Alex focused his gaze on the third item, for it was a weapon: a mysterious crystal ball with a dark exterior and silver-white light flowing across its surface.
[Chen Luoqiu's Nightmare]
This item was born from a nightmare Chen Luoqiu had. It would be more accurate to call it a weapon than a prop, as it is used to attack others, dragging them into a nightmare to experience a terrifying dream firsthand and causing immense mental damage.
This prop must be used while the target is asleep to achieve a silent effect; it is truly a top-tier item for backstabbing others.
After examining the crystal ball for a long while, Alex turned his attention to the [True Self] card.
The card's effect is to force a person to reveal their true self; it is also aggressive. Both items are like this, and he wondered if it had anything to do with Chen Luoqiu's personality.
[Chen Luoqiu's Nightmare] has first-class backstabbing effects, while [True Self] can cause social death. All things considered, Alex preferred [Chen Luoqiu's Nightmare] because [True Self] is only a one-time-use item.
Finally, Alex turned his attention to the [New Dream Pass] item. Honestly, Alex had a bit of psychological trauma regarding matters related to dreams, but since the dream world was used for upgrading skills, he could not ignore it.
[New Dream Pass] opens a new dream world upon use. After the lesson learned from Chen Luoqiu this time, Alex would no longer treat the dream world as merely a dream.
He currently had three movie tickets in total, but entering a dream required caution, so Alex did not use this item immediately.
He continued to update legend of fengyun hualong. Nowadays, Alex did not strictly follow the dream worlds he had experienced to write the book, but rather copied mostly from the book of his previous life.
All the heroines were played by the same person. While it was certainly fun to play around with, for a "Liu Bei" novel, it felt a bit insufficient; the diversity of heroines and those types of descriptions were what a "Liu Bei" novel should have.
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While eating breakfast in the morning, Alex wondered whether he should skip class to see Chen Luoqiu, but thinking that she would likely be very busy during the day, he dismissed the idea.
Freya sat opposite him, watching him lost in thought. Since she was unaware of Chen Luoqiu's existence, she assumed Alex was thinking about Xiao Kou. She sighed inwardly but said, "Alex, let me tell you something about Xiao Kou."
Alex immediately focused his attention and heard Freya say, "The private investigator I hired found news about Xiao Kou. Ten years ago, she was adopted by a rural couple who had come to the city to work, and later she was taken back to their village. The village has been identified."
"Where?" Alex asked.
Freya smiled reluctantly and said, "It's a village under the jurisdiction of the neighboring county, about fifty kilometers away from here. After I learned this, I sent someone to the village, only to find out that Xiao Kou's family had moved away several months ago. Now, no one knows where they went, and the villagers don't have any information."
By the end, her expression was a bit strange; the matter was somewhat eerie.
Alex was stunned for a moment. He did not doubt Freya's words; things had reached this point, and Freya had no need to lie to him. Since the village where Xiao Kou lived had been found, finding her current location was just a matter of time. It was just that Alex could not understand why Xiao Kou's family had moved out without even the villagers knowing their whereabouts; it felt as if they were deliberately hiding it from the village.
What on earth had happened?
Although Alex was a bit worried, he could only ask Freya to continue the investigation. He didn't even dare to voice the request personally, for fear of upsetting Freya.
The women around him were all troublesome. Given Alex's personality, he was not very willing to get close to them, but because of treasure chests and various other reasons, he had formed deep bonds with them.
Walking to school with Kiara, she seemed to quite like the song "Ke Guan Bu Ke Yi" and hummed it along the way, which made Alex feel a bit ashamed, remembering the time he and Kiara had sung the song together.
However, the "Three QQ Giants" were generally popular with students, so there was no helping it. Who told him not to open any classier songs from the treasure chests?
The song was just a small matter, and Alex didn't pay much attention to it.
Upon arriving at school and stepping through the gates, Alex spotted Li Jingchu. She seemed to be hiding from someone behind a tree.
Alex followed her vigilant gaze and saw the Miao Meiyuan trio. Miao Meiyuan was holding... a whip?
Damn, she was actually holding it openly in her hand, while Yu Xinyao and Yan Bianman next to her looked speechless.
Fortunately, most of the students at the school were simple-minded and didn't speculate deeply about the whip, assuming it was just something the "bad girl" Miao Meiyuan used to scare people.
However, some were exceptions. Li Jingchu felt that Yan Bianman had told Miao Meiyuan about her, and that Miao Meiyuan was holding the whip to lash her.
She was unwilling to be lashed by Miao Meiyuan. Last night, on a whim, she had bought a whip and tested it on herself at home; it hurt like crazy. Coupled with her fear of Miao Meiyuan, she chose to hide.
Alex saw this bizarre scene and, fearing that Miao Meiyuan might come looking for him, walked toward Li Jingchu without hesitation. He went behind her and used a large tree to shield his figure.
Li Jingchu heard a sound and turned her head to look, startled. When she saw it was him, she was slightly shy and asked in a low voice, "Why are you here?"
"Uh, just passing by," Alex said awkwardly, unable to admit he was afraid of Miao Meiyuan.
"Then you should leave quickly," Li Jingchu said shyly.
Alex stood still. "You go ahead with your business; I'll just watch."
Li Jingchu blushed. Afraid of attracting Miao Meiyuan, she dared not speak, turned her back, and decided not to look at Alex.
Kiara had originally been walking with Alex, but suddenly noticed him walk off in a different direction. Surprised, she instinctively followed, but stopped after a while when she saw Alex walk up behind a girl.
Kiara recognized this girl; she was the one who had been hugging Alex in the canteen for a long time yesterday.
Kiara was stunned for a moment, stopped, stared at them silently for a while, and then turned and left.
Alex didn't notice that Kiara had left. Seeing that Li Jingchu didn't want to talk to him, he didn't intend to strike up a conversation, planning to leave once Miao Meiyuan walked away.
Bored and idle, the young girl leaned against the tree, poking her head out to look around. Alex's gaze fell on her. Looking from behind, well, her butt was quite perky.
Just as he was staring, the girl suddenly looked back unexpectedly, seemingly wanting to say something to him. Upon seeing his strange gaze fixed on her, she blushed in shame and said angrily in a low voice, "What are you looking at?"
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