"Sweet Dreams...... Nightmare ......"

Mu You frowned.

Generally speaking, this kind of fixed drop is the same principle as the dark powder in the dark cave before, and the bitter pollen in the bitter forest, the reason why it can explode from the monster's body is because the surrounding environment is filled with a large amount of this substance.

"So what does the environment have to do with dreaming?" Mu You groaned secretly, but he couldn't come to any conclusion for a while.

Then everyone continued to explore separately.

【…… You vaguely feel a little heavy in your body, as if you are carrying a sponge soaked in water, and your every move becomes difficult. 】

[You open your sleeves and take a look, only to find that some green spots have appeared on your skin, like moss, which are quietly spreading......]

[You try to remove these spots, but you find that the spots seem to grow inside your skin and cannot be eradicated......]

[Under the influence of this unknown spot, you feel that your body is getting heavier and heavier, and your movement speed is getting slower and slower......]

This 'spot', and the green algae that was impregnated with the fog-breaking mirror just now, seems to be the same thing.

Mu You didn't expect that this thing would not only affect props, but also affect people.

Looking at the group, everyone else was experiencing similar problems at this time.

"Nima, this place is really evil, and I'm going to rust!"

"Me ...... too"

"Could it be that the air in this place is poisonous? If you smoke too much, you will grow spores or something......"

"So what happens in the end? Shouldn't you be wrapped in mold all over your body and turn into a vegetative person, right? ”

"I don't know ......"

……

A few people complained, but it didn't affect the progress at all.

This spot looks a little weird, but it didn't have much impact at first, but the speed slowed down a bit, and everyone didn't take it too seriously and continued to explore.

[As you move forward, you suddenly feel like you've hit a boulder!] 】

[You reach out and grope for it, but you find that this stone is angular and has a very regular shape. You grope around and find that the stone statue has horns on its head and wings on its back, and it seems to be a statue of some kind of monster. 】

[You vaguely heard movement from inside the stone statue, put your ear on the stone statue, and quickly confirmed that it was the sound of a heartbeat! 】

[Inside this stone carving, it seems that there is a living creature sealed! ...... you choose]

[You tried to attack the stone carving, but all of your attacks sank into the sea when it touched the surface of the stone carving, and did not cause any damage to the stone carving......]

Not being able to see the real thing is the most fatal thing in this regard, and it is impossible to confirm what the situation is when something strange happens.

Next, Mu You tried to give this stone sculpture a wind burial cannon, but the stone statue was actually safe and sound under the power of the wind burial cannon!

This time Mu You is also out of the way, this stone statue seems to be really invincible, after going back to time, I have to bypass here first and continue to explore forward.

For the next hour, the group spent the next hour carefully fumbling around.

Mu You has a pocket watch, and he can be bolder than others when he acts, so he explores the farthest distance and encounters the most things on the way.

Except for those dead things that were obviously trees, earth and stones, he encountered a total of eleven monsters along the way, three of which were the same as the stone statues just now, unable to move, but under the protection of the stone layer, they were in an invincible state.

In addition, there were two moving monsters, which seemed to be sleepwalking in a daze, and Mu You attacked them when they saw them, but they did not have the slightest intention of fighting back, and they were still wandering on their own until Mu You killed them.

In addition, he encountered a monster that was standing still, but it was not petrified and seemed to be just standing and sleeping.

Mu You thought that this was the same as the two sleepwalking monsters, and they could attack casually, but after he really made a move, he found that as soon as this monster was attacked, he immediately woke up and began to fight back.

The last five remaining are monsters in normal action.

Except for the three petrified monsters, the other monsters were all killed by Mu Gu, and finally obtained five nightmare powder and three dream powder.

【…… As time goes on, your body gets heavier and heavier......]

[You open your sleeve to check, and find that the dark green spots have spread almost all over your body......]

[You faintly feel a wave of sleepiness coming over you, making you drowsy. ...... you choose]

[Find a place to sleep], [Rely on willpower to support]

Of the two options, Mu You chose the second one. It always feels very unsafe to sleep here, especially when he thinks of the monsters he just met, which makes him a little worried, maybe they will become like that when they fall asleep, right?

[You rely on willpower to force yourself to stay awake and move on...... However, sleepiness is still pouring in, and you know in your heart that willpower alone may not be able to sustain it for too long......]

