Dream Travel

Chapter 191 Are you willing to go?
"Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if you suddenly did something like poisoning someone." Bai Mu tossed the demon head in his hand: "What's this guy's name?"

“How could I do something so terrible to you?” Lily said with a smile, looking at the head. She did know the identity of this head.

There are over a million heads, no matter how you look at it.

There are quite a few legitimate bounties in this world, but not that many.

The reason is that most targets are wanted before a bounty is placed on them. Bounties are mostly unrelated to the government, which mainly issues wanted notices.

While wanted posters may come with a reward, they are different from bounties. Rewards are usually provided by the authorities, while bounties are related to the families of victims.

For example, once a case has been investigated and the victim's relatives know about the perpetrator's existence and are eager for the perpetrator to be caught or killed, they will offer a reward.

Thus, related bounties came about. The authorities wouldn't actively create bounties, but they would go along with it when faced with such situations.

As for rewards related to the government, they usually refer to cases where public officials have been murdered.

The bounty for this head is a combination of offers, including those from the authorities and those from the victim's family.

However, the bounty did not continue to increase. Lily explained that the authorities may not have continued to add to the bounty, and also that the victims' families were subsequently murdered, so no one could add to the bounty.

"Hmm, it's also possible that he reformed and stopped committing crimes."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Bai Mu simply didn't believe the nonsense Lily was spouting.

Back at the Dream Experience Store, Lily sent Bai Mu to the bathroom to take a shower and even prepared new clothes for him. After Bai Mu finished showering, the staff told Lily that she was also taking a shower.

He waited for more than half an hour before Lily arrived at the small room with three bounty notices.

Two bounties totaling 500,000 were placed aside, since the bounty targets had come to her voluntarily, and Lily hadn't charged them; this could be considered a benefit of the 'inheritance agreement'.

The demon's name is John Aza, and he used to be a public official in a certain department. Later, he came into contact with forbidden things and made a contract with a demon, becoming a contracted demon.

"A demon? Is this a place where you can't write your name?"

“The names of demons also possess power,” Lily explained with a smile. “Some demons are bound by their true names, so they try their best to avoid revealing them, while others don’t care.”

They are not affected by their real names; in fact, calling their real names will alarm these demons.

Lily casually reveals her little tricks for dealing with demons to the white screen.

"When you make a contract with a demon, you can judge to some extent whether the demon cares about your real name. Those that do care will be specially marked, but it may be a little trick of the demon."

"So he was a person before." Bai Mu curled his lips, now he could be completely certain of the reason why there were no mental fragments.

The weapon crate is for collecting spirit fragments. This demon has directly made a pact with another great demon. Can we expect the great demon behind him to be kind enough to let 'John Aza' go?
That great demon not only didn't spare them, he even wanted the White Curtain's cat! He deserves to die!
"What's going on with my bounty?" After figuring out the reason, Bai Mu stopped worrying about not having any new mental fragments.

He's decided to go for the high-quality route, so he won't bother with ordinary spirit fragments he can collect, since they wouldn't be of much use anyway. He's not a mutated banshee queen, so it's hard for him to use a swarm tactic.

“It’s a normal bounty increase.” Lily said matter-of-factly, “The big spender who wants you dead is too impatient, so he increased the bounty in a short period of time.”

"Who exactly is this person?" Bai Mu pondered the background of his benefactor. So far, he hadn't offended many people.

An unknown organization that cultivates a mutated banshee queen, and a boss who was killed in a strange dream.

That makes three possibilities in total.

The dead boss probably had a plan to retaliate against him, as did the other organization whose business was disrupted.

Oh, and we also have to consider the entity behind Zoke. That thing must also be a demon? Or some other dark creature.

“And then there’s this bounty.” Lily took out another bounty, this one was a little less, but still four million.

Now his bounty totals 15 million, and his combat power has skyrocketed. All he needs is a ruthless person to provide him with proof of his combat strength.

"Tsk, poor bastard." He glanced at the bounty. His highest bounty was already eleven million, so he looked down on Ququ's four million bounty.

"Because it is not a legal bounty, the bounties left by different employers will not be added together."

Bai Mu thought for a moment and asked, "So, if a bounty hunter is careless and overlooks a bounty, he will miss out on that bounty?"

"That's right, and this is considered 'compliant' behavior in the Gold Capital."

The City of Gold provides a stable and reliable bounty location, but it will not be held responsible for losses caused by the bounty hunter's own negligence.

If the bounty hunters are not negligent, they can naturally take all the bounties, and the Gold Lords will not interfere in this matter.

