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  It had been a day and a night since arriving in this world, and not only had everyo had anything to eat, but they hadn't even had a single sip of water. If this tihey would die of thirst before any of those strange creatures came after them.

  Thus, everyone decided to scatter and search for water and food.

  At the same time, due to the curse mentioned by the people of Bckstoown—only the fme on the lighthouse remaining lit could break the curse—someone had to stay behind to guard the fme.

  After the i with the biker girl, even during the day, everyoill felt an eerie chill. In the end, apart from the old woman, two more people were chosen to stay behind, so that they could look out for each other.

  Su Xiaoxiao, g her brother had difficulty moving, wished to stay behind, but Jiang g and Ran jointly vetoed her request. Their reason was that Su An had strong perception, and walking around might help uncover new clues.

  In the end, it was Ran and Liang Long who stayed behind.

  When Liang Long heard the decision, she became visibly upset, seemingly wanting tue for herself.

  However, Jiang g and the Fatty turned and walked away, leaving Su Xiaoxiao to cast o look at Ran and the old woman in the er before she left.

  Liang Long seemed like she wao follow them, but when she sensed a strange gaze from behind, she seemed to lose her ability to move. After a moment of dazed hesitation, she obediently sat back down.

  Ran still wore that warm, gentle expression, but it was not directed at Liang Long—it was directed at the old woman, who was muttering strangely.

  A strong sense of danger crawled up Liang Long’s spine.

  Jiang g and the Fatty wandered along the beach, the waves hitting their feet, soaking their pant legs. Their feet squelched in their damp shoes, making an eerie "creaking" sound.

  Jiang g kept his gaze on the grouh him, gng at the o from time to time, his face showing signs of deep thought.

  "Doctor," the Fatty asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

  "The o is so ," Jiang g replied.

  "It is pretty ," the Fatty agreed, using his foot to sweep away the fine yer of sand on the ground, revealing that the sand below was just as fine. Despite the current dahe area seemed like a holiday destination.

  "I’m not talking about that," Jiang g exhaled, looking at the wet path left by the waves. "Right now, it’s low tide. The mudfts have been exposed, and people living by the coast would usually take this time to collect the sea creatures that get stranded—fish, shrimp, sea snails, that sort of thing."

  He pointed ahead te, open area. "But look, not a single fish or shrimp, not even a dead shell. It’s as if the sea here is empty."

  The Fatty blihen seemed to realize something, nodding slowly. "Doctor, now that you mention it, I thought it was strange when I first arrived. The beach was so , I didn’t realize this could be why."

  Under normal ditions, the o wouldn’t look like this. The Fatty seemed to think of something and his expression ged. "Doctor, could this be a sign that something bad is about to happen?"

  He licked his lips, gng around nervously. "I remember hearing about something like this—coastal fishermen notig strange phenomehe shore, and then not long after, a big disaster happened, with many people dying."

  Jiang g shook his head. "Not the same. What you're describing sounds like a precursor to a tsunami. Tsunamis are usually caused by uer earthquakes, ndslides, or volic eruptions."

  "They usually ma as deep-sea creatures, like ribbonfish, stranding themselves on the shore, or whales crashing, suig in shallow waters, which is pletely the opposite of what we’re seeing now."

  Now, the situation was that the shore was unnaturally , devoid of anything.

  The Fatty swallowed nervously, looking at Jiang g, and whispered, "Doctor, what do you think is going on?"

  The abnormality was obvious, but to someone like Jiang g, that simply meant there were clues to be found.

  In his nightmares, he didn’t fear strange creatures or phenomena. What he feared was whehing appeared perfectly normal.

  Jiang g stroked his , appearing deep in thought.

  The Fatty couldn’t sit still anymore. After waiting for a while without Jiang g speaking, he finally asked in a pleading tone, "Doctor, if you have any ideas, just share them. To be ho, I’m kind of scared."

  Jiang g, who didn’t miss any moment to scare him, responded quite straightforwardly. "Two possibilities," he said. "First, this pce is being affected by some kind of bizarre force, which has led to the current situation."

  The Fatty looked at Jiang g for a long time before asking, "And the sed?"

  "Ha—" Jiang g exhaled, looking up into the Fatty’s eyes, causing the tter to freeze. "Fatty," Jiang g said slowly, "I suspect that this pce might not even be our world."

  The Fatty froze for a few seds, then began trembling all over. The doctor’s words pletely overturheir previous uanding of the nightmare.

  Previously, they thought the nightmare was real, a real historical event intercepted by some unknown force from the river of time. In other words, it had a beginning, middle, and end.

  No matter what the people chosen to ehe nightmare did, whether they lived or died, it wouldn’t affect the oute of the real event.

  They could only influehe process.

  But if the nightmare wasn’t from the real world, but a vague dream, then it didn’t o follow the beginning-to-end structure of a real event.

  More importantly... it didn’t o adhere to logic.

  So...!!

  It might as well be unsolvable!

  This meant that no matter what they did, no matter what clues they uncovered, or whether they solved the truth, the end would be death. The way they died could be illogical, bizarre, or even absurd.

  A tsunami, ahquake, a sudden building colpse, or even the appearanoearing them apart—anything could happen.

  After all, dreams don’t need logic. They are suspended, existing in an illusionary, inexplicable state.

  "Doctor..." The Fatty trembled as he thought about this, his eyes bulging. "You mean we..."

  Jiang g g him, already guessing what he was thinking. "That’s just the most extreme example. It’s uo be that bad. At least, all the tasks we’ve done before have had a clue that o be followed."

  "Perhaps..." Jiang g thought for a moment, but didn’t tinue.

  "Doctor," the Fatty said, "Please, let me die with some uanding. So that ime I know what to say to the person I’ll reinate as."

  Jiang g hesitated for a moment before speaking. "Perhaps... I mean, perhaps this pce is just another version of our world. Another form of expression."

  "Expression?" The Fatty stared bnkly at him, clearly not uanding.

  "You could think of it as this pce existing in our world, but it’s not our world—it’s..." Jiang g paused and looked up. "It’s a refle of our world."

  (End of the Chapter)

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