Mu You took the time to look at the group, and sure enough, there was also a wail in the group.

"It's over, my character is asleep on the spot!"

"Me ...... too"

"I'm still holding on, but I guess it's about the same......"

"Something is really wrong with this place, it seems that if you stay here for a long time, everyone will be forced to sleep."

"Wait a minute...... When we fall asleep, we won't wake up at all, right? ”

"Don't worry, some of my subordinates have already fallen asleep and were bitten to death by monsters and returned to the city, proving that at least they can go back......"

"What if the monster never finds it? Wouldn't you be stuck here all the time? ”

"This ......"

……

Mu You watched everyone's discussion and suddenly realized something.

Looking back, he had just reached the end of his game at this moment.

[Your body feels heavy and reaches its limit, as if you are carrying a mountain on your shoulders, making it difficult for you to walk......]

[Sleepiness has also reached its peak at this moment, no matter how hard you resist with willpower, you can't stop your eyelids from closing......]

[You stand still, falling into a deep ......]

"Backtrack!"

Mu You hurriedly pressed the watch, and he couldn't do anything else in just ten seconds, so he only had time to manipulate the character to swallow a sweet dream powder.

[Time passes, before you fall asleep, you hurriedly took the sweet dream powder, imagining that you can have a good dream next......]

These two powders are only dropped by the monsters here, and they can't be completely useless.

Combined with the three monsters in different states encountered before, one sleepwalking, one petrified, and one sleeping on the spot, Mu You guessed whether he would take some kind of powder, which corresponded to the above state.

As for whether it actually works, Mu You is not clear, after falling asleep, the text will no longer pop up in the game, and at this time, unless someone else is around him, it is possible to find out his state.

After falling asleep on his side, Mu You announced his guess in the group.

The others also bought some powder more or less along the way, and when they heard him say it at this moment, they hurriedly tried it.

"Huh? It seems to work! One of my subordinates said that after I took the Dream Powder, I entered a petrified state......"

"The petrified state seems invincible, right? Is it that after falling asleep, you don't have to be afraid of being attacked? ”

"I'm rubbing, this thing is so useful? Say it sooner......"

"By the way, what's the use of nightmare powder?"

"It's not clear, someone on my side swallowed nightmare powder and fell asleep directly on the spot, and there is no petrified layer to protect ......"

……

A group of people talked about it, but they couldn't get any results out of the discussion for a while.

Mu You saw that the game characters would not wake up for a while, so he simply put down his mobile phone, took out the oil lamp, rubbed the lamp god, and prepared to consult the aborigines directly.

"What's wrong again?" The lantern god was quickly summoned with a sleepy face.

Mu You briefly described the situation encountered in the game to him.

"Dream pink, green spots...... Are you sure that killing monsters has exploded into sweet dream fans? Hearing this, the lamp god suddenly came to his senses.

"yes." Mu You looked at the lamp god, his reaction obviously knew something.

The lamp god didn't speak, but looked at him with an extremely strange face, and stared at him for a while before he spoke: "I really don't know if you should say that you have a bad luck constitution or a lucky constitution......

"How?"

"The vision fails, and the scenery you see is all mirages, which is a typical feature of the mirage season!" Said the lamp god.

"Mirage season?" Mu You was stunned. He remembered that the Lantern God had explained to him the situation of the four natural calamity beasts: the Flame Ox, the Snake, the Mirage, and the Desolate Crow, which corresponded to the Scorching Season, the Fear Season, the Mirage Season, and the Desolation Season, respectively.

After the season of fear, it is the season of mirage.

"You're saying that it's mirage season now, and the entire real world has been shrouded in mirage?" Mu You asked.

"No, it's not that serious." The Lamp God shook his head: "Even if it is a natural calamity beast, it is impossible to affect the entire world, at most, it can only make the area where it is located fall into the corresponding natural calamity." ”

"Another ......"

The god of the lamp pondered for a moment, and then said: "According to the calculation of time, now is the time when the two seasons meet, in fact, it has not completely escaped from the end of the fear season, and the mirage has not completely entered the strong period, so it is said that it will not be in a hurry to start wandering the mainland......"

"What do you mean......" Mu You had already vaguely guessed what he was going to say.

"I reckon you've strayed into the mirage's sleeping place!" Said the lamp god.

