Chapter 15 A Big Discovery

With a "clang," Hao Ren's door was thrown open. The three abnormal tenants, who were crowded together in the living room watching TV, immediately turned their heads in unison, just in time to see Hao Ren running out of the room with a small piece of iron in his hand, yelling, "A big discovery, a big discovery!"

Lily was always the most agile. Hao Ren had only shouted a couple of times when the girl had already transformed into a streak of white light and dashed to his side, jumping up and down, reaching for the small piece of iron. She jumped several times before seeming to suddenly realize that this was the behavior of a pet dog, so she quickly wagged her tail and returned to the sofa to continue pretending to watch TV.

Hao Ren looked at Lily in astonishment. "Why did you turn into a werewolf again? Did you lose control again?"

Lily's ears twitched twice, and she was quite sensitive to the word "lose control." "No, no, just letting my tail out to get some air."

"What's going on?" Vivian was very steady. She waited for Lily to finish acting crazy before standing up. "Was everything smooth in the Dream Plane yesterday?"

"Oh, pretty smooth. I fought with seventy or eighty wild wolves, and then I woke up when a tornado threw me into the sky," Hao Ren waved his hand dismissively. "The key is that I brought something back from 'over there' again, and this time you recognize what it is!"

Vivian was about to say, "It doesn't sound like it went smoothly at all," but her gaze was drawn to the piece of iron that Hao Ren was waving in his hand. She was slightly stunned. "Isn't this... the thing we saw in the basement a few days ago?"

"That's right, it's that thing," Hao Ren grabbed Vivian's arm and walked towards the small stairs leading to the basement. "Do you remember where we put that thing? Let's go find it together. These two look so alike!"

After Hao Ren and Vivian ran off in a flurry, Izaaks and Lily exchanged puzzled glances. The great demon asked in a muffled voice, "What's going on with these two? I came late, so I'm not too clear on the situation…"

"Oh, they must be having an affair," Lily's brain was as whimsical as ever. "I've seen it on TV."

Izaaks said "oh" and seriously thought about it for a long time before looking up. "When are they getting married then?"

In the next ten minutes or so, these two abnormal guys began to study the wedding process on Earth. Of course, this was a side matter and could be temporarily skipped over.

Hao Ren and Vivian quickly found the wooden box that had been placed in the small basement storage room a few days ago. After the previous two days of cleaning up, his box of childhood junk now looked... even junkier. The rhomboid piece of iron was placed among a pile of antiques, looking like a discarded part that had fallen off of something. Hao Ren moved the entire box out of the small storage room and placed it on the small low table in Vivian's room, and then the two began to study the two small pieces of iron—actually, there wasn't much to study. It was clear at a glance that the two things were completely identical.

"This really came from the Dream Plane?" Vivian stroked the纹路 (wenlu – lines, veins, grain) on the iron piece. This was the one that Hao Ren had just brought back last night, and it looked newer, with less rust than the first one. "The patterns are exactly the same, and the material is the same too."

"Absolutely," Hao Ren nodded vigorously, and then recounted his experiences in the Dream Plane last night, including his mastery of divine skill and acquisition of a rigid shield. Finally, the focus of the topic was placed on the small piece of iron. "I found this in a herdsman's hut in that grassland. I didn't see anything else around, it was just buried in the dirt by itself. Oh, right, those huts looked like they had been abandoned for at least half a year."

"What exactly is the Dream Plane like?" Vivian's face showed a considerable expression of curiosity. "Are there mountains, water, and people there too? And are the people there the same as the ones outside?"

"I haven't seen any living people there yet, but it really is like a normal world, with everything there, and things that don't exist in the real world are there too—wolves that can talk are in packs," Hao Ren described the scenery of the Dream Plane to Vivian. He mentioned the strange packs of wolves, the endless grasslands, the brilliant starry sky, the huts left behind by the herdsmen, and of course, he focused on the most magical double-moon phenomenon in the Dream Plane. "There are two moons over there! One big and one small, the small one is about the size of half a fingernail, and the big one is several times larger than the moon on Earth. It looks really magical at night... I wish I had a way to bring you guys in there. What do you think, would Lily go crazy on the spot if she saw two moons? One moon on Earth is enough to get her excited."

