Ch61 - Summoned (2/2)

Zhou Sheng, “Still translating?”

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Yu Hao sat down to translate after he finished washing the dishes. He uttered an “un” in response. Zhou Sheng said something, but Yu Hao couldn’t make it out at first. He looked up at him, but Zhou Sheng said, “Nothing, continue with your work.”

Yu Hao remembered that Zhou Sheng mentioned “discussing” something with him today, so he asked, “What did you want to discuss with me? I’m not as busy anymore.”

The last time Zhou Sheng mentioned “discuss” in a serious tone, it was to ask Yu Hao to change dormitories. Yu Hao felt that the matter this time should also be about something significant.

“Forget it.” Zhou Sheng looked at his phone, “I haven’t thought it through yet. I’m sleeping, keep your voice down.”

Yu Hao dimmed his screen and typed a little lighter with a heart full of uncertainty. He went to bed late last night, and the two of them didn’t sleep during class today either, so Yu Hao quickly became sleepy too. He looked up at Zhou Sheng, who was already asleep.

“Zhou Sheng?” Yu Hao said softly.

Zhou Sheng was silent and breathing evenly. Yu Hao really couldn’t endure his exhaustion any longer, but the translation wasn’t done! So he had to brace himself and make a cup of coffee, then sit down and continue working. He did this until 4am, at which he reached his limit and felt like throwing up. So he closed the laptop and breathed a sigh of relief.

The dormitory plunged into darkness. Yu Hao felt about in the dark to stand up and went to brush his teeth. When he closed the balcony door, his eyes had adjusted to the darkness and he suddenly noticed an almost imperceptible light in the room.

Yu Hao, “?”

Yu Hao looked around him. It wasn’t the red light emitted from a charger, but a warm yellow light. He climbed up the ladder and saw Zhou Sheng’s wrist hanging in front of the railing. His slender and strong fingers were curled up slightly, and the Golden Crow Wheel on his wrist was shining with a very dim light!

The Golden Crow Wheel is shining? Yu Hao had never noticed that before. Is Zhou Sheng in a dream? In whose dream? Would the Golden Crow Wheel shine every time he enters a dream?

The light of the Golden Crow Wheel slowly dimmed until it vanished completely, before lighting up again. It seemed to alternate between lighting up and dimming at regular intervals. Yu Hao didn’t dare wake Zhou Sheng up, and after he observed him for a moment, he kept feeling that it seemed slightly strange.

So this is what it’s like when Zhou Sheng enters a dream……Yu Hao stood on the ladder and reached out to hold Zhou Sheng’s hand to push it back onto the bed. However, the moment he touched the Golden Crow Wheel, there was a sudden loud “bang” in his mind!

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Yu Hao instantly felt like there was something summoning him. The moment he moved his hand away, that sensation suddenly vanished without a trace.

Yu Hao placed his hand back on it again, and this time the feeling was very obvious — the Golden Crow Wheel was summoning him! Especially when the brightness of its light reached its peak!

“Zhou Sheng?” Yu Hao shook Zhou Sheng, “What are you doing?”

Zhou Sheng had fallen into a deep slumber and didn’t respond at all.

“Zhou Sheng!” Yu Hao sensed that something was amiss, so he immediately said, “Wake up! Can you wake up?”

Yu Hao quickly got onto Zhou Sheng’s bed. He placed one hand behind his head and tried to get him to sit up as he spoke in a low and anxious voice, “Zhou Sheng! Zhou Sheng! Wake up!”

Zhou Sheng’s head drooped sideways, and Yu Hao thought, crap, what’s going on?

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He pressed down on the Golden Crow Wheel with his hand. A streak of lightning flashed through his mind; the Golden Crow Wheel was talking to him! It was summoning him! Just like the first time he saw the Golden Crow Wheel, they were communicating purely through his consciousness. He needed to enter the dreamscape by touching the Golden Crow Wheel; Zhou Sheng had run into some kind of trouble.

Yu Hao immediately laid down on his bed and held Zhou Sheng’s wrist. But with this arrangement, Zhou Sheng would have to raise his hand onto the railing while he was fast asleep, and it didn’t seem right no matter how Yu Hao tried to shift it, so he had to return to Zhou Sheng’s bed and lie to his left while resting his head on Zhou Sheng’s shoulder.

The bed in their dormitory was very small, so he couldn’t avoid squeezing tightly together with Zhou Sheng in the cramped space. Yu Hao thought, I can’t help it, I’ll just take advantage of you a little ba. You probably wouldn’t mind it anyway……

Yu Hao pulled up his hand that was wearing the Golden Crow Wheel and placed it on Zhou Sheng’s chest, then he raised his left hand and placed it over Zhou Sheng’s wrist before closing his eyes.

The last thought Yu Hao had before closing his eyes was about Zhou Sheng’s side profile under the faint illumination of the Golden Crow Wheel. He wanted to kiss him a little, but as soon as he closed his eyes, a loud blare immediately sounded and he was dragged straight into the dream!

The light of the Golden Crow Wheel withdrew, and Yu Hao started flying in his dream. He turned around to look at the mountains and the earth, flapped his wings, then looked up and flew towards the Golden Crow Wheel in the sky.

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The first time he crossed through the Golden Crow Wheel, Yu Hao entered Zhou Sheng’s dreamscape.

Zhou Sheng’s dragon mount sat on the edge of the huge square that floated in the sky. When it saw Yu Hao appear, it immediately let out a great dragon cry.

