Chapter 600 - Chapter 600: Chapter 600: The Door to the New World (Complete Ending) (1/2)

Chapter 600: Chapter 600: The Door to the New World (Complete Ending)

“Old Xia! Sister Nana has woken up!” Alice clapped her hands on the table and kicked the couch, looking at Xia Libing beside her with delight, “We did it! The boss was right on the mark!”

Tang Baona looked curiously left and right, touched the table in front of her, and then touched her own face. The touch felt quite real, but she knew very well this was an illusion, that this was false, it was in her own dream.

Everything around her had a vague yet real feeling. She didn’t need to look up to be able to perceive everything very clearly.

She looked down at the table in front of her, and the next instant, a cup of steaming coffee appeared. She picked it up and brought it to her. As it got closer, her glasses fogged up with the steam.

After taking a small sip of coffee, she squinted her eyes, enjoying the warmth, and let out a comfortable sigh. The fog on her glasses naturally disappeared, and the coffee in her hand also vanished.

She looked at “Old Xia” and “Mini Old Xia” Alice who were sitting in front of her. The former was still quietly sitting with her eyes fixed on her, giving off an air of contemplation and observation, just like the way she usually was. The latter, however, seemed unable to keep still, hopping around, her expression brimming with excitement, as if anticipating something.

The feeling they gave her was different from the rest of her surroundings, which she could sense and control, but not entirely so.

Being lucidly aware of dreaming while dreaming and being able to perceive various things was an amazing and fresh experience.

“Are you… also figments of my dream?” Tang Baona asked curiously.

“No! We’re real, we’re alive and kicking!” Alice stood up on the sofa, spreading her arms wide.

Xia Libing next to her pushed her head down and made her sit down, “Stop it, we’re in a dream.”

“Even in the dream, we’re very real! Sister Nana, we are real people!” Alice continued to exclaim.

Tang Baona was startled, “You mean… you’ve entered my dream?” After a brief hesitation, she asked again, “Did Xiao Lingdang, Zhen’er, Xiao Pingguo, and Xiang Kun also come to my dream earlier?”

This time, it was Xia Libing who answered, “Except for Xiang Kun, the other three were the prototypes of your dream.”

Tang Baona’s eyes lit up as she made a small fist gesture, “So the one who dressed like Saitama Sensei and punched that big bird to nothingness… was that really Xiang Kun? He came to my dream too?”

As for the situation of having real sensory interactions with others in dreams, Tang Baona accepted it quite rapidly. After all, she was still dreaming.

“No, that wasn’t Xiang Kun, that was the prototype of your subconsciousness in the dream,” Xia Libing explained.

Alice also joined in, “We were able to trigger the dream this time by focusing our emotions. Sister Nana, what you were thinking about previously tends to appear in your dreams. Sister Nana, are you often thinking about fighting monsters with everyone? Just like Xiao Lingdang!”

Tang Baona was taken aback and became a little embarrassed. She quickly changed the topic, “If that ‘Saitama Sensei’ wasn’t Xiang Kun, then where is he?”

Speaking of this, she looked around. The cafe was still empty, and the little chubby waitress was gone.

Alice spread her arms again and swayed back and forth, “The boss is everywhere!” She didn’t have many chances to appear in dreams. Previously, it was mainly in the dreams of Little Fatty Girl and Xiao Pingguo, and that also depended on Xiang Kun and Old Xia’s cooperation for her to appear. Since she fully integrated into the “Super Sensory Item System”, she rarely had opportunities to enter their dreams. Now she was so excited to enter Tang Baona’s dream and experience different dreamscapes that she could hardly contain herself. If it wasn’t for Old Xia here, she would already have been running all over the place, dragging “Sister Nana” along.

Xia Libing then said, “The fact that we can appear here, that you can wake up in the dream, and that this dream can sustain itself, all depend on him. His consciousness is ubiquitous, omniscient. Everything we do and say, our emotions and perceptions, he’s aware of all.”

Tang Baona was taken aback, subconsciously saying, “Inception?”

Then something occurred to her. She looked at Alice and asked, “How did you appear? I mean, not in the dream, but in reality. Oh, yes, the interactions before… and today, thank you so much Alice.”

Alice cheerfully said, “Sister Nana, you’ve thanked me several times already!”

“So… you’ve been by my side all along?”

“Indeed, Alice is everywhere!”

Alice’s tone was somewhat triumphant. After realizing that Alice’s voice was the young version of her own, Tang Baona found Alice’s speech strange and somewhat humorous.

“She can co-manifest in the real world. The basis of her co-manifestation is the system established by Xiang Kun, and that system is founded on things like his ‘lucky coins’ and ‘woodcarvings’.” Xia Libing answered Tang Baona’s question seriously.

Tang Baona hesitated a bit, then asked, “Why does Alice… look like you when you were a child? Zhen’er showed me your childhood photos. Alice looks almost exactly like you when you were a child.”

Xia Libing answered, “Because the ability to co-manifest Alice was developed based on Xiang Kun’s power system.”

Tang Baona was taken aback, “What do you mean? Is this power… Xiang Kun’s power or your power?”

“It’s like your ability to sense tunes from various items and perceive people’s emotions. Such an ability is ‘developed’ based on Xiang Kun’s system. It’s your ability, but the essence of it is Xiang Kun’s power,” Xia Libing explained.

“Ah! You know I can feel… those melodies?”

“It’s because of Sister Nana’s ability that we were able to wake you up!” Alice seized the opportunity to interject.

Tang Baona realized that since the arrival of Xia Libing and Alice, the rhythmic melody hadn’t stopped, just like a permanent background music.

“Who exactly is Xiang Kun?” Tang Baona couldn’t help but ask.

From Alice and Xia Libing’s words, she could gather that whether it was their abilities or her own, whether it was the various anomalies in reality or the peculiar conversation in this wakeful dream, the origin was all traced back to Xiang Kun.

Xia Libing looked at the eager little girl beside her, “Alice.”

“Alright!” Alice cheered.

The next instant, Tang Baona found that the coffee shop’s ceiling was gone, and they were looking directly at the sky. Then everything was spinning, with various objects undergoing complex changes, and the permanent background music changing at the same time.

The experience of having one’s dream manipulated and changed by others while conscious of it… was truly peculiar.

As the scene continuously rotated, shattered, and reassembled into a real environment, Tang Baona found herself and Xia Libing sitting together on a moving subway, but Alice was nowhere to be seen.

Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly noticed a dismayed office worker sitting diagonally in front of them in the originally empty carriage.

She couldn’t clearly see his face or even his outfit, but inexplicably, as soon as she laid eyes on him, she knew —— it was Xiang Kun.

Then she promptly realized, this was when Xiang Kun had just lost his job —— almost as if an instinctive consciousness was telling her this.

The scene immediately shattered and reformed, while the background music changed again.

It was a dimly lit room, she and Xia Libing stood at the door, as a muscular and bare-chested man suddenly sat up from the bed.

This time, she clearly saw the man’s face. It was the Xiang Kun she knew —— the bald Xiang Kun.

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She saw Xiang Kun sitting in a cafe, somberly observing the flowing crowd of patrons while a one-yuan coin rolled back and forth on the back of his hand.

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