Chapter 56: It's almost time
After confirming that his reliance could function normally even in dreams, Ai Yue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then he started another attempt - according to the setting, the flow rate of time in dreams is twenty times that of reality, so can this flow rate be used to speed up the advancement of scientific research projects?
However, the result was disappointing. The scientific research project in the dream advanced at an extremely slow pace. It seemed that it would not be affected by the flow of time in Ai Yue's subjective will.
However, Ai Yue was only slightly disappointed, and immediately thought of another thing - the system's own advancement speed would not be affected, but he could accelerate it artificially.
The flow of time in dreams is accelerated by twenty times, which means that Ai Yue's own thinking speed is accelerated by twenty times. Since the system can also be started in dreams, it means that as long as he does scientific research in dreams, his efficiency will be much higher than in reality!
Unfortunately, now is not the time to do research.
Ai Yue sighed with regret, temporarily shifted his attention away from the system, and began to observe the surrounding environment.
At this moment he was standing in a bedroom, but unlike Rachel's bedroom in reality, this one was not only spacious and bright, but even the furniture looked much more upscale.
However, after observing for a while, Ai Yue discovered that the owner of this bedroom seemed to be Rachel.
This is not difficult to understand. After all, the dreams that the Eighth Herrscher weaves for people are the beautiful life that the other person desires in their hearts. Some people desire a happy family, and some people desire to be with their loved ones forever. So it seems reasonable for Rachel, who lives in a small room, to desire a large bedroom.
At this moment, the bedroom door was opened from the outside and a girl rushed in. She looked healthy and energetic, with a happy smile on her face. If she didn't look basically the same as Rachel in real life, Ai Yue wouldn't have been able to recognize her at first glance.
'So what does her dream life look like?'
Ai Yue stood aside curiously, watching the girl lying on the bed playing with her cell phone.
As a person with powerful mental power, Ai Yue's level in dreams is naturally higher than those ordinary people hypnotized by the Eighth Herrscher. By using his mental power, he can easily hide himself from the eyes of others and do things like being invisible. Therefore, when Rachel walked into the bedroom, she didn't realize that there was another person in the room.
Of course, this operation is only effective against creatures that also possess mental power. There is no way to avoid the surveillance of the machine, and naturally it cannot affect people who are not in front of Ai Yue but are observing him through monitoring equipment.
But this is already powerful enough. It is precisely because of the use of "Aponia's Embrace" that Ai Yue finally understood how terrifying Aponia is to ordinary people.
Even the degraded version of the ability he possessed now could easily distort a person's mind and turn him into something else, so how powerful would the complete version that Aponia possessed be?
After mastering this kind of power, most people would have expanded beyond imagination, right? Aponia was able to stay in the deepest place calmly and comfort the spirits of those people. Should we say that she is worthy of being a compassionate nun?
Ai Yue thought so, completely putting his own factors aside, and then walked out of the room, intending to see what kind of dream Rachel was immersed in.
Generally speaking, if children in a reconstituted family are not doing well, they will want to return to their original family...
Ai Yue was thinking about this, and when he looked up, he saw the man he had met in real life sitting on the sofa watching TV.
Ai Yue: ...
Why are you still here?
However, the most urgent task was not to help the little girl resolve her emotional knot and face reality, so Ai Yue did not stay here for long, but quickly left the house.
'My ability may be able to deceive these ordinary people, but it definitely cannot deceive the owner of the dream. I am afraid that it will not be long before the Eighth Herrscher will appear in front of me.'
It's a pity that Ai Yue didn't detect any abnormal mental fluctuations from Rachel. It seems that she has never really come into contact with the Eighth Herrscher.
Outside Rachel's house is still the original city, but Ai Yue can clearly feel that the environment here is very "rough". Obviously, the world restored based on Rachel's memory is still not as clear as the reality, so that this city actually only has a small part centered on Rachel's house, and there is only blank space outside.
However, Ai Yue soon discovered that more and more buildings were gradually being built in the empty space outside the city. Although they were not large in scale, they were slowly expanding, and some had even been connected into one piece.
Obviously, the number of victims in this city is still increasing, and as the victims' memories of the city continue to increase, the city will eventually reappear in their dreams. What will happen at that time, even Ai Yue can't say.
But he came here to avoid this kind of thing from happening.
Ai Yue was repeatedly deducing his plan in his mind, but suddenly he looked behind him.
A person with a black aura all over its body was floating behind him, seemingly observing him.
It was a girl who looked thin and shriveled. The black aura obscured the details of her body, so that Ai Yue could not see her appearance clearly. However, it was more than enough to confirm her identity based on this appearance.
"The Eighth Herrscher?" Ai Yue nodded as a greeting, "What's your name?"
'This was the first time I met the Herrscher face to face, but I didn't feel anything special... Oh, I almost forgot, this is not the first time.'
"Interesting, you are the first human who can actively enter the dream." The Herrscher ignored his words and just said to him, "It seems that you should be the kind of human who is the enemy of Honkai?"
Obviously, she didn't intend to communicate properly.
"So there's nothing to talk about?" Ai Yue also realized the other party's attitude problem and couldn't help but sigh, "What a pity, I want to know more about you guys."
"You ignorant human, who do you think you are talking to?" The Herrscher was obviously very angry at Ai Yue's attitude. "A fellow like you doesn't even deserve a sweet dream!"
She raised her right hand and pointed at the sky. The originally clear sky instantly became covered with dark clouds. In the clouds, a thick and terrifying lightning was striking straight towards Ai Yue.
Everything happened in a flash. It could be said that the Eighth Herrscher's behavior perfectly illustrated what it meant to "change one's mind as easily as turning the pages of a book." However, such an attack was completely ineffective.
The lightning didn't even touch Ai Yue's body, and it disappeared less than five meters away from him. Ai Yue smiled, as if he had done nothing: "It's a huge attack, but its power is not as strong as it appears. Is it because you can't fully exert your strength now? Or is it that you can't use your full strength to deal with me now?"
Ai Yue stretched out his hand and made a grasping motion towards the Eighth Herrscher: "Whatever you want to do, you'd better hurry up, otherwise when I catch you, it will be too late."
(TL: Hey there! If you're enjoying this fanfic and want to get early access to more chapters or explore some of my other works, feel free to swing by my Patreon. You'll find plenty of advanced updates and maybe even some exclusive content waiting for you~
link: patreon.com/Elysia_Husband)