The correct way to open the magical girl

"Anyway, it's a good thing that you can muster up some motivation! We shouldn't stay in the villa for the time being. We should search everywhere, especially the concert venue. Maybe we can find some clues."

Sharoyeh was a straightforward person and did not doubt too much. Instead, he was very happy about the change in Black Cat.

Chapter 144: First Visit to Dreamland

While Sharoye and Black Cat were investigating Li Xuan's whereabouts, Li Xuan's trap was also being set up in full swing.

He originally planned to save at least a few thousand monsters before going out to fight, but the news that Lilika brought through Wu Yan forced him to cancel his plan to continue to increase his troops.

"After the church learned about the battle in Qinghe City, they took it very seriously and sent two magical girls to investigate. The identities of the people coming are kept secret, but it is said that at least one of them has an A-level magic power and seems to have some connection with the Zhenshou Temple. They are expected to arrive in the next few days."

Wu Yan took out her cell phone and read the information sent by Lilika in front of Li Xuan.

Li Xuan frowned and let go of Bing Rui: "It seems that we must start the battle early. When the reinforcements arrive, our situation will be passive again."

"Are we finally going to fight that crazy woman? Master, please send me to deal with her! I can't wait to take revenge." Wu Yan became excited when he heard that there was going to be a fight.

"No problem, your target is still Sharoye, but you still need to find a way to separate them." Li Xuan pondered.

From the hunting radar footage, Li Xuan noticed that Black Cat had completely cheered up and was investigating the situation around the concert with Sharoye every day.

Regardless of the progress of the investigation, the two of them always acted together and even slept in the same room, which left Li Xuan with no chance to take action.

It seems that we have no choice but to resort to extraordinary measures.

Mianyin has been eating and sleeping in her dreams recently and seems to be quite comfortable there. It's time to pull her out and do some work.

"Mian Yin, can you control people's actions in dreams?" Li Xuan asked in his consciousness.

“Who is being dominated?”

"A-rank magical girl."

"It's very difficult. Only people with weak willpower will have their consciousness directly manipulated by dreams. In most cases, it is difficult to interfere with reality through the manipulation of dreams - just like when a person has a nightmare, no matter how terrible the nightmare is, it is difficult to be scared to death as long as there is no heart disease?" Mian Yin explained.

"Just turning over in a dream?"

“That can be done.”

"What if I want to make the dream more realistic and guide her to regard it as reality?"

"Well...dreams always have flaws, but with the help of my cousin, maybe I can give it a try." Mian Yin replied.

"Very good, listen, the scene I want is this..." Li Xuan told Mian Yin about his arrangements in detail in his mind, and then called all five magical girls over.

"The tactics this time are very simple. I will try to lure Sharoye to the trap area prepared in advance. Qimo will follow me, and the four of you, led by Wu Yan, will intercept Sharoye halfway. The goal is still to delay her until I catch the black cat." Li Xuan ordered.

"Master, can you deal with the black cat with only one person?" Wu Yan asked worriedly.

"You don't understand the awakening of the black cat. Going there will only increase the danger. Just follow my instructions."

Seeing that Li Xuan had already spoken, Wu Yan stopped arguing and took her sisters to ambush at the position requested by Li Xuan.

Li Xuan brought Qi Mo to a staircase near the villa. Under the monitoring of the hunting radar, he waited patiently until Black Cat and Sharoye fell asleep, and then he called out to them in his consciousness.

"Do you remember the scene I want?" Li Xuan confirmed again.

"Don't worry, if all you need is to build a dream, Mian Yin can still do it."

"Well, please take my consciousness into Sharoyeh's dream - the bigger one of the two."

"Then choose a position and lie down. I will take you into a dream." After saying this, Mian Yin brought Li Xuan's consciousness into Sharoye's dream.

Sharoyeh went to bed very early today - of course, compared to her usual schedule, in fact, when she fell asleep, it was already two in the morning. Although her immortal body could not eliminate fatigue, it prevented her from dying suddenly no matter how late she stayed up, so for her, staying up all night was a common occurrence.

Unlike Li Xuan's guess, Sharoyeh's investigation has actually made a lot of progress: she tried to perform Felia's resonance magic on a small scale and successfully discovered that it was not the audience who launched the sneak attack at the concert that day, but the monsters possessed by the audience. She also successfully realized that Li Xuan had the ability to teleport from the sudden appearance of tens of thousands of monsters and the sudden disappearance of Felia.

