There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

"Upgrading a blue skill costs 150 Dream Coins each time, that's too much," Lu Qing said, looking at the words in her diary with some surprise.

It takes 50 Dream Coins to upgrade a white skill once. To fully upgrade a white skill, it takes nine upgrades, which is 450 Dream Coins.

To fully upgrade a blue skill, you need 1,350 Dream Coins.

Unfortunately, Lu Qing doesn't have any purple skills that haven't been fully upgraded yet, so she can't check how many Dream Coins it costs to upgrade a purple skill once.

But no matter what, Lu Qing found that her own little house was still the best. Not only did it cost fewer Dream Coins per training session, but her skills improved significantly. If there was any drawback...

Does training skills require hard work and time?

"This is outrageous." Lu Qing shook her head as she closed the skill upgrade page.

Seeing that there was still no news from Hao Meng, she picked up the portable lamp on the table, wanting to figure out how to summon it to her side at any time.

When she entered PVP before, she didn't seem to be able to summon the lantern at any time, and she didn't know how to summon it. It's probably because she forgot to do something.

Holding the lantern in her palm, Lu Qing examined it carefully and quickly found a passage of text at the bottom of the lantern.

The text was written in Chinese, and it read: “A thick fog is coming.”

“A thick fog is coming?” Lu Qing read the words on the lantern once, but found that there was no reaction without the lantern. After thinking for a moment, she read the four Chinese characters again.

A sudden warmth spread across the back of her left hand. The lantern disappeared from Lu Qing's hand, replaced by a black iron lantern pattern on the back of her left hand.

She recited the words "a thick fog is coming" again, and the lantern reappeared in her hand.

"What about this locker?"

Lu Qing looked at the wooden cabinet beside her and quickly found the spell to summon the storage cabinet on it.

Open Sesame

"........."

Lu Qing was slightly taken aback when she saw the incantation. She hadn't expected it to be so... well, so refreshing and unconventional.

"Open Sesame." Since there was only one bird, Wayne, around and he couldn't understand Chinese, Lu Qing confidently read it aloud.

Then, a space appeared in front of her, and the locker door was inside this space.

Unlike the hand lamp that transforms into a tattoo attached to the body, the locker automatically opens a door and appears in front of Lu Qing as long as the incantation is recited, which does seem to fit the "open sesame" concept.

Back in her seat, Lu Qing started searching through her diary and quickly found the video file from this PVP session.

Unfortunately, the diary does not record events that occur in PVP mode in the directory.

Thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. The PVP content isn't very long, and the world background seems to have been created casually. Recording it in the diary and mixing it with experiences from other worlds would feel strange.

"Let's release the PVP video first, as a warm-up for the Dark Forest arc."

With that in mind, Lu Qing posted the video of this PVP session on the video section, with the caption: "[A Stranger's PVP Diary 01: New Version Update, My First PVP Attempt, My Skills Are a Little Lazy, Please Forgive Me.]"

After posting the video, she immediately left a comment in the comment section and pinned her comment to the top.

[I've already used up my dream attempts for this month. It was a perilous abyss dream, and I almost messed up this time.]

[Currently in production, it should be released soon!]

"Okay, that's about right." Lu Qing nodded in satisfaction. With this video, she believed that after it was released, no one would complain that she updated without any preview.

Doing it this way might even increase the revenue from this video. After all, it's reasonable for everyone to be excited when they see that an update is coming and give out two Dream Coins.

As long as you don't enter the market too late, you'll definitely be able to reap the rewards from this wave of retail investors.

Hehehe~

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Chapter 418: Sigh~ It really exists!

Stopping her delusions, Lu Qing checked the data of her video. Although it had just been released, it already had a large number of comments, thanks to her large following.

【First!】

[It was so warm just a minute ago.]

The video section constantly reminds me that I'm a useless piece of trash. (crying.JPG)

[Front row.]

【sofa........】

[PVP is awesome!]

[My wife updated! Yay! *cheers*.jpg]

[Is the new one already in production? I can't wait! (Sparkling.jpg)]

[Abyss Dream, is this the power of a top player? Shocking.jpg]

“These guys…”

Lu Qing looked at the bastard who called her "wife," her lips twitched a couple of times, and after thinking about it, she still didn't delete it.

That's just how people are online. They like to call the girls they like "wife." It's no big deal. Even if you delete this comment, other comments will appear.

I don't really have any resistance to it, it just feels a little strange...

She had done this kind of thing in her past life, and she never expected that she would be the one being called "wife" now. It's actually... a little exciting!

Whoops, just kidding.

After closing the video interface, Lu Qing stood up, intending to go and see the place she was most curious about after the house was upgraded.

The locker room, training ground, birdcage, reading room, trophy exhibition room—these are all things that existed before, only now they are more functional.

