From the end of the world

Chapter 206 Dream Bubble
In my perception, the young girl Lu Chan was standing in the laboratory of Dr. Silver Mask.

She was still wearing a white straitjacket, standing barefoot on the floor, but her body was vaguely transparent, and emitting a white light like hair. There was no lighting in the laboratory, and this subtle light made her look like an elf who was isolated from the world in the dim room.

Ethereal, light, unreal... She is now perhaps more like a ghost that is about to sublimate and dissipate. This should not be my illusion, the transparency of her body outline seems to be slowly becoming deeper and deeper.

She had previously described herself as disappearing as quickly as sugar entering warm water if she appeared in the real world. Now it seemed that she did not disappear as quickly as she said, but it was estimated that in a short while, she would be completely destroyed.

The noise of the battle was everywhere, but she didn't care at all, just silently looking at the place where the Silver Mask Doctor died. When I noticed her, the wall of the laboratory just exploded and shattered, and a figure who was knocked away in the battle fell at her feet.

It was a guard who had transformed into a strange man. He immediately got up after rolling to the ground. Strangely, he didn't seem to notice the existence of the girl Lu Chan, as if the girl Lu Chan was just an illusion in my mind. He just sprinted back in the direction he came from while shouting angrily, oblivious to the people around him.

The young girl Lu Chan looked at the departing weirdo indifferently, and she was once again the only one left in the messy dark laboratory.

This is a rare opportunity, I want to go and see her first, to see this comrade-in-arms who I had worked with for a short time for the last time.

"I'm going to leave for a while." I said to Ma Zao beside me.

She said softly, "I'll wait for you here."

"Where are you going?" Lu Youxun asked puzzledly.

I couldn't help but look at him carefully twice, and then said, "Go meet someone."

After saying that, I activated the flame teleportation and went to the laboratory.

As I landed, I summoned two fireballs to serve as lighting. Although it was not necessary, I was more used to bright places. The girl Lu Chan also saw me.

Suddenly, a figure rushed in from the hole in the wall that I had broken open before. I turned around and saw that it was the same weirdo from before. It seemed that the fluctuation of mana caused by the fireball I summoned was noticed by him who had just left. After returning, he immediately discovered me, his enemy, and attacked me.

His arms transformed into bone blades, slicing at my throat like scissors. As usual, he still didn't seem to notice the existence of the girl Lu Chan. And not only that, under the accelerated consciousness of the fire element form, I could feel the airflow coming at me when he sprinted and attacked. This airflow obviously also blew to the girl Lu Chan next to him, but the girl Lu Chan didn't even flutter her hair.

I ignited the weird guard with my gaze, and he instantly evaporated and disappeared.

Then I turned my head and glanced at the feet of the girl Lu Chan. As expected, even under the illumination of the fireball, her shadow did not emerge.

But there was something else on the ground, that is, the National Level Demon Hunter Medal that I had seen before, which was thrown at her feet. I think she probably didn't throw it on the ground on purpose. When she was in the independent reality space, she carried the medal with her normally, but now she was probably in a state where she couldn't touch the real material, so the medal could only fall to the ground.

"...Can you see me?" she said unexpectedly.

I asked back, “Shouldn’t I be able to see it?”

"You shouldn't be able to see me. I am the 'dream incarnation' that is not allowed in the real world. Compared to you real beings, I am more like an illusion, or a daydream. Even you can't see me. Only humans with a similar mental frequency to mine can receive my 'radio waves'." She explained first, then looked at me carefully and said with a sigh, "You suddenly became an adult. I'm a little uncomfortable with it."

"You have become an 'radio girl'." I replied.

"That's true." She nodded nonchalantly, then said thoughtfully, "Hmm... I see, the reason you can see it is probably because we had a mental synchronization before."

"So...how long can this 'radio wave' of yours last?" I asked.

She said casually, as if she was talking about someone else's business: "About ten minutes at most."

Ten minutes of daydreaming, ten minutes of radio waves...

I didn't know what to think for a moment, so I could only do something and pick up the silver medal that fell on the ground.

Suddenly, I noticed a fallen object on the floor not far away. It was right in front of the lab table, where the Silver Masked Doctor was standing. I picked it up and saw that it was a palm-sized round mirror, but the mirror was now broken and covered with traces of fire.

