Point of difference doom

Chapter 117 116: Don’t get close to the light

Endless darkness covers the vast land, and there are whispers in the darkness.

But as a group of light appeared - all these sounds stopped for an instant.

In the darkness around him, Zhou Baiyu seemed to be able to glimpse the outlines of some houses.

But it also seems very blurry.

The light flickered on and off, and Zhou Baiyu suddenly couldn't remember how he got in.

It took him a while before he could slowly recall——

"I remembered that I seemed to have been transported to the realm of the Night Demon. But for some reason, it felt different from the previous recruitment. Is this the Land of Light? It's really dark..."

Zhou Baiyu looked around and found that the light was actually emanating from himself.

Because his skin is shiny, you can clearly see the fine lines and veins.

There was no light around him, he seemed like a firefly. It was like there was a light source hidden in his body.

The light source illuminated the surroundings, and the visibility was about three meters. This allowed Zhou Baiyu to discover a room of his own.

It's about five square meters, slightly larger than a prison cell.

He held his breath and could hear the breathing of many people around him.

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu became brighter, and the desire to save these people emerged in his heart.

In my mind, I recalled the faces of those chasing light that I saw when I was exchanging memories with Night Demon Nakan.

"Are these the people imprisoned in the Kingdom of Light?"

Zhou Baiyu could guess that as long as the darkness was dispersed, these people might be able to be saved.

Of course, this premise is to kill the king who is about to rise among the Night Demons and even surpass the Demon King level - Yong Ye.

The solution to the darkness is to use the watch on your hand to turn the night into day.

Night Stalkers are afraid of light.

Bai Ling's father's watch does not reverse night and day in a time sense, but in a visual sense.

In other words, even if there is no daylight at all in this place, only eternal night, turning the watch can still summon a wide range of daylight.

But the direction of things was a little different from Zhou Baiyu's imagination.

When Zhou Baiyu was thinking about how to respond to the call, when is the best time to use the watch, and where is he now, and where is Night Demon Yong Ye...

He subconsciously touched his wrist.

The watch is missing.

"Oops...where's my watch?"

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu suddenly realized that not only his watch, but also all the props on his body were missing.

Inventory - does not exist.

Zhou Baiyu quickly checked the status and found that the note had changed.

[Identity: Medicine boy.]

[Occupation: Stranger.]

[Status: Corruption value -9.]

[Evaluation: An unlucky guy thinks he can rely on his own accumulation to play a game where a warrior defeats a dragon. Little does he know~ when you get close to the dragon, you have been swallowed into his dream. 】

[Personal status: Guarded by the Great Forerunner Martial Guard.]

[Personal props - What are you thinking, in Yongye's dream, you can still bully him? Of course there are no props to use in the dream. I have to find a way to wake up. 】

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu was stunned on the spot.

"I'm...in someone else's dream right now?"

The god of nightmares and nothingness, under the endless night, everything falls into sleep...

Zhou Baiyu suddenly understood.

"So that's the case. No wonder the forerunners didn't come back. They neither failed nor succeeded..."

"But I was forcibly trapped in the dream of eternal night? I should not be in a dream at first, but after entering the area of ​​​​the Lightless Country, I was shrouded in night, which caused me to fall into the night devil's trick and fell into sleep.

among.”

The Night Demon clan indeed has this ability. It can make people trapped in the night enter dreams.

In the dream, the Night Demon is almost infinitely powerful.

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu suddenly felt the seriousness of the situation... The light on his body suddenly dimmed a lot.

Zhou Baiyu tried to close his eyes to calm down.

Carefully analyze your own favorable situation.

He found that although he was in the prop inventory, because he was in a dream and wearing prison uniform, all the props were disabled.

But the skill bar can be used.

"That means I can still be alienated. This means that even in a dream, I still have certain abilities that I can use."

"If we find the forerunners who were trapped here before, we might be able to come up with a solution together..."

It is difficult to defeat a night demon in the dark, and it is even more difficult to defeat a night demon in a dream.

