Open up the world in Journey to the West

An unknown amount of time had passed before Su Zian heard a voice in his ear and woke up in a daze.

When he woke up, everything around him was completely different from before he fainted.

"Here...where is this..."

Su Zian was in a daze, and there was no trace of Sun Wukong or the leader of Tianmen Mountain around him.

Suddenly, a pair of hands reached out to me.

"You're awake, how do you feel?"

The voice was that of an old man. Su Zian raised his head and looked at the old man in front of him, wondering if he was still in a dream.

The old man hurriedly helped the man up and saw that Su Zian was still recalling something.

"Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

The old man asked Su Zian very worriedly if he was feeling unwell.

"Why am I here? Where are the leader of Tianmen Mountain and Sun Wukong? How are they doing?"

Su Zian looked at the old man in front of him and asked three questions in a row, wondering where the leader of Tianmen Mountain and Sun Wukong were now, and what happened to them.

Hearing Su Zian ask this, the old man suddenly laughed.

Su Zian didn't know what the old man was laughing at, and he looked at him in confusion.

"What's wrong?"

Su Zian felt that he had not said anything wrong.

"You've been unconscious for too long, your brain is damaged, right?"

The old man looked at Su Zian with a smile on his face.

Su Zian was very confused and had no idea what the old man meant.

"Now that you're awake, you can go to the Lantern Festival with everyone else."

The old man looked at Su Zian, then started to busy himself with his own affairs.

Su Zian stood up slowly. This place felt very unfamiliar to him. Wasn't he in the secret room just now? How did he suddenly come to this place?

Su Zian slowly left the room. When he came out of the room, the scenery outside surprised him. This was not Tianmen Mountain at all. He had never been to this place before.

"Why am I here?"

Su Zian looked at the scenery and the crowd in front of him. This was a village. It was obvious that the villagers here lived very comfortably and everyone was very happy.

"Where did Sun Wukong and the others go? Why aren't they with me?"

Su Zian was puzzled as to what had happened, why he was in this place, and where had the leader of Tianmen Mountain and Sun Wukong gone.

Su Zian felt powerless all over, all his magic spells disappeared, and he didn't have a single bit of strength in his body. What was the reason for this?
All the questions are in my mind, but no one can answer them.

"It's good that you woke up. You finally woke up."

A strange voice sounded, Su Zian looked up, and saw that the two or three people around him were people he didn't recognize at all.

Looking at them, Su Zian didn't know what to do or what to say.

"What's wrong? Don't you recognize us?"

"What's going on? Didn't he faint from heatstroke yesterday? How come he is like this when he wakes up?"

Several people were very confused. Yesterday, when they were working in the fields together, Su Zian suddenly passed out. It had only been a day, how could he have forgotten about them?

"Okay, there's a lantern festival tonight, let's go quickly, or it will be too late."

Su Zian was in a daze, and suddenly someone grabbed his hand and took him away from this place.

Since he didn't know why things turned out like this, Su Zian could only stay in this place temporarily. He found that everyone here knew him and was very nice to him.

In the next few days, Su Zian stayed with the villagers here, and everyone was very nice to him.

In the afterglow of sunset, Su Zian sat on a shore, quietly looking at the scenery in the distance.

Su Zian didn't know why he became like this. He was still the same person, but what went wrong?

As Su Zian thought about it, he was completely immersed in it. Not knowing how to leave this place, Su Zian frowned.

"What are you thinking about?"

Suddenly, he was hit on the back and Su Zian came out of his thoughts.

"I didn't think anything of it."

Su Zian shook his head, indicating that he was not thinking about anything.

"Then let's go back quickly. The village chief will be looking for us soon."

It was only at this time that Su Zian realized that the old man was the village chief.

Su Zian didn't say anything, but followed them away.

During the following period of time, Su Zian went to work with his friends and went home every day, and his life was very comfortable.

Su Zian felt that this place was very strange. He clearly fainted together with the leader of Tianmen Mountain and Sun Wukong, but when he woke up, he never saw them again. This made him doubt.

Su Zian had been trying to find a way to leave this place for several days, but how should he leave?

This is a very big problem. Su Zian was absent-minded the whole day, looking at the place where he woke up, thinking that maybe he could leave from here.

"What's wrong with you lately? Why are you so absent-minded every day?"

The companions traveling with Su Zian could tell at a glance that Su Zian had been absent-minded recently, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

"Do you know any way to get out of here?"

Su Zian has been looking for an opportunity to leave here, but no matter what he does, he can't leave here, so he asked directly how he can leave this place.

"Why leave here? We are all from this village, why should we leave here?"

The other friends looked at Su Zian in confusion, not understanding why he had to leave here.

Su Zian couldn't explain it to them, so he could only shake his head and let it go.

Su Zian was absent-minded the whole day because of this incident, even when he was working in the fields with the village chief, so the village chief was very angry.

"What are you doing? Why don't you hurry up and work together?" The voice of the village chief rang in his ears, and Su Zian's thoughts were pulled back. Su Zian looked at the tools in his hands. At this time every day, the villagers would go together to do farm work.

Just as Su Zian was about to go to the village chief, there was a sudden strong wind in the sky. Before Su Zian could open his eyes, a group of monsters appeared in front of him.

"monster…"

"Ah... there's a monster..."

