NOVPUB"We’re back?"
Having jumped into the coffin, Song Bing originally thought he was certainly doomed. Unexpectedly, after jumping into the coffin, a jolt surged through him, and he immediately woke up.
Song Bing found himself still sitting in the seat of the train car, as if he had never moved at all.
The lights in the train car were not broken, and the people around were all looking at them with strange gazes.
To the onlookers, it seemed like they had just fallen asleep, mumbling something in their sleep.
"Is the stress of young people’s lives so great these days? To fall asleep on the train like this."
"Isn’t it just so? He was even snoring a moment ago, snoring louder than my husband at home. I wonder what they do at school everyday. Is their stress really that severe?"
"Look, there are still two young people over there who haven’t woken up yet. They really can sleep."
Hearing what the people around said, Song Bing turned his gaze toward Zou Hang and Tang Ke, who were sitting beside him.
Indeed, the two of them had not yet awakened and were both sporting painful expressions.
Seeing this, Song Bing immediately reached out to push them.
"Tang Ke, wake up, stop sleeping. Zou Hang, don’t scare me, alright? Wake up quickly, now is not the time to sleep."
No matter how Song Bing pushed, the two seated individuals showed no intention of waking up.
A sense of dread filled Song Bing’s heart, and he immediately realized something was wrong.
"Wu Bin, what’s wrong with them? Why haven’t they woken up yet?"
Wu Bin didn’t speak but looked toward Zhu Ling.
Zhu Ling spoke indifferently: "Although we were just dreaming, we still need to follow rules in the dream."
"To put it plainly, if we die in the dream, then even if the opponent hasn’t caused any physical damage to our bodies, death still awaits us."
"Or, in terms of modern medicine, it’s called being in a vegetative state."
Upon hearing this, Song Bing was completely stupefied.
He hadn’t expected that just a brief dream would leave Tang Ke and Zou Hang in vegetative states, never able to wake up again.
"No, they can’t become vegetative. They have nothing to do with us. How can they become vegetative because of us? Doctor, I need to find a doctor!"
Unable to accept this reality, Song Bing immediately got up to find the train conductor, while also asking the conductor to find a doctor on the train to attend to the two.
Seeing how anxious Song Bing was, Wu Bin didn’t speak out to stop him.
Wu Bin understood how Song Bing was feeling at the moment.
After all, Tang Ke and Zou Hang had just met them today, and regardless of who the others were, they shouldn’t have been dragged down with them.
Even if Song Bing somewhat disliked the two, they were still fellow townspeople. If the two really became vegetative due to the wrong entrance into the dream, Song Bing would never forgive himself in his whole life.
He Bingbing didn’t understand what Zhu Ling was talking about regarding the dream, but she could vaguely feel that Wu Bin and Zhu Ling seemed to be hiding something.
He Bingbing asked, "Was the dream we just had real? Could we actually share the same dream and then have that dream affect other people’s life and death?"
Wu Bin also knew that he couldn’t keep this a secret anymore, and he could only say to He Bingbing, "Bingbing, the world is not as safe as it appears."
"Remember the time at the film crew? That actress really encountered a ghost, and she really wanted to kill me. If Wang Xing hadn’t arrived in time, I would have been dead by now."
"Similarly, the dream we just had was not just a dream."
"You can think of it as someone trying to harm us, so they used this method to drag us into a dream to kill us. We just managed to escape, so we avoided that disaster, but they were implicated, so..."
Wu Bin didn’t continue his words, but He Bingbing had already understood.
He Bingbing covered her mouth, somewhat in disbelief.
Although she had found the whole affair odd from the beginning, she didn’t expect it to be so absurd, far beyond her common sense.
"Is it really possible for someone to do all this? To drag people into a dream and kill them?"
Even though these words came from Wu Bin’s mouth, He Bingbing was still confused and unsure whether she should believe it or not.
Wu Bin knew He Bingbing needed time to accept all this, so he didn’t rush her and instead continued communicating with Zhu Ling.
"Do you know who is trying to harm us?"
Zhu Ling thought for a while, then responded, "Having the ability to manipulate dreams to achieve one’s goals and cause serious harm to people in the dreams, I’ve thought it over and it must be the Dream Tapir that can do this."
Wu Bin asked doubtfully, "Dream Tapir? What’s that? Is it also from the Dragon Clan?"
Zhu Ling shook her head and said, "The Dream Tapir is not purely from the Dragon Clan, but it does have the bloodline of the Dragon Clan, belonging to a sub-dragon. Yet its abilities are among the top in the sub-dragons."
"It is said that they feed on dreams and can enhance their power by devouring human dreams. If the dream we just had was constructed by a Dream Tapir, then it makes sense."
"After all, creating dreams is not an easy task; it requires a lot of energy. If this energy is spiritual power, then the spiritual power required is enormous, which ordinary monsters or members of the Dragon Clan simply cannot afford."
"But if they consume dreams, such consumption is nothing for the Dream Tapir. After all, it can devour many people’s dreams every night, so as long as it has time, the Dream Tapir can completely grow into the most powerful sub-dragon by devouring dreams!"
Wu Bin finally understood.
Other pure Dragon Clan members, due to the scarcity of spiritual power, could only develop sneakily and slowly recover.
But this Dream Tapir is different. Without needing spiritual power, in this era, it is as easy and comfortable as a fish in water.
But Wu Bin still couldn’t understand something.
"We haven’t provoked the Dream Tapir before, so why is it targeting us?"
Zhu Ling gave Wu Bin a look and said, "Why else if not because you have the Phoenix Bloodline? The bloodline of higher beings is fatally attractive to lower beings."
"If the Dream Tapir could devour your dreams and take over your body and spirit, then its power could at least advance to the next level, and it might even break through its limits and transform into a new species."
"It’s just that you are now like the meat of Tang Ke; you are a delicacy that everyone would want a bite of."
Hearing this, Wu Bin’s face darkened.
He had never imagined that without doing anything, he had become the meat of Tang Ke.
Being Tang Ke is not something good, after all, he didn’t have Sun Wukong to guard him!
