northernbook Chapter 68 Feng Baobao's Dream?
Chapter 68 Feng Baobao's Dream?
"Master, wait...have we forgotten something?"
Zhang Chulan followed behind Su Wuxian, still reeling from his grief.
"How could that be? You mean the baby! Well, her situation is a bit complicated..."
Su Wuxian knew that Zhang Chulan meant that Feng Baobao had not yet been found.
But Feng Baobao's current situation is indeed a bit strange.
"Oh? Something happened to Bao'er?"
Zhang Chulan's face turned pale instantly.
"Don't worry, you'll see when we get there."
Su Wuxian waved his hand and gave Zhang Chulan a headbutt.
"Stop crying! What are you crying for!"
"Who taught you to cry like that?"
Biyou No.1 Cultivation Middle School, behind the canteen of the Logistics Department.
Su Wuxian, along with Zhang Chulan, Wang Ye (who loved watching the drama unfold), and Zhuge Qing, arrived at the most secluded corner of the school.
"Master, what are we doing here?"
Zhang Chulan wiped his face, forcing himself to cheer up:
"Where's Bao'er? Is she here?"
"She's there."
Su Wuxian pointed to the alleyway ahead, which was filled with junk and leftover food buckets:
"And if I'm not mistaken, she might be the most 'weird' one in this dream."
The group walked into the alley with a puzzled look on their faces.
As soon as I walked in, I heard a very rhythmic "crunching, crunching" sound.
It looks like someone is renovating, or like mice are digging a hole.
"What's going on? What's Bao'er's identity here? I'm really curious about what Bao'er's perfect dream is."
Zhang Chulan listened for a long time, but couldn't see anyone.
"Sister Bao'er?"
Zhang Chulan tentatively called out.
"There it is."
Wang Ye, with his sharp eyes, pointed behind the trash can.
A figure dressed in a gray cleaning lady uniform was seen squatting on the ground with her back to the crowd.
Her hair was a mess, and she was holding a large iron ladle that she had somehow gotten her hands on, with the words "For Cafeteria Cooking Only" written on it. She was frantically digging at the cement floor.
A small mound of earth has already been piled up beside her.
She had actually dug a bottomless pit into that hard cement ground!
"Sister Bao'er!!"
Zhang Chulan rushed over and grabbed her:
"What are you doing? Why are you digging up this perfectly good concrete floor?"
Feng Baobao turned around.
His face was covered in ash, like a little kitten, but his eyes remained clear.
She glanced at Zhang Chulan, then at Su Wuxian, showing no surprise, just as usual.
"Oh, it's Zhang Chulan."
Feng Baobao pointed to the pit and said in a serious tone:
"I'm looking for sweet potatoes."
"Sweet...potato?"
Zhuge Qing, who was standing nearby, was dumbfounded:
"Excuse me... ma'am, this is concrete, and there are sewers below. Where did you get these sweet potatoes from?"
"I know I can't."
Feng Baobao scratched her head, looking puzzled:
"But I don't know what to do."
"As soon as I woke up, I started washing dishes here. I washed so many dishes, my hands are all white from being soaked in water."
"The person in charge said I was a 'temporary worker,' so I didn't get paid, only meals."
"But the food was bad, it had no flavor."
Feng Baobao picked up the large iron spoon and dug at the ground again:
"I was just wondering if there was something delicious buried down there."
"And then, as we were digging... we unearthed this."
Feng Baobao pulled something out of the pit and handed it to Su Wuxian.
Su Wuxian took a look and his brows furrowed immediately.
That's neither soil nor stone.
Instead, it was a... flashing, garbled square.
It's like the mosaic effect that appears when there's a texture error in a game, emitting an eerie blue glow.
"Good heavens..."
Su Wuxian looked at the deep pit and couldn't help but gasp.
"Baby, you've dug through the 'underwear' of dreams!"
Wang Ye leaned over for a look and was also shocked:
"Holy crap! This is the underlying logic code for the interior???"
"How...how did she do that? Even a sorcerer would be badly injured if they tried to ram into that thing with their soul, right? And she just scooped it out with a spoon?"
"I guess it's because Bao'er doesn't have any 'settings'..."
Su Wuxian casually tossed the jumbled code back into the pit and clapped his hands:
"Ma Xianhong's self-cultivation furnace generates dreams based on a person's obsessions."
"Zhang Chulan wants a home, Xiao Zizai wants to kill, and Wang Ye wants to lie down and rest."
"But Feng Baobao..."
Su Wuxian looked at Feng Baobao, who was still squatting on the ground with a blank expression, and his eyes became somewhat profound:
"She herself doesn't even know what she wants."
"The concept of desire doesn't exist in her mind, and even the mystery of her origins that she's always wanted to know... is just a pipe dream..."
"in other words..."
She doesn't want anything.
"Without desires or wants, the soul is as pure as a blank sheet of paper."
"The interior scene can't recognize her desires, so it can't generate a script for her. It can only treat her as a background NPC."
"But this NPC's combat power is off the charts, and he's also restless."
"So..." Su Wuxian laughed, "she became the biggest bug in this perfect world."
"Sister Bao'er, stop digging."
Su Wuxian walked over, helped Feng Baobao up, and brushed the dust off her clothes.
"If we keep digging, the school will collapse, and we still need to rescue other people."
"oh."
Feng Baobao obediently stood up and tucked the iron spoon into her waistband:
"Is there any food?"
"The food here tastes like it's made of wax; it's impossible to chew."
"have."
Su Wuxian pulled out a sausage from his pocket, one he had taken from Zhang Chulan's dream:
"Have something to eat first. Once we're out, your advisor will take you to eat roast whole lamb."
"Okay!"
Feng Baobao's eyes lit up, and she swallowed the sausage in a few bites.
Then he consciously stood behind Su Wuxian, acting as his bodyguard.
"Alright, the Feng Baobao recycling plan is a success!"
Su Wuxian summarized the "Alliance of the Awakened" that had already been awakened:
Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, Wang Ye, Zhuge Qing, Zhang Zhiwei, Tian Jinzhong, Xiao Zizai, Lao Meng, Wang Zhenqiu, Hei Guan'er...
Basically, apart from a few exceptional talents and Chen Duo, the main force is all here.
"So, the last piece of the puzzle."
Su Wuxian turned around and looked at the residential area next to the school.
That was the faculty and staff dormitory, and also Chen Duo's "home" in this world.
"Everyone, let's calm down."
Su Wuxian's voice lowered:
"The next match will probably be even tougher than the previous ones."
"Because there...is a beautiful dream that a little girl longs for but can never reach."
Zhang Chulan's face darkened.
He had just gone through that kind of pain, so he understood best.
That's a paradise of gentle pleasures, harder to escape than hell itself.
"Let's go."
"Go pick up our classmate Chen Duo... after school."