# Chapter 2944: Shared Dream
The situation was not very optimistic. Many people who were close to the purple vines, even if they weren't dead, were like what Xu Huo had experienced before — difficult to wake even with medicine. He only made two attempts before giving up, deciding to first pull people out of the encirclement of purple wisteria flowers.
Some players recovered quickly and were able to help Xu Huo after getting out.
There were about twenty-plus players from Heshou City near him. Twenty of these people survived. As for the others, some from the E25 wormhole point survived, and those who did were the ones Xu Huo had saved earlier, as they were farther from the main stem of the purple wisteria.
Now the players could contact the outside world, but after waking up, they didn't know how to clear the instance, because after waking from the encirclement of purple wisteria, they weren't wearing Hunter masks.
After rescuing the people around them, Jin Xiang, a player from Heshou City, spoke to Xu Huo, "Brother, this instance probably needs to be cleared while sleeping. Do you have a way out?"
Since they could contact the outside world, the best method would be to use a Container Item to escape. Ordinary people had no choice but to agree, but the players were hesitant. It wasn't that they didn't trust Xu Huo — they already knew through government channels that he had come in specifically to rescue people.
But after solving the primary safety issue, they started worrying about other problems with entering Container Items.
There was a rumor circulating among players that using Container Items and Nutrient Supplements might cause players to develop Degeneration symptoms earlier. So players usually tried to avoid using Nutrient Supplements in instances, let alone entering Container Items.
Xu Huo also needed them to help find people for now, so he didn't plan to put them into Container Items. To prevent people from suddenly falling asleep, everyone wore transparent protective masks.
He distributed over a dozen masks to the E25 survivors. The child said, "Uncle, I saw you in my dream."
"Uncle saw you in his dream too," Xu Huo said.
He had to admit that from the moment they entered this instance, everyone seemed to be sharing the same dream. People close to each other might even intersect in their dreams.
"Uncle, is that stone I gave you real?" The child had already checked his box and couldn't find that light purple Subclass Stone. He was clever and immediately offered to take Xu Huo to find the stone. "If uncle is real, then the stone must be real too."
The child lacked the crisis awareness of adults and was very excited to start an adventure.
Xu Huo certainly wanted to look for it too. A light purple Subclass Stone — if it wasn't lost here by another player, it was most likely naturally formed. The conditions for forming Subclass Stones were quite harsh (kēkè), so it couldn't have appeared for no reason.
There were also some players from other districts around them. Although they had been accidentally drawn in, they didn't know how many people from their districts had been caught up, so they moved together with Xu Huo and his group.
The forest was as vast as in the dream. Purple vines could be seen at intervals, but the distance between them wasn't as far as in the dream. With so many people spreading out, searching was quick.
Almost every place where the purple wisteria was concentrated had many people sleeping. Regardless of which district they were from, as long as they were alive, they were all pulled out. Those who could be woken were woken; those who couldn't were "voluntarily" put into Container Items.
The number of missing people from Heshou City was very large. Even if they were concentrated in one area, waking them up was a massive undertaking.
"How about just cutting down these purple vines?" suggested a player from another district. "The more I look at these things, the more eerie they seem. Do these things grow so lush by eating people?"
"We have to rescue the people first before cutting," Jin Xiang said. "If the main stem of the purple wisteria is attacked, the branches will absorb nutrients even more aggressively."
With so many people connected to the purple vines, if the Mutant Plant went berserk, wouldn't it kill many people?
That player from another district looked at Xu Huo's expression before shutting up.
It hadn't been long, but the awakened players all knew that this group rescuing people was led by him, and he was also the first to wake from the dream.
Some people hadn't woken even when being devoured by wild beasts in their dreams. This was definitely not a matter of luck. For a bizarre A-rank Random Instance, being able to wake up so quickly meant he must have solid skills.
With this understanding, whether from this district or other districts, everyone became very cooperative for the time being.
"Strange, didn't the Special Defense Department say two full metal squads were coming? Why haven't we seen them?" Jin Xiang was also a member of the Special Defense Department, but as a D-rank player, he stayed in his own city and didn't go out to support others.
Before Xu Huo woke up, no one knew the situation inside the instance. District 014, whether to find him or rescue others, kept sending people to Heshou City. The two squads specifically mentioned by the Special Defense Department should be the elite trump cards of the military.
He had already fired signal flares according to the Special Defense Department's codes, but no one responded nearby. This meant either the two teams were too far away, or they had fallen asleep as soon as they entered. Given that the Special Defense Department said both teams had lost contact, the situation was obvious.
"I feel embarrassed for the Special Defense Department," Jin Xiang said while eating jerky as he walked. "They thought they'd arranged some extraordinary secret weapons, but they came in and still need us to rescue them."
"Keep your mouth shut," said the female player moving with him, also from the Special Defense Department. She warned, "With so many people here, aren't you afraid of your nonsense getting out?"
"Can't I even speak the truth?" Jin Xiang rolled his eyes but didn't continue complaining. Instead, he went over to chat with players from other districts.
The players from other districts also wanted to probe Xu Huo's background. Both sides hit it off and chatted lively.
Xu Huo brought the child from E25 to the place where he said he'd seen the Subclass Stone. Unexpectedly, when they pushed aside the cave covered by vegetation, there really was a light purple Subclass Stone inside!
"Seventeenth Hospital" was a model of mental-type instances. Everything in it was influenced by the thoughts of those who entered, but there was still a certain difference between fantasy and reality. The more enclosed and narrow the space, the easier it was to achieve a state where reality and illusion were hard to distinguish, because the movement of everything in reality required external force, even if the moving person wasn't aware of it.
But in this purple wisteria instance, reality and dreams had almost merged. In the dream, he had seen the Subclass Stone through the child, but the Subclass Stone he saw was exactly the same as the one he found now. Even though the Subclass Stone hadn't moved at all, the child's sensory experience was completely projected into the eyes of everyone who "contacted" the stone through him.
It truly was a shared dream. Everything seen and heard while consciousness walked in the dream were things that actually existed in this instance space, even places never visited and items never touched.
Xu Huo looked back into the distance: The scale of this instance space was by no means ordinary.