Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 1050 features a character from the book returning.

Xia Shou was surrounded by this group of people and shoved into a car like a president under attack.

After starting the car, Xia Shou was still shocked by everything that had suddenly happened and couldn't figure out the cause and effect.

Why did Alice recognize herself so quickly?
Even if the dream is real, no one else would recognize his identity in the dream. Just like Sister Yan wouldn't think of her as her boss, and Sister Qiao Xin wouldn't think of him as an employee of the Control Bureau.

Because it was him who was dreaming, not them!
But why does Alice call him Lord Natsumori when they've never met?
My head hurts; I feel like my brain is growing out.

boom!
A huge tremor suddenly came, and Xia Shou was pressed tightly against the car window by the impact.

With a tooth-grinding, ear-piercing metallic scraping, their car was pushed forward by oncoming traffic from the side until it was finally slammed into a wall.

Xia Shou felt dizzy and disoriented. Before he could even adjust his position in the overturned car, he heard the priest in the front seat cursing as he climbed out of the window.

Then, Xia Shou heard the sound of a pistol silencer. The priest, who hadn't fully climbed out, fell back into the car, blood gushing from the bullet hole between his eyebrows.

Xia Shou immediately cleared his mind, picked up a piece of car window glass, and huddled inside the car, waiting for the attacker to pop out and check.

He knew that if he peeked out now, he would surely die; staying inside the car and waiting for an opportunity to fight back was his only chance of survival.

"Little Guard?"

Xia Shou heard someone calling him from outside.

That voice... it sounds so familiar!

It's Qiao Xin's voice!

"Why are you pressing the accelerator so hard!" another voice came, sounding very angry.

Xia Shou immediately recognized that the speaker was Shangguan Yan!

Then, two familiar faces appeared above the overturned car door; it really was Qiao Xin and Shangguan Yan!

"I told you, nothing would happen," Qiao Xin said.

Shangguan Yan also breathed a sigh of relief and reached out his hand to Xia Shou: "Are you alright? Come out quickly."

"Sister Yan, what are you doing here?"

"Of course I'm saving you, but on a different level." Shangguan Yan grabbed Xia Shou's hand, pulled him out of the car, and took out a cloth with his other hand, covering his face directly.

Xia Shou had only one impression of this cloth: it had a very strong, pungent smell.

Then, everything went black for a moment, and he lost all five senses...

Sight, touch, smell—all senses disappear for only a very brief moment, perhaps less than half a second in Natsumori's sensory time.

Just like an anesthetized patient before surgery who doesn't know when they lost consciousness, when they regain consciousness, their memories are connected to the time before they lost consciousness.

Xia Shou felt his posture suddenly change. He should have been half-squatting inside the overturned car, but now he was sitting in a chair.

I opened my eyes and found that there seemed to be several people around me, and some people were talking nearby.

"He's awake! He's awake!"

"Don't get excited. We can't confirm if it's Xia Shou yet. Don't get close to him. Keep the magic array intact!"

Xia Shou tried to move his body and found that both his hands were tied with ropes, and there seemed to be a mask on his face.

"Brother Xia Shou, is that you?" A very pretty girl asked him from a distance.

Xia Shou thought for a moment, and realized that this person should be Su Yue. Wait! Had he transmigrated into a dream?

Moreover, this dream was very unusual. It seemed that he could not only watch, but also control his body and move freely!

"Am I... am I in a dream?"

"No, you didn't come into a dream, you've returned to reality, but not completely."

A curly-haired dwarf in a white coat said, shaking his head, and then reminded the pretty girl next to him, "Remember, he is not... well, you can't say he isn't. You can only say he is not a fully conscious Xia Shou. He hasn't completely returned to reality yet; it's just that his spirit from the book has been pulled back."

Xia Shou moved his hands and looked up at the people around him. He saw Su Yue and then Su Weiyu. Although they hadn't spoken yet, Xia Shou recognized them at a glance.

A feeling that is both unfamiliar and familiar...

"You can see it, right? You can see it!" Su Weiyu shouted as soon as she saw his gaze fixed on her.

Xia Shou nodded, but felt a little embarrassed. How should he address her? Wei Yu?
Although they were indeed quite intimate in the dream, this isn't a dream after all... no, this is a dream, but it still feels very strange.

"You are wearing a mask right now, and this is the foundation of your existence in this world, so you must never take off the mask, understand?"

Don't worry, unless you actively try to remove it, it will only break, not fall off.

"If you understand, I'll untie you. I only tied you up to make sure you wouldn't take off your mask in a panic," Mordis said.

Xia Shou nodded: "You are, Modis, right?"

"Hmph, you have such a poor brain capacity that you still remember my name. It seems I underestimated you before." Mordis strode over to Xia Shou and untied the ropes binding his hands.

At this moment, Xia Shou stood up from the chair, touched the mask on his face, and then turned his head to observe his surroundings.

The moment he turned his head, he suddenly realized that he had violated a fundamental taboo, and he broke out in a cold sweat in fright.

He turned his head, more than 60 degrees!
Alice wasn't choking him, so no one stopped him.

Xia Shou remained frozen in place for a full three seconds, maintaining the posture of turning his head, before turning his head back.

Surprisingly, nothing happened...

Where is Alice?

“Of course I’ll go into the book with you,” Mordis shrugged, then said, “Didn’t you realize this body isn’t yours?”

Xia Shou looked down at his hands, moved them slightly, and confirmed that this was indeed not his body.

Not only are some physical characteristics different from the original body in my memory, but the sensory feedback that comes back is also somewhat unfamiliar and sluggish.

How should I put it? There's a very obvious impression of experiencing someone else's body inside someone else's body.

"Completely unsuitable, he looks clumsy." Su Weiyu frowned as she commented on Xia Shou's behavior.

Su Yue automatically gave a similar evaluation to her sister: "I feel like Brother Xia Shou is clumsy in this body."

Modis: "Su Yue, don't treat him like the Xia Shou you know. He might not even be very familiar with you now."

In his eyes, you should just be someone he once dreamed of, but in his real life, you're a complete stranger.

"Huh? Why? Didn't he come back?!"

"Come back? He's still sleeping in the book, it's just that his spirit appears here while he's asleep."

(End of this chapter)