Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 3985 New Citizens
When Ingres got the topic back on track, April 1st's expression became a little embarrassed.

"Ms. Liz is very smart. I just found her after logging off and wanted to talk to her... but before I could open my mouth, she spoke first..."

At that time, Lizzie stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, looking at the city lights outside the window.

Looks like he's in a daze.

When April 1st came out of the guest room, he was about to chat with Liz, but Liz's voice reached his ears first.

"Were you communicating with the person behind you in a dream?"

April 1st looked shocked: "?!!"

He hadn't even opened his mouth yet, how could Lizzie know?
"After you entered the guest room, you did nothing but lay down on the bed. You kept muttering to yourself. I originally thought you were secretly cursing at me, but then I strengthened my hearing and found that you were counting sheep, from one to a hundred..." Lizzie: "Obviously, you were hypnotizing yourself."

April 1st couldn't believe it: "You are spying on me?!"

Lizzie sighed, "Should I say you are naive or innocent? As a magician, it is easy for me to know what happened in my territory, isn't it?"

April 1st was silent.

Lizzie continued, "Under normal circumstances, how could someone force themselves to fall asleep right after waking up? This makes me feel very strange..."

"Then I remembered your schedule yesterday. You went to the pharmacy to buy sleeping pills. I just thought you had insomnia, but judging from your mental state, there was no sign of insomnia."

"Now, considering your self-hypnosis and forced sleep, I can boldly speculate that you have a reason to fall asleep."

"You happened to have mentioned before that you wanted to confirm with the person behind the scenes first, and then you went to the guest room to start self-hypnosis."

"Then the answer is already in front of you."

Lizzie raised her eyes and looked at April 1st: "You and the person behind you can only meet after you fall asleep."

In fact, Lizzie had not yet confirmed it completely when she arrived here, because "meeting in a dream" was too outrageous, until she took the lead and April 1st showed a shocked expression...

April 1st was silent for a long time, as if he was sorting out his emotions.

Two minutes later, he smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't pay enough attention to the details..."

He had been planning to reveal his true feelings on April 1st, but now that Lizzie had guessed it first, he stopped beating around the bush and said directly, "Yes, Mr. Angel and I met in a dream."

"Angel?" Lizzie immediately searched for the name in her mind, but after thinking for a long time, she couldn't think of any magician with this name.

A famous magician in Modern City. Lizzie couldn't say she knew all of him, but she knew his name.

She even knew a lot about the magicians in the underground district.

But now, a magician whose name is unknown suddenly appeared, and he could control dreams. In Lizzie's opinion, April 1st could not control dreams, so it could only be done by this magician named Angel.

This is obviously strange.

Are they outsiders? Or are they members of some underground sect who dare not reveal their real names?
However, being able to control dreams...

Maybe it's a magician from the Dream City?
Lizzie's thoughts raced. After failing to come up with any more information, she could only look at April 1st: "Angel is a foreign magician?"

“No, no, no.” April 1st shook his head: “He is not from Modern City, he is from the dream city.”

"The man in the dream?" Lizzie sneered and did not believe such an explanation.

He is a man who hides his true identity and calls himself the man in my dream. He is definitely not a good person.

But Lizzie didn't express her thoughts right away: "Then what? Did he instruct you to go to Wanzhong Apartment to inquire about the underground group of people?"

April 1: "Mr. Angell didn't ask me to find out about that group of people. He just told me that there are gossipers in the Evening Bell Apartments..."

Lizzie sneered: "He is lying to you."

April 1st quickly shook his head: "You didn't lie to me, this is true. I also got the puzzle of the Bagua spirit, didn't you see it just now..."

Lizzie: "It was just a coincidence."

"In the city of modernity, the only people who can confirm the appearance time and location of fashion monsters in advance are the winners of the three major competitions."

"No one else can know in advance where the fashion monsters are. Not even the head of the Fashion Guild can do that."

