Immediately, a more ethereal voice sounded in her ear: [Josh is naturally on my bed.]

It was Chenyu, but the voice was a bit strange, more like it came from within rather than Yuze’s voice, which came from outside.

Josh: "...?"

Chenyu’s voice sounded again: "How did you end up like this?"

This time it sounded just like Yuze’s voice, coming from the outside.

Josh frowned slightly, this feeling was strangely familiar.

Yuze: "Where’s Josh? Where did you take her?"

"Give her back to me!"

"Young Master Yu!!" It sounded like another person’s voice, younger in age, likely the Divine Envoy.

Chenyu: "How did you find your way to me?"

Josh also found it odd, just as she was pondering, she heard Chenyu’s ethereal voice again: [You’re not completely dumb, but not smart enough for that yet.]

Yuze: "On that field, there was your aura, you’ve been there!"

Chenyu: "Calm down. Just because I was there doesn’t mean I did anything to her. There were signs of a time-space rift in that field, and I was just patching it up."

"Then what about Josh? Did you see her when you were there?" Yuze’s voice was somewhat anxious.

[Josh? Naturally, I threw her into the time-space rift.] Chenyu’s inner voice was cold.

Josh listened, her heart startled.

Where on earth was she now? Why did it seem like she could hear Chenyu’s thoughts?

Could she be inside Chenyu’s body?

And why did he throw her into a time-space rift?

What did she do to provoke him??

Chenyu: "I’ll help you find her."

After saying this, only brief footsteps could be heard, suggesting Yuze had left.

Josh felt a bit anxious; where on earth was she now?!

No, something seemed off...

They entered the instance as spiritual power beings, similar to souls, so injuries within the instance wouldn’t carry over to reality.

And while their bodies would vanish from the spot, it wasn’t that they entered the instance, but were placed in a kind of transfer station.

She encountered an accident while unfolding Infinite Dream within the instance.

If she forced an exit from the instance, her body should appear in the game logout room, even if her consciousness, as in the case of the Bloody Castle, was trapped inside, her body should appear in reality.

Yuze’s urgency in finding her, however, made it seem as though she had vanished entirely.

Could it be that Chenyu had intervened, taking both her consciousness and body?

So what form was she in now? Consciousness?

Or something else? 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

As she pondered, a new voice was heard.

"If he finds out, he’ll kill you." It was the Mermaid King!

Josh’s eyes lit up.

"He’ll kill me sooner or later."

[If he doesn’t kill me, how can he...]

Josh, hearing Chenyu’s inner thoughts, her pupils constricted sharply.

As expected!

Chenyu’s kind treatment of Yuze was all for that purpose!

Mermaid King: "Sometimes I really don’t get what’s on your mind."

Chenyu: [Naturally, it’s to let my pawns grow faster, including you, Mermaid King.]

Josh gritted her teeth; damn Chenyu!

She couldn’t just sit and wait for death, she had to escape here quickly!

She couldn’t watch them become Chenyu’s pawns!

They would die!

Damn it, damn it!

Josh’s entire Spiritual Power erupted, all channeled into her Longsword.

The sword blade slashed indiscriminately, seemingly without order, yet constantly probing the surrounding space.

Meanwhile, Chenyu suddenly furrowed his brows, briefly gathered his thoughts.

He closed his eyes, entering his Spiritual Sea, and indeed saw the girl wielding a Longsword.

She actually managed to escape from the time-space stream?

Entered his Spiritual Sea quietly, and his Spiritual Sea was unaware?

He suddenly opened his eyes, waved his hand heavily, pulling back the bed curtain.

The girl on the bed grimaced in pain, showing a look of struggle.

A hint of killing intent flashed in Chenyu’s eyes.

He had underestimated her.

Where did she get those strange abilities from...

All of a sudden, the girl on the bed abruptly opened her eyes, meeting Chenyu’s killing intent.

Almost instinctively, she dashed out, summoning the Longsword toward Chenyu’s direction for a stab.

Chenyu released spiritual power suppression around him.

Josh was instantly restrained, unable to move.

Chenyu squinted his eyes: "What? Still planning to fight me?"

Josh stared at him, only to find his expression was not as ferocious as before, but rather gentle, just like when she had first met him.

Knowing his strength was formidable and realizing this wasn’t the time for a head-on fight, her instinctive self-defense action made her regretful. Hearing Chenyu’s words, she seized the opportunity: "Sorry, I just woke up, mistook you for a monster."

Chenyu withdrew the spiritual power suppression, lowered his eyes gently, and covered her with the quilt: "I thought this was how you treated your lifesaver."

"Lifesaver?" A hint of a different emotion flashed in Josh’s eyes.

Chenyu gave her a deep look: "You seem fearless, despite not being skilled with the Infinite Dream skill, you dared to pull so many people into the dream at once and compress the time."

Josh, hearing this, quickly recalled the voice she heard before she lost consciousness.

She looked at Chenyu in surprise: "That voice was you?"

Chenyu nodded: "Had I not arrived in time, your Spiritual Sea would have shattered, you know?"

A bit of doubt lingered in Josh’s heart. She clearly heard Chenyu’s inner voice intending to doom her, yet his words didn’t match.

But she wasn’t foolish; her face revealed nothing while she simply said: "Thank you. I just wanted to see if I could assimilate that instance completely. You sent me in, not just to help me rank up, right? The NPCs only disclosed information to me alone, I suspect that was your directive as well?"

Chenyu smiled slightly, "So, what did you grasp?"

Josh looked at him: "You intentionally wanted me to know? That instance... is actually a real prison, isn’t it?"

Chenyu didn’t answer, instead asked: "Do you remember the question you asked me last time you came to find me?"

Josh nodded: "I want to know why it seems different instance spaces are connected, why one instance seems like the real world, so you sent me to that instance?"

Chenyu nodded slightly.

Josh thought for a moment, "You mean, my guesses were correct? Many instances are not game instances, but real worlds?"

Chenyu didn’t deny it and asked her suddenly: "Josh, do you know why the Guardians of the Federation are all chosen from the God Creation Game?"

Josh shook her head.

Chenyu: "Then do you think, how should a God be born?"