Chapter 202



202 Lost In The Dream

Selma Payne’s POV:

It was the devil’s seal!

I was pleasantly surprised for a moment, but I quickly calmed down. There was no such thing as free lunch. No matter how I looked at her, this woman who called herself Mullwica was suspicious.

“Of course, I didn’t believe her,” said Frank. “So I used the excuse of recuperating to beg her to let me rest for a few more days. In the past few days, I slowly discovered that she had an extremely strange habit: covering her head and body before going to bed, only revealing her neck. I recalled that legend, ‘Wasn’t Mullwica beheaded by her son in her sleep?’

“I tried to observe her in the middle of the night, but I couldn’t help but fall asleep at around 10 pm. No matter what I did, I couldn’t stay awake. It was like a game setup, and I had to do something at a particular time.

“That didn’t feel right. So, on the last night, I didn’t stay in the house. Instead, I hid behind the firewood outside the house when the bell rang at 10 pm. The moment the bell tolled, the entire house was suddenly reconstructed! It was like an image composed of countless pixels, trembling and adjusting the position of each mosaic until dawn-

“Yes, the sun rose very quickly. At least, I felt that the sun had risen in less than ten minutes. Just when I wanted to go back to the house to take a look, the woman called Mullwica suddenly walked in from the fence. From outside the fence! But I did not see her leave the house.

“Then, things got even weirder. She came to the empty guest room, which was my room, and said ‘good morning’ to the empty bed. Then, she put breakfast on the empty wooden table and showed concern for my injury.

“At that moment, I understood that everything was fake. Everything I saw and investigated was a pre-set program. Even the world I was in might be fake because I was slow to realize that even the birds chirping outside the window were the same as a few days ago.

“And the moment I discovered the truth, everything collapsed. Mullwica and the house; all gradually melted like wax. My world fell into darkness. When I woke up again, I found myself still lying in the snow – I wasn’t buried alive, nor was there Mullwica or a stone house. I was lying on the pattern I drew with my footprints and was in a sorry state.

“I immediately realized that I couldn’t stay here any longer. The overlapping of dream and reality left me in a daze. I didn’t know what happened to Linda or what that pine tree did with my clone. I don’t even know whether that pine forest was real or just a dream. I could only transform into my wolf form and use my wild instinct to find the right direction.

“In the end, I came here, the safe house at the foot of the mountain.”

After he recounted the incident, Frank’s eyes blurred as if he was still immersed in a dream.

“I don’t even know if I’m dreaming or not. Selma, Aldrich, do you really exist?”

We immediately gave an affirmative answer. “Of course. Take a whiff of your tea. This is a new recipe that the royal kitchen just created this week. I don’t think even the most powerful dream will have something you’ve never seen before, right?”

Frank took a sip of tea in a daze and didn’t say anything.

Aldrich sat beside him and worriedly suggested, “Your physical condition is terrible, Frank. You need a comprehensive examination. But it’s too late now, the werewolf grandmasters can’t come down the mountain in the dark, and the plane to transport the injured has already set off. We’ll send you back to the pack for treatment tomorrow morning, okay?”

However, Frank refused. “Thank you for your kind intentions, but I can’t leave. The Rocky Mountains is too strange. There must be some unknown conspiracy waiting for us. I can’t leave my team behind.”

“But your body is already an arrow at the end of its flight,” Aldrich disagreed. “Of course, I understand your concern for your team members. If it were me, I wouldn’t rashly leave my team and not care about them. However, the situation is special now. With your current physical condition, what help can you be even if you return to the team? Why don’t you return to the pack for a check-up and treatment? The sooner you recover, the sooner you can return to the team.”

However, no matter how we persuaded him, he was determined to stay.

Looking at the deep night outside the window, he muttered, “Something is calling me here. I heard it, and I won’t back down…”

Left with no choice, I could only communicate with Dorothy and ask her to get a werewolf grandmaster down the mountain. Frank’s current physical condition was too poor. He could not withstand the pressure of climbing the mountain at all.

Moreover, we had to secretly discuss with the werewolf grandmasters about that ‘Frank’ on the mountain.

The exhausted advance party leader quickly fell asleep. Aldrich and I stayed by his side to monitor his physical condition.

“He’s taking action for sure,” I mumbled. “That demon… If what Frank experienced is real, he was probably in an illusion constructed by the demon just like we had. As for the pine forest, I’m inclined to believe that it was real and the same pine forest I encountered.