Learn one small skill every day

Tu Shanqing looked up at the setting sun on the horizon, and Bai Miao followed her gaze, discovering that the once warm sunset was about to disappear, and a blood moon was slowly emerging in the sky.

“I’ve been here for too long this time, and they’re about to discover me. As for the struggle for control of Yar City, I’m also an outsider, and they don’t want a variable like me to appear.”

Tu Shanqing bit her lower lip and clenched her hands tightly in front of her chest.

"Let me do one last thing before I leave..."

Bai Miao felt a gentle breeze on his face, a soft body embraced him, and the fragrance of rice filled his mouth.

Tu Shanqing stuck out her tongue: "Anyway, I won't have these memories after this. Bai, I will come to find you in the future. I hope you won't bring up these things. I wasn't as good-tempered back then. After all, the title you gave me wasn't very friendly."

Tu Shanqing's figure disappeared into the rice paddy, and the scene before them receded as quickly as the tide.

Until silence returned, the dark room reappeared.

I... was forcibly kissed?

Bai Miao even wondered if he was dreaming.

This dream wasn't related to water at all.

Bai Miao was momentarily confused.

“Dr. Moriarty…you’ve been standing there for a while now, is there a problem?”

From the bed came Karlrens' worried voice, pulling Bai Miao back to reality.

"No...no, I misjudged. Tonight will be Christmas Eve."

Bai Miao sheathed his holy sword and left Karlrens's room.

Tu Shanqing...

I never imagined that my impulsive action would lead to such a huge change later on.

But it was precisely because of Tu Shanqing's reminder that Bai Miao was able to understand the situation in Yar City.

Even if they participate in the battle for the Heavenly Dao later, they shouldn't be completely clueless about the situation from the start.

Huh? I have a new status?

Bai Miao noticed that a buff resembling a blessing had appeared in the status bar.

This buff wasn't described, but Bai Miao felt a sense of ease at that moment.

The spiritual value also did not continue to rise.

After returning home, Bai Miao used psychoanalysis in front of the mirror and did not experience any discomfort.

Within his original spiritual body, Bai Miao discovered a necklace shaped like wheat ears hanging on his chest.

The necklace was emitting a pale yellow halo, constantly protecting its spiritual body.

The blessing that Tu Shanqing gave me... seems to allow me to stay in Yar City for a longer period of time.

At least until the blessing effect wears off, your spirit value will not continue to rise.

I just don't know if this thing will stop the onset of nightmares.

However, judging from Tu Shanqing's attitude, she probably no longer opposes his pursuit of a high level of exploration to clear the game.

Could it be... that the blessing she left behind will help me overcome my nightmares when they strike?

Does that mean she might run into Emma in her dreams?

Bai Miao acted quickly, returning to Karllund's room and speaking to him.

“Bishop, I want to be treated by you again. I want to continue to contract the nightmare disease, to contract a very severe case of nightmare disease. My condition is still too mild right now.”

Karl-Lens looked at Bai Miao with a hint of horror, thinking that perhaps the doctor had gone insane while treating him.

Chapter 200 Nightmare of Slaughter

"Bishop, stop looking at me and go to bed."

Urged by Bai Miao, Karllund slowly lay down on the bed, let out a long breath, and closed his eyes.

Nightmares soon manifested in his mental body, and Bai Miao also manipulated his own mental body to try to treat Karlrens.

This time, however, it was clearly different.

Bai Miao first felt a cold sensation coming from Karlrens.

It felt like swimming in seawater without sunlight, icy cold.

Bai Miao's eyelids felt heavy, and he knew that if he fell asleep now, his nightmares would start.

So Bai Miao simply gave up resisting sleepiness, tilted his head and lay down on the ground, letting the nightmare come.

"Captain, it's time to wake up."

Bai Miao, as always, became the captain of the Endless Energy Ship, completing the tasks Emma had asked him to do in a daze.

"Surveillance? How could I possibly keep track of all those screens?"

During his night shift, Bai Miao stared at the wall full of screens and felt dizzy and lightheaded.

Just as Bai Miao was about to be killed by the monster from his past nightmares because he failed to find the anomaly within the allotted time, beams of golden light poured out from Bai Miao's body, illuminating the dark monitoring room and blasting the monster to pieces.

