Seizing Dreams [B1]

Ch14 - A Child's Dream

"It's a shop that sells sweets." General and Yu Hao looked at each other; the inside of the shop was covered with a layer of frost and its NPCs had been frozen into ice sculptures. Yu Hao suddenly noticed something in the corner, and it was retreating rapidly.

It was a tentacle-like shadow.

"General?" Yu Hao lit up the corner with his staff's light.

"Un?" General was biting on a piece of frozen chocolate, but he couldn't bite off a piece no matter how hard he tried.

"Don't stray too far away from me." The huge monkey said vaguely.

Yu Hao wasn't too sure if he was hallucinating or not; General hid a whole plate of liqueur chocolate in his clothes to try and melt it, then continued, "Let's go somewhere else to take a look."

The other dwelling across the street was a fondant cake shop. Yu Hao could almost imagine the original appearance of this place - it should have been a beautiful and prosperous commercial street in the past. Along the street, there were even shops that sold children's clothes and toys. But just as General held up a huge cake that was seven-layers tall, Yu Hao sensed something strange again.

This time, he discovered another tentacle!

"General!" Yu Hao warned, "There are enemies!"

General suddenly turned around and pulled Yu Hao behind him; the two of them quickly retreated from the dwelling. On the village's commercial street, both the winds and snow flurries had suddenly stopped.

Their surroundings fell silent.

"I think something's wrong with this place......" Yu Hao whispered, "Should we leave first?"

General looked around vigilantly. When he was about to shield Yu Hao to leave the village with him, the ground below their feet suddenly quaked! The snow that had accumulated on the street shook and its layers began to crush one another, bricks and stones broke apart, and shortly afterwards tentacles began to rise from all sides!

Immediately afterwards, they were surrounded by a burst of bright light - the glaring indigo light had illuminated the entire village. Yu Hao quickly raised his arm to shield his eyes, and the only thing he could see was a giant demonic eye that floated above the lighthouse at the end of the harbor! That demonic eye let out an ear-piercing guffaw, and he felt like he had heard that voice somewhere before:

"Just watch as I kill you guys this time-"

Mr. Shi's voice!

Yu Hao didn't even have time to be shocked before General roared, "Run!"

However, the dwellings on both sides had collapsed in an instant, and the giant lamprey-like sea monster from before had risen from the ground! All of its tentacles wrapped around Yu Hao and General at the same time. General was about to rush towards Yu Hao when the tentacles entwined themselves around him; he ruthlessly flung them away and crashed into one of the houses with a loud bang, which caused the walls of the fondant cake store to collapse!

Yu Hao was being strangled around his neck and could barely gasp for breath at the moment. Both his eyes were fixated on General; General jumped up from the debris and unsheathed his sword, then roared as he pounced towards the huge sea monster!

The sea monster swung its tentacles out. Yu Hao spinned the staff in his left hand and pressed it against a tentacle - a thunderbolt penetrated that tentacle and it instantly turned rigid before it loosened its grip, then Yu Hao began to fall. He almost fell into the lamprey's mouth filled with spiraling sharp teeth! But right at the most critical juncture, he managed to hug onto another tentacle tightly. General rushed over from a side and brutally slashed the tentacles with his sword, but his attempts to chop them up were to no avail.