Volume 4: It's Dark, Please Close Your Eyes Chapter 22 Sisters Are Flying in the Sky
Tang Zheng rubbed his eyes, stood up, but when he saw the world in front of him, he froze in place.
In the azure blue sky, huge white airships occasionally flew by. On the ground was a lush green grassland with various deer and hares jumping and running around.
Not far from the grassland, there is a black iron tower towering into the sky, surrounded by gray and white castles.
And between the castle and the grassland, there were people vaguely releasing the light of skills and making all kinds of childish shouts.
This kind of beautiful, somewhat dreamy and detached world was definitely the most familiar scene in Tang Zheng's previous life.
"Xingyuan World? Assassin's Castle?" Tang Zheng couldn't help but exclaimed.
"This... what's going on? Did I travel back in time again? Or was everything I experienced in this life in Xingyao Continent just a dream?" Tang Zheng looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar world in front of him, frowned and muttered to himself.
However, he soon discovered that something was not right.
Although the Assassin's Castle in the Xingyuan World was the map he visited most frequently and was the most familiar with in his previous life, it was a low- to medium-level map after all. In the one or two months before he traveled to the Xingyao Continent, he rarely went to that area to earn gold or complete tasks.
If the time travel was just a dream, or in other words, he traveled back from Xingyao Continent, he should have returned to the place where he last landed in Xingyuan Continent, rather than this map that he was familiar with but had not visited for some time.
Thinking of this, Tang Zheng suddenly lowered his head and immediately discovered an even stranger and more bizarre place.
He was still wearing the green robe with the emblem of Yisu Academy, and Han Jiangxue and Shan Bi were hanging quietly on his waist, one on each side.
"Haha, the ancient-style equipment of the Xingyao Continent, coupled with the magical and dreamy background of the Xingyuan Continent, this style of painting... is really imaginative. So if it's not that everyone from the chief planner to the artist in the Xingyuan world has eaten too much Jinkela and become idiots, then I must be dreaming." Tang Zheng analyzed very logically.
"But... is there such a real dream? It feels the same as the first time I entered the virtual game... Never mind, I won't think too much about it. I'll wake up soon. I remember Instructor Zou said he wanted to say something to me after dinner. He seemed to have been holding it in for a long time. If I don't let him say it, he might get sick..." Thinking of this, Tang Zheng shook his head violently and shouted to himself, "Wake up!"
However, apart from the silent echoes of a few words "wake up, wake up... come, come..." on the slightly empty grassland, the world in front of Tang Zheng did not disappear, and he did not wake up in the tent as he wished.
"This dream... is a bit strange. I could actually have such an absurd dream so lucidly, and it seemed so real? It seems that I am the one who has eaten too much Jinkela..." After Tang Zheng tried classic dream-ending techniques such as slapping himself in the face, pinching his own philtrum, and banging his head against a tree, he finally found that this dream was a little weird.
"It seems that there is no way to wake up from this dream for the time being." Tang Zheng pondered for a moment, suddenly closed his eyes, and muttered to himself.
When he opened his eyes again, he found that the green robe he was originally wearing had turned into a silver-scale armor shining with silver luster, and a row of translucent interface bars appeared in front of him.
"Haha, old friends, I didn't expect that I would have the chance to see you again!" Tang Zheng couldn't help but smile knowingly as he looked at everything that changed suddenly in front of him.
"Hide, Throat Seal, Falling Spiral Stab, Dragon Spine Cross Kill..." The names of the once familiar skills were constantly roared out from Tang Zheng's mouth.
But this time, unlike the day when he first landed on the Xingyao Continent, all his skills were released smoothly, just like in the game in his previous life.
After trying out a few skills, Tang Zheng swung the Hanjiangxue and the fan dagger in his hands, and then moved again: "Opening move, Chongguan, Yuxi, Hate Extinguishment... Triple Kaio-ken!"
Then, the set of skills he learned on the Xingyao Continent was successfully released again, even more perfectly and easier than any previous time he released it.
"The world in the dream is really great... As long as you firmly believe that you can do it, then your thoughts will determine how far you can go... What a pity, why didn't I study the information on nuclear weapons in my previous life, otherwise I might have blown this weird dream to pieces." Tang Zheng smacked his lips and touched his nose, thinking.
He was now very sure that he had been pulled into a dream space, and he might not be able to wake up on his own for a while.
And no matter who let him enter this dream, it probably wasn't just to help him relive the "sweet" memories of the game in his previous life.
There will definitely be unknown dangers ahead.
