Chapter 22 Dreams and Reality

In Gwen's puzzled expression, Su Heng opened the door of the utility room, but from Gwen's point of view, this utility room was no different from an ordinary utility room.

"Are you serious?" Gwen gestured at the depth of the utility room and said speechlessly: "If Professor Connors is really put in here, he can't even turn over."

"Come in with me and you will know." Su Heng used the floating card to make Professor Connors float in the air, and casually pulled his tail and walked into the utility room.

"Hmm." Gwen followed Su Heng with a suspicious look, not knowing what this guy was up to.

But the moment Gwen stepped into the utility room, the originally narrow space suddenly extended and expanded in all directions, and walls rose above the ground, dividing the suddenly empty space into countless small rooms with different layouts.

If you observe from a bird's-eye view, you will find that the utility room has become a maze that looks extremely complicated.

Although Gwen didn't know what kind of drastic changes had happened in this space, the changes in front of her eyes alone made her mouth wide with surprise.

"How amazing." Gwen raised her head, touched the wall that suddenly appeared and extended beside her, and asked Su Heng: "Is this also part of your ability?"

"Almost." Su Heng put down Dr. Connors and walked in front of Gwen: "So from tomorrow, Professor Connors's treatment will be handed over to you. Just tell me if you need anything, and I will try to buy it if I can buy it normally."

Gwen's face was bitter, and her steps retreated repeatedly, as if she wanted to make a final struggle: "Well, it's getting late, if we don't My mother will worry about me when I go back."

"Have you forgotten that Helen is in the hospital accompanying Mr. George?" Su Heng smiled and pressed Gwen's shoulder, shaking the phone in his hand towards her: "She just sent me a message, saying that she doesn't have time to go home to take care of you during this period, and asked me to take over for a while."

"So you just accept your fate and work honestly, Miss Gwen Stacy~"

"No." Gwen looked at Su Heng, who was shaking his phone and seemed to have a devil figure behind him under the light, and let out a weak cry.

——

"Manager."

On the streets of New York, Gwen, wearing a white dress, smiled and approached Su Heng, and gently stroked Su Heng's face with her right hand. She stood on tiptoes and gently kissed Su Heng's lips.

"!" When Su Heng was in a trance, Gwen gently pushed Su Heng with a smile, and while pushing him away from her side, her figure began to gradually turn into dust.

"Sorry, but goodbye."

"Gwen!" In the room on the second floor of the dessert shop, Su Heng suddenly woke up from his dream.

"Huff, huh, huh!" Su Heng sat up, panting heavily, looking at the familiar layout around the room, he breathed a sigh of relief, and murmured in a low voice: "What, it turned out to be a dream."

Although he said this, Su Heng was still a little worried, so he stood up and walked towards the next room.

Dong, dong, dong——

Su Heng gently knocked on the door of the next room.

"Gwen, are you asleep?" Su Heng asked into the room.

"Hmm" Gwen's dazed reply came from the room: "What are you doing? I just fell asleep"

"Ahem, nothing." Su Heng coughed lightly and said awkwardly: "I just asked if you slept."

"Manager, are you sick?" Gwen muttered dazedly: "If you are not sleeping, I will get up and beat you up."

As Gwen's voice became smaller and smaller, Su Heng walked back to his room with peace of mind.

But because of the nightmare just now, Su Heng is now completely sleepless.

"That may not be a nightmare." Su Heng's expression tightened, as if he suddenly remembered something, and his eyes searched the room.

If Su Heng remembered correctly, there was such a card in the Clow Cards that could make people dream of things that might happen in the future.

But just when Su Heng was a little regretful that he did not find any traces of butterflies flying in the room, the corners of a card pressed under the pillow made him stunned.

"This is..." Su Heng picked up the card, looked at the image of the female priest on the card, and murmured to himself in a low voice: "Dream Card?"

"But why is the dream card here?" Su Heng was puzzled: "And it looks sealed."

"It's impossible that I unconsciously sealed the dream card in my dream."

Su Heng sat cross-legged on the bed, looking at the dream card in front of him, and his thoughts became more and more chaotic.

"And if it is really a dream card, is the scene in the dream just now real?"

Su Heng rubbed his head. He didn't know if it was because of the dream card, but the scene of Gwen turning into ashes and disappearing in front of him seemed to be deeply engraved in his mind.

Just when Su Heng was holding his head and going crazy, on a high building not far from the dessert shop, a mysterious cloaked man gently caught a butterfly flying in the air with his fingers.

"Since I've given you my dream card, I'll take the dream card of this world just in case." The cloaked man glanced at Su Heng's brightly lit room, and the butterfly on his fingertips slowly turned back into the same dream card as the one in Su Heng's hand at the moment.

"Time Traveler?"

Just as the cloaked man put away the cards, a golden ring suddenly lit up behind him, and a bald man in an orange-yellow robe walked out of the ring.

"Ah, I'm discovered again." The cloaked man didn't show any surprise in his words. He turned around and bowed slightly to the bald man respectfully: "Supreme Mage."

"Do you know me?" Supreme Mage Gu Yi looked at the cloaked man's overly relaxed posture and asked him curiously.

"Ah, almost." The cloaked man scratched his face awkwardly: "After all, if it's based on seniority, I probably have to call you teacher."

"Wow?" At this time, Master Gu Yi found that the cloak on the cloaked man looked familiar: "Floating cloak?"

"If I remember correctly, this cloak is only worn by the Supreme Mage, right?" Master Gu Yi narrowed his eyes, as if he had discovered something unexpected and pleasantly surprised.

"Ahem, surprise!" The cloaked man waved his hands repeatedly to deny, "I'm not the Supreme Sorcerer."

"Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't said anything yet, have I?" The Ancient One smiled, "So am I dead in that time dimension?"

The cloaked man's face froze under his cloak. Seeing the increasingly interested look in the Ancient One's eyes, he said in a shocked voice, "Of course not! You are still alive and well!"

"Oh! It looks like I am finally free." The Ancient One nodded and continued to ask the cloaked man, "So who killed me? Kaecilius? Or Mordo? Or Dormammu?"

The Ancient One looked at the increasingly stiff movements of the cloaked man, and his expression became more and more surprised, "So, is it you?"

"I knew I couldn't hide it from you." The cloaked man sighed, "Yes, it was me."

"So why don't you admit that you took over my position?" The Ancient One stretched out his hand and tried to lift the hood on the cloaked man's head.

"Come on, you!" The cloaked man raised his head to avoid the attack of the Ancient One, and pulled his hood down even more, saying unhappily: "I have already fallen into your hands in that dimension, please let me go in this dimension."

"If I let you go, who will let me go?" The Ancient One continued to stretch out his hand towards the hood of the cloaked man with great interest, as if he must want to see the true face of this guy: "Can't you sympathize with the old man and let me retire early?"

"I don't have time to chat with you." The cloaked man's body turned into a shadow, and like a stream of water, he moved away from the Ancient One and gathered into a human form again.

At the same time, two phantoms appeared beside the cloaked man.

One phantom was an old man in a yellow robe holding an hourglass, and the other was a woman in a long robe holding a clock.

After seeing the two phantoms, Master Gu Yi stopped chasing and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Is this the power that brought you to this time dimension?"

"Yes." The cloaked man nodded, and his figure gradually became illusory under the blessing of the two phantoms: "Although I am a little sorry for you, I will never be coerced and lured by you to become this damn Supreme Mage like I was back then."

"Ha." Master Gu Yi chuckled: "If you are so sure, why don't you let me see your true face?"

"Ahem." The cloaked man coughed twice and quickly changed the subject: "Don't you just want a successor? In addition to me, there are other candidates. I can give it to you!"

"Stephen Strange is good. You should know that in the original timeline, he is the next Supreme Sorcerer you have chosen!"

The cloaked man felt his body becoming more and more ethereal. He knew that he had little time left in this time dimension, so he strongly recommended it to the Ancient One: "I am just an accident. In more time dimensions, Mr. Strange is much more competent than me, a crappy guy."

"If you don't believe it, you might as well wait and see for a while. When that guy comes, he will come to you and you will know whether what I said is true or false."

The Ancient One stayed quietly in the same place, watching the cloaked man gradually disappear in front of him.

"Of course I know Stephen Strange." After the cloaked man had completely disappeared, the Ancient One came to the edge of the rooftop, and his eyes were also on Su Heng in the room on the second floor of the dessert shop, with a faint smile on his face: "But whether he can become the Supreme Sorcerer in the end depends on whether you will come to compete for this position?"

The next morning.

"Ha--" Gwen stretched lazily and walked into the back door of the dessert shop from the backyard stairs with sleepy eyes.

When passing by the bakery, Gwen found that there was no busy figure in the bakery as usual.

"Hmm?" Gwen curiously poked her head out from the employee passage and found that Su Heng, who was supposed to be busy in the bakery, was now sitting at the counter, staring at the cards in his hand.

"Manager, what are you doing?" Gwen walked over in confusion and asked Su Heng.

"Nothing." Su Heng put the cards on the table, turned his head and looked at Gwen, and the heavy dark circles under his eyes scared her.

"Did you not sleep all night?" Gwen stared at Su Heng's sleepy look with wide eyes.

"That's about right." Su Heng yawned and lay on the counter weakly: "I had a nightmare last night."

"So you were going to wake me up last night and stay with you in a daze until dawn!" Gwen slapped her hands on the counter and asked Su Heng with a bad face.

Obviously, Gwen had no interest in what nightmare Su Heng had last night. She came to ask for accusations!

"Didn't you wake up last night?" Su Heng raised his head and looked at the energetic Gwen, and continued to lie on the counter and pretend to be dead.

"But my dream was disturbed because of you!" Gwen said indignantly: "I'm still a student. What if I don't sleep well and don't have the energy to go to class today?"

"So you're in good spirits, aren't you?" Su Heng barely cheered up and stood up, and walked into the bakery under Gwen's complaining eyes.

"Hey, I haven't finished yet!" Gwen followed Su Heng angrily.

"Okay, okay, I know I was wrong." Su Heng opened the oven, took out a sandwich with his gloves and stuffed it into Gwen's mouth: "Then this breakfast is my compensation to you, Miss Gwen, how about it."

"Good deal (hot)!" Gwen felt the scalding temperature of the sandwich in her mouth, and hurriedly caught the sandwich she had taken a bite of.

"Hurry up and go to class." Su Heng flicked Gwen's forehead: "You live close to school these two days, but that doesn't mean you can sleep in for a long time."

"I know, I know." Gwen chewed the sandwich and wrinkled her nose at Su Heng in annoyance, but it was really late now, Gwen could only eat the sandwich in two or three bites, and hurried out the door.

Su Heng walked out of the bakery, looked at Gwen's hurried appearance, shook his head, and continued to sit at the counter, looking at the cards on the table.

"Illusion, sweetness, tranquility, sleep, fight, sword, float, plus the puzzle card used in the backyard utility room, and the dream card that inexplicably appeared on the bedside last night"

Su Heng held his head and shouted weakly: "I can't beat it at all. Infinite gloves and so on, it's too much!!!"

Sorry, I'm not in good condition and updated a little late. I will try to rest early tonight to make up for my condition. I bow here.