The girls are multiplying infinitely, my numbers have become a disaster.

As she thought this, she had already approached the colored bubble.

The moment she touched it, the scene within drew closer, revealing a deep, dense forest. She also felt a pulling force, directly entering the interior of the bubble.

"This is..."

She felt as if she were in an observer's perspective.

In her line of sight, two ferocious monsters covered in scales with mouths like chrysanthemums were gnawing on flesh and blood on the ground.

"Is this also a dream? Or rather, have I entered someone else's dream?"

As she thought this, one of the monsters seemed to notice something, suddenly baring its teeth and warily looking around.

She was startled, stepping back two paces, but quickly calmed her mind.

"It's just a dream."

She even tried to control the monster in front of her to spin around through imagination.

Unexpectedly, the monster actually did so.

"Interesting."

Increasing the demand, the two monsters took the lead in scouting, and she even successfully transformed into a monster herself.

"Easier than I thought."

But Ye Xin soon sensed something off, because she realized that while doing this, the Life Energy stored in her main body was being consumed.

Just as she was puzzled by this, faint screams came from the distance.

Frowning, Ye Xin moved closer in that direction.

Soon she saw three people dressed in modern clothes.

"Careful, the thorns of this plant are highly toxic; you can't get hit."

With a loud shout, a plant covered in thorns thrust forward, and one of the men released a flame from his hand, instantly setting the plant ablaze.

"Haha, I told you, plants are afraid of fire," the man laughed loudly.

"Don't celebrate too early; this mission can't be that easy," the only woman said.

Just then, the man who released the flame suddenly noticed the two creatures Ye Xin had brought.

"Not good, new enemies!"

Seeing the three look toward her, Ye Xin moved her mind, attempting to make the two "beasts" charge forward.

She charged in herself as well.

After a brutal struggle, Ye Xin was injured, but with a thought, she recovered instantly.

"Recovery also consumes Life Energy?"

Damn.

She gave up fighting and retreated to the side.

Meanwhile, her two monster minions performed excellently, quickly killing the woman among them.

"Although it's a dream, it still feels overly real," she couldn't help but remark.

"Run, damn it, didn't the system say carrying the powder would prevent encountering Fang Beasts? Why are we still being attacked?"

"How should I know? Damn, I don't have enough Life Energy."

"This broken mission's difficulty is abnormal."

The remaining two scrambled away in terror.

"Hmm, Life Energy?"

Hearing their conversation, Ye Xin was slightly stunned.

"System, mission... Otherspace?" She rubbed her chin, lost in thought.

Chapter 19: Invasion

"It seems I've entered an Otherspace Instance, playing the role of a monster attacking the players inside."

This result surprised Ye Xin somewhat, though she still leaned toward this being part of a dream rather than her actually traveling to the corresponding world.

Not bothering to torment these people further, Ye Xin returned to her original form and left this bubble.

After flying halfway, an object floating in the void suddenly came into view.

She flew over curiously, only to find a stone tablet covered in writing.

Intrigued, she grabbed it and read the text:

"His body was covered in mouths, the eyes on the front of His head gazing up at the sky. Locking eyes with Him was a girl covered all over in eyes, the girl's feet pointing upward as she looked down at the boy on the ground, their cheeks about to collide."

"Ah~~"

A violent dizziness struck, accompanied by an indescribable maddening whisper filling her entire head, as if in that instant, a boy covered in mouths and a girl covered in eyes had truly appeared before her.

Ye Xin rubbed her temples and took a long while to come back to her senses. But by now, she already felt something was wrong with her—piercing gibberish echoed repeatedly in her ears, tempting her to keep reading the text above.

"Something's wrong. I'm going to die."

She quickly shook her head, breaking free, and gasped heavily for air.

She stepped away from the stone slab in fear, but the terrible thing was still happening. The content she had seen earlier kept reverberating in her mind, and bizarre images reflected in her thoughts.

The boy of all mouths and the girl of all eyes.

"Ah!!!" She shook her head violently.

Struggling to fly back into her bubble, she recovered a little before safely landing beside her main body.

"If I don't think about it, it seems to get better."

She felt that stone slab was like a cognitive virus—even just thinking about it carried a maddening power that could seduce the mind.