This was probably the first time since Tang Zheng participated in the academy's martial arts competition that he felt things were beyond his control.
This feeling is dangerous, but also very exciting.
It made Tang Zheng regain his desire for exploration and challenges.
"No matter who you are, haha, you have found a good battle map for me... Well, before the big battle, food and supplies should be prepared first, or you should make yourself a bowl of noodles first." Tang Zheng smiled and closed his eyes again, his face completely twisted into a knot.
"Oh my god - uh, I failed again..." Tang Zheng held it in for a long time, but when he opened his eyes, the instant noodles that he expected to appear in his hand did not appear.
"It seems that I am still not relaxed enough. It is really too difficult to fool even myself... I can't convince myself that I suddenly learned such a bizarre skill of turning instant noodles with my bare hands." Tang Zheng looked at his empty hands, shook his head and sighed.
"Well, where there is a will there is a way. One, two, three, four, change your position, try it yourself, wave your hand, and there are instant noodles!" Tang Zheng was muttering the second-year secondary school lines he had just thought of, with a constipated expression on his face. He tried again as if he was performing a shaman dance.
"Uh, Master, Master, what are you doing? You had a stomach upset yesterday. Are you trying to digest the food?" A familiar child's voice suddenly pulled Tang Zheng back from his mad attempt to eat instant noodles.
Hearing this voice, Tang Zheng shuddered all over and suddenly opened his eyes. Sure enough, Xiao Lingling's innocent and cute face was right in front of him.
"I'm awake?!" Tang Zheng suddenly shouted in surprise.
"What do you mean awake? By the way, Master, this place is so strange, but it also feels so beautiful. Is this the city of the Tianqin family?" Little Bell pointed to the side, turned around, and asked with a smile.
Tang Zheng looked up when he heard that. The surrounding environment was still the dreamy and somewhat unreal map environment of the Xingyuan World. It was not as he thought. When he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in the tent.
"This..." Tang Zheng looked at the surrounding environment and the little bell in front of him, who was hard to tell whether it was real or fake. He pinched the little bell's face and suddenly asked, "Little Bell, can you fly?"
"Ah? Master, do you have a fever? Of course I can't fly..." Xiao Lingdang looked at Tang Zheng and asked in confusion.
"But, Master, let me tell you, this place is different. You couldn't fly before, but here, on this beautiful grassland you have never seen before, you can fly. Do you believe me?" Tang Zheng took out a candy from the storage bag hanging around his waist, stuffed it into Xiao Lingling's hand, and said with a "sincere" look on his face.
"Well... okay, Master, I believe you! But how can I fly? I really want to fly. I have flown in my dreams several times." Xiao Lingdang suddenly hugged Tang Zheng's thighs and said with a smile.
"Well, later I will pick you up, spin you a few times and throw you into the sky. Then you close your eyes and you will feel a pair of wings growing on your back. Then you flap these wings and you will be able to fly freely in the air." Tang Zheng said to Xiao Lingdang in a serious tone.
"Okay, then Master, please throw me into the sky." Little Bell couldn't wait to climb into Tang Zheng's arms.
Tang Zheng took a deep breath, hugged Little Bell tightly, spun around, and shouted, "Little Bell, fly!"
Then he suddenly let go of the little bell's tiny body and threw it directly into the sky.
Then Tang Zheng immediately closed his eyes: "Well, Master taught you to learn to be honest with others, so, Master just lied to you sincerely. If you can't fly, it means that you are very likely just a little bell in my dream. It won't hurt you if you fall down. It's okay. However, if you really fly..."
Having said this, the cry of pain that Tang Zheng had expected did not come. On the contrary, what came to his ears was a cry of surprise and a string of silver bell-like laughter.
Tang Zheng opened his eyes, but did not find Xiao Lingling on the ground. When he raised his head, he saw a loli who looked like an angel and an elf flying above his head.
On the back of the little girl, there actually grew a pair of delicate, butterfly-like, translucent wings with intricate patterns. The shape of the wings was dreamy and beautiful.
Moreover, Tang Zheng was completely sure that he had never seen this type of wings in his life ...
"Haha, Master, Master, you are so awesome. You can really fly here. I will come here to play in the future. It's so interesting..." The little bell was like a baby bird that had just learned to fly. It flew high and low, fast and slow, and kept circling and playing in front of Tang Zheng's eyes.
"Things have really gotten serious now... It seems like I'm not the only one trapped in the dream..." Tang Zheng was looking at the little bell flying happily in the sky, but his heart slowly sank.
