Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 13: Sleepwalking in Dreamland

1627: Pattern

When Yu Yuan heard the names "Dawnstar" and "Noonstar," he remembered.

While Xie Feng's memories were running, he existed in the background, like a background process—or rather, he was the background itself. Among the vast and rich data reserves of Veda, information on these two planets was stored: the causes of their apocalypses, when they occurred, and what futures they faced. Yu Yuan knew these details with absolute clarity.

Once he realized where Xie Feng and Dong Luorong were, he could piece together various clues and data reserves. It was almost as if he could foresee the paths their fates would take—even though his database contained no specific information about these two individuals.

He found himself wanting to warn them.

If they could receive his warning, perhaps their destinies would change. But the very thought of this was a mistake—a mistake Yu Yuan couldn't yet understand.

They were only characters from memory. Everything he saw was history that had already played out. All he needed to do was observe, to let the memory run its course. According to his projections, once it ended, he would exit this data packet.

Xie Feng and Dong Luorong, in this very moment, had no idea that the outline of their futures had already been drawn. As they continued trying to discern their paths ahead, Yu Yuan quietly waited for their stories to conclude.

'Could Dong Luorong be the type to believe in conspiracy theories?'

This thought crossed Xie Feng's mind after watching the short film.

After the warning film went viral and became a global topic, it had been viewed billions of times. Like many other topics, it spawned countless conspiracy theories.

Some believed the video was entirely fabricated. Others thought the film itself was responsible for triggering the rise of posthumans. And so it went—there was always a segment of the population ready to believe conspiracies and lies. No matter how absurd the theory, repeated enough times, it would always find believers.

But conspiracy theories were everywhere—searching the internet would yield hundreds of thousands of results. There really wasn't anything that could be described as the sort of "thought I usually wouldn't dare say out loud."

"You think the film is fake? If that were true, someone would've uncovered it by now. If that woman in the film exists on this planet, it's impossible she wouldn't interact with anyone..."

Before Xie Feng could finish speaking, Dong Luorong shook her head.

"I don't doubt the film came from Dawnstar," she said with a furrowed brow. "And I don't think Lan Lingte was lying."

So what did she mean by that?

Xie Feng was about to ask, but her thoughts were interrupted by a loud sneeze. The room was far too cold, but she was reluctant to ask Dong Luorong to raise the temperature, even though there wasn't any particular reason not to.

Dong Luorong stayed silent for a moment, as if organizing her thoughts.

"If I could witness someone evolve firsthand," Dong Luorong said slowly after a long pause, "it might answer a lot of my questions. They say people with more of a rebellious, fighting spirit are more likely to evolve... which explains why the ones recently captured as suspected posthumans are all that type."

Xie Feng's heart tightened. She suddenly thought of friends from her social circle who had recently gone missing, with no word since.

"Where did you hear that?" she asked casually, grabbing a tissue to wipe her nose. "I've never heard that before."