The eternal dream that was once closed was activated again. This huge spiritual network gradually stabilized after a period of fluctuations. The magnificent palaces, temples, towers and floating islands rooted in spiritual illusions were rebuilt. At the same time, , countless Eternal Sleeper believers have also linked their minds into this network - they are not only users of this network, but also builders and maintainers of this network. They open their brain computing power to the entire network, Let this network control and demand as needed, and the difference between them and those "computing power providers" called "brain servants" who lie like living dead in secret temples everywhere is that they There is no need to sacrifice life and soul in the process.
After all, the Eternal Sleepers are the masters of the eternal dream, and these masters are not willing to sacrifice themselves before their servants die.
In the deepest part of the eternal dream, in the "Dream Hall" located underground in the city, the bishops and their pope are ready.
Twenty-two seats are arranged in a circular symmetry in the center of the room. Eleven white-robed bishops and eleven black-robed bishops occupy half of the seats respectively, as if day and night are separated, and the circular There is a hazy black shadow floating in the center of the seat. From time to time, the shadow condenses into human form, but more often it appears as various indescribable masses with lavender starlight - regardless of Whether in the real world or in this virtual world, the eternally sleeping Pope never shows his true face. In fact, believers even firmly believe that their Pope has already completed the sublimation of life forms and has become an existence equal to the power of dreams, and this illusion The uncertain light and shadow are just the projection of the Pope in the world, an "interface" set up to communicate with the believers who are still mortals.
Today, the Pope will lead his bishops to conduct the eighteenth attempt to decipher the memory fragments of Gawain Cecil.
"The Eternal Dream has been stabilized, and the spiritual network is well connected."
"The lower-level computing nodes are ready, and the 'Brain Servant' array is ready."
"The Guardian Team We have arrived at the position and are ready to respond to emergencies in the real world."
"We are ready, His Majesty the Pope."
The bishops reported their respective responsibilities one by one. program, after everyone was ready, the indescribable hazy light and shadow floated slightly, seeming to express approval, and his voice echoed in every bishop's mind: "Let's get started - go see Let’s see what’s in that ancient hero’s memory.”
The information link to the memory fragments has been connected, and driven by the huge computing power provided by the entire eternal dream, this has resulted in. The horrific memory of hundreds of casualties finally began to loosen. Although the real situation was that Gawain deliberately left a weak point in the memory fragments, it was obvious that the Eversleeper himself could not notice this.
They are just happy to see that their long-term efforts have finally come to fruition.Finally, the results were achieved, and a glimmer of light appeared in the depths of the huge information fog. As time went by, the memory fragments were disassembled bit by bit, and the parts that could be understood and recognized by humans entered the memory of every member of the bishopric. mind.
In the beginning, they saw a scene of stars.
The deep and lonely universe, the vast empty space, and countless stars dotted on the dark and deep curtain. This scene confused the bishops for a moment, but they soon thought it was Gawain. ·Cecil’s perspective after death: Do humans really return to heaven after death?
Before the bishops could figure out the meaning of that scene of starlight, the scene in front of them began to change crazily.
They saw the stars retreating one after another, and distorted light and shadow appeared in their field of vision. They saw the owner of the perspective traveling through the starry sky, passing one planet after another at an unimaginable speed... …
They saw the owner of the perspective appear on a burning battlefield. Huge demons were raging on the battlefield, flaming meteorites fell from the sky, and soldiers wearing all kinds of strange equipment and even races they had never heard of Then they continued to charge and kill on the battlefield...
They saw the owner of the perspective leading an army to attack a fortress with an incomprehensible architectural style. The fortress seemed to be made of the flesh and blood of some kind of creature. A frighteningly huge swarm of insects swarmed out of the fortress and fought fiercely with the legion led by the master of the perspective...
They saw that the master of the perspective suddenly came to a world of ice and snow, an adventurous world. Steel buildings with billowing smoke exploded in the wind and snow...
They saw the owner of this perspective traveling through different worlds, sometimes leading an army across the battlefield, sometimes alone Destroying entire nations, sometimes fighting to save something, and sometimes putting entire planets under annihilating flames, he fought, protected, destroyed, created, and while doing all of these things, he They all have an almost onlooker-like calmness, as if all this is just to complete some task, or simply to entertain themselves.
This "feeling" is integrated deep in the memory, and is directly transmitted from the owner of the perspective to the brain of every eternal sleeper bishop present.
And every time this perspective switches to the world, it is accompanied by the same scene: a scene of endless starry sky, followed by the illusion of traveling through the starry sky...
The Eternal Sleeper Bishops trembled and let themselves go. Memories of those scenes washed through their minds, and they no longer dared to think about it anymore, but the memories continued to play - until at the end, they saw the stars in the sky appear again, and as the stars shifted, a star appeared in the sky. A shimmering planet in the universe appears on the background, and the owner of the perspective pounces on that planet - its land zooms in quickly in the field of vision, and some details on the earth are so familiar that they are so familiar. Don't dare to think about it.
But this time, the owner of the perspective seemed to have turned around while rushing to the ground.Looking in the direction - the Eternal Sleeper Bishops saw the starry sky again. In the familiar starry sky that could be seen when looking up from the Loren continent, they saw light points one after another shuttle among the stars, and a certain A huge structure made of metal hangs high in the sky. An incredible invisibility effect is gradually covering the structure, making it disappear from the eyes of the world.
