Chapter 182 The Snow-covered Village in the Dream
The biting cold numbed half of his face.

Anti opened his eyes in the snow and found himself lying prone in the snow with half of his body buried in it.

Wow!

He got up from the snow, gently brushed off the snow on his body, and then checked his physical condition.

Apart from being half frozen to death and having some difficulty in moving, there are no real problems and I should be fine after a while.

He was halfway up the mountain, and looking around, the scene of the Qixi Snow Mountain came into view.

In the distant ravine, Anti saw the shadow of a building.

Recalling this perspective, he soon realized that it seemed to be the original site of the "Snow-sealed Village". A little further away, there was the usual dreamlike white mist.

I'm already in a dream.

Trembling, he took out the bird-sleeping bell and rang it.

As the flying feathers flew by, the sound of rustling footsteps on the snow was heard, and Iris walked over with the same dignified demeanor as always.

"Mr. Passerby, are you going to use the bell so soon? I told you the other uses of the bell not to give you a place to have fun." Miss Iris still couldn't say anything nice.

"It's time to talk about after-sales service, Miss Iris from customer service." Anti was half squatting in the snow. He couldn't stand up yet, so he could only look up at Iris.

Iris looked puzzled, so Anti told her how he used the Sleeping Bird Bell to try to extract information, which directly caused a mutation and even triggered a dream.

After hearing this, Iris fell into thought: "This is really a strange thing."

"Do you have any idea? This happened the first time it was used outdoors. The quality control is a bit poor."

"According to what you said, Mr. Passerby, I think dreaming is a phenomenon caused by other beings with the help of bells, and it has little to do with your use of the bell." Iris said.

"You mean something is slipping in?"

"There are many media for entering dreams. The most common one is a close mental collision that creates an opening in the dream gap, which is the situation in your previous two dreams. The bell is a stable opening. If the mental will is strong enough, it is not difficult to forcibly use the bell to crash into the dream." Iris said.

"Then I have to trouble you this time." Anti finally recovered and stood up and said.

At this time, Iris also saw the priest's clothes on Anti, and her face suddenly became strange: "Your clothes... I really can't think of any other way to describe them except blasphemy and madness, Mr. Passerby."

"Does it look good?"

"Subjectively speaking, I don't want to compliment Mr. Passerby. But objectively speaking, you do have a good appearance, and this weird outfit suits you perfectly."

"I'm here to thank you on behalf of the tailor of the clothes." Anti replied casually, and then asked, "By the way, this is not the mixed dream world, but the Blue Star of the Land of Destiny that I mentioned to you. Can I also dream here?"

Hearing this, Iris looked at Anti and fell into a brief silence, then slowly said: "The relationship between the Mixed Dream World and Blue Star is definitely not two completely parallel worlds that accidentally intersect. The hidden relationship between them must be complicated. This is the only way I can judge."

Anti took note of Iris's words without thinking too much about it.

This kind of secret concerning the foundation of the two worlds is so secret that it is difficult to get any useful information just by thinking about it. It is better to leave it for exploration in the future.

As for now, since it was all a dream, what I have to do is the same as the previous two times.

Anti walked towards the village in the distance, and Iris followed behind him steadily.

It seems that Zhang Ning and the three anchors were also involved, but they did not appear here together. We have to find them if necessary.

Although Iris said that this time it was not the bell's problem but a hidden operation, the four people could only say that they were unlucky.

The terrain of the Qixi Snow Mountain in the dream has not changed much, and the things that occasionally move around are not cursed bodies but some wild animals.

After trekking for a while, the Snow-covered Village appeared before our eyes.

The blank snowfield twenty years later still looks like a well-built house.

When Anti and Iris were about to go directly into the village, they suddenly heard light footsteps.

A girl about ten years old, wearing simple clothes, walked out of the village, her little face red from the cold, and saw Anti and Iris.

The little girl's round and watery eyes suddenly widened, and she looked over curiously, asking in a crisp voice, "Who are you?"

"Hello, I'm a missionary priest, here to support education in mountainous areas." Anti said, then glanced at Iris: "This is the nun." Iris glanced at Anti but did not deny it.

"Father! Nun!" The little girl's pronunciation was not very clear and her voice was very heavy, but soon her eyes lit up: "So you are the new teachers?"

"Yeah." Anti nodded slightly.

The little girl obviously believed it. I don’t know if it was the effect of Anti’s clothes. Does this effect also work on the existence in the dream?

"Teacher... no, father, nun, let me take you to the village!" said the little girl, with some urgency in her tone.

"Okay, please."

The little girl walked briskly towards the village with Anti and Iris.

On the way, the little girl introduced herself.

Her name is Yang Xue, a very ordinary child from a village.

"It has been snowing heavily recently. The priests and nuns must be very tired after walking from outside the mountain. However, today a lot of people from outside came here at once, and the village has become lively." Yang Xue said with a simple smile.

"Are there any other people coming to the village today?"

"Well, it seems to be tourists who come to climb the mountain. Occasionally, there are outsiders who stay in the village. Most of them are very nice and will tell us about things outside the mountain. It's fun and interesting."

Anti nodded: "Are there many outsiders in the village?"

"No, usually." Yang Xue shook her head, "Only the teacher. He came to our village to be a teacher a few years ago. I and other friends like him very much."

Although Yang Xue was not very fluent in speaking, she was very keen on answering questions. As a result, An Ti had a certain understanding of the Snow-covered Village back then.

The village deep in the snow-capped mountains is isolated. The only outsider in the children's eyes is a teacher who taught here a few years ago.

That teacher is quite popular among the children.

However, many adults in the village did not like him very much and thought he was just a bad guy who wanted to trick children into staying away from the village when they grew up.

Yang Xue brought Anti Iris to the village. Suddenly, a figure appeared on the road, shouting in the local dialect and walking quickly towards them.

He was a middle-aged man dressed warmly like a hunter, holding a crude hunting rifle in one hand and a dead fox in the other, which seemed to be his prey.

Because of what happened in Gross Town when he first crossed over, Anti subconsciously had the urge to strike first when he saw the hunters in the wilderness.

Of course, this is just a dream, so just stay calm.

"Who are you? You, Yang Laosi's kid, are running out of the village again... stay away from them!" The man pointed the gun directly at them, but he couldn't bear to drop the fox in his other hand.

"Uncle, they are priests and nuns, and they are here to teach!" Yang Xue hurriedly went up and said.

The man frowned. "What priests, nuns...teaching? Why are there still people teaching? Isn't it enough to have the man named Zheng?"

He still didn't put down his gun, and his attitude didn't change: "Wait here, I'll go back and put the things away and then take you to the village chief to identify the person."

Anti and Iris had no objections for the time being.

But when Yang Xue suggested that she could take An Ti and the others over, the man scolded her and drove her away.

Yang Xue could only look back pitifully as she walked and disappeared into the alley between the houses.

"Don't walk around. This is not the outside world. When you get here, you outsiders should behave yourself. I can shoot you at any time and bury you there, and you won't have anywhere to cry." After making the threat, the man quickly dragged his prey away, leaving the two standing at the entrance of the village.

Looking at the other person's back, Iris said, "This is a very standard closed-minded and xenophobic attitude. This village is probably like this. Do you want to consider a countermeasure?"

"It depends. However, Miss Iris, compared with the previous two dreams, this dream seems to have a more elaborate scene. In addition, I encountered two conscious beings that were completely within the logic of the dream and could interact with each other."

What Anti was concerned about was that the situation in this dream seemed to be different.

"Yes, so this might be the most troublesome situation." Iris said after confirming.

(End of this chapter)