As far as I can remember, there was no such thing in Dr. Silver Mask's laboratory. Judging from the location where it fell, this thing looked like a relic of Dr. Silver Mask. Just like Chen Long dropped the National First-Class Demon Hunter Medal after being burned to death, Dr. Silver Mask dropped this broken mirror after being burned to death. I can even judge by my intuition that the burn marks on it were definitely caused by my flames. "What is this?" I asked the girl Lu Chan.

She shook her head at first, then suddenly froze and looked behind me.

I also felt like there was someone behind me, so I turned around and looked over. After seeing who it was, I could only say that I couldn't believe it. Even the young girl Lu Chan had a look of shock. The person who appeared in front of us was actually a person who had just died.

The person who came had short white hair, wore gray clothes, and had a strong and sturdy physique - it was Chen Long.

How is this possible? Chen Long is dead, for sure. There is even a huge "slag" corresponding to him in my flame, there is no doubt about it. The person in front of me can only be someone else disguised as Chen Long -

Then, I noticed something unusual about the other party and immediately realized the most likely truth.

First of all, Chen Long did not return from the dead;
Secondly, the person in front of him was not someone else disguised as Chen Long.

In my vision, this Chen Long, like the girl Lu Chan, had a translucent body outline that emerged like a ghost, and emitted a white light like hair.

He is also a "dream incarnate".

"I can't... die..." He chanted like a madman, "I want to save... protect..."

"You can't do it, Chen Long." The girl Lu Chan seemed to have figured it out. "In your lifetime, you certainly surpassed the limits of a demon hunter and broke through to the Great Perfection level, but you are not the Great Impermanence after all, and you can't create an 'incarnation' like a god. This dream incarnation you created will soon disappear like me."

I also quickly digested the facts before me.

Thinking carefully, the other party's appearance is not unreasonable. Even the dreams that Lu Chan abandoned in the past can become a dream incarnation. As a user of the divine seal fragment and able to regard independent real spaces as dreams, Chen Long can naturally also become a dream incarnation.

Chen Long probably sensed that he was doomed in the previous battle, so he summoned his dream incarnation, probably inspired by the young girl Lu Chan. Unlike the past Lu Chan, this dream incarnation did not appear to give up his dream, but to allow his dream to continue.

However, this incarnation appeared too late. The independent reality space has been destroyed, and this is the real world. This incarnation is like the young girl Lu Chan, who can only be forced to face the end of disappearing soon.

Since you are an actor who has already left the stage, you should not go on stage again. That would not be a good look. However, I also admire this obsession from the bottom of my heart. Even so, you have to return to this world and realize your dream. Even if you look embarrassed and ugly, there is still a certain beauty in it.

As for Chen Long himself, there is probably no such thing as beauty or ugliness, only pure persistence.

The real Chenlong was, indeed, undoubtedly, dead. The "Chenlong" before our eyes was not a life, but merely a "phenomenon" that was like a dream bubble and destined to be fleeting.

In order to distinguish it from the Chen Dragon in its lifetime, let's call it the "Dream Chen Dragon".

Dream Chenlong seemed to be unable to hear the words of the girl Lu Chan. His eyes were focused on me, and murderous intent appeared in his eyes. His will, which seemed to be a little chaotic, quickly became clear.

"—I'm going to stop you," he said very clearly.

"How are you going to stop me? Besides, you're supposed to be disappearing soon," I said.

"It has nothing to do with that." He said, "Even if I can't continue to exist for a long time, I have to ensure the safe evacuation of the researchers here."

In fact, I didn't think about doing anything further to the researchers here, but it is also a fact that I have burned those people to death repeatedly before. I guess even if I tell him the truth now, he won't listen.

I don't know why I can see Dream Dragon just like I see Young Lu Chan. Maybe it's because my flame contains his "slag (soul)"? Or is it because of the fragment of the divine seal?
I would not make a rash judgment and conclude that Dream Dragon cannot interfere with the real world. Although the fragment of the divine seal is no longer with him, since he is the "incarnation of dreams" summoned by the power of the fragment of the divine seal, he may really be able to show some dangerous miracles.

However, I no longer plan to fight this "Chen Long" myself.

(End of this chapter)