Kimchi

"So, this was a dream?"

The moment Mo Ling had that thought, he realized he could wake up.

The sensations in his body gradually returned. As long as he opened his eyes, he could leave this world.

But Mo Ling did not choose to wake up.

"Why does this world feel so real?"

The pajamas and Cube Head on him were understandable.

But the dream had even created a Dawn City that did not exist in his memories, and he could find information from reality in the library?

Mo Ling was puzzled.

"No wonder so many people get lost in dreams."

He continued reading the records and found that after Zhou Ming returned from the dream, he had also told the researchers that the dream contained information he did not know.

Zhou Ming had even guessed that dreams were connected.

Everyone who used this method arrived in the same dream!

But none of this had been confirmed.

Seeing this, Mo Ling was delighted.

If that was true, it meant he could find Li Luo in this world and wake her up!

But Dawn City was so enormous. How was he supposed to find Li Luo?

Remembering how he had awakened, he came up with an idea.

A sense of incongruity.

He wanted to create something in Dawn City that everyone could see and find strange.

The moment his consciousness awakened, Mo Ling realized that his abnormal perception had returned, including his teleportation ability.

But if he used teleportation now, where would the item go?

Into Cube Head?

Mo Ling left the reading machine, walked out the main doors, and arrived at the park outside Dawn City Library.

His perception spread outward. Its range had not changed; it was still 11m*11m*11m.

He aimed at a stone and tried activating teleportation.

The stone vanished.

It seemed to have fallen somewhere. Mo Ling heard a familiar metallic sound.

The sound seemed to be coming from his own head.

"Don't tell me it really went into my head?"

Mo Ling focused his vision on the cube atop his head.

Passing through the metal shell, Mo Ling arrived in a strange place.

It was a mountain range of kimchi...

The enormous metal ground stretched beyond sight, while endless darkness hung overhead.

Before him stood towering heaps of kimchi, stretching into the unseen distance. Kimchi constantly rolled down from the mountains.

Mo Ling tried picking up a piece and found that the kimchi had not spoiled or rotted. He had no idea how long it had been piled here.

The distinct sour smell filled the space and rushed straight into Mo Ling's head.

The small stone Mo Ling had teleported inside lay on the metal floor right in front of him.

Mo Ling's perception moved through this space extremely slowly. When he tried passing through the ground, he returned to the park.

What had that place been?

Mo Ling's mind could not process it.

Why had he ended up amid those endless kimchi mountains?

Mo Ling entered the space again and tossed the stone onto the ground outside.

Just like in reality, his ability had not been affected.

So he turned his attention to the kimchi.

With the familiar teleportation process, a pile of kimchi appeared on the ground.

Kimchi from that unknown place had been brought out by Mo Ling.

"Could this be the kimchi that had previously been used as the price for the Relic, 'Dream'?"

How had it ended up inside my head?

Suddenly, Mo Ling had a bold guess:

It was not that the kimchi had gone into his head, but that he had gone to the place where "Dream" stored its prices!

Mo Ling hurriedly entered Kimchi Space again. He wanted to test something.

Walking up to one of the mountains, he aimed the Teleportation Frame at the enormous kimchi mountain and continuously enlarged it.

"That's right. It still can only reach 11m at most."

Mo Ling then walked into the kimchi mountain.

In the park of Dawn City Library, people were strolling leisurely.

Suddenly, an enormous kimchi cube appeared in the middle of the park square.

The intense smell drew everyone's attention. After the kimchi cube appeared and smashed into the ground, it suddenly burst apart, and a tidal wave of kimchi surged toward the stunned passersby.

The passersby screamed and fled, but they were still submerged by the incoming kimchi.

Those lucky enough to escape quickly called the police.

Rescue workers soon arrived. Enduring the stench, they searched through the piles of kimchi for people trapped underneath.

Mo Ling, covered from head to toe in kimchi, was dug out and carried away from the scene on a stretcher.

But just as he reached the ambulance, Mo Ling suddenly sprang up and ran into the distance amid the Medical Personnel's shock.

"Success! It really works."

The three-story-tall mountain of kimchi had crashed onto him, yet he had not felt a thing. Mo Ling became even more convinced that this was a dream.

When he had been trapped inside the cube in reality, the limited space had only allowed him to teleport small objects.

Now that the restriction was gone, he could finally go all out.

In dream Dawn City, a news report was playing on the Electronic Screen:

"A hunter is using a Relic to create chaos in Dawn City."

"The suspect climbed to the top of a high-rise building and used a Relic to create an enormous kimchi cube."

"The kimchi cube falls from the sky and breaks apart in midair, causing kimchi rain to fall throughout the city."

"Citizens are advised to watch above them when going outside and remain safe."

"The relevant authorities are pursuing the suspect, but have not yet succeeded."

"The suspect's appearance is highly distinctive: pajamas, a cube-shaped head, and kimchi all over his body."

"If any citizens see such a person, please report them to the relevant authorities as soon as possible."

"The following is surveillance footage of the suspect."

Li Luo held the Electronic Screen and stared blankly at its contents:

A Cube Head had sneakily entered a high-rise through the back door, then climbed the emergency stairwell to the rooftop hundreds of stories above.

After a group of robot security guards discovered him, they attacked him, but it had no effect whatsoever.

Cube Head created a kimchi cube on the rooftop, then fell along with it.

Li Luo's expression grew increasingly strange.

Suddenly, she heard an unusual sound outside the window.

At that moment, Mo Ling stood atop Dawn Tower, the tallest building in Dawn City.

He was preparing to recreate the kimchi rain.

Just as he was about to act, a head suddenly poked out from the window of what was clearly an extremely luxurious apartment.

A Girl looked at him in confusion.

It was Li Luo.

Mo Ling froze for a moment. He had originally intended to use the media's reach to spread his image to Li Luo.

But he had not expected Li Luo to live in Dawn Tower.

He immediately jumped down and landed in front of Li Luo.

Seeing Mo Ling's appearance, the Girl's expression became visibly dazed.

Noticing this, Mo Ling hurried to the table and picked up the Girl's Electronic Screen.

Then he skillfully entered the password and unlocked it.

Mo Ling typed in the details of the Relic "Dream," then handed the Electronic Screen to Li Luo.

Watching her expression change from confusion to clarity, Mo Ling knew he had succeeded.

After Li Luo finished reading, she first looked over Mo Ling's strange appearance, then asked in disbelief, "You came to save me?"

Mo Ling nodded.