Star Railway: The Pioneer's Journey

Chapter 283 An Unexpected Start

It was interrupted.

Never mind, we need to focus on the important matters.

Yun silently got off Lan and coughed lightly:

"What is it?"

Xing had already fainted, so March 7th quickly dragged her away.

Himeko answered Yunzhi's question: "We have already defeated the culprit."

"ah."

Yun nodded meaninglessly: "So, should we start thinking about where to go next?"

Walter took off his broken glasses and changed them: "More importantly... was it you who summoned General Jingyuan?"

Shence?

Upon hearing the important name, Lan raised an eyebrow.

Yun Zhi lazily shook her head: "Obviously not."

Himeko rested her chin on her hand, pondering, "Then, why did General Jingyuan come to Pinocchio?"

Yun Zhi remained calm: "What do you think?"

There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone that was almost imperceptible.

It's true what they say: once you're in a fish market, you don't notice the stench anymore. We've been trapped in it since the beginning, and now, who's going to wake up?

Walter seemed to have just remembered that Yun had actually mentioned something to him before.

"Awake, we're lost in a dream... So, are we dreaming right now?"

Upon hearing this, March 7th, who hadn't gone far, trembled and loosened his grip, causing the unconscious Xing to fall to the ground with a particularly painful "thud."

It sounds painful.

Dan Heng's eyes widened: "Could it be that everything we just experienced... was...?"

In my dream, I obtained a perfect world.

Everyone has triumphed, and they too must now set off to explore the next world.

But what if all of this is fake?

What will they become?

"By trapping such a large number of guests in a dream, are these guys declaring war on nearly half the world's powers?"

Dan Heng found it unbelievable.

Yun Zhi shrugged: "Be more confident. Maybe they're not declaring war, but just overestimating themselves."

Right.

The train crew looked at Yunzhi, then at the [Hunter] Star God himself behind Yunzhi.

If you don't feel good about yourself, how could you be so foolish as to try to deal with the Star God and the number one person below the Star God using mortal methods?

"so--"

The moment the illusion was revealed, the surrounding environment suddenly changed.

Dark light enveloped every corner of the train, cold and deep, chilling one to the bone.

Yun was not at all surprised by this change in environment.

"The conclusion is that you have lost your battle against the Dream Master, and now you have simply fallen into a deeper level of the dream."

"And we've been in a dream from the very beginning—until now."

Yun Zhi rubbed his neck: "Xing—you still remember, right?"

Xing lowered her head and began to review everything that had happened since she joined Pinocchio.

Memories of the Realm, the Messenger of Nothingness, the Fictional Historian...

Yunzhi felt as if he could see the "association" bubble from the game next door on Xing's head.

Xing hovered among the bubbles a few times, eliminating several answers, and finally connecting the correct bubbles together—

"Misha..."

She opened her eyes wide and murmured:

"Misha is a memory realm meme. No matter how powerful he is, he can't possibly appear in reality... But before I entered the 'dream' at the Daydream Hotel, I saw Misha at the front desk."

This was a fatal flaw that appeared from the very beginning!

Yun nodded: "Now that we've discovered it, then—"

He raised his hand and clapped it:

"Wake up—"

"Oh dear, I'm not in a good mood right now and I desperately need to find something insignificant to vent my frustrations about."

I'm really not in a good mood.

So now, wake up from this dream and go find that person to vent your anger.

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What does it feel like to wake up from a dream?

Amidst the chaos, Xing's vision was blurred. She saw the chess pieces on the train bouncing, heard Pam's countdown, saw a red light fall, and a robin seemed to be saying something in front of her...

She suddenly opened her eyes.

She is now awake on the sofa in a strange and disordered room.

She rubbed her still slightly dizzy head, stood up, and looked around.

I'm a bit confused, so where am I supposed to go now?

However, Xing's philosophical reflections did not last long.

Because the sound of a black swan rang in my ears—

Come here.

We followed the sound.

Leaving the room, in the even more chaotic corridor, I saw two familiar faces.

This scene feels so familiar...

Xing looked at the two people in front of her.

He asked the question that mattered most to him:

"So, where are Zhi... and Lan?"

Let's leave other things aside for now.

But if she could rely on the elders, Xing still felt that she should have gone to find Yunzhi in the first place.

When faced with an unknown problem, is there a problem with a child's first thought to ask the most capable person for help?

No problem at all.

"Don't worry, True Lord and [Hunting] Star God have already awakened—perhaps they only see this place as a catalyst for their relationship, otherwise they wouldn't have fallen into this 'Dream of Taiyi' in the first place, right?" Black Swan's smile was a little stiff.

Is it just my imagination that everything feels like a strange play between these two people?

Xing is even stranger:

"So, he was taken away by the Immortal Boat Alliance on Sunday..."

"That's why I said it's impossible for the True Lord and the [Hunter] to fall into a dream."

The black swan seemed to be gritting its teeth a bit:

"because--"

"The guests from the Immortal Boat Alliance, even if they are not living people, are protected by the power of the True Lord, which is why they can move freely in this Dream of Taiyi."