534: Ways to come back

Chapter 533: The Way Back

"The taste of fear is truly delicious... Hey, whose meat slave are you?"

A monster with an alligator head, a bull's body, and a scorpion's tail approached Anberer'er, bending down to examine her, looking like it was inspecting merchandise.

It grinned, revealing sharp teeth that glinted coldly. Its foul breath assailed her nostrils, and its thick, large tongue, covered in viscous saliva, licked its lips, looking incredibly terrifying.

Anberer'er was startled again and quickly waved her hands and shook her head, saying, "Waahh, no, I'm not... Mmm?!"

Suddenly, a large hand covered Anberer'er's mouth and nose, then directly dragged her into a nearby dark alley.

"Hey, don't go, the price is negotiable..."

The alligator-man extended a claw to try and stop her, but it was useless. Anberer'er's figure had completely disappeared.

Meanwhile, in the dark alley.

The hand covering Anberer'er's mouth and nose slowly released her. She immediately yelped and cried out, "Don't eat me! Ghosts don't have meat, it's not tasty at all..."

"Shh, it's me!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Anberer'er was overjoyed and quickly turned her head, "Lord, Lord?!"

"Keep your voice down," Dick glanced left and right, and only after confirming that no one was paying attention did he whisper, "Why are you here?"

Seeing Dick ask, Anberer'er immediately told him the entire sequence of events in detail.

"An uncontrollable Nightmare... So, this is my dream?"

Dick murmured, his expression becoming increasingly strange. Then, he began to examine Anberer'er from head to toe.

At this moment, she was completely different from her usual appearance in dreams.

She didn't have plump six wings on her back, nor did she have snow-white long hair, nor any divine aura...

She had black hair and black eyes, and a slender figure, looking like an innocent and ignorant pure female student, just as she did before she died.

And most importantly, Anberer'er had lost her ability to control the dream!

If this bizarre place was a dream, then Anberer'er would be the absolute Lord, she could control everything with just a thought.

Soon, Dick noticed many anomalies, becoming even more certain that this was definitely not a dream.

"How long have I been asleep?"

"Just over ten minutes, it should be nearly dawn outside now..."

Hearing this, Dick's expression became even more solemn.

Because the time he had been here was also about ten minutes, which meant that the flow of time in this bizarre place was consistent with the real world!

This further solidified the conclusion that this could not be a dream!

But strangely, Anberer'er was able to come here through the method of entering dreams, as if she had a portal in her head...

However, what shocked Dick the most was the disappearance of the System!

Since his rebirth, Dick's vision had never been so clean and tidy.

The mission panel in the upper left corner, the personal information below, the Blessing list in the upper right corner... all of the System's UI interfaces had vanished!

However, although the System interface was gone, the Blessings could still take effect, and the talents accumulated over a hundred lifetimes were still there, which was a small comfort.

The current strange encounter made Dick couldn't help but feel a strange sense of déjà vu.

This situation was exactly like his first rebirth, or more accurately... Crossing.

In the beginning, when Dick first woke up in the small wooden house, he was also full of questions like he was now, and everything around him was completely unfamiliar.

But Anberer'er's presence constantly reminded Dick that the current situation was not a Crossing, but something more complex.

"Lord, you don't seem to be in pain, but why are you so... in reality?"

Listening to Anberer'er's question, Dick gently shook his head and said slowly, "That's not important."

Raising his eyes, Dick looked at the noisy market not far away, at the strangely shaped pedestrians, and let out a heavy breath.

"What's important now is how we should leave this cursed place, how to return to our world!"

Dick remembered Anberer'er saying just now that the unconscious him in reality couldn't be woken up at all.

As for the sound wave technique that Xiao Nai had suggested, although Isurna had rejected it because it was too rough, Dick thought it probably wouldn't work either.

After several minutes, all of Anberer'er's attempts ended in failure. Having lost her Nightmare power, she was no different from an ordinary person.

"It's over, Lord, we won't be trapped here forever, will we? I was almost eaten just now..."

Ignoring Anberer'er's cries beside him, Dick rested his chin on his hand, his thoughts racing.

Consciousness is singular; it cannot exist in two worlds simultaneously. The price of being here is the loss of consciousness in the Main Time-Space.

So, conversely, if he were to lose consciousness here, would the him in the Main Time-Space wake up?

Thinking of this, Dick immediately lay down on the spot and closed his eyes. Then, under Anberer'er's bewildered gaze, he fell asleep in just three seconds.

The next moment, Dick's figure quickly faded and actually disappeared!

"Lord, Lord..."

Anberer'er's cry of surprise stopped abruptly. Her figure also quickly faded, and in less than a second, she disappeared from the spot just like Dick!

...

On the large bed in the military tent, Dick slowly opened his heavy eyelids. The familiar tent ceiling came into view. Seeing this, the women gathered around the bed immediately came forward with concern.

Feeling the weakness in his body and seeing the System's UI interface in his vision, Dick gave a dry laugh, "Did it work...?"

It seemed the way to return from that strange world was consciousness switching, or simply put, sleeping.

Immediately, Dick's attention was drawn to the very bottom of his vision. His identity information had undergone a huge change.

「Name」: Dick Grudia.

「Race」: Human, male.

「Age」: 19 years old.

「Profession」: Demon King, Level 56.

33 (Original Level) + 11 (Leveled up) + 12 (Master of Witches: 2 * Number of Witches Controlled)

「Talent」: 99+ (Expand to view details).

「Recent Encounters」: Under the wise leadership of this System, I survived a near-fatal tribulation. Currently, my luck is soaring, and opportunities are countless~

「Current Status」: ...

「Emotion」: ...