Aiding the Dream

The next morning, a topic swept across the entire internet.

Its title was: Mass Rebirth Incident.

It began when someone complained online that they had dreamed of being reborn four years in the past, around the time Zhao Cheng blew himself up. Just as they had planned to get there first and snatch the opportunity, they discovered a whole crowd of competitors had popped up and beaten them to it.

At first, it was only a minor complaint. But then quite a few people said they had had a similar dream the night before. They could not remember the exact details, but it seemed to have been roughly the same thing.

Collective dreams had not been uncommon throughout history. More than a century ago, in a small village by a lake overseas, many villagers had simultaneously dreamed of the sun falling into the lake.

But such events usually occurred within a small area. The scientific explanation was supposedly informational interference caused by magnetic fields.

This time, however, people scattered across the farthest reaches of the land had experienced similar dreams at almost the exact same time.

Hardly anyone connected the matter to Zhao Cheng. A swordsman casually chopping missiles apart was already absurd enough—if he could also manipulate dreams across such vast stretches of space and time, why not just ascend to the heavens?!

Still, with the initial stirring of the flames, and because Zhao Cheng's name came with its own traffic, this topic—which had fallen silent years ago—became popular again.

Memes like "Reborn overnight, a hundred thousand girl-next-door big sisters gather in the neighborhood" and "Confession rejected, every girl in the school cuts in line and steals the prize" all erupted at once.

Some complained that even for a Mythology, this was more than they could bear. It was