The real world, above the city.

Tracing the moon, a dark red vortex appeared out of thin air, a pair of scarlet eyes opened in the darkness of the whirlpool, black shadows flashed out of the whirlpool, fingers trembled rhythmically, exuding a murderous aura in the dark and silent air.

"Take first, take what I deserve!" his voice seemed to tremble a little as he spoke, and under his trembling fingers, an iron abacus flashed out, and this black figure was the iron beak.

And then, then...... The direction of the rat's lead, ahahahaha, should be ...... There is also a spirit that has just awakened. As he spoke, the iron abacus snapped at itself, as if calculating something, and after a moment it spun and pointed in one direction. The iron beak covers his face, trying to hide the ugliness distorted by greed.

"It's all mine...... After digesting these Jue, my strength will be able to surpass Xuan Ji and become the strongest apostle of the Youbu. It's uncomfortably tight to be held down by a newcomer......" He let go of his hand and began to laugh wildly, a violent aura bursting out of his body, and then frozen by the cold emanating from his body.

The iron beak followed the direction calculated by the abacus and flew into the clouds and disappeared.

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Qingtong Lingyu space, dark labyrinth.

"Zero is the enchantment that a powerful spirit needs to open when it descends on the meat cage realm, which can slow down and stop everything about space and even time in the meat cage realm. Xiao Hei said.

"Does this change the density of water molecules in the air and the law of condensation temperature?" Qingtong asked curiously.

"Yes, we need to take something away from the meat cage realm, but we don't want to cause chaos. Therefore, Menghuang set up the rule that whoever enters the meat cage realm must first open [Zero]. These days, Qingtong is desperately trying to understand all kinds of things that Xiao Hei taught him, and Xiao Hei is also tireless to help him peel off the cocoon.

Qingtong is also angry, and his learning speed is amazing, and three days after Xiao Hei's death warning to Qingtong, he has already entered zero. Although the effect can only achieve a delay time rather than freezing, it is a qualitative leap, everything is always difficult at the beginning, and getting started means that you are on the right track, if you have the right qualifications and practice hard, the strength of the effect can naturally increase exponentially.

If Qingtong is inherited from his father and is a genius who has not been met in a hundred years, it can be counted within the scope of Xiao Hei's understanding, but she couldn't figure it out of that battle ten years ago, when she was seriously injured.

And there is another thing that Xiao Hei cares about, since the battle of the rat beast tusks, the ability of the root seems to be more than simply parasitic in the body of Qingtong, but more inclined to ...... Devoured.

Powerful spirits devour weak spirits, and it is not uncommon for the weak to eat the strong. However, after the general spirit is devoured, it only absorbs and fills the energy of the devourer, and does not affect the ability of the devourer. If you follow the metaphor of Qingtong, that is, eating bird meat can only increase nutrition, and it cannot also learn to fly.

If you want to forcibly obtain the ability of the Devoured Spirit, you must also attach the secret technique of Devouring Power. But the facts in front of him proved that Qingtong could not have any devouring secret technique, eating bird meat not only increased nutrition but also ...... Learned to fly.

As for the "Antelope Wooden Feet", it was Qingtong's own trick, which surprised Xiao Hei.

In order to run faster, he tried to change the shape of his legs with the spiritual power of the root's wood, and when he just succeeded, he ran a long distance excitedly. However, with an entry-level [Zero] that slows down the speed of shadows, although there is a breakthrough in the territory of the maze, it still can't run into the center of the tortuous and complex maze in this spirit jade.

"After awakening, the basic move [Zero] has been learned, and if it were an ordinary spirit wanderer, it should have awakened a long time ago. Xiao Hei looked at the child in front of him, and there were more puzzles and doubts in his eyes.

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Real world, loft on the edge of the city.

The absurdity of this world is that people sometimes get to the bottom of things and explain things that don't need to be explained so seriously. Like why people suddenly lose their souls in their dreams and become a corpse.

More and more clearly, she can feel all the life in the city, the hustle and bustle, the struggle, the passing, the rebirth......

