Edge of the Dream

"Close... your eyes?"

"Is that the Team Leader?"

"The Team Leader isn't dead yet?"

Hu Le muttered groggily. He had seen it with his own eyes—the Team Leader's body had been wrapped up by the Colorful Tentacle, then squeezed into multicolored juice and splashed across the dining table...

But why could he hear the Team Leader talking to him now?

"Of course I'm not dead!"

Hu Le was still confused when a furious shout suddenly jolted him awake.

It really was the Team Leader! That was definitely the Team Leader's voice.

"Team Leader, where are you? Why can't I see you?" Hu Le asked blankly.

After asking that, he felt someone suddenly smack the back of his head hard. The force was spot-on.

He remembered that whenever he made mistakes at work, the Team Leader had knocked him like this too. The force and the spot were strangely consistent every time. Hu Le instantly realized that the Team Leader was behind him.

He instinctively turned around and looked behind him. As his perspective shifted, the scene around him changed as well...

The walls became fading afterimages made of blocks of color. The tables and chairs suddenly melted and flowed onto the floor. Everything in his vision blurred, becoming conglomerates of colorful pixels blended together.

Hu Le watched the pixels grow larger and larger until they finally churned together completely.

Once he had fully turned around, he saw the Team Leader holding the Dream Catching Device, standing amid a blurry mass of colorful paint and looking at him helplessly.

"Didn't I tell you to close your eyes?" the Team Leader said reproachfully.

Hu Le had been about to greet him, but seeing that the Team Leader was angry, he promptly shut his mouth.

"Hu Le! You always screw things up! Sigh..."