The shadows exploded like ignited gunpowder, swallowing everything in the room. The light warped, radiating a deathly presence utterly unlike anything in reality.
The Judo Coach's entire family had mutated into hideous monsters. The depraved old man constantly suffered the agony of Wooden Spikes piercing his heart. His wife's face had been burned, and all her fingernails had been torn off, leaving her unable to pick anything up. Her two children had become beasts with human heads and canine bodies, drooling and doing nothing but barking.
Standing in the room, Gao Ming noticed something particularly unusual: the extremities of every mutated monster were connected to the shadows spilling from the girl. The wife, for example, had crawled out of the girl's hair. The lower bodies of the two vicious dogs were hidden in the shadows beneath the bed, and the wooden spike piercing the old man's chest was identical to the one clutched in the girl's hand.
All the ghosts in this family seemed to have been imagined by the little girl, only to mutate into terrifying forms under the influence of the shadows.
Shadows, mutation—the source is the unconscious girl.
The python-like shadows coiled around Gao Ming's body, making his vision blur.
"This is bad!" Tang Qing, who had been restraining the fool, broke out in a cold sweat at the sight. "We're going to be dragged into a deeper, Second-Layer Dream! Hurry! Everyone, kill yourselves!"
"Second-Layer Dream?" Neither Xu Yajing nor Xu Deyi understood what Tang Qing meant.
Tang Qing had already drawn a knife and plunged it straight into the heart of the young woman beside him. "I'm the liaison for Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals! I'm also in charge of your test! You're still inside the Brain-Domain Test, but once you enter a deeper dream, waking up will