Dream Travel

Chapter 472 Let's be more polite.
"It's a Dream Erosion item related to increasing charm. Do you need anything in that regard?"

“Not at all.” Bai Mu pushed the pair of earrings toward Lily: “Keep them if you like.”

Lily smiled and accepted the earrings.

However, Dream Erosion items are not very useful in combat. But Dream Erosion items don't necessarily have to be used in combat. They can also be useful in cooking and daily life.

Warriors seek stronger and more useful Dream Erosion equipment, while noble ladies seek Dream Erosion items that can enhance their personal charm.

"Is this all you got from the Dream Graveyard?"

"The strange dream we encountered this time was far too abnormal."

“Tell me about it in detail.” Lily was very interested in the strange dreams Bai Mu had experienced.

Bai Mu told Lily about the strange dream he had encountered, and the platinum-blonde woman laughed even more heartily.

"That sounds like fun."

"You like watching women fight?"

“I haven’t seen many people pulling each other’s hair,” Lily said sincerely.

She then changed the subject: "I'm wondering if we should open up a shortcut."

"What's the fastest route?"

"The route to the Dream Graveyard".

Bai Mu's eyes lit up: "Is it magic? Like those teleportation arrays or something?"

If such convenient magic existed, White Curtain would definitely want to learn about it.

"We're trying to find a way to establish an air route."

"Oh..." Bai Mu immediately lost interest. Such a shortcut was too realistic and didn't move him much.

He wanted to get one himself, and he even wanted to find the electric dragon he had encountered before and put it in his weapon case.

While Lucy Ella is a good mount, she's still ground-based. It's time to find one that can fly; he can't exactly ride a demon, can he?
Succubi are worth a try, but normal demons are out of the question.

Helicopters weren't out of the question, but after thinking about it seriously, he realized that he would need to learn how to fly one.
"Can you get your hands on a plane?"

“That thing is hard to get, I have something else to replace it.” Lily called Qianhu over and asked her to watch the shop before taking Bai Mu to a warehouse.

The warehouse wasn't far from the Dream Experience Store, and there was even a little dust in the air when Lily opened the door.

However, she had anticipated this problem, and after opening the door, she immediately hid behind the white curtain: "These are things that are not easy to sell and things that I don't want to sell."

Lily waved her hand and waited for the dust in the warehouse to settle before going inside, where she showed something to Bai Mu.

"Glider...?"

Bai Mu was certain he hadn't misread the thing Lily was showing him; it was indeed a powered suspension glider.

"A Dream Erosion item."

"Who brought this thing out?" Bai Mu was a little curious. If it were a normal glider, it could be made with current technology.

If it's a Dream Erosion item, then it must be obtained from another dream, and this thing even looks a bit like science fiction.

"With more Dreamwalkers, some will eventually be able to be brought out; its Dream Erosion effect is 'levitation'."

"This would go well with a glider, wouldn't it?"

“It would be better suited to ‘riding the wind’ or ‘flying’.”

Lily shook her head. Hovering was a good match for the Dream Erosion effect, but it wasn't the best. However, for flying vehicles, the difference wasn't that big; it was just a matter of agility.

If it has the Dream Erosion effect for flight, this thing can fly around without its own power, while hovering requires its own power.

"You want to use this to create a shortcut?"

"You can use it for now. It will take less than two hours to reach the Dream Graveyard of Rota."

"That's pretty fast." Bai Mu examined the glider. Its wings were foldable rigid wings, and the materials were quite sturdy. With the Dream Erosion effect, the user experience should be quite good.

"Does it use oil?"

"No, use batteries."

Lily opened the glider's battery compartment, which was similar to the batteries in an electric car.

Bai Mu stared at the thing for a moment and asked, "Does it have a charger?"

"No, but this thing has an energy conversion interface, so you can charge it with the weapon box."

"Wow, high-tech stuff." Bai Mu finally understood; this thing must have come from some technologically advanced alternate dream world.

"Even without a compatible charger, the wings are solar panels."

"No wonder you wanted to keep this thing." Bai Mu glanced at the battery level displayed on the screen.

97%, almost fully charged.

"How about letting your concierge use the express route if you are a user?"

"It could also be one of your employees."

“Then let’s take turns,” Lily decided.

This shortcut won't be used often, and it doesn't matter who uses it. Using a glider to deliver some small Dream Erosion items is enough. If White Curtain brings out something large, then he'll have to deliver it back personally.