And if that Night Demon is still the most likely to become the Eighth Demon Emperor, and even under the influence of the treasures of the gods... activates the divine right to become the God of Nightmares and Nothingness, then the difficulty of this task will be almost impossible to complete.

What Zhou Baiyu could think of was to unite these people trapped in the dream.

The situation was much more difficult than he imagined, but it didn't seem hopeless?

When thinking this way, Zhou Baiyu's body became a little brighter.

By regulating your emotions, analyzing the situation, and changing your attitude——

Zhou Baiyu had a guess:

"Speaking of which, the light on me became dim at first, but now it seems to be brighter than before..."

"Is it related to my emotions?"

Looking at his prison uniform, Zhou Baiyu gradually understood what was going on.

"In the dreamland of eternal night, all the people trapped here are prisoners, right?"

"You have to find someone else to ask about the situation."

No matter how smart a person is, the information he can obtain is limited.

What is so special about this dream? Are there any strange things in the dream? Where is Yong Ye? How can I kill Yong Ye? Why does Yong Ye imprison people in dreams?

How do these people survive in dreams?

Zhou Baiyu couldn't find any clues to many questions. He looked out with his senses and found that there were many people here.

Thinking of those people who gathered towards the firelight in his memory, Zhou Baiyu found that he was the only source of light——

In this kind of night, it would probably be very popular?

That's what he thought, but reality soon hit him in the face.

When Zhou Baiyu approached the silhouette in the dark night, trying to go somewhere else and communicate with others... he did see a pale-faced, skinny middle-aged man with heavy dark circles under his eyes, as if he had smeared a line of black around his eyes.

It's more like my body has been stripped of several layers of skin by life, and my whole body is so thin that it's almost oozing.

In the endless land, it seems that you can see people like this every ten meters you walk.

But the man's eyes were full of fear and anger:

"Get away! Get away! Don't come near me! Get out of here!"

Zhou Baiyu exuded a little light, as if he had a halo of his own.

But when the halo enveloped the others - their reactions surprised Zhou Baiyu.

"Don't come near me! You plague god! Newcomers, hide in your own room!"

Like a cockroach after seeing the light, the skinny middle-aged man quickly crawled and hid in his house, and then closed the door with a bang.

Zhou Baiyu froze on the spot. What is going on?

He walked to other places, and what he saw this time was a half-dressed woman.

After not being exposed to light for too long, the woman looks sallow and thin, as if she lacks sleep for a long time, which leads to swollen eye bags and sunken eye sockets, presenting a scary morbid condition.

Especially when she saw Zhou Baiyu approaching, she made a horrified expression, like a layer of leather covering a skull.

She screamed like she was baring her teeth:

"Go away, don't shine on me! You damn thing! Don't shine on me! Damn thing! Get out of here!"

As if to avoid the plague, the woman fled frantically and closed her house.

Bang.

The sound of closing the door kept ringing.

This time it was like a chain reaction had been triggered.

The appearance of Zhou Baiyu, the light source, attracted many eyes in the darkness.

No matter how subtle the light is, it is noticeable in such darkness.

Everyone will be attracted by the light in an instant, but they will also feel the fear of chasing the light in an instant.

They looked at Zhou Baiyu with greed in their eyes.

But when Zhou Baiyu approached them, he seemed extremely frightened.

As the two people fled Zhou Baiyu, the sound of closing doors became more and more frequent.

Bang bang bang bang!

In the invisible darkness, Zhou Baiyu only heard countless people closing doors, like dominoes, the sound of closing doors pushed and opened, spreading little by little.

Zhou Baiyu looked confused and realized that the matter might be a little serious.

"What exactly is going on?"

Quiet.

After a long time, as the knocking on the door disappeared, Zhou Baiyu could no longer hear any sound.

He seemed to be the only living person under the huge night cover in the endless night.

Zhou Baiyu suddenly felt at a loss.

"Why are you hiding from me? I won't hurt you. Can you tell me what's going on with the light on my body?"

He actually wanted to ask how to leave the dreamland.

But obviously, if someone knew how to leave, they would most likely have already left.

