden double doors at the end of the hall.

Franca, Jenna, and Luo Shan didn't notice these at first glance, but rather the corpses hanging from the ceiling.

They were swaying gently.

Amidst the swaying, some of the corpses turned halfway, letting Franca and the others see their appearance clearly.

There was the principal of the Dream Tutoring Class, Aina Na, there was Huang Jiajia, and other teachers of the Dream Tutoring Class that Jenna had seen.

"Woo..." Luo Shan instinctively wanted to scream, but was covered by Jenna's hand with quick eyes and fast hands.

"How could this be?" Franca's scalp tingled.

She knew that the dream images of Aina Na and Huang Jiajia were essentially dead, and might have been hung up like the envoy Danitz before, but she never thought they would still be hung up, hung up together, densely packed, like air-dried bacon.

"They are hung here? Then who is outside?

"Isn't it that their corpses obtained 'rebirth' and ran out?

"Lu Mian said that they are also connected in fate..."

Jenna had similar questions, and she thought of a possibility:

"Manifestation of psychological shadow?"

Right, the underground area of Dawn Hospital is where the psychological shadow of the dream's subconscious manifests; Aina Na and Huang Jiajia being hung up to create a psychological shadow and the corpses' "rebirth" and running out can exist and happen in parallel... Franca accepted this explanation and didn't have the idea of delving into the truth right now.

She said to Jenna and Luo Shan:

"Pass through, go to the door opposite."

Luo Shan encountered a similar horrific scene for the first time and had no idea at all, so she could only choose to listen to Franca and Jenna, following them and passing through the place where the hanging corpses were sparser.

There was wind blowing through the hall from time to time, and those corpses swayed and rocked, several times almost brushing against Luo Shan's head.

Luo Shan used all her strength to keep herself from making an overreaction.

Finally, they "squeezed" through the hanging corpses and arrived at the wooden double doors representing the exit.

After going through the process and getting the same result as before, Franca extended both hands again and pushed open the doors.

In front was a corridor, a corridor with extremely dim light.

A blurry figure stood at the end of the corridor.

Franca and the others raised their vigilance at the same time, carefully passed through the wooden doors, and entered that corridor.

The scene before their eyes then became clear.

They saw that blurry figure clearly:

It was a giant mushroom two meters tall!

The top of the giant mushroom was blood-red, mixed with white patterns, and its body was composed of countless small mushrooms of the same kind. Their patterns together depicted a handsome yet strange face, and long arms extended from both sides, connected by mushrooms of the same style.

Slap!

The wooden double doors behind Franca, Jenna, and Luo Shan closed.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 999 =====