She opened the note in her hand and looked at it, it was given to her by a boy in a dream yesterday, will he still come today?

There was a light rain in the city, and she looked very gentle in the alleys, she loved the world, and if she was healthy, she would definitely go out for a walk. She was lying on her side by the attic window, and when she was drowsy she heard the sound of her nails rubbing against the glass, and she woke up from her slumber to a wet black cat, meowing and meowing.

She shuddered and got up and opened the window.

"Hey. A boy's head poked out from the feet of the black cat. "You don't seem to hear the knock for a long time, so you can only climb up, don't mind"

"Y-you?" she stood by the window and looked at the boy in front of her, feeling a little frightened but familiar. This sixth-floor attic, how can ordinary people climb up.

"Yo, friend!" said the boy as he crawled into the house. She was shocked and more conscious.

"Didn't you see it in your dreams, and it was only ...... that you finally found the entrance and ran in," the boy frowned slightly as he spoke, and the rain on his body instantly turned into ice beads, shaking and falling clean. The black cat jumped on his shoulder, and he smiled and stretched out his hand to her: "Hello, I'm Qingtong." There are still a lot of things you don't understand about the recent situation. I can tell you about it. After speaking, he smiled childishly.

She trembled slightly, and reached out to hold Qingtong Liangliang's hand: "My name is ...... Lotus. She burst into tears. The boy had truly ignited her hopes, and her unspeakable pain seemed to find an outlet, and a thousand words condensed together and welled up in her throat, but a mouth actually cried.

"Don't cry, there's not so much time to be sad. The black cat who suddenly spoke choked her, and the black cat raised its paws and swiped lightly in the air, and the air seemed to ripple.

Before Lian could be stunned, she felt a wave of sleepiness sweeping over her. The scene was like a ridiculous dream, in which the boy in the dream, the black cat talking, and everything around him were now distorted and rippled......

"Sleep, kids. You're really running out of time. Xiao Hei looked at the two children whose hands were still clasped together and didn't have time to let go. A kind of pity suddenly rose in my heart: "Is it really good for you to be so young to guide you to that world like this?"

She looked up at the black starry sky and thought: "Any world is balanced, and only in this way can it function normally, there are joys and sorrows, good and evil." The Dream Wilderness contains any extreme thing, power, goodness, and evil, and all the ultimate beliefs, which is not the Pure Land of Bliss as the Meat Cage Realm says, but perhaps more like hell......"

Xiao Hei read words, like telling a bedtime story to a child.

"The people who got there were written about their fate from the beginning. ”

Xiao Hei suddenly remembered Qingtong's determined expression: "I won't change my original intention, anyway, I'm going to find my father." ”

"In this meat cage world, do you have the right to choose your own destiny? or ...... No matter which direction you struggle, you will swim to the same fate?" thought to Black. Then she closed her eyes and curled up beside Qingtong.

A meteor flashed in the distant sky, and a huge figure slid across the sky.

"The speed of time in this meat cage realm is ten times that of the dream desolation realm. The time it took from the discovery of the anomaly to the time it came ......," the abacus hovering beside him calculated rapidly.

"The time it takes to collect Jue...... plus the time spent flying to the area where the rats are responsible......"

"It should be the seventh day of this meat cage. The abacus crackled, and a result was obtained, and a huge figure fell to the top of a building.

"Enough stuff...... It's time to get some work. He closed his eyes, as if he had changed his personality, and he was very calm.

"This must be the neighborhood where the fangy idiot disappeared. "His abacus snapped and automated, and it seemed to be able to calculate anything, past and present. Iron Beak gestured with his hand in the air: "This spirit silk fluctuates...... It's his beast, he's flown over here......"

"Yes, that's the direction. He jumped high and pierced through the clouds.

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Lotus Lingyu space, sleeping forest.

"When the aura is full enough, it will condense into a spirit jade, and the richness of the spirit jade will completely overflow the body as a container, allowing the body to die naturally as if it had completed its task. The black cat said as she paced, and Lian's eyes were full of confusion.