Only by leaving the dreamland can you have a chance to defeat Yong Ye. Because only by leaving the dreamland can you be qualified to use those props.

And it is impossible to defeat the night devil in the dream.

No one answered Zhou Baiyu. There were more and more doubts in Zhou Baiyu's mind.

Why does everyone have no light? Why is it that only I have light?

Standing under the vast night and in the endless darkness, the light on his body made him incompatible with everything around him.

"Are these people fictitious in Night Demon's dream?"

"No...that's not right. These people should be just like me. They are all trapped in this dream and they are real."

The solution to the dark night is light.

But at this moment, as the only source of light, Zhou Baiyu was isolated by everyone.

He became confused.

This confusion made the light on him dim a bit, and the visibility range became a bit lower.

At this moment, Zhou Baiyu heard the sound.

Crunch - creak -

The old wooden door opened, followed by the sound of unhurried footsteps.

Zhou Baiyu's heartbeat accelerated, and he could tell that the footsteps were approaching him.

After all, there is someone willing to communicate with him, right?

Ignorant of everything, facing the endless night, and not knowing what to do or how to get out of trouble, Zhou Baiyu now desperately needs someone to help him.

The light, which had dimmed a bit, was once again vigorous.

He was also ready to move towards the footsteps, but at this moment——

The owner of the footsteps seemed to feel that the light was moving, walking towards her little by little, and she immediately said:

"Please...please don't come close to me, don't hurt me...I, I can't be seen by the light. Don't come close to me."

Zhou Baiyu stopped immediately.

This voice is very familiar!

He quickly began to think about where he had heard this sound. Soon, he remembered-

Aduo.

Zhou Baiyu was convinced that the owner of this voice was A Duo whom he had spied from Night Demon's memory.

"Aduo, yes, I heard my mother say it when I was a child. My mother said that the world is not completely dark. Even if there is no daylight, there will still be a moon at night! There will be starry sky!"

"I promise you, I will definitely take you to see the moon!"

There was some kind of determination in the young man's voice. For some reason, Zhou Baiyu was deeply impressed by the endless conversation.

"My name is Jiang Xianwu. I won't get close to you... Don't worry, I won't hurt you. I didn't want to hurt you either. I just want to know what my situation is now."

"Why do you think I would hurt you?"

"Why am I the only one glowing? Why is everything dark? Why...are you hiding from me?"

Zhou Baiyu didn't call A'duo's name. He was worried that this move would hurt A'duo.

Although he didn't know much about it, the strange things in the darkness made light seem to be a very dangerous thing.

He seems to be an ominous thing, and anyone who is illuminated by him or who knows him may be punished.

Only in this way can the reactions of these people be explained clearly.

The punisher is obviously the weaver of dreams - Eternal Night.

A Duo stopped and was not too far away from Zhou Baiyu, just out of reach of light. He could only faintly feel a shadow.

"You're new here, right... People here haven't dared to shine for a long time."

Strange conversation. What does it mean to not dare to shine for a long time?

Zhou Baiyu still nodded. Although he couldn't see the girl, the girl could see him.

He still expressed his gratitude towards the direction of the voice and asked questions at the same time:

"I'm indeed new here. Can you tell me what's going on now? Why is everyone avoiding me?"

You must first find a way to show that you are the same as the people around you and blend in with them.

Intuition told Zhou Baiyu that this matter might not be resolved quickly.

Although the props cannot be used, Zhou Baiyu's characteristics as a speaker still make it easy to win the trust of others with his words.

Aduo whispered:

"You are trapped in God's dream. People avoid you because you are too dazzling."

"Jiang Xianwu, here... it's best not to fantasize about anything casually, otherwise your light will harm everyone."

The more Zhou Baiyu listened, the more confused he became.

Yong Ye's dream may be similar to the realm of the Demon King. But it is very likely that Yong Ye has already stepped into the Demon King level.

And with the treasures of the gods, Yongye probably plans to jump two levels in a row to become the demon god level.

For such a strong man, his domain is naturally extremely terrifying.

He guessed that all the strange phenomena here were caused by the realm of eternal night.

Jiang Xianwu further lowered his stance:

"What should I do?"

