Dream Travel

Chapter 273 Someone Will Help Solve It

“You seem to know a lot about city defense agreements.” After listening to Beatrice’s explanation, Bai Mu felt that she hadn’t lived in vain all these years.

“I’m a wanted person, so of course I have plenty of information to ensure my safety.” A slight smile appeared on Beatrice’s lips.

She then reminded Bai Mu: "Even if you don't have special powers and can bypass the city's defense agreements, this is not absolute."

"With increased physical strength, your vitality will also increase. If you violate the city's defense protocols based solely on your physical abilities, you'll attract even more attention!"

Beatrice warned White Curtain to be mindful of potential dangers and to adapt, urging him not to assume that his special status allowed him to disregard the city defense agreements in major cities.

“I suggest you find a more ordinary town before that happens, or use some method to suppress life force—and I’m very good at that!”

"Your map seems a bit too long." Bai Mu glanced at the woman speechlessly. Had she said so much just to pave the way for this suggestion?

"Then you should move out."

"No! They've had their eyes open for almost ten minutes, why aren't they awake yet?" After decisively rejecting Beatrice's suggestion, Shiromu shifted the topic to Chito and Yuri.

“It will take a while for the soul and body to synchronize, within half an hour,” Atrist checked their condition and gave a specific timeframe.

Half an hour later, Yuri and Chito really woke up.

They looked around at their surroundings with a puzzled expression, then showed surprise.

Bai Mu spoke first: "I know you have a lot of questions, but let's hear what she has to say first."

Beatrice pointed to the earrings on their earlobes: "Your souls and bodies need them now, so don't think about taking them off."

The Soul Stone will work as long as it remains in contact, but don't even think about doing something as daring as swapping earrings, although that's a good game.

She had conducted similar experiments, so she knew the outcome of Chito and Yuri exchanging soul stones under these circumstances.

Experiencing each other's physical sensations is enjoyable, but it can also further affect the degree of fusion between the soul and the original body.

She also wants to try to completely resolve the mismatch between her soul and body, but a bold and novel attempt by them could cause her progress to be reduced to zero.

"Ignore the Soul Stones, and you will be just like before, without any physical discomfort... Finally, congratulations on escaping the apocalypse."

After explaining the precautions to Chito and Yuri, Atrist asked, "Are there any other questions?"

“Yes, why are there two of you here?” Yuri asked, pointing at the Beatrice doll.

As for the precautions that Beatrice mentioned earlier, she didn't quite understand them, but she did write down that she couldn't take off her earrings.

There seems to be another really fun feature...

“That’s my body.” Beatrice’s expression fell; she didn’t want to talk about it with anyone. “Now! If everything’s alright, leave!”

She kicked Chito and Yuri out of the alchemy workshop, and also got a lock for them.

To prevent that girl named Yuri from sneaking back in out of curiosity.

In the bedroom, Bai Mu stuffed the camera and storage disk on the bed into the weapon case and said to Yuri and Qianhu, "I'm going out to take care of some things. Don't go out yet. Wait for me here. I'll arrange a nice place for you when I get back."

"Alright..." Qianhu had many questions in his mind, but since Bai Mu had already said so, it was clear that he couldn't ask them immediately.

Outside Bai Mu's residence, the Night Owl Company personnel who were watching the scene were scratching their heads in frustration.

They wanted to rush in and investigate, but they were hesitant.

The main reason is that about half an hour ago, a brief but intense dream eclipse occurred in Bai Mu's residence.

If it were a return of the Dreamwalker, the Dream Erosion wouldn't be so intense, but if the Dream Erosion phenomenon had actually occurred, it wouldn't have been so short-lived...

The intense dream-erosion reaction is like the electric spark of a lighter; the voltage is very high at the moment, but the current is very low, and it has almost no effect on the person who touches it.

So what exactly happened to that Dreamwalker?

Are they dead? If they are dead, they have to retrieve the Dream Terminal; if they are not dead, they are trespassing.

Ordinary residential houses are one thing, but Bai Mu is a dream walker whose head is worth more than 30 million.

While they were getting anxious, Bai Mu went out with the weapons case.

The person keeping watch breathed a sigh of relief and immediately began reporting the situation. Communication equipment—something ordinary people have no access to—yet employees of Night Owl Company were equipped with such devices.

When Bai Mu left home, he carried not only his own suitcase but also a briefcase containing the Dream Terminal.

Seeing that the white curtain had gone to the company building, the Night Owl Company's surveillance personnel knew their job was done.

"He's already gone to the company building." After giving their report, the Night Owl Mining surveillance personnel relaxed.

"Let's go have a few drinks tonight."

"Let's report on those two as well," one of the surveillance personnel said after thinking for a moment.

During their observation of the White Curtain residence, they discovered that there were still suspicious individuals watching the place.

Their presence here is normal work; if questioned, they can be told they are watching the Dream Terminal, not the White Curtain.

But something seemed off about the other person watching this place.

“Then… let’s report it.” The other surveillance officer was reluctant, mainly because doing this extra task would likely mean writing another report later.

However, they also receive a bonus if they make an unexpected gain.