The next day, after Chelsea woke up in the white curtain, she told him that the Bureau of Handling Affairs had contacted him and asked him to come in person.

"Hmm? What trouble have you run into?"

Bai Mu was somewhat puzzled, so he went to the processing bureau in person. Once there, Boresai gave him a set of documents.

"Here you go, your complete paperwork for entering and leaving the Dream Cemetery. The processing bureau has it on file. Take this copy back and keep it. If anyone tries to use this against you in the future, just produce this document."

Borei explained the purpose of this thing simply: the White Curtain has the Maple Crown Medal as a privilege, but privileges become less useful if overused.

It is appropriate to use privileges in a compliant manner, and this procedure is to make the privileges of the White Curtain compliant.

With this item, White Curtain can continue to freely enter and exit the Dream Graveyard even without the Maple Crown Medal.

Having the Maple Crown Medal makes the process much easier. Without it, even with connections, it would take months to complete.

During this period, the relevant personnel are mainly conducting qualification reviews, which is only possible if there are connections. Without connections, it is common for this review process to drag on for one or two years.

Ordinary people don't want to have too much contact with the Dream Graveyard, but Dreamwalkers are different, especially those who gain power and live longer in the Dream Graveyard. They want to have more contact with the natural Dream Graveyard.

"The Bureau hasn't developed any Dream Projects recently?"

"No, there aren't that many projects to develop." Borei shook his head. The Dream Development Projects of the Rota Processing Bureau are already saturated.

If we want to continue developing new projects, then we'll need to expand our recruitment.

The exact number of projects that Yimeng can develop is linked to the city where the processing bureau is located.

The Bureau has developed quite a few Dream Projects, but they don't represent the entirety of the city's projects. Other companies within the city also have related development projects.

After the appearance of the Dream Terminal, the previously available project quotas are now completely gone, leaving the Processing Bureau with little competitiveness.

Besides developing alternate dreams, the primary task here is to solve cases related to those dreams. Developing alternate dreams is secondary; if there's a shortage of manpower while solving cases, we'll have to pull people away from the completed alternate dreams.

"Isn't the processing bureau supposed to handle this?"

"The Bureau of Case Handling is dedicated to handling cases related to alternate dreams; developing alternate dreams is not a specialty of the Bureau of Case Handling."

Borre emphasized the matters under the jurisdiction of the Bureau, and Bai Mu nodded regretfully upon hearing this.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."

"Okay, I'll let you know if anything happens... By the way, don't come into contact with different alternate dreams too often. If you do come into contact with one, you'd better rest in reality for three to five days."

After seeing off the white curtain, Borre continued working.

Bai Mu returned to his residence with the paperwork. From then on, things became much simpler; he just needed to keep interacting with Yi Meng to improve himself.

"You're going to the Dream Graveyard again? I know you're in a hurry, but there are some things you need to be careful about. Entering the Dream Graveyard too frequently can be dangerous, even for a Dream Walker."

"What do you mean?" Bai Mu sat down next to Lily.

"Dream erosion, anyone who comes out of a dream will be afflicted by it. The only difference is between benign and malignant dream erosion, but if dream erosion accumulates too much, it can still cause problems."

Lily and Bai Mu were discussing some important points about Dreamwalkers.

Dream erosion is like a color. After emerging from a different dream, before the color disappears, it will be recognized by that different dream. Therefore, dreamers and those who enter different dreams cannot enter in a short period of time.

However, this color cannot be recognized by other dreams, so people with dream-eroded colors can enter other dreams.

However, the colors eroded by dreams cannot be 'digested' within the dream world; they can only be digested in reality.

While other dreams may not recognize the dream erosion colors of other dreams, if the White Curtain frequently enters and exits different dreams, it will cause a significant increase in the dream erosion it acquires.

Why are people who enter a dream world kicked out after being away from the dream source for a period of time?

That's because it lacked the dream-eroding influence of the Otherworld Source, and was 'identified' by the Otherworld, and then expelled from the country.

When a real person enters a different dream, it's like an invasion. People without much dream-erosion can disguise themselves through the dream-erosion brought by the source of the different dream.

However, the influence of the dream-erosion color is too strong, and the dream-erosion effect of the source of the strange dream cannot be concealed.

Although the dream erosion from the source of the dream cannot completely conceal the excessive dream erosion colors, the colors originating from the source of the dream are still effective.

This resulted in them being treated as locals in the alternate dream world, but also as something that wasn't good.

