What if you were targeted by a cool and aloof beauty?

Inside the car, Jiuge couldn't see everyone's faces very clearly.

Crows passed by outside, making strange cries.

The car windows were closed, there was no moonlight, and the moon could not be seen.

"Could you roll down the car window?"

Jiuge glanced at the butler and asked softly.

The environment was a bit eerie, and she felt a little cold.

"No, you can't." The butler's voice suddenly turned icy.

"Why?" Jiuge blinked, her face full of disbelief.

“It’s not safe. We need to reach our destination safely,” the knight replied hastily.

"Haha, you can't open the windows before entering that place," the father added with a laugh.

“We will be together forever.” The mother turned around, her smile somewhat stiff.

"Let's be together forever." She emphasized the word "forever."

"Yes...together forever." Jiuge nodded and said nothing more.

Her wish has always been to spend time with her parents and family like this, and to stay together forever.

Huh? Why would something so obvious be a wish?

Jiuge was suddenly a little confused.

"Don't overthink it, just follow us." The butler wrapped his arms around Jiuge, his body icy cold.

Icy.

Jiuge suddenly remembered those cold hands.

“An Chen.” She blurted out the name.

Who is An Chen?

"Jiuge, wake up." The next moment, a familiar voice echoed in Jiuge's mind.

Chapter 105 Awakening

"This is where?"

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Jiu Ge, who had been lying in An Chen's arms for a long time, finally opened her eyes in a daze.

The scene before us is now the real-life Jingcheng.

In her sleep, upon hearing An Chen's call, Jiu Ge unexpectedly struggled out of her subconscious on the spot.

I had just woken up and had forgotten most of the dream, and then it seemed like I lost consciousness again.

Shaking her head, Jiuge glanced down at her waist in a daze.

The gruesome wound on her lower back has disappeared.

"Huh? That's strange..."

“We’re now in the blind spot where we were when we entered the illusion.” An Chen patted Jiu Ge’s head and chuckled at her.

After controlling the stone and waking Jiuge up, An Chen immediately used the stone to reverse time and teleport the whole group of people out.

"You held me while I was asleep?"

Jiuge's eyes widened, and she suddenly realized that something was wrong.

This is reality, not a fantasy.

"Wait... Little Dog Egg... Stone also has an illusion? How did we get out?" Coming to her senses, her ears turned red, and her tone was a little panicked.

"You were out of your mind and insisted on hugging me. No matter how I pushed you away, I couldn't get rid of you. In the end, I had no choice but to let you have your way," An Chen said, pretending to recall something.

“What?... How could that be…” Jiuge’s first reaction was to refute, but she suddenly realized that it was indeed possible.

If you are in a dazed state, you may think you are still in a hallucination.

Using their relationship as a couple, she could very well do something like that.

Ignoring Jiu Ge's panicked reaction, An Chen pointed to the open space in the distance.

"Your colleague and the knight who appeared out of nowhere are there."

"Huh?" Jiuge took a breath and blinked, looking in the direction An Chen was pointing.

Unlike her, Gong Jun, Yu Bei, Feng Kai, and the Knight were lying haphazardly on the ground.

Fortunately, there were no passersby nearby.

"Uncle Knight... why is Mr. Knight in there too?" Jiuge tossed her hair, somewhat puzzled.

I took out my phone and checked the time; it was still the Ghost Festival.

In other words, she didn't accidentally miss anything by sleeping for many days in a row.

"I don't know. As for the little dog egg and the illusion you mentioned, they're here." As he spoke, An Chen took a white stone out of his pocket.

After the strange stone was brought out of the illusion, it no longer shone or became smooth; it looked just like an ordinary white pebble on the ground in a park.

"How did you do that?" Jiuge's mouth opened slightly.

If she remembered correctly, Feng Kai's analysis in the illusion was that even with Jiu Ge included, the mission completion rate would only be fifty percent.

If she was unconscious during this time, then only An Chen could have handled the situation.

It could never be a knight who was no different from a puppet and did nothing but guard the gate all day.

“This thing is really strange, very sinister.” Without answering Jiuge, An Chen stared at the stone, lost in thought.

He actually struggled a bit with the series of actions he took after controlling the stone in the illusion.

It's not that such a vast reservoir of spiritual energy couldn't suppress the stone, but rather that the stone is extremely malevolent, possessing both powerful bewitching and backlash abilities.

If An Chen accidentally exposes his inner weaknesses along the way, he may be swallowed up by the stone in one gulp.

That's probably why Stone used the mosaic people to select Jiu Ge, who had maxed out her spiritual talent, as nourishment.

"Let me see." Jiu Ge glanced at several colleagues in the distance, tugged at An Chen's sleeve, and stood up.

"Here you go." An Chen readily handed over the stone, secretly sealing its energy at the same time.

After taking the stone, the two walked up to the knight and the others.

"Is this really that stone?"

Jiuge suddenly began to question the meaning of life.

She found it very difficult to accept.

That's it?

They were completely fooled, and the spirits from a hundred years ago have been wandering in the human world because of this broken stone.

“Yes. Once you leave the illusion, the energy stops working.” An Chen made a regretful expression.

"Then...where are Little Dog Egg and the others?"

To determine whether the stone was real or fake, Jiuge squeezed it hard.

The stone didn't break.

“Oh, it’s true.” She nodded.

"...Anyway, Little Dog Egg and the others are still inside. It's not that we can't go in, but Stone needs some time to recover."

Seeing that the stone was still stubbornly alive, An Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Even the most magnificent stone is still just a pebble.

If the stone isn't strong enough, Jiuge can easily crush it.

"I remember being killed by the mosaic people with bayonets in the illusion." Jiuge touched her upper waist.

There should be a hole there.

“That’s fake, it’s a dream,” An Chen said expressionlessly.

Whether it is physical or mental.

If possible, he didn't want Jiuge to have painful memories.

Even now, An Chen still feels lingering fear when he thinks about how Jiu Ge collapsed and bled profusely back then.

He absolutely did not want to experience something like that a second time.

"Is it a dream?" Jiuge frowned.

Can dreams in a fantasy world be this real?

Just recalling the pain she felt back then makes her shiver even in the sweltering summer.

“Yes, they’re dreaming right now, it’s so real, that they can’t wake up for a while.” An Chen then pointed to the four people next to his feet.

"Did you wake me up?" Jiuge was still a little confused.

"Yes." This time, An Chen was quite frank.

He didn't want to give this credit to anyone else.

"So how did you manage to get this rock?" Jiuge paused, then looked at An Chen with a questioning gaze.

It's truly abnormal to still think that the other person simply has an amazing physique.

It's not that I don't trust An Chen.

Or rather, it was precisely because she trusted An Chen so much that Jiu Ge didn't want An Chen to hide anything from her.

"I will explain it to you in the future."

An Chen gave a wry smile and immediately made a grand promise.

"It's a promise? Let's pinky swear."

Jiuge extended her little finger.