Chapter 38：A Shocking Series Of Events (1/2)

The grueling process was finally completed after an hour, at the end of which Lin Mu could not maintain his consciousness anymore and was pulled into the Sleepscape.

Once he was in the Sleepscape, he could not feel the fatigue and was free. Though as soon as he entered the Sleepscape he was in for another storm. Currently, the Sleepscape was undergoing a great upheaval.

The ethereal altar within the mysterious ring was still pulsating with energy. This time the energy was rising from the ring and reaching the Sleepscape. The Sleepscape was no longer dark, instead a dazzling blue sky had replaced the pitch-black sky and grass had sprouted on the ground.

Lin Mu was left in awe upon witnessing all the events. The grass was spreading around from where Lin Mu was standing, and so was the blue sky. Lin Mu started walking towards the front as he saw a sapling grow into a tree within the blink of an eye.

He got closer and examined it, as he found it to be rather familiar. It was but a moment later that he understood why. This was the very same apple tree he had been playing around since he was a child, had fallen asleep under when he left the town, and found the mysterious ring on.

The same tree had somehow grown in the Sleepscape. He went ahead and touched the trunk. The rough bark of the tree felt real, and so did the rustling of the leaves. Lin Mu walked around the tree and tried to get a measure of the place.

He touched the grass and tried pulling it out. The grass was pulled out but soon disappeared from his hand. Even the place from where the grass was pulled out from returned back to as it was before.

”Huh, so I can't change the environment here.” Lin Mu thought out loud.

As he wandered and explored, he figured out the characteristics of the Sleepscape. He found that the radius of the entire Sleepscape was roughly around 200 meters. If he kept on walking ahead, he would just end up in front of the apple tree. He took the apple tree as the centre and mapped the place in multiple directions, but found the result to be the same.

'I end up in the same place after walking straight. So this place should be a circle, ah no, a sphere to be more accurate.' Lin Mu concluded.

Only after he had explored the entire place, did he realise the biggest distinction that existed between the Sleepscape and the actual world. He looked up and noticed the absence of the sun in the sky. There were no clouds in the sky either, yet somehow the sky was still blue.

'Will there be night in here?' Lin Mu wondered to himself.

The only way he could figure out if the night would fall, would be to just wait and observe. Lin Mu waited and waited, but still could not see the day turn into night. Eventually, his consciousness disappeared from the Sleepscape and returned to his body.

Lin Mu woke up in a daze and looked around to check his whereabouts. He was still at the same place he had passed out from exhaustion. He looked at the half-moon that was staring him in the face and broke out in a light laugh.

”Things just get more and more exciting for me, don't they?” Lin Mu spoke to himself.

He tried to stand up and found that his entire body felt sore. Lin Mu was drenched in sweat before and felt sticky, so he wanted to clean up. He stumbled down to the stream and took a bath that felt comfortable to him, even though the water was icy cold, a sign of the approaching winter. While bathing, his gaze wandered to the apple tree.

'So it's still there. I guess the tree in the Sleepscape is just a replica.' Lin Mu thought.

After he was done bathing, he walked up to the apple tree just to verify his claims. He touched the tree and plucked some leaves and apples. Unlike before, these did not disappear and stayed with him.

After he had verified his claims, Lin Mu walked back to the hunting shack. He was no longer stumbling like before, even though he still felt sore. After he reached the hunting shack, he set some meat to cook on the stove as he was starving.