The center of the nightmare

"S-so powerful!" Gu Zhaoning watched, dumbfounded.

No, "powerful" doesn't even begin to cover this! Su Xingwan was stunned by the sight. Could superpowers really be this strong? The popular clips she had watched online had all looked more like "magic tricks" that required no sleight of hand.

Her homemade spear and the gun she had gone to such great lengths to obtain suddenly felt like jokes.

And the monster that had tormented her for almost a year had been destroyed in the blink of an eye. What did that make all the pain and despair she had endured?

For a moment, Su Xingwan choked up, unable to speak.

"This isn't the one." Chen Xuan frowned.

Only Lin Qing heard him muttering to himself. "What do you mean?"

"It isn't the Shadow Demon. With that little spiritual energy, it would barely qualify as a low-level demon in the outside world." Chen Xuan glanced up at the gloomy sky. "And the nightmare shows no sign of ending. We need to keep looking."

Lin Qing turned back. "Su Xingwan, do you ever encounter several monsters at once in your dreams?"

"Uh... I've never really noticed. One is usually enough to make me wish I were dead," she replied.

"That's fine. We'll just keep looking." Chen Xuan looked at the car that had been sliced into a pile of parts, and an idea struck him. "Can you steal cars?"

"'Steal' sounds awful!" Lin Qing protested. "It's called technical intrusion!"

"Fine. Can you technically intrude into a car?"

"Depends on how many electronic components it has."

Chen Xuan picked an electric car, deftly smashed a side window with his fist, and unlocked the door from the inside. "Try this one."

Lin Qing removed a panel on the driver's side, found a hardware port, and connected