"I can't teach you how to do it. Only when you experience pain will you gradually shrink your light. People who are illuminated by the light are likely to leave the smell of light. So everyone is afraid of you and afraid of being implicated by you.

Next...you will be ravaged by nightmares in the night sea."

A'duo said with some fear:

"God... does not allow the existence of light. God hates light. Everyone who has light in God's dream will be swallowed up and tortured by nightmares."

"Jiang Xianwu, if you wait a little longer, it will come. The light on your body is too strong."

It?Nightmare?

Zhou Baiyu had some vague clues.

"You mean, people who shine will attract something? Light...has a smell in this world?"

A'duo nodded silently, but immediately realized that this newcomer did not have night vision, so he said:

"Hide in the house, recall some painful things as much as possible, and suppress the light on your body."

"Don't be happy, don't think about leaving, don't have expectations for the future, don't...have hope. Let the smell of light become dimmer. In this way, you may have a little possibility to survive this torture."

A'duo was telling Zhou Baiyu how to survive, but these words made Zhou Baiyu feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

Don't have expectations for the future, don't harbor hope, don't even have joy, don't think about leaving...

Does this mean that these expectations for the future, the hope and joy that should be cherished, and the desire to escape from here - are all the source of light?

When a person has hope, when a person thinks about resisting this dream, he will be surrounded by light.

But this world - there is no light anymore. Everyone here has merged into absolute darkness.

The person who once told A'duo that he would definitely see the moon has left her.

Everyone here will never believe that the light will come again.

So they definitely don't emit light. What exactly makes them so desperate for the future?

"I...I can't say too much to you, Jiang Xianwu. If you are afraid of punishment, then try not to sleep."

"The world of dreams within dreams is very dangerous. If you can't eliminate the smell of light on your body, you will be in big trouble."

Aduo seemed to realize that he said too much.

She's always like this.

Over the years, every time new people appeared here, she would kindly tell these people... not to have hope.

Give up your useless fantasies as soon as possible, integrate here as soon as possible, and become a slave of God as soon as possible.

She just didn't want anyone to be like the dead guy, dreaming that the night would end and that there would be something called the moon in this world.

Imagining that there is still light in this world.

Even every time, she would be punished for chatting too much with people with light and being tainted with the smell of light. But afterwards, she would still take risks and tell all the newcomers about the horror of "hope"

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"I'm leaving... If you survive the dream within the dream and you don't understand anything later, you can ask me again. My name is Yun Duo. You can call me A Duo."

Aduo trotted away.

Zhou Baiyu didn't ask any more questions. He didn't want to cause trouble to others, so he returned to his house.

There was nothing else in the room. Just a bed.

Since this is a dream, people here can't actually tell whether time is flowing or not.

There is no need to eat, drink or have diarrhea.

The meaning of their lives is to lie on that bed, sleep and dream.

Zhou Baiyu knows very well that when conquering a game, he must listen to what the NPCs say. This will save him a lot of detours.

But sometimes, you have to listen to what the NPC says in reverse.

"Try not to sleep as much as possible? It seems that only by sleeping can you know more clues."

"Speaking of which, it seems that everyone of those people just now was severely sleep-deprived."

Zhou Baiyu recalled that the men and women he met all had heavy dark circles under their eyes and looked like they had been lacking sleep for a long time.

He was getting ready to lie on the bed.

But when he tried to do this, he suddenly discovered that he could alienate himself.

Yes, the bed - the note appears.

[Item name: Gallows]

【Specialty: Very easy to fall asleep.】

[Introduction: There are many monsters hidden in the night sea, and all night demons have various incarnations in the night sea.

Some night demons have become giant whales in the night sea, while others have grown weird tentacles, like giant squids in the night sea.

They enjoy teasing humans in their dreams. But they have not seen a shining person like you for a long, long time.

You are destined to be treated well. In fact, the value of alienating this bed is not great. No matter how alienated you are, you can't change anything.】

[Status: Alienable, deviation rate is 87%.]

Night sea?

It seems that this is where the dream within the dream is going, and it sounds like it is a darker place.

