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Chapter 1112, Section 1107: The Dreamer (Please give me double monthly votes!)

"So that really was a dream?" Marne asked.

Xiaoti nodded:

"Actually, you've already stepped halfway into the dream. I'm not using the metaphor of a dream to describe your intrusion into memories, and normal memories are not suitable to be described as dreams. This is actually why the mind-altering drug makes you fall into memories."

"Its effectiveness will be compromised because you're still dreaming."

"Of course, I'm not talking about ordinary dreams."

Marx and Engels also understood:

"Are you saying that my dream is related to the person who dreamed it, because his power can influence all dreams? Or did something else happen to him after he died?"

Xiaoti countered with:
"You saw the dreamer's corpse in your dream, didn't you?"

Marx and Engels nodded:

"Yes."

“That’s the answer,” Xiaoti replied succinctly. “You saw its corpse in your dream because its corpse was in your dream. That might sound a bit abstract…”

"What you need to understand is that the Dream Man is no longer the same kind of creature as us. He should be dead, but his body is not, strictly speaking, a flesh and blood body like ours. It is made of dreams."

"Moreover, his dreams are more real than ours, which makes him exist between reality and dreams, and he can blur the boundaries between reality and dreams. Moreover, he can influence the dreams themselves, so he can influence almost the entire reality."

"So when he dies, he will leave behind a body, but it will not be a flesh and blood body."

"His dream corpse will fall into this world, and if you can't perceive dreams, you can't touch or feel the existence of his corpse."

"This sounds a bit like the corpse of a spiritual being, but dreams are more abstract and scattered, and they don't enter any ecological cycle system. Pure spiritual beings will be devoured by their own kind when they die, but dreamers won't."

He had no one like him.

"Before he became a dreamer, dreams were just pure dreams. Even if you really encountered other creatures in your dreams, they were usually just ordinary mental beings, and they were not made up of dreams."

"Dreams are too unstable and have almost no conditions for giving birth to life."

Marx and Engels asked curiously:
"Then he is..."

Xiaoti replied:
"He was once an ordinary human being like you, but somehow he became what is known as a dreamer."

"Actually, you'll also notice that he seems to be able to influence reality with his own power, but this is completely different from yours because he doesn't directly distort reality."

"He transformed parts of reality into dreams and manipulated those dreams."

"That's the scariest part, because if something is transformed into a dream, it's very difficult to figure out whether it was changed by it or whether it was originally a dream."

"This even makes his origins somewhat unverifiable, because we observed that the place where he was born seems to be a dream, but we are more inclined to believe that it is reality transformed from a dream."

"Moreover, he himself insists that the dream once existed, but he destroyed it."

"If our speculation is correct, he should have lived in a city in the Western Federation, and had normal social relationships and a family, and he also lived an ordinary life."

"But now we can no longer find his relatives from the past, nor can we find any trace of that city ever existed."

"We all feel that in the process of his transformation, that city was inadvertently turned into a dream."
Marne asked, "So, does that mean they're all dead? Or does it mean that these people are still alive to him, since he is a being existing between a dream and reality?"

Xiaoti sighed:

"To put it bluntly, this was an absolute nightmare for him. He must have accidentally killed all his former relatives and friends, and now he can't get back that dream."

"Because he had just been born at that time, and his power was very unstable. If you hear me say this, you might think that he is very close to a reality twister, which is not wrong, but there is a huge difference between you."

"Because although you can arbitrarily modify reality, you are actually very real. You are all genuine madmen, tyrants trying to override reality."

"But he is not; he is a dream man, meaning he himself is composed of dreams."

"Therefore, he is also very unstable and may even easily become an irreversible form. Therefore, since his birth, he has spent a huge amount of energy maintaining his form and existence."

"If he is not properly controlled, he may turn into a monster without a normal mind, or into some new natural reality, or even disappear from this world completely if he is unlucky."

"The Dream Man is the self and image that he has spent a long time creating."

"To be honest, the fact that he was able to do all this already shows that he is extraordinary. If he hadn't encountered this kind of thing, he would probably have achieved great things in reality. But we should also be glad that it was him who encountered this incident."

"Because judging by the pain he has experienced and his current situation, he is almost a moral paragon. As far as I know, he has never abused his power and has always restrained it to prevent the tragedy that happened to his family from happening again."

"If he didn't have this sense of responsibility, our world might already be in chaos and war. Perhaps we would eventually kill that terrifying monster, but our reality might also be riddled with holes."

"He is the most dangerous person among us."

As she said this, she was also observing Marne's reaction.

But he didn't notice that detail:

"That does sound true, and he should be able to easily modify other Reality Benders as well. As far as I know, there can be conflicts between Reality Benders because we are using the same power."

Xiaoti nodded and said:
“That’s right. He’s dangerous to you too, and he represents chaos and madness. If he unleashes his power without restraint, most Reality Benders would probably be driven insane by him.”

"And if such a thing were to happen, then the dream, intertwined with the distortion of reality, would be unstoppable."

"Fortunately, we don't have to worry about him doing this himself because he is willing to restrain himself and doesn't want to hurt others, but we can't put all our hopes on this."

"After all, he is fickle by nature. What if one day the Dream Man disappears and is replaced by some other dream demon? Is there any way for us to stop him, or rather...?"

"What if he dies?"

Xiaoti pressed on in a serious tone:

"What will happen to his body after he dies? Obviously, he has no flesh and blood, and his dream corpse will fall on our reality. Will our reality be submerged by the dream? Will it melt directly into it?"
"This is a possibility we cannot ignore, and the dreamer himself agrees with this."

Marx and Engels replied:
"It seems that this eventually happened."

Xiaoti nodded:

"Yes, we eventually came up with a solution. Many realitybenders are vulnerable in front of him, but one realitybender is better at controlling himself than the others and is stronger than his human counterparts."

"Some things can even trap dreams."

Day 5 of perfect attendance