Chapter 2683: Cat and Unicorn

Flora Winslett hugged him just as tightly. As soft sobbing sounds came, tears quickly soaked Xia De's chest.

He understood Flora's emotions at this moment very well; even when he woke up in the lake just now, the sense of loss and confusion had been equally intense.

It was just that he had woken up in reality, and the memories of the dream had already left him; whereas Flora was waking up in this dream, where a happy life was clearly by her side but had already revealed its falseness, which was why her reaction was so great.

"I know now that all of this is fake, but, but..."

"Flora, the dream is fake, but you and I are both real."

She heard him still calling her by her first name rather than her surname, so she gently pushed Xia De away and looked at him again with teary eyes. After confirming something from his eyes, she asked:

"Our experiences here are all fake. I know this is fake, but my feelings for you..."

Xia De leaned down and kissed her. Flora, with wide eyes, closed them after a moment and then responded to this kiss that tasted of tears... Now she was at ease.

The two separated, and Xia De raised his hand to wipe away her tears with his sleeve:

"Can we leave now?"

"I understand. Let's leave now."

"Yes, everyone is waiting for us."

But she did not let go of Xia De immediately:

"I want to make myself remember this place. I don't want to forget all the experiences here."

"You'd better forget. This place is..."

Seeing that she seemed to want to cry again, Xia De explained:

"What's the point of fake memories and experiences? Once we return to reality, we can recreate those memories."

As he said this, he took her hand again. Flora Winslett pulled her hand away, then turned her head to wipe her eyes again; even in a fake dream, she still cared very much about her image:

"Don't say those things, don't say them, Xia De... You brought people to save us, right? So how do we get out?"

"It wasn't me who brought people to save us; it was Miss Danister and Little Mia who took the initiative to save us, and the hermits also gave hints. However, I don't know how to get out either. I suppose we have to wait for Yin Luna to pull us from the lake to the surface."

"That Chosen One came again... So we are in the lake, are we?"

She let Xia De leave the house first, and she changed out of her nightgown before walking out of the wooden house to look at the star-filled sky without a moon with Xia De. But after looking for only a while, she turned her head to look at the wooden house behind her, as well as the fields, swings, and the chicken coop they were planning to install this spring beside the house.

The land had already been leveled. If life could continue here, this would be a true home.

The sentimental witch wanted to take one last careful look at this house, and as she truly realized the falseness of this place, the many unreasonable aspects of the past also appeared.

For example, those few people they found are still lying in the small wooden cabin behind the house; for example, even though both of them are powerful Ringed Shushi, their life here most of the time is just like that of ordinary people, relying purely on the strength of their own hands.

Thinking about it, she also realized that she had forgotten her identity as a witch for a long time. Plus, Xia De would not trigger the witch's curse at all, so if they had "woken up" a few days later, then what happened at night might not have been as simple as two single beds pushed together.

Thinking of this, she blushed and then quietly looked at Xia De with her peripheral vision. But she did not notice that as her distracting thoughts about certain things appeared, a black vortex slowly formed at the bottom of the center of the "Love Lake" under the starlight.

Even Xia De did not realize this, because he suddenly heard a "Meow~" sound. Subconsciously looking up, he was covered in the face by a cat falling from the sky.

The outlander subconsciously thought he had encountered something like a "face-hugger," but realized it was Little Mia who had come in the witch's laughter.

He was certain that this cat was not a cat created by the environment. After the warm cat was removed from Xia De's face, it meowed at the witch, and then let out a "Meow-woo" sound toward the great lake.

"Why did you come here?"

Xia De asked Little Mia, but since he had handed the cat and the 【Staff of Yggdrasil】 to Luweiya on the shore, he guessed the problems that might be encountered in this rescue.

Now it seemed that the thing he was most worried about might have truly happened.

Boom!

An abrupt loud noise interrupted Xia De's train of thought, and then the two people and one cat all saw a massive water column suddenly rise from the center of the great lake. Above that water column, a black figure exuding extreme malice looked at the two people on the shore, and then Xia De saw that it was the image of a mermaid.

But this was definitely not "Desire." Although the other party looked very strong, it hadn't reached the level of an Unknowable-level relic. What's more, the image the other party displayed was a very standard "mermaid" image, but Xia De was certain that the true form of "Desire" could absolutely not be this normal.

"Is it just a shadow?"