"So, this is just a coincidence. Or do you think that the Angel you mentioned is more powerful than the president of the Fashion Guild?"

April 1st wanted to explain himself, but he was completely confused about the magic circle and fashion monsters, so he could only repeatedly emphasize that he believed in Angel.

Lizzie was too lazy to correct the stubborn April 1st and let him continue.

Next, April 1st told everything about his experience and what happened in the box.

The more Lizzie listened, the more her brows furrowed.

What dream of a small garden? What reflection of a modern city? In her opinion, it was all completely false.

"Are you sure you didn't watch 'Sleepwalking in the Culvert' and then imagine this scene?"

April 1st retorted: "It's not a fantasy! And I don't know what sleepwalking culvert is."

"Sleepwalking in the Culvert" is a fairy tale drama. It tells the story of a little girl who, on her way to find her relatives, slipped and fell into a culvert and fell into a coma. The culvert in her dream turned into the entrance to the fairy tale kingdom. After experiencing a series of adventures, she finally woke up from the crisis of eternal sleep, and then tried hard to save herself. Finally, she succeeded and reunited with her family.

Lizzie: "You've watched too much of Sleepwalking, or that Angel is weaving a dream and deceiving you."

April 1st refuted many times and even gave examples.

For example, he had never been to the Sheriff's Office, but he knew what was inside the office.

Also, he found the Modern Coin in Upside Down Alley in District 61, which was also what Angel told him in his dream.

After listening to her, Lizzie said casually, "Have you ever thought that although you have never been to the Sheriff's Office, Angel has been there. If the dream was constructed by him, then he knows what the Sheriff's Office looks like in reality. Isn't it normal?"

"Also, the money in Upside Down Alley could have been arranged by him."

In short, the so-called dream of the sandbox that April 1st talked about was completely false in Lizzie's view.

Judging from the sincere expression on April 1st, he probably didn't make it up.

Then the only possibility is that Ingres is behind this.

Faced with Liz's disbelief, April 1st didn't know how to prove it, because Liz's logic was actually self-consistent.

If April 1st had not experienced it himself in the sandbox and confirmed the "reality" of everything there, he might have been convinced by Liz.

Lizzie: "Real? The feelings in the dream are all fake."

April 1: "It's different. That kind of reality is exactly the same as reality. Moreover, everything in the box reflects reality, not the dream woven by Mr. Ingres."

April 1st repeatedly emphasized reality, but Lizzie had never been exposed to a sandbox and had no feeling for this kind of "reality".

In the absence of equal information, neither side can convince the other.

Finally, Lizzie suddenly said, "Well, since you insist that the dream in the box garden is a reflection of reality and that everything in reality exists there, then you can prove it to me."

April 1: "How to prove it?"

Lizzie raised her hand and pointed to a painting on the wall.

"There is something hidden behind this painting of mine, and no one knows it except me. After you fall into the dream, go to the so-called box garden you mentioned and see what is hidden behind this painting. Then tell me the answer after you wake up. As long as what you say is right, I believe in the dream of the box garden."

The method Lizi mentioned is a feasible proof.

but……

April 1st: "Everything in the small garden is the same as in reality, including the security team and various security guards. I have no way of entering your room."

Lizzie sneered: "This is Angel's limit. He uses the laws and rules of reality to restrict the scope of your actions in your dream. All your actions and everything you experience were created by Angel in advance."

"That's why you can't do anything extraordinary in your dream, and you can't get any extraordinary information."

After listening to Lizzie's words, April 1st understood that once Lizzie had already made up her mind, she would rationalize all the speculations that favored her position.

Even if April 1st emphasized that the sandbox, like reality, needed to abide by the existing rules of the city, Lizzie would only think that this was the limit of Ingres' dreaming.

April 1st gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, are you sure what's behind this painting? I'll try it now."

He still remembered that Ingres seemed to have a good relationship with Lizzie in the sandbox.

Perhaps we can ask Lizzie in the sandbox to determine the answer to the question.

