Chapter 858 - 857: Red Moon’s Strange Dream

Chapter 858: Chapter 857: Red Moon’s Strange Dream

Zheng Zhi arrived at an observation tower on the camp’s wall, staring at the vast distorted Forest Sea outside, speechless for a long time.

After a while, he muttered out loud, "...Old World?"

Yu Sheng: "Yes, Old World."

"The other side of the Boundary Land Fault?"

"You could say that."

"...Is the outside a Dark Angel?"

"That’s right, and it’s about to awaken."

"Whoa, damn."

Yu Sheng patted Zheng Zhi’s shoulder, "I thought you’d gotten used to it by now."

A large yellow dog sat on a nearby chair, legs crossed and a cigarette dangling from its mouth, "I’ll bark a few words, it’s really not easy to get used to this, one time more outrageous than the next..."

Yu Sheng couldn’t help but glance at the yellow dog, "...How did it learn to smoke? Won’t smoking kill the dog?"

"I’m a summoning item, can live only three hours each time I come out, doesn’t matter if I take a few drags of nicotine," the yellow dog shook its legs, resting its front paws on the back of its head as it leaned back on the chair, "besides, I haven’t even lit it, not lit means not smoked."

After speaking, it flipped its tongue, swallowing the whole cigarette.

Then the yellow dog let out a satisfied sigh, slowly dissipating into the air.

Yu Sheng’s eye twitched, turning to look at his big nephew still staring into the depths of the forest, "Alright, stop staring. With your physique, you might actually see something. I’m going to sleep, you and Li Lin should rest too. As long as you don’t run around, the camp is safe."

"Hey, got it Brother Yu."

...

The sky over this forest area has no sun, moon, or stars, nor does it have day-night changes, but according to Boundary Land’s standard time, it’s already close to one o’clock at night—after Yu Sheng returned to No. 66 Wutong Road, he quickly washed up and lay down on his bedroom bed.

In the darkness, there was the sound of fabric rubbing, a blond little head pushed up next to Yu Sheng’s pillow, staring over with two bright blue eyes.

"Arranged everything with Big Nephew and Li Lin?"

"Arranged, explained the situation to Baili Qing too, tomorrow morning Li Lin will head back to the Boundary Land himself, Zheng Zhi stays here."

"Oh that’s fine, Big Nephew’s fighting ability is decent now, his spiritual talent might be useful too... as long as he doesn’t run around everywhere."

"The main thing is if he runs or not isn’t always up to him," Yu Sheng said somewhat helplessly, "Anyway, let’s keep it like this for now. With his physique, even in Boundary Land, he falls into the Exotic Realm every so often... yawn."

Yu Sheng let out a big yawn, infecting Erin, who followed with a yawn as well.

"Alright, real-world matters are done, next is the matter of the ’other side’," Yu Sheng gently breathed in and patted the little puppet’s head, "It’s up to you to ’lead the way’... Can you still find that ’dream portal’?"

"Hard to say, I’ll have to try," Erin blinked, "By the way, are you really going to actively go to that place? I thought you were going home for a big sleep."

Yu Sheng glared, "Do I look like someone that carefree? The outside is about to turn upside down..."

Erin: "Well, you usually are quite carefree, not just carefree, you’re broad-minded too~"

Yu Sheng suddenly remembered some unpleasant things, but as he was about to say something, he saw the little puppet before him had already closed its eyes, falling asleep and snoring uniformly.

"Really... fell asleep just like that?"

He murmured in surprise, poking the little head, yet finding the puppet seemed truly asleep.

Honestly, Yu Sheng actually felt a bit envious of the puppet’s sleeping talent at this moment—the household member who technically needs the least sleep has the best sleep quality, who can reason with this...

He shook his head with a smile in the dark, then adjusted his posture, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes.

In the final moment before falling asleep, he still recalled the scene of blood-red moonlight permeating the sky and earth...

Yu Sheng sank into a brief and turbulent darkness, uncertain if it was part of the Dream Realm, but in the ebb and flow of consciousness, he heard many voices surrounding him — sometimes like earth-shattering roars, sometimes like the whispers of many people; he also heard a low hum like some large device starting and the distant sound of bells.

And then light appeared before him—

The surrounding view was initially blurry, barely recognizing a wide and elegantly decorated corridor. A few seconds later, it became clear, showing the corridor’s side with many open pointed doors and windows. Outside them were open terraces and pillars supporting the eaves.

Red moonlight spilled through the windows, illuminating the area, eerie and cold.

Yu Sheng stood in the corridor, slightly bewildered in his heart.

Red moonlight... that’s fine, but why has the scene changed? Where is the town? The church in the town? And what is this place?

Yu Sheng blinked, and vaguely judged from the scale of the corridor before him that this must at least be some kind of palace or castle-level building.

