Chapter 324 : Chapter 324

Chapter 324: The Importance of Scholar Little Han in the Underground City

A few days later, Ninglan New City.

Due to the newly issued city ordinance, outsiders needed to accept regulation and were not allowed any resistance.

Resisters were directly added to the wanted list until they were completely driven out of Ninglan New City.

It could be said that these past few days, Ninglan New City had been undergoing a major purge, and the ones who suffered the most were naturally the city's residents.

This required an outlet.

When the endless evil deeds of the outsiders were posted on the city's public notices, the residents of Ninglan New City were completely enraged.

That city lord's methods were quite clever.

He painted Ninglan New City as a noble and hospitable place that welcomed outsiders, while the outsiders were turned into wanton invaders in the city.

However, in terms of the actual situation, it was indeed so, but Ninglan Qiuyun had tarred all outsiders with the same brush.

He was truly a master of discarding the donkey after it had finished its work at the mill, although it didn't seem to count, as we outsiders had not yet solved the Nightmare problem.

"It's been a long time since I came up for some air. This sun, this sunlight shining on my body, is so comfortable."

I took a deep breath.

Although I was still in the dream, the feeling of interference was different.

I looked up at the sun in the sky, then at Big Sis Bai beside me, and a satisfied smile appeared on my face.

"Yes, it has been a long time since we came up. The cold light from the Earth Vein's self-illumination below, staying there for a long time might really make one depressed. The sunlight is so nice, and I feel more relaxed."

Big Sis Bai also sighed with emotion.

At this moment, we were both wearing casual clothes.

The change in clothes was naturally achieved with the rewrite spell.

If I lost the maintenance of my spell, these clothes would revert to their original style.

Of course, it was impossible to be naked unless I actively interfered, but I wouldn't do such a wicked thing.

The pedestrians on the street seemed not to see us, going about their own business.

The warrant for the outsiders had now been announced throughout the city, especially for the high-priority targets.

And there was a reward for reporting outsiders, although it wasn't much, but harboring outsiders carried a severe punishment.

"I really can't feel it... Big Sis Bai, your method is so amazing. It seems to have surpassed the scope of spell power."

"Mm-hmm, as long as the power is useful," Bai Yu also nodded and said.

"This is a complete reduction in presence... This kind of ability... no matter how you look at it, it feels like it would make one think in the wrong way, right? By the way, Big Sis Bai, have you ever used this ability to do anything strange to me?"

"What are you thinking? Little Han, is your mind full of yellow waste?!"

At this moment, Big Sis Bai reached out and knocked my forehead hard with her knuckles.

"Well it's a reasonable association, but this ability is really heaven-defying. Is this the power of Big Sis Bai's project?"

I asked curiously.

"No, Little Han, the project itself has no power. The project is just a final beacon that guides us to obtain power, or even a more abstract concept," Bai Yu shook her head and said to me.

"So... Big Sis Bai, you obtained this power by your own strength, right? So... Big Sis Bai, you've thought about it, haven't you? I just said nothing and you're already complaining about yellow waste!"

"Hmph, isn't what Little Han is thinking written all over your face? Do I still need to guess?"

"Is it? I don't think so..."

I subconsciously touched my cheek.

It was delicate and smooth, and felt great.

"But... even if Big Sis Bai did something to me with this ability, I would be okay with it, you know?"

"Little Han... if you keep this up, I'll have to teach you a lesson, you know? And let me correct you again, this is not an ability to reduce a person's presence, just something similar."

"Alright just kidding."

Seeing Big Sis Bai's tone change, I immediately restrained myself.

If I continued to tease her like this, something bad might happen.

"Um... how about we go for a cup of coffee? It was a really good choice to come out in the afternoon. Let's treat it as afternoon tea. My treat want to try the taste of the coffee from my memory?"

After passing a place with an outdoor cafe with very few people, I spoke up.

"That sounds good," Bai Yu also nodded and agreed.

Then we walked to an empty corner and sat down.

I waved my hand over the table, and like magic, two exquisite cups of coffee appeared, with sugar cubes on the side.

"Every time I see Little Han use such a method, I can't help but admire it."

"Isn't this the charm of the transcendent? Making the impossible possible, breaking common sense. Actually, Big Sis Bai also has similar spells, right? I saw them when Big Sis Bai deconstructed her spellbooks to show me her collection. Sugar-free bread spell... carbonated drink spell, the effects of these lesser spellbooks are really magical."

"But it still can't compare to Little Han's means."

"Hehe I'm admiring the exquisiteness of the lesser spellbooks."

I picked up my coffee and took a small sip.

It tasted the same as the coffee in my memory.

