Published: March 2, 2025
Kong Liu nodded, "Indeed, the best way to make contact is to meet. Claire will definitely arrive in the City of Sin in three days, which will trouble Klaus."
Klaus didn’t seem to have any expression of trouble—or rather, he didn’t dare to show one. He repeatedly nodded to Wen Yu and Kong Liu, "It’s my honor!"
...
After inquiring about the direction of the forward military camp and borrowing an item from Klaus, Wen Yu walked out of the Red Stone Grand Hotel, heading towards the military camp.
Combat Power Detector (a-rank item): capable of actively detecting the physical fitness of the target.
This item was the tool Klaus used to verify Wen Yu and Kong Liu's identities.
Detection devices are quite common, especially those that can measure physical fitness.
There are more advanced ones that can detect a target's profession and even their skill levels!
However, such items are exceedingly rare; at least, Wen Yu and Kong Liu didn’t have one on them.
As for the even more advanced items that can fully detect all skills possessed by a target, Wen Yu had never even heard of such things—even from Kong Liu or Lin Haifeng.
But none of this was important. The ability to pull Wen Yu into a dream and make it indistinguishable from reality required a power level of at least the peak of level 4!
Thus, for Wen Yu, the combat power detector he had was sufficient.
...
The location of the forward military camp had already been burned to ruins, leaving nothing useful behind.
Not only that, but there were hardly any survivors left around—after all, it was a military restricted area. The massive deaths of soldiers had long led nearby survivors to believe this was an ominous place. Once valuable items from the camp were moved away, naturally, no one would come here again.
After investigating the ruins for half a day but finding no valuable information, Wen Yu decisively turned back and began wandering aimlessly. Meanwhile, lines of information flowed rapidly across his glasses.
"Ding, initial level three."
"Ding, level 1 peak."
"Ding, initial level one."
Various pieces of information flooded before Wen Yu’s eyes, but he didn’t discover anything useful.
A few hours later, Wen Yu returned to the Red Stone Grand Hotel, casually ate dinner, and directly went back to his room.
...
As night fell, the bright moonlight slowly spilled onto the earth.
Wen Yu held a glass of red wine, carefully appreciating the moonlight outside, summarizing all the intelligence he had gathered today, while thoughts kept flashing through his mind.
"Last night, the first segment of the dream lasted the longest! However, feeling it now, that dream was very unreal, while the second and third segments were not much different from reality! Or rather, there was basically no difference, but the duration was very short."
"From this, it seems that the more real the dream environment created by that unknown existence, the shorter the duration—so it can be basically confirmed that I am indeed in reality."
"However, the most critical point is..."
"What does that unknown existence actually want?"
This was the core issue—only by knowing the opponent's purpose could targeted measures be taken; otherwise, any plan would be futile.
Wen Yu recalled the three segments of dreams from last night.
The first dream seemed like a simple nightmare, but there were some unusual elements—the giant light shadow that appeared at the end and the sound of a cat meowing.
The second dream resembled a prank.
The third dream, however, conveyed much that seemed useless but was actually profound.
Carefully reflecting on everything that happened in the third dream, the look of confusion in Wen Yu's eyes deepened.
"Is it trying to tell me something, or..."
Wen Yu squinted, while his brain raced.
After a while, Wen Yu swallowed the last sip of wine, fell onto his bed, emptied his mind, and slowly drifted into sleep.
Since he couldn’t figure out the purpose, he would try again! Wen Yu couldn’t stay awake indefinitely, and it was very likely that this was a divine beast species with dream abilities that meant no harm.