Seizing Dreams [B1]

Ch5 - Escort

When Yu Hao left the village, he was extremely surprised to see a shepherd by the road. The shepherd shot him a suspicious look, and Yu Hao turned around to look at him as well.

The shepherd passed right by him.

"They are the NPC residents in your dreamscape." General said, "Don't greet them right now."

After they left the village, the sound of an elephant's call from the vast prairie startled Yu Hao. There was a lake within the prairie not too far away them, and an elephant was drinking water from it.

"Why?" Yu Hao faced General and asked.

General answered, "Every time someone dreams, their dream will take place in this huge world. It's like a jigsaw puzzle that has a new piece fitted onto it — a new section will be added to the puzzle with each piece. For example, if you dream of lying in a plain today, then that plain will become part of your newborn dream. Whenever you dream of someone, that person will be added to your dream as a NPC, and these NPCs are permanent — they are the impressions you have of the people in the outside world. If you talk to them now, we might run into some trouble."

"What trouble?" Yu Hao said, "Why would there be trouble?"

General suddenly stopped walking and said, "Did you hear that?"

Yu Hao didn't hear anything. General stood in front of him in a protective stance, his palm flipped over as he reached behind his back and pulled out a broad sword. Yu Hao noticed that his sword was much bigger than when they first met.

"Somebody's here to capture us."

He hadn't finished speaking when the sound of hooves striking the earth could be heard in the distance. A contingent of soldiers were rushing towards the village.

"There! Found them!" A familiar voice roared.

Soon after, hundreds of people were rushing towards the village. General made a prompt decision and shouted, "Run!"

Yu Hao was bewildered1. This place was an open plain, they would be discovered no matter where they escaped to. But in the next instant, a sharp arrow flew towards him and grazed the side of his face! General quickly turned around and pushed Yu Hao onto the floor to protect him with his back. Arrows rained down on them like a torrential downpour and made a bunch of clanging sounds as they landed on General's armor; this rain of arrows had created numerous dents in his armor.

When this wave of arrows ended, General shouted, "Go to the lake! Hide!"

In the next moment, soldiers who rode war horses2 rushed towards them. When Yu Hao fled, he took a quick glance and saw that more and more cavalry were closing in on them from all sides. All of them were covered in black leather armor from head to toe while their bodies emitted pitch black fumes, and the one leading them was actually......

"Go!!" General shouted, then immediately swung his broad sword ruthlessly at the one who was leading the group!

Both the leader and his horse were thrown off their feet, General swept away all the weapons in his way and actually single-handedly went head to head with hundreds of cavalry!

Yu Hao fled to the lake where there was a forest nearby. General had asked him to "hide", but he looked around nervously as he kept feeling like he should try to help in some way. The elephant who had been drinking water from the lake heard the commotion, so it turned around and looked at him.

More and more cavalry were appearing on the plain. General wanted to retreat while he fought off the cavalry in front of him, but it was to no avail as hook ropes suddenly shot towards him from all sides and wound around his wrists, then dragged him onto the floor. The cavalry steered their war horses to step all over him viciously, General forcefully grabbed one of the horse's legs and overturned the war horse.