Chapter 433 Her Dream

Accepting who you really are is not easy.

Yecheng was in danger, but Bai Yanliang leaned on the railing by the river, with countless thoughts running through his mind.

Looking back, he is no longer the same person after this journey.

The sky above the city was filled with blood, and huge trees covered the roof. Bai Yanliang talked about the cold river breeze and silently watched the river water that had been reflected in a blood-red color.

The sky was dark and the light was dim. This relatively young city, which had seen many stories, seemed to be about to come to an end.

The city was filled with strange noises, including the roars and screams of struggle, the angry curses and roars, and vaguely, there seemed to be some distant calls.

Walking along the riverside trail, facing this familiar road, Bai Yanliang walked slowly.

When passing by a shop, he saw his own figure through the floor-to-ceiling glass of the shop.

Bai Yanliang stood silently in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass, stretched out his hand, and gently slid his fingers across the surface of the glass.

The face inside looks familiar, but actually... it's very strange.

In the blink of an eye, he had lost everything, even himself.

He is not the son of Zhou Tian and Meng Zhen, not the younger brother of Bai Yanren, and not Bai Yanliang, the son of the Bai family.

Even... he is not himself.

The world is changing in the direction that Bai Yanren expects. Bai Yanliang looks up at the sky. What can he do?
Maybe there is something that needs to be done?
He couldn't even find a reason to convince himself, and he was powerless to stop this doomsday scene.

He is still just a human being. Although his origin is special, he is still just a human being.

Bai Yanliang continued walking along the trail by the river. The river water flowed away from the corner of his eyes, and seemed to be approaching him, making a faint sound of flowing.

But Bai Yanliang always felt that, just like himself, they were no longer the same as before.

But what did the original wind, water, river and city look like?

He wasn't quite sure anymore.

He is changing, and the city is changing too.

Bai Yanliang stopped.

Maybe, there is nothing wrong with Bai Yanren's approach.

It's funny that even Bai Yanren has a direction worth striving for, but Bai Yanliang doesn't.

After all, the belief that he had always held on to, the belief in finding out the truth about his "brother's" death, turned out to be just a joke.

This made Bai Yanliang completely lose his direction.

This world no longer has the people and things he expects, and no one and things expect him anymore.

It seemed that everything in the world was moving forward, except for him who suddenly stayed where he was.

Bai Yanliang leaned against the railing and stood by the river for a long time.

The wind on the river was getting colder and the water was getting faster.

In a trance, he caught a glimpse of a white shadow out of the corner of his eye, also standing quietly by the river.

Bai Yanliang was stunned.

"Xu Zhifei?"

He moved his lips and called out the name.

The river flowed slowly, but the wind seemed to have stopped.

A memory suddenly awakened in my mind.

In that chaotic time and space, he and Xu Zhifei seemed to have given birth to a daughter...

But there, it is just a possibility for the future.

At this moment, he and she were not yet at the stage of life and death, or of having a son together. But the vague feeling that Bai Yanliang had been avoiding before did exist.

“I can dream about the future.”

Xu Zhifei lifted the hair beside his ear and turned his head to look at Bai Yanliang.

Her eyes were still like a piece of clear jade, but her gaze was much softer.

"It was also here that I told you... that you were the one who survived to the end."

Xu Zhifei twitched the corners of his mouth, and with great difficulty revealed an expression that might be considered a "smile".

It was also at this time that Bai Yanliang discovered that Xu Zhifei was similar to him not only in temperament, but every aspect of her was very similar to her former self.

At this moment, I already have vague emotions, but Xu Zhifei still seems unable to learn emotions.

"Why are you here?" Bai Yanliang asked. He vaguely felt that Xu Zhifei wanted to say something to him.

It was not until Xu Zhifei appeared beside him that Bai Yanliang realized that it was not that he had no expectations at all, but that his heart subconsciously avoided Xu Zhifei's existence.

He is an extremely intelligent man, and intelligent people are somewhat arrogant in every aspect.

But in some ways, Bai Yanliang is inferior.

He doesn't feel like a complete person, and he can't make serious commitments to others.

He hid, avoided, didn't think about it, didn't touch it, but certain emotions still lingered around him.

"Later I realized that what I dreamed about was not the future," Xu Zhifei's hair was blown into disarray by the river breeze, "but a very long story."

"Would you like to hear it?"

Her shiny black eyes stared straight at him, as if she wanted to see into his soul.

Bai Yanliang nodded slowly: "Yes."

"In the dream story, I saw the memories of another woman."

“She was a scholar who fell in love with another scholar, and they discovered another strange world that was closely connected to the human world.”

"During an exploration, she accidentally fell into that world while pregnant."

"She was alone, wandering in the world she named the Mist World. That world was very monotonous, with only a huge tree, gray grass all over the ground, and... densely packed human bodies that were born and died every day."

"She was so lonely, so she started talking to the humanoid figures around her, one... two... three..."

"No matter how many bodies she talks to, those human-shaped bodies will burst like bubbles at a certain moment."

"From what she felt, those human-shaped, twisted bodies without any consciousness only had one day to live."

"They don't even have time to become conscious."

Xu Zhifei narrated the story slowly. This story had always been in her dreams, and it only became clearer and clearer recently.

She understood that these were all the memories of the woman before her death, and were also the last solution left to the human world...

"Her belly is getting bigger every day."

"One day, she suddenly had an idea. Since coming to the Mist Realm, her perception of the physical body has become weaker and weaker. On the contrary... her perception of the spirit and consciousness has become stronger and stronger. She can even control her thoughts to produce certain effects."

"This is something that is absolutely impossible in the human world. It also proves that the Mist World and the human world have two completely different sets of rules."

"She was lonely, so she did an experiment."

"She was afraid that she would stay in this world forever, so she tried to 'pack' her memories and seal them into these blank, twisted shells."

"Even though these bodies are born and die every day, she still couldn't help but do this experiment."

"What if? What if the memory is left behind?"

Xu Zhifei turned around and faced Bai Yanliang:
"Her first experiment was successful."