What It's Like Being a Vampire

Chapter 571: Chapter 571: Dreamland Ranger

Tang Baona finally regained her composure after being “infected” with laughter from Yang Zhen Er, and said, “I had a fun dream last night too…”

“Nana, did you dream about Ultraman Turkey too?” Yang Zhen Er asked.

“Turkey, my foot!” Tang Baona glared at her, picked up the meat bun she just placed on the plate and stuffed it into her mouth.

Yang Zhen Er bit the meat bun happily with her tilted head.

Sensing that Tang Baona seemed a bit shy and hesitant to express herself, Xiang Kun immediately asked, “Nana, what dream did you have last night? How was it fun?”

She finally answered his question, “I dreamed that I was performing in a large venue with a mask on. I was singing when someone suddenly stormed onto the stage…”

While eating her bun, Yang Zhen Er couldn’t help but ask, “What do you mean by storming? Did he propose to you with flowers?”

“Not in your wildest dreams!” Tang Baona flicked her friend’s forehead, then couldn’t help but laugh. “The guy who caused the disruption jumped on stage with a loudspeaker and started shouting, ‘This singer is a fraud~ It’s an AI conspiracy~ They’re brainwashing us blablabla’.”

Yang Zhen Er, bun in one hand and the other on her forehead, laughed and said, “Haha, you’re the big villain in your dream, Nana, a fake star who’s brainwashing all of humanity! Maybe it’s because we were discussing creating a virtual singer yesterday and you felt like it was deceiving the audience, so you felt guilty and dreamed about being the boss of the villains…”

“What boss of the villains? What are you even talking about? Ugh, just focus on eating your bun. Listen to me, the interesting part is still to come!'” Tang Baona said helplessly.

“Yes, yes, you go on, Nana. If Old Three interrupts again, I won’t let her eat her bun.” Xiang Kun chuckled and pretended to snatch the meat bun from Yang Zhen Er’s hand.

Old Three quickly reclined and showed her clenched fist to Xiang Kun.

Tang Baona continued, “The guy who was causing the disruption leapt onto the stage, and in my dream, I was scared and didn’t know what to do. The singing stopped and the audience fell silent. Then a security guard jumped up, picked up the guy, and threw him back down. And then there were a bunch of people causing disruptions again and as they climbed up, he would throw them back down.”

When Yang Zhen Er finished eating her bun, she couldn’t help but ask, “That security guy… did he have hair?”

This comment tickled Tang Baona so much that she burst into laughter, almost in tears, nodding as she laughed, “He was bald… ”

“I knew it. If Nana’s concert was disrupted, Xiang Kun would definitely stand up. Wait, where am I then, Nana? If Xiang Kun is there, then I should be there too! Nana, I can’t believe you didn’t dream of me. I’m your number one fan, your top bodyguard with a knife!”

Tang Baona laughed for a good while before saying, “The security guard in my dream was indeed Xiang Kun, but then there were too many people trying to cause a disruption. That’s when Xiang Kun, the security guard, starts to work his magic. He ripped off his shirt, shouted ‘Get lost’ and a lightning strike came down from the sky, throwing all the disrupters away! And then the lightning just kept coming down one after another, directed by Xiang Kun to the people. And I continued singing in my dream, with the thunder sounding just like a drum, hitting exactly on the beat. Xiang Kun was also dancing in the lightning, doing that Savage New Island dance, it was so funny… It’s all your fault, Yang Zhen Er for constantly interrupting me and ruining the rhythm, it’s not as fun anymore when I tell it.”

“No way, I think it’s very interesting. It’s perfect for eating with, hehe.” Yang Zhen Er laughed and said, “But I still want to ask, where am I, Nana? Why didn’t you dream about me?”

Tang Baona rolled her eyes at her: “Did you dream about me then? And don’t you dare tell me I was that turkey!”

Yang Zhen Er was stunned: “Oh right, I strangely enough didn’t dream about Nana, that’s magical.”

Xiang Kun looked at Xia Libing and half-jokingly asked: “Old Xia, did you have any dreams?”

Although Yang Zhen Er and Tang Baona only recounted their dreams from the previous night as amusing narratives, Xiang Kun had keenly determined from certain elements of their dreams and their clear recollection of the dream narratives and details that their dreams might not be ordinary ones. Normally, the details of spontaneous dreams are hard to clearly recall upon awakening, but both Yang Zhen Er and Tang Baona described the environment and details of their dreams very clearly. This feature is more consistent with the dreams induced by “Emotion Infused Objects”.

However, in response to his question, Xia Libing shook her head: “I slept soundly until dawn.”

Old Xia wasn’t affected by the dreams?

This is probably irrelevant to the surrounding “Emotion Infused Objects”, “Super-connected Objects”, and their connection level in the “Super Sensory Item System”. It might just be a simple emotional trigger, and it just so happened that Old Xia doesn’t have this specific emotion.