The surrounding villagers all shouted loudly and tried to flee the place quickly. Everyone ran around in a hurry, only Su Zian stood still.

Before Su Zian could react, these monsters killed all the villagers in front of him.

Su Zian watched the villagers die in front of him one by one, but he had no way to save them. Su Zian looked at the monster that was close to him, and when the monster rushed towards him, he suddenly fainted.

There were sounds coming from all around, and Su Zian woke up in a daze.

When he opened his eyes, everything in front of him was exactly the same as when he woke up some time ago.

"What's going on? Why is it like this?"

Su Zian was very surprised. He didn't know why it turned out like this and why he was in this place.

"you're awake?"

Suddenly a pair of hands appeared in front of him. When Su Zian raised his head, the person he saw was the village chief.

"village head?"

Su Zian looked at the village chief in disbelief. What was going on? What on earth was going on? The village chief had clearly died in front of him. What was going on?

"What happened to you? Did you faint from heat stroke and become stupid?"

The old man looked at Su Zian and suddenly laughed mockingly.

Su Zian didn't care about these things at this time. He got up from the ground and went outside. It was already dark outside and there was no one around.

"How could this be?"

Su Zian looked at it in disbelief. This was different from before. The last time he woke up, it was clearly afternoon, so how come it was evening now?

"The Lantern Festival is about to begin, why are you still here?"

The same voice appeared again. Su Zian looked at the people in front of him in disbelief. Before he could react, he was dragged away by these people.
Su Zian thought he was dreaming, but everything that happened next was exactly the same as in his dream.

Until the monster attacked again and killed everyone in front of him.

Su Zian fainted again. When he woke up again, he was in the same place and saw the same people.

Su Zian suddenly felt like he was having a mental breakdown. What on earth was going on? Why did he become like this?

Su Zian woke up before the sun rose. He didn't believe that if he had taken everyone away from here earlier, they would definitely not have encountered those monsters.

Although the villagers here were very confused, they still followed Su Zian and left.

However, they encountered monsters halfway through their escape. These monsters found their location very accurately. Su Zian couldn't understand why these monsters knew they were escaping.

Just like that, all the villagers died in front of his eyes once again. Su Zian was very angry and rushed forward to fight with these monsters, but before he could step forward, he fainted.

Su Zian woke up again, still in the same place.

Su Zian didn't believe that he had entered a vicious circle. If he broke this circle, would everything be fine?

Su Zian seemed to have heard of it somewhere before, but he had never seen it before.

Su Zian began to integrate into the village. As expected, everything happened exactly the same as before. On the day the monster was about to come, Su Zian took the villagers away from this place one day in advance and hid them in a cave. Su Zian didn't believe that after doing this, it would still be the same as before.

After a long night of waiting, Su Zian thought he had broken the cycle, but he didn't expect that when he woke up the next day, the monsters still appeared in the same place and killed all the villagers.

Su Zian looked at everything in front of him. It all made him very upset. He had never been so upset before.

He didn't know how long he had been unconscious. The cycle repeated again and again, different scenes, the same things happening again, and he couldn't avoid these things.

When the leader of Tianmen Mountain and Sun Wukong woke up, Su Zian was still in a coma.

Several days have passed, and Su Zian still shows no sign of waking up.

"What the hell is going on?"

Sun Wukong was very worried. He looked at the leader of Tianmen Mountain and asked angrily why it turned out like this.

The leader of Tianmen Mountain didn't know how to explain this matter. He didn't expect that this colorful magical object had such powerful power, nor did he expect that Sun Wukong would not be able to hold it firmly.

"Why is it like this?"

Sun Wukong's patience also has its limits. At the beginning, he thought that Su Zian would wake up after a while, but after waiting for several days, Su Zian showed no intention of waking up at all.

The leader of Tianmen Mountain knew that this matter could not be concealed, so he sat down in a seat nearby and looked at Sun Wukong.

"The magic weapon you smashed has an anomaly. Anyone who is unconscious and is chosen will remain in that dream unless he wakes up."

The leader of Tianmen Mountain looked at Sun Wukong. This was something he had not expected.

"What do you mean? What is that thing? Why is it so powerful?"

Sun Wukong frowned and came to the front of the leader of Tianmen Mountain. All this happened too suddenly. The three of them fainted together, so why were only the two of them awake?

"What's going on? The three of us fainted together, so why can't he wake up?"

Sun Wukong stared closely at the leader of Tianmen Mountain in front of him. This incident made him feel scared.

"He was chosen, chosen by that dream. Only he can wake up from that dream, otherwise none of us can help him."

The leader of Tianmen Mountain was of no use, and he himself could not offer any help.

"So what you mean is that if he can't wake up from that dream, he will never be able to get out of it in his life, right?"

Sun Wukong couldn't believe this was true because he had never heard of it before. He looked at the leader of Tianmen Mountain, hoping that there was other way to save Su Zian.

"There's nothing we can do. He's in a dream and we're outside of it. There's no way we can wake him up."

The leader of Tianmen Mountain sighed. He really had no other choice but to rely on Su Zian himself.

After learning about this, Sun Wukong was very upset because he didn't know how Su Zian was doing now.

Looking at Su Zian lying unconscious on the bed, Sun Wukong began to worry. (End of this chapter)