Fortunately, nightmares weren't TV dramas—they didn't come in episodes. Hao Ren merely appeared where he had been when he last left the Dream Plane, but the wolf pack that had attacked him was gone. The poor guy did not get to play out the tragic scenario of leaving the beginner's village only to be sent back to the spawn point by a pack of wild monsters.
Yet wolf howls still drifted in from every direction. Though they did not sound close, they were enough to make Hao Ren, who had not yet seen much of the world, tremble with fear. He keenly realized that this was a lawless land. Animal protection organizations and forest rangers were in another world; here, neither the wolves nor he had any protection. And frankly speaking—this was the wolves' territory. He was the outsider.
As the sole outsider on a grassland occupied by a wolf pack, Hao Ren pulled his clothes tighter around himself to ward off the chill spreading through both his body and his heart. He started walking forward, wondering whether his brain had deteriorated from spending too much time around Lily: Why the hell had he put on pajamas so smugly when he went back to his room to sleep?!
Based on his experience from entering the Dream Plane last time, a person's physical condition inside the Dream Plane was exactly the same as in the outside world, including what they wore and their physical capabilities. Yet Hao Ren had completely forgotten that. Vivian, Izax, and he had made a huge mess in the living room with all their preparations, and in the end, he had nearly gotten insomnia and failed to enter—and he was wearing pajamas!
Trudging unevenly across the prairie, Hao Ren looked down at his feet and could not