"Hum..."

After stretching extensively, Shirley opened her eyes.

"Uh, where am I?"

Around her was a dark space with a ceiling that seemed frighteningly high and walls that were very distant from her.

By the faint light of the candles on the wall, she deduced that there must be a huge corridor, and the area was beyond her imagination.

Why was she here?

Though she had such doubts in mind, Shirley unexpectedly didn’t dwell on them.

Instead, she got up from the floor and started exploring in the direction she was facing.

In the dark, deep, and repetitive environment, Shirley was like an ignorant lamb stepping into the abyss, completely losing track of time and distance and acting mechanically.

Yet, she felt no impatience or physical exhaustion.

Why was she in a place like this?

The question she had just asked came up again, and the answer seemed to be right in front of her eyes.

However, a sudden vibration from the floor caught her attention.

The candlelight on the wall swayed wildly as if a tornado had blown through the corridor.

A sense of fear of the unknown made Shirley stop and look back in panic.

She felt that the source of the tremor was clearly behind her, not ahead.

This is not good, really not good...

Shirley swallowed hard as the tremor intensified to the point where she could barely keep her balance.

Finally, in the darkness, the source of the tremor appeared before her.

It’s...

Her mother!

Shirley looked at her mother with wide eyes.

At that moment, the image of the other side displayed before her was not the usual, pretty, and coquettish one.

—Her body resembled the Tyrannosaurus Rex that Shirley was very familiar with.

Only her head was the image of her mother, but it was enlarged countless times, with dozens of sharp teeth protruding from her mouth and saliva constantly dripping.

In front of such a gigantic "mother," Shirley looked like a tiny cub.

The "mother" turned her enormous eyes toward Shirley and then roared to the sky.

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The sound wave from the roar swept Shirley's body dozens of meters away.

"Wow--"

Shirley, somewhat awkwardly, tried to hold herself in the air but ended up falling to the ground.

Though she didn’t feel pain in her body, she did land on her butt.

However, her "mother" didn’t give her time to rest and began to advance with large strides, roaring.

"Mom! You’re not really going to eat me, are you?!"

Shirley screamed.

She vaguely remembered her mother saying she wanted to taste her.

Now transformed into a dinosaur, her mother couldn’t answer Shirley.

She just advanced toward Shirley with her mouth open, as if she wanted to swallow her.

Unable to communicate, Shirley had to quickly get up and start fleeing desperately.

But how could she keep up with a dinosaur so large?

Soon, the distance between her and the "mother" decreased rapidly.

“I’m really going to be eaten!!!”

With a desperate scream escaping her mouth, Shirley suddenly felt her feet go empty and her whole body began to fall.

At the same time, her vision was covered by a dazzling white light.

When her vision returned, instead of feeling relieved to have escaped, Shirley let out an even more desperate scream.

—The sound of wind whistling in her ears, and there was nothing around her to support her, as she was above the clouds at that moment.

As she saw the green, mountainous ground approaching, Shirley resigned herself and closed her eyes.

It seems like I’m still going to fall to my death...

As she sighed this in her heart, she felt her body being grabbed by something again.

Opening her eyes, she saw that a large bird with golden feathers had caught her.

The big bird spread its wings and flew into the clouds, not knowing where it would take her.

Holding tightly onto the bird’s talon, Shirley began to realize that she was now in a dream.

After all, such an absurd and strange experience couldn’t be real!

Thinking this, Shirley relaxed.

Since it was a dream, there was nothing to fear.

In this way, the big bird carried her through the clouds for a long time.

With a cry that resonated in the sky, the large bird dove through the clouds.

Shirley saw the scene on the ground again, but this time it was not green mountains.

But a vast mushroom forest!

Literally speaking, the mountains that should have had trees were covered with mushrooms—some thick, some thin, some very short, and others as tall as the clouds...

As the distance decreased, Shirley saw more clearly.

These enormous mushrooms were not some strange kind of fungus but a kind of living being!

They had human faces, hands, and feet, and they moved constantly.

Why am I dreaming of such strange things!?

Shirley roared in her heart.

When she was close enough to these gigantic “mushroom people,” the big bird loosened its grip and dropped Shirley to the ground.

Distracted by these “mushroom people,” Shirley relaxed her grip, and then she was thrown downward.

Still in the air, Shirley stretched out her hands, only to find that her hands had transformed into a pair of small golden wings, just like the big bird.

Perhaps because it was a dream, Shirley quickly accepted the transformation and, as soon as she got the wings, began to fly.

The small wings couldn’t fly as high as the big bird, so she could only fly at low altitude in this mushroom forest.

Indeed, upon closer inspection, Shirley found the "mushroom people" strangely cute.

While happily observing each movement of these “mushroom people,” Shirley suddenly felt a pain in her right wing.

It was too late to think about why she still felt pain in her dream.

She lost her balance and quickly used her left wing to protect her body, then collided with the ground.

“Haha, finally, meat to eat!”

A familiar, cheerful voice sounded.

Shirley opened her eyes.

Indeed, it was exactly as she thought.

It was her friend Karina who had thrown her in the air with a spear.

“I’m Shirley!”

Shirley tried to say this, but her voice sounded like a bird’s cry.

“Time to eat!”

Karina jumped and ran to grab Shirley's right wing, which was roasted and ready to eat.

“No... don’t eat me!”

Shirley screamed desperately and suddenly sat up in bed, all sweaty.

“Phew...”

She took a few deep breaths to calm herself.

Although she knew it had all been a dream, she was still shaken.

“Huh?”

Shirley suddenly frowned in confusion.

Now that she was awake, why did she still feel a bit of pain in her right hand?

With this doubt, she looked at her right hand...