The Spirit World

Chapter 374 True and False, False and True

"Obviously this was not in my plan. I only know this thanks to my... my parents..." Chang Yufeng exhaled, as if he had said everything, and said with relief: "If we want to go back, the most important thing to solve now is to solve the trapped... current situation... But, it's difficult... There are almost no clues for us..."

"That's right... Our biggest problem right now is not this, but... this door that looks weird..." Lin'er touched her ankle, as if she wasn't used to running for so long. Just because of this, her ankle was already red and swollen. She was not wearing shoes, and her feet seemed to be obviously different, as pale as if there was no blood flowing.

"If we were focusing on someone else's door, it wouldn't be golden... If we wanted to increase the anxiety of being trapped here, we should have made it densely packed, instead of the smooth... golden door like it is now..."

Lin Er's words seemed to make sense...

And, if you add a little bit of a closed space and being trapped in a dream, it would be enough to make them feel more anxious and achieve this more realistic purpose - trapping them.

What is very strange is that if the purpose of the "person" who performed this series of actions was to do other things through dreams - such as confinement, he would also do it - showing off the results - or doing arrogant tricks like the routine "bad things" done by his enemies, instead of being like now, without any ideas at all, and even only having this golden gate that can never be touched.

"If we try to attack this door, is it possible to cause damage?" Lin'er asked, still pinching her feet gently.

"I don't know... But in a sense, we can't touch it, so there is no way to attack it. Moreover, we don't know which golden door to attack, or which direction to attack." Chang Yufeng continued to stretch out his hand, as if he knew that he couldn't touch it.

"If... I mean if... this can't be touched with hands... but with some kind of medium, then what should we do now?" Lin'er looked at Chang Yufeng and expressed her conjecture: "It's just like... there is something on our body that can touch this golden door, not "our"... body."

"You mean, as people in the dream, we cannot touch certain things in reality, of course including this golden door?" Chang Yufeng expanded on Lin'er's guess, but this is indeed a way of thinking. Everything in the dream now is a "false" thing that is produced without any purpose, so this door may be... something that really exists and connects here.

"Brother Yufeng... well... maybe there is such a possibility, for example, it is because you made us hand over to the same dream." Lin'er looked at Chang Yufeng very seriously: "Didn't you say when we entered the dream? We need to have a dream, and then we can get this body in the dream. And take it back... But you didn't say at that time that both of us would be in the same dream... I don't know what magic you used... I don't know what you want to do... But... Maybe there is a problem in a link that I don't know about... And this problem is very serious, resulting in a wrong option. That is... the appearance of the door. This golden door is also, it is a manifestation of this error... It is even irreversible..."

"Is that so?" Chang Yufeng also nodded. It was the first time he heard Lin'er show her ideas and even her talent.

Maybe, it's a bit subtle, Lin'er does have enough talent, no matter it's an accident or not, but at least it's better than the wooden one who dares not think or guess.

Guessing wrong may not be a shameful thing.

"There are two conjectures now... One is that we need to transform into a "real" body to truly touch the door, and the other is that Brother Yufeng did something special when he entered the dream, triggering something that could only appear in the same dream. And combining our two dreams together could be the cause, or even... Brother Yufeng understands this, but he's just pretending to be stupid here..."

Lin'er tapped Chang Yufeng's knee with her hand as if she had suddenly realized something, as if Chang Yufeng was really hiding something.

Chang Yufeng shook his head...

"I can tell you what I did when I was dreaming... But I can only tell you that this is not my problem."

Chang Yufeng explained: "In order to prevent you from getting lost in the dream, I have to make a choice... that is to connect our dreams at the same time, rather than simply letting you complete the memory search by yourself after entering the dream, or complete the body's recognition behavior. This is why I am here to drag you out of there."

"At first, I couldn't maintain my identity in my dream, and it was even difficult for me to have my own consciousness and realize that I was Chang Yufeng... But in the end, I tried very hard to remember, and then I used a kind of dream power to travel here and went directly into a corridor with many rooms. I found you in the depths of the corridor."

Lin'er listened very carefully and finally spoke.

"Then...Brother Yufeng...how did you know...that my immature body was here? And...why were you also found here? You look like you've grown a lot. Although you said you were only seven years old, how could a seven-year-old be so tall? You look like you're eleven or twelve years old."

“That’s because I’m also a time traveler… Our time has been stopped… It’s the same for you… It’s the same for me… Of course I’m here… There’s nothing strange about this…” Chang Yufeng looked at Lin’er and put his hands on his knees.

"No...it's different...you still haven't answered my question...why...you are so...special..." Lin'er seemed to be thinking about something. The golden door seemed to be moving closer and farther away, trembling slightly as if it was wavering.

"I don't think it's strange... If you want to doubt me... There's no need. We are here, we should sympathize with each other. It's not good to be suspicious of each other..." Chang Yufeng looked at Lin'er and said helplessly: "This conjecture may be the same... For example... Something different appeared in the dream we had... So that we have no way to leave... This is the dilemma we are facing now..."

"No, no, no, Brother Yufeng...you are wrong...if, when you encounter a problem, everything is completely logical, then all the logic will be wrong. Moreover, it is impossible to do something with so many loopholes like this...you can't fill in all the loopholes."

Lin'er shook her head and stood up.

She looked down at Chang Yufeng.

"I think this golden door is most likely the entrance to the two dreams that Brother Yufeng mentioned... and what we need to do is to reach the other side of the dream, that is, Brother Yufeng's dream, and then we can leave."

