How could it be such a coincidence that they both graduated from Yingcai Junior High School in Dajiang City... and hadn't heard of each other before... All the analysis models established by Genava told him that the scene before him was extremely problematic and completely illogical.

Strings of data intertwined within his core module, constantly calculating various results, while Shang Jianyao, playing Du Shaochong, Jiang Baimian, playing Xu Qiao, and Deng Tong, belonging to the "dream," slowly turned their heads and looked towards where Genava was standing.

According to the original rules, they shouldn't be able to see Genava, the intelligent robot, and couldn't interact with him directly, but now, their gazes seemed to be focused on that area, which should have been blank.

The red light in Genava's eyes froze for a second.

...

Outside the gate of Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong guarded the jeep, waiting for their team leader and the others to verify whether the previous plan was effective and come out.

Suddenly, Long Yuehong felt the light dimming a bit.

He subconsciously raised his head and looked at the sky, finding that the expanse of pale blue was occupied by clouds, and a wind was about to rise.

"It's going to rain..." Long Yuehong said to himself.

Bai Chen also glanced at the sky:

"Yeah."

In just these few words, the sun was obscured by clouds, and it felt as if evening had arrived.

Just as Long Yuehong and Bai Chen were about to discuss whether the sudden change in weather indicated a problem, one light after another suddenly lit up before their eyes.

Inside the long-abandoned Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School, overgrown with weeds, fluorescent lights were lit in both the teaching buildings and the office buildings.

In an instant, it was brightly lit, like a river of stars reflected in the sky.

However, this did not conceal the greenery growing in the cracks of the walls and the wild grass that highlighted the desolation.

"This..." Long Yuehong's first reaction was that Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School had traveled from the Old World, from the "dream," to reality!

Ding-ling-ling!

The sound of the end of classes echoed in their ears, and students and teachers walked out of different buildings, gathering in the square.

Some rode bicycles, some chose to walk, and they poured out through the open electric retractable gate, heading to different parts of Taicheng.

"It's come alive, it's really come alive..." Long Yuehong took a step diagonally forward, blocking Bai Chen.

At this moment, some students passed by them, casting curious glances at the modified, dust-covered jeep and the two people in gray-green camouflage uniforms, carrying guns.

They could see Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and the jeep. Their eyes were clear, their gazes were lively, and they were whispering about which film crew was shooting.

Ding-ling-ling, bicycles sped down the nearby streets into the distance.

Bai Chen pursed her lips and said with a solemn expression:

"What's fake can't be real...

"Are we going to be enveloped by the dream again?"

She vaguely remembered that when she fell into the "Zhuang Sheng" dream before, it was a similar scene, except that she could still clearly recognize that she was Bai Chen, a member of the "Pangu Biology" Old World Destruction Cause Investigation Team.

"No way, we're outside the school." Long Yuehong felt that the two of them were in a safe zone.

Bai Chen looked around and saw that the backs of the students leaving the school gradually disappeared at the end of the road. She said thoughtfully:

"Maybe the dream is spreading outward.

"The team leader's experiment has caused some changes in the dream."

Long Yuehong was about to say that it might just be a slight overflow of power when his eyes suddenly went blank.

He saw the overgrown weeds and abandoned buildings inside Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School being replaced bit by bit by the lively, vivid, and vibrant scene of students leaving class, gradually disappearing without a trace.

This was a manifestation of the dream "devouring" reality.

"I don't know how far it will spread..." Long Yuehong whispered solemnly.

He suddenly turned his head and said to Bai Chen:

"Let's retreat first, get out of the area covered by the spreading dream. I'm afraid that if we stay here for too long, we'll play a role again, and that would be troublesome.

"Don't worry about the team leader and Wei, Old Ge is with them, he won't be affected by the dream."

Bai Chen slowly shook her head:

"With such a change, I'm afraid Old Ge will also get lost in it and won't be able to cope.

"Do you remember how the Tarnan Robot Guard had an accident in the mountains?

"They can also be affected by certain illusion abilities."

Bai Chen paused and added:

"Before we get lost and play a role, I think we should seize the time to bring the team leader, Wei, and Old Ge out and wake them up.

"Time is of the essence, let's go now!"

She had no intention of retreating now and seemed unwilling to give up on her teammates without even trying.

