The cave was pitch-black.
With a Gas Lamp hanging from his waist, a cane in one hand and a gun in the other, Li Wei descended the stairs, level by level.
It was so dark that he could see nothing beyond the ground illuminated by his lamp. It was as though nothing existed around him. Even his footsteps produced no echoes in the narrow passage, instead seeming to vanish altogether.
"Hmm..."
As he walked, Li Wei began to think.
Was I asleep right now? Or awake?
Phantom Killer's way of using his ability was crude, but Li Wei had seen movies. He knew that truly powerful nightmare makers could even stitch reality and dreams together seamlessly. When you thought you were still awake, you might already have entered a dream.
That was a true nightmare killer. By comparison, Phantom Killer was honestly a little... lame.
Still, figuring out whether he was dreaming didn't seem that difficult.
At that thought, Li Wei closed his eyes, then slowly opened them again.
The empty darkness vanished. Before Li Wei appeared a dense tropical rainforest, its air humid and sweltering, almost making it difficult to breathe. The distant sky was dark, as though a thunderstorm were about to break.
Sure enough, I'm dreaming.
I just don't know when this dream began.
Li Wei looked himself over again. He was still wearing the clothes he had put on before bed: the Hunter Set. The Persuader felt the same as ever in his hand, and the Cane Gun looked perfectly fine.
What about other things, then?
Li Wei closed his eyes again and began to concentrate-then a strange, illusory, distorted object appeared before him. It shifted constantly, struggling to take shape somewhere between liquid and solid. In the end, however, the strange thing burst apart with