What’s wrong with the dream world!

He first entered the house and closed the door, then closed his eyes, sensing the slight "dream" of his neighbor who was drowsy after dinner, and opened the door again.

The faint sound of the air conditioner, the mechanical sound of the door lock turning, the clatter of slippers stepping on the ground...all the sounds around me disappeared, leaving only the clear sound of my own heartbeat.

Deaf people usually refer to people with hearing and speech impairments. Although they may not be able to hear sounds from the outside world, their physiological mechanisms still enable them to perceive sounds inside the body, including heartbeats.

Yu Xiu De slowly opened his eyes.

Now, he was in a small kitchen, and in front of the kitchen sink, Zhu Yajing, wearing an apron and gloves, was holding a plate and washing dishes carefully.

There is no sound of flowing water, no sound of sponges rubbing against each other. This is Zhu Yajing's "dreamland".

"My physical body cannot enter my own dreams, but can I enter the dreams of others?"

Yu Xiu De discovered the limitations of the "dream man" and at the same time felt a sense of inexplicable disappointment in his heart.

If only I could completely sink into my own dream...

Yu Xiu De shook his head, opened the kitchen door, and tried to disappear again.

At this moment, Zhu Yajing in the dream seemed to have noticed something, raised her head and looked towards the kitchen door.

There was no one there.

In reality, Zhu Yajing, who was distracted while washing dishes, also raised her head and looked towards the kitchen door after a brief feeling of dizziness.

There was no one there either.

Her mother had to work overtime today, and her sister, perhaps because she was not used to the intensity of today's weight loss exercise, went to bed early after taking a shower and eating.

When Zhu Yajing came to her senses, her face turned red instantly, like a shy rose.

She lowered her head and forced herself to focus on the housework at hand.

What’s going on…

Why did she suddenly imagine that her gentle male neighbor would appear in the kitchen and wash dishes with her?

Excuse me!

How rude!

Zhu Yajing repented in her heart.

Although fantasy is innocent, Zhu Yajing's inferiority complex overwhelms all her fantasies about her male neighbor, so she was so excited just now.

Her male neighbor is young, handsome, gentle, and outstanding. He is able to live and work independently at the same age as her.

But I am a burden who can neither hear nor speak, and I have dragged down my mother and my sister.

Although Zhu Yajing made a lot of efforts and attempts, she never dared to imagine that she would succeed. She was satisfied as long as she had the process.

Even when she was sleeping, unconsciously, she never dared to have such a bold dream.

"Will I still see him when I take out the trash tomorrow?"

Zhu Yajing, whose emotions were fluctuating, couldn't help but wash the dishes a little faster than usual.

……

……

Leaving Zhu Yajing's dream, Yu Xiude came to Zhu Yueyu's dream.

Unlike Zhu Yajing's extremely quiet dream, Zhu Yueyu's dream seemed much more normal.

At least sound, color, outline, touch... all these elements that support normal people's cognition of things are present, especially sound.

Chewing sounds, noises.

In Zhu Yajing's dream, Yu Xiude could only hear his own heartbeat.

Unlike Zhu Yajing, who, when she was awake and distracted, would unnaturally incorporate the surrounding scenery into her fleeting dreams, Zhu Yueyu fell asleep normally, and the most important factor in the construction of her dreams still came from deeper consciousness and desires.

The scene of this dream was a fast food restaurant. Zhu Yueyu was sitting at a seat eating heartily, with hamburgers and fried chicken piled up like a small mountain in front of her.

This amount is undoubtedly abnormal, and Zhu Yueyu in real life would definitely not be able to finish it.

But this is a dream.

"...Are these mother and daughter?"

Yu Xiu De naturally thought of Zhu Qin's overeating in his "real dreamland".

He pressed down his baseball cap as a fast food restaurant employee. He didn't know when his clothes had changed from loose pajamas to fast food restaurant work clothes.

Sometimes, in order to avoid being noticed by the dream master, [Nightmare] will choose to change its form in the dream.

Yu Xiu De was behind the cashier counter, looking at Zhu Yue Yu quietly.

The natural dreams of ordinary people are obviously not as good as the dreams created by the owners of the "Dream" realm destiny.

This dream lacks logic. For example, although this fast food restaurant is crowded, no one is queuing up to order food. Everyone is sitting at their seats eating.

Even the specific scenes are hazy, with obvious colors only around the dream owner. When the dream owner shifts his attention, the scenes become blurred again.

This is a normal, common dream.

After watching Zhu Yueyu eat the hamburger for a while, like a hamster saving food, Yu Xiude shook his head slightly and quietly activated his ability, "Recall Dream".