Zhou Baiyu only has a few doubts now.

How to leave the dream and wake up.

Killing Yong Ye in a dream? This is obviously impossible. As the status bar says, can you still bully others in other people's dreams?

Zhou Baiyu did not choose alienation in the end.

Because he knew very well that everything he did in this dream was in vain.

What he really wants to do is find a way to leave.

After closing his eyes, Zhou Baiyu adjusted his breathing, let his brain empty out, and entered the dreamland as quickly as possible.

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Dreaming within a dream, this kind of experience is said to be experienced several times in a person's life.

When Zhou Baiyu woke up again, he found himself standing in a gray world.

And right at the top of the world—where the sky should be—

Zhou Baiyu saw a dark sea.

It was as if the night had turned into sea water, and in the huge sea water, outlines of giant creatures emitting shimmering light were swimming in the dark sea.

If a person has a phobia of giant objects, then he will probably be frightened to death when he sees this sea.

Zhou Baiyu raised his head and saw an eye.

A huge eye that covered the sky and the sun appeared little by little from the depths of the night sea.

How big is it?

It seems as if one eyelash can be thousands of meters long, as if the pupil can fit into a city!

The moment his huge pupils shrank, Zhou Baiyu even thought that the night sea in the sky would fall down... as if he was going to be buried alive by the thick night!

This huge eye is just one of the monsters in the night sea. It is attracted by the light emanating from Zhou Baiyu's body.

In a gray, wasteland-like world, Zhou Baiyu seemed to be looking into the eyes of an ancient god.

Such a huge eye made him feel his own insignificance.

This is the realm of the Night Stalker!

In this world, the Night Demon is an invincible existence.

Even just one eye seems to be able to squeeze the world of all the people in the dream into it.

Seeing such huge pupils for the first time, Zhou Baiyu was shocked. It was like the monster dormant in the starry sky in a science fiction movie, stretching out its huge palm that could rival the planet.

But the next second...

That huge eye seems to be able to destroy a person's will——

Zhou Baiyu suddenly held his head in pain.

Everything in the memory... was destroyed in an instant.

He saw a hallucination. Linxiang City was completely destroyed, and his parents turned into corrupt species while on the run...

The people from the Future Gate led by Tian Xia Wu Er tried to stop the demons' attack, but along with Tian Xia Wu Er himself - no one was spared, and they were all killed!

Heguang Tongchen died in battle, Xingmeng Wuchang died in battle, and Ling Hansu died in battle!

The entire continent fell into darkness. What kind of battle between the old and the new, what kind of game between gods, what kind of forerunners and pure walkers...

They all fell into nothingness under absolute darkness.

In just a few seconds... Zhou Baiyu experienced the end of the world.

The real end of the world.

In this apocalypse, everyone he knew died. Even Zhou Shou, Bai Ling, Anya, Sister Lin, Midelle and others... none of them died a good death.

The light on him quickly dimmed.

And behind those huge eyes... there are hundreds of equally huge eyes.

Their gazes shone on Zhou Baiyu one after another.

The pain that Zhou Baiyu had experienced became intensified, appearing again and again like reincarnation.

Facing the vast night sea, facing countless behemoths in the night sea, those monsters called nightmares——

Zhou Baiyu is really too small.

But at this time, he was still conscious.

Yehai is the place where Night Demon Yongye lives, right?

If you want to defeat Yongye in your dream, it means that you must go deep into the Night Sea... and defeat countless deep-sea behemoths in the Night Sea.

This is simply impossible to do.

He fell into despair.

Such despair caused Zhou Baiyu's light to quickly dissipate.

Gradually, he no longer shines.

The monsters in the night sea seem to be very satisfied with this change.

But they didn't notice——

The light on Zhou Baiyu's body did not disappear, but was wrapped in a layer of black mist.

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Zhou Baiyu woke up. His eyes were bloodshot and he looked a little ferocious.

I don't know how long time passed, he seemed to have spent several long years...

In the past few years, everything I have seen, heard, and remembered has been moving in the most painful direction.

