Weird Tale Reaction

"Tap tap tap..."

In the dead of night, a rapid knocking sounded at the door. The man, who was lying in bed but had not fallen asleep, suddenly sat up, grabbed a large sledgehammer and hid it behind his back, and cautiously walked toward the Room Door.

Although he felt that if it were an enemy, they wouldn't knock on the door, the fact that someone would suddenly come to his door in the middle of the night still made him wary.

"Who?"

"It's me!" A clear female voice came from outside the door, accompanied by a strange power.

Sensing the power belonging to authority, the man immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't put away the sledgehammer in his hand. He simply opened the Room Door quickly, letting in the girl who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old. After the Room Door closed, he frowned and said:

"What brings you here so late?"

"Didn't you feel it before?" The girl frowned, looking at the man's bewildered expression, and couldn't help but sigh.

"You don't even have sensory abilities?"

"Yes, and it's always on, but I haven't sensed anything." The man was still holding the sledgehammer, while checking his [Human Radar] Trait to confirm that the [Scan], [Detect], and [Electromagnetic Induction] powers were always on. His initial worry immediately turned into certainty.

Seeing the man's expression, the girl didn't bother with any more words and said directly:

"Just a few minutes ago, the power of dreams swept across this area. I suspect it was some Dream God conducting a wide-area search."

"Then you still dare to come over?" The man frowned even more. If dream-like deities were conducting a wide-area search, those of them who hadn't fallen asleep would be particularly conspicuous. If the other party took the opportunity to search back, then being exposed was only a matter of time.

"I didn't plan to come here, but I could sense that the Divine Power was heading north. It shouldn't be targeting us." The girl shook her head. If she didn't have special authority over Against Gods," she wouldn't have been able to detect the change in the Divine Power at all.

"The north?" The man frowned, then immediately realized:

"I remember that Sleep God and Death are brothers in your area, right? They both belong to the forces of the underworld? Don't you think this means King Yama, has been exposed?"

"The connection between the Sleep God and the god of death is that the Sleep God grants eternal sleep to the dying, while the power of King Yama) is judgment after death. The two are completely different Divine Duty, and his location is in the Bailin Country. If this Dream God's target is King Yama, there's no reason for him to appear in Budali."

The girl shook her head in denial, then pondered for a moment and said:

"Maybe those monsters are trying to scare people in the dream?"

"Anyway, you're smarter than me, just tell me what to do." The man was quite open-minded about it and simply gave up thinking about it.

The girl looked helpless upon hearing this, but still gave a feasible answer.

"First, we need to determine the true power of that deity. Tomorrow, we'll search online for information about dreams. Such a large-scale fluctuation of Divine Power will definitely cause people around to have similar dreams. Through this, we can roughly figure out the other party's purpose... Never mind, I'll handle this myself. You hurry up and settle the identity."

"Didn't I already finish it?" The man, who was playing with the large hammer in his hand, was slightly taken aback, but the girl said:

"Didn't I tell you you need multiple different identities? The greater the contrast, the better. Don't you have that cross-dressing ability? Go and get a few female identities!"

"Can you feel it?" The giant dragon coiled in the sea suddenly opened its eyes, and the monster with the long, slender neck also raised its head—

"The power of dreams has touched my [Mirage Dragon] Trait. Shall I try a reverse intrusion?"

The dragon blinked its amber eyes twice. "Can you determine the specific attributes?"

"It should be some kind of dream-like power; if we just track it, we shouldn't be detected." The water monster shook its long, slender head, but was stopped by the dragon:

"Don't take risks. Dream has no direct connection to our system. Even if we successfully kill it, we can't quickly absorb it. There's no need to provoke it. Just keep an eye on it."

"That's true." The water monster curled its neck back up, but then muttered:

"If it's the God of Sweet Dreams, she shouldn't have anything to do with those Old Fossils. But what about that woman?"

"Probably. That group isn't easy to mess with. I won't even mention the woman, but that guy called Old Li is incredibly fierce. Back when I wasn't a floor master yet, he beat me up..." The dragon seemed to recall something indescribable, and couldn't help but bare its teeth. The water monster, upon hearing this, flicked its tail.

"What are you saying? How many of those Weird Tale from that era weren't beaten by him? But wasn't that guy down on his luck? How did he get back on his feet?"

"Who knows? I heard that some big shot has appeared in the real world and completely destroyed that woman's organization. Maybe it's because of some Weird Tale that's linked to qigong that they gave him a helping hand?"

The dragon made this conjecture, and the water monster pondered for a moment before shaking its head.

"These young people are really too exaggerated. By the way, where did that guy go? Weren't we supposed to go together?"

"He went to the Ideal Country," the dragon snorted in dissatisfaction, while the water monster shook its head and said:

"Didn't everyone tell him there's no future in being human? I've been in here more than ten times already. If being human were more convenient, would I be stuck in the water when I have an attack? These damn claws can't even scratch my back!"

As it spoke, the water monster stretched out its flipper-like limbs and waved them twice. The dragon simply blew a bubble and calmly said:

"That's normal. Newcomers always think that the seniors are useless if they don't suffer some losses. He probably thinks that as an alien with the authority of alien technology, he can definitely get by in the Ideal Country, right?"

"Just kidding, the tech side is the hardest to get by on!" The water monster rolled its eyes and muttered:

"That guy only knows that his technology is advanced, but he doesn't consider how many years others have developed their technology. All technologies have traceable origins. His alien technology is not only not ahead of its generation, but it's even at the same generation or two generations weaker. It doesn't have a complete development trajectory. Anyone with a proper academic background can see that there's something wrong with him at a glance."

"Who says otherwise? But it's good for a newcomer to suffer a little loss. Let's pretend he's not here this year, and play by ourselves." The dragon casually bit a passing large fish, which looked like a real aquatic animal, a sea monster. It poked its head out of the water to look around, and then said unexpectedly:

"Speaking of which, this God of Sweet Dreams is quite shrewd. With such a sweep, those fishing boats around here probably won't be able to fish tonight. Perfect, you can bring over a typhoon to blow those boats away. With the god taking the blame, it's less likely that anything unusual will be noticed."

"You've thought of everything!" The dragon stretched its body and exhaled forcefully towards the sea, unleashing its power to Summon Wind and Rain. Patches of dark clouds, carried by the sea breeze, slowly approached the fishing boat. In an instant, a torrential downpour began...