Please ask the dream.

Chapter 336 Return to Exploration
As the sense of disharmony brought by the fading of dreams disappears, the more than 20 years of study seem like a thing of the past, and the memory of exploring new ways of playing also resurfaces.

"Oh, right, investigation!" As his thoughts became clearer, Feng Xue looked at the exploration interface that reappeared in front of him and began to think about his next actions.

In fact, after getting the "Lost in a Dream", this exploration was already worth the money. It was the first time Feng Xue explored the new mode and he didn't plan to complete it. After thinking about it, he decided to simply give up the idea of ​​completing it and try all the options.

Thinking of this, he recalled the previous explorations, looked at the action points and thought for a while:
"There is one investigation method that I haven't used yet, the violent investigation. Another one is that it requires consuming some action points and skipping a day's rest. You can also try it. After that, I will try to find more locations and secrets to open the map."

Thinking of this, Feng Xue hesitated for a moment between resting and violent exploration, and chose to rest. There was no other reason, it was simply because this option seemed safer. What if he chose violent exploration and died on the spot?
【Evening·University Town·Rest】

As the command was input, a day skipped, and the dial representing time in the upper right corner turned a circle. As the action points were consumed, a line of text popped up:

[Because the previous investigation was too radical, you decided to take a day off and your exposure will be -10. ]

"Oh, so resting can reduce the exposure value! In other words, I have to choose to rest before the exposure value approaches the threshold? No, action points are limited. If you spend too much on rest, it will reduce the efficiency of obtaining the secret board." Feng Xue, who has played many rogue games such as Slay the Spire and Integrated Strategy, understood it immediately, but then his face turned dark again - now his exposure value has dropped back to 15 points. If it exceeds 25 points again, will he have to go through another judgment?
"Forget it. I was planning to try it anyway. It's better to find out early than to encounter it later."

Feng Xue looked at the pointer which had returned to morning, thought for a while and decided not to conduct a violent exploration in the university base area, but to go to the commercial street instead.

Looking at the impossible morning, noon and afternoon, Feng Xue chose the early morning, a time when things seemed more likely to happen.

【Early Morning·Pedestrian Street·Violence Investigation】

As the order was given, Feng Xue's eyes immediately flashed with the scene of the pedestrian street that he had seen before. However, compared to the hustle and bustle of the past, the pedestrian street now looked extremely desolate. The surrounding shops were basically closed, and only a 24-hour store in the distance still had its lights on.

There were almost no pedestrians on the street, and in the areas that were not illuminated by the dim lights, it seemed as if something sneaky was crawling in the darkness.

In this background illustration full of K-style, a line of text suddenly appeared:

[You feel very strange about the investigation you have been doing before. In the early hours of the morning, you return to the pedestrian street in disguise. With your excellent professional qualities, you quickly find several hidden observation points where you can watch each other...]

The text stops here, leaving no room for choice, and goes straight into the familiar pre-war rendering.

"Violent investigation means 'die for me', right?" Feng Xue thought to himself, and the moment the image was rendered, The Phantom of the Opera unfolded.

In his more than 20 years of acting career, he has reached a high level of understanding of musicals. He was able to master the structure of The Phantom of the Opera, which he could only refer to at first. Although it is difficult to say whether it is consistent with the original version, Feng Xue can already imagine the secrets on the stage smoothly, and use them to hide, teleport and flash - if necessary, he can even fly for a short time (hanging on wires)!
Only the actors know the secrets of the stage, which are hidden in an imaginary tunnel. Feng Xue dares not release the G·I force field and can only observe the surroundings with the naked eye.

Soon, he saw a homeless man huddled in the corner. Although he looked like he was sleeping, with the help of the street lights, Feng Xue could vaguely see the reflection in his eyes.

"This should be a sentry point, but what is the situation in this city? Are there sentries placed on the pedestrian street? Is this a unique theme of this Shadow City? Or are these so-called sentries actually something from the bottom of the Dreamland packaged by Gold Finger so that I can understand it?"

Feng Xue found a reference point and used the other party's vision to look for other possible sentinel points, but in his heart he was thinking about the truth of this exploration topic.

Through the information previously obtained from the two temporary teammates and the teaching materials of grandmaster-level architecture, Feng Xue roughly understood the existence of architects at the bottom of the Dreamland.

If this new gameplay really encapsulates the exploration of the underlying Dreamland into a game, then these so-called enemies may actually be nightmares.

And those passers-by are ordinary reverberations, wandering souls, residents or kings.

"If this idea is true, then my exploration process is, in a sense, also a process of distinguishing nightmares from residents? Well, what is this? Investigating the bad guys who have mixed in with the crowd?"

Feng Xue grinned, but locked onto the two sentry posts again.

To be fair, the arrangement of these sentry points is more or less decent, but for Feng Xue, who has forty years of experience as a killer (including twenty years as a part-time killer during his twenty-five years as an actor), fourteen years as a thief, and twenty-five years as an actor, it is still not good enough.

Covering his body with dim colors, Feng Xue teleported to the side of the homeless man. At that moment, considering that the other party might be a nightmare with no vital parts, Feng Xue broke the other party's neck with a click and built a tunnel directly under him.

The abilities of "The Phantom of the Opera" are indeed excellent, but the shortcomings are also obvious. After all, these tunnels are the product of the construction of the G·I force field, so there will naturally be G·I force field fluctuations. It is obviously unrealistic to want to secretly "dig tunnels" to get close to the enemy.

In comparison, the maximum teleportation distance is only the width of the stage, which is nothing.

After confirming that there was no case of resurrection, Feng Xue secretly performed an autopsy in the "secret compartment" under the corpse in a way that only appears in horror movies. Then, he was surprised to find that this person was actually a "normal person"?
"Well, although they are stronger than ordinary people, they are at least more normal than the Farah people we encountered before. It seems that at least in this exploration process, these beings have been packaged as real 'humans'?"

Feng Xue wondered if he was wrong, but since he had already killed him, there was nothing more to say. He used the homeless man as a reference point to lock onto the next sentry point, and Feng Xue's figure disappeared again...

(End of this chapter)