The sun was a bit dazzling, and Serinda subconsciously shielded her eyes with her hands, so she could see the blue sky and white clouds between her fingers. She was happy to be able to see the light again, but she always felt that the blue was covered with a layer of gray.
A breeze blew by, making her more awake. She lay there, and there seemed to be grass under her. There seemed to be voices in the distance. Serinda sat up and looked around. She found herself sitting on a grassy slope. There was a small lake beside the grassy slope. A road surrounded the grassy slope and the lake. There were people walking on the road in groups of three or four. Outside the road were buildings of different heights. In the distance, there were tall buildings piercing the sky.
Those buildings are square like boxes, neat and grand, even more majestic than the castle in the capital. Wait, these houses look familiar, I seem to have been here before, where is this...
Serinda turned around and saw the library she had set on fire, but the library here looked clean and there was no sign of burning at all.
Isn't this the Mage Academy where Li Jia and his friends are? Serinda looked at her body. She was not wearing a shirt or pants, nor leather armor. Instead, she was wearing a green dress, which was the one that Li Jia had originally given her.
How did I get here? What is going on
She pinched herself hard and it hurt, but it didn't mean that this wasn't a dream. After seeing the meditation world, she knew that the boundary between reality and illusion was not that clear. She pulled up a blade of grass from the ground and found that the veins and roots of the grass were not clear. She looked at the things around her carefully and felt a hazy sense of instability. She walked to the edge of the pond and the reflection was herself, a red-haired girl in a green dress, who didn't look much different from the people walking around.
However, just as she was observing her reflection, the water surface suddenly shook, and the "Selinda" in the water suddenly frowned and said, "This is not the place for you, get out, get out!"
"Who are you?" Serinda was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. But the water soon calmed down, and the girl inside stopped moving, with only a nervous look on her face.
"Hey, hey!" She called a few times, and her reflection made the same movements, without any strangeness. She reached out and gently touched the water, only feeling a little cool.
Serinda had no choice but to leave the pond. She quietly observed the pedestrians on the road for a while and found that their clothes were very similar to those of Li Jia's group. However, she did not look out of place in their clothes, except for her red hair. So, she pretended to be calm, slowly walked down the grass slope, and walked towards a young woman on the road.
"Hello! Where is this place?" Serinda stopped in front of her and asked.
The woman was very pretty, with a nice nose and a nice mouth, but her eyes were like dead fish. When she heard Serinda's question, she looked her up and down and said, "This is Huaxia University. Everyone here knows it. Why don't you know it?"
"Uh, I'm from outside."
"Outside? Where outside? There's no one outside this school. Could it be that you came from outside?" The woman pointed to the sky. When Serinda didn't answer, she shouted, "Hurry up, hurry up, there's a woman from outside here. And she has red hair! Oh my God, how could this happen! How could this happen!" She twisted her body hysterically while shouting. In a blink of an eye, her arms twisted and lengthened like octopus tentacles, and rolled towards Serinda.
What kind of monster is this! Serinda ducked to avoid the arm that swept over her head, then took a few steps backwards to avoid the monster's hand.
She had already understood by now that this was definitely not the real world.
Soon, people from the surrounding area came running over, shouting as they ran: "Oh my God, oh my God! That red-haired woman, she's coming from outside, let's catch her quickly." These people, like the woman, turned their hands into tentacles several meters long and attacked Serinda from all directions.
In the eyes of Serinda, a knight, the speed and attacks of these monsters were almost not threatening, but their "octopus-like" appearance made her shudder. She ran in the direction where there were fewer people, dodged a grab from a man in front of her, kicked him in the waist, and knocked him to the ground. Then she hit another girl's chin with a jab, knocking her down. She rushed out of the encirclement in two steps. She crossed a lawn, rushed into an alley, and turned a few corners between several buildings, finally getting rid of the monsters behind her.
Serinda hid behind a corner, thinking carefully about her current situation.
