1413 Enter the World, Seeking Nowhere (1/2)

Staring at the empty shell, Zhang Zian's mind once again fell into an endless spiral of thoughts.

Was this another dream?

Zhuang Xiaodie's final words were planted in his heart like seeds sprouting and growing frantically.

Everything around him was so real. Whether it was his staff that he interacts with daily to the empty shell of this swallowtail butterfly. Excluding the three days when he was in a deep sleep, everything else matched with what happened before that.

The elves were there, too.

Was he truly back in reality?

Not necessarily.

Last time, Zhuang Xiaodie chose to start the dream when his parents were alive and fine-tuned the timing of some things. It was a dream without elves.

However, after learning from the previous experience and lessons, she felt that making a dream too beautiful raised suspicion. Thus, she created this dream to be no different from reality and even simulated a game that can capture elves...

There was no doubt that she was capable of this.

It was like the man dressed in black leather in ”The Matrix”. He stretched out two hands to the protagonist, one with a red pill and the other with a blue pill. He asked the protagonist to choose between waking up to face the real world or continuing to live in the programmed dream. At the same time, it was also a reality that many people thought was real.

The protagonist chose to face the truth, but this choice did not apply to Zhang Zian. Although he also chose the real world, he didn't know if it might've been a blue pill wrapped in red sugar coating.

Some people suspected that the so-called human world was just a program written by a higher-level civilization. This was hard to prove or falsify because everyone lived in this program. They were all people in their own dreams. They had no man in black leather clothes to present them with a pill as he did with the protagonist.

Zhang Zian sighed, shook his head, and stopped thinking about such a nerve-racking question that he couldn't answer. It was crazy to continue thinking about it. He had better leave it to scientists and philosophers to think about since they weren't afraid of balding from thinking too much.

As for him, he could only tell himself that regardless of whether he was in reality, another dream, or an alien program, he needed to make life more exciting and strive to make himself and his partners happy. That way, he could make the most of his life.

”Good morning, Mr. Store Manager!”

Zhang Zian heard the voice and looked back. He saw Little Celery standing behind him in short-sleeved shorts, looking up at the empty shell. If it weren't for her two little braids, he would have mistaken her to be a lively boy.

”Good morning, Little Celery. Aren't you on holiday?” He moved his head up and down to look behind her. She wasn't carrying a school bag.

”It's my turn to go to school to take care of the hamster,” she answered crisply.

”Oh... wait, has Xu Zhuangzhuang been misbehaving recently?” he asked.

Little Celery thought about it and said, ”I don't seem to see him misbehaving!”

Well, it seemed that the naughty child was stung quite badly by the caterpillar and took the opportunity to get a note of absence from his parents.

”Oh, Mr. Store Manager, what have you be doing these days? They said you went looking for a fair, rich and beautiful lady in your dreams. What does that mean?” Little Celery asked out of curiosity.

Zhang Zian said nothing. He couldn't spare whoever was corrupting his image behind his back!

”Good morning, Mr. Store Manager.”

”Morning, Mr. Store Manager.”