In a dream.
She found herself at the edge of a dark stairwell.
There was no way back behind her.
Only the faint sound of pained cries beside her.
It seemed.
The pained voices had changed from a little girl to several adult men.
Lin Xiqing, a typical young, rich woman who had to turn on the lights and huddle in the corner of the sofa with a big pillow even when watching a horror movie.
Was naturally terrified to encounter such a scene.
But then.
Something even more terrifying happened.
A twisted, grotesque monster that looked like a spider with countless arms was staring at her from the darkness.
The next second.
It lunged at Lin Xiqing in a horrifying manner.
But in mid-air.
A spear that pierced through it from behind, radiating dazzling silver light, pinned the monster to the wall.
Instantly.
The pure light dispersed into particles, colliding with the wavelengths of the Dead Zone radiation in similar circumstances.
Everything became so dazzling.
The world's energy level returned to its Origin Point.
As Gustav Mie's theory of Mie Scattering was proven on the border between reality and dream.
Lin Xiqing also saw the handsome, upright figure of the Knight.
She felt that this figure.
Was very familiar.
But no matter what, she couldn't remember.
She only heard the last sentence:
'Good night.'
At this moment.
Countless residents of the Coastal district who had strayed into this dream saw the savior god in a daze.
When humans are in danger, they subconsciously magnify the savior's back.
According to Freud, the operation and disguise of dreams mainly involve the processes of compression, displacement of features, and secondary revision to reprocess and compress the manifest content of the dream, ultimately leaving only one unforgettable point.
And in the collapse of the 'Dead Zone' dream and the Silver Sea's tidal repair of the broken consciousness.
This positive modification is further amplified.
[World Potential Influence +100] [Obtained Achievement: Nameless Savior] [Achievement Description: A back view, an unknown pioneer, an unforgettable dream memory]
Su Wen saw this notification.
He wondered where this achievement came from.
He looked out the window.
The moonlight, for some reason, had long since moved away from the clouds' cover, casting a clear, pale silver stream of light in the clear night sky.
Coastal District.
Inside the bookstore of the Night Watch office on Yulin West Street.
Lin Yunwen walked to the door and turned off the hanging lamp engraved with the Lunar Cloud Sea.
Not long after.
A burly man with vodka in hand and heavy steps walked over, leaning against the already closed iron gate next to the bookstore.
Then, he asked in a deep voice:
"Chief Lin, has the crisis warning been lifted?"
"It's been lifted."
Lin Yunwen casually opened a magazine describing tourism in New Jersey:
"Yun Province had a border crisis, and just as the Night Watch were being transferred there, the Coastal Dead Zone erupted.
I'm really getting old now. ...
"Meeting like this again doesn't even feel like a coincidence anymore."
The burly man finished the remaining half of his bottle of wine, placed it by the door of the old bookstore, and looked at the quiet road with little traffic at this late hour, saying:
"Was it the Dormant Sect that set it off?"
"What? Are you, a fisherman, planning to find those rats hiding in the cracks of dreams?"
Old Man Lin sipped his tea.
"Better think about the best spot to cast your net tonight, so you don't come back empty-handed tomorrow."
"I'm a fisherman who trawls the sea, following the currents to find schools of fish, not a fisherman with a rod.
That old joke is outdated."
The burly man continued, "The 'Ewiniar' storm has completely subsided. Captain Spring has invited me to sail with him. He wants to go to the Lost Sea again."
"Would you like a cup of tea?"
"I'm not drunk, and I probably don't need a hangover cure."
"Then fair winds and following seas.
I'm old. I'm happy enough selling books here."
Lin Yunwen said slowly.
"Oh, I forgot to mention this.
Old Man Lin, the quality of your books really isn't great. My nephew used the answers from one of your textbooks for his homework and got a zero from his teacher, who said the book was from before the Origin Era."
At the same time.
The dim light in the old bookstore flickered with a strange distortion.
"What zero?"
A young woman in a hooded cloak emerged from the shadows, asking curiously:
"Could it be that Old Man Lin is selling fake books again and scamming people?"
"Get lost, both of you. 'Lunar Cloud Sea' is already gone.
Don't bother this old man when there's nothing important going on at night."
The next morning.
A local Coastal topic quietly climbed to the top of the trending list:
[Knight]
After all.
Just last night, Many people simultaneously dreamed of the same scene.
It was a memory that couldn't be forgotten even after waking up.
And at eight o'clock in the morning.
The Mental Review Bureau also received an anonymous letter of unknown origin.
The letter described:
A little girl who had been declared missing was actually buried under a tree in the abandoned Tenth Middle School's playground.
Upon receiving this information.
Zhu Yu immediately and keenly realized that this matter might be related to the 'Dead Zone fluctuation' that occurred last night.
And immediately began an investigation.
The subsequent investigation results were also clear.
This inhumane and heinous event.
Had actually happened!
[According to this station's report: A particularly heinous case of intentional homicide has been uncovered by the police at the long-abandoned Tenth Middle School.]
[At the same time, according to the latest information from this station:
Just last night, all four of the perpetrators who had once "taught" at Tenth Middle School suddenly suffered brain death due to "unknown causes" and are now showing no signs of life.]
[This station will continue to provide follow-up reports on the details and aftermath of this matter.]
At this moment.
Many people on the Coastal University campus were discussing the two important events that happened last night.
One was the dream scene.
The other.
It was that news report.
At the entrance of the Physics Academy's wind tunnel lab.
After Su Wen copied the data and locked the lab door.
He saw the news on his phone's lock screen.
That's right.
Wu Shuang's information was released by him using the 'Time Travel' game's email function.
The advantage is that no one can trace who sent a letter from the future.
The disadvantage is...
Sending emails also consumes 'World Influence.'
This directly cut off his idea of becoming the Phantom Thief Kid.
The girl also saw the message and calmly asked Su Wen, who was next to her:
"What do you think?"
"I think it's good that those four beasts are dead, saving netizens from arguing over their final sentence."
Hearing him say that.
The girl nodded slightly.
Just then.
An account that had only released a few full-length movies gained extremely high attention and views and released its latest video:
[After the Origin Era, the Fire-Bringer of civilization should no longer be a cold-blooded butcher]
[Narrated by: Azure]
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