"Waaah! Waaah!"
A child's shrill crying echoed through the air, slowly rousing Zhang Chen from his dazed state.
His field of vision had turned into a window containing only black and white. The luxurious palace room he had been in had become an ordinary-sized room, furnished with small beds exactly one meter long, each separated from the next. Children around five years old slept in those beds.
There were seven such children in the room. When Zhang Chen tried to raise his hands, he discovered they were less than thirty centimeters long, and the bed he lay on was only one meter in length. Including himself, this made eight "children" in total.
"Dream vision effect... When did I fall asleep? Although my body was utterly exhausted after transforming into a ghost twice at full strength, I had no intention of sleeping. Besides, my body is inside Faceless Man's palace. Though the mysterious Faceless Man was driven away, we never confirmed whether the room was safe. Why did I suddenly fall asleep? Could this be Faceless Man's doing?"
"I have to wake up!"
Dreams were a special form of brain activity. Zhang Chen had fairly good control over his brain, yet now he found himself completely unable to communicate with it and interrupt the dream's progression.
At that moment, the crying from the corridor outside abruptly stopped. Out of the corner of his eye, Zhang Chen noticed several tentacled shadows drifting across the wooden floor beside his bed under the moonlight shining through the window. But when he shifted his gaze from the floor to the window, he found nothing outside but the crescent moon.
"Could this thing have led me into the dream?! This is dangerous. I have to get out of here."
Zhang Chen tried to communicate with Evil