NOVPUB"Mushroom, think about it. If this is really a dream, wouldn’t the correct approach be to throw you into a new environment, hide some of your memories, so you wouldn’t even realize you’re dreaming? Wouldn’t that be more trouble-free?"
Upon hearing Xia Feng’s words, Mushroom was stunned.
"Doesn’t that make sense?"
"I...." Mushroom opened her mouth, her bewildered eyes fluttering. No, that’s not right—what if the instrument can’t hide my memories?
But that’s not right either! If it can’t even hide them, then this instrument is too useless.... The more she thought, the deeper Mushroom’s frown became. She felt like her head was about to explode!
Seeing Mushroom’s troubled expression, Xia Feng grew anxious for her and said helplessly, "Don’t think too much, this is reality..."
"I....." Mushroom suddenly realized she might have been overthinking, but she was still afraid that she was indeed in a dream.
She lowered her head in frustration.
"Have you thought it through?"
"I, I don’t know anymore.... I can’t tell the difference...."
Xia Feng: "..."
Mushroom’s state oddly reminded Xia Feng of a thought experiment called ’brain in a vat.’
The experiment imagined a scenario in which a person’s brain was placed in a vat full of nutrient solution, connected through neural connections to a supercomputer. The computer transmitted information according to pre-set programs, giving the brain a completely realistic sensory experience in the perfect, bug-free world simulated by the supercomputer.
Then how could this person distinguish whether they were in the vat or in reality?
The answer was naturally—
Indistinguishable, an unprovable hypothesis.
So, since it cannot be distinguished, why bother distiguishing? Xia Feng realized that sometimes it truly isn’t necessary to ponder so much. He suddenly reversed his sword to his neck, and with a faint smile said,
"Back to the essence of the problem, Little Mushroom, you wouldn’t want me to die, would you?"
"!" Mushroom’s pupils dilated.
Seeing that Xia Feng’s neck was slightly bleeding from the light touch of the blade, her heart almost leapt out, her face turning deathly pale, and she instantly understood everything.
Yes, even if the odds that this place was a dream were as high as 99%, with Xia Feng being fake, she couldn’t gamble on that remaining 1%.
So there was no need to overthink, let alone consider the consequences! She hurriedly shouted, "Okay, okay, okay! I admit it, I admit Yue Hongli is my mother, is that not enough?!"
"!" Prince, who had been impatiently waiting to press the red button, hadn’t expected Mushroom to capitulate just from Xia Feng brandishing the knife?!
He was instantly overjoyed, delirious with happiness, his face breaking into a beaming smile!
Excellent, excellent, Xia Feng, well done! Prince’s lips curved into a wide smile as he looked towards the woman in red.
Xia Feng was startled and turned to look as well.
The woman in red slightly lifted her fair chin, and the black ribbon on her glowing nose started to unravel. Whoosh—In an instant, it turned into streams of dark energy that burst forth in all directions!
At the same time, the entire space began to visibly distort, as if the air had gained substance and weight, suffocating the breath from everyone present.
"Humming——"
As the waves surged, the dust-free immortal red dress fluttered in the wind, and her wild hair danced. Between the woman’s slightly closed eyes, strands of gold light spilled out.
In the crystal coffin, the woman dressed in the Divine Phoenix immortal dress also had gold light spilling from beneath her closed eyelids. Her hands joined together, her radiant celestial beauty facing the woman in red who lifted her head in the distance. Swish—
Both women abruptly opened their eyes, their gazes filled with golden light. Before Xia Feng and the others could make sense of what was happening, the woman in red disintegrated into fine particles of red light which drifted towards the crystal coffin.
They vanished into the eyes of the immortal dress woman.
At the same time, a dark gold cross symbol ☩ emerged on the brow, which then morphed into a dark black ※ sign. The symbol twisted and shifted between light and shadow, making the woman’s delicate face seem holy yet imbued with an alluring and sinister charm.
Witnessing this scene, the Prince’s breathing became increasingly rapid. He shivered, his hands trembling, as he stepped through the layers of invisible air waves, approaching the ice-blue glass coffin, obsessively gazing at the woman inside.
Suddenly thinking of something, he jerked his head around to look at Xia Feng behind him, grinning, "I see, I suddenly understand what you want to do!"
"Ah?"
"When the Princess awakens and opens her eyes filled with golden light, once the light fades, the first human she notices will be recognized as her master and serve at their disposal."
The Prince looked at Xia Feng thoughtfully, "No wonder you suddenly changed your attitude. Are you looking for an opportunity to compete with me for the Princess?"
As he said this, he let out a ’heh’ and chuckled lightly, waving his hand at will. The Infinite Field barrier instantly turned from transparent to black, cutting off Xia Feng’s line of sight from the outside.
The Princess also could not see the outside world.
Just to be on the safe side, the Prince rotated Mushroom’s cabin so that the Princess could not see Mushroom either.
With this, there would be no fail! The Prince returned to the front of the glass coffin with a reassured and expectant gaze.
Xia Feng stood outside the barrier, the corner of his eye twitching slightly. This Prince really is cautious, but it’s useless.
When the Prince revealed the method of recognizing a master, Xia Feng understood everything.
The first person the Princess notices upon waking will be recognized as her master... He had actually experienced this already.
It was... during the second dream!
The first dream was when he was chased by a horde of zombies to the outside of Ping Shan Hospital, and the second dream was when he entered Ping Shan Hospital and saw the woman trapped in the glass case.
He still clearly remembered the conversation in the dream.
"Are you my unborn wife?"
"Ah? I have a husband."
The woman’s eyes were indeed filled with golden light at the time, and when he approached, the gold receded, revealing a pair of rose-red pupils, looking at him with shock and curiosity.
Probably it was then that she recognized her master, but she wasn’t born yet, and the birth ritual was incomplete, so he received no information.
But this was very strange.
The fact that the woman could bypass the birth ritual and directly meet people in dreams to recognize a master... was outrageous!
The Prince would probably never imagine that the birth ritual was not a necessary condition for the master recognition ceremony, but a sufficient condition; recognition could be completed without birth...
If the Prince knew this, he would split open.
The only two things still baffling Xia Feng were, why was it him? And how did the Princess do it?
After all, the state of the Princess in his dreams also looked confused, not knowing what had happened.
Just as Xia Feng’s thoughts flashed by, information emerged in his mind.
[Imaginary Number Curse lifted, Existence Power gains ’world’ recognition——]
[Linkage: 100%]
"Boom!!!!"
The pitch-black Infinite Field shattered, a terrifying pillar of golden light melted the rooftop and shot straight into the sky.
As space twisted, Xia Feng saw the scene inside.
The ice-blue glass pavilion gradually dissolved, and a woman dressed in the Divine Phoenix immortal dress with flowing ink-black hair, was placed within the pale golden light column.
But the golden glow in her eyes quietly dissipated, revealing rose-red, fox-like gleaming eyes, curiously blinking as she gazed at this world.
The Prince walked forward with a grin, suppressing his joy. His figure entered the woman’s eyes, but she just tilted her head lightly, seemingly puzzled, her gaze beginning to wander.