Because of this, when she asked the church for reinforcements, she repeatedly emphasized the need to send an A-level magical girl who could use space magic.

It is conceivable that once these reinforcements arrive, they will inevitably pose a substantial threat to Li Xuan. At that time, even if he hides in the cozy nest of the illusory evil land, he may not be able to rest easy.

However, Li Xuan did not give her the opportunity to realize her plan.

Following a flurry of fluttering black butterflies, Li Xuan entered Sharoyeh's dream.

This was his first time entering someone else's dream. Unlike what he had imagined, the dream world was a rather empty one, with nothing within sight most of the time.

Occasionally, some very simple objects would float around: most of them were simple structures such as rectangles, triangular pyramids, and spheres, almost all of which were made up of lines and planes, and were not as exciting as imagined.

And Mian Yin beside her transformed into a black butterfly, flying around her - now she was the most complex structure in the world.

"Where is Sharoye?" Li Xuan couldn't help but ask.

"They are everywhere. We are inside Sharoye now." Mian Yin explained.

"But the scenes I want..."

"When people are sleeping, most areas of their consciousness are blank. To create the scene my cousin wants, we must first move from the edge of consciousness to the area with more intense activity. Only there are enough resources to use - look, it's there."

Mian Yin transformed into the image of a girl with a bow and pointed diagonally below the two of them.

Li Xuan turned his view and saw what looked like a blooming flower or a beating heart. The shapes and colors kept changing, looking strange and bizarre.

"Cousin, please wait here for a moment. Mian Yin will go set up the scene first." After saying this, Mian Yin floated over. With her intervention, the rapidly changing object gradually became stable and began to have a specific shape and volume.

Li Xuan looked at everything in front of him curiously. He remembered the modeling software he used when he studied civil engineering. Mian Yin seemed to be doing similar work.

But compared to engineering software such as AutoCAD, UG or Pro/E, what Mian Yin operates is more like a game engine such as Unity.

Because from Li Xuan's perspective, the scene he saw was like a game player being stuck outside the scene due to a BUG, ​​staring at the small box that the player was supposed to move around in from a perspective that was beyond the designer's original intention.

"Okay, cousin, come in! The scene has been set up, but it is difficult to maintain a stable scene in a dream. The task of controlling the dreamer's mind can only be left to you." After making the scene, Mian Yin poked his head out of the dream and said.

"Okay, leave it to me." Li Xuan was embarrassed after saying that: he found himself like an FPS player who had his keyboard unplugged and could only operate the mouse. Although he could move the view freely, he was unable to perform any movement operations at all.

"That's right, cousin is not a native of the dream world, and you can't act in a dream - let Mian Yin teach you." Mian Yin said as she slowly floated over and stretched out a small hand covered in black stockings towards Li Xuan.

"Cousin, imagine yourself holding this hand. Think hard."

Chapter 145: The Dream Garden

Looking at the soft little hand faintly visible through the black silk stockings, Li Xuan held it without hesitation. At this moment he was surprised to find that he actually had a hand.

"Dreams are the opposite of reality. Here, spirit exists before matter. My cousin is used to walking in the material world, so it is difficult for him to move freely here. You can imagine your own image first, like you did just now, and move in a way that simulates the habit of walking in the material world." Mian Yin suggested.

So Li Xuan tried to imagine his body again, and then he had a body, but sometimes it was elongated like noodles, and sometimes it was round like a ball.

It took Li Xuan a long time to stabilize his image and turn himself into the gentle and elegant coffee shop owner he usually is.

"My cousin is very talented. He found himself in his dream in such a short time." Mian Yin said approvingly.

"But I still can't move. I can't feel gravity, and there is no resistance like when swimming in water." Li Xuan said distressedly.

"That's right. Living things cannot imagine things they have never touched. When humans move in their dreams, they first create an environment with gravity through their imagination, and then they can move freely." Mian Yin explained.

"So I have to use my imagination to create gravity first? Isn't this a bit difficult?" Li Xuan began to regret why he didn't do an experiment with Bing Rui before coming here.

"No, that would be a waste of time. The box garden I created has normal gravity. Cousin, just hold my hand tightly." Mian Yin said, and with her soft and boneless little hand, she slowly took Li Xuan and floated into the constructed box garden.

After entering the box garden, Li Xuan's feet finally touched the floor.

The scene that Li Xuan requested was naturally the villa where Sharoye slept. Only the scene that was closest to reality could make people confuse reality and dreams.