"What do you mean?" Chang Yufeng clearly heard Lin'er's voice: "We can't touch this door at all... Could it be... you want to destroy it by force?"

"No... I don't have any extraordinary abilities... I can't destroy this door..." Lin'er clapped her hands, smiled and looked at Chang Yufeng who had already stood up and said: "But you can, no matter what, you can easily open this door... even if it looks unbreakable, or even illusory and no longer exists."

"You just saw it... My attack was completely ineffective... It even... disappeared..."

The golden door glowed... flickering in the white light.

"No... you can... because you are... the master here..." Lin'er patted Chang Yufeng's shoulder.

"Lin'er...what's wrong with you? What master? How come I don't know...are you talking about the dream? I am indeed the master here...I had this dream..." Chang Yufeng touched his head, as if he understood something, and said with bright eyes blinking: "Yes...why didn't I think of it...you are really a genius...Lin'er...we are the masters of this dream...we are still in the dream, we should not be controlled..."

Chang Yufeng happily grabbed Lin'er's hand.

"You don't have to pretend... I already know who you are..."

Although Lin'er was smiling, she was unusually cold. Her expression suddenly became very ugly, as if she was very uncomfortable.

"What are you talking about? Lin'er... I am Chang Yufeng..." Chang Yufeng was obviously confused... and a little at a loss.

"No...you are not..."

"You don't think... I'm a bad guy, do you..." Chang Yufeng smiled: "Lin'er, we are here to guess how to get back, not to guess who is the bad guy... Don't be like this, I'm a little scared now..."

"No, no, no, you are wrong... Nothing happened here... There was not even the slightest danger. You just dragged me to run and even came here in an instant. Everything you said was the same as the real Chang Yufeng. My first guess was correct. If there were no inductive characters appearing here, or puzzles, or even things that could hurt us to reason, then, besides myself, the other person here must be this inductive character. From the beginning, you made me remember everything, and it only took me a second, plus those messy things that seemed like acting... You are definitely not my friend named Chang Yufeng!"

Lin'er proudly swung her red sleeves and kept a distance from Chang Yufeng.

Chang Yufeng smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Okay, okay... I'm not Chang Yufeng, okay... Don't let your imagination run wild... I have my own difficulties... Don't be like this... There are many things that can't be explained clearly all at once..."

"I don't believe it... Although Brother Yufeng has many secrets, he will never hide them from me..." Lin'er seemed still determined, with her hands on her hips.

"But...what have I been hiding from you..." Chang Yufeng could only stare at Lin'er helplessly.

The golden door was still looming, no different from before. The golden color was so bright that it could really blind people's eyes under the white light.

"Aren't you hiding anything from me? Then why don't you tell me how to leave here... You have been denying it all the time. If this is a dream, then you can leave here through everything in the dream... And that woman you mentioned... You don't say a word about her now..." Lin'er seemed to be complaining. Chang Yufeng stood up, a head taller than her, but now, all he could see was her somewhat angry eyes.

"It's inexplicable... This is simply impossible... Didn't I tell you? With this door here, we must find a way to leave." Chang Yufeng tried to explain: "That woman... there was no way she could tell you... This door is the entrance to another dream, which is also nonsense... I have never seen this thing..."

"Hmph... Then tell me, why are there only you and me and this invisible door here? There is no clue at all about other things... Not even a little bit... Isn't this very strange? Even if it is a magic circle, there must be a way to break it! Besides! There are no other enemies here. I know that I am definitely not a bad guy, and now other things that appear here may be bad guys!"

"Lin'er... don't let your mind wander... I don't know what's going on at all... just don't make things worse..." Chang Yufeng continued, "Even if I'm a bad guy... I didn't do anything, did I? I took you away from there... I meant to take you away from here... We're just trapped here now... I don't have any other options..."

"Humph - you're still pretending - explain to me why you're not in a hurry at all..."

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Chang Yufeng shook his head and patted his face: "Lin'er, there's no point in being anxious... We haven't found anything to verify our identities now... I came here with so much trouble to save you... You'd better not make trouble... Now we should verify other guesses..."

Chang Yufeng still smiled bitterly, looking helplessly at the woman not far away, who looked so alert and cautious.

"Of course there is a way to verify it. Tell me! How many rabbits did you catch that day?"

Lin'er's sudden inspiration made Chang Yufeng say in a funny and angry tone: "Five... I caught five rabbits yesterday. One rabbit had crooked ears, one had a lame leg, one had no tail, one had no eyes, and only one was normal."

"Hahahahaha, I didn't expect that the imitation was so similar..." Lin'er suddenly burst into laughter. Her laughter made Chang Yufeng feel uncomfortable.

This little girl...actually started playing...

I'm really angry and funny, I don't know what to do...

"Do you know why you are not Brother Yufeng?"

Lin'er didn't seem to care about the code at all.

"Because this is my memory...so...you remember everything Brother Yufeng said to me...but there is only one thing that only Brother Yufeng would say to me..."

"what?"

"It's none of your business..."

"It's none of your business... See... I told you... Now you believe it..."

The most common action Chang Yufeng did was to shake his head... This little girl was such an annoying little goblin...

"There has to be a limit to unreasonable behavior... Really... If this continues, we really won't be able to get out..."

Chang Yufeng scratched his head.

It seems...something is wrong...

[“Lin’er, we need to enter a dream… and then we can find our original bodies… This dream may be long, or short, beautiful, or terrifying… Although it is a dream, it may hurt you…”

"Be sure to be more careful!"

"Don't...get lost in it!"

"In this dream, no matter what I say, don't believe it"]

True and false, false and true
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