Then he heard a voice coming from afar, a voice somewhat immature, sounding joyful but with a certain mad excitement, rapidly approaching—

"I am the queen of the Dark Moon Royal Court~"

Yu Sheng looked in surprise towards the direction of the voice, hearing the sound of rapid footsteps, clattering like someone was running barefoot on the ground.

"I am the queen of the Dark Moon Royal Court~~"

The owner of the voice finally approached, and Yu Sheng saw a small figure suddenly appear at the end of the corridor.

It was a girl with long black hair, looking about twelve or thirteen years old, wearing what was more like a dirty rag than clothes, her hair down, barefoot, excitedly running all the way from the distance—

"I am the queen of the Dark Moon Royal Court~"

The girl shouted loudly, waving her arms as she ran.

"Everyone listen to my command—kill the moon~ kill the moon~ kill the moon... hehe..."

While shouting she let out a joyful laugh, running until she stopped suddenly two or three meters in front of Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng’s first reaction was that the girl had seen him, but he quickly realized she did nothing more, merely stood there blankly, casting a somewhat confused glance.

Yu Sheng quickly realized—the girl in front of him seemed unable to see him.

But she clearly "felt" something.

Yu Sheng cautiously took half a step forward, waved his hand in front of the girl, confirming his judgment.

Then he carefully observed her face.

Indeed this was the form of Red, just thinner, younger, with a pair of bright big eyes—those eyes were wide open, crystal clear, with pupils faintly red.

In those eyes, Yu Sheng did not see his own reflection.

The black-haired girl, resembling a childhood version of Red, stared blankly at the empty space in the corridor for a while, tilted her head, and then her face suddenly blossomed into a bright smile.

"Wow—ahaha!!"

She shouted and suddenly jumped up, surprisingly hanging upside down like a spider on the corridor ceiling, then scuttled away using both hands and feet at an incredible speed, screaming as she ran.

"I am the queen of the Dark Moon Royal Court~ I am the queen—"

The screams and laughter gradually faded away, leaving only a faint echo in the corridor, with the moonlight filtering through the windows appearing cold and desolate, and then Yu Sheng felt the ground beneath him begin to shake.

The next second, everything in front of him began to collapse and disintegrate, everything instantly falling into boundless darkness, and he saw a few strands of golden thread winding around him, binding his hands and feet and then suddenly pulling upward.

As if abruptly pulled out of water, Yu Sheng felt an electric shock throughout his body, and the next time he opened his eyes, he found himself lying among familiar ruins.

A red moon hung in the sky, moonlight shining on the ground, with the land in the distance slightly rising, the outline of mountains and terrain vague.

Around him were the familiar ruins of the small town, and a blonde head popped in next to him, staring wide-eyed at him.

Yu Sheng blinked, his somewhat muddled mind quickly clearing, then Erin spoke up: "My goodness, you’re finally awake! How could you have a dream that made you lose your mind?!"

Yu Sheng brushed aside the golden hair on his cheek, pushing Erin aside while getting up, asking casually: "Did you drag me over? How long have you been here?"

"I’m not sure... maybe ten minutes? The time in a dream is unpredictable," Erin, now dressed as a female Hunter (167 cm), supported Yu Sheng as he stood up, "And yes, I did drag you over—it took a lot of effort to finally locate this place, but found that your mind was missing, had to hurry back, and fished around the edges of the subconscious for ages before pulling you up, didn’t succeed on the first try..."

Pausing for only a couple of seconds, she continued to chatter: "Hey, Yu Sheng, I suspect that mysterious blindfolded woman got blasted by the Holy Light during the day and couldn’t sleep peacefully at night, causing the dream to shift and connection issues, otherwise with my prowess as an Alice Puppet and Omen Goddess, connecting to an already entered dream would be as easy as..."

"You connected directly to here?" Yu Sheng interrupted the puppet’s chatter, "Didn’t see any other ’scenes’ in between?"

Erin froze: "Other scenes? What do you mean? Did you fall into a hidden room?"

"Hidden..." Yu Sheng was taken aback by the game-addicted puppet’s term but soon found it oddly fitting, "That seems to apply? I did enter a strange dream... There was red moonlight over there too, and I saw a little girl who looked a lot like Red, clearly connected to the Dark Moon Royal Court no doubt..."

Erin slowly widened her eyes: "And then? And then?"

Yu Sheng did not hold back, quickly recounting the "weird dream" he had just experienced to the puppet in front of him, especially the girl who bore an eight- or nine-tenths resemblance to Red having obviously abnormal behavior, and her repeatedly uttered phrases.

"This sounds..." Erin frowned, muttering thoughtfully, "mentally not quite normal."

"I thought so too."