In this desolate and barren land, Lu Lie has been walking for a long time.

He forgot about the environment around him, when did he become like this, and when did he leave the forest and come to the wasteland.

At the beginning, he would roughly remember the direction of his hometown and how far he had gone. But as time accumulates, he gradually forgot all this.

Time and space almost lost their meaning to him.

During this process, he had not eaten or rested, and closed his eyes.

On the first day, the first night, and the second day, he gradually felt tired, hungry, and sleepy so much that he could hardly take the next step. But strangely, when he passed the third day, the third night, or the fourth day, who cares about these ghosts, suddenly forgot about hunger and fatigue. He was like a walking corpse, wandering on this boundless land.

If Lu Lie hadn't been able to feel his breathing and his heartbeat, he almost thought he had become a resident of the Yellow Springs.

Who knows, if everything in life is an illusion, as Li Yuan said, then death should be the last illusion for him.

Lu Lie once thought that he would be trapped on this land forever and would never end. However, on the fifteenth day (or sixteenth day), everything changed mysteriously and magnificently.

At the end of the horizon and at the end of the night sky, the ink color that should have been forever dark and could never reach suddenly emitted a colorful light. A crack appeared in the sky, and the originally connected world was suddenly split into two halves.

Lu Lie stared blankly at the colors outside the sky, for a moment he forgot to move forward.

He thought he had come to the boundaries of the world.

"Yes, this is the boundary of the world."

A figure was waiting for him on the other side of the mountain.

It is Li Yuan.

This guy was almost like a shadow, everywhere. And looking at his appearance at the moment, it seemed that when he met in the bullpen last time, the punch Lu Lie gave him almost no effect on him. At this moment, he was dressed neatly and gracefully. When he opened his mouth, his neat teeth were not damaged at all.

"Where is this place? Who are you? You are not Li Yuan at all!" Lu Lie roared angrily. He rushed towards Li Yuan, trying to catch him. But no matter how fast he ran, he could never reach Li Yuan. In front of him, Li Yuan was like the moon in the water, but it was also far away like the stars on the horizon.

Li Yuan looked at him with a pitiful look: "I have told you. There is no difference between hallucination and reality. You can think that this is the real world, or you can think that this is the hallucination. You made your own wish in front of the wishing machine. This is what you deserve, and I have fulfilled your wish.

"You are tired, I want you to rest quietly here. You are different from me. You didn't belong here at first. You shouldn't have climbed this giant tree from the beginning."

Lu Lie's face twisted, and he roared at Li Yuan in a very resentful tone: "So, this is the reason why you deprived me of the real world, and this is the reason why you dragged me into the illusion!"

Li Yuan repeated again: "This is not an illusion, but a real world. How dare you say that the world you are on the giant tree is absolutely real?"

"Reality? Illusion?" A distorted sneer appeared in Lu Lie's mouth. He pointed to the aurora in the distance and said, "Look at the world you created! It even has boundaries! What is beyond the boundaries? Can't this constitute evidence that this world is artificially created! I have found that this world is an absolute evidence of disguise, and you can't deceive me!"

Li Yuan laughed loudly. For a moment, the gods and Buddhas all over the sky laughed wildly. It seemed as if Lu Lie said something ridiculous, like a childish joke. The laughter was so deafening that it made Lu Lie's fragile eardrum tremble. For a moment, Lu Lie almost thought he was going to be deaf. He squatted on the ground in pain, covering his ears and trembling.

Fortunately, the laughter stopped.

"Border?" Li Yuan looked at the countless fireflies entering and leaving the cracks in space, and said lovingly with a child-like smile: "Yes. This world is not perfect. It was born too short, so there is a boundary... But, so what? The world of giant trees you are in has no boundary? The Milky Way is constantly expanding, devouring other galaxies; the universe continues to expand, devouring other universes; dark matter increases value, and assimilates everything in the domain. The reason why you can't see the boundary of that world is because it is big enough, so big that the creatures living in it cannot feel the existence of boundaries at all! The only difference between the two is just the difference between the big world and the small world. How dare you say that everything in this world is not your illusion!

"I will show you the proof that dreams and reality are interdependent and entangled."

Li Yuan in Lu Lie's eyes grew bigger and taller. Finally, his neck reached into the sky and raised his foot. When he was on the ground, he made a rumbling sound. The earth began to tremble, and the cracks in the sky were even more shattering. Lu Lie reacted at this time and turned around and wanted to escape. But when he raised his head, he found that his sky was covered by Li Yuan's soles that covered the sky.

...

Lu Lie woke up from the nightmare again.

He slept on the haystack in the middle of a simple wooden house, and the only thing that accompanies him was silence and the sunlight outside the holes in the wall. Without Li Yuan, without Su Wen, without the deafening laughter in his dreams, without the boundaries of the world...

"This...what's going on?"

It was not pleasant to escape from death. Lu Lie was sweating profusely, looking at his ten fingers soaked in sweat. For a moment, every inch of his muscles trembled slightly, as if he had a lifetime ago.

"Is it... a dream?"

"Luckily... it's just a dream."

When Lu Lie felt fear from the thought of the giant monster, which was overwhelmingly destroying everything.

But... this dream is too real. If Lu Lie hadn't happened to wake up from the dream at the last moment, he even suspected that he would have been scared to death in the dream.

After waking up, Lu Lei's limbs were still weak. He stood up with the wall and looked at the scene around him.

But, a new question emerged from Lu Lie's mind.

When did you fall asleep?

In other words, what parts of one’s memory are dreams and what parts are reality?

Did it start with seeing the dead Su Wen?

Did you bring Su Wen into the village yourself?

Is it the tool to dig out a tree climbing tool on the back wall of the small temple?

Or, since Su Wen disappeared or even earlier, all the strange things he experienced in the past few days were just a dream?

That's really... a dream in a dream.
Chapter completed!