Yu Sheng was woken just as dawn was breaking by the little doll smashing her head into him.
He shot upright with a "whoosh" and saw Eileen beside him, pressing her head against his pillow. Although she had just rammed him with her head, the little thing still hadn't opened her eyes. After nosing around a few times, she had gone right back to sleep, her snores soft and even.
Yu Sheng, however, could no longer sleep.
He sat on the bed in a daze for a while, then leaned back against the pillow. Yet fragments of the faint dream he'd been having before Eileen's headbutt still lingered in his mind. He felt as if he'd spent the entire night dreaming a chaotic string of bizarre dreams, with all sorts of strange scenes flashing through his mind like slides—and even now, they hadn't completely faded--
At first, he had been walking Huli along a riverbank. A huge group of Mermaids and Snake Princesses had been thrashing about in the river, while Xuan Che underwent his lightning tribulation on the bank, electrocuting the Mermaids and Snake Princesses until they leaped all over the place. Suddenly, he had been digging stones for the locals in Shuji, with Mo Ran erecting an over-eighty-meter statue of him in the city center. Huli had been eating offering fruit beneath the statue, claiming to be the Pure Altar Envoy. Then it had turned into him accompanying the doll-heads on an outing in a valley. Everyone had gone mushroom picking in the Black Forest, and halfway through, a squirrel had run over to say that a giant spider was dismantling the King's cat tree. The spider was enormous—666 meters tall...
Scene after scene, Yu Sheng dreamed chaotically. The final image in his memory was of himself somehow