Dream Capture: I Can See Through All Secrets!

223: 223. Continuing (The Finale)”Sir! What exactly happened?!”

Fan Hao knelt on one knee, tightly gripping Lu Feng’s trembling shoulders, his voice hoarse with urgency.

Lu Feng raised his head, his eyes vacant, his voice so faint it seemed ready to dissipate at any moment: ”So that’s how it is... The truth of the world... it’s so... despairing...”

No sooner had he finished speaking...

”Rumble—!!”

The entire earth vibrated violently without warning!

The ancient castle let out a deafening roar, huge stones peeling off from the dome and walls, crashing down with a thousand years of dust!

The ground cracked open like a fragile eggshell, forming hideous fissures that rapidly expanded and spread!

”Run! It’s collapsing!” Fan Hao’s liver and guts split, he used all his strength to pull Lu Feng from the ground, practically dragging him, and under the desperate cover of the team members, they rushed towards the exit of the underground palace.

When they stumbled out of the ancient castle’s main gate, looking back, they saw a scene of doomsday!

The magnificent ancient castle, which had stood for countless centuries, utterly collapsed in a roar, turning into a pile of ruins.

But the earth did not stop tearing; gigantic ravines ripped through the land, devouring everything in their path, and extending into the distance at a visible speed.

The sky was no longer its familiar color, displaying a sickly, twisted purplish-red, as if the backdrop of the universe was being violently torn apart!

”What... what in the world is going on?!” Fan Hao looked at the scene of heaven and earth overturning, his voice trembling, filled with incomprehension and terror.

Lu Feng steadied himself, gazing at the world accelerating towards collapse, a flash of realization and sorrow in his eyes.

The moment he grasped the truth, the edges of the universe began to dissipate like dust, and the laws of physics failed.

Because the Dream Maker was about to wake up.

”Sir! Your body!”

The surrounding team members suddenly pointed at Lu Feng in horror.

Around Lu Feng, a soft, hazy glow had begun to emanate at some unknown point, and the edges of his body became somewhat blurred, as if composed of countless tiny light particles slowly drifting away.

This sight was like the ”feathered ascension to immortality” described in myths, or rather, the essence of existence returning to its origin.

Lu Feng looked down at his slowly dissipating hand, his mind regaining its calm. He knew that the Dream Maker had awakened, and his own wisp of consciousness should return to its main body... Simultaneously, in the outside world, across the globe, the true apocalypse had already arrived!

Coastlines were swallowed by hundred-meter-high tsunamis, volcanoes dormant for millennia erupted en masse, painting the sky ash-black.

Continental plates shifted and collided in violent earthquakes, extreme weather events occurred simultaneously across the globe... Human civilization’s proud cities and order were fragile in the face of this planet-wide catastrophe.

Panic, despair, and chaos permeated every corner.

The Helmsmen of various nations faced control systems that had instantly failed and disaster reports piling up like snowflakes, falling into an unprecedented state of bewilderment and powerlessness.

This had already exceeded the scope of what any country, any power, could handle... Lu Feng closed his eyes, having absorbed all the symbols, his abilities now covered the entire globe, sensing everything that was accelerating towards collapse, sensing the fear and wails of countless living beings.

He took a deep breath, mobilizing the authority he possessed as ”a wisp of the Dream Maker’s consciousness,” pouring it out without reservation!

He was not trying to resist the Dream Maker’s awakening; that would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

He was using his special identity to forcefully slow down this collapsing dream!

Then, his consciousness instantly sank into that dream space, already riddled with cracks and precarious.

Here, he waved his hand.

The next moment, Yu Tianxiong, Xu Ting, Qin Tian, Wang Yuxi, Tian Peng, and other subordinates, as well as The Helmsman of Xia Kingdom... all the core figures whose fates were closely intertwined with his, had their consciousnesses instantly drawn into this peculiar space, their faces filled with astonishment and bewilderment.

”Lu Feng (Sir)! Where is this?” Everyone spoke almost in unison.

Lu Feng’s figure solidified in the void. He looked at these familiar faces before him, concealing nothing, and using the most concise yet most shocking language, he laid bare the cruel truth of the ”Dream Universe,” the ”Dream Maker,” ”consciousness fragments,” and ”awakening means annihilation.”

Silence.

A deathly silence.

Everyone froze, their brains unable to process this information that far exceeded imagination.

Their world, their life’s struggles, their loves and hates, and even the entire history of human civilization... was it all just a dream?

And this dream was about to end completely because the Dream Maker was waking up?

A sense of powerlessness and deep despair instantly gripped everyone.

Facing such a truth, any effort, any scheme, any power lost its meaning.

”So... are we... are we just going to... disappear like this?” Wang Yuxi’s voice trembled, her beautiful eyes filled with fear.

The Helmsman of Xia Kingdom, an old man who had weathered countless storms, now also looked ashen, his lips moving, but unable to utter any sound.

However, at that very moment, Lu Feng slowly raised his head.

The speed at which the light particles around him were dissipating seemed to be accelerating, but his eyes once again became firm, even carrying an undeniable resolve!

He looked around at everyone, speaking clearly, word for word:

”No.”

