All the evil beasts in the world, I feed on demons and monsters

Chapter 362 A Stormy Dream
Jade Pillow Dream.

The door was gently pushed open, and in the deep blue night, a man in a black suit walked in quietly.

He had three fleshy horns growing on his head, his cheeks were thin and sunken, and his skin appeared eerily pale in the night.

It's that thing that looks like a corpse puppet.

Ji Ran sat quietly on the sofa. At this moment, he was still in a "ghost" state. Without consuming causal points, he could not access the dream.

However, the flow of cause and effect in his eyes revealed a difference from reality. This time, because he was facing a weak corpse puppet, Ji Ran's mindset was much more relaxed than it had been on the cruise ship in Qing City.

He gazed silently at the world before him, feeling that the principles of cause and effect were clearer and more readily accessible than in reality. This was also the reason he had been able to touch cause and effect and reverse the past.

now.

The suit-clad corpse puppet strode into the living room. Like a fierce tiger, the Wind Beast silently rose to its feet, standing like a city wall. Its golden eyes, tinged with blue, stared menacingly into the darkness.

Ji Ran watched quietly.

He planned to take the corpse puppet with him.

Originally, Ji Ran had an even bigger idea, such as finding an opportunity to enter the company's dream and change the deadly situation there. However, when he had the idea to influence the Wind Beast, he found that influencing a level 5 beast would cost him 5 karma points no matter what method he used.

At the same time, the amount of incense consumed also increased fivefold!
I have enough incense offerings, so I won't mention that for now. But karma points are like "action points" in this dream world. 30 karma points can influence an ordinary person, but only 1 point is needed to take 30 actions in the dream.

However, influencing a level 5 being limits one to six actions. Clearly, one's own causal points do not allow them to enter a dream involving a large number of travelers.

But bringing out this corpse puppet is enough.

Ji Ran was thinking that since Captain Xie had resolved the company's legacy issues, this corpse puppet would then become an "object".

If I were to enter the corpse puppet's dream again, I would surely see the person behind the corpse puppet and the truth. Two entries into the dream should allow me to begin my journey into the path of cause and effect. At the same time, I could also obtain complete information about this matter.

Ultimately, she was still worried about her father.

call--

The wind blades naturally shattered the corpse puppet.

Ji Ran immediately consumed his karma points and appeared in the dream.

"Ow?"

The Wind Beast, which had been baring its fangs and about to devour the corpse, froze, staring intently at Ji Ran, then turned to look around the room.

Ji Ran could also sense herself in that room.

At this moment, his emergence from the dream was more like an energy surging into the past. Apart from the Wind Beast, which was affected by cause and effect and could see him, everything else had no connection to him.

If you don't consume causal points, the self in the dream is as if all causal relationships have been severed, becoming a ghost that no one can discover.

"Don't feed them anymore, put the food away."

Give it to me tomorrow.

The wind-born beast turned its head, somewhat confused, but still nodded obediently.

……

When Ji Ran opened her eyes again, the air was filled with the scent of sandalwood.

The corpse puppet lay quietly in its storage space. It was a strange feeling; the past self had collected the corpse and left it for the future self to use.

Seeing the 10% progress in the Path of Cause and Effect, Ji Ran didn't hesitate any longer. He took out the Corpse Puppet and entered the dream again.

This time, Ji Ran chose the time when the corpse puppet itself died.

……

The dim, fiery clouds cast a chaotic light onto the pale walls of the hospital.

Ji Ran stood in the room, looking at a man in a hospital gown lying on the bed. It was a private room, clean and tidy, with a flower basket on the bedside table.

The man was in the late stages of cancer; he was so thin he looked like a skeleton, and his eyes were lifeless and he was drowsy.

The ward is on a high floor, offering a view of the distant, rippling waves.

However, beneath the fiery clouds in the sky, Ji Ran saw countless plumes of smoke and flames rising from the sky.

The skyscrapers now resemble jagged finger bones broken off by a giant, piercing the scarlet sky. The glass curtain walls have long since shattered, leaving only dark, gaping windows, like countless blind eyes, numbly staring at us.

One after another, strangely shaped humanoid monsters roared and darted through the city as far as the eye could see.

This is Qingdao.

Qingdao twenty years ago.

"Uh uh uh--"

The man on the hospital bed suddenly convulsed, blood welled up in his eyes, and the tumor in his head swelled up, pushing out three fleshy horns from his head. At the same time, the tumor cells replaced the original flesh and blood, causing his aura to rapidly expand and become powerful!

but.

Ji Ran caught a glimpse of the window out of the corner of her eye and immediately turned her head!

A scene he couldn't understand appeared—in the distance, several figures seemed to have withdrawn from something in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, part of the city vanished.

It was a very natural disappearance, so natural that even when Ji Ran saw it with his own eyes, he felt it was perfectly normal. At the same time, his memories of that part of the city were also fading away rapidly!
"wrong!"

