Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 506 A Beautiful Dream? Or an Adventure?

"Are you all ready?"

"Ready."

"Do I need to repeat the precautions I just mentioned?"

You've said it eight hundred times.

Xiao Hei gave an OK sign: "Then you can go in. I'll wait for you outside."

"One last thing: you guys are really lucky. I just fixed the minor flaw of having to shave your head to enter the Dream Machine a few days ago, otherwise your sixth floor would have become a bald gang."

Upon hearing this, Yu Mo retorted, "Then why don't you also change the logo of the Dreamer? Isn't the character '奠' (diàn, meaning 'to lay down') a bit too unlucky?"

Everyone looked at the large cursive character "奠" (meaning "offering" or "condolence") in the center of the cabin door and nodded in agreement.

"This is not the character '奠' (diàn), but the character '黑人' (hēnrén) written vertically in cursive script. It is my anti-counterfeiting mark."

Xiao Hei urged, "Hurry up, or the machine might really overload."

Mika said nonchalantly, "What are you afraid of? If it really doesn't work, you can just cut off the power."

"Yes, I really wish all the precision equipment and instruments in the world could be powered off or forced to shut down like you said."

He didn't explain anything further, but just waved for everyone to quickly enter their respective Dream Machines: "Just think of it as helping me test the stability of multiplayer online mode, hurry up."

Ziqiao snorted: "I knew he was sending us here to be guinea pigs."

"Entering dreams is such a fun thing, even the lab rats are fine."

Yifei didn't care at all. As the eldest sister of the apartment, she strode into the dream machine first.

They exchanged glances, covered the ominous character "奠" (meaning "offering") on the hatch with their hands, and stepped into their respective dream machines one after another.

As the hatch slowly closed, everyone felt a sudden darkness engulf them.

Gradually, everyone felt as if someone was gently brushing their fingertips with feathers, and a tingling sensation was spreading from every inch of exposed skin to the depths of their brains.

A faint, ethereal sound began to reach their ears, and just as they were about to try to discern what it was, they realized they were too tired to think.

Their eyelids began to grow heavier and heavier, and their consciousness became increasingly blurred, as if a gravitational force was pulling them down endlessly through layers of clouds.

Falling.

Falling...

Falling...

Suddenly, a little boy's voice came from all directions of the sea of ​​clouds, but now everyone had long lost the ability to hear it.

"A beautiful dream? Or an adventure?"

"Hey, aren't you guys a little too sleepy?"

"You bastard, you have to make a choice!"

……

Zeng Xiaoxian, dressed in a top-of-the-line custom-made suit, opened his eyes and woke up. He elegantly dusted off the gray suit, a faint playful smile playing on his lips.

"A beautiful dream? An adventure?"

"I see... What a useless bunch."

Zeng Xiaoxian looked around and found himself in a desolate mountain, with nothing but bare rocks and a few sparse weeds around him.

"Where am I?"

Mika's gentle voice came from behind him.

Xiaoxian turned around and saw that the previously empty space was now occupied by Mika, who was dressed in a Japanese kimono.

Just like the wicked smile on his lips that was "very unlike Tseng Hsiao-hsien" at this moment, the gentleness on Mika's face was also "very unlike Mika".

Xiaoxian ignored Meijia in front of him, and muttered to himself, "If it's a dream world, I should be able to do it if I want to."

He snapped his fingers, and a giant python covered in mosaic-like material burst from the ground, tightly coiling around Mika in front of him.

The giant python stretched out its long tongue and gently licked Mika's face. However, considering that its tongue also looked like a bunch of mosaics whose length could be vaguely seen, such a scene was somewhat inappropriate for children.

"I'm sorry, the first attempt didn't go very well; the exterior was built rather hastily, but at least the goal has been achieved."

Xiao Xian silently took a few steps back, then said with a smile, "Now you have half a minute to introduce yourself, please."

If it were the real Mika, she would have been terrified if she were wrapped around such a giant python with its entire body pixelated. However, the Mika in front of us still looked like a gentle wife.

"Isn't it a bit inappropriate to tie up a frail woman like me with such a big and thick rope on our first meeting?"

Zeng Xiaoxian scoffed: "You have twenty-five seconds left."

Mika simply smiled faintly: "Although I am just a weak woman, if it weren't for the tortoise shell binding technique, no matter how big or thick the object is, it wouldn't be able to bind me."

The next instant, she appeared beside Xiaoxian in a flash.

"My name is Xiao Ze You Mufeng. It's a pleasure to meet you. Please take care of me."

Xiao Ze nodded slightly to Zeng Xiaoxian.

"Xiao Ze You Mu Feng? Lu Ziqiao's fantasy partner?"

Zeng Xiaoxian waved his hand to disperse the mosaic python, and bowed slightly to express his apology.

"So, do I also need to introduce myself?"

"No need, we all know what Teacher Zeng's fantasy partner looks like."

Xiao Xian in the suit nodded, suddenly realizing something.

"One fantasy partner can be said to be a coincidence, but two fantasy partners coming together is a foregone conclusion."

"If that's the case..."

He gave a polite yet sinister smile: "I suddenly remembered there's something I haven't taken care of yet, could you please wait a moment?"

"Please go ahead."

After receiving a response from Xiao Ze and Mu Feng, Xiao Xian in a suit conjured up a baseball bat and began to wait quietly.