This is the same as when the chick in the egg is strong enough, the eggshell has completed its mission and lost its meaning of existence. Qingtong interjected, and at this time Lian seemed to understand and nodded.

"So my body reacts like this, because my ideology has exceeded the dominance of my body?" Lian asked rhetorically, Xiao Hei nodded, she seemed to penetrate Lian's next question.

"And the mission of the apostle is to take your spirit jade and bring it to the dream desolation realm. It is then injected into a more resilient container. The black cat continued.

"Shall we ...... Can you come back?" asked Lian. Naturally, there are people in this world who are concerned about them. Her first thought was how long it would be if it had to be a parting.

"Come back?" Xiao Hei said coldly, "That world is much crueler than you think. Being brought by the apostles has only two consequences: being eaten and swallowed by other spirits as nutrients, or ...... Planted with the soul mark of a powerful spirit, blessed to survive, but to be dominated by man for a lifetime......"

"They forcibly cut you off from this world and make you a fish or a slave to the other world, and they call it extradition. Xiao Hei's words sent chills down his spine.

Xiao Hei saw that the two of them were frightened, and cleared his throat. "Maybe it's not that exaggerated, there are pros and cons. The two breathed a sigh of relief.

"To be more detailed, the spirit jade was withdrawn from the body and was extradited to the dream desolation realm in the form of an object by the apostles, and in order to stabilize their own power and longer-term plans, most powerful spirits would choose to plant soul marks on the spirit jade. This soul mark carries the breath of a powerful spirit, and even the lowest-level [spores] without wisdom will rely on their beast instincts to avoid the breath of the strong in order to survive longer. ”

Xiao Hei was silent for a moment and then said, "There is an essential difference in intensity. However, the strength of the body refined by the Dream Desolation Realm and the body of the Meat Cage Realm is not the proportional relationship that you can imagine. ”

Xiao Hei pointed to a ten-meter-high hillside on the opposite side and looked at Qingtong: "When you first encountered the rat beast tusks, the concrete bomb could turn this hillside into ashes, but the actual result was only to damage the fangy fur ......" Xiao Hei turned his face: "Although the beast body is hard, and it depends on the specific level, there will not be such an exaggerated difference in strength." ”

"Is it the relationship between soil and steel?" Qingtong estimated and tried to come up with an image concept.

"Uh...... If I had to compare, it would probably be soaked paper and refined steel. Xiao Hei replied after a moment's thought.

Qingtong and Lian's eyes widened in surprise, they didn't expect that people in the real world were so fragile. Think about it, too, as a container for the spirit, of course, it must be strengthened because of the increase of the spirit, otherwise the spirit will overflow, just like the current situation of the lotus.

Xiao Hei told Qingtong and Lotus about the transformation and dependence between the spirit and the body, and also solved Lotus's doubts these days by the way.

Regarding the basic information related to the dream famine, Xiao Hei directly copied Qingtong's memory and implanted it in Lian's subconscious, and after Qingtong's rough words, Lian quickly understood in his heart.

"Can I get out of this situation?" said Lian, thinking about herself when she woke up, she would have a hard time walking.

"If the strength of the physical body after awakening cannot keep up with the strength of the spiritual power after the growth of spiritual power, there will be symptoms of physical discomfort. If the difference is too great, it will even produce what you call out-of-body conditioning, in which case the physical body will really die. Blackie replied.

"Is there no other way?" Qingtong understood very well that not everyone longed for the new world as much as he did, so he asked Banglian.

"I heard that there are also many [marginal people] in the meat cage world who can find a way to coexist with the spirits and the body: strengthen the body, or seal the spiritual power to make it balanced. Xiao Hei said.

Lian's eyes flashed at this time, and she saw a new hope.

"It doesn't matter for the time being, let's find a way to survive the catastrophe in the near future, pessimistically...... Perhaps there is no need to think about a future that may not be achieved. Xiao Hei's eyes flashed, and he thought silently in his heart, but he didn't say it.