There was no good solution.
Instead, she thought of the book she had found outside the bubble earlier.
Chapter 20: Hurting the Enemy for a Thousand, Hurting Yourself...
"Answer me. Was it you who attacked members of the Insect Blood Society?"
The moment the man opened his mouth, Ye Qian felt some force trying to compel her to tell the truth. But he clearly did not know that she was still fully conscious right now. There was no way she would reveal the truth.
"What is the Insect Blood Society? I don't think I've attacked anyone." Ye Qian put on a confused, helpless expression.
"The people in black robes. Right here."
The man pointed, and the scene behind him suddenly changed to the area near Ye Qian's home.
Ye Qian shook her head. "I don't remember seeing anyone like that."
"Damn it."
The man threw a punch.
Bang!
"Ah!"
Having been mentally prepared, Ye Qian naturally could not simulate any pain in a dream. Still, she deliberately let herself get knocked flying, her eyes misty with tears as she hugged her head and trembled. She wore an aggrieved expression. "Wuwuwu..."
"Damn, why is this girl so cute?" the man muttered, beginning to doubt himself. "Could I really have gotten it wrong? The location was clearly traced here. Dream Entry rituals usually don't fail unless the target is a Transcendent. Otherwise, there's absolutely no way to resist in a dream. Maybe I should take a look deep inside her subconscious."
Watching the frightened, head-hugging version of Ye Qian, the man walked to the door and began pacing back and forth.
Then the surrounding scene began to change, becoming a familiar place.
Ye Qian's true body narrowed her eyes.
"Doesn't seem like I can deal with him. Even though this is my dream, I'm still no match for him even if I fight back."
She even suspected this was no longer her dream. The other side seemed to have used some powerful will to interfere with her, thereby meddling with her dream to a certain extent.
This quaint little town had clearly been created through that method.
Ye Xin, hiding in the distance, recalled the book from before, and her head immediately began to ache.
"If it comes down to it, I can only try this."
The slate.
That boy covered in mouths and that girl covered in eyes... Fuck, I can't think about it. My head hurts.
Ye Xin took a deep breath and began considering how to make him see that thing too.
Maybe...
Carve it directly onto the wall?
But obviously, she would also suffer severe backlash while carving the words.
Still, thinking about it carefully, she had the mental strength of so many clones serving as anchors. If she had enough time, recovery was possible. But if this man was suddenly attacked, he probably would not have time.
I could even just read it aloud.
Unfortunately, she had no way to create passersby. Gritting her teeth, she began carving words into the surrounding walls while preparing to recite them.
The man had walked around outside for a while. He turned back to look at Ye Qian, who was sitting on the ground wiping her tears.
"Girl, let me see your subconscious."
Some force began calling to Ye Qian's mind.
The scene around them changed, becoming a familiar town.
When Ye Qian saw it, her heart stirred.
It was a small county town from her memories, her hometown before she transmigrated.
The man also watched the scene with curiosity.
But soon, he suddenly noticed that the surrounding walls were covered in complex writing.
"Oh? Interesting."
Subconsciously looking at the words, the man read aloud, "Its body was covered in mouths, and the eyes before its head... Hisss~~~ Ah—fuck!!! Aaaaaah!!!"
After reading just one sentence, intense pain flooded his entire body from head to toe. Clutching his head, he screamed, "Damn it, what is this? Ahh, how could there be something like this deep inside this girl's consciousness? Ah!!"
"It works."
Ye Xin's eyes lit up. Enduring the negative effects, she called out in an icy voice:
"Its body was covered in mouths, and the eyes before its head gazed up at the sky. Facing it was a girl covered in eyes. Her feet pointed toward the sky as she raised her head to look at the boy on the ground. Their cheeks were about to collide."
"Aaaaaah!!! Stop, what is this? Damn it."
His body suddenly twisted into a monster. Countless mouths and eyes sprouted from his body, and Ye Xin, who had been shouting halfway through, stared at the scene in shock.
Severe pain assaulted her nerves, and she felt she could no longer endure it. She shut her mouth and clutched her head.
And without question, the man was suffering countless times worse than she was.
In the end, seemingly unable to withstand it, his body completely dissolved and left this world.
Near her home, inside the abandoned house where the Insect Blood Society members had gathered, as sensed by Alice.
"Ah—"
A miserable scream suddenly rang out. Someone lying on a wooden bed abruptly sat up, then clutched his head and rolled across the floor.
"What's wrong, Third Brother?!"
The people nearby were startled and immediately rushed over.
