"Hey, hey, this isn't a game."
Jiang Han refused as if it were only natural, waving a hand and letting out a long sigh.
"First, once I go in, how am I supposed to clear out the nightmare? You're not going to make me scrub the whole place clean with spells, are you? Second, how do you know it'll return to normal after the nightmare is cleared? And lastly, it's dangerous. Angelite wrote about it before in A Handbook for Exploring Other Worlds: The Accidents Volume—any mutation involving folded spaces is an extremely dangerous mutation."
"Oh, that's easy to explain. I have evidence, and there's something in it for you too."
Du Ningzhuang smiled, sneakily taking out the pitch-black fragments dropped by those turkeys. Smiling, she placed them on Chen Ligu's desk, piling them into a small heap.
"Once nightmares materialize, they become aggregates of leyline energy. After the nightmare creatures are cleared out, these things left behind—let's call them nightmare crystals for now—are energy sources on the level of a wishing machine. Hehe, though they're very weak."
Du Ningzhuang took out a card and gave it a shake.
"A Maltese Burger, made with an extra-large bun, three Angus ground-beef patties, and plenty of ketchup, cheese, and cucumber slices."
She flipped the card over.
"And all the raw ingredients are written on this side."
Jiang Han took the card and gave it a look, finding that it was rather exquisitely made.
She turned it over in her fingers.
"And then?"
"Heh."
Du Ningzhuang took the card back, set it aside, and quickly sketched the image of an alchemical cauldron with her finger.
"You know how to play tarot, right? Use the Holy Triangle spread. Just set the card reversed in the center, place the nightmare crystals properly, and then..."
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