Xiaobai: I also saw that place was covered in blood stains.

Xiaoliu: He even asked Boss Liu why others could do it but he couldn’t.

Xiaobai: Liu Liu, who did the treeman mean by “others”?

Xiaoliu: I don’t know.

Xiaobai: Am I the only one who’s dumb?

Xiaoliu: It’s just hard to know what to say.

Nan Muran, unable to understand, started repeating their words to Si Ye.

Si Ye was silent at first, but then suddenly looked at Xiaoliu, pursed his lips, and awkwardly asked, “So, when they were circling around, did they put clothes on?”

Xiaoliu: The clothes were thrown on the ground, and later, strange noises appeared.

Nan Muran subconsciously repeated Xiaoliu’s words to Si Ye, and only then did she realize what had happened between Liu Mei and the treeman.

So these two actually saw… them.

Si Ye looked at Nan Muran’s face, which was gradually turning red, and sighed lightly. “It seems like that century wasn’t a big deal. It’s almost midnight. How about we go to sleep first?”

What could Nan Muran say? Right now, she could almost punch those two little idiots.

Xiaoliu: Muran, do you know who the treeman meant by “others”?

Nan Muran pressed her temples, feeling speechless. She turned and went straight into the room, climbing into bed.

Outside the door, Si Ye watched her clearly flustered back with a smile, then turned and went to bed. The bed he pulled out was right by the side of the wall next to the door. If Nan Muran hadn’t closed the door, he could have clearly heard her breathing.

Lying in bed, Nan Muran let out a long sigh.

But for some reason, this time, when she fell into a deep sleep, she once again fell into a nightmare. The strange thing was, this time the scene she saw was something she had never experienced before.

It was still the underground laboratory, the moment they escaped at the very end, everything around them collapsed due to her self-detonation.

But this time, after everything went out of control, Si Ye, who was in her arms, was rapidly aging at a visible speed, his body shrinking until there was no sign of life left.

Nan Muran frantically tried to transfer her vitality to him, and even the life force of all the researchers around her started crazily gathering toward them.

But it still had no effect. In the end, Si Ye still disappeared.

She felt an unimaginable pain as everything changed, as if time itself was reversing. Everything seemed to retreat until she woke up in the apartment bed.

“Si Ye…” Nan Muran, trapped in the nightmare, started sweating, curling up in pain.

“Si Ye…”

Outside the door, Si Ye immediately sensed something was wrong. He turned over, got out of bed, didn’t even have time to put on his slippers, and pushed open the door to enter the room.

Under the dim light, Nan Muran was drenched in cold sweat, her hair stretching out in a strange manner, glowing with a faint green light, covering the entire bed.

Si Ye reached out and wiped her cheek, feeling helpless. “Muran.”

Nan Muran kept curling up as her aura changed, and then Si Ye watched helplessly as some smaller items around her were suddenly controlled by an unknown force, floating in the air.

“Si Ye…” Nan Muran’s voice was pained and suppressed, with a cry in it.

Si Ye reached out and pulled her into his arms. “Muran, don’t be afraid. I’m here.”

Perhaps sensing his presence, Nan Muran, whose breath had been rapid and pained, gradually calmed down. Even the objects that had been floating in the air slowly fell back down.

“I’m staying with you, don’t worry.” Si Ye sat down by the bed.

Nan Muran reached out and tightly hugged him, sobbing painfully. “I saw you grow old. You… disappeared in the end.”

Si Ye listened to her words, unable to tell if she was still in the nightmare or if she had woken up, but he still spoke gently, “It’s just a dream. See? I’m right here, aren’t I?”

Nan Muran buried her face in his chest, took a few deep breaths, feeling his familiar scent, and nodded sleepily. “You’re still here.”

“Yes, I’ll always be here.” Si Ye pulled the blanket over her, hugging her a little tighter.

Feeling her unease, Si Ye simply embraced her and sat against the bedhead, with her sleeping in a daze.

Until the next morning, when the sunlight shone through the curtain gap onto Nan Muran’s face, she slowly woke up. She was surprised to feel a hand on her shoulder, and when she looked up, she saw Si Ye, sitting by the bed in a thin nightgown, asleep.

Because of her movement, Si Ye also woke up. He looked at her under the sunlight and suddenly felt that everything was perfect. “How was your sleep?”

“Mm, it was great.” As she looked at him, Nan Muran slowly began to recall the nightmare she had last night.

She started to doubt whether she had forgotten something important in this life, otherwise, why did her memories not match up with what the crazy Jin had said?

Si Ye, as if knowing what she was thinking, said, “Don’t think about it. Go wash up and eat something.”

Nan Muran couldn’t help but look at Si Ye. “I had a very strange dream last night.”

“You dreamed that I suddenly grew old?” Si Ye smiled and looked into her eyes, his gaze warm and reassuring.

“You knew?” Nan Muran was a little surprised.

Si Ye nodded. “Mm, you said it, it was just a dream.”

Nan Muran nodded, still uncertain about what happened in her dream last night. But she obediently listened to Si Ye’s words, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom to wash up.

Watching her head into the bathroom, Si Ye’s smile gradually faded, and his gaze grew deeper.

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What Nan Muran said, Si Ye had also dreamt, and he was certain that it was his real experience.

He even clearly felt that it was the ultimate form of time manipulation.

By using the life force of the ability user as a medium, everything was reversed and restarted. The cost the ability user had to pay was ten times their future life.

If everything in the dream was real, he had used fifty years of life to push time forward by five years.

According to the rules of time manipulation, he should have completely disappeared by now. So why was he still alive? This was all very strange.

“Si Ye, I forgot to grab the face wash.” Before he had time to figure out what was going on, Nan Muran’s voice came from the room.

With a smile, Si Ye got up, grabbed her favorite face wash from the skincare box, and handed it to her.

After washing up, everything went back to normal. There was too much to do, so neither of them mentioned the dream.

The five of them gathered at Jiamu’s room, and everyone was ready for breakfast.

“Good news, bad news, which one do you want to hear first?” The Eagle looked at Nan Muran and Si Ye as they entered.

“Good news, I guess.” Nan Muran said as she took out various breakfast items from her space and handed them to Qijin, who was setting up things.

The Eagle picked up a freshly placed fried dough stick. “Our strength is formidable, and we’ve gained the recognition of the opponents.”

“The bad news is, Stardust has some help now?” Si Ye sat down beside him and blurted it out.

“Smart. This morning, I saw two men and one woman enter Stardust’s room.”

Nan Muran, sipping her milk, said, “Looks like, since the safe base in Lan City, Stardust has never been just two people.”

She was really glad she hadn’t rushed to act last night.