Creatures in the Dream

As expected, dreams are connected.

He found Li Luo in this world.

They had arrived in the same dream.

Thinking this, Mo Ling approached Li Luo and typed two words on the electronic screen.

"Awaken."

He knew that Li Luo at this moment had already realized this was a dream and could awaken at any time.

But the girl shook her head.

"I can't awaken yet, the investigation mission isn't over."

Then she began to explain to Mo Ling.

The Shock Beasts controlled by the Red String Worms weren't trying to seize the Black Horn; they all wanted to come to this world through the Black Horn.

But for some reason, they couldn't get here.

Perhaps the dream didn't accept them, or perhaps they couldn't pay the price.

In previous records, there had been no instances of other creatures entering the Dream Relic.

As for why Mo Ling and Li Luo could come to the dream without paying a price, it might be because they triggered some mechanism that bypassed the payment.

Mo Ling suddenly realized that not only had he not paid the price, but he had also stolen the kimchi that was supposed to be the price.

He had a strange thought.

"I brought the kimchi from that strange space into the dream's Dawn City. Isn't this still within the dream?"

Moving it from his left hand to his right, did that count as stealing?

Mo Ling couldn't figure out the answer, so he cleared his mind and continued listening to Li Luo's explanation.

"Red String Worms can only parasitize living beings, and there's only one type of creature that can live in dreams."

Li Luo took out the electronic screen and typed a word on it—Dream Qilin.

Then she handed the electronic screen to Mo Ling.

It was a creature discovered on the first layer of the Abyss.

When people first arrived in the Abyss, they hadn't seen this creature.

It had no physical form, or rather, people hadn't discovered the physical form of this creature yet.

This was precisely when the Hunters had just entered the Abyss and begun exploring.

Because the Hunters faced all sorts of strange creatures every day, even if they dreamed of this creature, they wouldn't find it strange.

They would only think it was a case of daytime thoughts leading to nighttime dreams.

And no one would mention this matter to others.

At most, during casual chats between companions, they would suddenly discover that they had both dreamed of creatures with the same appearance, creatures they had never seen in reality.

But at that time, it hadn't attracted people's attention.

Until one day, a Hunter came to the hospital at the First Monitoring Station and stammered to the doctor about his injury.

When the doctor asked how he got injured, he told the doctor about the strange creature he encountered in his dream.

That night, the Hunter drank a lot of water.

So in the middle of the night, he dreamed he was driving. Halfway through, he suddenly needed to go to the bathroom.

He parked the car by the roadside and found a secluded, empty patch of grass.

As soon as he took off his pants, he saw a colorful creature in the grass by the road.

The creature was shaped like a horse but much smaller, only about a meter tall, and had a single horn on its head.

The creature hid in the grass by the roadside, its body filled with dazzling light, colorful like a rainbow.

It was very bright in the darkness, like a blurry, colorful texture map, making the Hunter's head spin.

He didn't know why his brain suddenly malfunctioned at that moment.

He aimed at the rainbow creature and peed on it.

Then he was kicked on the spot and woke up in pain.

Not only was his quilt wet, but the pain from the dream was also reflected in his real body.

Moreover, the injured part was exactly the same as in the dream, which was why the wound was in such a strange place.

The doctor looked at his already swollen injured area, suppressed a smile, and applied medicine.

This Hunter's story was so interesting that it spread widely, even from the Monitoring Station to Dawn City.

This was also the first time people discovered the tracks of the Dream Qilin.

Subsequently, people also became curious about this creature.

Being able to live in dreams was truly too wondrous.

Many researchers flocked to study this creature.

But the Dream Qilin, which only appeared in dreams, could not provide a physical entity, and research quickly hit a bottleneck.

Fortunately, people also began to gradually understand the habits of the Dream Qilin, making this creature a relatively well-known Abyss creature.

After that, other Hunters also successively discovered Dream Qilins in their dreams.

It was not harmful; as long as you didn't provoke it, the Dream Qilin wouldn't bother you.

But if you provoked it, it would directly attack you.

Most people would wake up in pain immediately.

Then they would find that the place where they were attacked by the Dream Qilin in the dream would also be injured in reality.

Some people were even gored to death by its horn in their dreams.

When his companions discovered him, the man was clutching his neck with both hands, a large, gaping hole in his throat.

Mo Ling was somewhat puzzled.

Why would someone be stabbed in the neck by such a short creature?

There were many records of the Dream Qilin because it was simply too conspicuous.

Its rainbow-like skin color made it hard not to notice.

Although it could harm people in strange ways, the official classification ultimately deemed it a harmless creature.

After reading the records, Mo Ling typed his question onto the electronic screen.

"Can this creature also be parasitized by the Red String Worm?"

Li Luo nodded and said, "Yes, any creature can."

Mo Ling was still wondering how to find a Dream Qilin in Dawn City, such a small creature.

Meanwhile, Li Luo had already made a phone call, and not long after, she received a reply.

After exchanging a few words, she turned to Mo Ling and said, "Found it. Just wait a moment, it's being delivered now."

Mo Ling was once again amazed at how having money truly allowed one to do whatever they wanted.

It was too efficient.

Soon, a group of men in black brought a caged Dream Qilin to Li Luo's home.

Mo Ling walked to the cage and examined the Dream Qilin.

It did indeed resemble a small rainbow pony, its skin like spilled paint.

The paint even glowed, constantly swirling on the surface of its skin.

All parts of its body were covered by the surging colors, blurry and indistinct, only the outer outline visible, with no details like eyes discernible.

Its appearance was completely different from the surrounding environment, as if it were a texture error in a game.

This Dream Qilin did not resist, but stayed in the cage, obediently eating its food.

Looking at the bowl, it was the kimchi that Mo Ling was familiar with.

That's right, the Dream Qilin's favorite food was kimchi.

When the Dream Qilin was first discovered, a Hunter found it stealing kimchi from his home in a dream.

After researchers learned that the Dream Qilin's favorite food was kimchi, they spontaneously linked it to the Relic Dream.

Some even said that there was no such Relic as Dream at all.

Instead, it was the kimchi that attracted the Dream Qilin, and it brought people into the dream.

But this theory didn't hold water, as it couldn't explain the glass jar and the weight limit.

Not to mention that the Dream Qilin would also enter human dreams.

Ultimately, people could only regard this as a coincidence.

Perhaps there was some wonderful connection between kimchi and dreams?