Chapter 96

Chapter 96: Dream Eater

The conversation ended.

Ye Qiyan also gradually began to feel sleepy, returned to the warm carriage, and lay down on the comfortable large bed, closing his eyes.

He did not notice that outside the window, black jellyfish-like creatures floating in the distance were chasing the Train.

A look of fear appeared on the face of the Sunny Doll hanging at the front of the Train.

The system’s Light Screen quietly appeared.

There was no broadcast prompt.

It was as if all sounds had been cut off.

A line of text simply appeared on the Light Screen.

[The Dream Eater parade begins, you will enter a beautiful dream]

[Perhaps you will wake up, perhaps… even knowing truth from falsehood, you will sink into it.]

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“Mn…”

Headache.

Tinnitus frequently rang in his ears.

Ye Qiyan rubbed his eyes, and the scenery in front of his vision gradually cleared up from being blurry.

Outside the window, waves of police sirens were endless.

“What place is this? Wasn’t I on the Train… Mn…”

His memory was somewhat hazy.

Ye Qiyan subconsciously reached out and swiped in mid-air.

There was nothing.

“What am I doing?”

He yawned, stretched, and walked to the kitchen to prepare a meal.

He cracked an egg, made a pancake, washed his face, and brushed his teeth in his usual orderly routine.

Looking at himself in the mirror who seemed to be only in his early teens, he scratched his head in confusion.

“Huh? How old am I this year again?”

Why couldn’t he remember?

He patted his head, and the symptoms of tinnitus were getting more and more severe.

“Forget it, let’s eat first.”

Sitting at the dining table, he picked up a fried egg, and his sight suddenly lingered on a box.

“What is this?”

Inside the box were four cards.

One of them was dark golden, and a person holding an anchor seemed to have their mouth open saying something.

He rubbed his eyes, and everything seemed to be just his hallucination again.

“It seems like a prize from some game? Oh right, it should be like this, right? I must be muddled from sleeping, how could the characters in the cards move?”

The sweeping robot under his feet gently bumped against his trouser leg.

“Huh? Is it broken?”

He walked around the sweeping robot.

He took out a pure white fruit from the refrigerator and took a bite.

“What was this fruit called again? It’s really delicious, I’ll go buy some more later.”

“What was I going to do today again?”

What did he do yesterday?

Drinking? It seemed he was drunk?

Right, hangover cure.

Rummaging through boxes and cabinets, at the very bottom layer of the cabinet, he found a crystal emitting a faint glow.

“This is the hangover cure.”

Ye Qiyan didn’t know why he was so certain of this.

He took a deep breath to slightly ease his uncomfortable Mental Power, opened his mouth, and bit down.

The crystal shattered.

The tinnitus sound disappeared.

Memories traced back, and that headache feeling vanished without a trace.

“Hoo!”

Opening his eyes, the feeling of being pressed by a ghost was truly making him uncomfortable.

“What was that just now?”

He got up from the bed.

He suddenly discovered that the blasphemy card and the other three card sequences were quietly floating in mid-air.

And the sweeping robot in his dream was precisely Wall-E staying by the bedside at this moment.

Looking at the small robot’s worried expression, Ye Qiyan reached out and patted its head.

“I’m fine, rest assured.”

After soothing Wall-E, he got up from the bed and looked outside the Train window.

Dreamlike creatures resembling jellyfish surrounded the Train on all sides.

Under the dark night, it was actually dyed with mysterious colors by them.

“The sentry didn’t trigger? In other words, are these not hostile creatures? What on earth is this?”

That dream just now was still fresh in his memory.

That was his former home, except the things inside were completely materialized versions of the things he had inside this Train.

Then, the hangover cure?

“Phantom Dream Crystal…”

The material obtained from the giant back then in the Platform that had Don Quixote.

He didn’t expect it to actually play a role today.

He went up to the roof of the Train.

Those jellyfish-like lives didn’t show any fear, but instead approached it a bit closer.

He reached out to touch them.

The Train’s system Light Screen simultaneously opened for verification.

[Dream Eater]

[wilderness Life]

[Provide Train Captains with a dream of the past, they will only collect a little happiness from the dream]

[After experiencing a dream, the upper limit of Mental Power will decrease by at least 10 points for a period of time. The longer one sinks into the dream, the higher the decreased upper limit will be. If completely immersed in it, the upper limit of Mental Power will drop to 1]

Ye Qiyan quickly withdrew his hand and brought up his personal information.

[Mental Power: 130 (Witnessing Truth and Falsehood)]

Seeing that his Mental Power hadn’t decreased, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It seemed that he woke up early enough and wasn’t affected.

But what on earth were these Dream Eaters?

wilderness life? They seemed completely different from those monsters that kept chasing the Train.

Were they the true indigenous life of this endless wilderness?

The Dream Eater seemed to really like his touch.

One of them flew out from the group, gently landed beside Ye Qiyan’s hand, inexplicably and affectionately rubbed against his palm, and then returned to the group.

They began to accelerate.

These seemingly soft lives unexpectedly and easily surpassed his current Train speed.

Ye Qiyan sat on the roof of the Train, looking down at his palm.

Right there, a rhombic crystal was slightly suspended.

[Dream Eater’s Fantasy Crystal]

[Your speed of breaking free from the dream exceeded their imagination, and your aura is even deeply liked by them. The Dream Eater is curious about you. However, in this endless wilderness, no one can stop; the Train cannot, and neither can they. Therefore, you have gained the attention and friendship of the Dream Eater]

[Use it, when you face irresistible nightmares and Mental Power attacks, that Dream Eater you touched will come to help you.]

Holding the crystal spar in the palm of his hand.

Looking at the Dream Eater group already approaching beyond the horizon, Ye Qiyan didn’t know what to think.

A group that brings pleasant dreams to people without any hostility, but if someone sinks into the dream, their consumed Mental Power would be devoured…

Truly a terrifying race.

“However, can this be considered a gain?”

He inexplicably gained the friendship of a Dream Eater, and also obtained this crystal spar that could summon them.

Although he couldn’t figure out why on earth that was.

Returning to the carriage.

He took out his pocket watch.

The time on it was five-o-five in the early morning.

That is to say, he hadn’t slept for long at all.

But right now, Ye Qiyan wasn’t sleepy at all, and was even clearer-headed than usual.

“Right, I shouldn’t be the only one who ran into them, right?”

He brought up the Chat Room, and there was no one inside.

Normally, no matter what time it was, there would always be some night owls bragging and chatting in the Chat Room.

There was none now, indicating that other people had also encountered the Dream Eater.

That dream…

To be honest, I’m afraid many people, even knowing it was fake, would choose to sink into it and be unable to extricate themselves.

In the end, their Mental Power would be completely devoured by the Dream Eater group…