Surprised, Laplace began to observe her surroundings.
Roses were blooming all around her, and there was a garden path paved with long stones. In the distance, she could vaguely see a big house with a red roof and white walls. From her first impression, this seemed to be a small garden of a rich family.
However, this "rich family" was probably not a noble family, or the house would not be so simple.
After all, this was a new place, and Laplace did not know the details of this place. She restrained herself and did not move. Instead, she controlled the power of shedding scales and released her perception outwards.
Her perception extended for about ten meters before she arrived at the exit of the small garden.
The arch at the exit was very festive. Not only were there all kinds of colorful roses entwined around it, but there were also several colorful balloons tied to the top, floating leisurely in the air.
From the looks of it, this rich family should be celebrating right now.
Laplace continued to move her perception forward. Soon, she crossed the small garden and arrived outside the big house with red roof and white walls.
There was also a greenhouse near the house, which was more exquisite than the garden.
However, other than the greenhouse, there was nothing else worth mentioning. The fence, the gravel road, the street lights, the neatly built garden trees, the lush fruit trees, and the swing under the trees were all very ordinary things.
Laplace sensed for a moment, and after confirming that there was nothing special, he turned his attention to the only two paths.
One path led to the interior of the large house, while the other led to the outside world, passing through the dense forest.
Faced with these two choices, Laplace did not hesitate too much. She had a premonition that there was no reason for her to appear in this neighborhood. The neighborhood was so peaceful, and the only place that was sealed off was the big house. Therefore, the answer might be hidden in the house.
Since she believed that the answer was in the house, she would leave it for last. It would not be too late for her to go back to the house after she had ascertained her location.
After making up her mind, Laplace controlled her perception and walked outside.
However, when Laplace passed through the forest and came to the gate, she found that there was an "illusion" outside the gate.
Looking from afar, there were a large number of 'shadows' of houses outside. They should be the houses on the neighboring streets. However, upon closer inspection, they realized that it wasn't because of the distance. Everything outside, be it the houses or the number of houses, were all shadows.
It was completely illusory. Only a rough outline could be seen. It seemed to be a clock tower on the opposite side, and there was a row of bungalows on the side.
This should be a city street? The only exception was the house she was in. Every part of it was very clear, as if it was real, while the other places were sloppy like a dream.
Eh … a dream?
This word suddenly came to Laplace's mind as he was thinking.
The previous two mirrors reflected the Dream Realm Cleaners. Based on this pattern, could the other crystal creations be related to the Dream Realm Cleaners as well? For example, was it possible that the whip that tied her up here was also a Dream World Purger?
Or was this strange space a part of the Dream Realm? Was it a dream?
The reason why Laplace thought this way was mainly because of the bizarre and illusory external environment.
This kind of illusory situation was very similar to the scene when an ordinary person was dreaming. In a dream, only the dreamer's position was clearly visible. The other places were illusory because the other places were not important. What was important was the dreamer's will.
If the dreamer felt that the current environment was important, then he would only stay in the current environment. What he dreamed of was only what was happening in the current environment. Therefore, the most clear scene in the dream was also the current scene. As for the other places, they had nothing to do with the dream. A 'sketch' was enough.
This was like a landscape painting. The most important thing was the person in the close-up scene, while the distant scene only needed a few strokes of the brush to outline the mountain.
It meant that the illusionary street in the outside world that Laplace saw right now was the so-called "distant view" that only needed a rough outline. The area where she was in, on the other hand, was the "close-up view" that had to be described carefully.
Now that he thought about it, it was indeed very similar to a dream.
If this was indeed a dream, did it mean that the 'creature' in the dream was near the big house? Or, was it … inside the big house?
As Laplace pondered, she slowly withdrew her perception from the gate.
This time, she decided to target the big house. She wanted to see if the 'answer' she wanted was in the house. She wanted to see if the so-called 'dreamer' existed.
Soon, her perception returned to the vicinity of the big house.
There were two entrances to the house, the front door and the back door. The front door was closed. Moreover, there seemed to be some kind of rule in the house: to isolate all detection.