But that doesn’t seem right, either. Normally, there should be a clear emotional type bias and corresponding emotional projection with emotional triggers. But based on the dream descriptions given by Nana and Yang Lao San, the types of emotions they were provoked with seem different, and there were no characteristic emotional projections.

For now, in the entire “Super Sensory Item System”, besides Xiang Kun, there is no one else who can induce dreams. Even Old Xia, who possesses the ability to edit “Dream in A Dream”, needs Xiang Kun to first create a dream foundation and pull her into the dream.

Did Nana and Yang Lao San acquire dream-related abilities?

But at least Xiang Kun has the ability to perceive others’ dreams, whereas they’re dreaming themselves and perceiving what Xiang Kun has done through their dreams?

Isn’t this ability too… outrageous?

Xiang Kun thought about it. That’s unlikely.

He quickly remembered, besides him, there was another person who could independently dream and construct special dreamscapes within the “Super Sensory Item System”:

Liu Shiling.

He once, through “Emotion Infused Objects”, sensed and entered Little Fatty Girl’s half-completed dream. Later on, when Old Xia and Little Fatty Girl co-dreamed, it was further proven that Little Fatty Girl indeed had a strong dream-making ability.

Could it be that Little Fatty Girl has “developed” the ability to induce dreams, and that Yang Lao San and Nana’s special dreams last night were both triggered by her?

Come to think of it, it seems that every time he uses the preliminary ability of “Electric Mastery Flight” on a large scale, causing a wide-area thunderstorm, Little Fatty Girl always has a somewhat dazed and unconscious feeling, which subsequently leads to “development” and “advancement” of her abilities.

Even when he himself fell into a deep, blood-consuming slumber, his consciousness was awakened by Little Fatty Girl’s dazed “Hyperstimulation” of the super-connected item, allowing him to enter the deep super sensory information.

Xiang Kun looked at the time. It was already past eight, and Little Fatty Girl had gone to school. Therefore, he first called Xiao Pingguo and found out that she did not have dreams last night.

After breakfast, Yang Zhen Er and Tang Baona went to town. They were looking for a new place to work in town. “QianKun Technology” planned to continue expanding and hire many more people, so the temporary office space they had rented before was no longer enough.

With the help of Chu Xiuwen, Liu Caifu, and Liu Feibao, and the sufficient funds of QianKun Technology, this endeavor was not difficult. Even the local government of Tongshi Town would fully cooperate. QianKun Technology, thanks to the popularity of Genesis of Voice, had gained quite a bit of fame. This promising tech company was a treasure for Tongshi Town and even Jianzhou City.

Xia Libing went to the research base to receive a batch of new equipment scheduled to arrive today. After Xiang Kun had found the behavior patterns of the Ultimate Predator and resolved or shielded related threats, Old Xia could soon begin relevant research and those labs would come in handy.

Because of this, the research base, with the funds injected by Xiang Kun from Teng Jiao Interactive Entertainment, had expanded beyond the original plan.

As for Xiang Kun himself, he stayed in the village under the pretext of dealing with some game codes.

Of course, he wasn’t going to write code. He wanted to further perfect his plan. The encounter with the mutated big bird last night had provided him with much new information about the Ultimate Predator, which required some adjustments to his plan.

The mutated big bird, this “tool”, was ready. The main target was Mr. Liang.

However, his plan did not require him to take action personally. With the Super Sensory Item System and Alice, he could stay behind the scenes.

On the other hand, Xiang Kun was still puzzling over Nana and Yang Lao San’s dreamland from last night, trying to figure out what triggered it.

Although he had been dealing with the mutated big bird last night and didn’t monitor Nana and Old San’s super sensory information in real-time, it was hard to recap and trace back the changes happening at the level of their consciousness and dreamland. But if the dreamland was indeed triggered by the Super Sensory Item System, it must have been activated through Emotion Infused Objects or Super-connected Objects. Therefore, starting with the “Emotion Infused Objects” and “Super-connected Objects” around Nana and Old San, some clues could be found.

Xiang Kun soon found the “clue” – Nana and Old San’s “Super-connected coins” had deep connections with the Little Fatty Girl.

Obviously, when the two spent a lot of time with the Little Fatty Girl in Peng City, they often played various games with coins as props. Their “Super-connected coins” unknowingly established a strong association with the Little Fatty Girl. Now, although the degree of the association is not as strong as that with the Little Fatty Girl’s own five large coins, it could be put to use by her.

Looking back through the traces of super sensory information, it was indeed found that the “Super-connected coins” carried by Old San and Nana had been used last night. The effect was not triggered through “emotion infused objects”, but was directly linked with Little Fatty Girl in Peng City.

Given this, it was almost certain who was behind the dreamland.

However, what puzzled him was why Little Fatty Girl didn’t appear in Nana’s dreamland. If it was Little Fatty Girl who triggered the dreamland, there should be a corresponding projection of her in the dreamland — after all, she couldn’t purely sense others’ dreams like Xiang Kun, but had to partake in the dreams.

