Hearing Bai Ze's answer, Lu Mingyu looked at the black lake again.
"So if I jump in, I can fall into an even deeper dream?"
Seeing Lu Mingyu's state, Bai Ze rolled his eyes dramatically.
"No. Why are you so fixated on the past?"
"What's past should be left in the past."
"Even if you fall into a deeper dream, what has already happened will not change."
"Besides, those dreams are shaped from your memories. Dreams born from nightmares never lead to anything good."
"What exactly are you hoping to gain by clinging to it?"
Faced with Bai Ze's confusion, Lu Mingyu smiled. "I want to enter the dream not because I want to change anything."
"It is because only by entering the dream can I return to the past."
"And only by returning to the past can I see them from my memories one more time."
"No matter how vicious they are in the dream, they are still the ones from my memories."
With that, Lu Mingyu leaped into the lake without hesitation.
Splash!
Just as Lu Mingyu jumped into the lake, Guan Ping and Chen Feng arrived.
Looking at Chen Changsheng, who sat cross-legged in meditation, and Lu Mingyu, who had jumped into the lake, Guan Ping asked in confusion.
"Lord Bai, what are they doing?"
Glancing at Guan Ping and Chen Feng, Bai Ze said lazily, "It's complicated. I'll put it simply."
"Qian Ya and that old man Li are trapped down below."
"The black water in the lake makes people have nightmares, the kind where one falls asleep and never wakes."
"To save them, the only solution is to drink all the black water here."
"Chen Changsheng and Lu Mingyu clearly fell in love with the taste of the black water, so they're competing to drink