Even Laplace's perception could not penetrate the closed door.
Since she could not perceive the front door, Laplace could only look at the back door.
The back door was in a very remote place, between the glass greenhouse and the rose garden. Not only was it narrow and difficult to walk, but there were also Big Mary Roses on both sides of the path.
The Big Mary Roses were very tall, and the thorns on the rose vines were sharp and long. If an ordinary person was scratched, it would leave a deep wound.
Because the thorns of the Big Mary Roses could easily stab people, many flower growers called the flowers of the Big Mary Roses' blood roses'. First of all, it meant that the Big Mary Roses were produced with the blood of people who were stabbed. Second of all, the Big Mary Roses only had one flower color, which was bright red, just like roses dyed with blood.
The back door was narrow, and the Big Mary Roses were very easy to touch. According to common sense, this was not the place where the owner would go.
If she was not mistaken, this should be the door that the servant used.
When Laplace's perception reached the back door, she found that it was also locked.
However, the back door was different from the front door. Although the back door was locked, it was constantly shaking. It was as if someone was pushing the back door from inside.
As the back door kept shaking, screams of fear came out from inside.
Laplace could not help but imagine that someone was being hunted behind the door. The person being hunted must have run to the back door because the front door was locked, but the back door was also locked. In desperation, he began to shake the back door, trying to escape. However, the pursuer was already there, so he could only shake the back door and scream miserably.
The back door shook more and more violently, and the screams turned from fear to mournful.
Blood started to flow out from the crack of the door.
This seemed to be telling Laplace that the chased person was still being chased and attacked. The blood on the ground and the mournful screams came from the person who was in despair.
While Laplace was imagining a series of scenes and stories, the back door was suddenly pushed open by a huge force.
As the back door was pushed open, a fat girl with bruises all over her body ran out. She screamed in despair as she ran.
If the story in Laplace's mind was true, then this fat girl should be the one being chased.
What about the pursuer?
Laplace could not help but use her perception to look inside the door. After a glance, Laplace's eyes revealed a look of understanding.
Sure enough, as she had guessed, this strange 'dream' was related to the Cleaners she had killed before.
This was because the 'pursuer' standing in the door was one of the Cleaners from the Dream Realm that Laplace had killed before.
It was a tall man holding a long whip. He was wearing a semi-transparent chainmail, which allowed people to clearly see the bulging muscles all over his body. However, such a fierce man was wearing a childish and ridiculous mask, which was quite a contrast.
This man was one of the Cleaners killed by Laplace. At that time, Laplace thought that he was a human, not a monster. Later, when she took off his mask, she found that this man had no face at all. The childish mask was his face.
Therefore, Laplace gave this Cleaner a name in her heart: The Masked Man.
Now, this masked man had turned into a pursuer and attacked a young girl. What kind of show was he putting on?
Laplace could not figure out the whole story, but she had recognized the Masked Man. The long whip in the Masked Man's hand was the whip that had dragged her into this strange dream.
There was no doubt that the Masked Man was the answer to leaving this place.
Since she had found the Masked Man, Laplace did not hesitate and decided to 'meet' him.
However, at this moment, there was a new change in the chase over there.
The girl was being chased by the Masked Man, so she naturally wanted to escape. However, the road was too narrow, and she was very fat. Inevitably, she scratched the thorns of the Big Mary Roses around her.
Although she was in great pain, the girl could not stop. She endured the pain and continued to run.
However, when she was about to escape from the small road, the Big Mary Rose began to move. It seemed that the Big Mary Rose was full of her blood, and it regained its vitality.
The Big Mary Rose bloomed bright flowers, but the flowers had big mouths with sharp teeth. Long tongues stuck out from the mouths, like whips, and kept whipping the girl.
Some of the tongues wrapped around the girl's feet, and the girl's hands pulled her back.
The girl who was being pulled and whipped by the Big Mary Rose let out an even more shrill scream.
On the other side, the Masked Man seemed to be very satisfied with the Big Mary Rose's actions. He did not continue to chase after the girl, but stood aside and watched the scene of torture.
