In this desolate and barren land, Lu Lie has been walking for a long, long time.

He forgot when his surroundings had become like this, and when he had left the forest and ended up in the wasteland.

In the beginning, he would also remember roughly the direction of his hometown and how far he had come. But over time, he gradually forgot all about it.

Time, space, almost lost its meaning to him.

During this process, he did not eat, nor rested, and closed his eyes.

On the first day, the first night, and the second day, he gradually felt tired, thirsty, and so sleepy that he could barely take the next step. But strangely, when the third day, the third night, or the fourth day passed, who cared about these things, he suddenly forgot his hunger, thirst, and fatigue. Like the walking dead, wander through this boundless land.

If it weren't for Lu Lie, he could still feel his breath and his heartbeat. He almost thought he had been reincarnated as a resident of Yellow Springs.

Who knows, if it's like what Li Yuan said, everything in life is an illusion. Then the words of death should also be the last illusion for him.

Lu Lie once thought that he would be trapped on this land forever, with no end in sight. But on the fifteenth (or sixteenth) day, everything changed mysteriously and wonderfully.

At the end of the horizon, at the end of the night sky, the ink, which should have been forever dark and unreachable, suddenly emitted a colorful light. A crack appeared in the sky, and the world, which had been originally connected, was suddenly split in half.

Lu Lie stared blankly at the colors outside the sky, and forgot to move forward for a while.

He thought he had come to the edge of the world.

"Yes, that's the world border. ”

A figure, on the other side of the mountain, was already waiting for him.

It was Li Yuan.

This guy is almost everywhere and everywhere. And looking at his appearance at the moment, it seems that the last time they met in the cowshed, the punch that Lu Lie gave him in the mouth had almost no effect on him. At this moment, he was neatly dressed and personable, and when he opened his mouth, there was no damage to his neat row of teeth.

"Where the hell is this? Who are you? You're not Li Yuan at all!" Lu Lie roared. He rushed towards Li Yuan, trying to catch him. But no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't reach Li Yuan. In front of him, Li was as far away as the moon in the water, but it was also as far away as the stars in the sky.

Li Yuan looked at him with pitiful eyes: "I already told you." There is no difference between illusion and reality. You can think of it as the real world, or you can think of it as an illusion. You made your wish in front of the Wishing Machine. You deserve it, and I've done what you want.

"You're tired, I want you to rest quietly here. You're not like me, you didn't belong here, you shouldn't have climbed this giant tree in the first place. ”

Lu Lie's face distorted, and he roared at Li Yuan in an extremely resentful tone: "So, this is the reason why you deprived me of the real world, and this is the reason why you dragged me into the illusion world!"

Li Yuan repeated again: "This is not an illusion, but the real world. How dare you say that your world on the giant tree is absolutely real?"

"Reality?hallucination?" A sneer distorted by anger appeared at the corner of Lu Lie's mouth, he pointed to the aurora in the distance, and said, "Look at the world you have created! It even has a boundary! What is beyond the boundary? Doesn't this constitute evidence that this world is artificially created! I have found it, this world is an absolute evidence of disguise, you can't fool me!"

Li Yuan burst out laughing. In an instant, the gods and Buddhas in the sky all burst into laughter. It was as if Lu Lie had told some ridiculous and childish joke. The laughter was so deafening that it made Lu Lie's fragile eardrums tremble. For a moment, Lu Lie almost thought he was going to be deaf, and he squatted on the ground in pain, covering his ears and trembling.

Thankfully, the laughter stopped.

"Boundary?" Li Yuan looked at the countless fireflies coming in and out of the spatial cracks, and said with a childlike smile, "Yes." This world is not perfect, it was born in too short a time, so there are boundaries...... But so what? The world of the giant tree you live in has no boundaries? The Milky Way is expanding and swallowing up other galaxies, the universe is expanding and swallowing up other universes, and dark matter is increasing in value and assimilating everything in the domain. The reason why you can't see the boundary of that world is because it's so big that the creatures living in it can't even feel the existence of the boundary! The only difference between the two is the difference between the big world and the small world, and how dare you say that everything in this world is not your illusion!

"I'll show you. Proof of the interdependence and intertwining of dreams and reality. ”

The Li Yuan in Lu Lie's eyes grew bigger and bigger, higher and higher, and finally his neck poked into the sky, raised a foot, and made a loud rumbling sound when he was on the ground. The earth began to tremble, and the cracks in the sky cracked even more. Lu Lie reacted at this time, turned around and tried to escape. But when he raised his head, he found that his sky was obscured by Li Yuan's overwhelming soles.

......

Lu Lie woke up from his nightmare again.

He slept on a haystack in the middle of a humble wooden hut, surrounded by only silence and sunlight outside the holes in the walls. There is no Li Yuan, there is no Su Wen, there is no deafening laughter in the dream, there is no boundary of the world......

"This ...... What's going on?"

It's not a good feeling to be alive and well. Lu Lie was sweating profusely, looking at his ten fingers soaked in sweat. All of a sudden, every inch of muscle in his body trembled slightly, as if he was in another world.

"Yes...... Is it a dream?"

"Luckily...... Just a dream. ”

As soon as he thought of that giant-like monster and the momentum that destroyed everything, Lu Lie was terrified from his heart.

It's just that...... This dream is all too real. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Lie happened to wake up from his dream at the last moment, he even suspected that he would be scared to death in his dream.

After waking up, Lu Lei's limbs were still weak. He barely stood up against the wall, surveying the scene around him.

It's just that a new question popped up in Lu Lie's mind.

When did you fall asleep?

In other words, what parts of my memory are dreams and which parts are reality?

Did it start by seeing the dead Su Wen himself?

Did you bring Su Wen into the village by yourself?

Did you dig up the tools to climb the tree in the back wall of the small temple?

Still, from the disappearance of Suvin, or even earlier. All the strange things I've experienced in the past few days are just a dream?

That's true...... A dream within a dream.