But the dream qilin that only appears in dreams cannot provide a physical entity, and soon hit a bottleneck.

Fortunately, people gradually began to understand the habits of the dream qilin, making this creature one of the more famous abyssal beings.

Afterwards, other hunters also began to encounter the dream qilin in their own dreams.

It doesn’t cause much harm; as long as you don’t provoke it, the dream qilin will ignore you.

But if you do provoke it, it will attack you directly.

Most people wake up from the pain immediately.

Then they discover that the place where they were attacked by the dream qilin in the dream is also injured in reality.

Some people were even gored to death by its horn in their dreams.

When their companions found them, the person was clutching their neck with both hands, and there was a gaping hole through their neck.

Logan Clark was a bit puzzled.

Why would someone get stabbed in the neck by such a short creature?

There are especially many records about the dream qilin, because it is just too conspicuous.

Its skin is as colorful as a rainbow, making it hard not to notice.

Although it can harm people in bizarre ways, the authorities ultimately classified it as a harmless creature.

After reading the records,

Logan Clark wrote down his question on the electronic screen.

“Can this creature also be parasitized by the red string worm?”

Ryan Clark nodded and said, “Yes, as long as it’s a living creature, it can be.”

Logan Clark was still wondering how to find the dream qilin in Dawn City, since it was such a small creature.

But Ryan Clark was already making a phone call, and before long, she received a reply.

After exchanging a few words, she turned to Logan Clark and said, “Found it. Just wait a bit, it’s being delivered now.”

Logan Clark once again marveled at how money really can make anything possible.

So efficient.

In no time, a group of people in black brought the dream qilin, caged, to Ryan Clark’s house.

Logan Clark walked to the cage and examined the dream qilin.

It really did look like a little rainbow pony, its skin as if splashed with paint.

The paint even glowed, constantly swirling on the surface of its skin.

Every part of it was covered in shifting colors, making its features blurry—you could only make out its outline, not details like its eyes.

Its appearance was completely out of place with the surrounding environment, as if it were a glitched texture in a video game.

This dream qilin didn’t resist at all, but stayed quietly in the cage, obediently eating its food.

Looking at the bowl, it was filled with pickled vegetables that Logan Clark was familiar with.

That’s right, the dream qilin’s favorite food was pickled vegetables.

When the dream qilin was first discovered, a hunter found it in his dream, sneaking into his house to eat his pickled vegetables.

After researchers learned that the dream qilin’s favorite food was pickled vegetables, they spontaneously linked it to the relic called “Dream.”

Some even said that there was actually no such relic as “Dream” at all.

Instead, it was the pickled vegetables that attracted the dream qilin, which then brought people into dreams.

But this theory doesn’t hold up, because it can’t explain the glass jar and weight restrictions.

Not to mention, the dream qilin would also enter people’s dreams.

In the end, people could only chalk it up to coincidence.

Maybe pickled vegetables and dreams really do have some mysterious connection?

(This chapter ends)

Chapter 15 Broken Horn

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Chapter 15 Broken Horn

Looking at the blurry mass of color in the cage, Logan Clark couldn’t help but marvel at the wonders of the abyss.

But he still felt that something was off.

“It’s missing its horn,” Ryan Clark reminded him.

Logan Clark suddenly realized.

This obedient dream qilin didn’t have the single horn described in the records; the shifting colors had almost made Logan Clark overlook it.

When he noticed this, he immediately thought of something.

That black horn outside!

Although one was pure black and the other was colorful, they shared a common trait.

That is, this strange, glitched texture-like color.

Ryan Clark must have noticed this as well.

Logan Clark leaned in close to the dream qilin to compare.

The length of that slender black horn did indeed match this dream qilin.

If that really was this dream qilin’s horn, why did it end up in the real world?

Logan Clark was baffled.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered what Ryan Clark had said about the red string worm.

So he focused his vision inside the dream qilin.

Still endless color.

The dream qilin was like a creature made of paint, with no flesh or any normal biological structures.

The pickled vegetables it ate would turn into colored light as soon as they entered its mouth, merging into its body.

Soon, amidst the swirling rainbow, Logan Clark found that abrupt red string.

A huge red string worm was hiding inside the dream qilin’s body.

It was constantly gnawing at the dream qilin, to the point that its entire body was glowing.

This giant red string worm matched the characteristics of the red string worm queen described in the records—much larger than the males.

The target those shock beasts were searching for was this dream qilin!

Logan Clark quickly used the electronic screen to tell Ryan Clark about his discovery.

This also confirmed Ryan Clark’s theory.

A group of male worms in reality were searching for a queen that existed in the dream world!

But they would never be able to find her.

Logan Clark fell into deep thought again.

Why hadn’t this dream qilin’s horn healed?

He suddenly thought of the nature of the worm.

All evolution is to allow the two to meet.

The healing ability of other infected creatures had evolved so that the infected could successfully find their target.

But this broken horn, on the contrary, created the opportunity for the two to meet.