Hearing Jiang Baimian’s question, Shang Jianyao and Bai Chen instinctively looked at each other, but only saw the same confusion on each other’s face.

Jiang Baimian sat a little more straight:

"Do you still remember the information provided by the ruin hunter named Harris Brown and the bald one?"

Obviously, Jiang Baimian has a very good memory.

As the party involved, Shang Jianyao instantly recalled:

"Is it the information that there is abnormal human death north of Yuelu Station?"

"Yes." Jiang Baimianzheng pointed his head, "At that time, Harris Brown said that they found several corpses that had just died, with no fatal traces on the surface, but their expressions were either painful, fear, or strange smiles."

Bai Chen suddenly realized:

"Team leader, what do you mean is that those people die in dreams, no, real dreams?"

Jiang Baimian said "yes":

"You think, I just poked myself in my dream, and the reality was highlighted by the corresponding red and swollen dots, and when you look closely, there was no pinhole at all.

"Similarly, Shang Jianyao slapped himself in his dream, and reality also gained five finger marks and swelling on his face.

"If, I mean, if, in such a dream, the bullet hit the vital point, or the poisonous gas that makes people look weird, or Yu Huanyou is suddenly frightened, what will happen in reality?"

"It will die without fatal scars on the surface..." Shang Jianyao replied in a deep voice.

The five finger marks on his face are likely to be a stress phenomenon and will fade very quickly, but once the heart stops beating, it will never recover.

Before he finished speaking, Shang Jianyao stood up suddenly, returned to his sleeping bag, put on his coat, and put on his "Berserker" assault rifle.

He strode out of the tent while opening the gun insurance.

"What happened?" Long Yuehong, who was in charge of alert, asked quickly.

Shang Jianyao looked up at the rock wall behind him and looked around:

“Have you discovered anything suspicious?

"Or, an unusual phenomenon?"

Long Yuehong thought about it for a moment and shook her head firmly:

"No.

"Even if there are few wild animals passing by, they are also normal species."

While speaking, Long Yuehong used the bright moonlight to see the redness and swelling of Shang Jianyao's right face and the more obvious five-finger marks.

"Uh..." He suddenly didn't know how to ask, his eyes became a little strange.

At this time, Jiang Baimian was dressed neatly, took out his weapon, and Bai Chen followed closely behind.

"Have you discovered anything?" Jiang Baimian asked with a slightly solemn expression.

"No." Shang Jianyao replied seriously.

Jiang Baimian didn't care about Long Yuehong's eyes, and patrolled himself and sensed various electrical signals around him.

"Nothing is indeed abnormal." She walked back to Shang Jianyao, beside Bai Chen, and breathed a little relieved, "It seems that as long as you don't fall asleep, you will not be affected."

Seeing Long Yuehong look confused, Jiang Baimian picked up the key to describe his experience with Shang Jianyao.

Long Yuehong is like listening to stories on radio programs, afraid and not very convinced.

To be honest, if it weren't for the team leader's testimony, just based on Shang Jianyao's remarks, he would definitely say:

"Stop kidding, this kind of thing is not funny at all!

"Go and tell the order supervisor, see if they believe you or not!"

Order supervisors are professions responsible for the internal order of "Pangu creatures". Whether they fight or infringe on others, they are in charge of them.

——There is a "order supervision supervisor" on each floor of the "inner ecological zone". There are three order supervision team leaders below, and each team leader has several order supervisors under it.

Going further up, there is a large area with more than ten or twenty floors, and each area has a "order supervision bureau".

Above the "Order Supervision Bureau" is the "Order Supervision Department" affiliated to the "Board of Directors".

After listening to Jiang Baimian's description, Long Yuehong subconsciously replied:

"Isn't this true?"

After asking, he quickly closed his mouth and stopped waiting for the answer.

Since Shang Jianyao can even let the mechanical monk Jingfa shake hands with him and say goodbye, it seems that it is not unacceptable to appear a monster that can make people die strangely in a dream.

I have to say that after leaving the company and coming to the surface, Long Yuehong felt more and more that this world was much more magical than before.

"Can they be an awakened person? Or, a secondary person or animal who has a distorted disease? They might have similar abilities." Jiang Baimian turned his head and looked at Shang Jianyao.

"Apart from my own abilities, I don't know much more about awakened people than you." Shang Jianyao turned his head and looked at Bai Chen, hoping that this lady with rich experience in survival in the gray soil can give her an answer.

Bai Chen shook his head and signaled that he had never encountered a similar abnormality:

"If this weren't the case, it wouldn't be allowed to evacuate the experienced ruin hunters like Harris Brown in a hurry and dare not get close."

Jiang Baimian thought for a few seconds, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:

"I'm a little curious, how did you break away from the dream just now?

"Well, you just said that it depends on the ability of the awakened person, but I hope to understand some details, which may inspire me.