He guessed in his heart, and the witch, who also felt the malice, said:

"We don't need to fight it here; this is the world of dreams... Ride on me and run; I want to carry you and run here one last time."

Her body lunged forward, and as she landed, a white unicorn exuding holy white light appeared. She turned around wanting to rub against Xia De, and was immediately squeezed away by another thing of similar size.

"Oh, who is so rude?!"

The unicorn lady complained immediately, and turning her body, she was surprised to see a fluffy, glowing "golden lion" rubbing against Xia De's hand.

More accurately, the giant Little Mia's body was wearing a set of golden lion armor exuding holy golden light. The armor size was extremely fit to the cat's fur, and the cat's tail poked out, swinging with the chains around the armor.

Golden light like the sun was emitted from both the armor and the cat at the same time. The cat's amber eyes turned golden. The weak and cute Little Mia, after growing to the size of a lion, had a sense of holiness, power, and majesty that made the unicorn think she was dreaming in a dream again.

But she was certain she hadn't fallen into a deeper dream, because the light on the "golden lion" was so warm that even her cold soul felt the temperature again. This warmth was like the sun, holy but impossible to look at directly, at least not for anyone other than Xia De.

And Xia De was looking at the "big cat" rubbing against him with a melancholy face:

"Mia, you evolved incorrectly again."

Of course, the cat at this time did not acquire the power of the Battle of Moon Bay again, because the "golden lion armor" was still at home, and the cat did not swallow the Philosopher's Stone, so it did not meet the basic requirements for "cat evolution."

It should just be that after the Battle of Moon Bay, it thought that this majestic appearance was the power it possessed in daily life, so it transformed into this appearance again when it entered the dream.

"Is this your cat?"

The unicorn on the side asked incredulously:

"Wait a minute, you never told me that this cat of yours named Little Mia is..."

And then they saw the cat open its mouth and "Meow-woo" at the water column rising in the center of the lake.

Golden light gathered in the opened mouth, then turned into a dazzling light cannon, evaporating the black shadow and most of the Love Lake in one blow. The golden light of the sun pierced through the night, leaving long-lasting light marks. Xia De and the unicorn lady even felt the ambient temperature rise by several degrees.

The great lake in the dream under the sea of stars returned to calm, and the malice just now vanished without a trace. If it weren't for the water level of Love Lake dropping by several meters, no one could be sure that there had really been danger just now.

"Is this your cat?"

The witch asked again. Xia De did not say anything like "This is the client's cat," but gently raised his hand to touch Little Mia's big head:

"I can answer your other questions, but as for the question about Mia, I really can't answer it. I can only tell you that this cat has the bloodline of the 'Son of the Sun' as rumored."

"Meow~"

Seeing Xia De standing there talking to the unicorn and ignoring it, Little Mia squeezed the unicorn aside with its butt again, and then nudged Xia De with its head. For the "owl" that could grow big and small like itself, Little Mia probably really determined that the other party was of the same kind.

Xia De understood what it meant, so he climbed onto its back. The cat meowed excitedly a few more times, then ran forward, and suddenly took off, its four paws stepping on the air and flying into the night sky.

"Wait for me! Also, even if this is a dream, why can a cat fly?"

The unicorn lady spread her wings and ran for a few steps, then flew into the night sky. The cat frolicking in the air did not fly fast, and she easily caught up with them:

"Really."

The unicorn lady complained:

"I admit that I have to compete with others when I am a lover; after all, Miss Jia Lin Na knew you last summer. But I have to compete even when I am a pet or a mount. Is the pressure of being by your side too great?"

"Don't think of yourself as a pet or a mount; you are not an owl," Xia De, who was lying on Mia's back to prevent being thrown off, reminded her. But the unicorn lady was still quite angry that she couldn't even compete with a cat.

Just now she was squeezed aside by Little Mia, so now flying in the air, she also bumped into the golden big cat wearing armor. And the flying cat not only didn't feel angry, but thought this was a peer playing with it, so the pure white and golden four-hoofed flying beast "frolicked" by squeezing each other under the star-filled sky without a moon.

Although it was somewhat inappropriate to say so, this untimely frolicking made Flora temporarily forget this dream, forget that they were about to leave this simple happiness forever. ===== CHAPTER 2684 =====

Although it is inappropriate to say so, this untimely frolicking made Flora temporarily forget this dream, and forget that they were about to leave this simple happiness forever.