The World in the Horn

Is this Dawn City?

Mo Ling recalled what Station Master Liang had said when he first entered the Monitoring Station.

Dawn City should be the city above the Abyss.

Could it be that this Black Horn brought him out of the Abyss?

Following the road, Mo Ling walked into the Dawn City Library.

The interior of the library was still incredibly luxurious, with high ceilings and sunlight streaming in through the glass windows.

This was the same type of glass used at the Monitoring Station, appearing as tiles from the outside but glass from the inside.

There were many reading machines on the first floor of the library, and Mo Ling walked towards one of them.

Sitting down in front of the chair, the machine very humanely began to introduce its operation, and Mo Ling quickly mastered the method.

Opening the search box, Mo Ling entered the term "black horn."

The information that popped up was largely the same as when Li Luo had searched earlier.

Mo Ling then tentatively entered Li Luo's name, but no information popped up in the information bar.

As expected, I can't search for citizen identities.

After thinking for a moment, Mo Ling typed "Hunter Level" into the input bar.

At this point, countless pieces of information popped up:

"Hunters are people who explore the Abyss."

"Initially, there was no level division for Hunters, and they were a mixed bag."

"But as the exploration of the Abyss gradually deepened, some people discovered that the Abyss had layers and descended to the Abyss Second Layer, bringing back a Relic called the Judgment Balance."

"This Relic can bestow a nameplate upon every Hunter, on which the Hunter's level written in the Abyss language and the title bestowed upon them by the Abyss will automatically appear."

"Dawn City took this opportunity to regulate the behavior of all Hunters. To enter the Abyss, one must carry a nameplate for management purposes."

"The Hunter level on the nameplate will increase with the number of Abyss layers reached."

"From Level Two Hunter onwards, a title is bestowed by the Abyss."

So that's how it is. No wonder everyone has a nameplate.

At this moment, Mo Ling had a sudden idea. Bypassing "black horn," he began a term search for his own experience:

"black hole/dizziness/memory loss."

The progress bar moved slowly, and after a while, a piece of information appeared before Mo Ling's eyes:

Relic: Dream

Price: 500 grams of glass-jarred Korean kimchi

Ability: Allows the user to enter an unawakening sleep

[Discovery Location: Earth]

[Discoverer: Zhou Ming]

This was a Relic that appeared right at the beginning of the Great Cataclysm.

At that time, smoke and fire filled the world, and people were in a state of panic.

On Jeju Island, a sect emerged.

—The Dreamscape Sect.

Of course, they didn't call themselves the Dreamscape Sect; this was just the name given by later generations.

This sect claimed that the current world was fake, a world within a novel, artificially created.

They needed to escape this world and go to another world that the Creator wasn't bothered to control.

Extremely ridiculous claims.

But in that environment, with anomalies occurring frequently, various strange Abyss creatures and Relic phenomena were challenging people's worldviews.

So, many ignorant people believed them.

The Dreamscape Sect organized its followers to meditate, visualizing a continuously falling black hole.

They even printed flyers of that black hole and distributed them everywhere.

They explained to their followers that as long as they visualized this black hole in their minds while in bed, and then placed a 500-gram glass jar of Korean kimchi under their pillow,

And then fell into a deep sleep, they could escape this world toyed with by the Creator and go to a paradise, a world uncontrolled.

During the Great Cataclysm, there were many such sects. These sects, which sounded preposterous from the start, didn't attract the attention of the authorities at all.

The authorities were busy dealing with more urgent matters and had no time to bother with such nonsensical sects.

However, one day, the son of a Dreamscape Sect follower discovered that he couldn't contact his elderly father.

Calls weren't answered, messages weren't returned, and even when he reached the doorstep and knocked, there was no response.

He quickly opened the door and rushed into the room, only to find his elderly father still at home.

Sleeping soundly.

Under the pillow was a glass jar.

More and more reports finally caught the attention of the authorities.

But it was too late; almost all the followers of the Dreamscape Sect had fallen into a deathlike sleep and could no longer wake up.

No method could rouse them.

When the army stormed into the home of the Dreamscape Sect leader,

There was only a smiling corpse on the bed, and under the pillow was also a glass jar.

The authorities urgently destroyed those black hole flyers and encrypted and saved the appearance of the black hole.

Just when they thought it was over, the cleanup crew searching for the flyers caught a madman.

The madman kept telling the cleanup crew.

This world is a dream!

The cleanup crew quickly notified the research institute.

The madman recounted his experience to the researchers:

One day, a friend gave him a flyer.

And told him about the Dreamscape Sect's philosophy and the method to go to another world.

He didn't believe in another world, but he found it very interesting, so he gave it a try.

At first, he didn't have a glass jar at home, so he used a bag to hold 500 grams of kimchi and put it under his pillow.

He slept, but nothing happened.

The next day, he bought a glass jar with a skeptical attitude.

Then he followed the method his friend taught him.

At night, with a dizzy spell, he felt himself being pulled into another world by the black hole in his mind.

He also lost his memory, believing this world was real, and began his daily life in this world.

One night, he and his friend went to a bar, and his friend told him an interesting rumor.

"As long as you look at this flyer before sleeping, and then put 501 grams of glass-jarred Korean kimchi under your pillow, you can reach another world after falling asleep!"

He looked at the flyer his friend gave him and thought it was too interesting!

This time, when he went home, he bought a glass jar along the way.

"As long as you look at this flyer before sleeping, and then put 1997 grams of glass-jarred Korean kimchi under your pillow, you can reach another world after falling asleep!"

"Can the pillow hold it down? Is it too much? Can I even sleep?" he asked his friend back.

He began to imagine himself with a stiff neck.

At this moment, a sense of strangeness erupted from his heart, and countless memories instantly surged out.

When he realized he was dreaming, he found he could wake up.

So he began to constantly wake up...

After finishing his story, the madman said to the researchers, "There's no point in telling you either, I need to keep waking up."

Then the madman's face began to contort, and he tried hard to open his eyes wide, looking like he was holding back some big move.

Finding it had no effect, he asked the researcher in confusion, "In your world, how many grams of kimchi do you need to put under the pillow?"

"500."

Upon hearing this, the madman stared blankly at the researcher, tears streaming down his face.

This madman, who had been lost in the dream for a long time, was the discoverer of the Relic "Dream," Zhou Ming.

Ultimately, the researchers defined this event as a Relic phenomenon.

Because the cost of 500 grams of glass-jarred Korean kimchi was too consistent with the style of a Relic.

Although the Relic itself was not found, this incident was thus successfully resolved.