My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 363 The Dragon of Consciousness and Mind! Stepping into the Third Realm! (Second Update)
An unimaginably enormous dragon head emerged from it, its eyes cold and devoid of any emotion—

It was a Western-style dragon. Its claws slapping against the crack, and its exposed, scaled body, vaguely showed traces of lizards. It was completely different from the feeling of the Eastern dragon, and extremely oppressive. Through the crack in the sky, one could vaguely see its huge, bat-like wings fluttering slightly.

Then, He opened His mouth.

A world-destroying torrent descends from the heavens!

Chu Zhu's pupils contracted. Although his body tensed up subconsciously, he did not dodge. On one hand, knowing the true nature of this world, he felt that Z might be up to something strange; on the other hand, if it was true, he obviously couldn't avoid it!

The world turned blood red at that moment.

"...Hmm?" Chu Zhu stared at his body in disbelief. A faint golden light protected his body, resisting the world-destroying flames that descended from the sky. However... the faint golden light clearly only protected him.

The red light that had almost obscured his vision gradually dissipated, and when Chu Zhu looked closely, he fell silent…

The once bustling mountaintop city is no longer there!

Everything, everything—those things that were both strange and familiar to him—had vanished.

Zhou Ze, the surrounding buildings, even the languid pedestrians—all vanished…or rather, died? Not even a corpse remained…

"...Z! What are you doing?" Chu Zhu pulled out his phone expressionlessly. His first thought was that Z had created a virtual illusion. After all, this world is ultimately an illusion, so it's not unimaginable that he could create something like this, similar to a VR movie.
"Even if you want me to experience despair, to see Zhou Ze die in front of me, to watch the peaceful world be destroyed, thus giving me a chance to break through... but!" Chu Zhu sighed. Wasn't this a bit too deliberate? How could he possibly empathize with it?

then……

A terrifying dragon roar echoed from the sky.

An unimaginable mental power permeated the space at that moment, causing the void rifts to widen further. One after another, terrifying Western dragons squeezed through the rifts—although their size was countless times smaller than the first one, it was still relatively small. Dragons over ten meters long were everywhere, almost covering the entire sky—giving Chu Zhu the illusion of seeing a drone carrier group in his dream.

The war has begun!

One after another, mechs sped in from afar, beginning their battle against the dragons. However, they were utterly outmatched, being torn apart and destroyed one by one…

Defeated steadily!

"Fine, you win!" Chu Zhu was speechless. She silently took out her phone and made a call, but no one answered.

With a furrowed brow, Chu Zhu dialed several more numbers, but none of them were answered.

"...If you don't want to make me angry, switch everything back!" Chu Zhu said softly. The calls he made were naturally to Li Kang and the others.

After waiting silently for five seconds, until a giant dragon in the sky seemed to realize his presence and rushed towards him, Chu Zhu's brow twitched slightly. He had a vague sense of unease and expressionlessly put his hand to his temple.

"……wake!"

……

The next instant, Chu Zhu opened his eyes, and then his expression changed drastically. Through the glass, he saw a clear blue sky: "???"

What happened? Wasn't he in the underground base? How could he possibly see the sky?!

With difficulty, Chu Zhu turned his head and saw the base, or rather, the ruins of the base—the upper level of the base had been torn open and overturned. Sparks flew from countless machines at that moment…

One after another, the "frozen coffins" were overturned or destroyed in the explosion, and the bodies inside fell out.

Lizard-like creatures were tearing apart these sleeping "corpses".

Regardless of how the underground base was discovered... where did these lizards come from? Is this still a dream?
Chu Zhu calmly pondered, but why... can't he simply return to reality whenever he wants—shouldn't that be enough to prove he's escaped the virtual world of the dream world?
So... it's not some panoramic VR thing that Z came up with? It's all real?

calm! calm!
Upon closer reflection, there are still many problems... For example, why didn't this happen in the previous timeline?