Mian Yin's dream-building ability is indeed quite powerful. The interior of the entire villa looks very detailed, almost a one-to-one replica. It's just that the details look a bit strange, and many places are filled with unclear objects like AI-generated paintings.

For example, the skirting board on the wall is shaped like bullets lined up together; the trash can in the corner has been replaced with an explosion-proof barrel for handling explosives; and in the painting on the wall, Mona Lisa's hands are loading a revolver.

"Will this really not be noticed as abnormal?" Li Xuan said worriedly, pointing at Mona Lisa who was smiling and holding a gun.

"It's not Mian Yin's fault. Mian Yin used the materials from the dreamer's memory. It's impossible for human memory to be comprehensive. Things that you don't usually pay attention to will be filled in by your imagination." Mian Yin spread his hands.

"That is to say, the Mona Lisa that Sharoyeh imagined was holding a revolver...what a crazy woman." Looking at the paintings that had been modified, Li Xuan couldn't help but worry about Sharoyeh's mental state.

"Her mental state is actually normal, but she seems to be tortured by something." Mian Yin spread his hands.

"I need to break through the wall later. Is it okay to see the wall shattered?" Li Xuan pressed the wall worriedly. He soon discovered that although there was no obstacle to entering from the outside, once inside, those walls and windows seemed to have entities and could no longer be penetrated at will.

"People can't imagine themselves passing through a wall in real life, so it's hard to achieve in a dream. Don't worry, cousin, when the time comes, just hit your head against the wall, and I'll take care of everything." Mian Yin said with a smile.

"Then take me to Sharoye's bedroom." Li Xuan gave up the idea of ​​passing through the model and prepared to focus his attention back on the business.

"No problem, come with me." Mian Yin took Li Xuan through the corridor and came to Sharoye's bedroom.

As soon as Li Xuan entered the bedroom, he couldn't help laughing: Sharoye lying on the bed was still normal, but the black cat sleeping on the next bed was really a big black cat in the literal sense. It coiled up on the bed, looked like it was sleeping very soundly, and even made a cat's unique snoring sound.

"Does this mean that the black cat in Sharoye's eyes is a talking cat?" Li Xuan asked with a smile.

"Probably - cousin, I'm going outside to set up the scene after the wall is destroyed. You have to attract her attention. The construction of the big scene will definitely be very rough. She can find out it's fake as long as she stops and observes carefully." Mian Yin said.

"Will she see through all this from a God's perspective? I remember that when I dream, I often have that kind of God's perspective that overlooks the whole situation." Li Xuan asked worriedly while looking at the sleeping Sharoye.

"Don't worry, cousin. People are gods in their dreams, but once they are confined to a body, their perspective will be welded to it. When the scene is constructed, Mian Yin will give you a signal~" After Mian Yin finished speaking, he passed through the wall like a ghost and left the box garden.

Li Xuanshou waited patiently in the bedroom. Not long after, Mian Yin reminded him in his mind that everything was ready.

The action officially began.

Li Xuan adjusted the corners of his mouth with his fingers, putting on a very evil smile, then imagined himself driving the evil energy, and instantly stretched out countless tentacles, picked up the black cat on the bed, then turned and left.

"Who is it?!" Sharoye suddenly woke up, sensed the breath of evil energy, and quickly transformed to chase after him.

"Okay, it's you?! Let the black cat go for me!" Sharoye instantly turned into a tyrant and chased after him angrily. Li Xuan also dealt with her in the room for a while according to the pre-planned plan, and finally sprayed out black mist to block his vision, broke through the north wall and jumped out.

"Don't even think about escaping!" Sharoye flew out immediately after him, took out his pistol and fired six shots in a row.

Sharoyeh's pistol also fired magic bullets. Li Xuan did not dare to neglect it and quickly fired a dozen times more compressed evil energy cannon to offset it. It seems that even in a dream, the strength of both sides is still based on their own cognition.

"Damn it, I won't let you get away this time!"

Sharoye suddenly increased his speed, and the surrounding scenes rapidly receded. Although those scenes were weird and distorted, and even the proportions of normal things could not be guaranteed, at this time Sharoye only had Li Xuan in his eyes, and did not notice these obvious flaws at all.

Li Xuan ran desperately with the big warm cat in his arms. In fact, he had already realized that he had a natural advantage in his dream. He only needed to imagine that he was faster to do it.

But in order to create a real feeling, he deliberately limited his speed to a level that was synchronized with the real world.