She planned to take a look at the simple garden that had recently appeared in the cabin, but she didn't know whether the garden was outside the cabin or inside the cabin.

After walking around for a while, Lu Qing pushed open the wooden door in front of her and found that this was not the garden, but the reading room.

The reading room is not large; both sides of the room are occupied by huge bookshelves, and between the two bookshelves is a long, dark wooden table.

The front of the door is a window that lets in a little light, through which you can vaguely see the hazy fog outside. Looking up, you see a brass chandelier emitting a soft glow.

On either side of the wooden table were gray and white sofas. Lu Qing felt that sitting there and reading would be very comfortable. The only pity was that the bookshelves in the reading room were not full, and most of the books on them were various skill books.

She wished there were more storybooks to help her relax, but storybooks alone weren't enough. If possible, she'd also like more snacks on her desk...

How can you read a book without snacking!

"........."

Realizing that her thoughts had wandered, Lu Qing slowly came back to her senses, closed the door to the reading room, and walked toward the next room.

"Thud..."

Pushing open the door, a slightly cool mist blew onto her skin. Lu Qing took a step forward, completely leaving the building.

Is this the garden?

Lu Qing looked around. The garden of the cottage lived up to its name of being simple. Apart from the scarecrow standing in the upper left corner, there was only a bare wooden fence.

"That's not right either..."

Following my senses, I saw that Wayne's birdcage had also been moved to this garden, right opposite the scarecrow.

"A crow and a scarecrow?" Lu Qing walked towards Wayne and said jokingly.

"What?" Vein opened his eyes as he sensed her approach, seemingly not understanding what Lu Qing meant.

"It's nothing." Seeing that Wayne didn't understand her meaning, Lu Qing stopped joking.

"How did you end up here?" Lu Qing asked softly.

"Isn't this your mental space? How would I know how I got here?" Wayne rolled his eyes at Lu Qing.

"Hey, could you move me somewhere else? We're so familiar with each other, can't you let me go inside?" Wayne said, glancing at the scarecrow across from him several times.

Noticing Wayne's gaze, Lu Qing looked at the scarecrow, only to see that the expression on the scarecrow's face, casually drawn with a black paintbrush, was facing Wayne's direction.

In this place, surrounded by endless fog, deathly silent and quiet, it does look rather eerie.

However, she wouldn't say that. For some reason, a mischievous glint rose in Lu Qing's eye, and she deliberately provoked him, saying:

"Oh dear~ You're not scared, are you? The incarnation of the god of misfortune and bad luck shouldn't be afraid of a mere scarecrow."

"Don't give me that crap. Don't you know what kind of person I am?"

Faced with Lu Qing's provocation, Wayne did something completely out of character, which surprised Lu Qing somewhat.

The crow seemed to have lost its arrogance in front of her. Or rather, did it simply stop pretending now that the other party understood its own personality?

“I thought you would stubbornly say, ‘Huh, how could that be? Of course I’m not scared, I just don’t want to stay here,’” Lu Qing said, perfectly mimicking Wayne’s previous tone.

Wayne: "........."

"Damn it! You know so much already, why don't you just release me already?!" Wayne snapped.

"Hehehe, I'm just teasing you." Covering her mouth and chuckling softly, Lu Qing reached out and opened the cage door, letting Wayne fly out.

"Speaking of which, do you know what's planted in this garden?" After releasing Wayne, Lu Qing looked at the empty garden and asked.

“I don’t know what’s planted, but there is definitely something there. I can feel the life force in the garden. It should be a seed, probably in the germination stage, not yet breaking through the soil.” Wayne flapped his wings and flew to Lu Qing’s shoulder.

"It would be good to have something like that." Lu Qing nodded, then looked out of the garden.

Just like what they had seen in the cabin before, the sky and the earth were gray and lifeless. When neither of them spoke, they could only hear their own breathing and heartbeats.

Hao Meng's mental structure, a small hill, is located behind Lu Qing's. It's unclear how the other is doing with checking the new version.

"Hey, Wayne, do you know what's in the spiritual realm?" Lu Qing suddenly asked curiously.

"What else could it be? Other people's mental structures, monsters made of negative emotions, some creatures that can operate in the mental realm, and... an endless gray fog."

"Is this realm an end? Since we can see other people's spiritual worlds here, does that mean this spiritual realm is located on Earth? Does such a spiritual realm exist in the universe?" Lu Qing asked a series of questions.

"Gah, are you out of your mind?" Wayne glanced at Lu Qing speechlessly and said:

"Of course there are."

"Oh, really?" Lu Qing said with a surprised look. She was just asking casually.

Vein: "......."

The complete chapters of "The Dreams of This World Have Big Problems" will continue to be updated.