Please Stop Summoning Me!

Chapter 73

Su Ling felt herself falling.

Falling.

Falling.

Continuing downwards.

Plummeting.

Everything around her was changing, but she was gradually becoming conscious and realizing that she was in a dream.

No, not just dreaming.

She was entering a dream world.

The next moment, she sat up.

Su Ling found herself still on the slightly larger bed, but the two people on her left had disappeared, and there was no longer a sense of crowding. This was still the same inn, the room on the second floor, with identical furnishings, except for the lack of people.

 

"No, that's not right, I'm dreaming."

She immediately shook her head and lightly tapped her chest, giving herself a mental suggestion.

 

"Su Ling, you must remember that you are just dreaming and cannot get lost."

 

Su Ling got up from the bed.

"This should be the first level of the dream world."

 

Everyone's dreams are divided into three levels, corresponding to the "reality level" of common sense, the "fantasy level" of imagination, and the "primitive level" of instinctual desire. When people dream, they randomly wander through the three levels of dreams, creating dreams that are interwoven with reality, fantasy, and primal desire.

It is said that if one dives deeper into the dream world from the deepest level of the primitive dream, one can enter the legendary soul dimension. The souls of all life forms in the universe exist in the unique soul dimension.

Su Ling drew her black sword and pushed open the door, walking out into the corridor of the inn. The dark corridor was empty, just like in the real world. A dream in the reality level.

 

Su Ling knew that there should not be any danger here.

But the man had warned her.

 

"Miracle White... he's a pseudo-god, I should be careful."

"Confirm his situation or eliminate him directly."

That was the task the man had given her.

Su Ling fell into thought.

'Why did Mr. Shen make me come in here? With his immense powers, why didn't he do it himself?'

 

She couldn't quite figure it out, but she could confirm one thing. This man was not simple, and his strength far surpassed hers. There must be a deeper meaning behind the actions he had instructed her to take.

And she had been caught with no way to resist.

She could only follow orders.

Su Ling had already come out of the inn, and the street was dark and empty, quiet with no one around. Not even the sound of insects could be heard. Dead silence, with only Su Ling alone in this place.

No, there were two other people in the dream world. Tina, who was suffering from nightmares, and Miracle White, who was entangling her in her dreams.

Su Ling tore off a piece from her sleeve and muttered a few spells and the black cloth fragment wriggled and gradually turned into a black origami crane in her palm. This was the intangible technique of finding people in dreams. They held hands in reality, so they had a "connection" and "bond" in the dream.

The origami crane flew high, and it was fast.

In the dream world, there was no need for disguise, and Su Ling was agile enough to jump directly onto the roof of a house and quickly catch up to them.

Her slender body moved along the rooftop, feeling the wind flowing on both sides of her cheeks as she chased after the black origami crane, running forward. Using her extraordinary body without any concealment between the cities, she constantly leaped between the buildings, feeling a sense of pleasure that far surpassed that of driving.

She enjoyed this kind of happiness, following the black origami crane all the way to South Beland.

The target of the origami crane was an ordinary apartment.

"Is that where the girl lives?"

Across from the apartment was a tall building, about a hundred meters above ground, Su Ling stood at the edge of the high-rise rooftop, her feet on the thin railing, looking down at the black paper crane.

 

It flew into the apartment and disappeared into a room on the third floor.

"The root of the reality layer is the family? A very common root, for those who are attached to their family."

Su Ling felt that the black paper crane had disappeared, or more precisely, disappeared from this layer of the dream. She headed to the "fantasy layer" dream, which is easier for people to wake up from.

 

"I need to catch up... That girl's spirit is not in this layer."

 

She knew how to infiltrate the next layer of dreams, thanks to the knowledge she gained from the Anti-Demon Bureau over the past few months. Su Ling stood calmly on the railing, looking at the nearby apartment. The wind blew her black hair as she exerted a little force and leaped off.

 

Like a light swallow, she flipped her body in mid-air and slowly closed her eyes.

She opened her arms and dove headfirst into the sky, the sound of the wind around her growing stronger, but the girl's heart became increasingly calm.

She fell straight down and at the moment she fell to the third floor of the apartment, her body suddenly disappeared.

——

"Beep."

 

The traffic light changed and a group of people calmly crossed the road. On the black and white street, people came and went, and the traffic was bustling. Everyone seemed busy.

Su Ling stood calmly at the intersection, watching the red light turn to green, and the people around her began to move forward. They seemed not to see her, and there was no one to communicate with. She looked closely and saw that the people here had blurry faces and moved very monotonously.

Surrounded by tall buildings, this was the central area of Beland.

The second level of the dream, the fantasy level.

It was actually the central district of Beland. Su Ling had wanted to visit or even live in this expensive area.

 

"Phew."

