Wolf howls?
Yu Sheng's first reaction was a little dazed, but he immediately connected that wolf howl with the things he had experienced recently. He didn't wonder whether he was hallucinating—less than a few seconds later, another unsettling howl came from the distance, sounding even clearer than the first.
Besides, he felt that "auditory hallucinations" didn't exist in dreams.
Yu Sheng frowned and immediately headed toward the source of the howling. In this lucid dream, he only took a few steps before, with a shift of thought, he crossed the distant space and arrived in the place that "felt" wrong to him in the blink of an eye.
He saw the wolf that was howling.
It was a stiff, illusory shadow floating above the grass. Like a projection with a bad connection, it flickered once every few seconds. Each time it flickered, the stiff shadow changed its posture, giving the impression of a severely lagging surveillance feed that refreshed the image of its subject every few seconds.
Yu Sheng stared at the projection that had appeared in his dream in astonishment and curiosity. When it flickered again, the wolf turned its head in the next "refreshed" pose. It seemed to have noticed the uninvited guest's approach and cast its gaze in his direction.
But it was only a "shadow." Aside from looking at him, the wolf seemed incapable of any further action.
The tension in Yu Sheng's heart gradually faded. He began studying the "wolf" in front of him curiously. For some reason, he felt that the wolf's eyes looked... somewhat familiar.
Then a strange thought surfaced in his mind—the wolf couldn't be eaten.
Because there was humanity in its eyes.
Humanity?
Yu Sheng suddenly shivered. He recalled the source of that familiarity, then hesitantly reached out, wanting to touch