Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 67 Dream World
"This world isn't as simple as you think. It's my fault for not explaining it clearly to you at the beginning. After all, the relationship between planes is difficult to explain using scientific theories from the material world."

"Of course, you probably won't understand if I use unscientific language."

Chang Lei pondered how to explain this clearly. After considering the words, he continued speaking.

"You can think of it this way: on a horizontal line, the center is where the real world is, and it's also its anchor point. Below the horizontal line, there are many realms of deep space, commonly known as 'small worlds.'"

"The surface world and the inner world you know about are both planes hidden below the horizon. They are also realms that are difficult for beings in the material world to reach."

"Is the reversed world also included?" Tang Zijun listened carefully, and he even brought out the attitude he had when he was in school.

"No, the mirror plane is a special case. Unlike the inner world and the outer world, the mirror plane exists in the same location as the real world but at a different anchor point."

Chang Lei put his hands together and clenched them into a ball as he explained.

"Like braiding a hair, the real world and the reversed world are intertwined and connected to each other, but without special abilities, they remain invisible to each other."

"Is it similar to a parallel world?" Tang Zijun asked curiously.

"I've said before that the scientific theories of the material world are difficult to explain these things. All you need to know is that the reversed world and the real world are on the same level, and below them is the surface world, and below that is the inner world."

"I understand this. The surface world is a buffer zone between the real world and the inner world." Tang Zijun remembered that Xiaobai had mentioned this.

"That's right. These worlds were originally void. Even if relative laws were born, no life could survive in such an environment. The real power that allowed these small worlds to form a group came from—"

"Emotion." Tang Zijun already knew what Chang Lei wanted to say.

"This is it."

Chang Lei nodded heavily.

"Although I'm not quite sure where they originated from, what is certain is that all of this weirdness is a reflection of human emotions in the real world."

"Whether they are heretics or rulers, they are all incorporeal beings, even us greedy ones."

"The only difference is that the Greedy Ones are more closely connected to reality. Unlike those incorporeal things, we have afterimages."

Listening to Chang Lei's explanation, Tang Zijun pushed his glasses thoughtfully.

It was indeed as Chang Lei said, the feeling of fighting the Outer Demon was really different from when he fought the Greedy One.

"And when these evil thoughts gain their own consciousness, they will gain certain special supernatural powers based on the plane they are in. But you should understand that just like fish cannot live without water, these consciousnesses cannot live without the negative energy of the real world."

"Humanity's negative emotions give them life. Similarly, this special pheromone is the energy they rely on for survival. This is also the main reason why the real world is being invaded."

Tang Zijun had more or less some understanding of these things back then.

He was not the kind of person who didn't do any homework, but at that time he thought that the only enemy was the mirror plane.

"Just like the surface world acts as a buffer between the inner world and the real world, since the reverse world is at the same horizontal level as the real world, the inner world and the surface world inevitably intersect with the reverse world when they invade reality." "This intersection makes the reverse world a special existence, similar to a central hub."

"In other words, any plane whose horizontal line is lower than the reverse world can open a corresponding channel through the reverse world as long as the mirror is used as a medium."

At this point, Chang Lei's mouth felt a little dry, so he picked up his cup and took a sip of tea to moisten his throat.

Tang Zijun, who was sitting opposite him, fell silent. His brain was working rapidly, constantly digesting the complicated information.

No wonder Xiaobai was so frightened and didn't know how to enter the surface world. He just followed his sister's breath and quickly opened the corresponding passage.

Now it seems that it is because the level or position on the horizontal line of the reverse world is higher than that of the surface world, so he can come and go freely and even pull the ruler out of the surface world.

According to this argument, the greedy people in the reversed world should theoretically be able to enter the inner world at any time.

As if he had seen through Tang Zijun's thoughts, Chang Lei spoke.

"The laws of the reversed world are much more powerful than you can imagine, but since they are laws, we must act strictly in accordance with them."

"The other world is desolate. I heard it's utterly silent. Even the lake water is as dark as ink, like a black hole, unable to reflect any light. So, without a medium, we naturally can't go there."

"As for the surface world, it's even more of a dead place. Most of the surface worlds are empty, so there's no need to occupy them. So we usually come directly to the real world to choose our prey."

"I see." Tang Zijun was now certain that he could say goodbye to his previous idle life.

I thought I could rest after wiping out the greedy people in the mirror plane, but now it seems that the "wonderfulness" of this world is far beyond my imagination.

However, thinking of this, the doubts that had been temporarily suppressed before reappeared in Tang Zijun's mind.

"Then since the reverse world can establish channels with so many planes, why is the channel to the reverse world blocked after I was pulled into that dimension?"

"This question." Chang Lei looked at Tang Zijun and raised his glass. "Don't you already have the answer in your heart?"

Tang Zijun couldn't help but laugh at this.

"Sure enough, that's a world above the horizon?"

"The Dream Stone can only be found in one place, the 'Dream World'. However, that place is so strange that even in the history of the Greedy, it is only a legendary existence."

"Unlike other small worlds, the laws of the dream world are more distorted and unstable. Even that world is not complete, but is made up of dreams."

"Different dreams piled up and overlapped with each other, forming an ethereal plane above reality, like a mirage, changeable and chaotic."

After a pause, Chang Lei frowned deeply again, looking at Tang Zijun with uncertain eyes.

"Wolf Rider, how on earth did you end up provoking those guys?"

(End of this chapter)