Super Righteous Player
Chapter 585 - 126 Overlapping Dreams_1

Chapter 585: Chapter 126 Overlapping Dreams_1

...Is this some sort of prank?

Husky’s overly straightforward words not only made Thirteen stunned for a moment.

Even the other players who were spectating them on the forum were taken aback as well.

Delicious Goose even couldn’t hold back and laughed outright.

He quickly coughed softly, composed himself, and explained to Annan and the other players, "You could say it’s a spinal reflex."

"...That’s pretty good."

The corners of Annan’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up for an instant, "If he really got into his role, it would be trouble for Thirteen..."

Unlike the players who could live stream and leave recorded broadcasts, Annan’s actions in the nightmare weren’t as "investigator-like" as Husky’s and Thirteen’s. He still prioritized role-playing and advancing the plot.

Of course, another reason was that he entered the level in a "1P" perspective and solo queued.

Since Justus was "substituted by the AI," his behavioral logic was quite authentic. Justus’s own strong control desire meant that from the moment Annan woke up, he had little spare time to conduct any kind of investigation in the room.

What he saw was far less than the information Thirteen encountered.

And with Husky’s "2P" player perspective, more parts could be supplemented.

For example, what Husky saw and heard after entering the dungeon was something Annan could not see.

"A moment of anger. An eternity of regret."

The two phrases Annan heard when he entered the dungeon—each person only heard half. Husky heard the first part.

Afterward, he directly entered the introduction to the plot:

[Today is your thirtieth birthday, and you are proposing a deal to "Tricino" for the third time.]

[Of course, you know what the name "Tricino" represents. The Pope of the "Tragedy Playwright," the god of murder and conspiracy, "Dream Eater," "Chaser of Wine."]

[At the same time, he is your mentor, "Bone Healer" Tricino Seti.]

[No more than five people in this world are privy to his secret, and you are one of them.]

[In the first two trades, you successfully received what you wanted, but also paid the respective price. This time, you decided to sacrifice your last friend—Frederick Melvin, whom you haven’t seen in seven years, and formally bid farewell to human identity.]

[According to the content of the contract, you should bring an idolized Wizard and head to the Ashen Desolation. When the stars reach the correct position, you can follow him into the "Gap between Dreams," or "The Doorway to the Dream Realm."]

[Here, the boundaries between dreams and reality blur. Reality can fall into dreams, and those in dreams can also reach reality. Under your guidance, Frederick is already intoxicated, unconscious, and plunged into deep sleep.]

[—And the place you are in right now is the Ashen Desolation in his dream. To be precise, it’s "the predictive dream he dreamt of in the past."]

[Dream and reality, at this moment, achieve an infinite cycle.]

[Make him believe this dream is his reality and obtain the essence of dreams from his desiccated and dreamless corpse.]

At this point, Husky immediately received the main quest.

[Main Quest Received: Observe]

[Convince Frederick he is in a dream.]

[Kill Frederick.]

The introductory plot on "Justus’s" side instantly explained the situation that puzzled Annan before.

—Which side is the dream?

Currently, it seems the answer is obvious—both sides are dreams.

This deserted alley is indeed the predictive dream of Frederick’s childhood. That’s why aside from the two of them, no unrelated people can be seen... It’s to minimize the "variables."

But although this is the predictive dream Frederick had as a child.

It doesn’t mean the "reality" outside is Frederick’s childhood. To put it correctly, both sides are dreams.

All of these were dreams that appeared after Frederick got drunk!

There was something wrong with the wine Justus gave Frederick to drink.

Now they were caught within a prophetic dream once dreamed by Frederick during his childhood.

To be precise, it was a dream where he "dreamt of his past self, who had dreamed of ’the present’ as a precognitive dream"!

This was a dream within Frederick’s dream.

Whether it was a coincidence of fate or a meticulously calculated plan...

The dream and reality ingeniously overlapped at this point.

...Is this the cunning scheme of the "Dream Eater"?

Annan couldn’t help but feel a shiver up his spine.

The two acts of drama between [the past]and [the future]were probably fifteen or sixteen years apart. Frederick at that time would have been about fourteen or fifteen years old, and Justus had just turned thirty.

During Frederick’s childhood studies, he was exposed to the mysterious book of the tragic playwright, "Law of Resemblance and Precognitive Dreams."

This allowed Frederick to dream of the future fifteen years later—with the powerful support of the School of Prophets and the Idol sorcery—despite the fact that Frederick was already a silver-tier Idol Wizard, he was not originally from the School of Prophets.

A precognitive dream that spanned more than a decade and still maintained clarity of thought and precision of content.

Even for a silver-tier Prophet Wizard, achieving this was extremely difficult. As the volume of information and the time span increased, the complexity of "prophecy" could increase geometrically.

It could be distant and vague, or near and clear. It couldn’t be both distant and clear... at least not for a silver-tier.

Even if Frederick was a genius, it was not easy for him to achieve such a level of precognitive dreaming.

The evidence was... aside from this time, Frederick never had such high-level precognitive dreams again.

—Because this power originally belonged to gods.

The power to dream of the present fifteen years ago; and fifteen years later, to dream of the past, it was all the masterpiece of the tragic playwright—

This was a long-conjured drama that had been meticulously brewed for at least fifteen years!

"No wonder, Naifertali said I died three times."

Annan pondered.

Indeed, it was three times.

Once was when "young Frederick" was crushed to death by a boulder, which the present Frederick dreamt about after getting drunk—the [past].

Once was when "youthful Frederick" was killed by a thrown axe, which the young Frederick dreamt about when he encountered "Law of Resemblance and Precognitive Dreams"—the [future].

The third time...

—Must be outside the dream.

It was terrifying and bizarre.

The repeated awakenings and plunges into a deep sleep... the endless cycle of dreams and reality.

It was indeed the work of a deity.

Annan nodded, about to offer some praise.

But at that moment.

—Husky, however, read through his own introductory plot along with Tricino.

Then, looking puzzled, he turned to Tricino who was playing "Frederick" and voiced his heartfelt question.

"What does it mean?

"I understand how to kill you... but how can I make you believe this is a dream?"

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