On the Moonlight Grassland, which had already become a frozen space-time, pale gray moonlight spilled down, illuminating this shattered patch of land no more than a few hundred meters across. Endless darkness lay frozen all around it, making the tiny land seem like the only island floating in a sea of dark chaos. Vivian, who had just fully regained consciousness, hugged her knees and sat directly on the grass, a calm expression on her face.
"I had a very, very long dream," she began. "I dreamed that I became super, super, super rich, and lived in an especially huge castle. The castle was lavishly decorated everywhere, and I had lots and lots of treasure rooms filled with gold, silver, and jewels I could never use up. I also had two beautiful, enormous gardens, and the artistic sculptures in them could fill the Louvre several times over... Sigh."
Lily rolled her eyes. "That's right, that's right. You really were dreaming."
Vivian sighed again. "So, the outside world is already a complete mess?"
During their conversation just now, she had "once again" heard the whole story from Hao Ren. She also knew about the efforts Hao Ren had made to salvage the situation, and even knew that Hao Ren had actually succeeded in "awakening" her once before—unfortunately, the Vivian awakened on the Siberian snowfield had followed the time stream into the deepest part of this distorted space-time. The Vivian who had awakened at this point in time had no memory of that.
"'A complete mess' doesn't even begin to describe it," Hao Ren said with a shrug. "I don't know how much longer the entire sandbox system can hold out, but I have to find all the versions of you from every period in history as quickly as possible. So far, though,