Chapter 708 – Dreamweaver World 46

Chapter 708 – Dreamweaver World 46

Mo Lan lay quietly on her bed. Before long, the dream realm’s closing time arrived, and her consciousness returned to the real world.

Earlier, while inside the dream instance, she had already finished studying all the skill books in her possession, committing every detail firmly to memory.

Now, back in the real world, she found herself momentarily at a loss for something to continue researching.

Sunlight filtered through the curtains from outside the window — it was already early morning. On the material side of this technologically advanced Dreamweaver World, running outside to practice magic in broad daylight was clearly not appropriate.

“I need to find something to do…”

Being in another world, Mo Lan couldn’t sit idle for even a moment. She stretched lazily, got out of bed, and turned on her communication watch, beginning to browse the electrical technology products of this world.

Since there was no new magical knowledge to learn, she might as well collect some distinctive electrical technology products for the Book of Cards!

An electronic light screen unfolded before her eyes, displaying a dazzling array of electrical technology devices: communication watches, household robots, robot companions… She casually tapped a few items and added them to her shopping cart.

There was actually plenty of knowledge and reference material about electrical technology available online, but Mo Lan had no interest in studying any of it.

She simply selected some physical books, intending to use them as material for the Book of Cards — as long as she could produce the corresponding Knowledge Cards from them, that would be enough.

Although she only bought one of each item, the sheer variety meant the small amount of Federation coins she had exchanged earlier ran out after just a few purchases.

During her frequent browsing online, Mo Lan also discovered an interesting phenomenon: many residents of the Dreamweaver Federation traded dream realm items on the real world’s internet.

This was mainly because the dream realm lacked a reliable online trading platform and had no resources like electric stones that were essential for electrical technology products, making communication very inconvenient. So people generally made arrangements in the real world first, then agreed to meet at specific locations in the dream realm to conduct their trades.

Mo Lan lightly tapped her chin as she browsed a forum dedicated to trading dream realm items.

The most common transactions were item exchanges within the dream realm itself, while those involving Federation coins were relatively rare — whenever one appeared, it was snapped up almost immediately.

After all, everyone understood that dream realm items were far more precious than anything in the real world.

Mo Lan’s Book of Cards could now produce quite a few dream realm items, many of which were hard currency among adventurers. Selling some for Federation coins wouldn’t be difficult at all.

However, she couldn’t flood the market all at once. She knew very well that recklessly dumping large quantities would attract unnecessary attention.

Mo Lan registered an account on the forum, set up a purchase window for low-grade mana potions on her profile page, then posted a related thread with a link, pricing them ten percent above the market rate she had found online.

Everyone’s mana could only recover while in the dream realm, so mana potions were the best way for adventurers to maintain their ability to cast spells continuously in the real world.

Less than a minute after Mo Lan’s post went up, the inventory of five bottles she had set was completely bought out — all by the same buyer.

The thread was filled with people who hadn’t managed to grab any, beating their chests in frustration.

In under a minute since the post went live, the stock of five potion bottles had been swept clean. The comment section instantly exploded:

【User “Flame Dancer”: What the hell! I refreshed the page and they were gone!】

【User “Stardust”: Which whale bought them all at once? Share one with me!】

【User “Silver Moon”: OP, do you have more? I’ll pay 20% above asking!】

Mo Lan raised an eyebrow. She had expected dream realm resources to be in demand in the real world, but she hadn’t expected them to be this sought after. She quickly contacted an automated shipping company, and a round-headed delivery robot soon arrived at her door to pick up the package.

From listing to shipping, the entire process took less than an hour.

By observing other sellers’ transaction records, she cautiously listed a few more small items of similar value.

Each was released in limited quantities, and they quickly added a considerable sum of Federation coins to her electronic account.

The money was enough for her to purchase quite a few of the electrical technology products she had her eye on.

But she didn’t stop browsing and studying the forum. For now, it wasn’t convenient to go all out making money to buy electrical technology products, but that didn’t stop her from getting to know some deep-pocketed internet celebrities. When it was almost time to leave the Dreamweaver World, she could make a few big deals with them and obtain what she wanted.

During this process, she paid special attention to several users who frequently purchased dream realm items at high prices using Federation coins.

Some were long-term buyers of Fruits of Materialization, others were long-term buyers of mana potions…

If the parties didn’t have high reputation scores or mutual trust, transactions exchanging real-world items for dream realm items were very difficult to pull off, since there was no way to regulate them.

But these users had some of the highest transaction volumes on the entire forum, and some even displayed their company names or the organizations behind them on their profile pages.

They were clearly people of considerable prestige and assets in the real world.

Mo Lan noted down each of these potential major clients, waiting for the right moment to strike a big deal with them.

Time passed in a flash, and night soon arrived again. Mo Lan once more entered the dream realm.

After the dream realm closed, time within it froze, only resuming when it opened again. To the dream citizens inside, the adventurers merely seemed to space out for a brief moment. But for the adventurers themselves, they had already returned to the real world for an entire day of work and life.

Of course, the time spent back in the real world did nothing to help adventurers recover their mana. An adventurer’s physical state was also frozen along with the dream realm’s stasis.

Mo Lan, however, truly had no need for recovery. In the real world she could at least browse the internet, but here she genuinely didn’t know what to do. She tossed and turned in bed for a while, but ultimately couldn’t bring herself to waste such precious time just lying around in a daze. She got out of bed, quietly pushed open the door, and stepped outside.

The entire stone house was immersed in serene darkness, with only the faint remnants of firelight glowing in the hearth.

Mo Lan didn’t see Matina anywhere either — it seemed the old woman was still resting.

With their master asleep, all those mischievous shadows throughout the house had quieted down.

In the dim firelight, there were only the still shadows of objects, motionless as lifeless things. The shadow bugs that usually lurked in the corners had vanished without a trace as well.

Among the Shadow Hunter skill books she had studied, there were indeed books on summoning shadow pets to fight alongside the user, but none of them described shadow pets that could accompany their master in daily life the way Granny Matina’s did.

So Mo Lan wasn’t sure what was going on with that.

The Shadow Tribe possessed the ability to see in darkness. Mo Lan walked straight to the bookshelf against the wall, her fingertip gliding along the spines until she found the book Granny Matina had mentioned — 《Shadow Analysis》. She pulled it out and began to read.