Are you isolating me?

After Wushen recovered, she hugged Yuan Ling beside her and started crying.

She didn't care at all that Yuan Ling was still covered in wet bloodstains.

"Okay, okay, it's alright, we're all here. Wushen, I need to change my clothes. Don't get your clothes dirty, or the dorm supervisor will come in and think this is some crime scene," Yuan Ling said softly, patting Wushen's back reassuringly.

"Is there anything unusual with your body now?" Zheng Wuyou took off her slippers, removed the cushion from Wushen's seat, stepped onto it, and gently patted Wushen's back.

She was worried... about the news she had seen back then.

"I'm fine now. I think I left alive. I just got a little hurt in the dream. You might not believe me, but in the dream... I was almost killed by a mushroom!" Wushen's worried face was filled with disbelief, as she herself didn't know how to describe the event.

"...I believe you."

"I believe you!"

Zheng Wuyou and Yuan Ling answered firmly, one after the other. Wushen pushed Yuan Ling away, looking at them both with confusion.

Thinking they were just trying to comfort her, Wushen anxiously gestured in the air, saying, "I'm not joking! All my stats are normal! It's just that someone forcibly stuffed a poisonous mushroom into me in the dream! And that poisonous mushroom eats people!"

"Emmmm, not joking. Because I also had a nightmare. In my dream, I was forced to experience what I hate the most: I became the size of an ant, and any step could get me stepped on or crushed, or carried away."

Yuan Ling shivered, as if she had thought of something utterly hopeless.

"Wait! What are you guys talking about? What did you three do behind my back? Is it a game?" Gu Yunting, who was still sleepy, suddenly woke up when she heard their conversation. She felt isolated, wondering what kind of content this was that she knew nothing about.

They hadn't mentioned it before.

Zheng Wuyou looked back guiltily at Gu Yunting, who had a confused expression, unsure how to explain this to her.

But the only thing she could be sure of now was that Yuan Ling and Wushen had most likely become those "Dream Experience Officers" like herself, just in different dreams.

"It's nothing, just a nightmare. It's probably from yesterday's events that caused us all to have nightmares," Zheng Wuyou's words were ambiguous, as if telling Gu Yunting about their conversation, and also hinting at the reason Yuan Ling and the others entered the dream.

... Besides, they didn't know the conditions for entering the dream now, nor whether it was a one-time thing or countless times. As long as it didn't involve anyone else, it was better not to tell Gu Yunting for now.

"But... Wushen vomited so much... blood? Is she really okay?" Gu Yunting wasn't stupid. With a look of utter confusion, she looked at Wushen, who had already let go of Yuan Ling.

Yuan Ling, not knowing how to explain, chose to avoid Gu Yunting's question and got out of bed to rummage through her closet to change.

"Wushen, don't just sit there, hurry up and change the bedsheets and take them to wash!" Yuan Ling's voice was muffled, mixed with the sound of clothes rustling.

"...You guys are making me feel like an outsider." Excluded, Gu Yunting watched her sisters, who had been so close yesterday, act like completely different people after just one night's sleep. A surge of anger rose in her heart, and she said to them with disappointment.

Just because she wasn't there yesterday, did she not even have the right to know now? And it wasn't like she wasn't worried about Wushen's condition...

Moreover, Wushen's symptoms clearly required emergency treatment. What on earth were Zheng Wuyou and Yuan Ling doing!

"If you're not going to tell me, then we'll let the dorm supervisor handle Wushen's vomiting blood." Gu Yunting raised her phone, the bright screen showing a dialed number. It was particularly conspicuous in the dim pre-dawn light.

"..."

"Wait, Old Gu, I know you're anxious, but please don't be anxious yet!" As soon as she said this, Yuan Ling lunged like a hungry tiger, trying to snatch Gu Yunting's phone from the opposite bed with lightning speed, but missed because she was at a lower position.

"If you don't explain, I'm pressing this button!" Gu Yunting had already guessed Yuan Ling would try to snatch it, and quickly dodged back, her right index finger pointing directly at the dial button.

"Yunting... it's not that we're not explaining, it's just that we don't understand the situation ourselves yet. We don't even know if the three of us are experiencing the same thing."

Listening to Zheng Wuyou's slightly tired voice, Gu Yunting braced herself with one foot against the wall while her other foot was engaged in a struggle with Yuan Ling. "Aren't you still being vague?"

"Okay, okay, stop messing around. Let's just be open and honest. I'm really fine, Old Gu, so don't worry. We do need to communicate... As for you, Old Gu, just listen to it like a story." Wushen calmed herself down, looking at the chaotic dorm. She rubbed her temples, unable to bear looking at her bedsheets and pajamas.

Zheng Wuyou raised her wrist, glanced at her watch. There was still almost an hour before the 8 AM wake-up bell. If everyone spoke concisely, they should be able to finish. This dream really fostered a good habit of punctuality.

Wait...

"Woc!" Where did the watch come from? Zheng Wuyou looked at the watch on her wrist in surprise, not remembering where it had appeared from.

She never wore a watch, let alone one with such a complicated dial.

"..." Taking a closer look, Zheng Wuyou understood. The layout of the watch was identical to the watch in Zhu Family Village, except one looked like a new version and the one from Zhu Family Village was an old model.

She helplessly raised her wrist, showing the watch on it to Yuan Ling and the others.

As expected, Yuan Ling, whose hand was still waving in the air, also had a watch of a different style on her wrist.

Sensing something was wrong, Yuan Ling stopped her hand in mid-air, staring blankly at the watch, as if her soul had been instantly snatched away.

Then, she reacted like a meme, frantically twisting the watch, trying to take it off, muttering as she did so:

"What kind of unlucky thing is this!"

"Hey, Old Gu, we couldn't be sure just now, but... now we can be sure." Wushen also revealed the watch on her wrist. Almost simultaneously, all three of their phones chimed with a message notification.

Virtual Operator 414:

"Congratulations to all Dream Experience Officers for receiving your corresponding rewards. The rewards will take effect in the next dream. Please check the time carefully, Dream Experience Officers. The next dream will begin in 7 days. Countdown Nightmare awaits your arrival."