The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 951 A Golden Crow (Twenty-Five)
"He Tao".

Liu Sheng gently called out the name of the person in front of her.

"Um, so... what should I call you? My other self?"

"Just call me Liu Sheng," Liu Sheng said sincerely. "Also, thank you."

Higher-dimensional analysis will cause her to descend into someone else's body.

However, there are very few opportunities to meet the original owner face to face like this.

Actually, by the time you arrive, these original owners will mostly be gone, so of course you won't be able to see them.

Of course, He Tao was no exception.

"I'm dead, am I?"

She suddenly asked, resting her chin on her knees, curled up into a small ball, looking quite pitiful.

“...Yes.” That was all Liu Sheng could say.

“No wonder…” He Tao’s eyes dimmed, then she smiled with relief, “Whatever you are, at least you didn’t ruin my body… that’s not bad.”

"At least I can't take it anymore. Living like that is like being in an endless nightmare..."

[It's likely that He Tao, tormented by the strange phenomena, ultimately couldn't bear it and remained forever in this safe house woven from dreams within the doorway.]

Just as Liu Sheng was about to speak, she keenly noticed a familiar rustling sound coming from outside.

An indescribable presence lurks outside the door; tiny mosaic tiles seep into the cracks between the floor tiles like mold, slowly eroding the edges of stickers and posters along the corners of the walls.

"It seems you've gotten yourself into serious trouble."

He Tao stared at the mosaics blurring those handsome faces, her tone surprisingly calm, as if she didn't care about these things she had once treasured.

"This has nothing to do with you?" Liu Sheng was taken aback.

She still couldn't figure out the "OOC index" setting. At first, she thought it came from the so-called "immortal artifact," but she started to feel confused when she saw that there was no related content in the [Equipment Add-ons] displayed by the "Clan Monsters."

That's why I thought that the one who was always watching me... could it be He Tao hiding in the threshold space?

Perhaps only He Tao would care whether she was out of character (OOC).

However, He Tao frowned and shrugged, "I don't know what you're talking about. If I had such powerful abilities, I would have escaped this godforsaken place long ago."

He then chuckled self-deprecatingly: "Of course, now I finally understand why I couldn't escape—it turns out I'm already dead."

"However, I can help you avoid that thing for now."

He Tao's words surprised Liu Sheng, but she added:
"But we can only avoid it for now. We probably can't escape such a powerful being in the end."

"It's alright," Liu Sheng said softly. "I just need a little time."

"How many?"

"That's enough for me to find Professor Shen."

He Tao's previously joking expression suddenly froze: "So you went there for that guy."

Anger flared in her eyes, tinged with a hint of doubt: "You wouldn't... be trying to steal that thing, would you? Let me tell you, impossible—"

“No,” Liu Sheng interrupted her, “Professor Shen has lost control, disaster… could strike at any moment.”

"Disaster?" He Tao frowned.

Liu Sheng quickly explained the situation outside.

He Tao was stunned for a moment, then opened her mouth wide: "No wonder it's so noisy outside... So that's what happened..."

"Madmen, madmen, what a bunch of madmen!" He Tao gritted her teeth, slammed her fist into her palm, and laughed angrily, "Zheng Qiran likes to say that I like to dream, but she's the one chasing Shen Zhiyu like she's dreaming; and Shen Zhiyu is just dreaming too!"

"What are you dreaming about?"

"It's the dream of becoming an immortal."

A cold smile appeared on He Tao's lips.

Then look at the crack in the door that is already banging loudly.

"Never mind, let's not talk about it now, time is of the essence."

Immediately, an LBKids swimming ring with a cartoon character printed on it was thrown over.

Liu Sheng grabbed it in a daze.

"While I can't help you escape, finding Professor Shen in this space is a piece of cake. It's just that I don't want to get close to that guy..."

He Tao shuddered, as if recalling something terrifying, and shook her head:
"But the rest is up to you."

"Remember, this is all a dream!"

"And one more thing! Always stick to the emergency exit!"

The next second, she grabbed the large-capacity jar on the table and splashed the water out!

The clear water tumbled in the air, expanding illogically, transforming into a giant wave that crashed towards Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng tumbled in the waves, choking on several mouthfuls of water, before finally managing to put the swimming ring over his head. With the current, he crashed headfirst into the picture of fifteen shirtless surfing men by the window.