Ji Ran gritted his teeth, and the cause and effect were instantly consumed!
1 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 10 o'clock!
Just by "remembering" the scene in front of you, 10 points of karma are consumed!
Ji Ran felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at the location of the "disappeared" city, where a huge indentation had appeared.

This location is extremely familiar to me—the northern port, where the haunted cruise ship docks.

The ocean where this port is located was a vast urban area twenty years ago. But it disappeared during the Qing City Incident.

It's not just a physical disappearance, but a break in the causal chain for everyone. It becomes a state of "non-existence."

"What did they take away?"

Ji Ran murmured to herself as she watched the sunset outside the window. Bang!
Suddenly, Ji Ran heard the man behind him land. He turned around and saw that the corpse puppet's aura was completely different now.

The man in the hospital gown stood quietly by the bed, his eyes like snowflakes in winter, with a hint of icy white.

"Damn it!"

The apostle who appeared in the dream had little karma attached to him, yet he seemed to have awakened.

His eyes were filled with anger and fear.

"Being plotted!"

Why would I allow the controlled pilgrim to send a consumptive ghost to steal information? I would never take such a risk during this sensitive period!
But I did it anyway.

Zhang Han and his faction, who had been hiding extremely well, were all exposed. The general, who happened to be able to restrain himself, killed all the other spiritual entities, forcing him to appear here.

Someone designed themselves.

Suddenly, the apostle looked up and met Ji Ran's gaze in astonishment.

"So...it was because of you?"

The spiritual apostle understood.

All of this began when he ordered Zhang Han to steal intelligence; he had already fallen into a carefully orchestrated web of cause and effect.

Step by step, in a way that appears flawless from the perspective of the real world, I made myself appear here.

Everyone—Xie Yan, Zha Hu, Ji Ran, Hai Jiangzhu…—is part of the cause and effect.

The goal is to bring the scene of this very moment to life.

The spiritual apostle took a deep breath, realizing that the being who had orchestrated all of this was trying to kill this Five Organs Immortal.

Killing him here would shield most of the cause and effect. Even a powerful expert who is well-versed in this would only be able to deduce the surface—that he killed him—and would not suspect that there was someone else behind it all, who had orchestrated this whole thing.

Then... let's kill them.

The person who could manipulate him so easily is now beyond his control. He has no chance of survival except to follow the script.

hum!
The apostle's icy eyes flashed with a fluorescent light, and a terrifying mental fluctuation instantly engulfed everything!
Boom boom boom! ! !
The apostle, now completely unleashed, displayed his greatest power, controlling the surrounding hordes of ghouls that surged forth like a tsunami!
Squeak!

Countless buildings, shaped like blades, rose from the ground, enveloping the entire hospital building!

But at this moment, the level 5 Luan Ke nodded.

"I see."

"Ok?"

At this moment, the spiritual apostle noticed that a causal thread was connecting him and himself.

Immortal Arts: Crossing Life and Death.

The apostle is a spiritual being, and in this state, Ji Ran was able to hear his thoughts.

Someone wants to die?!

Fortunately, in the dream state, I could see the path of cause and effect more clearly, and with the help of the fake talisman holder position, I was able to connect with his cause and effect!

This step involves another 10 causal points!
Fight?
Of course not! All of my causal points wouldn't be enough to support me fighting a battle in a dream!
hum-

At that moment, Ji Ran ran away right under the apostle's astonished and resentful gaze!
This shouldn't happen!

The spiritual apostles were terrified!

He was unaware that Ji Ran had read his mind.

From Ji Ran's perspective, there's no need for him to run from a weak corpse puppet! Besides, this dream holds a major secret about Qing City! He has no reason to flee, either for personal or professional reasons!

Once they clashed, he would have no chance. With just contact, he could infect him and control him to stay!
But he escaped!

"Well!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!"

The spiritual apostle suddenly developed tumors all over his body, which even grew inside his mind! Acting in dreams requires special points such as causal points.

The apostles did not.

It was something that was "lent" to him by the entity behind him. And when Ji Ran left, the karmic calamity came to pass on to him.

Pfft!

Crimson blossoms fell in all directions.

Inside the room, the headless corpse stood silently. Its collapsed spirit left the charging demons bewildered. They wandered around the room for a while, knocked over the corpse, and slowly dispersed.

As the sun sets and the firelight dims in Qing City, it seems as if it were just another ordinary day from twenty years ago.

……

now.

Just as Ji Ran was about to leave, a chill ran down her spine.

He saw a transparent, tree-like causal force, faintly shimmering, taking root in his body!

The cause and effect thread extends from a train ticket with green patina [009.13F] – the world of Journey to the West.

It permeated the entire process of my becoming a traveler.

Just as I was leaving the dream, a faint voice, barely audible, gentle and kind, appeared.

"Oops, we've been discovered."

(End of this chapter)