Master of Kaidan
Chapter 449 Worldview Finally Unfolds

Chapter 449: Chapter 449 Worldview Finally Unfolds

Feng Xue flipped through the book in her hands, her expression gradually becoming solemn. Although there was no information directly pointing to the root cause, there was still some important information.

For example, death.

The concept of death in this world was profoundly distorted. If the contents of the book were true, it meant that there were no real "accidents" in the real world.

All deaths were orchestrated by some entity, and deaths outside the plan were not allowed.

Simply put, there was something akin to the "Book of Life and Death" that chronicled everyone’s time and method of death; moreover, even if one fell from the tallest building in the world, got hit by a high-speed train, was placed in a coffin and sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic, or even consumed by a super volcanic eruption and thrown into outer space, as long as the fated day hadn’t arrived, one would definitely not die.

It might not sound like a significant issue since fate doesn’t hold much value if no one can observe it.

But the problem was that the existence of "fate" itself seemed to suppress the technological and developmental progress of this world.

Reading the description in the book, Feng Xue nodded slightly. If she judged based on the world she originally came from, the dream world and the reality of this world were nearly thirty years apart. However, considering that her world’s technological advancement had been slowed down by the discipline of materials science, which had a huge impact on luck, the time this world entered such a state might be even longer.

"So, this ’fate’ could be a ’Kaidan’ that appeared only in recent decades? It’s unclear whether it’s a congenital or acquired Kaidan, but if it’s the latter, the influence it has is truly impressive!"

Feng Xue muttered to herself, continuing to flip through the book. She understood that no one would die accidentally in reality, but what about death in dreams?

And this "Dream Guardian Code" did not disappoint her anticipation; it provided an answer in the prologue—

Dream corruption.

In the dream world, human development and progress were not interfered with by fate, even more so because dying only meant losing the memories between two periods of sleep, which reduced the cost of trial and error.

Although everything would be forgotten upon waking, one could still remember the things from the real world when they re-entered the dream, to the point where some people gradually began to view reality as an illusion and the dream world as the real world.

It was for this reason that the Dream Guardians referred to entering dreams as ’awakening’ and waking up as ’slumbering.’

If it were just that, it might be fine, but the problem lay in the fact that as one died in the dream, the individual would gradually become rigid and numb, until one day, various types of bizarre monsters would hatch from their body and kill more people. The Dream Guardians referred to this as corruption.

But those who were corrupted did not truly die; they could still resurrect in the dream world. After resurrection, they would lose their previous numbed state and revert to their original personalities, as though reset to factory settings. Although there seemed to be no change, those who understood this mechanism couldn’t help but ponder whether the body still housed the same person it once did.

Or perhaps, had it been taken over by something else?

"From the fact that the Ghost Hand tried to kill me, it seems that once fully corrupted, you truly die—what a bone-chilling world."

Feng Xue gently massaged her head and continued to flip the pages, soon coming across the formation of the Dream Guardian Organization.

Strictly speaking, the Dream Guardians were not an organization but a loose alliance formed by people who recognized the dangers hidden within the dream world.

According to the book, about forty years ago, as people gradually realized that one could be resurrected in the dream world, many treated it like a game. At that time, the dream world was a hotbed of chaos and corruption, with suppressed desires and madness from the real world erupting and infecting others rapidly.

Various crimes filled the dream world, with large numbers of people dying daily, only to reenter the endless cycle of reincarnation the following night.

This madness quickly spawned a mass of corrupted beings, and those monsters joined the deadly feast.

Later, the founders of the Dream Guardian Organization realized the severity of the issue. They used the Obsession Objects left by the dead corrupted beings to establish the organization, hunting demons, and setting order, until after several decades, most of the initially corrupted had met their fated deaths, and the world finally stabilized.

However, at the end of the day, a dream is still a dream. Even without the initial wave of rampant crime, people still perform dangerous acts in their dreams. The low cost of death, combined with inherent accidents and not to mention the corrupted beings hunting humans, meant that the corrupted never disappeared completely.

As for why this isn’t public knowledge...

Ordinary people cannot retain these memories; they forget everything related to supernatural powers after waking up from sleep, and the only way to avoid this is by personally killing incubation beings.

According to this book, killing corrupted beings grants one some special knowledge and a certain chance to condense an Obsession Object, and after acquiring this special knowledge, one will not forget memories related to extraordinary powers.

It is worth mentioning that this world never lacks villains; some people deliberately repeatedly kill the same individual, artificially creating corrupted beings and acquiring knowledge and Obsession Objects through killing these beings. Half of the Dream Guard’s rulebook is a denunciation of these kinds of people.

At the end of this rulebook, some mysterious knowledge is also recorded, mostly about specific types of monsters’ weaknesses and the names of a few great entities that seem to be the source of the corrupted beings and the power of the Obsession Objects, such as Hos of flesh and mutation, Ru Jin of proliferation and dominance, Glaun of intoxication and erosion, Vibor of scorching and corruption, and so on...

Looking at this information, then glancing at the "Glaun’s Wine Bottle" on the table, Feng Xue had a somewhat peculiar expression on her face.

She didn’t continue to diverge her thoughts but put down this introductory book. Based on the names, she flipped through other books related to Dream Guardians and corrupted beings, and finally, just before Qing Jin finished writing the report, she found the root cause of the problem that needed to be solved before "falling asleep"—

Just as the body in the real world does not disappear after dreaming, after awakening, the body in the dream world also still exists. The corrupted beings lock onto every Dream Guardian they interact with and target them for hunting first.

This meant that if one couldn’t kill a corrupted being completely, there was a high chance of being killed by the corrupted being in the real world without knowing it, and when re-entering the dream, all memories related to that corrupted being would also disappear.

"For sure, this is definitely no ordinary Kaidan! Ordinary Kaidan can’t pull off these kinds of tricks!"