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Chapter 224 Urban Sword Immortal
A moment later, Su Xingwan and Gu Zhaoning walked out of the small room together.

"Is it done?" Chen Xuan asked.

"Um... thank you, you're willing..." she said somewhat awkwardly, "willing to come in... and stay with me through this nightmare."

"You're welcome," Lin Qing said with a slight smile.

When Su Xingwan looked at Chen Xuan again, her gaze was completely different from before.

What could be a more convincing example than meeting in a dream? From that moment on, only gratitude and determination remained in her heart.

"There's a question I've wanted to ask you for a while," Chen Xuan said, looking her over. "Is this image something you came up with yourself, or does it change randomly every time you dream about it?"

Su Xingwan's face turned red visibly and quickly.

She was so excited that she almost forgot about it!

Her current attire is completely different from what she looks like outside. She wears a dirty shirt and overalls as an undershirt, with a bulletproof vest and tactical belt over them, and a red scarf tied around her arm. She looks like a resistance fighter who has stepped out of a post-apocalyptic movie.

"I...I don't know...it seems like it changed on its own!" Su Xingwan stammered as she explained, "I wasn't like this at first..."

“This outfit suits you well; it symbolizes your rebellious spirit.” Lin Qing’s eyes were full of admiration. “And this empty, ghostly place is no different from the apocalypse.”

“I also think you look very energetic!” Gu Zhaoning chimed in.

“That means consciousness can be projected into dreams,” Chen Xuan shrugged. “That also explains why we all changed our appearance.”

In his nightmare, he was wearing a standard suit, but when he came in, he found that the suit was completely open, even the collar of the shirt underneath was wide open, and he was wearing a tie around his neck, which was serious but with a hint of wildness.

Lin Qing, on the other hand, had become a delinquent, with her ears and fingers adorned with dangling ornaments, her lipstick so deep it resembled dark red metallic paint, and her gothic-style black dress adorned with fishnet stockings over her long legs, creating a very sexy visual effect.

Although Chen Xuan felt that Lin Qing was quite suited to this outfit.

Gu Zhaoning was undoubtedly the one with the most normal attire among them.

She wore a regular high school summer uniform on top and a short skirt and white stockings on the bottom, looking just like a well-behaved model student in school.

Fortunately, it wasn't cold in the dream.

Otherwise, she would freeze numb after standing in that outfit for half an hour.

"Why isn't Dr. Chen wearing a white lab coat?" Gu Zhaoning asked, puzzled. "Do you think a suit is more suitable for doctors?"

"Well...maybe," Su Xingwan said guiltily.

"In other words, she didn't initially think of you as a traditional doctor," Lin Qing whispered gloatingly. "A suit jacket, and gold-rimmed glasses—what do you think you are?"

"Who cares?" Chen Xuan glared at her, then looked at Su Xingwan. "Are you familiar with the world in your dreams?"

The latter nodded, "Actually... this is Shanghai..."

"What? Shanghai?" Gu Zhaoning asked in surprise. "Which place?"

"Right now... it's the Wanhua Stadium in the city center."

"No way!" she exclaimed, covering her mouth. "My home is nearby!"

“Actually, I’ve been to your house… in my dream.” Su Xingwan smiled bitterly. “It was exactly the same as in reality, except you were missing.”

“Really? That makes things easier.” Chen Xuan immediately decided, “I’ve located the monster, it’s about 1000 meters away from us. Let’s go and take care of it quickly.”

Su Xingwan was greatly shocked. How could he know what was happening a kilometer away? "How did you find that?"

“Release your divine sense, and you will naturally sense something,” Chen Xuan said mysteriously.

In the empty environment, the detection effect of the Heavenly Cloud Technique seemed to become even more acute. After eliminating other spiritual energy interference, he could quickly notice any tiny point of light.

"Wait a minute, I'll get the weapons!" Su Xingwan ran back to her room and came out with a spear in her hand and a rifle slung over her back.

"Do you even have guns in your dreams?" Lin Qing asked curiously.

“I found it at the police station, but unfortunately the bullets were limited,” she explained simply. “I made the spear myself, using a bamboo pole to attach a meat cleaver.”