"Come on, you have to stop it..."

The last sentence drifted in from afar.

Liu Sheng vaguely saw the door finally being kicked open.

With a rustling sound, the beaded curtain shattered into fragments of mosaic, and the handsome men in the room also turned into rough pixels.

He Tao, who was hugging her knees on the bed, took out a glowing light stick and fired red and green light waves at the chaotic OOC monster.

……

Liu Sheng was swept away by the waves.

Luckily, I had a swimming ring, otherwise I would have drowned long ago.

Although it was a dream, it felt too real, didn't it?

However, Liu Sheng estimated that the concept of "dream" here should be different from that in reality.

She now seems to be traveling through many people's dreams.

First, there is a large artificial indoor surfing area.

The walls were roughly painted with beaches and coconut trees, the colors harsh and unnatural.

The ceiling was so high that the top was obscured, yet golden rays of light poured down from somewhere, illuminating the entire wave pool.

Liu Sheng then followed the surging current and rushed to the shore.

Because there was so much water, even the shore was submerged, and the blue tiles looked like the bottom of a swimming pool.

"This large-capacity sippy cup is no ordinary thing! I saw the advertisement; it says it can meet a person's daily water needs," said "World."

That's equivalent to the water needs of most humans!

Liu Sheng choked on another mouthful of water, roaring inwardly.

All the water was eventually drawn into an exit with a green "door opener" indicator light hanging above it.

This is called an emergency exit. "World" indicates this.

【knew! 】

Liu Sheng was also caught in the emergency exit.

Although the current was still swift, Liu Sheng was finally able to barely control her speed in this narrow and dimly lit passage.

It spreads its tentacles and sways gently in the water, moving forward like a fish. The joyful feeling of being in its water, conveyed by "Mom," seems to be something it was born to do.

At the end of the passageway, another green light shone.

Emergency Exit!

Swimming in that direction, Liu Sheng forcefully pushed open the iron gate.

Outside is a swimming pool covered with blue tiles.

The room was square, with no shoreline or entrance; only pale light streamed in through a small skylight at the top.

But when Liu Sheng raised his little tentacles to look out the window, he saw nothing but a false white light.

After swimming around, I discovered that the emergency exit was actually at the bottom of the pool.

An iron ladder extends downwards, leading to deeper waters.

Liu Sheng had no choice but to abandon the swimming ring, hold her breath, and dive down. Waving her tiny tentacles, she quickly swam to the ladder, stepping on the horizontal bars one by one as she descended.

The further down you go, the darker it gets. The light above looks like blue cubes, undulating in the water and getting smaller and smaller.

My lungs felt a burning pain due to lack of oxygen, like they were on fire.

How deep is it exactly?

She was almost unable to think.

Then she remembered that it was a dream, and she suddenly felt that she could have a set of diving equipment. However, due to her vague understanding of diving suits, what ended up on her was just a rather rudimentary set of diving equipment.

An oxygen cylinder and tube are connected to the nasal cavity.

But for Liu Sheng, being able to breathe is all that matters.

As oxygen fills the lungs, the mind gradually clears.

Continuing downwards, we finally saw light again, right beneath our feet.

The direction of gravity and water flow seems to be reversed here, as if the bottom is the real "up".

She simply let go, allowing herself to float with the current, using her tentacles to maintain her direction, and finally reached the bottom of the ladder.

It is a spacious pool bottom area.

There were many shadows above, some large and some small, all round.

It wasn't until I swam to the surface that I realized they were actually rubber ducks of different colors, varying greatly in size. Some were so big they almost reached the ceiling, while others were only the size of a palm, slowly floating in the water.

Liu Sheng swam through the flock of rubber ducks and finally spotted a small platform in the corner.

There is a door on the platform.

A sign reading "Emergency Exit" was hanging on the door frame.

She climbed up, slammed the oxygen tank aside, and stepped into the doorway with her wet shoes.

After walking through the door for a while, there was another long corridor.

It was completely dark, with only a sliver of light shining through from the front.

As Liu Sheng walked toward the light, she gradually saw a corridor with floral wallpaper and a black and white floor.

A door opened from the side.

It's bright yellow, and Zheng Qiran's graffiti is on it.

I glanced out from the doorway; Zheng Qiran wasn't inside.

