"If we judge purely by the timing of a pocket watch, the flow rate of time here seems to be not much different from the flow rate of real time."
Staring at the pocket watch in his hand with his pink eyes, Anvis was silent for a moment and put the watch away again.
"...Well, Mr. Anvis, have you finished your work?"
At this time, Emily on the side saw that Avis seemed to have ended the ceremony and was no longer paying attention to her, so she quickly reminded him of her existence.
She is very aware of the dangers of the deep dream world, and it is precisely because she knows more that she is even more afraid.
"It's over for now, you can go back now."
Anvis nodded, but before the girl could be happy, his tone immediately changed.
"However, I should continue to rely on your power in the coming time. If there are no abnormal phenomena in the flow of time in this dream world, then I will summon you every seven days or so."
"Seven days!? I understand..."
After listening to Anvis's words, the girl almost couldn't swallow her words, and her whole body became darkened visibly to the naked eye.
She instinctively repeated Anvis's words, but judging from her frustrated tone, it seemed as if Anvis was not talking about the time between help, but the countdown of only seven days left in her life.
"There is no need for a suicide note. I will try my best to summon you during the safe period. Just eat more good food. And after this incident is over, I will also increase your monthly gold coins and resource quota."
Reading the surface consciousness emanating from the girl, Avis felt somewhat ashamed.
Indeed, although it is currently in a safe period in theory, Emily is still taking considerable risks, and it is understandable to complain a little.
After sending Emily away, Avis glanced at the timer on his pocket watch, which showed less than three minutes left, and then slowly looked at the surrounding room environment.
A minute and a half later, Anvis ended his search and stood in front of the small door with the key.
The room at the bottom of the rabbit hole has been searched by him, but unfortunately, except for some leaves on the ground, other items are intangible and will disappear in his hands even if they are taken away.
As the key was inserted into the keyhole, the small door in front of him opened silently. The pale golden sunlight overflowed from the crack of the opened door, making Anvis's pink eyes shine brightly in the darkness.
Behind the open door is a world that only exists in dreams and fairy tales.
Colorful mushrooms bigger than houses, little fairies flying on the colorful flowers, and various small animals wearing formal clothes, walking like humans on the streets paved with small bluestones.
Watching these strange little animals, Avis scanned their bodies and tried to analyze them.
However, due to the intervention of the dream rules, he did not obtain any valuable information.
"Mr. Lobet, what are you doing standing there? The Duchess is looking for you!"
At this moment, a faint voice suddenly came from beside me.
Anvis turned around and saw that a lizard wearing a maid uniform had come to him at some point.
"Are you...Bill?"
A memory that seemed like a real existence emerged in Anvis's mind. This was the memory of the identity of the white rabbit that Anvis replaced. The white rabbit's name was White Lobet, and the little lizard named Bill was
His servant is also the Duchess's servant.
As for why it can hold two positions at the same time, no one has questioned its rationality. Anvis did not delve into it, because fairy tales are an unreasonable world.
"...I understand. I will send the golden pepper that the Duchess needs as soon as possible."
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According to some information in his memory, Anvis nodded, and then the little lizard Bill ran away on his own. It seemed that he had other work to be busy with.
"What a strange world."
Watching its retreating figure, Anvis dug into his pockets, but found nothing.
Then, this so-called ‘golden pepper’ should be the next mission target.
According to Robette's memory, he still needs to change his clothes before going to meet the Duchess. So now he needs to find the White Rabbit's home, and the items for the next mission should be there.
Anvis glanced at his pocket watch. The time on it was fifteen minutes before twelve o'clock.
There was not enough time, so he immediately started running and began to search for the exquisite small house with a shiny brass door number according to his memory.
Along the way, the other little animals looked at Lobet in confusion as he suddenly ran by, wondering why he was crazy.
Since he was still not familiar with the terrain, and the area of this fairy tale city was beyond Anvis's expectation, it took Anvis about ten minutes to finally find the White Rabbit's house.
But when he was about to enter the room and get the mission items, he suddenly noticed a few strange beings nearby who were sneaking around and staring at him.
Their appearance is no different from the residents of this city. They are a mouse, a frog, a parrot and a duck, and they all wear different clothes.
What made Anvis notice them was the illusory glowing panel floating in front of them.
Good guy, there are even players here?
After quietly glancing at the four players, Anvis did not take the initiative to expose them. He just opened the door with the key and walked in.
As Anvis expected, at the same time that he made this move, several players who were staring at him took action.
"The mission target seems to have returned. There seems to be no threat. What should we do? Sneak in or use Wushuang?"
The arrogant parrot was the first to speak. It stared at the open door, eager to try.
"Indeed, that rabbit looks like it's only level ten, but if you really run over and chop it, it might directly trigger some kind of rule-based defense mechanism here.
Have you forgotten the evaluation level of this special mission, Overlord? If you want to die, please don't take us with you. Haven't you noticed that we have gone all the way until now and haven't even seen a single battle?"
The frog glanced at the parrot with disdain and began to teach the three people about his game experience.
"According to my judgment, there should be some special rules here, and if we don't want to die again, we must find a way to get through this secret realm. But with our current level, it is almost impossible to do this.
The system will not arrange a mission that requires us to die, so I can conclude that the key to this mission must be these NPCs, and we need to choose a camp to join."
"I think Teacher Gua is right. The dangers in S-class missions are simply not something our level can handle. Force is of little use and must be outmaneuvered."
After hearing what the frog said, the duck also agreed.
"Hmph, whatever, I hope you don't think too much about it."
Kuang Ba Ao Shi snorted, acquiescing to the judgment of the frog player ‘Mr. Gua’.
"Look, the rabbit came out again. It seems to have changed its clothes."
At this time, the mouse, which had never spoken before, suddenly spoke, attracting the attention of the other three players.
At this time, Anvis had changed his clothes and found the golden pepper he needed. They were placed in a box made of gold, and they looked like powder ground into gold.