Chapter 358: "Hold on a bit longer, the pain will soon be gone." _3
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"Just use your brain and you'll know, this round can't possibly be the deepest level of the dream."
Sitting beside him, Elder Bai shook his head helplessly. It seemed that this old D-level civilization was rather average after all; had no one ever woken from the deep level of dreams?
It didn't seem difficult.
As long as one consumed enough of other people's memories and still kept their primary personality awake, they could easily wake up from the deepest level of the dream.
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Chen Miao gave the man a casual glance and then ignored him. To Chen, such petty taunts weren't even worth responding to, simply too uninteresting.
"I know you really want to win."
The player leading the Firefly Civilization paused for a moment, then stared straight at Chen Miao and said word by word, "How about we make a deal, if you give us eight Civilization Fragments, in the upcoming contests, the Firefly Civilization will throw all the matches, ensuring the victory of your Blue Star Civilization."
"How about it?"
"I know you're tempted, you don't need to look at me that way. You must still have plenty of Civilization Fragments in your pocket, otherwise, you wouldn't have casually eaten four of them just to increase your Strength Value."
The boss had told him that five Civilization Fragments were enough, but the other party was bound to haggle.
So he asked for three more, leaving three Civilization Fragments as a bargaining space.
If the other party really gave eight, then he could keep the remaining three Civilization Fragments for himself, as his own reward. He was quite envious of those things.
"Otherwise... at least in this round, you can't think of defeating us."
The player sneered, unbuttoned his shirt, and revealed a dense array of tattoos on his abdomen: "Allow me to introduce myself, a level 214 'Psychological Counselor', the strongest Hidden Occupation 'Shaman', specializing in the mental domain."
"For instance... do you think I'm standing here talking to you?"
"Actually, I'm right here."
The player standing there suddenly turned into black smoke, and somehow, he had already been lying on a massage chair by the side all along, wearing an eye mask, mouth slightly open with a mocking expression: "I can invade your mental world at will, make your eyes deceive your brain. That's my ability, and in these kinds of mental domain projects, it's impossible for me to lose."
"The opportunity is in front of you, consider it yourselves."
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"..."
Elder Bai, standing still, twitched the corner of his mouth slightly without speaking. Invade his mental world... that was truly impressive. All the memories he absorbed became his alters, billions of them protecting his core personality in the middle.
If you could invade his mental world under such circumstances, that would be really impressive.
He had already seen through it, just too lazy to bother with it; some trifling tricks that were beneath notice.
Chen Miao, on the other hand, slightly raised his eyebrows. He had to admit, the mental domain was not his forte, and he indeed hadn't felt any invasion of his mental world just now, but it didn't matter. Trivial tricks, in the face of an actual battle,
Would all be covered by his firepower.
It didn't matter where you were.
You could be wherever you liked; it was still all going to be covered by firepower. But this did give him a reminder, once he went down, to get something that could boost his Mental Defense Power.
Just then—
A panel popped up again.
"Please all players lie on their respective massage chairs, and take the Dream Potion after 10 seconds. Any premature consumption will be considered an automatic forfeiture."
"Hmph."
The player from the Firefly Civilization didn't expect an immediate response from Chen Miao, given that eight Civilization Fragments were not a small sum. Lying on the massage chair, he said with a smile that was not quite a smile, "Think it over, if we don't throw the game, you're definitely going to lose."
As the countdown ended,
All ten players on the arena platform took the Dream Potion at the same time, plummeting from the first layer of the dream continuously to the third layer, almost simultaneously.
Elder Bai sighed helplessly and sat up from the massage chair: "There's simply no sense of immersion at all."
With billions of players' consciousnesses in his mind, these alters were constantly challenging the position of his core personality, each trying to take its place. Under these conditions, his core personality had become terrifyingly strong.
A mere third-layer dream was really not challenging at all.
In the third layer of the dream, he was like watching a 2D animation. Even if his subconscious constantly told him this was real, as long as he was not an idiot, he wouldn't consider a 2D animation to be a real entity.
And the hardest thing in a dream was not realizing that you're in a dream. As long as you are very clear that you are in a dream, what comes next is much simpler.
"Player": Elder Bai.
"Sleep Time": 0.7s.
The moment the panel popped up, all the players in the audience were stunned.
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"0... 0.7 seconds?"
"Am I seeing this right, did that old man from the Blue Star Civilization just wake up from the third layer of the dream in the blink of an eye?"
"I'm a bit confused too; isn't that speed a bit too fast? Logically, 0.7 seconds isn't even enough time to fall into the third layer of a dream, right?"
"Yeah, there must be some problem, to fall into the third layer of the dream usually requires a lot of time!"
Even Hungry Monkey was a bit confused, saying with a strange look, "Has Elder Bai gotten stronger than before? Even if he could wake up, it never seemed so fast before? Just a blink, and he's awake?"
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