Li Wei discovered that Annie gave him a somewhat different impression in dreams than she did in everyday life.
When she was awake, it wasn't that Annie couldn't talk. She simply rarely spoke, rather like a computer-controlled NPC. In plain terms, if you didn't initiate a conversation, she wouldn't speak to you. Li Wei recalled that the few times Annie had approached him first seemed to have involved dissecting the sea monster and the duel on the train.
At the time, Li Wei had thought there was nothing particularly strange about Annie apart from how little she spoke.
But now, perhaps because people were more likely to speak their minds in dreams, Li Wei discovered that not only did Annie behave very much like an NPC, but her way of thinking was also rather hard to describe.
Still, she was entitled to her own thoughts. Li Wei wasn't so bored that he wanted to police even those.
The biggest problem now was how to leave this dream.
"I don't know much about dreams."
Annie readily admitted that dealing with this sort of situation wasn't her forte.
"But generally speaking, if someone faces a lethal threat in a dream, they might wake up in reality."
"Yes, that's generally true."
Li Wei understood what Annie meant. Most people had probably experienced something similar, such as dreaming that they jumped off a cliff or missed a step on the stairs and fell. Their legs would instinctively jerk, and the next instant, they would wake with a fright.
He vaguely recalled some scientific research claiming that this was actually a sign of the body growing during sleep, though whether that was true was another matter.
"So, should we find a cliff and jump off it?"
"That applies to ordinary dreams. Given the state of