It's weird to apply for Witch Academy as a boy

"Will Nightmare take the initiative to find us?"

"That means we haven't encountered it before. We can destroy it with magic. It's very simple."

"Just use magic? So simple? Then you... sorry, is the nightmare hard to find?"

"It should be hard to find." I nodded, but when I recalled the nightmares I had encountered before, I would subconsciously look for the presence of people.

So, as long as we give it time, those nightmares will eventually find the densely populated area of ​​Ninglan New City above these ruins.

Nightmares are part of foolish dreams, but they are not called nightmares for nothing. After all, their predecessors are dream creatures, and their existence is a collection of unknown information, emotions, and energy such as memory and cognition.

I had previously speculated that nightmares feed on emotions such as fear and terror, so the densely populated Ninglan New City is their first choice.

Before I arrived, the city lord had already told me that Ninglan New City was plagued by nightmares.

It's just that I didn't care.

"Then do you have a method?"

"No, I'm not omnipotent. Perhaps... you can ask the mayor of Ninglan New City. He should be very eager to cooperate with you. I heard him say that citizens in Ninglan New City have also been troubled by nightmares."

"Thank you." After briefly understanding this information, Tan Han also had her next goal.

"Ready to go?"

"Well, I won't bother you anymore. Isn't this what you expected?" Tan Han turned her head and looked at me and said.

"Yes, thank you for your understanding. Also... a piece of advice, be careful of the nightmare, it is the culprit of the sleeping curse and death."

"Incubus?"

"Don't ask me. If nothing unexpected happens, the city lord should know more than me. It depends on your ability." After all, I have communicated a lot of information with the city lord, and they have also obtained a lot of information from the nightmare. It depends on whether Tan Han and the others can get it from the city lord.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. I wasn't of much help."

"No... I don't believe you will do anything meaningless, just like the last time in the witch secret realm."

"Whatever you think."

Chapter 314: Underground City and Foolish Dreams

In the next few days, Ning Lanqiuyue's efficiency was very fast. Compared with the association president named Wu Mali, it can be said that he was attacking from a lower dimension, after all, his status was there.

After I got to know the president, I finally understood some of his situation. He is just a young man who has taken over not long ago. The previous president, his father, passed away some time ago. This young man Wu Mali hasn't even figured out his father's network of contacts yet. He can be said to be very young. The only thing worth seeing is probably his love for extraordinary skills, but this is basically of no help in securing the position of president.

If Ning Lanqiuyue hadn't pulled him back, it would have been a question whether he could keep his seat.

So now, because of what I'm doing, he's under even more pressure. Even though he loves extraordinary powers, he hasn't come to listen to my classes many times. This is enough to prove that he is very busy.

When I arrived at the so-called extraordinary research group, it was completely different from the previous association.

"Where are we going?" After following Ning Lanqiuyue to a secret place, I asked out of habit.

"Of course it is the secret base of the Extraordinary Research Group. The existence of such a group cannot be made public, and it must be in the safest place. What place is safer than underground? Moreover... when studying extraordinary skills underground, if there is a big noise like an explosion, it will not affect the normal life of ordinary people."

"That seems to be true." I nodded, and followed Ning Lanqiuyue with Sister Bai into a huge structure similar to an elevator.

I saw densely packed inscriptions on the steel mechanical creations here. It seems that their use of inscriptions has exceeded my expectations.

After all, this is a skill that has been developed for thousands of years. You can say that they have not made any breakthroughs, but you cannot say that they have no accumulation.

As the elevator slowly descended, this process lasted for a very long time, which was enough to show that the depth they dug was beyond my expectation.

Until... I felt a wave of energy passing through my body that I could no longer ignore, and I roughly realized that it should be soon.

Not long after, the elevator descended to a large and open area.

"This...this is!"

I looked at the scene in front of me in shock, feeling indescribable shock. How could this be a research team dug underground?

Is this another... another... Ninglan New City being dug underground?

We descended little by little from the top and could have a panoramic view of the entire underground area from high in the air.

This place has become a... residential area with houses and buildings.

And... the most conspicuous vein that runs through the ground and dome of this underground city!

The ground vein was emitting a light blue glow, illuminating the entire area. Huge mechanical facilities were built around the surging ground vein. All the buildings here were centered on the ground vein and radiated outward.

No wonder when I descended to a certain height, I could feel such a strong feedback of earth energy. It turned out... they had tapped into the earth veins!

This is the first time I have seen such a substantial tributary of the earth veins. Judging from their posture, have they reached the level of developing and utilizing the energy of the earth veins?

I seem to understand how that huge protective stone tablet in the center of Ninglan New City came from. Oh no, maybe I got it wrong. Maybe it was because they were curious about the function of the stone tablet that they found the source so deep underground.