"If you think this is your secret, let Bai Chen and Long Yuehong go to the edge to patrol.

"As for me, uh, I should still be trustworthy, right?"

In the end, Jiang Baimian couldn't find a reason, and was unwilling to use his current situation to force Shang Jianyao to answer, so he had to trick Lai.

"Nothing." Shang Jianyao replied calmly, "I used the 'reasoning clown' ability you have seen. At that time, because I slapped myself but didn't wake up, I initially ruled out the possibility of dreaming, thinking of robbing the car, going away, and returning after dawn to see if you have returned to normal.

“As a result, when I got up, I saw myself in the rearview mirror.

"I thought at that time whether I could use the ability of the 'reasoning clown' to influence myself, which made me more sure that this was a dream.

"If it is really a dream, then I will see through the truth and the falsehood, strengthen my self-awareness in this aspect, and there should be a considerable possibility of waking up directly.

"If it weren't for the dream, I'd also wrote myself a reminder..."

Speaking of this, Shang Jianyao remembered the arrangement in his dream, and hurriedly put his hand into his pocket and took out a few pieces of paper for recording.

Except for a broken layout diagram depicting the ruins of the steel factory, which is marked with a "toilet", the rest are blank and there is no prompt.

"Sure enough..." Shang Jianyao breathed a long sigh and continued, "After writing the prompt, I began to use the ability of the 'reasoning clown' to get the 'dream' conclusion based on irrelevant conditions, and this indeed strengthened my judgment and cognition and helped me break free from the dream."

Jiang Baimian was quite touched by hearing this:

"It's so cruel, I even cheated myself."

"..." Long Yuehong was almost amused and finally managed to hold it back.

"..." Shang Jianyao didn't expect Jiang Baimian to give such an "evaluation", and almost forgot what he was going to say later.

He paused and said:

"I haven't done a similar experiment before. When I saw myself in the rearview mirror, I felt that I could give it a try. Moreover, there are two situations:

“One is to use obvious facts to get the goal to reach almost irrelevant and favorable conclusions;

"One is to rely on valuable conditions to make the goal that is illogical but correct in the results."

Jiang Baimian nodded gently and said:

"Yes, it seems that this incident has helped you further master your abilities and broaden its boundaries."

Shang Jianyao was about to say something, but suddenly he showed a thoughtful expression.

Jiang Baimian then looked at Bai Chen:

"What do you think?"

"When you are uncertain about the abnormality being away, it is best not to sleep tonight. When it dawns, drive south immediately. With your energy, it should not be a big problem to not sleep for half a night." Bai Chen gave very steady and cautious suggestions.

Long Yuehong subconsciously pointed to the entrance of Black Rat Town and said:

“What should I do here?”

"What else can I do? Make sure my own safety first and then talk about other things." Jiang Baimian responded without hesitation, "Besides, the abnormality of the dream will not be targeted only by us. Some people in the ruins of the nearby areas and the wilderness wanderers should be affected. Their strange death will make this place a briefly turn into a forbidden area and a terrifying area passed down by word of mouth. Will no one dare to come here for a while?

"Haha, if someone can't even receive such news and enter without knowing anything, then I don't think they have the ability to find the entrance to Black Rat Town and move away the boulders that block the cave.

"When the corresponding impact subsides, the company's people will almost come. At that time, if they don't find us, they will definitely send a signal to the flare."

Long Yuehong had no objection anymore, and the four of them were on duty until dawn.

Then, they took turns driving back south.

It was almost noon, Jiang Baimian, who was in the passenger seat, turned his head and said to Shang Jianyao:

"You try to sleep to see if there are any abnormalities in the dream.

"Don't worry, I'll stare at you, and wake you up whenever there is something wrong."

"I can wake up by myself." Shang Jianyao whispered confidently.

"Ah?" Jiang Baimian tilted his head.

Her smile did not fade, but became more obvious.

Shang Jianyao didn't say anything more, thought for a while, raised his right hand, and pinched the temples on both sides.

He immediately closed his eyes.

…………

The cold and dark metal walls stand tall, surrounding a wide and empty hall.

The height of the hall was invisible, and there was only a dimness.

In the darkness, countless bright spots of light were densely spread, slowly turning, as if one galaxy after another was formed.

In the center of the hall, stars shone down, condensing into a huge, blurred figure. The figure spreads out his hands, maintaining a strict symmetry, as if simulating a balance.

The voice of "one price, three gifts" echoed emptyly, layered in Shang Jianyao's ears.

Shang Jianyao stared at the scene for nearly ten seconds and uttered four words:

"The Hall of Stars..."

He didn't say anything anymore, and passed the blurry figure, arrived at the innermost part of the hall, and stopped in front of the heavy gray-white stone door.
Chapter completed!