Tree King: What? I've become the Abundant Pharmacist?

Chapter 377 The Real Dream

Just as Xing was wondering, text suddenly appeared on the desk not far away.

Mikhail, are you in there?

"Word bubbles?" Xing walked to the desk in confusion.

The text bubble's content changed: "Mikhail, where have you gone?"

"It's still interactive in real time."

Xing curiously rummaged through the desk but didn't find any useful clues until she saw a business card that read "Watchmaker".

"Could this be the watchmaker's desk?" Xing came to a conclusion.

Then, the word bubble changed again.

"It's so quiet... only the ticking of the clock..."

"Tick-tock...tick-tock...tick-tock..."

"Hiss... This is too weird..." Xing gasped.

"Wait, what's this?" Xing noticed a watch face.

Just as I was about to touch it, the dial suddenly became agitated, and the hands began to spin rapidly, as if time were flowing backward, seemingly taking me to a moment in the distant past.

Just then, a voice came from the watch face: "Why, why did things turn out like this?"

"Calm down... I'm all alone now. I must fulfill his dying wish. I have to do it..."

"But... how can I do that... how is it even possible for me to do it?"

"Sigh... Is there no one who can lend me a hand?"

This appears to be a message from someone.

After hearing these messages, Xing asked, "What does this mean?"

With a "creak".

Xing's attention was immediately drawn to the doorway.

The studio was partially closed and appeared to be unlocked.

Xing walked over, and sure enough, the text bubble appeared: "The studio door is unlocked."

The scout cautiously pushed open the door and peeked out.

Suddenly, she saw a familiar figure.

"Firefly? What are you doing here?" Xing was surprised.

Firefly turned around, her expression equally surprised, "Ah... Star! You were here after all..."

"This is where?"

"I don't know," Liu Ying shook her head.

"I was a little worried about you, so I followed you to the hotel."

"But as soon as I entered the corridor, a red light suddenly appeared before my eyes, and when I opened them again, I was already here," Liu Ying described her experience.

"It seems our experiences are quite similar..."

Xing thought back carefully and realized that she seemed to have arrived here as soon as she closed her eyes.

"Are we already dead?" Xing suddenly asked, as if it were a spur-of-the-moment question.

Firefly shook her head again. "I don't know either."

"But I know for sure that we are still in a dream, and not somewhere else, and certainly not in reality... There is a unique tactile quality in the air, and I can't be wrong."

"But I clearly entered the Dream Pool just now..." Xing tried hard to recall the details.

But there seemed to be nothing unusual about it.

"This place is so different from the 'Dreamland' I know. It's secluded... quiet... unsettling... and you can even see these floating words, right? A place like this could never exist in Pinocchio under family rule."

Firefly concluded, "So, it's a dream bubble...?"

"Is it Dream Bubble? No, where did Eve's mom go?" Xing looked around.

“That’s right! Eve’s mom clearly entered the hotel with you!” Liu Ying realized at this moment.

The two of them searched every room in the place, but still couldn't find Eve.

“Strange? Eve’s mother isn’t here.” Xing frowned.

We're doomed; our biggest trump card is gone.

"No, then that means this isn't a dream bubble anymore, we're still in a dream."

“In a real dream…” Liu Ying said solemnly.

"Is this a real dream...?" Xing asked, puzzled.

"I'm not sure, this discovery is too sudden. But in any case, the family must be hiding something, the truth about the dream..." Liu Ying had a bad feeling.

"And you noticed it when you woke up, didn't you? Clocks all around and the ticking sound... My intuition tells me that the secret hidden here is probably also related to that mysterious 'clockmaker.'"

"indeed."

"If it points to the 'legacy of the watchmaker'—then it is relevant to everyone currently living in the Pinocchio dream..."

“So, what does this have to do with our current situation?” Xing asked.

"I can't answer that right now either."

"But... let's go. Whether it's to find out the truth or to get out of here, we have to set off."

Xing didn't speak, she just nodded.

The two walked side by side down the unfamiliar corridor, one on the left and one on the right.

Although it was unfamiliar, the layout here was not much different from the Daydream Hotel, but it exuded an eerie atmosphere everywhere.

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The real-life Daydream Hotel.

Himeko's room.

Is everyone here?

Himeko's gaze swept over the crowd; it seemed that some people were still absent.

"Eve and Star haven't arrived yet, have they?" March 7th looked around.

“They just left a message in the group chat saying they’re coming right away,” Walter Young said.

Just then, a creaking sound rang out, and Eve pushed open the door and walked in.

"Hmm? Miss Eve, are you alone? Where's Hoshi?" Himeko asked, puzzled.

Because Eve was the only one who came in.

"Hasn't she arrived yet?" Eve asked in return.

Himeko shook her head. "No."

"That's strange, I clearly saw her go into the room," Eve wondered.

"What exactly happened, Eve?" March 7th asked as well.

"and many more."

Eve closed her eyes, and her consciousness stormed into the dream space in an extremely violent manner.

Because there is no time left.

Eve's consciousness searched back and forth in the Pinocchio dream, but still could not find any trace of the star.

"Impossible, where did Xing go?"

Eve frowned slightly.

There is no trace of stars, neither in reality nor in dreams.

Such a huge star core—no, such a person—disappeared right under her nose?

"wrong......"

Eve suddenly realized something.

Sure enough, that strange feeling I had in the hotel just now wasn't a dream.

Someone has their eye on Xing.

Eve opened her eyes, and her consciousness left the dream.

"How is it?" March 7th asked anxiously.

Eve shook her head. "Xing is being targeted."

"It seems that just as she was about to leave the dream, she was taken into another dream space."

“There are too many memories here; it will take me a while to search them,” Eve said seriously.

"Search? Miss Eve, you can search dreams?" Himeko asked in confusion.

"I'll explain that later."

"I'll pull Xing out first."

Eve tore open a rift with her bare hands, which connected to countless dream spaces.

She immediately went inside, leaving everyone stunned.

"Miss Eve, you can actually do something like that?"

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