Chapter 1158: Chapter 1159: We’re Rich Now
Wen Wen dismembered a charred little beast, found some perfectly cooked meat and ate it, then looked at the blazing mountain fire with delight on his face.
"Wow, truly spectacular."
The burning forest, dyeing the sky red, flames whipped up by the wind forming into a fire tornado, this kind of apocalyptic scene is something even movies struggle to capture.
Delia stood before the flames, arms spread wide, seemingly embracing the fire, her expression somewhat terrifying.
"No wonder they say girls change a lot during adolescence; this eco-warrior girl disappeared for a while, and now she’s turned into a darkly morbid girl."
As the fire spread, there was no longer any untouched land in the entire dreamscape, with Wen Wen’s location being the last peaceful spot.
Delia’s body began to blur, then vanished from Wen Wen’s sight.
When the flames were about to reach Wen Wen, they too disappeared one by one, the burning forest segmenting into countless head-sized blocks, which quickly folded and merged before disappearing altogether.
And as Wen Wen regained his senses, he found himself standing on a street, belonging to another dreamscape.
As Delia’s dreamscape disappeared, Wen Wen sensed her consciousness, rising along the translucent vines, and she should be waking up normally in the outside world now.
It seems that those whose consciousness has been abducted can regain freedom by resisting their ’Hell’ and destroying the dreamscape that brings them pain.
However, without Wen Wen’s help, Delia couldn’t escape that dreamscape even if she died a hundred times.
The entire process was simple for Wen Wen to manage, but for Delia, just escaping the camp was a huge issue, and she didn’t have the ability to ignite fires, so during the fire-setting process, she couldn’t evade the natives’ pursuit.
That mysterious deity seemed to have left a way out for Delia, but in reality, that path was completely unpassable.
Additionally, after rescuing Delia, Wen Wen discovered that some of his abilities were restored.
This portion of ability belonged to the ’Crooked Dragon’s’ keyboard warrior power, although greatly reduced, at least Wen Wen was now a superpower user and didn’t have to painfully learn from Master Ye to ’fight ten people’ anymore.
"Let’s see what this dreamscape is like. Once I break this one, I should regain some more power."
Through observation, Wen Wen identified the biggest anomaly in this dreamscape.
That is, in this dreamscape, there are only two types of people.
One is young women in their twenties, with only a few being truly beautiful, and most being somewhat unsightly.
The other type is middle-aged women aged forty to fifty, whose expressions were mostly fierce, instilling fear at a glance.
Based on the experience from the last dreamscape, these guys should be the NPCs here, so finding something that stands out from them would be key.
After searching for a while, Wen Wen found a family of three.
This was the only complete family he found.
There was a gentle and kind mother, a beautiful and obedient sister, and a man with a forlorn and wretched appearance.
If Wen Wen guessed right, this wretched man should be the protagonist of this dreamscape.
"In this dreamscape, I have some freedom. I’ll observe first and find the commonality between the two dreamscapes, then I can seize the initiative here."
Wen Wen hid in the shadows, using the Crooked Dragon’s keyboard ability, he typed a sentence.
"I am a spider, hiding in the dark, undetected."
After typing this, Wen Wen was able to crawl around the room like a spider.
He behaved like a pervert, peeping into the life of the family of three.
After getting up in the morning, the wretched man left the house, randomly found a young woman on the street, and started flirting.
The man’s flirting skills left Wen Wen in awe; if Wen Wen knew this technique, he wouldn’t still be a virgin.
Just flirting for a morning, they were already discussing marriage, when suddenly a fierce-looking middle-aged woman appeared.
"If you want to date our daughter, that’s possible, just bring 500,000 as a dowry," the fierce middle-aged woman said gruffly.
The man’s expression changed drastically, and he immediately went home to tell his family, who took an hour to gather the money. Eventually, the beautiful and obedient sister approached her brother and said:
"Brother, our family has money now. Mom sold our house for 1.5 million, so we need to rent a place to live, and you can get married."
As the sister spoke, she wore a smile, but tears were streaming down her cheeks.
Wen Wen, observing in the dark, nearly burst out laughing, almost getting discovered by the family.
"What the heck is this plot twist? I can’t watch anymore, I feel like hitting someone."
Wen Wen was furious, but he remembered what he needed to do, forcing himself to quell the anger.
What’s more jaw-dropping to Wen Wen was that the man actually took the money to marry the woman.
The wedding only lasted a few hours, and by 10 PM, the man returned home with a flushed face, only to be stunned as everything in the house was gone.
Frantically he searched, ultimately finding the mother and daughter huddled on the streets in the darkest corner of the city.
Heartbroken, the man hadn’t even tried to remedy the situation when the midnight bell tolled.
He and his mother and sister simultaneously disappeared into the night.
Early the next morning, the man seemed to have forgotten everything from the day before, freshening up and going out to find a different girl to flirt with anew.
Wen Wen, who had been observing in the shadows, had begun to grasp the essence.
The time in this dreamscape is accelerated, resetting at midnight to make this man endure this repressed feeling endlessly.
Just witnessing it made Wen Wen want to kill someone; who knows how mixed the man’s feelings truly were.
"This place is this poor guy’s personal hell, I think I know what this dreamscape intends to do."
"Time is tight, expecting him to break this dreamscape on his own isn’t going to be easy."
Wen Wen rubbed his hands together, bought some boxing wraps, did a simple disguise, and approached the man who was nearly at his breaking point.
The man could recall every day from this period, but could only mechanically flirt, marry, and harm his family daily; each day was torture for him.
In fact, aside from his mother, every middle-aged woman in the city had been his mother-in-law...
He dreamed of escaping this endless nightmare, but with his abilities, he could not defy the rules of this world.
Just then, a man with a certain charisma found him, offering a gentle smile.
This man’s appearance made the man burst into tears; Wen Wen was the first man he’d seen here.
"Want to be a real man, want to shed the ’simp’ label? Come learn from me, I’ll teach you how to be a ’Male Fist Fighter’!"
In Wen Wen’s eyes, it seemed as if flames burned, immediately captivating this little moth of a man.