The Reinforcements Have Arrived
"He really fell for it." Feng Xue looked at Qing Jin, who had indeed believed it, and couldn't help but gain a better understanding of how this world worked.
This technique of suddenly erasing one's own existence actually exploits a bug in the workings of this world. Although powers become unusable after entering a dream, the knowledge bestowed by the Tag still plays a role. Furthermore, even though one is already in a dream, the existence of the Phantom Object itself is enough to prove that the Dream World still belongs to the Supernatural Tale World. In other words, here, [consciousness] is still the only hard currency. Therefore, as long as the byproducts can be combined with cognition, the established Weird Tale can be reproduced.
For example, although Feng Xue cannot directly use the powers of Libra or directly make transaction coins by hand, he can still make a coin by hand by relying on the knowledge granted by the [Money Printer] Tag. As the coin is made, the existing knowledge about the coin will be activated, and the coin will automatically be transformed into a transaction coin.
Similarly, although Feng Xue cannot directly use the [Hermit] power now, he himself possesses the Tag of [Hermit], [Assassin], and [Unknown]. By using techniques such as Breath Concealment, he can briefly enter a stealth state, causing Qing Jin to have the perception that "the person has suddenly disappeared." This small amount of perception will then interact with the power of the Hermit Authority, thus briefly triggering the power of the power.
Although this method seems very cumbersome, in short, it's sleepwalking.
In other words, one stimulates their real-life self through cognition in dreams, thereby inducing the "body" to produce a "conditioned reflex" sensation.
After successfully conning Qing Jin, Feng Xue didn't rest. He took off the ring he had randomly picked up and put it in his pocket, while picking out books that interested him from the bookshelf and thinking about what to do next.
There are two urgent tasks at present.
First, there's the Corrupted Creatures that might be related to the so-called "Hoth".
He had been thinking that even if he only had his external External Martial Arts left, he shouldn't have died so quietly. Now he thought that it was probably because he didn't know the rules of sleep and was ambushed by something after he fell asleep.
The second point is that he forgets what happened in the dream after waking up. After all, without this setting, even if he was ambushed and killed in the dream after waking up, he would have enough time in reality to record the events.
"..." Feng Xue turned her head and glanced at Ghost Hand, who seemed to be secretly thinking about how to make a move. She had a slight idea in mind, then pretended not to have noticed Ghost Hand's behavior at all and started reading her book.
Qing Jin looked at the leisurely Feng Xue, and then at Ghost Hand who would occasionally pull out poison, firecrackers, knives, chainsaws and other such things and brandish them. He could only think that her mental fortitude was truly remarkable.
If it were me, even if the other person was just making that gesture, let alone actually killing me, I wouldn't be able to remain so calm.
But Feng Xue knew very well that the ghost hand could not kill her, so she was overly relaxed and even asked the ghost hand to massage her shoulders and back from time to time, which made Qing Jin tremble with fear.
And so, while grinding up his reverence for Qing Jin and studying the chapter's collection of books, the night passed by.
Feng Xue put the book back on the shelf. Qing Jin finally received a reply. Looking at the message on his phone, he said to Feng Xue:
"We've received news from the branch office in the provincial capital; they'll be sending a Dream Guardian specializes in dealing with flesh-based Corrupted Creatures."
"When will he...?" Feng Xue wanted to ask when he would arrive, but suddenly remembered the common knowledge she had just read in the book, so she tapped her head and shook her head, saying:
"I'd completely forgotten, this is Dream World..."
In the Dream World, day and night are opposite to those in reality, but there are subtle differences in the flow of time. For example, in the Dream World, eight hours of dreaming is equivalent to sixteen hours of waking up, while sixteen hours of sleep (wakefulness) is equivalent to only eight hours of sleep in this world.
However, according to Feng Xue's own experience, this isn't actually quite accurate, or rather, time in this Dream World doesn't actually have a strict proportion.
Just like when people are dreaming, it often happens that it gets dark in one moment and dawn in another. In a dream, several days may pass but only a few minutes in reality, or vice versa.
This dream is similar, but because people interact with each other, they can anchor time for each other. However, once you enter a state of solitude or stop observing time, time will flow in a chaotic way.
However chaotic the time in the dream may be, time in reality proceeds according to the Earth's rotation and revolution as Feng Xue knows. The time that Snake Pupil and the detective mentioned earlier was calibrated according to real-world time.
Qing Jin had no doubts about Feng Xue's situation; instead, he laughed and said:
"That's normal. After all, time in dreams always goes against our intuition. Some veteran Dream Guardian still can't get used to it even after more than ten years."
As they were talking, there was a sudden knock on the door. With the neat and rhythmic knocking, Qing Jin immediately stepped forward and opened the Room Door.
"Hello, I am 'Nail Thorn,' and I'm here to help deal with the Corrupted Creatures."
The newcomer stated his code name directly, and Feng Xue, using her Golden Finger abilities, saw information about the Phantom Object he possessed.
Name: Phantom Object - The Thorn of Glagi
Elements: [Weapons], [Transformation], [Corruption], [Growth], [Crossbows], [Erosion], [Hunger]
Description: A quiver made from a small piece of the skin of a Great Existence. The arrows inside are actually thorns growing from the skin. The flesh of any creature wounded by these thorns will inevitably begin to rot and die. Feeding the quiver with the rotting flesh will accelerate the growth of the arrows.
Note: Be careful not to cut yourself.
Name: Phantom Object - Hand of Sati
Elements: [Armor], [Weapons], [Gloves], [Stun], [Lost], [Soul]
Description: Gloves sewn from the skin of a certain being, possessing the ability to grasp souls. Those attacked by it will lose their sense of direction and suffer severe dizziness; if hit multiple times, even their souls may become lost.
Note: Please do not use it to rub your back... scratching your back is also not allowed!
"Two Obsession Item. The Thorn of Grazi should be used to deal with these Obsession Item. As for the glove that can attack souls..."
Feng Xue glanced at the full-coverage glove on the other person's dominant hand and figured that the other person was wearing it mainly to retrieve arrows.
"I wonder how many times this person has been poked to death before they'd rather wear gloves that would make them scratch themselves to death even when they're just itching..."
Regarding the question of whether people who die in dreams are actually dead...
This means that initially, Weird Tale have the characteristic that if you believe them, they become real. In other words, when the Dream Guardian of the dream world genuinely believe that death is true death and form related Weird Tale, then death is truly death, and the person is truly replaced by something.
As for what replaces them, that depends on the ghost Weird Tale itself. If it's too much trouble, using the real person to replace the real person is still a form of replacement, right? But for some special characters, using a clone of oneself wouldn't be a problem, would it?
Just like the protagonist's Gu Poison Body, it's generally just an external energy-consuming pack that makes people eat more. But if he wants, turning it into a cheap trick is just a thought away.