Tu Shanqing's figure appeared beside Bai Miao, pulled Bai Miao up from the ground, then formed a hand seal and gently tapped Bai Miao's head.

A flood of memories rushed into Bai Miao's mind, and in an instant, Bai Miao gained his own memories.

"Phew... Tu Shanqing really did help me recover from the nightmare."

Unfortunately, Bai Miao was unable to use his own items in his dreams.

The only effective means is the various skills that are imprinted in one's mind.

And the spiritual body.

Using the reflection from the monitor, Bai Miao successfully guided his spiritual body out of the screen.

"Is this your nightmare world?"

Tu Shanqing, who had been standing to the side, suddenly spoke up and asked.

"You have your own consciousness?"

Bai Miao thought that Tu Shanqing was just a pure energy entity.

"I am not the real person; I am merely a remnant of his divine soul. In terms that you can understand, I am an artificial intelligence created by Tu Shanqing based on himself."

"Just how much have you learned? How do you even know about artificial intelligence?"

Tu Shanqing has quite a wide range of knowledge.

"I've learned a lot, mostly from you. But then again, my original self is now missing one of my three souls and seven spirits, so she can't defeat her current self. In other words, she's already on her way to her death. You should thank her properly next time you see me."

"..."

Bai Miao was somewhat shocked.

How could Tu Shanqing face death so calmly...?

"Should I not have told you this? Oh well, I'll make you feel bad at least a little."

“You don’t actually have to do this. I have another solution for nightmares.”

He uses Ai Goto's power to heal himself, and he can also receive Ai Goto's help in his nightmares.

As long as he can find himself in his nightmares, Bai Miao is confident that he can overcome his nightmare disorder.

"After using the power of time, you're already considered dead at that point in time. I did this just to help you get rid of your nightmares faster. Besides, don't you have more important things to do later?"

Tu Shanqing raised her hand to interrupt Bai Miao: "Don't mention this again, focus on solving the nightmare."

"Um……"

Bai Miao left the monitoring room when the time was almost up.

Emma opened the door on time.

Upon seeing that Bai Miao was unharmed, Emma's expression changed slightly.

The nightmare read my related memories and constructed this scenario.

Bai Miao spoke to Emma while pondering the basic principles of nightmares.

"Give me the nautical chart, and I suddenly realized the exact location of the three parts. I immediately dispatched three teams to find them."

"?"

Emma froze on the spot.

Upon seeing this, Bai Miao continued, "And I know that my name is Noah, and the secrets of this ship."

"Do you remember the backdoor I installed in your body?"

"I want you to summon all the ministers immediately. I want to perform code repairs that haven't been done in tens of thousands of years. I want to examine all of their code."

"Bring me the entire database of the Endless Energy. I also want to check which stored data has been modified due to the influence of the ocean during the voyage."

A series of instructions left Emma frozen in place, completely bewildered.

"What are you standing there for? Are you going to make this up? Quickly present the information I need, you piece of trash nightmare! Can't you react a little faster?"

Tu Shanqing, watching Bai Miao's actions from the side, muttered, "DDoS attack?"

"You even know this?"

Bai Miao realized that nightmares were formed by reading the patient's memories, extracting those scenes, and reconstructing them.

Conversely, when one becomes aware of the existence of a nightmare, and requests a large amount of information that is reasonable within the context of the scene, the nightmare is likely to stagnate because it cannot process so much information in a short period of time.

Of course, nightmares might also give Bai Miao a bunch of random, incorrect information, but that obviously doesn't fit the point of a nightmare's authenticity.

If one is in a state of amnesia, nightmares may fill in the missing parts of oneself. However, if one has regained self-awareness, and nightmares continue to operate in this way, it will undoubtedly increase the proportion of the patient's lucid side in nightmares.

Nightmares don't easily make patients aware that they are dreaming.

Even if it makes a mistake, it will keep correcting it instead of repeating the same mistake over and over again.

Based on this principle, Bai Miao made numerous requests, directly causing the development of Nightmare to come to a standstill.

In order to satisfy Bai Miao's demands, Nightmare will inevitably focus a lot of its energy on Bai Miao.