"Save me. Its body was covered in mouths, ahhh—its eyes before its head gazed up at the sky. Facing it was... Ahh, I can't say it, I can't say it!! It's over, I can't hold it back, save me... covered in eyes..."
As the words left his mouth, eyes and mouths sprouted all over the man's body. It felt as if something were trying to crawl out from inside him, and he radiated a terrifying aura.
The few people who heard him also screamed in pain at the same instant.
"Damn it, cover your ears!"
The leader shouted.
Everyone covered their ears. After some time, the awakened man gradually calmed down, but he was like a lump of writhing flesh, constantly trembling on the floor. More than a dozen mouths and at least twenty eyes had grown from his body, some of those eyes streaming blood.
"Save me—save me—"
All the mouths spoke at once.
Several underlings were terrified stiff. "Third Brother, this is..."
"He seems to have come into contact with a Taboo. At this level... it may already involve some hidden incident related to those beings."
The leader's expression was extremely grim.
"How is that possible? Didn't he enter the target's dream?"
"How should I know? Let's wait until Third Brother is in better condition."
Looking at the twisted thing on the ground that no longer resembled anything recognizable, everyone felt chilled to the bone.
A moment later...
"Third Brother, how are you? What exactly did you encounter just now? Hiss—damn it, my eyes hurt. Don't look at him."
"Dream... don't go into... dreams." Third Brother said weakly.
"Dreams?"
There was no response. Third Brother had completely lost consciousness.
But if they leaned in to listen, they would discover that the mouths on his body were still whispering strange, eerie gibberish.
The people present exchanged looks, all feeling a cold dread.
"Why did this happen? Is there something wrong with that person's dream?"
Alice, who was watching this unfold, was stunned.
"So scary."
Goosebumps covered her entire body.
After Ye Xin finally recovered a little, she hurriedly checked her body in fright. Thankfully, no eyes or mouths had appeared.
"This is unbelievable. They were clearly words anyone could understand, so how could they produce such a terrifying effect? Did the words touch upon some kind of existence? If someone carelessly said something like this in everyday life, would something happen?"
She thought of the word "It"... In the Transcendent world, that often represented some existence close to a god.
"Phew, forget all of it. I should stop messing with things like this in the future."
Ye Xin had already erased the writing, but those words still kept flashing through her mind against her will. She was constantly being affected as well, though not nearly as severely as that man.
6
Identity
Ye Xin exited her true body's dream.
Because of what had happened this time, she knew the Insect Blood Society enemies still had no intention of letting her go.
"Do these guys not care about the Shadow Bureau at all? One of their bases was already wiped out, yet they still dare target me?" Sitting at the bedside, she could not help but feel a headache coming on.
By this time, those people had already left temporarily, destroying the corpse of the man who had collapsed and died earlier. Since they were more than three kilometers away, Alice did not go out to continue monitoring them.
"Looks like I have to take this organization seriously. The Shadow Bureau has started paying attention to them too, but the higher-ups of an evil organization like this probably have some tricks up their sleeves. They won't be easy to deal with." Ye Qian sighed.
They did not even need to meet her. From so far away, they could launch a Dream Entry attack against her true body in the hotel. They were no ordinary threat.
And after considering it carefully, Ye Qian felt she currently had no ability to confront them head-on.
"I need to find a way to advance quickly."
With that thought, she closed her eyes and prepared to rest.
The night passed with them taking turns keeping watch.
After getting up in the morning, Ye Xin steamed some soup dumplings and brought them, along with a bottle of milk, to the hotel where her true body was staying. Only after they finished eating together did she leave in peace.
"Mm."
Rubbing her stomach, Ye Qian took out her phone and checked the time.
"With more clones, it's sometimes inconvenient to get things done. I need to find a way to get them identities."
It was not like there was no chance.
She could rely on Shi Jing!
As a Shadow Bureau team member, he only needed to use a little of his authority to give an undocumented person a legal identity.
Of course, there would still be risks in the actual process.
Shi Jing had a fairly reliable method in mind... enrollment!
In the Kingdom of Order, ninety percent of people could only attend school for six years. Those who finished those six years were already considered outstanding among commoners. They could find plenty of jobs to support themselves and might even buy a house years later.
But having the qualifications did not mean they could finish.
In reality, the enrollment rate for basic secondary schools among commoners was only around thirty percent.
The division of social status always required most people to take on low-level work. As a result, even commoner schools were not open to everyone.
But from another perspective, if some noble or wealthy man had an illegitimate daughter without legal identification, those nobles would certainly find a way to obtain an identity for her.
And the legal solution was enrollment.
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