I could no longer tell reality from dreams at all.
If going to the cave alone had been a dream, then I must also have told Zhang Rong and the others that I had a girlfriend in that dream.
I had told them I had a girlfriend before they chased me out. Then I had gone to the room where I slept, grabbed the Entrenching Tool and a flashlight, and headed to the cave alone.
If I had said I had a girlfriend in a dream, how could the real Zhang Rong possibly know about her?
So it had not been a dream. I really had gone to the cave, and I really had seen a man who looked exactly like me.
But when Zhang Rong woke me just now, I had been facing off against that man in my dream.
How could that be explained?
It had already become an inexplicable paradox.
Now... I could not tell which part had been a dream and which part had been reality.
I wondered if staying in the mountains too long had given me a touch of schizophrenia.
After all, only schizophrenia could make things that had never happened overlap with things that had.
The more I thought, the more my head hurt, and the more confused I became.
Just then, Shi Xiu walked past me. I quickly pulled him aside and asked, "Senior brother, are you a simp? Are you someone's backup option?"
When I had asked Zhang Rong earlier, he had said I had told them about my girlfriend yesterday.
I remembered them chatting around the fire yesterday and saying Shi Xiu was a simp. He liked a young white-collar woman who worked at a company, but she felt he did not have a proper job and had turned down