I roughly compared the locations, and it seemed to correspond exactly to the location of the stone tablet on the ground.

So...is that stone tablet considered an extension of the earth vein branch?

"Welcome to the extraordinary skills research base of Ninglan New City. It can be said that this has become a nearly autonomous underground city area. The original research base may not be as large as this."

"Of course, this is also the last safe haven of Ninglan New City. It is the last place of hope set up to deal with the complete destruction of Ninglan New City on the ground. It gathers the most outstanding geniuses with extraordinary skills in the entire Ninglan New City. They have lived here for a long time until they died in obscurity. Their descendants live here, so... you can also see the life scenes of ordinary people here. After all, their families and children live here."

"Is this so..."

After simply listening to Ning Lan Qiuyue's introduction to me, I nodded to show my understanding. I said, how could Ninglan New City, which has been developed for thousands of years, be just like what I saw before? It turns out that there is an advance experience server here.

I looked at this underground city area, which was completely different from the one above. Inscriptions and etchings could be seen everywhere. The extraordinary energy they used was not only extraordinary power, but also ground energy! Even the drive of this entire city area was driven by that ground energy!

Therefore, as long as that tributary of the earth vein is destroyed, the entire underground city area may be... paralyzed!

Wait...why am I subconsciously thinking about how to destroy this place?

After suppressing these thoughts, I waited for the elevator to land as if nothing had happened.

After we were completely connected to the underground ground, a petite figure appeared in front of us.

"Welcome to the underground city. Do you need me to lead you? It's Sister Ning Lanqiuyue."

"Be good~ I won't bother you this time." Ning Lanqiuyue leaned over and reached out to touch the figure in front of her that was only half a person's height. The petite figure and cute face, as well as the curious face and cat ears that shook from time to time, turned out to be a cute little cat girl!

"Catgirl?"

"Foolish dream?"

At this moment, Sister Bai and my colleague exclaimed in surprise.

At this moment, Sister Bai and Ning Lanqiuyue both looked at me at the same time. There was a hint of surprise in Sister Bai's eyes, while Ning Lanqiuyue was just purely curious.

"Do you know what they are?"

"No..." I swallowed, took a break, looked at the cat girl in front of me, and then looked at Ning Lanqiuyue, "Wait a minute, can I ask, have they... always lived here?"

"No, they... probably... appeared at about the same time as the first group of outsiders, and they appeared in this underground city all at once."

"Is that so..." I looked at the cat girl Yu Meng in front of me again. In addition to curiosity about us, there was also a clear stupidity in her eyes that was unique to Yu Meng. Of course, this was not meant to be derogatory, it was just a simple description.

"They...are there probably several hundred of them?"

"Almost. The sudden appearance of so many alien creatures in the underground city did shock us for a while, but after interacting with them, we found that they were very friendly and pitiful. Many people were willing to accept them, so we settled down like this for the time being, doing some simple work in exchange for food."

Ning Lanqiuyue explained to me. After she finished, she looked at me again, "Teacher Xiaohan, from your tone, you... know them? Their name is... Yumeng, right?"

"Yes..." I nodded.

"Are they dangerous? Forgive me for asking, but the underground research base is really important. We cannot allow any danger to exist here."

"We are very obedient..."

I looked at the cat girl Yu Meng, who was a little timid at the moment, and her voice trembled as she spoke. Her originally expressionless face also raised a smile.

"Yu Meng...they are just kind little cuties, how could they be in danger?" I reached out to touch this little guy, but I found that my fingers went straight through it.

These foolish dreams... have they acquired the body shaped by the dean? So it is a body casting.

Then their appearance was most likely placed here by the dean, but...why did the dean place them here?

After thinking for a while and still not figuring it out, I gave up temporarily. If I can't figure something out, just don't think about it and let everything take its course.

But I also concealed one thing from Ninglan Qiuyue, and that is the relationship between Yumeng and Nightmare. Since Yumeng appeared in Ninglan New City, even in such a secret place as the underground city, it is not surprising that Nightmare would frequently appear in Ninglan New City.

I think it won't be long before all the nightmares will "reasonably" appear in Ninglan New City. Driven by the script, the protagonists will experience a great battle in Ninglan New City to clear away all the nightmares. I will take Yu Meng to cut off the shackles of the earth veins to separate Yu Meng and nightmares, and use the great wisdom enlightenment technique on them to enlighten their wisdom. At this point, the matter has come to an end.

This is probably the script arranged by the dean, right?

"Really? That makes me feel relieved. To be honest, not everyone here likes their presence. Some even reject them. After all, the nightmare invasion happened on the day they arrived, and they blamed it all on these little guys."

"is it?"

"But you don't have to worry about it. Although there are many geniuses here, it doesn't mean there are no ignorant people here."