This should be Li Jia's dream. Perhaps because of the stimulation of spiritual power to enter his conscious body, the two people's consciousness became entangled, which led to this dream within a dream. Serinda did not study much about dream-related magic, but from the few rumors she had heard, spiritual and dream magic was always full of mysteries and weirdness, much more dangerous than the elemental magic she mastered. But these magics often have a key, which is to find traces of the mastermind in the dream. In other words, no matter what kind of dream this is, the first point is to find Li Jia. Only by finding him can we communicate with this dream, wake up Li Jia, and get out of here.
But where is Li Jia
This academy in the dream was bigger than the one Li Jia had taken her to. It was probably the complete academy before it fell into the Black Mountain. So the place where Li Jia was most likely to appear was the place he was most familiar with or remembered most deeply. Serinda was going to search along the places he had taken her to visit.
Or... maybe they know something, and they can "ask" for directions before looking for him? Serinda saw a lone "person" walking through the alley ahead. These monsters were either magical creations guarding the academy, or they were just part of a nightmare. But in any case, they must have a connection with Li Jia since they were in the dream. Serinda picked up a shovel that she had just picked up by the flower bed on the road, walked out of the corner, and slowly approached the prey in front.
Walking in the alley was a middle-aged man wearing a suit and glasses, a typical college teacher. However, Serinda could not see this, in her eyes he was just a potential monster.
When Serinda rushed behind the man, the middle-aged man had already heard the noise. He just turned around and was hit by a spatula. The spatula hit his cheek, knocked his glasses off, and knocked him to the ground. The man's face quickly swelled up and turned purple. After the man fell to the ground, he cried out, but before he could cry out twice, he was hit by another spatula on his chin, which broke several of his teeth. He tilted his head and spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with broken teeth.
The man opened his mouth and looked at Serinda viciously, his hands were about to turn into long whips and sweep towards her. Serinda was quick-witted and used the shovel to poke the man's upper arm. After a few heavy blows, the man's two arms were broken by the shovel, and the sleeves of his suit were stained red with blood.
Serinda pressed the tip of the shovel against the man's throat and asked, "Where's Li Jia?"
"Ah, outsider... hiss... you shouldn't be here, ah..." the man repeated these words. Serinda poked him several times with the shovel. The man just cried out in pain and said, "Ah... here... except for you, everyone belongs to Li Jia. I am Li Jia, the house belongs to Li Jia, everything belongs to Li Jia, only you don't... Get out, get out."
Serinda poked him in the shoulder with a shovel and demanded, "Do you know which Li Jia I'm talking about? The one who truly has a soul!"
"Ah... hehe, he failed, so naturally he is with us, mixed in among us, and becomes an insignificant one. Sinking, sinking, and falling to the place that originally belonged only to us." When the man said this, his face no longer showed pain, but only fanatical emotions.
"You actually have a good sense, what on earth are you?" Serinda narrowed her eyes and looked at the man. This man had no resemblance to the Li Jia she knew. Except... the pair of glasses that fell on the ground. Those seemed to be the ones that Li Jia often wore.
"Thoughts, outsider. I am a thought. Have you ever had a thought that is 'not in line with your own' identity? I am not his him, one of countless others! I am, they are all, and everyone has been. However, we are suppressed by him here, until one day, that him falls, and countless of us will rise up!" The man spoke in a crazy and confusing manner. But Serinda understood some of the reasons.
"How can you get up now?" Serinda sneered and stepped on his stomach. "From what you said, you have seen him. Where is he?"
"Run, he's running away! Be afraid, he's afraid! You won't find him, you will be devoured by us, you will become a part of us." As he spoke, the man's mouth suddenly grew to an incredible size, and a tongue as thick as a bowl and like a snake's tongue stabbed towards Serinda's head.
However, as a fighter with rich combat experience, Serinda was prepared. She dodged the thrust and hooked and pressed the tongue with the shovel, pinning it to the ground. With all her strength, she pressed down and the tongue was cut off.
The man was spurting blood from his mouth and yelling, "Ah... Get out! You bitch, get out!"
"Get out? You are just a distracting thought in Li Jia's mind. What qualifications do you have to ask me, the mistress, to get out? It's time to help Li Jia clear her mind." Serinda gritted her teeth, raised and lowered the shovel, and chopped the man's neck fiercely.