They won't miss any potential money-making opportunities there, nor will they interfere with others making money. However, if you don't have the vision to earn the corresponding amount of money when you're making money, the City of Gold won't proactively remind you.

If you can't even figure out how to make money, why would reminding the Gold Capital only lead to losses? Anyway, the person involved might not be able to hold onto that money, so it's better to leave it in the Gold Capital.

"I want to go to the City of Gold."

"Bai Mu, are you abandoning me?"

"What are you saying, want to come along? I think you'd be better off in the Golden City." Bai Mu wasn't affected by Lily.

The more he learned about the City of Gold, the more interesting he found it. Lily smiled and said, "How do you know I haven't lived there?"

"That would be even better! With our combined strengths, we can expand and become a major force over there."

White Curtain's idea was simple: since the Golden Capital was a place where money was the priority, surely one could easily come into contact with a large number of different dreams there?

In his eyes, that place was a super dungeon platform full of fantastical dreams.

"The question is, White Curtain, are you willing to leave now?"

"I don't want to."

Bai Mu's answer was straightforward. He put the two bounty cards that belonged to him into his pocket and thought that Rota City wasn't so bad after all.

There are still many unresolved issues here, so he can't leave even if he's asked to.

Why is the transportation in this world so bad?
He drove Lily to the bank to transfer money and then treated her to dinner at a fancy restaurant.

After returning home, I put the weapon case aside, stretched my body a little, and instead of summoning Luciela, I went straight to sleep.

The next day, a spirited Bai Mu arrived at the experience store and left the car keys with Lily.

How long will you be gone this time?

Having known each other for so long, Lily wasn't surprised at all by Bai Mu's actions.

"do not know."

"Shall I walk you part of the way?"

Bai Mu shook his head, rejecting Lily's suggestion.

Upon arriving at the processing center, Borei was already waiting there. He hadn't forgotten the previous arrangements, and Borei was relieved that Bai Mu had arrived at the processing center on time.

"Your net worth has gone up quite a bit now, huh?"

"Oh, not at all, it's only 15 million crickets."

"The price has gone up?" Borre asked in surprise.

"It's gone up recently."

Looking at Bai Mu's smile, Bo Lei shook his head: "You'd better be careful. I'm tempted by that bounty."

"It's okay. I think the Golden City is nice. I'll go and visit it when I have the chance. I haven't eaten yet."

"To the cafeteria."

Bolei and Bai Mu went to the cafeteria together. As for the Golden City, he didn't say much, mainly because he didn't know much about it.

The City of Gold is quite far from Rota, more than 6,000 kilometers away as the crow flies.

In addition, since his bounty is illegal, the price will tempt many people, including government officials.

The authorities may not do anything, but the authorities are a collective of people. Not to mention people, even dark creatures like demons would be tempted.

This could lead to someone using their power to try and claim the bounty, since it comes from the Golden City, meaning the White Curtain's head is essentially a high-value unclaimed lottery ticket.

"How did the strange dream I explored last time go?"

Borre didn't hide anything: "The progress is very good. After the Bureau of Processing made contact with the spacetime over there, a series of cooperation agreements were reached, and the officials over there are willing to assist our operations."

The Time Police did not have a good impression of these 'outer universe' visitors, but since the Bureau of Handling Affairs is the 'law enforcer' of the outer universe, the Time Police would not refuse to cooperate based on their impressions.

They wanted to get rid of the criminals as quickly as possible, and if possible, completely shut down the passage from the 'outer universe' to their side.

Half a month has passed in reality, but more than a month has passed in that alternate dream. During this time, the Bureau of Handling Matters has made no substantial progress. It can only be said that they are a bunch of incompetent fools.

"I'm a little curious about the enhancements over there."

Borei's hand trembled: "Don't be curious about this."

The Bureau of Processing also cares about the enhancement methods there, but after discussion, they classified them as difficult to implement, and will only attempt them in extremely special circumstances.

Furthermore, they have researched and analyzed the relevant enhancement programs. Although they can directly enable some people to become extraordinary without any side effects, this method is most effective for ordinary people.

If someone is already an extraordinary being, then the so-called enhancement is unlikely to work.

If the illegal organizations that possess otherworldly dreams can do this, why do they have to serve ordinary rich people instead of those superhumans who are even richer and more powerful?
After investigation by the bureau, they figured out some of the reasons: it wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they couldn't.

To make the necessary customizations, they first need to figure out how to deceive that alternate dream world.

Through deception, they created a 'clone' of the patron, or a clone that could function as a parallel individual, in order to steal energy from that world and strengthen themselves.

(End of this chapter)