So when Alice informed Xiang Kun that the Little Fat Girl had finished her third class in the morning, he established a call with her through the smartwatch bought for her by Yang Zhen’er.

“Little Bells, did you listen attentively in class?” Xiang Kun asked.

Little Fatty Girl knew that Aunt Qin was going to pick up her third-grade daughter first and would take a while to come and pick her up, so she didn’t leave the classroom immediately. Instead, she lay on the table, lifting her smartwatch to talk to Xiang Kun, “I didn’t listen in class.”

Hearing her matter-of-fact tone, Xiang Kun laughed, “Then what were you doing in class?”

Before continuing, Little Fatty Girl raised her head to check the platform and make sure the teacher was not in the classroom. Then she whispered, “The teacher’s lecture was too simple, I already knew all that. I was secretly learning second-grade content.”

Xiang Kun laughed, “Well, Xiao Lingdang is very diligent. However, don’t get too tired.”

“I’m not tired, I’m just pressed for time. I’m learning too slowly.” Little Fatty Girl sounded a little worried.

“There’s no rush. We’ve got all the time in the world. By the way, Xiao Lingdang, did you have any dreams last night?” Xiang Kun knew that Shiling’s Mom and Zhang Qian had sent a lady named Ms. Qin to pick up Little Fatty Girl and that she was about to arrive at the first grade area. Therefore, he got straight to the point.

“Yes! I had several dreams! I dreamt of Uncle Bald fighting monsters, and I dreamt that I went to kindergarten with Old Immortal Sister to fight turkeys. We couldn’t defeat the turkeys, so Uncle Bald came to help us chop off the turkey’s head, and then we roasted the turkey together. But before it was fully roasted and we could eat it, I had another dream in which I saw Beautiful Sister. Beautiful Sister was singing, and Uncle Bald and I were security guards. Some people came to make trouble, but we beat them away!” Liu Shiling excitedly said.

Xiang Kun thought to himself, ‘Just as I expected.’ However, he was puzzled, “So at Beautiful Sister’s concert, you were also a security guard? Where were you then? Your Beautiful Sister said she didn’t see you.”

“I was in the sky! I was sitting on a magic carpet, following Uncle Bald’s command to strike down the bad guys with lightning!” Liu Shiling raised her voice slightly, “Not all security guards can be together, they must work separately. This way, we can protect Beautiful Sister well.”

As she spoke, Liu Shiling suddenly realized something. With some excitement, she asked, “Uncle Bald, were you really in my dream last night? Were the Beautiful Sister and Old Immortal Sister real too? Can they play with us in our dreams like Roast Chicken Wing Sister? Were you really fighting monsters last night? Was the monster a turkey? Can it be eaten?”

“Uh… Let’s talk about this later.” Xiang Kun said.

Liu Shiling was taken away by the aunt who came to pick her up for lunch, so Xiang Kun ended the conversation with her.

From the fact that Tang Baona didn’t notice Little Fatty Girl ‘flying’ in the dream, it can be seen that the foundation of this dream should originate from Little Fatty Girl, while the various elements in the dream come from Nana.

This Little Fatty Girl actually carried out a dream invasion by herself — albeit only invading the dreams of Nana and Old Three, the two sisters she likes the most. It doesn’t seem like she actively guided or edited the dream, but rather simply threw herself into someone else’s dream.

According to the abilities that Little Fatty Girl has shown, it’s likely that she “imagined” Xiang Kun “fighting monsters” to a certain extent through her self-constructed dream while Xiang Kun was battling the “mutated big bird” and creating a large-scale lightning storm last night. The “super-connected object” near Little Fatty Girl attracted her subconscious attention in her sleep.

However, the continuous influence of the “super-connected object” subsequently supported her subconscious mind in her sleep to do more. So she used the “super-connected coin” near Old Three and Nana that she could call upon, helped them establish a special dream, passed her “story outline” to them, and then blended herself into it.

Essentially, it was like Little Fatty Girl accidentally discovered Xiang Kun was fighting monsters and went enthusiastically to report the news to her two favorite sisters. However, this was done through her subconscious mind during sleep.

Unbeknownst to her, Little Fatty Girl has actually become a “Dream Wanderer.”

However, the reason she can harmoniously and seamlessly integrate people and dreams and appear in other people’s dreams, triggering their dreams without needing “Emotion Infused Objects,” is likely due to her oblivious, confused, and unintentional state.

For Xiang Kun and Old Xia, further studying Little Fatty Girl’s methods of dreaming and entering dreams will definitely help them further develop their ability to “edit” dreams.

It seems that they’ll need to create more lightning storms when they find the time?

The nights of thunder and lightning are when the “Fatty Girl Version Dream Wanderer” sets out. It feels quite exciting to think about it.