”This dream...”

”I will continue it.”

Yu Tianxiong and Xu Ting were the first to react, their voices urgent, with a determination to do whatever it took: ”How? How do you need our help?”

Qin Tian, Wang Yuxi, and others also stepped forward immediately, their eyes firm. Even when faced with a cosmic-level truth, they were willing to follow Lu Feng and try anything.

Lu Feng looked at them, a flicker of warmth in his eyes, but he slowly and firmly shook his head.

”This, only I can do it.” His voice was ethereal and distant.

Before anyone could say anything else, with a slight movement of his will, Yu Tianxiong, Xu Ting, Qin Tian, Wang Yuxi, Lin Qi, Lü Chenxing, The Helmsman... everyone’s consciousness was sent out of the dream space by a gentle yet irresistible force, returning to their respective bodies in reality...

In the real world, although the momentum of the disaster had been forcibly slowed by Lu Feng, it had not completely stopped, and chaos still reigned between heaven and earth.

Beside the ruins of the ancient castle, the members of the Candle Dragon Squad, though they didn’t understand exactly what had happened, still guarded him faithfully.

”Everyone... rest where you are.” Lu Feng’s voice was very soft, carrying an indescribable weariness.

Fan Hao looked at Lu Feng’s state, a pang in his heart, he opened his mouth but couldn’t say anything, only nodded heavily, signaling the team members to lower their guard.

Lu Feng walked to a relatively quiet spot, took out his satellite phone, and dialed that familiar number.

The video connected, and his parents’ worried faces appeared on the screen.

The background was their familiar hometown cottage, which seemed not yet directly affected by the distant disaster.

”Xiao Feng! How are things on your end? The news says there are earthquakes and floods everywhere abroad! Are you okay?” His mother’s voice was tearful.

”Dad, Mom, I’m fine.”

Lu Feng showed his warmest, most peaceful smile, just like the youth who hadn’t experienced hardships years ago.

”My work here is almost finished, everything is good. You two take care of yourselves, I might... still be busy for a while.”

He meticulously instructed them, asked about family trivialities, listened to his parents’ nagging, deeply imprinting every detail of their faces, every word of concern into the depths of his memory.

This call was like a long and warm farewell, silent, yet heavy as a thousand tons.

Hanging up the phone, Lu Feng took one last look at this world he had striven to maintain, yet was still slowly collapsing, and there was no longer any hesitation in his eyes.

He gave up the last chance to return to the main body as a ”fragment.”

”Then... let’s burn completely!”

He unleashed his dream power without reservation, igniting it completely!

A vast power surged, but this time, it was no longer to maintain, but to... madly surge throughout the entire planet, enveloping it, and then continuing to expand outwards.

He wanted to forcibly peel the entire solar system out of the Dream Maker’s dream, making it an independent, real entity!

However, Lu Feng despairingly discovered that it seemed impossible!

Just as a person cannot lift themselves from a dream, his power originated from the dream and could not transcend it.

The annihilation at the edge of the universe was still slowly and steadily advancing.

Time, truly, was running out.

Lu Feng let out a silent sigh, which then transformed into ultimate resolve.

If he couldn’t save the entire universe, then... he would preserve the most precious spark!

He no longer tried to save the entire universe, but instead burned all his consciousness and energy, compressing and encapsulating the history, memories, and existential imprints of the entire Earth civilization into an extremely sturdy ”Civilization Spark.”

An independent dream bubble.

And Lu Feng’s figure almost merged with the dream bubble, leaving only an extremely faint phantom, like a flickering candle in the wind, tightly enveloping this spark that carried all of humanity.

The next moment, he used his last shred of strength, protecting this ”Civilization Spark,” and resolutely plunged into the massive crack at the bottom of the dream space, a rift leading to the unknown and filled with a chaotic torrent of information!

”Boom—!”

In that vast, violent, and illogical torrent of information, Lu Feng’s lingering consciousness was like a small boat, almost instantly ground into oblivion.

The form of the dream bubble changed violently and uncontrollably within the torrent.

Sometimes it transformed into a strange plant swaying in the void, sometimes it became a silently flying meteor, and sometimes it regressed into a most primitive cell... flickering and flowing between all things.

Who knows how long passed, was it an instant, or an eternity?

Finally, that lingering wisp of conscious obsession, wrapped around the indestructible ”Civilization Spark,” broke through the endless darkness and chaos, transforming into an ordinary dark-red brick, falling from the sky!

...A blue planet.

In a bustling city, people flowed like weaving threads, and traffic moved like a dragon.

On a noisy construction site.

A young man with a tender face and slender build was enduring the scorching sun, gritting his teeth, laboriously carrying cement.

To raise money for his critically ill father’s medical expenses, he had no choice but to drop out of school and come to the construction site to carry bricks.

Just then—

”Whoosh... smack!”

A most ordinary, ubiquitous dark-red brick fell from high above, landing squarely on the young man’s head!

”Ugh...”

The young man’s vision went black, intense pain shot through him, his body swayed, and he directly fainted to the ground.

The foreman and other workers cried out in alarm, gathering around him.

(End of Book)

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