But it seemed like everything was short-lived.

Zhou Baiyu realized that all these were hallucinations, but the scary thing was that he could not distinguish these hallucinations.

Once caught by the gaze in the night sea, it seemed as if he had really experienced a distorted future.

This is just a monster in the night sea. God knows if there are monsters with other abilities hidden in that night sea?

"In the kingdom of night demons, there must be many night demons...except for a few who were sent by Yong Ye to investigate other matters, most of the night demons have probably become those monsters in the night sea."

"What exactly is Yong Ye going to do? Why should everyone be trapped in a dream?"

"Eh-"

Just as Zhou Baiyu was thinking about these questions, he suddenly discovered that the light on his body had not dimmed.

Suddenly waking up from his dream, he thought he must have been devoured by the monsters in the night sea.

Because of the twisted hallucinations, he was extremely desperate. But when he woke up, he found that there was still light in him.

These lights have not dimmed and seem to be still as bright as before falling asleep.

"I always feel that these lights are the key to defeating the night demon... But the problem is that these lights will attract monsters and put me in an alienated position."

Just when Zhou Baiyu was bothered by these lights, bursts of black smoke suddenly appeared from his body.

The smoke envelopes the light.

After a while, Zhou Baiyu's surroundings completely darkened.

He suddenly remembered.

In a dream within a dream, when facing those behemoths in the night sea, there was still light in me.

But those lights were blocked, which caused the monsters to let him go.

When a person's inner hope is completely destroyed, he can no longer rekindle hope.

Even if you face someone with light, you will only feel fear.

But if a person always retains hope in his heart, he will never be able to defeat it.

Because the spark hidden under the darkness always has the ambition to start a prairie fire.

Although Zhou Baiyu was tortured by the nightmare and was in great pain, when he woke up, he seemed to get rid of the effects of the dream quickly.

"It seems to be Brother Duan's necklace... The effect of the necklace is that it can always provide some help in dreams."

"And right now I am in a dream. In other words, my light has not disappeared, but has been hidden by something provided by the necklace."

This is good news. At present, it seems that the night demons are only very sensitive to light. Once they feel the appearance of light, they will find ways to torture the light source.

But this also means - light is what they are afraid of.

"Calm down Zhou Baiyu and organize your thoughts carefully."

"There are two roads ahead of me now - one is to figure out how to wake up. Use the props in reality to fight the night demon in reality."

"Intuitively, this is the correct solution."

"The other option is to defeat the Night Demon in the dream. But if this can be done, I'm afraid Xiu Shen will not cooperate with the Night Demon, but chooses to kill the Night Demon directly. The Night Demon is invincible in the dream.

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"So the answer lies in the first one, my first priority right now - to wake up."

"But I suffered so much pain in the dream, and I couldn't wake up. Obviously, physical and mental stimulation cannot get rid of the nightmare of the night demon."

"And among the known clues - once it can emit light, it will be smelled by the nightmare monsters in the night sea, and then the light will be swallowed up."

"Once someone is able to shine, these people will be tortured. So much so that even when they see others shining, they are afraid of being implicated."

"This also illustrates one point - in a lightless country, light is definitely a very important thing."

"So is it possible that light is the key to my awakening?"

As long as you can wake up, you can turn your watch, as long as you can turn your watch——

Yongye's true body will be exposed to the light source, and the night demon who is invincible in the dream will appear at its weakest.

"Starting from 2.30, the version update announcement has been telling me that Night Demon will become weaker during the day...so this should be my only chance."

"Find out the meaning of light, figure out how to get out of here, figure out what Eternal Night needs people to do in dreams."

Zhou Baiyu's thinking was very clear and he quickly set a task for himself.

To understand all this, you must first find someone who knows the truth.

"I have to find Yun Duo and the missing guild members from the Gate of the Future. Now that I have merged into the darkness, I may be able to get clues from them."

Once he has a direction and a goal, Zhou Baiyu becomes motivated.

The light on him became brighter and brighter.

But due to the existence of black fog, these lights are always dormant, as if waiting for an opportunity to illuminate the world.

(End of chapter)