A green sign was still hanging on the door.

But Liu Sheng stared at the symbol for a few seconds, then suddenly chuckled softly:
"Although it looks like an emergency exit, if you look closely, it's a sign that shows a little person running out with a dog in their arms, which means there are bad guys inside."

"I can still see the difference."

She slowly backed away, but something on the bunk bed in the room moved, as if it was about to lift the white sheet and sit up.

Liu Sheng decisively slammed the door shut.

Then he continued running toward the faint light at the end of the corridor.

But the glimmer of light seemed endless, as if she could never reach it, while more and more doors around her opened one after another, as if inviting her to enter. Various rooms, and it seemed that Professor Shen might appear in each door.

But she knew she had to figure out the real door.

She was not familiar with Shen Zhiyu's personality, but she knew Zheng Qiran's obsession with Shen Zhiyu.

So when she saw the words "Shen Zhiyu" written on a door in childish handwriting, and there were graffiti-covered slides, sandpits, rocking horses, and so on, she finally stopped.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

She knew it was this door.

……

As you push open the door, a golden sunset greets your eyes.

The soles of my shoes crunched on the rough gravel.

Liu Sheng walked slowly forward. In her eyes, there was a slide, a sandpit, a half-collapsed castle, and a rainbow-colored spring pony, but the paint was already peeling and mottled.

A figure sat on a small horse, gently swaying in the setting sun.

Because the light was too bright, Liu Sheng could only see the silhouette of the person and could not make out their specific appearance.

"You are……"

Professor Shen's voice was hoarse and tired, as if it had traveled through a long period of time and been refracted through some kind of space, making his original voice unrecognizable.

"Oh, you're Zheng Qiran's roommate, He Tao." Her tone was detached and nonchalant. "But it seems... it's not her. That's strange."

[OOC Index: 91%]

[Damn it! I haven't done or said anything yet!]

"Perhaps it's just because you don't see them often."

"Is that so? But... it doesn't matter anymore."

The other party seemed to have fallen into despair.

Liu Sheng wanted to walk over, but the other person stopped her in a low voice: "Don't come over, I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself."

Are you about to explode?

"It wasn't an explosion... Sigh, there's no point in explaining it to you, I'm almost at my limit anyway."

"I thought... I could finally realize my dream. But a dream is just a dream. Now, I can only spend my last days in this dream."

He paused for a moment, then murmured, "It's just that involving so many people was not my intention."

"Is your dream to become an immortal?" Liu Sheng asked.

Professor Shen chuckled: "Ha, little girl, I have no need, nor do I have time, to explain these things to you."

His attitude was quite cold, clearly indicating that he did not have a good impression of "He Tao".

No, I don't even remember it; I didn't even notice it.

[I never imagined Professor Shen was this kind of person!]

Even the world is somewhat indignant.

No wonder He Tao said she didn't like getting close to Professor Shen.

"But don't you want to... solve your problems?" Liu Sheng continued to press on patiently.

The shimmering humanoid figure swaying on the pony paused slightly.

It seemed somewhat ridiculous, but I couldn't bring myself to laugh.

"Can you solve this?"

"Since you've already reached a dead end, why not give it a try?"

"Of course I've tried countless methods, even consulted the top scientists of the First Empire to think about this problem together, but all to no avail. You, a mere student from Qingyang University, are utterly ignorant..."

Professor Shen stopped talking.

It's not that I don't want to continue mocking "He Tao," but rather that I probably can't recall her major or any other label.

Liu Sheng shrugged: "Yes, in your eyes, I am nothing. But soon, you will be nothing either."

"They might even be condemned for all eternity."

She paused, looking at the silhouette of light and shadow that seemed to be burning.

"From now on, no one will remember you, Shen Zhiyu, as the Federation's top archaeologist; they will only remember you as the sinner who destroyed half of the Eastern Empire."

That hit the nail on the head.

Shen Zhiyu took a few heavy breaths, the light burning like flames, almost scalding Liu Sheng's eyes.

It took a while for him to recover.

Liu Sheng felt a gaze cast upon him from the blazing light, glaring fiercely at him.

"So..." Shen Zhiyu growled, "what exactly are you thinking?"

“First of all, I’d like to know how you became like this,” Liu Sheng said calmly.

(End of this chapter)