That’s it for the memory fragments.
The illusion faded away like a tide, and everyone's eyes refocused. The consciousness of the bishops returned to the hall. They looked at each other in panic, and found that all their colleagues had been covered in sweat. Soaked in clothes.
No one took the initiative to speak, because no one could think of what to say at this moment. It was not until half a minute later that the illusory light and shadow in the center of the hall broke the silence: "Let the nightmare mentor group waiting outside temporarily Taking over the Eternal Dream, the Bishops’ Council held an emergency meeting. Today’s events are not allowed to be disclosed.”
The Eternal Dream quickly completed the blocking and cutting of information, and after the entire hall became a safe and closed space, The white-robed bishop couldn't help but said: "The authenticity of that memory fragment..."
"There is no doubt about the authenticity. I have personally checked it," the voice of the eternally dormant Pope rang out, "It It is indeed a real memory, not a fabricated illusion - everything in the fragments is a real experience."
"Gawain Cecil's resurrection is indeed a fake..." Another. The white-robed bishop's voice was trembling, "What woke up was not an ancient hero at all! That body contained an alien, inhuman, indescribable... existence!"
"What is his purpose? What will he do?"
"We can't summarize the pattern...those messy and broken memories, those scenes...there is almost no logic to be found! That 'inhuman thing' The object seems to be traveling from world to world, constantly changing the body it uses. Sometimes it seems to be saving the world, sometimes it seems to be destroying it, and sometimes it is even just wandering around in the world. Then There is no purpose in the behavior - we simply cannot understand how a being like that thinks!"
"Do those worlds really exist? Those...worlds so different from ours, Do they really exist, or did they exist?"
"This has nothing to do with us. The biggest problem now is still to figure out the 'inhuman thing' occupying Gawain Cecil's body. , figure out what he wants to do when he comes to our world - 'this time', does he want to destroy, protect, or just pass by? Or... he will do something that he has never done in those memories... ...More terrifying or weird behavior?"
"He can't be passing by!" A black-robed bishop who was more concerned about the situation in Ansu suddenly said, "He chose to regard the body of a founding Duke as This time's carrier, and also established a territory near the Dark Mountains, likeEvery mortal has embarked on development and construction, and there must be a purpose for doing so. And he also killed an Eternal Sleeper bishop..."
"That bishop acted rashly and caused disaster," someone next to him interrupted the black-robed bishop, "Of course, if not If he acted rashly, we would not have the information we have now. "
"In short," the Pope suddenly spoke, and the scene immediately fell silent. Everyone listened quietly to the Pope's voice echoing in their minds, "Maybe we should use 'He' To call that inhuman thing..."
"Your Majesty, what action should we take? "A white-robed bishop asked cautiously, "No matter what that inhuman thing is going to do, it is a huge unstable factor. Should we consider..."
"Don't take action. ! "The Pope stopped this idea with an unprecedented stern tone, "The situation is very likely to get out of control! "
"But the body he is using now is just a mortal. Maybe if we destroy his 'vehicle' we can banish him to where he came from... we may even destroy him completely! "
A man in black robe standing opposite the bishop shook his head: "It's too risky. In those memories, we see Him traveling through countless dangerous worlds. Those battlefields and desperate situations are more terrifying than any dangerous situation we have ever experienced. In some scenes, we can even see Him falling - but He has never died, but can return to the battlefield again and again. This shows that destroying its carrier cannot cause effective damage to it, and even if it is exiled, He can come back. As for the seal... who can guarantee that the known sealing method will be effective for such an extraterritorial inhuman thing? If it fails, the consequences will be disastrous. And everyone must always remember one thing: the body He uses is just a 'carrier'. He can probably replace it with a new one at any time, so any action on that carrier... is meaningless. Leaving us without our only clue. "
"There is a more important point," the person next to the black-robed bishop added, "Don't forget what we saw at the end of those memory fragments - there are more than one star in the starry sky. A shuttle is active, and there is also a hidden steel palace still hanging among the stars. This shows that the inhuman thing is probably not alone. It has its own kind and a nest. Once we act rashly, it will attract More..."
The bishop did not continue, but his meaning was quite clear. Everyone in the hall was aware of this hidden danger, so for a while, the scene could be heard.
The bishops suddenly felt that this situation was really weird, even so weird that it made people laugh or cry.
A group of heretics who are opposed to civilized society... are actually struggling with this kind of thing and how to deal with it. An "inhuman thing" - if this inhuman thing really came to destroy the world, maybe they wouldn't be confused, but the key to the problem is that they don't understand at all what this inhuman thing is here to do.What to do!
This caused this group of cultists to fall into a huge state of bewilderment.
The Pope sighed - this was probably the first time he sighed since he transformed into his own life form.
I thought that the cracking work had made great progress, and that I could take this opportunity to understand the secret of Gawain Cecil and understand some of the truth about the world, but who could have imagined that the memory fragments A clue was revealed that was completely beyond everyone's expectations...
Or...is this part of the truth about the world?
The pope's shadow stirred up, and he shook his spiritual power and sent his words into everyone's mind:
"Remember the lesson of the last 'contactee', Don’t act rashly, don’t test rashly, observe carefully until we have more information, and then contact them carefully.”