As a result... ever since then, the nightmares began!

Every time he went to sleep, he would fall into a dream just like the one before—killing himself once every day, and even forgetting his own name, making him suspect at one point that he might have some kind of split personality disorder.

He’d had several CT scans and MRIs, and even secretly visited a psychologist. The results were all the same: perfectly healthy!

He tried staying up late on purpose, running until he was half dead from exhaustion, taking melatonin, even hitting himself on the head with a brick...

He tried every method, but none of them worked.

As long as he slept, the nightmare would appear right on schedule, once a day, never missing a single time. Up to today... it had been exactly the 1,080th time!

Three years in a row, killing himself every day—if his mentality wasn’t strong, he would have collapsed long ago. Even so, he could feel he was reaching his limit.

He didn’t know if he could keep going.

……

……

Roughly 400 kilometers above Earth, in the silent expanse of space, a castle-like artificial steel satellite drifted at a constant speed.

The Tiangong Space Station!

Currently, the world’s most advanced space exploration base.

At this moment, in the [Deep Space Exploration Room] facing away from Earth, two astronauts stared at the most advanced machine before them, their brows tightly furrowed.

From just now until now, the alarm had been sounding nonstop, but after checking all the equipment, there was nothing wrong.

“Could it be...”

The astronaut in charge of the experiment’s expression changed: “Turn on the imager!”

The telescope on the station wasn’t a traditional optical device, but the [Sky Eye VII], capable of collecting radio waves and radiation.

Without turning on the imager, even they wouldn’t know what had been detected.

“Yes!”

The other astronaut pressed the button, and instantly, an image appeared on the screen before them.

“This—this is impossible!”

“Oh my god, this can’t be real!”

Their scalps tingled, and both astronauts turned pale with shock, then began to tremble, their voices urgent: “Call Earth, quick, call Earth...”

“It’s a mirror—a—a gigantic mirror...”

……

……

Shaking off his wild thoughts, William Carter picked up his book.

The nightmares were hard to endure, but for him, the bigger problem wasn’t that—it was... the college entrance exam.

There was less than a month left, and with his grades, even getting into a junior college would be tough.

There was nothing he could do—who could study well when plagued by nightmares every day, especially the kind where you kill yourself? Of course he had no energy to study.

If others failed the exam, they could find other ways, but he was different. His parents were true farmers, and his tuition was basically paid through work-study. Though he didn’t want to admit it, he knew that the college entrance exam was the only fair chance to change his fate.

If he missed it, it would be almost impossible to find another opportunity like this.

Very soon, he noticed something was off.

Usually, after a nightmare, his mind would be foggy, but this time he felt exceptionally clear-headed. His memory seemed to have improved—a lot of things, he could remember after just one look, and even difficult problems became easy to understand.

He took out a test paper and started working on it.

His problem-solving speed had also increased. The mistakes he used to make, he could now clearly spot the issues.

William Carter was stunned.

What’s going on? Having nightmares, but now he’s more energetic than ever?

Could it be he has some kind of masochistic constitution?

If that’s really the case, maybe he could keep going for a while longer...

Full of questions, he took out another test paper, planning to try again, when suddenly an anxious shout rang out in the classroom.

“Look, what’s that?”

“Wow, it’s so beautiful...”

“Why are you shouting in class!” The class monitor, James Parker, frowned, but before he could finish, his face turned pale: “Damn...”

His voice was even louder than the others.

And it wasn’t just him—shouts erupted from other classes as well.

Puzzled, William Carter looked over. The sunlight outside the window was dazzling, and after just one glance, he too was stunned.

In the sky, a series of buildings were floating—streets, distant mountains, tall buildings... all perfectly mirroring those on the ground, matching exactly, as if an identical city had appeared in the heavens.

Many students couldn’t be bothered with class anymore and rushed outside. The playground was already full of people.

The chatter was endless. Everyone stared upward, unsure if it was real or just a projection.

“Let’s go check it out!”

Seeing that many students in the class had already run out, David Bolton quickly followed.

This guy always loved excitement—there was no way he’d miss something this big.

Curious, William Carter also went to the playground.

The buildings and mountains in the sky were the exact opposite of those on the ground, hanging upside down, giving people a suffocating feeling that they could fall at any moment.

“It looks like... a mirror!”

Someone shouted.

William Carter was stunned.

That’s right.

The scene before him was as if a mirror was hanging in the sky.

A phantom-like film perfectly reflected the entire city before their eyes.

“It’s not really a mirror, right? Otherwise, why can’t we see any living things...” a skeptical voice said.

He wasn’t the only one who noticed—others had too.