Chapter 314 - Chapter 314: Chapter 314: Quagmire (1/2)

Chapter 314: Chapter 314: Quagmire

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When Xiang Kun got back home, it was already very late. His parents who usually didn’t stay up late were asleep. He went to his room and started to ponder the ability he got from Old Xia – the ability to co-manifest objects from dreams in reality.

Xiang Kun temporarily named this ability “Illusion Reality”.

Although this ability, which seemed a bit childish and incredibly powerful, was in practice only able to co-manifest a “Napoleon Cake” or a “Crispy Pig’s Elbow”.

As far as it currently stood, compared to the abilities he had “developed” for Little Fatty Girl and Xiao Pingguo, his understanding of this ability was even more superficial, only being able to co-manifest two types of food that Old Xia could co-manifest. He could not, like Old Xia, use these two foods as a basis to change into various forms in his dreams. At most, his ability to “call upon” was stronger, and he could maintain the “co-manifestation” longer than Old Xia, but he still could not derive other aspects from this ability.

This probably had to do with the fact that Old Xia’s process of “developing” this ability was completed in her dreams, which created a barrier in Xiang Kun’s understanding of it– but if it were not in the dreamland, Old Xia probably could not “develop” this ability.

Xiang Kun sat at his desk, once again co-manifested a Napoleon Cake into his hand, and carefully observed it.

The layered puff pastry, cream, and chocolate chips, etc., all appeared very distinct and real to the eyes, and the aroma was very clearly conveyed to the brain through the sense of smell. The feeling in his hand was also very clear. Whether it was the weight or the touch, everything felt realistic.

Xiang Kun slowly brought the cake to his mouth, stuck out his tongue to take a lick, but just as he was about to taste it, the cake disappeared without warning.

Whether it was the sight, smell, or touch, everything vanished without a trace. Even with Xiang Kun’s current super-sensory abilities, he could not detect any trace of its disappearance.

He then co-manifested the Crispy Pig’s Elbow, but like the cake, it looked, felt, and smelled real, but whenever he tried to eat it or try to break off or pinch a piece, it would disappear.

This feeling gave him the impression of a program that was not fully developed, as if some functions were still missing, but when the user forcefully attempted to use these functions, it would not respond at all, but directly exit the program, effectively going on a “strike”.

Xiang Kun tried to record the co-manifested cake using his phone, but although he could see the cake on the phone screen, once he pressed the record button, the cake instantly vanished.

He brought the cake back and tried to take a video, but again as soon as he pressed the record button, it vanished.

This made him very confused. In theory, he didn’t use the flash, so taking a simple photo should not have any effect on the material existence, right?

Could it be that it really was just an illusion, so it could not be captured by light-sensitive devices?

But it shouldn’t be…

Xiang Kun again entered his “Super Sensory State”, attempting to observe the co-manifested food with his sixth sense in this special state, but in the “Super Sensory State”, he saw nothing, and when he exited the “Super Sensory State”, he found that both the cake and the pig’s elbow that he had co-manifested were gone.

It seemed that when he entered the “Super Sensory State”, the co-manifested food could not be maintained.

So Xiang Kun thought, if Old Xia co-manifested it, could he observe it in his “Super Sensory State”?

Since he could use “Emotion Infused Objects” to jump in the “Super Sensory State”, he didn’t necessarily have to be by Old Xia’s side to do this.

So he began to monitor whether Old Xia was using her ability through the three coins, but strangely, Old Xia showed no signs of doing so. Clearly, on the way back home earlier, Old Xia had been using it frequently, seemingly addicted to “playing” with it.

He sensed the emotion-infused chopsticks and did not receive any emotional feedback from Old Xia. Based on his experience, Old Xia was likely asleep.

However, because the ability of the “Emotion Infused Objects” to trigger dreams could not be used consecutively on the same person and had a cooldown period, even if Old Xia was sleeping now, he could not trigger her dreams again.

However, Xiang Kun found something strange, based on his assessment of Old Xia, the discovery that she could co-manifest the two types of food appeared in her dreams in reality and have them appear incredibly real in front of her, she should have been excited as if discovering a new continent. She should have “played” with it for at least an hour or two. Just like on the road earlier, he could feel her frequent and continuous use of her abilities.

Could she really have been too tired?

But didn’t she just wake up from a nap?

Xiang Kun entered his “Super Sensory State”, and his perception directly arrived near the emotion-infused chopsticks. Through the cognitive information nearby, he quickly confirmed Old Xia’s presence.

He was now very familiar with Old Xia’s cognitive information in the “Super Sensory State”, and he wouldn’t mistake it for anything else. Moreover, under the “Super Sensory State”, those three super-connected coins stood out like three distinct lighthouse beacons.

He still didn’t know how to determine whether someone was asleep or awake in the “Super Sensory State” using these cognitive informations, but judging from the structure of the wooden furniture around Old Xia, she was not lying in bed but was sitting at a desk.

Xiang Kun then realized that Old Xia was probably summarizing her findings after her consecutive “experiments”.

It might be because Old Xia had several “Emotion Infused” items from Xiang Kun in her room, including the lyric calligraphy, the black circle graffiti, and the homemade chopsticks, which have a certain enhancing effect on Xiang Kun’s perception. He felt that his current collection and retrieval of cognitive information around him were considerably stronger than when he usually used this method.

However, after sensing Old Xia and the cognitive information around her, Xiang Kun noticed something wrong. Old Xia basically had no interaction with the cognitive information in her surrounding environment. So her state was either sitting at the desk in a daze or… sleeping with her head on the table?

A daze, probably wouldn’t last this long. Could she really have been too tired and fallen asleep on the table?

Could it be that her continuous ability activation through the three coins earlier put a great strain on Old Xia?

Just as Xiang Kun was thinking about this, he suddenly sensed a change in the cognitive information representing Old Xia’s body.

Then he sensed that a laptop computer nearby was turned on. Such electronic devices were the most accurately identified by Xiang Kun in his “Super Sensory State”, and he could also make relatively precise impacts, such as causing the computer to power off, or the screen to malfunction, causing the phone to lose signal, the screen to be non-responsive, etc.

Of course, he would not interfere with Old Xia’s laptop, he figured that Old Xia was either looking up related information through the internet or recording her observations?

He wondered what Old Xia’s judgments and perceptions, and what her thoughts would be on this phenomenon?