A moment later, a golden light appeared out of thin air around them, and Xiao Xian in the suit rushed forward in one stride.

He gripped the baseball bat tightly and swung it at the head of the plumber in front of him, who was wearing blue overalls and a little red hat.

clang!!!

It was supposed to be a baseball bat hitting Mario's head, but instead it made a metallic clanging sound.

Mario's head was instantly flattened by the baseball bat, his entire head sinking into his body, looking like a loose, deflated humanoid balloon.

Xiao Ze frowned and took a few steps back.

First he was like a pervert who liked to play with bondage, and now he's like a violent maniac who likes to smash people's heads with a baseball bat.

How could Teacher Zeng, such a kind and weak person, have such an... extreme fantasy partner?

"call."

The man in the suit, Xiao Xian, tossed down the baseball bat with satisfaction: "The feeling of successfully getting revenge is just wonderful."

He hadn't forgotten how Mario, under the instructions of Nanfeng and Guan Gu, had grabbed a wrench as long as his arm and tried to hit him.

Although he was fast enough to avoid being hit by Mario, this was definitely the most embarrassing and shameful moment of his life.

Now that he finally has a chance to get revenge, he will not miss it no matter what!

"Where am I? Why are you hitting me!"

Mario, who had been loosely dressed, suddenly returned to his original state, and he conjured up a wrench as long as his arm, pointing it at Xiao Xian in the suit.

"You hit me, you're a bad person!"

Xiao Xian, dressed in a suit, muttered with dissatisfaction, "Tch, cartoon and game characters are just cheating!"

He paused, thought for a moment, and then explained to Mario, "You were the one who grabbed a wrench and tried to hit me first. I was just getting my revenge. Now we're even."

"If you feel you're being taken advantage of, then bring it on! We're all fantasy partners, I refuse to believe your game character is some kind of overpowered monster!"

"Forehead……"

Mario then remembered the feud between the two of them.

Compared to the petty-minded suit-wearing Xiao Xian, Mario is much more magnanimous.

After all, as a game character who dies countless times every day, with enough pixelated corpses to circle the earth several times over, getting someone smash his head with a baseball bat is nothing to him.

However, Xiao Xian's arrogant and disdainful attitude really annoyed Mario.

Xiao Ze and Mu Feng could tell that neither of them wanted to argue about this matter, so she quickly stepped forward to give these two proud people a way out.

"The chances of the three of us getting together are almost a miracle."

"Now that a miracle has happened, shouldn't we cherish this rare time of freedom?"

"And aren't you curious about what's going on right now, or worried about what's happening to your own bodies that you're with day and night?"

"How about... we just let it go for my sake?"

"Can."

"agree."

Mario put down the wrench, and the two symbolically shook hands.

They were waiting for Xiao Ze and Mu Feng to offer them a way out.

After making up, Mario greeted Xiao Ze and Mu Feng warmly, saying, "I am Mario, Guan Gu's fantasy partner, an ordinary Japanese plumber."

"I am Ziqiao's fantasy partner, Xiaoze Youmufeng, an ordinary Japanese housewife."

"Are you from Japan too?"

Mario was overjoyed: "お会いできて色しいです, 小泽马风さん! (Nice to meet you, Miss Koze and Mufeng!)"

"I'm happy to meet you, too, my lovely Mario."

「お二人は中文で中语を语していただけませんか? (Can you two please speak Chinese in China?)」

Xiao Xian, dressed in a suit, suddenly interjected.

The two were immediately taken aback. Mario asked, "You speak Japanese? Didn't Teacher Zeng not speak Japanese?"

"You're making it sound like Lu Ziqiao can speak Japanese. In fact, according to my own character settings, I'm fluent in languages ​​from all over the world, including dialects and slang, but you probably wouldn't understand them."

"Alright, enough chit-chat, let's get down to business."

Xiao Xian, dressed in a suit, clapped his hands and stopped talking nonsense. Instead, he explained to the two of them directly: "Listen, I have some guesses about the current situation. Until we encounter more compelling evidence to refute these guesses, you can temporarily accept them as facts."

"First of all, we are now in Nanfeng's dream world. I don't know if you heard the words that were whispered in your ears before you completely fell into the dream."

"A beautiful dream? Or an adventure?"

He paused for a moment, then boldly speculated: "I guess if someone chooses the beautiful dream, it's like being completely immersed in the dream as if they were dreaming normally, without even realizing that they are dreaming."

"If someone chooses to take a risk, then they should retain their independent consciousness like we do, which is what is called lucid dreaming."

"And for some unknown reason, everyone... at least our true selves have chosen to immerse themselves in a beautiful dream, and have been isolated from self-awareness."

Xiao Xian in the suit chuckled softly: "But it seems that Xiao Hei, like Zhan Bo, doesn't have a fantasy partner either. Otherwise, he should have considered that a fantasy partner is also a part of self-awareness when he designed the Dream Device."

Xiao Ze had a sudden flash of inspiration and immediately understood everything: "I understand, because the Dream Device isolates the dreamer's self-awareness, so we, as part of our self-awareness, are stripped away by it."

"That's right."

Xiao Xian, dressed in a suit, nodded.

Mario said he didn't understand at all: "What are you guys talking about?"

Xiao Ze then explained in a language Mario could understand: "It's just that the Dream Machine had a small bug."

"Oh……"

Mario suddenly realized.

I'm coming

(End of this chapter)