He came here not just to experiment with the abilities of the "Dream Man".

Since you have decided to help your neighbor throw away the garbage from the past, you should at least see clearly where the garbage is first.

The next moment, the surrounding scenes, whether clear or unclear, instantly became as turbid as spilled paint.

Tables and chairs melted, walls collapsed, the crowd melted...only the owner of the dream remained in his original appearance.

She frowned, as if she realized something was wrong, but quickly relaxed her brows, as if everything happening around her was not worth mentioning or caring about, and she continued to eat the burger in front of her in a daze.

Until the burger in her hand turned to ashes.

"Oh my burger..."

Zhu Yueyu muttered, and her whole person began to change, as if time was going backwards for her. She became younger and younger... until she changed from a bloated junior high school student to a cute little girl with just a little bit of baby fat on her face.

The surrounding scene is also fixed in a simply laid out living room.

This was the home of Zhu Yajing's family many years ago.

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This is not that apartment.

Yu Xiude looked around and made a judgment.

The lobby here is even narrower than the apartment. The floor, though clean, is heavily scarred. In front of the worn sofa, there is only a shriveled small wooden table, and no teacups or tea sets are to be seen for entertaining guests.

Yu Xiu De judged that this should be their family's former home, and they moved to the apartment in Qianpeng City later.

"I just don't know whether their house is bought or rented..." Yu Xiu De muttered to himself. He actually rented his apartment.

He did not take much money from Guan Wei Zhong when he left, even though he knew that if he just asked, he could make Fang Meifen and Guan Wei Zhong's family leave the house with nothing.

Zhu Yajing possesses the power of the one with the fate associated with the "destruction" domain, and she herself possesses an unknown fate without realizing it. Delving into her dreams to search for clues is risky...

The risk that Yu Xiu De was thinking about was directed at Zhu Ya Jing herself.

If the influence on Zhu Yajing is "dream" or "mind", which is more inclined towards the spiritual realm, then [Nightmare] can use the distorted manipulation of dreams to directly or indirectly eliminate such influence.

But what affected Zhu Yajing was the influence of the "destruction" field, and it was at a very high level, affecting Zhu Yajing's language ability and hearing at both the mental and physical levels.

If you are not careful, Zhu Yajing in real life may be seriously injured.

I originally just wanted to respond to the kindness of my friendly neighbor who helped me take out the garbage every day, and see if I could help my neighbor unload the burden from the past. If it would also increase the risk to the neighbor's safety, it would be better not to help.

Yu Xiu De felt that he could start with Zhu Yajing's sister Zhu Yueyu's memory dream and Zhu Yajing's past in the dream. After all, Zhu Yajing had been deaf and dumb for many years, and there might be corresponding clues in the past.

In the living room, he had a thought and his fast food restaurant worker's clothes changed again.

Disposable shoe covers, disposable protective clothing, disposable gloves, masks and goggles... a complete set of on-site investigation clothes was put on by Yu Xiu De out of thin air as if by magic.

In this private house, this [Nightmare] entered as if he was alone, or as if he was at home, and began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets skillfully.

[Nightmare] Although it rarely invades other people's dreams, it does happen. In fact, once a nightmare invades once, it can simulate the invasion countless times in its own dreams.

He did not directly imagine himself in the dream as omniscient and omnipotent, because that would disrupt the parameters of the dream and make everything meaningless; the boundary between this dream and past reality, which had been blurred by the influence of the "nightmare", would become clear again.

It’s like when a person realizes that he is dreaming and tries to control the dream, the specific dream that he could originally perceive around him suddenly becomes abstract and blurred, and when he wakes up, not much impression is left.

Fate is not a superpower that can be used at will. It is a "science" and "skill" that belongs only to the owner of the fate. It can also be understood as a conditional "mechanism"... Even though Yu Xiu De has not received professional education as a fate owner, he has summed up this point and has always maintained a humble and rigorous attitude towards fate.

This is usually an attitude that only people with acquired destiny will have.

……

Zhu Yueyu, the owner of the dream, did not appear beside Yu Xiu De at this time. Yu Xiu De knew where she was, but he did not plan to find her immediately. Instead, he wanted to familiarize himself with the place first.

Due to limited energy, most ordinary people can only let their dreams revolve around themselves.

When the dreamer leaves this scene and arrives at the next scene, and his attention shifts from the person in front of him to the next person, the characters and scenes will collapse on their own and then reload.

Most dreams lack logic, but Nightmare can fill it in... in a way that Nightmare itself cannot explain.