Long Yuehong hesitated for a moment and said:

"But we don't know if we'll get lost immediately after entering the school through the gate."

Before Bai Chen could respond, he turned his body and said solemnly:

"I'll try to walk inside, you observe here. If I disappear or behave abnormally, it means this plan is not feasible. You immediately drive away from Taicheng and request assistance from the company."

Bai Chen looked into Long Yuehong's eyes and said silently after a few seconds:

"Okay."

She didn't try to persuade him, seemingly reading an unshakable determination in his eyes.

Long Yuehong didn't waste any more time. He slung the "Berserker" assault rifle and prepared to walk towards the gate of Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School.

Suddenly, Bai Chen stopped him:

"Leave the gun here.

"Also, try not to be discovered by the security guard when you go in. Old Ge said before that he suspects that having a certain degree of interaction with people in the dream beyond the normal process can trigger very terrible changes."

Leaving the gun behind was also based on the latter reason. Otherwise, if a fully armed person tried to break into the high school, even if the security guard didn't see it, the students wouldn't turn a blind eye.

Long Yuehong nodded, put down the "Berserker" assault rifle, and pulled up his clothes to cover the various items on his equipment belt.

Soon, against the tide of students leaving school, he used the passing figures to deceive the security guard and entered the interior of Taicheng No. 1 Senior High School.

After walking for a while and finding that he could still think and knew that he was Long Yuehong, he sighed to himself that "the rules of the dream have indeed changed to a certain extent." He turned his body and waved to Bai Chen.

At this time, there were not many students left at the gate. Bai Chen had to go around to the side and skillfully climbed over the wall.

The two met in the shadow of the side of a teaching building and discussed where to find Jiang Baimian and the others next.

The answer was very obvious:

The rooftop of the teaching building in front!

That was where Xu Qiao was scheduled to ask Du Shaochong questions!

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong were both clear that they had to race against time because they didn't know when they would get lost in the dream and lose the ability to save their teammates and themselves.

The two pretended to be parents looking for their children and approached the rooftop of the teaching building in front step by step along the corridors, passageways, and stairs where few students remained.

Along the way, they encountered many students in the dream, and they were fortunate that they only looked at them curiously and didn't come forward to inquire.

However, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen couldn't be sure whether these classmates would tell their teachers about encountering strangely dressed people later, so they could only speed up their pace and head straight to their destination with some concealment.

Finally, after waiting for two minutes and waiting for several students to go downstairs, they found an opportunity to enter the stairs leading to the rooftop.

Thump, thump, thump, they ran up.

In a few breaths, they saw the half-open iron door.

After reaching the rooftop, Bai Chen and Long Yuehong quickly surveyed their surroundings.

However, as far as their eyes could see, there was no one there.

Neither Xu Qiao, Du Shaochong, nor Genava were here!

"We don't have time to search the entire school." Long Yuehong said calmly, withdrawing his gaze.

What he meant was that since they couldn't find Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian, and Genava on the rooftop, they could only retreat temporarily and come back later when they had a solution.

Bai Chen was silent for a few seconds and said:

"Okay.

"Before that, search every corner here."

Here referred to the rooftop.

"Okay." Long Yuehong did not object.

The two relied on each other, preparing to go around a few obstacles on the rooftop and observe the areas where their view had been blocked before, and they couldn't see the details.

Just as Bai Chen and Long Yuehong went around the cement protrusion where the iron door leading downstairs was installed and came to the other side of the rooftop, their eyes lit up at the same time.

They saw the silver-black intelligent robot, Genava!

Genava was spinning around in place, the red light in his eyes flashing constantly, but no sound was emitted.

"Old Ge!" Long Yuehong shouted tentatively.

Genava stopped and looked at them.

After the red light flashed for a while, Genava looked around.

"What's wrong?" Bai Chen asked vigilantly.

Genava's slightly synthesized voice revealed a hint of confusion:

"I've been walking for so long, and I haven't left here all along...

"Why did you come in? Aren't you lost?"

Bai Chen answered succinctly:

"The dream has changed, we came in to find you.

"Where are the team leader and Wei?"

The red light in Genava's eyes flashed more and more intensely, as if he had encountered a bug and was stuck in an invalid calculation.

A few seconds passed, and he finally let out a low voice:

"They left on their own.

"I don't know where they went..."