Chapter 21 The Nightmare

The silent night saw the farm's castle cloaked in peaceful slumber, everyone adrift in their dreams, save for Professor Nan, who was still working late into the night.

Qin Yiming smacked his lips, muttering in his sleep, "Tang Su, you never saw it coming, hahaha... I am the Saiyan prince! My home planet is calling me, my bloodline is awakening, I will soon be invincible!"

As Qin Yiming spoke in his dreams, he gesticulated wildly, as if practicing Kamehameha in his sleep...

Ding Lu slept soundly, without a single movement, his body ramrod straight, lying flat on the bed like a peaceful corpse.

Lu Chi's sleeping posture was strange. His bed was pressed against the wall, and he was curled up with his back to the wall, face towards the door, a large-caliber pistol placed beside his pillow. Even in his sleep, his muscles seemed tense, his entire body like a fully drawn bow, ready to strike at any moment.

A person's sleeping state is an unconscious exposure, revealing their true personality, completely devoid of any pretense.

The sleeping postures of the three young men on the farm revealed that they were three completely different people.

And at this very moment, Li Tianran was also experiencing a dream.

He stood in a desolate mountain range, here at the border of the Yanhuang Federation. He saw soldiers in Yanhuang military uniforms crossing the mountains, stepping into territory not belonging to Yanhuang.

Suddenly, he saw a familiar figure among the ranks of soldiers.

"Yuan Wen..." Li Tianran was excited, he shouted her name loudly, but she seemed unable to hear him, continuing forward.

It was then that Li Tianran realized he could see all the scenes before him clearly, yet he could not participate in them, unable to change the progress of the scene.

Helpless, he could only calmly watch the team moving forward, and even in just calmly watching, there was a strange, majestic beauty.

Suddenly, warplanes rose in the distance, and tanks appeared on the distant horizon. Shells rained down like drops of water, falling into the ranks of soldiers. In an instant, all the beauty was reduced to shattered phantoms, flesh and blood flew, and the overwhelming smoke and deafening roars became the eternal theme of the scene.

"Yuan Wen! Yuan Wen!" Li Tianran was stunned, then desperately ran forward, roaring, but unable to find Yuan Wen in the chaos.

Just then, a corpse fell at Li Tianran's feet. The figure was very familiar, and Li Tianran felt his whole body stiffen. Someone roared beside him, turning the corpse over, and a face covered in charred blood appeared before Li Tianran.

Li Tianran strained his neck to look. The person was about to reach out to wipe the dust and blood from the corpse's face, revealing its original appearance, but he could never see clearly.

He felt increasingly agitated, a fire burning incessantly in his heart. He roared...

And then woke up on his bed in his room.

Darkness filled his vision.

Li Tianran breathed rapidly. He stared blankly at the ceiling for a full thirty seconds before slowly sitting up in bed, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Damn it... why would I have such a nightmare?" Li Tianran cursed softly. Since becoming an Evolver, his sleep quality had been excellent, and he hadn't dreamed in a long time.

He didn't take it to heart, just thinking he was a bit tired from being too busy lately.

He got out of bed, intending to go to the bathroom.

But just then, he heard a mumbling sound coming from Hanhan's room, separated from his by only a wall.

"Sister Yuan Wen... I can't find you. Where are you? There are corpses everywhere..."

Li Tianran stood at the door of Hanhan's room, his gaze gradually becoming horrified.

He gently pushed open Hanhan's door. By the light of the small bedside lamp, he saw that Hanhan, still asleep, had cold sweat on her forehead and a trace of sorrow and fear on her face.

Li Tianran didn't know what expression he had worn in his sleep, but he guessed... it must have been similar to Hanhan's at this moment!

"How could this happen? Did we both dream of Yuan Wen at the same time?" Li Tianran frowned. He quietly sat beside Hanhan's bed, silent for a long time, then lay down, grasped Hanhan's small hand, and forced himself to fall asleep again.

Soon, Li Tianran fell asleep again.

To his utter shock, when he entered the dream again, he saw... the same battlefield he had seen before!

And this time, the scene he saw was clearer, and the feeling was more real!

Dreams, according to scientific explanation, occur when a person falls asleep, but the cerebral cortex does not. It combines some chaotic images and plays them in the human brain as short-term memories. Dreams are usually incoherent, illogical, and unreal. The scene of a dream may change dramatically in a matter of seconds.

Many male friends know that if they are lucky enough to have a "lustful dream" during puberty but are awakened by the urge to urinate, it is impossible to resume that beautiful dream.

But Li Tianran did resume it, and not only that, but many of the details in the dream were incredibly real!

Li Tianran looked at the battlefield before him, filled with artillery fire. His consciousness was very clear that he was in a dream. He thought of a terrifying idea.

Hanhan might not have been having the same dream as him.

Because he and Hanhan were close, he was affected by Hanhan's brain waves, and the scenes in Hanhan's dream appeared in his consciousness!

This dream was not his, it was Hanhan's!

When he realized this, he began to search for Yuan Wen and Hanhan in the dream, but he only saw the wreckage all over the ground. The blood and corpses were lying at his feet, and he could even feel the temperature of the corpses gradually disappearing.

He didn't know how long had passed, but the battlefield gradually calmed down, and the enemy was finally defeated.

The soldiers in Yanhuang military uniforms gathered again.

And in this reassembled team, Li Tianran did not see Yuan Wen.

He stood alone in place, and then seemed to feel a burst of extreme cold envelop him. He saw the scene before him shattering, and then he seemed to fall into a huge vortex...

"Huff!"

Li Tianran sat up from Hanhan's bed. He woke up again, looked out the window, and saw that the sky was already bright.

Tears still lingered in the corners of Hanhan's eyes.

The tablet computer on the bedside table popped up with several forum news items.

The headline of the top news item was extremely eye-catching.

"The Yanhuang Federation's Western Xinjiang Military Region has confirmed the dispatch of peacekeeping forces to enter the Kekhanate to help quell the internal wars. This is the first time since the world's changes that the Yanhuang Federation has proactively and accurately stated its position and attitude, willing to exchange a war for lasting peace..."

Li Tianran looked at the headline, his pupils suddenly shrinking, then shrinking again...