"After the passage was destroyed, they declared Perfect Life taboo in the name of protecting the city and performed Brain Domain corrective surgery on over a million people. The company and all its power were firmly back in their hands."
"They seemed to have won everything, but I knew fear tormented them every moment. They worried that the saviors would return from the sea of blood, that an unspeakable being would descend upon the human world. So, within limits they could control, they actively researched every kind of power: ghost creatures, theology, mental willpower. Every unspeakable being mentioned in the records became a subject of study. Their research into Butterfly and Dream went most smoothly. Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals established a dedicated department, and that was when the Brain-Domain Game tests began."
"They tried to steal the Deep World's power through dreams while keeping a strict watch over any possible passages and doors, preventing the saviors' people from returning to reality."
The man had said a great deal in one breath and was growing tired. Small cracks had opened across his lips, but he dared not stop. He feared that once he closed his mouth, he would never have another chance to say these things.
"Later, I was entrusted with an important task: building Dreamfold Town as the core of the Brain-Domain Game."
"Dreamfold Town is closely connected to the unspeakable being called Dream. You saw the stone tablet at the town entrance, didn't you? Its true form is a shrine Dream left behind. We overlaid and pieced together countless people's dreams, hoping to recreate its power."
"It was extremely dangerous, and merging so many nightmares was difficult for us. As it happened, one of the former saviors carried traces of Dream's aura. That was Zhang Mingli."
"According to classified records,