At this moment, Logan Clark had a sudden idea. He bypassed the black corner and began searching for entries related to his experience:

“Black hole/dizziness/memory loss.”

The progress bar moved slowly, and before long, a piece of information appeared before Logan Clark’s eyes:

[Relic: Dream]

[Cost: 500g glass jar of Korean kimchi]

[Ability: Causes the user to enter a sleep from which they cannot awaken]

[Location found: Earth]

[Discoverer: Adam Foster]

……

This was a type of relic that appeared right at the beginning of the Cataclysm.

At that time, smoke of war was rising everywhere, and people were gripped by panic.

On Jeju Island, a cult emerged.

—The Dream Cult.

Of course, they didn’t call themselves the Dream Cult; that was a name given by later generations.

This cult claimed that the current world was fake, that it was a world inside a novel, artificially created.

They said people needed to escape this world and go to another world where the Creator had no interest in controlling things.

Utterly ridiculous claims.

But in those times, with frequent anomalies and all sorts of bizarre abyssal creatures and relic phenomena shaking people’s worldviews, many fools believed them.

The Dream Cult organized its followers to meditate, visualizing a black hole in constant descent.

They even printed flyers of that black hole and distributed them everywhere.

They explained to their followers that as long as you visualized this black hole while lying in bed, and placed a 500g glass jar of Korean kimchi under your pillow, then fell into a deep sleep, you could escape this world toyed with by the Creator and reach the Promised Land—a world beyond control.

During the Cataclysm, there were many such cults, and these obviously absurd groups didn’t attract any official attention.

The authorities were busy dealing with more urgent matters and had no time for such nonsensical cults.

However, one day, the son of a Dream Cult follower found that he couldn’t reach his elderly father.

Calls went unanswered, messages got no reply, and even knocking on the door at home got no response.

He hurriedly opened the door and rushed into the room, only to find his father still at home.

Sound asleep.

With a glass jar under his pillow.

More and more reports finally drew the attention of the authorities.

But it was too late—the Dream Cult’s followers had almost all fallen into a deathlike sleep, never to awaken.

No method could rouse them.

When the military stormed the Dream Cult leader’s home,

There was only a smiling corpse on the bed, and a glass jar under the pillow.

The authorities urgently destroyed those black hole flyers and encrypted the appearance of the black hole for safekeeping.

They thought it was over, but the cleanup crew searching for flyers caught a madman.

The madman kept telling the cleanup crew:

This world is a dream!

The crew quickly notified the research institute.

The madman recounted his experience to the researchers:

One day, a friend gave him a flyer.

And told him about the Dream Cult’s beliefs and the method to reach another world.

He didn’t believe in another world, but thought it sounded fun, so he gave it a try.

At first, he didn’t have a glass jar at home, so he put 500g of kimchi in a bag under his pillow.

He slept, but nothing happened.

The next day, still skeptical, he went out and bought a glass jar.

Then he followed his friend’s instructions.

That night, as a wave of dizziness hit, he felt himself being pulled by the black hole in his mind into another world.

He also lost his memory, believed this world was real, and began living his daily life here.

One night, he and his friend went to a bar, and his friend told him an interesting rumor.

“As long as you look at this flyer before bed, then put a 501g glass jar of Korean kimchi under your pillow, you’ll reach another world after falling asleep!”

He looked at the flyer his friend gave him and thought it was hilarious!

This time, on his way home, he bought a glass jar.

……

“As long as you look at this flyer before bed, then put a 1997g glass jar of Korean kimchi under your pillow, you’ll reach another world after falling asleep!”

“Can a pillow even hold that? Isn’t that too much? Can you even sleep like that?” he retorted to his friend.

He started imagining what it would be like to get a stiff neck.

In that instant, a sense of strangeness exploded in his heart, and countless memories surged forth.

When he realized he was dreaming, he found he could wake up.

So he began to wake up again and again…

After finishing his story, the madman said to the researchers, “There’s no point telling you this, I’m going to keep waking up.”

Then the madman’s face twisted, and he tried hard to open his eyes wide, as if he was holding back some big move.

Seeing no effect, he asked the researcher in confusion, “In your world, how many grams of kimchi do you have to put under the pillow?”

“500.”

Upon hearing this, the madman stared blankly at the researcher, tears streaming down his face.

This madman, who had been lost in dreams for so long, was the discoverer of the relic “Dream,” Adam Foster.

In the end, the researchers classified this incident as a relic phenomenon.

Because the cost of 500g glass jarred Korean kimchi was just so in line with the style of relics.

Although the relic itself was never found, the incident was thus resolved.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 13 Kimchi

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Chapter 13 Kimchi

“So, this is all a dream?”

The moment Logan Clark had this thought, he realized he could wake up.