Looking up, she confirmed that this bubble had automatically repaired itself. Ye Qian's main body ran over and patted Ye Xin on the back, still utterly helpless.

And what was even more terrifying was that she discovered her main body couldn't think about that text either.

The moment she did, she suffered the same maddening pain as the clone.

"Just not thinking about it is an option, I guess." The main body tapped her own skull.

Recalling the knowledge she had gleaned from Shi Jing's memories, she roughly guessed what this was.

Cognitive Toxin, and Pollution.

This was something only Transcendents were qualified—and forced—to come into contact with, something that could drive people mad and out of control.

For an ordinary person to encounter it, the result would inevitably be unbearable.

And Ye Qian's own situation was even more complicated. She had multiple bodies—though they shared the same consciousness, one soul in many bodies—they belonged to different brains. Clearly one soul, yet housed in different physical forms.

This way, the loss of control could be borne by one of her bodies. The other bodies could maintain clear thoughts, serving as anchors to keep the one losing control sane.

"But even so, I'm still in a lot of pain. This thing is like poison."

For a moment, Ye Xin really felt like she was about to break.

"Anyway, I endured it."

She glanced at her Life Energy, knowing she couldn't afford to waste much more of it.

And this wave had been a lesson for her.

The dream world wasn't safe; it was filled with extraordinary mysteries beyond the norm.

"This also shows that anywhere in this world might not be safe."

Ye Xin sighed, preparing to leave her main body's dream.

She needed to recover, at least to break free from this state where her head was buzzing and she felt like she was going insane.

But just then, a strange sensation washed over her.

"It feels like... something is coming."

She sensed that her main body's dream had been pried open by some force. Looking up at the sky, she felt a ridiculous sense of crisis for no reason.

In reality, the sleeping Alice was forcibly awakened.

Rubbing her eyes, her gaze fell on Ye Xin.

From this side, her body looked perfectly normal, with no sign of the turmoil happening inside her main body's dream.

She ran to the window and peered through the gap in the curtains. Maybe she was lucky—a sparrow was perched not far away.

Empathy!

She successfully synced with the bird's senses.

With a command, the sparrow flapped its wings and began flying around. Less than a minute later, she detected two sneaky figures lurking near her home.

"What are those two up to?"

She already had a plan in mind, but she still needed to verify it on the surface.

The sparrow drew closer, and their conversation drifted over.

"Did it really work? It's been over half an hour. This Dream Entry shouldn't go wrong, right?" The man crouched by the wall lowered his voice as much as possible.

"It's fine. From the background check this time, the target has no backing. It's impressive she's held out this long against us. But she's offended the Insect Blood Society, and she has to regret what she's done."

"Yeah, I'm curious about the opponent too. The divination results said she's only fifteen, and a girl."

"We'll definitely try to squeeze a lot of information out of her in this dream. Hope it works."

Ye Xin, eavesdropping, jolted.

Fifteen, female—that was talking about her main body, but it seemed like they were targeting the clone.

"Here they come, and so fast. Why is this damn faction so persistent?"

The other party had said "Dream Entry," and Ye Xin was certain—someone had entered her dream.

They were definitely looking for the original body.

At this moment within the dream, Ye Qian noticed the scene shifting.

It transformed into an ordinary small town, and she herself was hiding inside a building.

"Hmm, did I do this? Or is it my subconscious?"

No, it didn't seem like either. She did feel that someone had arrived, but it was Ye Xin who perceived it from an observer's perspective; the original body was completely unable to sense the other party's presence.

After searching the area for a while, a man holding a gun appeared in her line of sight.

His footsteps drew closer, step by step, to the room where Ye Qian was hiding.

Before long, the guy pushed the door open.

Click!

Their eyes met simultaneously.

The man didn't fire his gun. Instead, he walked up to Ye Qian and revealed a sinister smile. "Little girl, answer Uncle a few questions."

Ye Qian: "..."

An overwhelming pressure descended.

Ye Qian strongly suspected that this dream was no longer hers. She couldn't control it; it seemed the other party had used some method to restrict her performance at this moment. All she could do now was alter certain minor details.

"What should I do?"

Ye Qian was at her wit's end.

She didn't dare to act lucid, instead behaving as if she were truly dreaming, to avoid letting the other party catch on.