"Qin Siyang, because of your reckless advance this time, the two of us almost lost our lives. What more do you want from me?"
"I was reckless? When I went to kill the multi headed weasels, did I not get your consent? Didn't I tell you that this decision was based on you this time?"
"But I never thought you would kill all the multi headed weasels before leaving."
"Mm… that really was a small flaw."
"A small flaw? You really know how to make excuses for yourself."
"Hu Chan, don't keep blaming me here either. The one who hunts geese might get pecked in the eyes by geese, the one who fishes might capsize and get fed to the fish. Since you came out with me, you should have been ready for all kinds of situations. Now that something happened, and you blame only me, do you think that is reasonable?"
"I…"
Hu Chan clenched his fists. Faced with Qin Siyang's questioning, he had nothing to say.
"Alright, President Qin, can you tell me how you figured out that we should return to the safe zone?"
Seeing Hu Chan give in, Qin Siyang also found it funny, "You bowed your head just to get the answer? I can tell you really want to know."
"That's right. Because when I was choosing which life to continue, I couldn't remember where I came from at all, as if I were a third party watching two lives. So I'm very curious how President Qin concluded that the life inside the safe zone was the one that truly existed."
"With that kind of spirit of inquiry, you really are suited for doing research."
"Compared to President Qin, my ability in research really is nothing."
Qin Siyang did not respond to Hu Chan's praise and instead answered his question.
"Two lives appeared in front of me. The life images inside the safe zone stop at this moment, while the beautiful dream woven by the Nightmare Lantern Tree is a complete life."
"That's right."
"Then did you ever think about why the life inside the safe zone only stops at eighteen years old?"
Hu Chan froze for a moment, "This… at the time my head was splitting with pain, I didn't think about it. Now that you bring it up, it really does feel off."
"At the time my head hurt like hell too. I didn't have time to think. I just felt that among these two lives, one of them definitely had a problem. Otherwise there was no way to explain something this strange. So I only thought of two possibilities—"
"Wait! President Qin, you didn't have time to think, and you could still come up with two possibilities?"
"Uh… maybe because I'm the kind of person who's pretty good at wild guessing."
"Fine, go on."
Qin Siyang continued his analysis, "The first possibility is that my later life in the safe zone is even more dreamlike than the fantasy life it fabricated, and even more successful than the success it fabricated. In order to lure me into choosing the illusory life, it hid that part."
"The second possibility is that my life in the safe zone has not yet ended. Between an unfinished life and a life that has already ended, which one is the real life is self evident."
"No matter which possibility it is, it all means that the life inside the safe zone is the life I should choose."
"So I came back."
After hearing this, Hu Chan was stunned for a long time, then shook his head in admiration, "No wonder you are President Qin. At the time I was only thinking about making a choice. I never had such a careful chain of thought as you."
"You were able to come out alive too, which is already impressive. After all, wasn't it said that after being attacked by the Nightmare Lantern Tree, the death rate is over ninety nine percent?"
"That's what they say. As for who those few survivors were, I never found out. Anyway, this time, you and I were really lucky."
Qin Siyang also felt uneasy in his heart, "Indeed. If the Nightmare Lantern Tree had sent a few more lanterns, one after another, weaving a few more dreams for me and letting me keep dreaming sweet dreams, I wouldn't dare say I could make the right choice every time."
"Yeah, same here. I don't know why the Nightmare Lantern Tree didn't keep attacking us."
"Right, where is the Nightmare Lantern Tree? Why can't I see it anywhere? Hu Chan, you woke up earlier, did you see what happened?"
Hu Chan shook his head, "When I woke up, the drill cabin was on the wasteland. It was quiet all around, nothing there. There happens to be something I want to tell you."
"Wait a second! When you woke up, the drill cabin was still on the wasteland?", Qin Siyang looked out at the pitch black window, his face full of surprise, "Aren't we underground right now? Did you fix the drill cabin?"
Hu Chan shook his head, "That's exactly what I want to say. After I woke up, the drill cabin could move normally."
Qin Siyang looked at the neatly shaped metal plate under Hu Chan's feet, and in an instant his mind went blank.
"So, President Qin, are you sure that when we were under the Nightmare Lantern Tree's control, the throttle of the drill cabin was already broken? From what point exactly did the illusion start?"
Being asked this by Hu Chan, Qin Siyang also began to doubt himself.
He remembered the indicator light on the dashboard lighting up, which meant the throttle should have failed. And Hu Chan had already stepped on the throttle until it broke.
But now it was fixed again?
Could it be that the earlier throttle failure was an illusion provided by the Nightmare Lantern Tree?
Qin Siyang thought for a long time but got nowhere, "To be honest, I can't figure it out either."
"Alright. Then what's the plan next?"
"Don't rush me, let me think. Right, we dodged the Nightmare Lantern Tree's attack. Didn't that weird dark gold lantern leave behind any valuable materials?"
Hearing this, Hu Chan immediately searched carefully around the inside of the drill cabin, "Materials? Are there any materials? I didn't see any."
["Truth."]
Hu Chan instantly flew into a rage, "Qin Siyang! Why are you testing me every single moment?"
Qin Siyang chuckled, "Sorry, it went off by accident, haha, accidentally…"
["Lie."]
Hu Chan stared coldly at Qin Siyang, anger written all over his face.
Qin Siyang muttered, "We escaped death, and there isn't even a bit of reward? This Nightmare Lantern Tree is really not a thing at all!"
Hu Chan sneered, "As if you are any better."
"Stop the nonsense, switch seats first. I'll drive."
After Qin Siyang sat back in the driver's seat, he carefully checked everything. All the equipment monitoring and settings were completely normal.
He tried stepping on the throttle and the brake a few times, and the drill cabin's braking and acceleration systems were also intact.
Only then did he feel at ease and drive away from this place of trouble.
"President Qin, you're just leaving like this?"
"Then what?"
"Not going up to the surface to take a look, see if the Nightmare Lantern Tree left any materials?"
Qin Siyang slammed the throttle in response.
"We barely escaped with our lives, and you want to go back and take another look? If you want to die, at least don't be this stupid!"
Hu Chan knew that Qin Siyang's decision was safe and correct, but his tone was a bit aggrieved, "I originally felt it was fine, just getting our lives back was enough. But just now you said we went through so much and didn't even get a single bit of material, and the memories of the dream life are blurry too. It really feels like we suffered for nothing."
Qin Siyang said unhappily, "What we ran into was a large scale god. Being able to survive is already something to be grateful for! How are you even greedier than me?"
"Because it was a large scale god that we ran into, that's why I regret it—"
As the two were talking, suddenly a dark gold light lit up again inside the drill cabin.
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