"There's a reason why lesser spellbooks can be a separate series independent of general spellbooks. They sacrifice the rigorous rune ritual structure of normal spells and use the most active spell frameworks or unsystematic rune assistance, creating the current comprehensive development of lesser spellbooks."

"I didn't expect Big Sis Bai to know so much," I exclaimed.

"After realizing the importance of spellbooks, I went to cram the relevant knowledge. It can be said that what I just said is a very basic introduction to lesser spellbooks."

"By the way, Little Han."

At this moment, Big Sis Bai seemed to have suddenly thought of something and ended the current topic.

"About the teleportation spell... are you confident?"

"What do you mean by confident? Of course I'm confident. I just don't know if it will succeed. Even if it doesn't succeed, that also proves some things, but it's not important."

"But you have to understand that many things can't be taken for granted. After all, spells are not an omnipotent means. Don't just act on a whim."

"Thinking is thinking, doing is doing. From thinking to doing, this is one of the meanings of the existence of spells," I retorted.

"Unless you prove my guess is wrong, don't deny my efforts, okay, Big Sis Bai?"

"I don't want to deny Little Han's efforts, it's just that your idea is too... imaginative? You know, your body is in reality, and we are in the dream. A teleportation spell can't teleport a person from reality to the dream, and the dream can't carry a physical entity, right?"

"I've thought about it, of course that's not possible. So I plan to have the Fool's Dream help us complete the special teleportation ritual. With my guidance, it's fine even if it's a bit slow."

"Have the Fool's Dream build the teleportation ritual here in reality? That seems possible, but can your consciousness freely return to your main body now?"

"Of course. Although the research on the Nightmare hasn't been very long, the primal rune ritual I pieced together from the revelations I gained from the Nightmare, after continuous updates, can already break the predicament the Nightmare has put me in."

Speaking of which, this reminded me of the spell Teacher Ji Niang showed me back then, the one that could log into the Primal Dream State without a dream device.

Could it be that this also had some similarities?

Although I hadn't seen that spell, they could both enter or exit the dream.

It was just that the spell Teacher Ji Niang mastered was to enter the Primal Dream State built by the Primal Witch, while mine was to return here, this ruined main world invaded by the dream.

"So, Little Han, as long as you're willing, you can leave here at any time, right?"

"Yes, Big Sis Bai, you can understand it that way. But... my goal for coming here has not been completed. You understand, right, Big Sis Bai?"

"Of course I know."

"Then will Big Sis Bai support me?"

I smiled and looked at Big Sis Bai.

"Of course, I will support you unconditionally."

"Thank you."

With Big Sis Bai's clear reply, the last of my worries disappeared.

Of course, my wanting to teleport my real body over was not just to take care of both the dream and reality, to reduce my shortcomings and limitations, but more importantly, I had other considerations.

After all, being able to take care of both the dream and reality, this ability was just on par with the Nightmare Demons.

And what I cared more about was... the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell.

In the dream, everything was a projection, an existence generated by acquiring information from reality, including the Grand Spellbook.

So, the effect of using the Grand Spellbook in the dream might be far less useful than the real Grand Spellbook.

And... I had to use the Grand Spellbook to enlighten the Fool's Dream.

The Grand Spellbook in the dream couldn't do this.

So I had to do this.

So... even this step, did the Academy Head also think of it?

The Academy Head was too terrifying.

If I had even a slight deviation in my thoughts and a slip in my abilities, it would be impossible for me to take this step.

Half a cup of coffee later, after Big Sis Bai and I left this place and walked around outside for a while, we headed back.

On the street, we also saw posters describing the "good deeds" of the outsiders, used to guide the public's hatred.

I also took a look to see what kind of outrageous things those talents had done.

As for whether they had embellished the facts, I guessed they probably had.

I just treated it as a joke.

However, the huge tunnel elevator that we originally took to the underground city was now closed.

Although Ninglan New City couldn't forcefully interfere with the underground city, they could seal the entrance and exit, but the cooperation could not be broken.

The underground city needed supplies, and Ninglan New City needed the weapons and supplies made with extraordinary skills.

Don't forget, as time passed, the city would face the baptism of the energy tide, and the area radiating from Ninglan New City would attract a large number of mutated beasts that had mutated under the energy tide.

At this moment, all the city defense forces on the outermost front line of Ninglan New A-City had already switched to the wartime Type II extraordinary armament, and the Type III extraordinary killers were also on standby at all times.

But even if the main and secondary entrances and exits of the underground city were blocked, we still had countless ways to return to the underground city.

Short-distance teleportation, and even if I used the Dream Rewrite Spell to go directly underground, it would be no problem.