"Stupid, indeed." I nodded with a smile. This time the stupid people were lucky. Those nightmares were really related to their stupid dreams. They did not wrongly accuse these stupid dreams.

But things don't look like this, at least in the eyes of people who don't know this information, it's those ignorant people who are imposing this excuse on stupid dreams, which does not change the ignorant nature of those ignorant people.

So... naturally I have to cooperate and strongly condemn these guys.

Afterwards, Ning Lanqiuyue took us to the most central area here, which is the cradle of extraordinary skills and the meaning of its existence.

"Well, Teacher Xiaohan, those who can come here to study extraordinary skills are basically geniuses. Geniuses always have preferential treatment and strange personalities. I hope you can understand this. It's best not to have any conflicts."

"A genius's quirk? I understand. If it's true, then it's nothing. But I won't be polite to those who show off without any talent."

"Well... there is also a ground patrol team here that is dedicated to maintaining order here, so it's best... Sorry, I forgot that Teacher Xiaohan, you can ignore these."

"Indeed, it saves a lot of trouble."

"I'll go arrange a place for you, Teacher Xiaohan. It's not appropriate to stay in the Ninglanxiang Hotel upstairs. Of course, if you want to go upstairs to get some fresh air..."

"I have a way to get up there myself, so you don't have to worry about that. Let's go check out the residence first."

After following Ning Lanqiuyue to learn about our residence, we also prepared to go to the core research area to take a look. As for the previous residence, I don’t care about the environment. No matter how dirty and messy it is, I can renovate it.

The main thing is to see the extraordinary research skills here, and of course, the main way to do that is to visit here.

After all, those geniuses all have their own projects and research and development things on hand. It is impossible for me to take over the leadership as soon as I come back and ask them to all listen to me and learn runes. That is unrealistic.

To a certain extent, I no longer have any intersection with them, and Ning Lanqiuyue brought me here just to announce my existence and promote the extraordinary rune literature that I taught before.

After all, the people here are not the ordinary people before. They are all people with extremely profound knowledge of extraordinary skills. Even if they have never been exposed to runes, the fact that they know everything is not a joke.

As long as the information related to runes is made public, people who are interested will naturally come to me when they see it. This is much faster than slowly screening among ordinary people. Moreover... the quality of people who come to study runes together is also very high. I don’t even need to spend time to solve basic common sense problems, because they have their own attitude towards research, and only when they encounter obstacles will they look for others to ask for the key.

Just as Ninglan Qiuyue said, this place is indeed very suitable for me, and there is no need to care about the ideas of those interest groups in Ninglan New City. After all, it is not easy for them to reach out here.

After all, you can't negotiate any conditions with their last refuge. When they live independently from Ninglan New City and the ground patrol team is established, if those interest groups on the ground want to get in, you can at least beat them back.

It's probably similar to the situation where the emperor is far away and the only thing that can control them is probably their daily supply of materials.

Logically speaking, Ninglan New City should not have led to such a situation, which is almost as outrageous as a city within a city. However, Ninglan Qiuyue did not explain the reason to me, and I was too lazy to take the initiative to find out. I just wanted a result.

And I have an independent research laboratory here. Although it is very empty, the extra things are useless to me. I can achieve self-sufficiency by using the dream rewriting spell. At this time, the role of this useless spell is fully reflected.

"By the way, those Yumeng are the cat girls you mentioned. Can I let them come to my laboratory to help?" I asked Ning Lanqiuyue.

After all, according to Ning Lanqiuyue, those foolish kids here don’t have a good life, so I thought that if possible, I would give these poor little ones some protection, although I can’t take care of every one of them.

Their lives have been very rough, perhaps this is the price they had to pay when they initially sought help from the dean and wanted to become real lives.

"Of course they can, but can their presence really help you? Teacher Xiaohan, although I don't mean to persuade you, there is no need to be overly sympathetic."

"Thank you for the reminder. I am in a dream and cannot touch reality. Let these little cuties help me. Besides, they have some special meaning to me. And I will feel good when I look at them. Don't worry."

"Well, since you insist, Sister Xiaohan, I can actually arrange some apprentices for you for this kind of thing. They can do it better."

"No need, let's just leave it like this." I shook my head and insisted.

Chapter 315: Ninglan New City's Extraordinary Mechanical Armament Technology

"Are their vital signs normal?"

“They are all very stable.”

In the infirmary, the seniors who were responsible for taking care of those trapped in the sleeping curse, each wore a special alchemical mask.

This alchemical mask is a special alchemical item made by an extraordinary witch. It is a special countermeasure against the sleeping curse to a certain extent. It is distributed free of charge by the academy to seniors or students who need to come into contact with "patients" currently infected with the sleeping curse.