In the previous timeline, I logged out after lunch... This time, although I waited for Zhou Ze for a while, I was only an hour late at most! In the previous timeline, he was still in the base at this time and hadn't seen Lin Xinzhu yet!

The layout of Z... is it crude, or...?

A lizard's sharp claws suddenly slammed against the glass of the life support pod where Chu Zhu was, but it didn't budge an inch...

It slapped at the ground with its claws, but eventually, out of sheer impatience, it went looking for other, easier-to-eat "food" that had already been opened.

Three or five lizards came and all of them tentatively tried to attack!

Finally, a slightly smaller lizard with pink fur tentatively made its move, perhaps because of the help of the previous ones... This time, it suddenly pierced through the glass chamber, and Chu Zhu turned his head to the side—that claw almost grabbed his head.

Chu Zhu grabbed the lizard's claws, and a murderous intent finally flashed in his eyes.

A slap suddenly landed, and the glass that had already been pierced shattered into pieces in that instant.

Chu Zhu coughed violently, expelling liquid from her lungs, while pressing the pink lizard firmly against the broken glass, ignoring its struggles—

The shards of glass were still sharp, and in its struggle, they cut its skin, causing a trickle of bright red blood to flow down.

"...Your blood...is it red too?" Chu Zhu's words were devoid of any emotion. He raised his hand and slammed the pink lizard hard into the hibernation pod once more. Again and again...

The next moment, another lizard pounced, but it didn't manage to knock Chu Zhu down. It didn't care, and began tearing at Chu Zhu's shoulder...

Even more soon, another one arrived. Perhaps because the "food" here was quite abundant, the other lizards didn't come over. Chu Zhu didn't fight the three lizards either; having used up all his stored magical abilities in reality, he was at his weakest! Pure memory abilities didn't have much power left… so he couldn't possibly defeat these three!
All he wanted at that moment was for this pink lizard to die!

Time and again, flesh was torn apart... the pain was excruciating! However, Chu Zhu showed no emotional fluctuations from beginning to end. As Mr. Zhu, he had died far too many times and had been tortured to death countless times!

His pain tolerance is actually far greater than others imagine.

at last.

Due to the severity of his injuries, Chu Zhu finally lost control of the pink lizard. He was thrown away by the struggling lizard. As the three lizards pounced on him, Chu Zhu remained calm, pondering the reasons behind the differences between the two timelines...

He was not afraid of death, nor was he afraid of this disaster, but he was afraid, or rather worried, that he would die without knowing why!
How much time has passed...?

A few seconds? A few minutes? Or maybe even longer?!
As Chu Zhu was being torn apart, she seemed to see... a glimmer of black light through the one eye that she could still see?
"Witness! The world is collapsing!" It was a calm voice without the slightest emotional fluctuation.

The next instant, crimson blood spurted out... it was lizard blood... it covered Chu Zhu's eyes, turning the world Chu Zhu could see into a completely blood-red color.

Chu Zhu waited silently, too weak to move due to his severe injuries and near death... He watched as an extremely beautiful woman entered the field of vision of his remaining eye: "..."

Lin Xinzhu's body seemed to freeze. She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything and just squatted down.

"...I! I'm sorry...this!"

Lin Xinzhu's body trembled slightly, and Chu Zhu could basically tell that Lin Xinzhu had no way to treat his injuries—no, do you Heavenly Court rebels not even have anyone to treat illnesses?

Chu Zhu felt there were too many things to complain about, so much so that she didn't know how to even begin to criticize them.

"...You!" Chu Zhu managed to utter a single word with all her might. Lin Xinzhu seemed to realize something, sniffed twice, and brought her face closer to listen intently.

"..." Chu Zhu was speechless, so he simply ignored Lin Xinzhu and directly used...copying—he actually wanted Lin Xinzhu not to press down on him, it was very heavy, okay? Doing this to a seriously injured patient... is toxic.