This certainly doesn't just come from the dream owner's memory, because the dream owner's memories that constitute the dream only come from his or her own past perspective, but the dream in which [Nightmare] intervenes can provide more information, allowing it to experience an immersive reasoning game in the dream, collecting clues like a very experienced detective.

Although this is undoubtedly an extremely inefficient search method, it is disdained by even the weakest "omniscient" domain fate holders. It is more like the way ordinary people know things. The energy and effort required are enormous, and there is no way to guarantee the accuracy of the results like the ability brought by the fate itself.

Because in addition to collecting information, Yu Xiu De also needs to think and reason, and the premise of thinking and reasoning is the authenticity of the information.

Nightmare's dreams occasionally have problems, just like the chat AI.

However, this is indeed a method suitable for [Nightmare] to find clues, and it also allows [Nightmare] to at least achieve a limited pseudo-"omniscience" effect in terms of ability application and effects.

Yu Xiu De's actions were very professional, efficient and his thinking was very clear. In a short while, he sorted out and summarized the information about his neighbor's family in the past.

Home address, phone number, workplace, school location...

The economic situation is even more dire than the current one in reality... The woman named Zhuqin's job salary is not ideal at this moment in the dream... probably because she needs to take care of and educate two children.

Zhu Yajing was currently in the first grade of the three-year federal compulsory junior high school, while Zhu Yueyu was only in the second grade of the six-year federal compulsory elementary school...

By the way, find some objects worth exploring.

They were an opened letter with obvious signs of being damaged, and a photo with a corner missing... Both were found in the room that was suspected to be Zhuqin's.

When taking these things out of the drawer, Yu Xiu De's face was calm, without any shame or uneasiness for invading other people's privacy.

This kind of behavior, in this world, in the moral standards of the Federation, is like that of a normal person and a blind person for the fate holder and ordinary people.

Blind people who can't see anything can't stop normal people from looking at them with curiosity, and blind people can't prevent normal people from not seeing things just because they can't see things... At least in the Federation's basic moral education, this kind of behavior of fate owners is a similar concept.

Although Yu Xiu De, who had lived two lives as a human, found this difficult to understand, as a vested interest, he did not object... In fact, not many people in the entire federation, including ordinary people, opposed it. Instead, the loudest voices came from some fate holders. After all, when it did not involve their own areas, there was not much difference between fate holders and ordinary people.

Yu Xiu De felt slightly moved inwardly that his efficiency this time was much faster than before.

"Perhaps it's also related to Number 13's pursuit. I've become much more adept at traveling through dreams in search of Number 13, and the dreams of hundreds of thousands of people have provided me with a wealth of material... Well, the nights are long for me. Perhaps I could make some progress from Zhu Yueyu's dream memories, then return to reality, lie in bed, organize the material, and start a new dream... But I'd have to eliminate some of the more imaginative ones..."

Without a truly valuable skill pack like "Dreamer", [Nightmare] would not allow some materials that are currently too advanced for him to be included in the random material library for generating dreams.

Yu Xiu De opened the envelope while his thoughts were wandering as usual, and reminded himself before reading the text.

"Although I have a deep understanding of dreams, am increasingly proficient in using my abilities, and have made progress in developing my skills, Zhu Yueyu is just an ordinary person, so theoretically, there will be little error."

"But dreams can only vaguely fill in gaps. They can be used as a reference, but blindly believing them can lead to problems..."

Yu Xiude still remembers a sentence in the compulsory education textbook that left a deep impression on him.

That sentence is a famous aphorism from the permanent member of the Federation, the Prophet.

This true prophet, recorded in the federal modern history textbooks, always seemed to be in the right place, making the most effective reforms. He possessed the "omniscient" domain destiny. When asked in an interview about the rumored "prophecy that would never be wrong," he made a profound remark to the reporter.

“Being right is simply not making a mistake yet. Believing in what is right will eventually lead to irreparable mistakes.”

“I never seek to be right, I just ask myself not to make mistakes.”

Yu Xiu De was deeply impressed because this sentence had been tested on dictation many times during school.

Although it was in line with the mysterious tone of the "omniscient" fate holders, Yu Xiu De also felt that what he said did make sense.

It is said that prophecies have never been spoken out, and the prophet who wants to know what he will know must keep a cautious heart, not to mention himself who has achieved pseudo-omniscience by deriving from the "dream" realm to the "omniscience" realm.

Dreams are still just dreams for now, at best very realistic dreams. If you take dreams seriously and guesses as reality, then you are no different from those who are addicted to "real dreams".

Yu Xiu De, who is able to stabilize his spirit through "memory dreams", remains mature and steady.

He gently pulled out a piece of slightly yellowed manuscript paper with blurred handwriting from the envelope.