"Ah, so you went abroad in July to learn shooting from an instructor so you could fight in your dreams?!" Gu Zhaoning belatedly realized. "Hmm... unfortunately, I've only won a handful of times," Su Xingwan sighed. "The monster doesn't seem to be afraid of bullets; you need to hit it seven or eight times in a row to have any effect."

Gu Zhaoning couldn't help but hug her again, "You've really worked hard. Those people online say you often miss band practice... They don't know anything!"

Su Xingwan fell silent for a moment.

She only mentioned this to a few close friends. OneHit wasn't a one-woman band; initially, her bandmates were understanding and comforting, but as her condition worsened, disagreements arose. This change in attitude was also reflected in the attacks she received from her individual fans.

However, she quickly broke free from this gloomy mood. "It's okay, let's end it today!"

After passing through the stadium's ticket hall, the four of them arrived on the main street outside.

"It really is almost identical to reality."

Chen Xuan surveyed the street scene in his dream—Chinese signs, towering skyscrapers, and the pedestrian walkways beneath his feet—everything seemed remarkably real. This near-identical quality was perceptible to the senses; for example, he could feel the unevenness of the tactile paving, and smell the fragrance of a flower picked from the bushes. Unlike a real dream, where one could only clearly see things around them, the entire city was now clearly discernible, at least to the extent that his naked eye could see.

If he didn't know he was in a dream woven by shadow demons, he would have thought he had crossed some intrusion point again.

Of course, the differences between this place and the real Shanghai are still quite obvious.

For example... in such a large city, you can't see a single person.

The gloomy, dark sky, the hot and stuffy air, and the occasional flashes of lightning in the clouds all seemed to reflect Su Xingwan's inner world.

"That's amazing..." Gu Zhaoning murmured, "To be able to survive in a place like this for a month by myself. If it were me, I would probably collapse after two days without finding any living people."

“Actually, there were people at the beginning,” Su Xingwan said after a moment’s hesitation. “The monsters were killing people indiscriminately in the streets, and everyone was scrambling to escape. It all looked just like the real thing. But then the nightmares started happening more and more often, and the number of people gradually decreased until it became like this.”

Everyone's run away?

Chen Xuan seemed to be thinking about something.

Theoretically speaking, they aren't real people; they're merely manifestations of Su Xingwan's common sense that "there should be people in the city." So what exactly caused her to change this common sense?
"Have you ever seen your band members in your dreams?" he suddenly asked.

Su Xingwan hesitated visibly.

After a long pause, she replied, "I've seen them, but they were all killed by monsters in my previous nightmares."

"He died and never appeared again?"

“...Yes,” she whispered.

After walking south along Wanhua Road and crossing two intersections, Chen Xuan stopped. "We're here."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hoarse breath echoed through the quiet street.

"It's a monster!" Su Xingwan tensed up reflexively. "A Ning, stand back!"

A humanoid monster slowly emerged from a bubble tea shop, its head rotating 360 degrees before locking onto the four people. It was entirely grayish-white, possessing only a pair of limbs resembling hands and feet, with no visible muscle tissue, resembling a "doll" filled with milky white glue. The monster was quite tall, nearly three meters, requiring the user to bend down to enter or exit the room; its arms, when hanging down, were longer than its knees, and its head bore a gaping, blood-red maw.

While others have upper and lower jaws, this one has left and right jaws, and each jaw is half a human face.

"Dr. Chen, be careful! Don't be fooled by its size, it's very fast!" Su Xingwan warned anxiously.

Chen Xuan remained completely calm. Judging from the brightness of the spiritual energy, the monster was merely a figment of imagination.

Not to mention he even brought along the Heavenly Thunder Token, used for exorcising demons.

He casually raised his hand, and three swords of energy instantly appeared in mid-air. Then, the Heavenly Thunder Token enchantment was completed in one smooth motion, and crackling lightning simultaneously appeared on the three sword blades.

"Awooo!" The monster let out a chilling roar, grabbed a car parked by the roadside with both hands, and lifted it high, about to smash it down on them.

But Chen Xuan was one step ahead.

He pointed with one hand and said, "Slash."

The three swords flashed like lightning, leaving trails of straight lines in the air, and pierced through the monster's body almost in the blink of an eye!
Not only that, after piercing the target, the sword turned back and slashed wildly around the demon, splitting the car into large pieces!

(End of this chapter)