Dreamer

[Ding! You have consumed a mid-tier T-virus enhancement serum]

[2 random attribute points will be granted]

[You received: Physical Strength *1, Charm *1]

Is that all?

Ning Yu felt speechless. Although she did gain some attribute points, mid-tier mutant zombies were many times stronger than low-tier ones.

The serum she obtained only provided these few attribute points without any miraculous effects. Ning Yu even began to wonder if Lin Hao had made a mistake in the purification process.

Couldn't it at least give more attribute points?

Feeling disappointed, Ning Yu turned and handed the other vial to Shen Yiyue.

Shen Yiyue stared intently at the new bottle of "glue" that Ning Yu brought back - yes, in her eyes, this stuff looked just like glue.

"Ning Yu, why do you always make me drink such awful things..."

She grimaced, not expecting to have to drink glue so soon.

"Are you going to drink it yourself, or..."

Ning Yu smiled sweetly at her, clearly not intending to give her any room for refusal.

Before she could finish speaking, Shen Yiyue had already snatched the purified serum from her hand, opening the cap while muttering:

"Hmph, at times like this, Ning Yu isn't cute at all..."

Ning Yu pretended not to hear her complaints.

Watching Shen Yiyue pinch her nose and drink it down, Ning Yu once again got to enjoy what looked like the expression of an elderly person trying to use a smartphone for the first time.

"How is it? Do you feel any changes?"

Ning Yu hadn't gained much benefit herself, just two attribute points, which felt rather mediocre.

Shen Yiyue got up and moved around but didn't feel any changes. However, this was similar to last time, so she simply shook her head:

"No changes, let me try my ability."

She picked up a glass, raised it with her hand, then let go.

"Crash!"

The glass fell to the ground with a crisp sound, shattering into countless shards.

Shen Yiyue picked up a piece of broken glass and began using her ability.

In her mind, she visualized the glass breaking in reverse. Soon, the glass shards on the ground began to shake.

They rushed back from all directions, rejoining to form an intact glass.

"Oh..."

Shen Yiyue let out a surprised sound.

"What's wrong?"

Ning Yu asked curiously, seeing that Shen Yiyue seemed to have discovered something new.

"I've tried restoring glasses before, but for non-living things, this kind of reversal couldn't repair the structure, unlike healing wounds."

Shen Yiyue pondered as she spoke, then pointed at the clearly perfect glass:

"Now it's structurally repaired. Before, even though I could restore it, it would break immediately if touched."

She casually picked up the glass and played with it in her hands, showing it was completely restored.

"So your ability has indeed become stronger."

Ning Yu concluded, though feeling slightly frustrated - why did she only get 2 attribute points?

Her copying ability hadn't strengthened either, and she still couldn't copy Shen Yiyue's advanced abilities.

"Crash!"

Shen Yiyue smashed the glass on the ground again, this time throwing it down forcefully. The shards scattered everywhere, even more dispersed than before.

However, she managed to restore the glass to perfect condition once again.

"If something hasn't been damaged at all, can you restore it to its raw materials?"

Ning Yu proposed another idea.

"No, I've tried that. I guess that kind of 'damage' happened too long ago to be reversed."

Shen Yiyue shook her head, then tried hard to affect the intact glass on the table, but failed.

They spent quite a while studying Shen Yiyue's ability before returning to their rooms to sleep.

Ning Yu skillfully changed into her bear pajamas and lay down.

These were given to her by Shen Yiyue, who had gotten an identical set for herself. The pajamas had hooded ears on the back, making them quite cute.

Today, Ning Yu felt particularly tired and fell into dreamland shortly after closing her eyes.

"Bang!"

A gunshot suddenly rang out, and Ning Yu's eyes snapped open.

She found herself no longer in that familiar room, and instead of cute pajamas, she was wearing a familiar grey-white suit.

What's going on, had she returned to her previous life?!

How could this be...

Was everything just a dream?

Was her encounter with Shen Yiyue nothing more than an illusion?

As Ning Yu realized this, she felt an emptiness in her heart, as if she had lost something important.

The scene before her didn't seem like a dream, and her consciousness was very clear.

Had she really returned?

It was at this moment that Ning Yu realized she couldn't let go of the memories she had made in that other world.

"Knock knock knock!"

A very polite knocking came from the door.

Ning Yu remained silent, quietly hiding behind the door.

But before long, the door was kicked open.

Ning Yu launched a sudden attack from behind the door, moving extremely quickly to grab the gun.

But as soon as she saw the visitor's face, she was shocked.

The person was wearing the same suit as her previous life self, with exactly the same face as her previous life.

That cold countenance, those lifeless and dark eyes, and those seemingly elegant glasses.

Nothing could be more familiar than her own appearance.

Precisely because of this, her gun-grabbing motion faltered with this shock, which was keenly caught by this 'self,' who immediately countered with a fierce elbow strike.

Caught off guard, Ning Yu was struck in the chest with intense pain and fell backward.

Even this counter move was so familiar - this really was her past self!

The gun that hadn't been seized was quickly pressed against Ning Yu's forehead, the cylindrical silencer still warm from recent kills.

"Someone paid for your life, don't blame me."

The thousand questions Ning Yu had were all silenced by a muffled gunshot.

She felt her head go blank as endless darkness began to consume her vision.

So this is what it feels like to be killed by oneself...

Even these lines were exactly the same.

Ning Yu couldn't help but find it somewhat amusing. If she really had gone back to the past, she decided she would never say such lines when killing people - they sounded too stupid.

Endless grey mist began spreading from the darkness.

Ning Yu thought she was dead, but only when she saw this grey mist did she feel a sense of familiarity.

So it was still a dream.

Thank goodness.

Ning Yu suddenly felt relieved, though she didn't know why her previously constricted heart had relaxed like this.

She didn't even mind being killed once.

When the grey mist dispersed, she was standing on that familiar blue lake surface again, the water as clear as a mirror, showing her reflection.

In that reflection, she saw herself with silver-white long hair, beautiful amber eyes, and bare feet.

She looked up familiarly, and sure enough, saw an identical 'self' - but this was her current life's 'self.'

The same hair color, the same eyes, wearing that familiar pure white dress.

But this dream was clearer than ever before, and she finally asked the question she had always wanted to ask:

"Who exactly are you?"