The Strange Experience of Watching a Story

If Ma Feifei had heard Liu Ying's words, he would have been terrified, though of course he didn't know it.

Zhang Yunji simply didn't believe it. He thought his sister might have gone mad. He didn't even bother giving Liu Ying the fruit he had peeled for her; he picked it up and ate it himself. He was also considering arranging a marriage for his sister so she could be married off as soon as possible and stop her from overthinking all day long.

"Zhou Guanyu is a good man, and his sister has an ambiguous relationship with the shop owner. If Liu Ying could marry Zhou Guanyu, wouldn't our family's relationship with the shop owner be even closer?"

"Of course, it would be even better if I could marry the shop owner directly, but unfortunately the shop owner... sigh..." Thinking of this, Zhang Yunji couldn't help but sigh, looking disappointed.

The Liu Ying on the roof had no idea that their brother was having so much on his mind. At this moment, she was excited about her own thoughts. She gathered her skirt and sat on the roof, hugging her legs together and gently resting her forehead on them. Her bright eyes were fixed on the projection, ripples of emotion flowing within them.

As night fell and dawn passed, a new day was about to begin. Everyone had spent a magical night, an Insomnia.

The story of Journey to Journey to the West continues, and everyone is like a spectator watching the story unfold. This feeling is truly indescribable.

"I have a feeling this projection is a bit strange," a cultivator suddenly said, frowning in the quiet atmosphere.

"Isn't it the same as before? What's so strange about it?" Some cultivators were puzzled, not seeing any difference between this projection and those before.

"Yeah, there's no difference." That's what everyone said.

The cultivator merely frowned slightly, unable to articulate why, yet he still sensed something was amiss.

"This projection seems to be telling us a story." A deep voice rang out, and everyone turned to look. They found that the speaker was Zhou Wuji, the mayor of Dubian Town. Beside Zhou Wuji, Zhou Zhuling, dressed in white, stood by his side, staring at the projection with her gentle eyes.

"What do you mean by that, Wuji Spirit Saint?" a Spirit Saint asked from mid-air.

Seeing someone ask a question, Zhou Wuji didn't refuse to answer, saying, "I don't know if everyone has noticed, but usually the time spent in the worlds in the books is relatively short, and the plot tasks have certain limitations. However, the world in this 'Journey to the West' book feels like it's not about completing plot tasks, but rather it's showing everyone the story of the book through visuals. We are like readers, spectators, now watching the entire story and world of 'Journey to the West'."

"Yes... it's been a bit long today, it's almost dawn." After hearing Zhou Wuji's words, one of the cultivators subconsciously looked up at the sky and noticed that the moon was starting to fade, and the sky was no longer dark, but gradually becoming brighter.

"Mayor Zhou is right. That's why I felt something was off. It's because watching the world unfold in the book all night gave me the feeling of reading a book, not like completing a plot mission," the cultivator who had been unable to explain for a while said with sudden realization.

"That's right! And we haven't seen any cultivators at all from beginning to end!" Another cultivator noticed a problem, the most obvious one, which made even those cultivators who couldn't see the problem before puzzled and pondered.

Based on the previously shown projection plot, regardless of the duration, the most obvious point is that cultivators from the Azure Dragon Continent will definitely appear in the world within the book. This is because the trigger condition for the world within the book is that someone needs to read the book, comprehend its contents, and thus trigger the world within the book, enter it to complete the task, and obtain its benefits.

However, from the beginning to now, everyone has noticed that there have been no cultivators from the Azure Dragon Continent in "Journey to the West," and not even the owner of the Mysterious Bookstore has been seen.

This clearly contradicts everyone's understanding of the books in the Mysterious Bookstore, and it doesn't fit the usual logic of the worlds that have appeared in the books before.

"So what exactly is the problem here?" This was what everyone was most eager to know. They all looked at Zhou Wuji, but Zhou Wuji shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either. Everyone could only continue to look at the projection with doubt.

At this point, the story projected on the screen had reached the fifty-seventh episode, which is the episode about the True and False Monkey King!

At the start of the story, Ma Feifei, who was above the clouds, glanced at Sun Wukong and noticed that he had no expression and was quietly watching the plot unfold below.

"Does he know the plot of this episode?" Ma Feifei was somewhat suspicious. Logically speaking, Sun Wukong should have been separated from the plot by the system before the start of this episode, and allowed to Sun Wukong his life through a dream, which is the so-called recollection of the plot.

Since it's called a memory, it's impossible for something Sun Wukong hasn't experienced yet to appear. But looking at Sun Wukong's expression now, Ma Feifei didn't notice anything different from before. He had been silent ever since he accompanied Tang Monk on his Journey to the West the scriptures.

Ma Feifei could only suppress his doubts and look down at the plot development. In this episode: Sun Wukong had another conflict with Tang Monk and was driven away by Tang Monk. Sun Wukong was dissatisfied and went to see Guanyin. At this time, a fake Wukong appeared, defeated Tang Monk, stole his bundle, and ran back to Flower-Fruit Mountain, declaring that he would go to the Western Paradise to retrieve the scriptures. Sha Wujing went to Flower-Fruit Mountain to find Sun Wukong and saw this scene. He then went to the South Sea to visit Guanyin. He happened to see Wukong nearby, so he drew his staff and struck him, and told Guanyin what he had seen.

After Guanyin learned the whole story, she sent Sun Wukong and Sha Wujing back to Flower-Fruit Mountain to investigate.

The story of Chapter 57 ends here, and the following events suddenly freeze at this moment.

"Ding ding ding"

At this moment, the projection began to emit a blazing light. As the light shone, a golden beam shot out from within the projection, then gradually contracted and disappeared, and everything returned to calm, as if nothing had ever happened.

"What does this mean? Why did it suddenly disappear?" This scene left everyone at a loss, looking at each other in bewilderment.

"It should be over by now, right?" one of the cultivators said.

"This is nothing! The story of the True and False Monkey King isn't even over yet, how could it be over already?"

"Exactly! At least distinguish between the True and False Monkey King before ending this!"

"Scrap Dog!"

Most cultivators were clearly dissatisfied with the sudden end of the story, but of course, there was nothing they could do about it.

"Let's disperse..." A cultivator looked up at the east; the sun had already risen, and it was dawn!

"Disperse... disperse." The onlookers shook their heads and sighed as they left, and the important figures who had stood in mid-air all night also disappeared. The onlookers on the rooftops and in the courtyards began to pack up and go inside to Rest.

"Let's go inside and rest too." Zhang Yunji looked at his wife with concern; she was pregnant and hadn't slept all night.

"Okay." Baili Chuxue replied softly, and Zhang Yunji quickly helped her up and led her back to the house.

With a "whoosh," a white figure flashed across the rooftop.

"Liu Ying, where are you going?" Zhang Yunji called out.

"I'm going to find the shop owner and get some answers!" Liu Ying's voice drifted from afar, but her figure had already vanished.