Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 740 Thirty-one. Prison of Despair

   A surging darkness permeates the underground rock formations.

   The evil spirits and disasters could not reach here, and Lu Li was able to survive in the dark.

   The movement of sitting up involved the wound on his chest, Lu Li raised his hand to touch it, and an indescribable pain poured into his mind.

   No oil lamp filling and no dressing.

   Unsure whether this is reality or the fourth layer of Emerald Dream, Lu Li took off his clothes and shredded his shirt and wrapped it around his chest.

   Due to the intense tearing sensation of the wound, Lu Li's dressing speed was very slow. After a few minutes, a layer of fine sweat beads appeared on his forehead.

   At least from the real pain point of view, now is no different from reality.

   Simply bandage the wound, and Lu Li fumbled for his pocket.

   Doomsday chess pieces and weird currency are still there, as well as shillings that have been smashed into a ball by blisters.

   No props and no light sources.

  Lu Li looked at the dark river where the noise was coming from the darkness, which meant that after entering the water, he might only have one chance.

  If he can't find the pass, Lu Li will get lost in the dark river.

   But staying here will not make things better, nor will this layer of Emerald Dream end.

   Although the Emerald Dream is real enough, and the fit of each layer makes it difficult to distinguish the real from the illusory, it has a fatal flaw.

  The more dreams, the more flaws.

   Unless the sensory memory is blinded and tampered with, as long as the Emerald Dream lasts a few layers, anyone can't help but wonder: Am I in a new layer of the dream?

   But it is also possible that the truth will suddenly arrive at a certain level.

  For example, everything that left the ground was actually just a fantasy of Lu Li when he was in a coma?

  What Lu Li can do is to remain cautious and face each layer of Emerald Paradise rationally.

   At the same time pray that the body of the real world does not disappear.

  Before the symptoms of low temperature came, Lu Li in the dark moved to the edge of the rock, and the water in the dark river splashed coldly.

   After his body got used to the freezing cold, Lu Li slid into the dark river.

  The turbulent water scoured the body, and the cold and numbness covered the pain. Lu Li calmed his breath, took a deep breath and drilled into the bottom of the river, heading towards the pass leading to the outside world in his memory.

   A minute later, Lu Li reached the front of the pass, but stretched out his arms, only to feel the more turbulent water and the narrow slits that his arms could only drill through.

  The topography of the rock formations has changed.

  Lu Li moved two meters along the pass, but found nothing, so he had to retreat from the pass and return to the subterranean rock formation before the breath was exhausted.

   There was no fire to guide him, so Lu Li could only go downstream, raising his arms to sense when he was exposed to the air.

  The coolness suddenly brushed over the fingertips and disappeared in a flash. Lu Li stabilized his body and tried to stand up, but he failed. The turbulent undercurrent and buoyancy pushed him down. He grabbed the rock with his palm, but the smooth rock was difficult to exert and slid away——

   Lu Li spit out the little remaining air.

   He missed the underground rock formation.

   Lu Li in the dark and dark river was taken downstream, washed away with the current, and has long lost his sense of direction.

   The narrowing rock wall stuck to Lu Li, but he couldn't find a place to breathe.

   The sense of suffocation enveloped Lu Li, and the lack of oxygen made it difficult for Lu Li to think. There was only one last thing he could do: tear off the gauze, slamming his fist into the penetrating wound in his chest—

  Suddenly bright light surrounds Lu Li, it pushes away the attached water, dispels the cold, and dries its body——

  When the light dimmed, Lu Li sat on the sofa safely.

   A bride-like maid stood beside him.

   She didn't fall, and the coffee wasn't spilled.

  Lu Li gasped a few times like someone who was rescued from drowning and observed the surrounding environment.

  After leaving the fourth-layer dream, he returned to the third-layer dream?

   "Another Emerald Dream?" Lu Li stared at the Count in front of the fireplace.

   "No, you are in reality. It was just an illusion just now." The Count folded his hands and said slowly, "It's a little trick to verify that what you said is true. You have indeed proved the ability to escape from the illusion. But..."

  The Count leaned forward and observed Lu Li with interest: "How do you know that it is the Emerald Dream? You know, no one can come out of the Emerald Dream alive."

  The maid put down the coffee cup and left the hall.

   "My companion said that before he was attacked." Lu Li's thoughts escaped from the ground, and he calmed his breath. "There are also many layers of dreams. Each layer of dreams is broken, and the surrounding things will become mist with a fresh breath."

   "It does sound like an Emerald Dream."

The Count leaned back on the sofa, because it was a ghost, and the sofa did not sink: "You are not a member of the team, I can't blame you for this, on the contrary, I should thank you for bringing back the news. As an apology for pulling you into the hallucination rashly ,what do you want?"

  Lu Li said calmly, "Answer to some questions."

   "Question? I thought you would want more useful things, such as wealth, food, strength..." The Count motioned for Lu to leave the mouth: "Young man, tell me your question."

   "Is the Emerald Dream weird?"

   "Obviously." The count spread his palm. "But the Emerald Dream isn't a weirdness that's hostile to us."

   After finishing speaking, it waited for Lu Li to sarcastically say something like "This is nothing but hostility". But he just kept quiet.

The Count    had no choice but to continue: "Perhaps you will wonder why there is no hostility in the Emerald Dream that attacked you..."

"There is a group of children. The ground is closer and more interesting to them than the sky is far away. A child takes pleasure in killing ants, every day he searches for ants, digs out their nests and kills all the ants. A child He doesn't care about ants, he doesn't care about the ants dragging food by his feet, or the ants that he tramples to death. A child is very interested in ants. He lies by the ant nest all day and observes their habits. Occasionally Reach out and tease. A child loves this young life and will even build an ant colony for them to live in..."

   "The Emerald Dream is the third child. It is interested in our behavior, so it attacks us."

   "No matter how long you live in the dream, does reality only pass for a moment?"

   "No, no, no, according to the experience of the only people who were released by the Emerald Dream. One day in the dream, and one day in reality."

  Lu Li lowered his eyes because of this answer: "Won't the body that stays in reality be attacked by weirdness?"

   "Of course not. Like I said before, the Emerald Dream doesn't kill us for fun... As long as you're still in the Emerald Dream, as long as it's still interested in you, you don't have to worry about being killed by the monsters."

   "The last question." Lu Li said calmly: "How can I be sure that this is a new layer of Emerald Dream, or the real world."

   "Is this important?" The Count stared at Lu Li. "Do you know what is true and what is false?"

"Perhaps the age of weirdness never came, and it was just some cataclysm that dragged us into a dream. Maybe we were just characters in some book and everything was predestined. Maybe we were all dunked in a Frankenstein petri dish that was using our Brain conducts scientific experiments...

   "In this case, we can only tell ourselves."

   His index finger tapped his eye socket.

   "What you see is true."

   (end of this chapter)