A peerless killer possessing a cat girl assassin from another world

"However, Miss Wu Yue, there is no need to worry so much. After all, this situation is just one of the things I have described..."

I was scared by the "walking dead", but when I heard that there were other possibilities, my hope was immediately rekindled.

"...Is there a possibility that the dream is not changing or upgrading...but that it has always been like this?"

"Excuse me, Mr. Maxime, could you please be a little more concise?"

"Ahem, to put it simply, the 'world' you are in now is not a 'dream' at all?"

what?

Wasn't it a dream?

The problem returned to the starting point, back to the conversation with the master when I was awake.

Are the scenes we see after falling asleep really dreams?

Mr. Maxim saw my confused look, laughed softly, and then explained:

"This is normal. Most people have difficulty distinguishing the boundaries between dreams, illusions, and memories. I won't explain those things that are too obscure. Let me first state the conclusion. Dreams may just be a carrier, and its true appearance may be something called 'memories'."

Memory?

"In fact, it is precisely because this dream is too orderly, so orderly that I dare to make such a guess."

"I believe that by now, Miss Wu Yue should have sensed a little bit of this... let's call it a 'dream'... the underlying logic of this dream, that is, its deep rules."

"First, please think about this. If I hadn't delayed the time in your dream, or even stopped the passage of time, waiting for you to fall asleep at night, would the time pass very quickly, and would it pass away on its own until it ended before your consciousness fell asleep?"

"...Indeed..."

In fact, even if Mr. Maxim controls the progress of dreams, time will still move forward a little every time he enters a dream.

"Very good. Then the second rule is easy for you to find. You cannot exit the dream on your own initiative. You must be stimulated by something..."

I thought about it carefully:

The first time I woke up, the man who grabbed me suddenly attacked and attacked people, knocking the scarred man to the ground.

The second time I woke up was when I was sailing out to sea. I was frightened by the pitch-black sea, and then I fell asleep in my dream.

The third time I woke up, it was because of a branding iron on the back of my neck...

On the surface, it seems that it is indeed due to some kind of stimulation...

".....No, Mr. Maxim, although I was a little surprised the first time, it was not to the extent of being 'exciting'...The second time, I was frightened in my dream, but I did not have the same fear..."

"No, no, Miss Wu Yue, the subject that was stimulated was never you who was talking to me..."

"Not me? That's..."

Halfway through asking the question, I suddenly realized.

"...Is it...the me in the dream? But, isn't the me in the dream just...how should I put it, a 'me' that I imagined?"

"Hmm...it seems that my explanation is still a little difficult to understand...So now, let's go back to the original guess. This is not a dream, but a memory..."

"The biggest difference between memories and dreams is the word 'memory'. Which one has a more stable and sound world structure, the world built by memories or the imagined dream? Yes, obviously, it is the world created based on memories."

"Memory? But, I have no memory of this at all. How did I construct this world?"

"Good question, Miss Wu Yue. As long as you understand the memory realm, the rest will be easy."

"Because all this may not be your memory, let alone your 'memories'."

Mr. Maxim's words were so shocking that I didn't know what to say for a moment...

Doesn't all this belong to me?

So where did it come from? It can't just appear out of thin air...

Just when I was about to continue asking Mr. Maxim for advice, Mr. Maxim spoke again:

"But... all of this is just speculation... Memory realms are rare to begin with, and today we have encountered an even rarer situation like Miss Wu Yue... I dare not continue to speculate rashly, and the former possibility has not been completely ruled out. I still need time to continue my research. I am really sorry..."

Mr. Maxim ended his words halfway through... I understand that this was a decision made by Mr. Maxim based on his rigorous research attitude.

But the pile of questions he left behind made my already confused brain even more confused.

To sum up, based on the current situation...

In the first case, my dream is undergoing some kind of transformation that is almost like a mutation, which may eventually cause my consciousness to be trapped in the dream forever and become a "walking corpse" in reality.

The second situation is that this world is not a dream at all, but what Mr. Maxim calls a "memory". Memories are extremely rare, and even Mr. Maxim, the dream walker, has never seen my special situation of producing memories without any memory.

No matter which one it is, it has long been beyond my understanding and is very difficult to solve. Fortunately, apart from being tortured a little by dreams every night, it will not be a big deal for the time being.

But it's hard to say for a long time...

At least, I definitely don’t want to become what Mr. Maxim calls a “walking corpse”…

......

While I was communicating with Mr. Maxim, everything in the dream was happening smoothly.

With the help of Carrie, I gradually mastered the essentials of washing.

It can be seen that "I" have never done similar work before.

That's because I have my mother... I don't need to bear too much...

Even in my dream, I learned a series of necessary skills under the guidance of Sister Tiffany...

However, compared to this...

I'm facing a very important problem now...

How do I wake up?

You know, now, we are not in a hurry, but it is safer to stay inside the Chamber of Commerce run by the Azrael family for generations.

The "excitement" that Mr. Maxim mentioned seems to be hard to happen to "me"...

What if it is true, as Mr. Maxim said, that the stimulated subject must be the "I" in the dream?

Then don't I have to wait until the "me" in the dream is stimulated in some way before I can passively exit the dream?

......