"Two moons…" Vivian was also a race that was very sensitive to moonlight, and even a trace of red light involuntarily appeared in her eyes when she heard this topic. "I really want to see it, you must take me there if you have the chance! Hey, I even saw two moons hanging in the sky in a dream once. I remember that dream clearly. Under the protection of the two rounds of moonlight, I finally got rid of my bad luck and became super rich—unfortunately, before I could dream about spending the money, I was woken up by the landlady who came to urge me to pay the rent."

Hao Ren: "…" Every time he heard Vivian tell her past stories, he had the feeling of listening to a bitter past. It was so sad.

Vivian recalled the wonderful experience of becoming super rich in her dream, then came back to her senses and quickly wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth and got down to business. She pinched the two small pieces of iron and waved them in front of Hao Ren. "It seems that these two were brought out from the Dream Plane. It's impossible for someone in the real world to coincidentally create something that's exactly the same as something in the Dream Plane, and it's still a piece of scrap iron that looks like it has no use at all. You mentioned that you got this first piece of iron when you were a child… do you remember the situation at that time?"

"I don't remember," Hao Ren shook his head. "I said, it was just there by my side at some point."

"There are two possibilities. First, someone else has been to the Dream Plane. This piece of iron was brought out from the Dream Plane by someone else, and then somehow ended up in your hands. Didn't Raven 12345 say that many people in history have come into contact with the Dream Plane and brought things out of it? You're not the first," Vivian waved her fingers. "Second... you went to the Dream Plane when you were a child, and this piece of iron was brought out by you from there. Which possibility do you think is more likely?"

Hao Ren took the two pieces of iron from Vivian and fiddled with them in silence for a long time before shaking his head. "Neither possibility is very likely, right? The first possibility requires too much coincidence. According to that five-digit psychopath, only one person on the entire Earth might be able to come into contact with the Dream Plane and bring something out of it alive every few hundred years, and then this thing has to circulate for several hundred years before it can get into my hands. How much of a coincidence would that be? As for the second possibility… I was only a few years old back then, how could I enter the Dream Plane and come out alive? That place is full of man-eating beasts running around, and the wind can reach Force 15 or higher on a clear day. I've encountered life-threatening crises both times I've gone in there. If it weren't for my body being strengthened and having a cheat activated, I would have died in there long ago. How could a child a few years old wander around in there until they naturally woke up? And come to think of it, I don't remember this happening when I was a kid."

"Then overall, the second possibility is still more likely," Vivian patted Hao Ren on the shoulder. "You just need to be lucky. Besides, children don't remember things clearly anyway, and they will actively avoid things like nightmares, so maybe you just forgot. Look at me, I often forget things, don't I?"

Hao Ren glanced at Vivian silently, not daring to say that it was because she was too old…

"What do you think this is used for?" Afraid that he might accidentally say what he was thinking, Hao Ren quickly changed the subject.

"Just a simple decoration, I guess," Vivian said uncertainly. "Such a small piece of metal, and there's no sign of a sharpened edge, and the material itself isn't strong enough. It's not a weapon and doesn't look like a tool. I guess it's a decoration like a coat of arms, usually inlaid somewhere."

"A herdsman needs a coat of arms?"

"Who knows what's up with the Dream Plane?"

Hao Ren thought about it, and that was true. Even the prairie wolves there spoke with a Capital accent (although it was thanks to the translation system), so what was impossible?

The origin of the first piece of iron was probably an unclear issue, after all, even Hao Ren himself didn't remember what happened back then, but now he could be sure that this thing was also brought out from the Dream Plane. Raven had always said that there was a myriad of connections between the Dream Plane and the real world. Now, looking at the evidence before him, Hao Ren and Vivian had a clearer and more direct understanding of this.

Two pieces of iron, as well as a tuft of wolf hair that Hao Ren had previously brought out from the Dream Plane, were treasured and carefully placed together in a sturdy small iron box. Hao Ren felt that it was possible to discover more interesting things in the Dream Plane in the future, so he decided to start collecting these things from today on.

And in the next few days, nothing major happened, and time quickly came to the night of the full moon—when Lily would super-evolve.