The girl was being brutally attacked by the Big Mary Rose, and the blood in her body was being constantly absorbed by the Big Mary Rose. Finally, the fat girl became thinner and thinner, and finally fell into a pool of blood …
The girl being chased had an unfortunate ending.
On the other side, Laplace, who had retracted her senses, did not care about the girl's ending. Instead, she was shocked by another change in her surroundings.
Previously, she was surrounded by a rose garden of all kinds of roses. Although it was still the same now, the previously quiet roses were now beginning to go crazy, just like the Big Mary Rose just now.
Every rose grew sharp teeth, and they tried to use their tongues to attack Laplace, and they even tried to bite her.
However, Laplace was not a helpless girl. Her thigh muscles swelled, and she jumped high into the air. She did not even use her scales. She only relied on her sharp hooves and terrifying speed. In just a few seconds, all the flowers around her were trampled into pieces.
And it was the kind of debris that could not be put together again even if she collected them.
There was also dust floating in the air, causing the air to be filled with a faint floral fragrance.
Laplace ignored the dust and fog and walked towards the exit of the rose garden.
Along the way, Laplace also encountered other roses that attacked her, but they were easily torn apart by her.
And the changes in the roses also caused some changes in the "dream".
The originally gorgeous garden became the slaughterhouse of the man-eating roses, and the festive arch at the entrance of the rose garden also changed.
The arch did not change, but the roses on the arch began to poke their heads out and cause trouble.
The balloons above the arched door had now become human heads floating in the air.
There were men and women, old and young. It was worth mentioning that the fat girl's head was also hanging on the arch.
She was just killed by the Big Mary Rose, and her head was separated so quickly? And she was placed on the arch?
Although Laplace was puzzled, she did not delve into it. Instead, she quickly kicked the arch several times in a row.
The arch fell, the roses were broken, and as for the heads … they were trampled by Laplace.
However, when Laplace stepped on these heads, he found that these heads did not have any reaction, and did not attack him like the roses.
This was probably because these people were really dead.
After Laplace destroyed the arch, he quickly rushed to the side of the path. This was the path that led to the back door, and also the way that the fat girl wanted to escape.
When the Big Mary Roses on both sides saw Laplace, they did not hesitate to attack.
But the result was no different from the roses before, they were easily dealt with by Laplace.
As for the spikes of the Big Mary Roses? Not to mention piercing the scales, if they could even leave a white mark on the scales, it would be considered Laplace's loss.
Soon, Laplace arrived at the place where the girl had fallen.
To Laplace's surprise … the girl was still on the ground, and her head was still there.
But before, Laplace had clearly stepped on the girl's head and crushed it.
Laplace looked at the girl on the ground, and his thoughts suddenly became a little chaotic … What was going on here?
Laplace could not figure it out. In the end, he simply gave up and jumped over the girl's body to rush to the back door.
Maybe he would find the answer after killing the masked man.
The back door was not closed, but the masked man was gone. Laplace did not see any trace of the masked man outside, which meant the masked man must have entered the house.
Without hesitation, Laplace dashed through the door.
…
While Laplace was trapped in the Rose Garden, an earth-shattering event was happening in the outside world, the Dream Crystal Plain.
Laplace experienced the beginning of the event, which was when the Dream Crystal cracked open and a large number of crystal creations were born.
However, this was only the beginning of a major event. The climax of this event occurred after the crystal creations went into hiding.
In his opinion, this event was the beginning of the history of the Dream Crystal. If he had to name it properly, he would call it the "War of Creation".
Of course, if Laplace was here and heard the name, she would definitely sigh.
Unfortunately, Laplace was not in the Dream Crystal right now. Or rather, she was in a corner of the world created by the new authority of the Dream Crystal.
What was a "War of Creation"? Since it was a war, it meant that two or more parties were fighting over a predetermined goal.
Angor's "War of Creation" was a battle between the new authority he released from his Nightmare Domain and the law of the mirror world in the Forest of Memories.
The goal of this battle was the ownership of the Dream Crystal.
(End of Chapter)
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