Denying Reality

As light and shadow shifted before his eyes, Ye Xu realized he was on a Dead Silent Planet. Su Luo stood before him, her expression slightly helpless.

My Dreamscape just weren't realistic enough.

It seems Ye Xu has seen something quite realistic.

"Besides, in reality, you probably won't waste your breath on me."

Ye Xu added, then his emotions gradually became agitated:

Let me indulge in my dreams, let me follow my own aspirations, let me become the master of my own world!

Su Luo shook her head. "These are all fake."

Ye Xu laughed again, "I beg you, Su Luo, I beg you! You can take everything I have, really! My Talent, my assets, and I even have a baby under my bed! 99% new!"

Su Luo: "..."

"I know it's all fake, but I'm willing, I'm willing, I'm completely willing!!"

"Let me go back, and I'll cooperate with you wholeheartedly."

"Your cooperation doesn't mean much to me. Can you tell me your reasons for doing this?" Su Luo produced a small notebook and began to take notes.

"Are you going to let me go back after you've finished talking?"

"Consider."

"Thank you, Su Luo, you're such a kind person."

Ye Xu felt as if he had been granted a pardon. "If you gave someone like me, or many, many people, the chance to forever indulge in their own fantasy world, I believe they would choose it without hesitation."

Su Luo remained noncommittal.

"My life has been unremarkable. I struggled in that suffocating education system until the college entrance exam. Eighteen uneventful years, I was like an NPC, you know?"

"Later, I entered the Darkness Survival and obtained this incredible Talent. I was overjoyed. I dared to challenge everything and despise everything. I felt like I was the Protagonist, destined by Heavenly Mandate, and looked down upon all things."

Ye Xu suddenly changed the subject:

"But none of this mattered. I lost miserably; I even suffered a crushing defeat in the Trial Instance... This is reality!"

"If you go out now and develop properly, you can actually be at the bottom of the first tier," Su Luo said objectively.

"No, no, no." Ye Xu shook his head repeatedly, his expression one of resistance.

"I've had enough. I don't want to try anymore. I've had enough of this damn reality."

"I want to return to my Dreamscape! I am the savior of the world! I am a hero adored by fame and revered by all! I am the beloved of a peerless beauty! Not just an mediocre high school student among eight billion ordinary people, not just an unknown Survivor in eighty thousand regions, not just Ye Xu scratching his head in the face of mundane affairs!"

"The world Negation me, and I Negation the world in return."

"For me now, returning to reality is the most vicious punishment in the world."

Ye Xu said almost pleadingly:

"Su Luo, don't look down on me. There are many people like me."

"I spend all day on my phone, watching videos, reading novels—isn't that just to immerse myself in that fantasy? I daydream in class and play on my phone after class—isn't that also to find my own world?"

"Survival, existence, Future —let those with perseverance and the right to fight for it. Don't expect someone like me, who can't even quit using a VPN and only knows how to scroll through Douyin, to take on these things."

"I no longer want to struggle, nor do I want to be mediocre. Let me go back and become the hero of my own world."

Even if it's just a mirage, I'd gladly give everything for this dream!

"Thank you for listening to my nonsense. Let me embrace my life, Su Luo!"

Su Luo kicked Ye Xu back into his own Dreamscape. Standing at the edge of the Dreamscape, he began to adjust the flow of time, simulate clarity, and modify the Dreamscape structure to ensure that Ye Xu could never wake up again.

"Double speed... the consumption and calculation are all tied to him..."

Su Luo calmly touched and groped other people's Dreamscape.

Let's rewind to a little over a day ago.

Su Luo returned to the Dreamscape and dismantled the "interface" left from the previous "link" with the unknown platform.

Although she didn't fully understand the principle, Su Luo still learned how to "link" with other people's Dreamscape and modify the underlying structure of the Dreamscape.

He infiltrated Ye Xu's Dreamscape, casually pulling Ye Xu himself in as well, and then summoned his own Dreamscape to come and assist him.

While constructing the "bridge" between the two Dream Worlds, Su Luo also observed Ye Xu's own Dreamscape, changing her form to approach him at appropriate moments and even providing some insignificant mental suggestions.

Based on the information, the risk of the Forbidden Existence exposed was eliminated, and at the same time, Xiao Luo was allowed to simulate a large, relatively realistic space in her Dreamscape, simulating reality.

He repeatedly implanted illogical suggestions into Ye Xu's Dreamscape, trying to make him realize that it was a dream.

But this guy remained unmoved.

In the end, Su Luo shattered his illusions with her own hands, pulling him into her own Dreamscape through a "bridge".

Su Luo's original goal was simple: mainly to practice developing her Dreamscape, and incidentally to try to make Ye Xu addicted to the illusion, since his Talent did not require him to operate in reality.

Surprisingly, it didn't require many methods, or even deliberately subjecting him to setbacks.

Ye Xu himself was no longer able to face reality.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go back to frugality.

He had seen beauty, Negation reality, and embraced illusion.

Having witnessed the illusion of sunrise, one cannot bear the reality of darkness.

If he hadn't been overwhelmed by the thousand-fold Superpower Orb, in a sense, he would have already been eliminated from the Trial Instance.

After a moment's thought, Su Luo decided not to lock him in the experimental container, but instead to grant his wish and imprison him forever in her Dreamscape.

At the same time, a Subconscious entity was inserted inside to observe its operational patterns and facilitate the collection of experimental data.

After all, Su Luo hadn't agreed to Ye Xu's request to be used as a test subject at any time, and she also had some guesses about Su Luo Ye Xu's Talent mechanism...

Let's not drive him crazy for now and pursue sustainable development. Su Luo feels he'll be very useful later; perhaps his Talent can even be upgraded when he breaks through level 10?

"The Dreamscape is set up quite realistically; time won't jump around as drastically as before. It flows at about twice the speed of real time," Su Luo casually remarked.

"Okay, bro. Let's add each other as friends, and I'll send you everything I know." Ye Xu smiled broadly.

This time, Su Luo accepted Ye Xu's friend request and received a lot of messages from him. He even sent her his experience of doing handicrafts in the toilet when he lived in the dormitory.

"Goodbye, I'm going to find my true self." Ye Xu said goodbye decisively.

After Su Luo finished the modifications, she reinforced the "bridge." Although Ye Xu couldn't cross it, he was worried that the bridge might break.

He didn't want to infiltrate Ye Xu's Dreamscape again to re-establish the connection, as the content inside was somewhat obscene.

"Speaking of which... has the frequency of me being 'kicked' by my own Dreamscape decreased a bit?" During the process of modifying her Dreamscape, Su Luo discovered some strange phenomena.

Su Luo casually added a few extra "interfaces" to the edge of the Dreamscape, just in case, before waking up.

He grabbed Ye Xu's body in the distance and refined it in an instant.

They began to modify him, transforming him into a state where he didn't need to eat or excrete, and automatically absorbed Mana to maintain his basic bodily functions.

After some consideration, Su Luo decided against taking the easy way out and kept him in human form instead of turning him into a ball, lest she scare others.