"Sure enough......"

Mu You sighed.

In this way, it would explain why neither the big octopus nor the giant dared to pass through the dark whirlpool at the bottom of the sea: because there was an even more ruthless thing living on the other side!

If the nine-star giant is the younger brother in front of the big octopus, then the octopus monster is the younger brother in front of the legendary natural disaster beast.

At the beginning, a snake that was sealed by the Sealed Spear had spent four thousand years of their planning, and the mechanism was exhausted, so they barely imprisoned a part of the opponent's consciousness.

And as a 'mirage' of the same level as the snake, and it is a complete body, there is no need to say much about the strength. It is normal for the octopus monster not to dare to mess with it, and the reason why it does not dare to let any creature go over is precisely because it is afraid that the mirage will discover the existence of the teleportation vortex.

Once the mirage tapir is lured to the side of the whirlpool, the big octopus is dead.

After confirming that what he was going to face was a mirage, Mu You was a little relieved, and hurriedly asked the lamp god for the precautions of the mirage season.

"In the mirage season, there are three main characteristics: 1. All props will be polluted by the mirage and become unusable."

"2, a large area of space around the mirage will fall into a mirage, and the vision of all creatures will be misled by the scene projected by the mirage."

"3. All living beings suck mirage, and they will be forced to fall asleep every once in a while, and when they wake up, the mirage in their bodies will be temporarily emptied, and then continue to enter the next round of sleep-wake cycle."

"And the mirage tapir also absorbs the dreams of the sleeping creatures around it as its own food and nourishment, whether it is a nightmare or a sweet dream, it is what it needs, the more exciting the dream, the better, but it is a plain dream, which does not help it much."

"However, the vast majority of creatures dream, more than 80% of them are bland dreams, and the proportion of real dreams or nightmares is very small, therefore, in order to stimulate the surrounding creatures to steadily output high-quality dreams, the mirage will produce two kinds of things, dream powder and nightmare powder, as long as you kill any creature in the mirage, you can get one of the powders, and abide by the rules of the mirage, the creatures that eat these two powders will also be protected to a certain extent after falling asleep."

"For example, if you eat sweet dream powder, when you have a sweet dream, a special petrified layer will appear around your body to protect the creature from harm. Eating Nightmare Powder will not produce a protective layer, but the nightmare creature will become extremely sensitive and will wake up when it encounters a slightly more severe attack. ”

"And if you don't eat either powder, you go straight into a deep sleep, and unfortunately you have a dull dream, you will enter a state of sleepwalking, sleepwalking in a mirage that never stops, and even if you are attacked, you can't wake up until you are ......killed by other creatures," the lamp god explained, recalling.

Mu You heard this, but suddenly interrupted him.

"Wait, you just said that the scene you saw in the mirage is a mirage?"

"yes, what?" The god of lights looked at Mu You.

"Does that mean that these scenes are real?" Mu You asked.

The mirage is not an illusory scene fabricated out of thin air, but only a scene from a certain location in the distance, through the refraction of various rays, to another place.

"Of course!" The lamp god nodded: "And the scenes projected by the mirage are all real-time scenes within the shroud of the mirage, but the order is just disrupted." ”

Really!

Mu You's eyes lit up.

This meant that the ruins of the ancient city he had seen earlier, as well as the soul-attracting lamp, were real, and somewhere near them.

The lamp god then added: "Oh, by the way, if you are already in a mirage, you can find the moist land nearby. ”

"Within the mirage shrouded and under enough moist soil, there is a chance to grow an egg called a 'Dream Breaker Beetle', find this egg, kill it before it hatches, you can get a kind of 'Dream Breaker Light Ball', the light emitted by this light ball can temporarily dispel the surrounding mirage illusion, allowing you to see the real scene."

"Oh?" Mu You is happy, there is actually such a special creature! If they can illuminate the real scene, even if the range is small, it is enough to greatly speed up their land reclamation.

"However, this light ball has a very short shelf life, and it can only last for five to ten minutes of light before it will rot. In addition, where there are eggs, there are often a large number of Dream Breaker beetles that have hatched, and when they steal the eggs, they will be attacked by these things. The god of lights added.

"Although the strength of this kind of gadget is not strong, their vision is normal, rushing over in groups, and it is easy to be hit if you don't pay attention!"

(End of chapter)