Chapter 146: Is there someone else behind the scenes?

As a combat-type magical girl, Sharoye's speed is naturally amazing. Although her instantaneous speed is not as fast as Yao's, she is better in a long chase.

Although Li Xuan consumed the evil energy attacks at all costs, it did not delay much time. Sharoye didn't care about the attacks on her at all. The tyrant's dominance effect made her not even have any delay when being attacked. She just flew towards Li Xuan desperately.

Li Xuan was also quite shocked by the mad dog-like aura. Fortunately, he still had the skill of mental interference. Since leaving the carefully constructed box garden, Li Xuan has been using this trick to influence Sharoye's consciousness from a spiritual level, constantly erasing her sense of disharmony with the surrounding environment.

It is naturally very easy to use this trick to slightly hinder her pursuit at this time, but it must be as reasonable as possible.

So whenever Sharoye was about to capture Li Xuan, a monster would come to the rescue at the right time.

Sharoye had long known that Li Xuan had the ability to control monsters, and monsters were naturally strange in appearance. Even if they looked a little weird, they did not arouse Sharoye's suspicion.

"Stop interfering me!" Sharoye furiously attacked the monster that came to rescue her. The metal crutch in her hand seemed short, but every strike could accurately cause a fatal blow to the monster.

But this was enough. When Sharoyeh attacked the monster he imagined, Li Xuan had already distanced himself again. By delaying like this, Li Xuan finally led Sharoyeh to the designed trap area.

Here is a detailed modeling by Mian Yin, which completely reproduces the practice ground of a driving school in Shinan District. It was created by Mian Yin with the materials in his memory after he got permission. The distance from the villa to here has also been carefully calculated to ensure that there is not much difference with the reality.

The only difference was that Li Xuan asked Mian Yin to build an indestructible iron cage in the center of the venue. As soon as Li Xuan arrived at the place, he threw the black cat into the cage and locked it up.

Sharoye was afraid that the black cat was in danger, so he immediately left Li Xuan and used a metal crutch to break the lock on the cage, trying to rescue the black cat.

Sharoyeh's crutches have the ability to severely injure a B-class magical girl with one strike, and their power alone is far superior to Yao, who is also a combat-type. However, such a powerful strike only caused a few sparks when it hit the lock.

"So hard?" Sharoye was surprised. She took a few steps back and then went forward to hit it again. When she found that the lock could not be broken, she tried to attack other parts of the cage, but these attacks were all useless. The iron cage seemed like an ideal rigid body in physics. No matter how hard she hit it, there was no sign of damage.

Sharoye naturally didn't know that the iron cage in front of him had been set by Mian Yin to be an indestructible object. Unless he had a special blessing like Bing Rui that made him immune to all mental attacks, it would be impossible to break it in a dream.

"Cousin, please hurry up, her emotions are fluctuating violently and she is about to wake up." Mian Yin reminded.

"Leave this to me. Now go into Black Cat's dream and make her fall into a deep sleep. Remember to make her roll under the bed, out of Sharoyeh's sight."

After Li Xuan gave his instructions, he quickly used mental interference to stabilize the structure of the dream, then landed in front of Sharoyeh with an evil smile:

"Hehe, you will never be able to rescue Black Cat. This cage was built by a more powerful S-class monster. It is impossible to break it with your strength."

"S-class monster?" Sharoye was surprised, but the indestructible iron cage in front of her made her believe it.

"That's right - please show yourself! My great lord, the ruler of the evil world, the invincible dark supreme: Lord Bayeli!" Li Xuan made up a name and a bunch of titles on the spot, and then used his imagination to create an oversized monster that looked very much like the final boss.

Seeing the huge size and exaggerated shape of the monster, Sharoyeh was shocked, but she did not lose her will to fight. Instead, she held the crutches tightly in her hands.

"Even if the opponent is S-level, I must rescue the black cat. This is the agreement between me and Filia. Bayeli, I'm here to defeat you!" There was a brief hint of fear in Sharoye's eyes, but it was quickly covered up by desperate madness.

She kicked the ground with her legs and used the recoil force to rush directly towards the huge monster that Li Xuan imagined.

Seeing that she was not afraid at all, Li Xuan couldn't help but feel a little panicked. After all, the thing he made was just for show. If it was really broken, there would be no way to recover.

Fortunately, he was no longer limited by the constraints of actual combat power at this time. He directly used the power of imagination to construct a demonic energy barrier to block Sharoye.