 

She breathed out, raised her head, and saw the black origami crane again as it moved in the direction ahead. Su Ling immediately followed, when she suddenly heard a loud bang.

She looked up and saw a giant gorilla holding a helicopter on a building hundreds of meters high and throwing it down in anger. The helicopter fell to the ground and exploded into sparks, and the panicked, disfigured people screamed and fled.

The fantasy level linked the soul's imagination, and all kinds of fantasy fragments could appear. Some people would see dreams from the fantasy level in reality, causing mental disorders. Su Ling didn't care about what happened in the dream, and continued to run forward, following the black origami crane in the sky.

Covering half of the sky, a huge black dinosaur-like monster appeared out of thin air, roaring between the small buildings and buildings, it strode towards Su Ling with exaggerated steps. Its incredibly huge foot shattered the earth, and the buildings collapsed one after another.

'If you die here, it is very likely that you will wake up in reality.'

 

Su Ling was like a nimble black cat, swiftly avoiding the monster's path and continuing to follow the black origami crane when the scenery suddenly changed around her. She arrived at a magical castle, where rainbow ponies hovered in the sky and white-clad fairies with wands stood beside her.

Outside the castle, a handsome white horse knight raised his sword high, leading thousands of soldiers to charge towards a fire-breathing dragon.

Su Ling was not distracted by them and continued to follow the black origami crane. She flipped out of the castle and landed in the cup of a cyclops, smashing the cup with her sword. Then, she quickly arrived in a beautiful, lush forest.

 

At the center of the forest was a pure and holy lake.

The black origami crane disappeared into the lake.

 

"Phew, I finally made it." Even Su Ling felt that the experience along the way was too exciting.

"The root of imagination is her childlike innocence." It seems that she had a good childhood... Su Ling bit her lip slightly, her face showing undisguised envy.

 

During her examination by the Anti-Magic Bureau, her dream was infiltrated by an examiner. There, they saw a huge fire at the root of her fantasy layer. People on the entire street were screaming through the flames.

This was the reason why she was temporarily rejected as an agent and became a candidate investigator for her first time joining the Anti-Magic Bureau. 

Su Ling remained silent as she slowly walked into the turquoise lake. The calm lake water gradually swallowed her legs, immersed her body, and submerged her completely.

Su Ling opened her eyes again.

She found herself in a blood-red world without sun, moon, or stars. The ground was covered in flowing crimson blood, and the sound of thunder was constant. In the flickering darkness of the thunderstorm, a massive creature's shadow could be seen moving.

Wriggling worms were reproducing, crawling and devouring on the ground, with no other purpose. This was the primitive layer, where most things were hideous and ugly but corresponded to instinctual desires. Almost no one would be the same.

She saw a black origami crane. It was hovering not far away, motionless in mid-air.

A brown-haired girl crouched under the origami crane, holding her head in agony. She seemed to be entangled by something, filled with despair, and there were many strange shadows behind her that were restless.

Just as Su Ling was about to approach her, she heard a male voice - calm, gentle, confident, and full of love.

 

"Welcome, Su Ling."

 

She suddenly turned her head and saw a wooden desk with a man sitting in a chair next to it, holding a religious book in his hand. The man was wearing a white robe, with golden hair and slightly upturned lips. He was quite handsome, and his gentle demeanor made people want to trust and rely on him.

 

Su Ling took a deep breath and drew her black sword, asking, "Do you know me?"

The man nodded gently and smiled, "Hmm, because I am a miracle worker, I naturally know everything."

Su Ling snorted, not believing his words, and asked, "Do you have divination or prophecy abilities? But you should be unable to predict the actions of stronger people, like the person outside."

The man smiled and did not answer the question directly. Instead, he continued, "It is very dangerous for you to come here to face me, because my ability is not limited by the dimensions of dreams and reality, and the power of creating miracles far exceeds your imagination."

 

——

Shen Yi opened his eyes.

He found himself in a silent white land. There was nothing around him except for the vast expanse of white. The sky was dim, but not completely dark. Shen Yi stood alone in the middle of the white land, and beyond ten meters, everything was swallowed by darkness, leaving only a bleak white light shining around him. 

"Something seems off," he thought.

He had studied dreams before, and he knew that a normal dream would not be like this. Shen Yi took a deep breath and felt as if he had entered the realm of some otherworldly god. Dreams connected the soul dimension and the 'outer world.' 

"Su Ling..." 

For some reason, he suddenly had a strong intuition that he could sense Su Ling's location, as if there was some invisible "connection" or "bond" between them. A picture flashed in Shen Yi's mind--a smooth, fair belly with a complex red brand on it. 

"What is this? It feels similar to the mark on Byron's hand." 

Shen Yi pondered for a while, realizing that this might be the "connection" between him and Su Ling, which he could use to determine her location. And so, he began to walk forward.