In this cavern carpeted with corpses, finding the place Dead Zero had mentioned was not difficult.
Bai Zhi did not even need to deliberately search for a path. He only needed to follow the areas with the most corpses.
With Plush Cat as their transportation, Bai Zhi and the others did not spend much time before easily reaching the center of Corpse Cave.
Here, corpses had piled into a mountain. More than a dozen pillars made of corpses stretched straight toward the sky, creating the bizarre illusion that the entire cavern was made of bodies.
"..."
Narrowing his eyes slightly, Bai Zhi stood up from Plush Cat and raised his head to look at the mountain and pillars of corpses before him.
Along the way, Dead Zero had already given him a rough understanding of how this Anomaly had come to be.
At the very beginning, this Anomaly had merely been a pleasant dream that made people feel at ease.
No one was unfamiliar with dreams, and Bai Zhi was no exception.
After waking from sleep, aside from a small number of people or dreams, no matter what dream one had been having, within less than a few seconds after waking, all memories of that dream would vanish without a trace.
Most people had experienced this.
—We did not just forget the dream; we forgot the memory itself.
And when we noticed something unreasonable in a dream, the dream would explain why it was reasonable. Even if the explanation was strained and made even less sense, our dream selves would still foolishly believe it. Only after waking would we realize that the dream had been making us believe it was real, preventing us from noticing anything amiss and waking up.
This Anomaly had begun with those pleasant dreams that people