The person involved will not be expelled by the strange dream, but because they are not a 'good thing' in themselves, they are prone to danger.

It's common sense to clean up harmful substances. Normal outsiders don't have that much dream-erosion color, and even without the dream-erosion influence of the source of strange dreams, the danger isn't too great.

It's like someone smuggling themselves into another country, having their fake documents exposed, and then being deported.

A person who can be deported must at least be a human being. If a monster disguised as a human is exposed, then it is not deportation, but being shot dead on the spot.

"So it's because dream erosion can't be digested in alternate dreams?"

Bai Mu looked on in surprise.

“It’s not that it’s impossible to digest, but the digestion time is based on real-world time.” Lily shook her head.

These are things that have been studied by people. The speed at which the dream erosion from the dream is digested seems to be related to the time difference between the dream and reality.

The greater the time difference between the dream and reality, the slower the dream erosion process.

Otherwise, those who need to work in multiple alternate dreams could simply exploit bugs by working through different alternate dreams.

However, in reality, even if those people work in multiple alternate dreams, they still need to rest in reality for a while before they can enter the first alternate dream they enter.

If the test results can be recorded and applied to the field of Yimeng development, it means that unexpected warnings have already occurred during the testing process.

Moreover, to avoid being an exception, there will be no shortage of corresponding tests.

White Curtain usually enters otherworldly dreams to save them, and the time difference between otherworldly dreams and reality is not large.

Therefore, after he emerged from the dream, the dream erosion left by the previous dream had been mostly digested.

But now that Bai Mu has come into contact with the Otherworldly Graveyard, it seems that he wants to let loose in this area.

Lily had no doubt that the unrestrained White Curtain was able to contact more than twenty other dreams before Serafis contacted him.

How did you get this information?

“I used to work in the processing bureau.”

"Really?" Bai Mu looked at Lily in surprise.

"But not at the Rota Processing Bureau."

"Then why did you quit?"

"Working at the Dream Processing Bureau was to gain experience for starting my own business. Once I had enough experience, I naturally resigned."

Seeing the somewhat complicated expression on Bai Mu's face, Lily couldn't help but laugh: "You don't think the Disposal Bureau is the kind of organization that forcibly kidnaps people, do you?"

"In organizations involved in special events, resigning probably isn't that easy, right?"

Lily shook her head: "But it's not difficult. You just need to sign a confidentiality agreement. The real reason why people find it hard to resign is simply the treatment offered by the Bureau of Handling Affairs."

Bai Mu understood this; he had chatted with Bo Lei about this before, and being able to enter the Dream Processing Bureau meant being directly admitted to the official staff.

Not only is it a secure job with excellent benefits, but the retirement arrangements are also even better.

Choosing to resign means losing these benefits, and besides, the Dream Processing Bureau isn't a place you can just get into.

Getting in is difficult enough; once you're in, why would you think about leaving easily?

Bai Mu looked at Lily, who appeared to be around twenty years old, and pondered her true age. This young-looking store manager had experienced far too much.

Could it be some kind of old monster like Beatrice?

"You... never mind, I'll be polite." Bai Mu gave up on asking Lily about her age.

"Is it safe to have a few different dream-etched colors?"

"Based on the precautions I learned before I resigned, more than five are already very unsafe, and it is best not to exceed nine."

Lily didn't keep him in suspense. Although Bai Mu wasn't officially part of the official staff, he was more special than those who were.

Telling him these things doesn't violate the confidentiality agreement.

"Of course~ If you're lucky, you might be able to get tainted by more than a dozen dream-erosion colors without any problems, but are you willing to gamble on the type of strange dream you'll get next?"

The types of strange dreams are not untraceable. As long as the 'obsession' of the source of the strange dream can be investigated, it can be analyzed. However, to confirm the nature of a strange dream, an on-site investigation is still required.

The White Curtain is in contact with the Dream Graveyard, where there is no opportunity for a double investigation.

Therefore, the strange dream he entered might be a strange dream without any special power, or it might be a strange dream where gods and demons run rampant.

Despite being shrouded in a cloud of dream-eroded colors, he arrived in a dream world devoid of special powers and was able to easily handle any external threats.

But what if the dream world is high-tech? What if gods and demons roam freely?
Lily's warning made Bai Mu think of something: if he got too much Dream Erosion color, he could enter the already explored alternate dreams and land directly to fight, wouldn't that be awesome?

(End of this chapter)