As for Ninglan Qiuyue's saying that she wanted to bring those trustworthy outsiders to the underground city, I still felt that it would be very difficult.

But since Ninglan Qiuyue had such an idea, then she should have anticipated such a possibility, which meant that even in this small Ninglan New City, Ninglan Qiuyue had her own channels.

As for how we returned to the underground city, we naturally chose the most exciting way, walking through the main gate.

Although there were still dream city guards guarding there, they couldn't stop us, and couldn't even notice us.

"Hehe back to this dark underground city again. I'm a little reluctant to leave the surface."

"Then just go up and see it often," Big Sis Bai said indifferently.

"As long as you want, I can accompany you anytime."

"Then it's a deal."

But just as Big Sis Bai withdrew that ability, she saw a familiar uniform on the way back.

"Hmm... city guards."

I stopped in my tracks, a little surprised.

I didn't expect people to come to the underground city!

"There are still two outsiders there! The one on the wanted list!"

Just as I saw them, they also saw us out of the corner of their eyes.

"Oh ho," I smiled and looked at Big Sis Bai beside me, shrugged my shoulders and said with a smile.

"It seems I withdrew my ability too early."

"Not early, not early. Some things have to be solved eventually. Big Sis Bai, do you bet they can take me away?"

I asked with a smile.

"An easy question. Of course they can't."

"I bet they can't either, but with an added condition: I don't make a move," I said, with a smile on my face as I watched the few city guards surround us.

"Still smiling? I advise you to give up resistance! And you! The specially wanted outsider!"

"I'm laughing at you for not being clear about the situation. The city guards of Ninglan New City are arresting a scholar from the extraordinary research base in the underground city. Do you dare to make a move?"

I said, my gaze passing through the crowd and seeing the figures of the Earth Patrol Team, among them an old acquaintance, the old captain of the Earth Patrol Team.

It seemed that Ninglan New City and the underground city had started to negotiate?

And that middle-aged man in extraordinary clothes should be an official from Ninglan New City, right?

And the person in charge of the extraordinary research base.

"Still a scholar? How could you, an outsider, become a scholar of the extraordinary research base..."

"Sorry, this young lady is indeed an official scholar of our extraordinary research base. Please don't be rough with our base's scholar!"

At this moment, the person in charge of the base also walked over and said.

He naturally had an impression of me.

It could be said that the most popular project in the extraordinary research base right now was that Nightmare Killer and that so-called primal rune ritual that no one knew what it was for.

He knew what kind of madness the scholars in the base would go into if the base lost this one.

After all, this little ancestor had only been gone for a short while, saying she was going to relax, and some scholars in the base felt like they had lost their backbone.

"You... your underground city actually let an outsider become an academic scholar of the base? But according to the regulations of Ninglan New City, this is an outsider personally wanted by the City Lord. Please hand her over to us."

"You also know that's your Ninglan New City's regulation. We in the underground city have our own say," at this moment, the captain of the Earth Patrol Team also came over and said forcefully.

After all, as the representative of the underground city's violent organization, what's wrong with being a little harsh?

Not to mention this was their home turf.

And this person in front of him had just recently applied to upgrade their equipment for them.

Of course he had to hold on to this big thigh.

"The underground city is also an inseparable part of Ninglan New City!"

"Then you can't take these two away either. If you take her away, then I can guarantee that nearly thirty percent or even more of the scholars, technicians, and extraordinary apprentices of the extraordinary research base will bring their latest weapons to your territory, Ninglan New City, and point them at your head."

"Do you want to try?"

This Ninglan New City official was immediately at a disadvantage in the face of these two people he couldn't afford to offend.

After all... it really wasn't worth it just for a wanted bounty.

Even if he didn't believe that what they said was so serious, he just thought that they wanted to protect her.

And this matter also came to nothing just like that.

The other party also left in a dejected manner.

Even the person in charge of the base and the people of the Earth Patrol Team who originally wanted to see them off did not continue to do so.

"Scholar Little Han, you were too careless this time. What were you doing running here for no reason?"

"To get some fresh air. I just found out that the elevator here is controlled," I shrugged and said, then looked at Big Sis Bai.

I had won the bet just now.

"I'm really sorry. You probably didn't see our base's announcement in time. It's all the trouble caused by those guys on the surface. Scholar Little Han, let's go back to the base first. Many scholars have encountered trouble on the sub-projects you assigned, and you weren't here. I estimate that the hair of those stubborn donkeys is about to fall out again."

"Alright, then... Big Sis Bai, you come with me?"

After we left, in a dark corner here, a mouse with a glimmer in its eyes also quickly left this place.