“This doesn’t seem right?” Yu Hao said, “Where’s your master? Is Zhou Sheng still in his dream?”

Yu Hao flew to the edge of the square since he suspected that Zhou Sheng had crossed the sea of clouds. He was about to descend to look around when the black dragon let out another cry and flew past Yu Hao. Yu Hao turned around and saw the black dragon fly towards the center of the square. There was a huge Golden Crow Wheel on top of the sacrificial altar, and it had rushed straight into it.

“Where is he?” Yu Hao wondered. He spread his wings out and flew towards the Golden Crow Wheel in Zhou Sheng’s conscious world. Through the scene inside the Golden Crow Wheel, he saw Chen Yekai’s Chichén Itzá world again — but only the boundless rainforest remained, the pyramid was gone!

Yu Hao, “???”

Yu Hao wanted to exit the dream and call Chen Yekai when he suddenly realised an even more dire problem —— Zhou Sheng had always been the one who forcefully woke him up in the past; he doesn’t know how to wake up by himself!

“Crap.” Yu Hao muttered to himself, “Let’s figure out what happened first.”

He fluttered his wings again, following the black dragon, and flew into Chen Yekai’s Chichén Itzá world.

The appearance of the Chichén Itzá world also implied that Chen Yekai had fallen asleep. When Yu Hao crossed through Zhou Sheng’s Golden Crow Wheel, he suddenly flew out of the sun that was at the top of the pyramid.

Yu Hao, “???”

The pyramid was still here! It’s just that when Yu Hao looked out from inside Zhou Sheng’s Golden Crow Wheel, the sun in the Chichén Itzá world happened to be above the pyramid, so it was as if Yu Hao was looking out from a window, only seeing the rainforest!

At the top of the pyramid, there was a square with a white Feathered Serpent god on the left, and Zhou Sheng’s black dragon on the right. A strange light had engulfed the vicinity, and the world seemed pitch dark, yet also filled with a pale, omnipresent light. Yu Hao turned around and looked at the Golden Crow Wheel in the center of the square.

An eclipse!

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A black inferno raged in the centre of the Golden Crow Wheel. It covered the heart of the Golden Crow Wheel, and only the rim of the wheel still radiated a fierce, golden flame!

What’s going on? Yu Hao approached the Golden Crow Wheel. The interior of the wheel was submerged in complete darkness.

“Zhou Sheng? Chen Laoshi?” Yu Hao turned his head, “Where are you guys?”

A completely dark space had appeared within the wheel. Did Zhou Sheng and Chen Yekai get sucked into it together? Yu Hao didn’t dare to rush in hastily. He was afraid that if the two of them were still around, he might cause trouble if he were to run around carelessly and would even end up implicating them.

Yu Hao approached the Golden Crow Wheel, and suddenly, the Golden Crow Wheel emitted a strong flare that completely engulfed Yu Hao.

They’re inside! Through the exchange in his consciousness, Yu Hao understood that the Golden Crow Wheel wanted to convey that Zhou Sheng and Chen Yekai had entered it. At the same time, he sensed a strange oscillation, and it felt exactly like what he had felt in reality. Zhou Sheng was summoning him incessantly right now, like an electronic transmitter sounding an alarm.

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“Looks like I have to break in by myself.” Yu Hao turned his head and looked at the black dragon and the Feathered Serpent god, “Wish me luck ba, bye-bye.”

After he spoke, Yu Hao picked up his pace and rushed to the front of the Golden Crow Wheel. He hit the barrier side-on and was instantly plunged into darkness!

The world was pitch black, and he couldn’t see his own fingers when he stretched out his hand in front of him. As soon as Yu Hao entered, he was hit by some unknown object, so he immediately cried out.

But why is it that when he shouted, he couldn’t even hear his own voice!

Yu Hao turned around and shouted, “Zhou Sheng?! Where are you?”

When he shouted those words out, he couldn’t hear himself. Something smashed into Yu Hao again, so he instantly turned around to try and avoid it. He swung his hands out and from the void, he pulled out a——

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Laundry fork!

I can use my weapon! Yu Hao unconsciously used his weapon to defend, yet the surrounding objects that were attacking him had already disappeared.

His magic staff shone with a dim, silver-white light which illuminated a small area around it.

“This is great! There’s light!” Yu Hao said, but he suddenly noticed a strange detail, “Eh? Why is it that I can hear again?”

“Where is this place?” Yu Hao turned around and illuminated the darkness with his magic staff, “What is that? Why can’t I think anymore? Weird, why is it that whatever I think, I blurt out uncontrollably like this?”

Yu Hao could now clearly see what was flying around in the darkness — they were fragmented squares, diamonds and circles that looked like the broken shards of a mirror. They reflected the silver-white light that was cast from the magic staff in Yu Hao’s hand.

“Where the fuck is this weird place? Ah, why am I swearing again……”

“Isn’t it 2D? How did it turn 3D? Eh why does it seem 2D again from here? Wait no that’s not what I should be concerned with right now, Zhou Sheng! Where are you!”

Yu Hao turned around and flew away. This space was filled with mirror debris that flew around everywhere — they looked 2D when seen from afar, but when seen from up close at a different angle as they swept past Yu Hao, they turned into hard, marble-like minerals that reflected a silver-white light. Yu Hao dismantled his staff into daggers, spread his wings, and held the light up to search within this zero-gravity space. The illumination from the light on his body didn’t seem to disappear wherever he flew past, and instead left a gorgeous trail behind him that looked like the Milky Way.