……

"Then, Lizzie gave me a sleeping pill, and I fell asleep soon after taking it..."

After April 1st finished telling his experience, he looked up at Ingres.

"That's just the way it is."

April 1st said cautiously, "So, can you ask Ms. Lizzie in the box garden?"

Seeing that Angel didn't say anything, April 1st showed an apologetic look on his face: "I actually don't want to involve Ms. Lizzie in the box garden, but now this is the only way to make her in reality believe in the existence of the box garden..."

Angel: "Okay, I understand. I'll contact Lizzie now."

Ingres said so, but in fact, when he told the story on April 1, he had already locked onto Lizzie's home from a God's perspective.

Behind that painting, there is another painting.

To be precise, there is a graffiti behind the painting, an extremely lively graffiti.

Angel recognized it at a glance. This was the "surveillance" created by Graffiti Boy's ability.

However, although Angel already knew the answer, he did not tell April 1st immediately. Instead, he planned to tell April 1st through Lizzie later.

But then again, even without this incident, I could still prove the existence of the small garden to Lizzie in reality.

Because, the fairyland mission I received on April 1st...

On the other hand, when April 1st heard that Angel could contact Lizzie now, he suddenly thought of the text he had just seen.

"By the way, sir, the text I just saw is also related to Ms. Lizzie!"

Angel was still thinking about how to change the topic to the Wonderland mission, but now that April 1st brought it up himself, Angel immediately followed his words and asked, "What instructions did the great being give you?"

April 1st nodded.

He quickly told Ingres what he had seen.

"Special mission: New people."

"Task Overview: As a special "Dream" citizen, you have triggered the mechanism of reality anchoring. When you come into contact with others in reality and spread information about the fairyland, you can trigger the anchoring effect. When you come into contact with the anchor again in the fairyland, you can develop the anchored object into a new "Dream" citizen."

"Mission objective: Contact Lizi in the fairyland and develop her into a "dream" citizen."

"Attention: New "dreaming" citizens will log in directly to the original body of the wonderland. The dream state will disappear and the original body will return to normal."

Although Angel had read the information about the fairyland before, he was still surprised when April 1st said it.

April 1st Perhaps because of the proper noun, I don’t quite understand the meaning of this task.

But Ingres knew the significance of this mission very well.

This is equivalent to transforming Lizzie from an ordinary NPC into a dream NPC!

However, it is worth mentioning that the dream state of Lizzie's transformation is more like Uriel in the Uriel copy. After entering the dream, she will occupy the original body in the copy, but when she returns to reality, the body in the copy will turn back into an ordinary gifted citizen.

This is still different from the situation on April 1st.

I will be offline on April 1st. Similar to the Challenger, my body will disappear when I go offline.

Perhaps this is the difference between the first generation of dreamers and the second generation of dreamers?

Which one is better? Angle couldn't judge, but the situation on April 1 was too special, so he personally tended to think that the situation on April 1 was more favorable.

Let’s get back to this task.

This is also the first "exclusive mission" that Angel has seen.

This means that this is a task that belongs exclusively to April 1st. Does that also mean that April 1st is the only one who has the ability to anchor?
"Is this my exclusive mission?" April 1st showed confusion on his face: "What does it mean to dream? What is the fairyland? What do anchor points and anchoring represent?"

After reading this task on April 1st, I actually had some vague guesses in my mind.

But because there were many nouns he didn't recognize, he couldn't be sure. He could only look at Ingres, hoping to get an explanation from him.

Angel: "The dream state actually means the awakened one, which is your current situation. And the wonderland is the box garden I mentioned before... Let me add that the great existence I mentioned before is actually the manipulator of the power of the wonderland, but I don't know who it is. Maybe the manipulator of the power of the wonderland is the world itself?"

After all, the mission has been revealed and Angel is no longer hiding it.

Some knowledge about the Wonderland copy was simply popularized to April 1st.