At the Night Owl Company building, Bai Mu was led to the VIP room by a receptionist. Not long after, An Yongkang arrived. "Mr. Bai Mu, you could have gone back to town first." His expression was slightly regretful. Bai Mu had returned directly from the city of strata without going to the town, which prevented some of Night Owl Company's arrangements from proceeding.

Bai Mu has already returned, and An Yongkang will not express any dissatisfaction on this matter; the two sides are simply in a cooperative relationship.

White Curtain's main responsibility was collecting research data; other matters were not covered in the agreement. Therefore, the subsequent arrangements for Nightow Mining fall under a new agreement...

We'll have to discuss it then, but since Bai Mu didn't go there, there's no need to discuss anything.

"Your Dream Terminal, and research data."

White Curtain took out the map projector, the hacking device, and Night Owl's storage disk.

An Yongkang summoned people to the VIP room and conducted on-site testing. The research data inside surprised An Yongkang.

Of course, only An Yongkang himself knows how much of this surprise was genuine.

“Mr. Bai Mu, I look forward to our next collaboration.” An Yongkang took out an anonymous deposit slip from his inner pocket.

He then gave a few instructions to his assistant, who brought over a gift box.

"This is an internal purchase voucher for Night Owl Company. Only with this can we purchase special items," An Yongkang explained the function of the voucher to Bai Mu.

The certificate is for internal use by Nightow Company, but its value allows it to be used across different companies!
Although it's not a purchase voucher from another company, people from other companies can collect it to buy specific items from Nightow Company.

Those products are sold based on certificates, not on the person.

The value of the internal purchase vouchers he presented was, in some ways, higher than the three million bearer deposit certificates that Bai Mu obtained!

People with three million in assets can buy many of Nightow's in-house purchase items, but if they don't have in-house purchase vouchers, even if their assets increase tenfold, they still can't buy those items.

In-app purchases aren't something you can simply get by with money, but money can certainly get you through many things.

Even without proof of purchase, you can find someone with proof of purchase and buy the item first.

However, Nightow Mining Company issues a limited number of such vouchers each year, and once the quota for external use is used up, there are no more.

The three million bearer deposit was the highest reward. Night Owl Company offered White Curtain a very generous agreement, but only if White Curtain was able to collect all the rewards.

The research data Bai Mu obtained, along with his influence within the Dream Realm, was enough for An Yongkang to reward Bai Mu with the highest level of compensation.

He even felt that the compensation in the agreement was not enough, so he specially ordered two extra in-app purchase vouchers.

The internal purchase voucher used to be only one, but now it's two.

The money was handled according to the agreement; after all, it was company money, and he couldn't just use it to do favors. However, he had more control over the internal purchase vouchers.

Each manager has a certain share of that stuff to allocate each year. Whether it's used for personal favors or to win people over, as long as it works, the company won't say anything.

If you don't use it well, you won't have as much market share next year.

Bai Mu was definitely worth using his internal purchase vouchers to do him a favor. Besides researching the data, who could blame him when Bai Mu had destroyed several competing companies in the alternate dream?

They wiped out several exploration teams, and the companies behind those teams suffered greatly.

Moreover, those people's actions were against the rules, and Night Owl Company gave them an extra push after learning about it.

They made those stumbling companies fall down and couldn't get back up. What they did wasn't complicated; they just spoke up for the white curtain.

What do you mean by questioning those companies? It's fine for everyone to explore and compete normally in the alternate dream, but you teamed up to ambush our important partner, right?

This matter won't be resolved without an explanation.

Of course, Night Owl Corporation was 'oblivious' to the fact that White Curtain had been ambushed in the alternate dream.

They chose Bai Mu as an important partner because of Bai Mu's outstanding personal abilities.

After all, he had received the medal of the Star of Rota and the authorization certificate from the Rota Processing Bureau.

These are all excellent examples; what's wrong with them choosing White Curtain to collaborate with?
The problem lies with those who are blinded by the 30 million yuan bounty!

As for the result of his demand for an explanation, An Yongkang has already obtained it, which is a total of two million in bearer deposit certificates.

“Mr. Bai Mu, this is compensation for the mismanagement of other competing companies.” In the end, An Yongkang took out the deposit slip.

The reason why both the reward and the compensation are paid in bearer deposit certificates is that these certificates have higher potential value.

If someone has connections, these certificates of deposit can fetch a premium of 2% to 40%.

The reason for such a large fluctuation is mainly due to how clean the premium money is.

Generally speaking, a premium of 5% is not a big problem. The people who buy these things use normal money, and the other party is using bearer deposit certificates to do favors.

Or they might have the ability to handle shady money and make dirty money.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now. Let's cooperate again next time if there's an opportunity." Bai Mu accepted what he was entitled to and prepared to leave.

But An Yongkang stopped Bai Mu and gave him some information about doing a favor.

He didn't emphasize the importance of this information; he just mentioned it casually.

An Yongkang told Bai Mu that there were unidentified people active near his home, and that he could arrange for someone to deal with the matter if Bai Mu needed it.

This aligned with what Beatrice had told him: once he established a network of interests, he wouldn't need to do anything when he encountered trouble; people would proactively help him solve it...

(End of this chapter)