There is no guarantee for the lottery? So what?

#245 - Chapter 245 Dream-Eating Tapir

“Because the Painless Armband only weakens your pain perception nerves, it probably can't defend against this kind of mental damage.”

Yu Ding explained the principle of the Painless Armband to Qi Jing.

“I see.”

Qi Jing sat down and looked at the monitor showing the Whale Tomb.

They had placed this monitor when they went down to scavenge. If left unattended, it probably wouldn't last long against the ravages of time.

The scene in the picture was calm and tranquil, still so serene and dark.

But in his eyes, it had an added touch of eeriness.

He definitely didn't dare to go down again. He could lose to monsters, but he couldn't not see them!

It was too unfair.

“Do we have anything that can attack them?”

Although he was a little scared, killing them might yield Soul Essence, and with Soul Essence, he could revive people. The thought of this made Qi Jing feel it was necessary to try to deal with them.

Besides, they had to pay back those two hits he took.

He hadn't been hit by anyone other than his parents in all his life!

“Just because you can't see them doesn't mean you can't hit them.”

Yu Ding analyzed:

“For example, some curse-type abilities don't act on human nerves but directly on the soul, so they should be able to kill them.

Certain true damage abilities might also work.”

Yu Ding thought of the Level 5 Esper [Carefree Immortal]. He might have a way to attack the soul.

As a cultivator, he should have some rudimentary soul attack techniques.

But to get him to come here on a mission, they would have to find another Level 5 Esper to guard the Geng Dimension Gate for him.

“Let's call it a day for now. Later, we'll try to kill those soul-like monsters. If we can't kill them or find another solution, the Whale Tomb mission may have to be canceled.”

Yu Ding sighed.

So many resources; there would indeed be a legendary guardian beast. They couldn't just take them for nothing.

Qi Jing was thinking about the "true damage" Yu Ding had mentioned earlier. If he remembered correctly, the "Endurance" he had drawn earlier also came with a skill called "Judgment."

Its effect seemed to be dealing true damage based on the target's sin value.

However, would these formless creatures have something like a sin value?

Qi Jing didn't know, and he didn't want to try it today.

He told Yu Ding about his skill, and Yu Ding also agreed that they shouldn't go down again today. They didn't need a newbie to solve this matter.

Qi Jing asked, “By the way, was Fu Ge the reference for my lottery draw just now?”

Yu Ding recalled and said, “It should be. He activated the Return Talisman the instant after you finished drawing, and then you woke up.”

Hearing his answer, Qi Jing was a little puzzled.

If he drew from Fu Tantan, then why was the skill drawn called "Endurance" instead of "Sloth?"

Shouldn't someone as lazy as him have drawn "Sloth"?

He couldn't figure it out.

Yu Ding saw Qi Jing's slightly furrowed brow and asked, “Isn't the skill you drew immunity to abnormal states? Is there still something you're confused about?”

“Yes, the name of the skill I drew is ‘Endurance.’”

Hearing Qi Jing's words, Yu Ding was silent for a moment.

He sighed and said,

“Didn't Lao Fu tell you he has a wife? She was also a classmate of ours. They got married on the first day of graduation.

Our whole class attended their wedding; it was quite a celebration.

Afterward, they went to a place in another world for their honeymoon, but unexpectedly, a kind of alien beast, a Dream Eater, appeared and trapped her in a dream forever, even after Lao Fu killed it, it didn't undo the effect.

This alien beast is particularly rare, and no second one has appeared to this day, leaving us with no opportunity to study it.

Later, Lao Fu brought her back and took care of her body, but he never saw her open her eyes again.

After searching fruitlessly for a year, Lao Fu found an Esper who could make people dream and copied his ability, trapping himself in dreams all day, wanting to meet her in his dreams.

He only wakes up a few times when we go to see him. I can't bear to see him like this, so I occasionally give him tasks to do, to bring him into contact with reality.

That's right, he is indeed enduring, enduring for a very, very long time.”

Fu Tantan is indeed a lazy person, but he is also a devoted one.

Because she said she couldn't cook, he directly ate ten years' worth of Bigu Pills, saying that he didn't need her to cook.

He has been searching for her in his dreams for a very, very long time, until now.

In fact, he secretly goes out once or twice every year, to the place where they spent their honeymoon, to look for traces of the Dream Eater, but he always comes back empty-handed.

So many years of dreaming have also made him listless. If Yu Ding and the others didn't visit him often, he might have forgotten how to communicate with people.

“Let’s kill her first, and then revive her with the River Flower!” Gou Dehao suggested.

This was also the first time he had heard the whole story, and coincidentally, he had recently obtained a method to revive people.

Since she couldn't be saved, then kill her completely and then save her.

Yu Ding shook his head:

“It won't work. Lao Fu wouldn't allow anyone to touch her. Besides, the function of the River Flower is to summon the souls of the dead and allow people to see them, but who can guarantee that the Dream Eater doesn't directly act on the soul?”

“Sigh, difficult.”

Gou Dehao slapped his palm.

“By the way, doesn't that old woman work either?”

“No, we've tried, it's useless.”

Yu Ding knew that Gou Dehao was talking about the Vice-Principal, whose ability was "Redemption", which could heal injuries of the mind and body. It could be said that she was their strongest healing Esper here.

But even she couldn't cure it, because falling into a dream wasn't an injury at all, just dreaming.

“Brother Yu, is there a way to copy my skill onto someone else?”

“Copy it onto someone else? You want to copy the ‘Immunity to Abnormal States’ skill onto her? Let me think.”

Yu Ding also thought of this.

If she obtained this skill, then her sleeping state might be directly broken.

But besides Lao Fu, who else can copy other people's skills?

Copy, ah, copy.

That's right, let Lao Fu level up to Level 5, and it might be possible to let others copy!

Thinking of this, Yu Ding excitedly made a video call to Fu Tantan directly.

“Lao Fu! Xiao Jin can be saved!”

“Revive?”

“No, no, not revive, it's to let you level up to Level 5, and it might be possible to save her!”

“Why?”

“Xiao Qi just drew a skill from you that can grant immunity to all abnormal states. As long as we copy this skill onto Xiao Jin, she can wake up!”

“Impossible.”

Fu Tantan believed that leveling up would only give him one more skill to copy and would not awaken the ability to let others copy.

Yu Ding also knew what he was thinking:

“Maybe, with ‘Inheritance’ present, everything is possible.”