In the next instant, Chu Zhu's body, which had been torn to shreds and was no better than a discarded doll, was gradually reversed.

"?!" Lin Xinzhu stared in disbelief as Chu Zhu pushed him away, stood up, stretched, and acted as if he hadn't been hurt at all...

However, Chu Zhu didn't say anything to her; he glanced around.

All the lizards died, and all of them died in the way that their bones were completely crushed... as if their bodies had suddenly been subjected to hundreds, thousands, or even more times the weight... unable to bear it, and then collapsed!
However, those who looked like corpses seemed to be perfectly fine... This is a precise grasp of power!

"...Is it gravity?" Chu Zhu murmured, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes. He still couldn't understand what had happened...it was all too confusing!

Everything is so different from the previous timeline, it's like a complete upheaval... Also, are these people still alive...? If they are, shouldn't they be coughing up liquid violently like when he left the hibernation pod...? However, he didn't go over to observe, because whether they were alive or not didn't mean much to him at this moment.

"Yes...right!" Lin Xinzhu said with difficulty, then took two deep breaths, as if she was only just realizing it. Her face showed a mixture of confusion, trepidation, and excitement: "Yes...yes...yes, it's about supernatural powers in this area? I see! As expected of you...no wonder that guy asked me to save him...hmm!"

She composed herself and suddenly stood up: "Uncle Chu...!"

After addressing her once, Lin Xinzhu seemed to get much smoother. She silently wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, then narrowed her eyes, looked into the distance, and her voice became solemn and serious.

"The situation is urgent... That... cough cough, my cousin, she's currently engaged in a battle with consciousness and mind... um, a war! I need to get you to a safer place first, and then see... if you can help her!"

"..." Chu Zhu made a pause gesture, his consciousness and mind... Considering what he had seen before, Chu Zhu had a guess: Could it be an invasion by all races? Those dragons and these lizards were actually from the same race, which seemed to explain a lot—this should be a simultaneous attack by all races on the virtual world and the underground base! But, there were still many things that couldn't be explained. He pursed his lips: "Don't rush!"

"?"

"You mean!" Chu Zhu looked in the direction Lin Xinzhu was looking. Although he couldn't see anything, he inexplicably sensed an almost suffocating sense of oppression emanating from that direction. He took a deep breath, as if talking to himself, or perhaps asking someone, "Are so many people really dead?"

Lin Xinzhu: "???"

What kind of talk is that...?

Lin Xinzhu looked around in disbelief. Was he faking his death? Had he gone mad? Or had he finally developed dementia...?

"...It's nothing!" Chu Zhu rubbed her temples.

If this is an accident, that's fine, but the chances of it being an accident are too small... But, if it really is Z's arrangement... that shouldn't be possible, right? Damn it, what on earth happened!
Chu Zhu closed his eyes; he truly felt anger and despair. He also realized that perhaps only his next life would offer him a glimpse into the answer!
In that instant, Chu Zhu suddenly felt something, and he slowly opened his eyes. As if by natural progression—he had achieved the third realm.

Amidst despair and the destruction of the city, he encountered his destiny!

Calmly surveying her surroundings, the entire world appeared completely different to Chu Zhu's senses.

Especially in the distance...

In his mind's eye, he seemed to see two enormous suns from different worlds of memory. They were so scorching and terrifying... almost burning his soul!
Suddenly, the sun on the left seemed to sense something and abruptly 'looked' over... Chu Zhu felt his thoughts freeze at that moment.

Immediately, a golden light flashed in his mind... that terrifying feeling as if his consciousness was about to be evaporated! It vanished in an instant... Z's protection had taken effect.

"...You!" Lin Xinzhu seemed to realize something only now, her face showing astonishment: "Wait, you actually, how could you see...no, you did this and you didn't die...I..."

Lin Xinzhu was clearly so shocked that words could hardly describe it.

(End of this chapter)