Chapter 711 Bertila in the Dream

Bertira Augustus walked into the hall.

But it was not what Bud remembered.

In Bud’s memory, this female sheikh always wore a dress with all religious symbols erased. Her face was cold and alienated, and there seemed to be a layer of darkness forever in her eyes, and her lower body was always dark. It's a tangle of roots and vines, and the unsettling rustling sound is her signature footsteps.

But this "Bertila" who walked in was completely different - she was wearing a green and white Druid dress, with the emblem of the Holy Spirit Druid on her chest. Her face looked younger, and she didn't feel cold or gloomy at all. She walked into the hall unhurriedly. What was exposed under her skirt was a pair of normal legs wearing long boots.

The appearance is the same, but the difference is extremely obvious.

Only Gawain, who inherited the memory of the original owner of the body, could not help but feel a sense of familiarity after seeing this "Bertila".

Bertila also noticed the uninvited guests in the hall - as a person in a dream, she actually noticed Gawain and Bard, who had theoretically broken away from the dream structure.

She raised her head with a confused look on her face. First she glanced at Bard, as if looking at an unknown stranger. Then her eyes fell on Gawain and looked at him carefully. After a long time, he spoke curiously and hesitantly: "Gawain...brother?"

Gawain frowned.

Seven hundred years ago, Bertila, who had not yet become a dark druid and was still the beloved "Her Royal Highness" of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, called Gawain Cecil at that time.

They are not brother and sister, but they have a good relationship. Even though Gawain was later ordered to sit in the south and could not move around at will, there were many letters between the two. In fact, in the memory inherited by Gawain, "he" learned that Bertila went to the Peak of the Ancestors when he received a letter from the other party - that was also the last letter sent back by Bertila. letter.

Then, the Society of Death of All Things was born.

Is this harmless-looking Bertila what she looked like after falling into a dream? Or...a scam?

Noticing that Gawain did not respond, Bertila hesitantly spoke again, this time there was even a little nervousness and worry in his tone: "Brother Gawain? What is this place? And... why are you looking at Did he suddenly become a lot older?"

When Bertila fell into darkness seven hundred years ago, Gawain Cecil was not yet thirty. In the following years, Bertila It has never appeared again. Obviously, the "Bertila" in this dream still maintains her early memories, and the Gawain Cecil in her mind should still be the young and heroic brother.

Bertila stood in the hall at a loss. When she looked at the black-robed men around her, she was obviously wary and confused. She looked at Gawain again, acting helpless and harmless. People can't help but let down their guard, especially if an acquaintance standsIf you are here, I am afraid that you will be emotionally affected.

But unfortunately, Gawain is not Gawain Cecil.

He has sensed that the key to this dream should be "Bertira".

What's more, in the final analysis, dreams are just dreams. The harmless little Princess Typhon... has already gone with the wind.

Gawain raised his hand, and a huge data shock was released. Endless fragments of light and shadow suddenly appeared in the entire dream. The vast information almost destroyed this already unstable system in the blink of an eye. In the false world, the patriarchs who were holding meetings turned into phantoms one by one, and the entire hall quickly disintegrated in the shaking.

Bard felt his head was dizzy, and the dividing line between reality and dream had never been clearer. He felt that he was waking up quickly, and before he completely escaped from this dream, he heard Gawain's calm voice. Instructions: "As soon as you wake up, stand by where you are. Do nothing but stay awake and wait until we come down to respond."

The meeting hall began to collapse, and the debris of earth and stone turned into ethereal shimmering particles and lines. Disappearing into nothingness, Bertila stood in the middle of the hall and looked at all this blankly. Suddenly, her eyes became clear and her expression instantly became vivid.

She seemed to be waking up from a big dream, but also seemed to be only half-awake. With a half-dream and half-awake expression, she looked at Gawain, who was about to completely disappear, and opened her mouth slightly.

On the surface, Gawain slowly opened his eyes. The various perceptions of the real world quickly returned to his body, and the connection from the spiritual level gradually calmed down. Unsurprisingly, he saw Amber's The big-faced plate was placed in front of him again, so he reached out to push it away. The latter didn't take it seriously. He waved his arms to maintain balance while retreating and shouted loudly: "Are you awake?"

高He hummed and shook his head slightly to dispel the last bit of discomfort, and the last reverberation from the dream also vaguely appeared in his movements and quickly dissipated: "...brother, I got into trouble..."

Gawain had to push away this shame of all things again.

How come this guy who usually doesn’t know how to do anything is so sharp in his six senses only when he doesn’t have to...

“It’s nothing, I’m a little dizzy, I’m fine now,” he said casually He said, ignoring the "special medicine for treating dizziness and headaches in middle-aged and elderly people" recommended by Pittman to him, and began to order the next step, "The action team is here, Bard's exploration mission below has achieved the expected goal - let's go down to respond. ."

"You want to go down in person?" Margarita, the female knight next to her, was surprised. She was already surprised when Gawain came to the entrance of the giant tree's root system, and she didn't expect this at all. "His Majesty the Emperor" actually planned to go down in person.He immediately felt that something was wrong, "I'm afraid it's very dangerous down here, you..."

"I've already gone down once, and the risk factor of mental wandering is no lower than personal exploration." Gawain smiled, Waving her hand to interrupt the female knight, "I have destroyed the dream 'trap' below. It is a special method. If the trap was cast manually, the caster must be dead. If it was cast by some kind of magic device, the device will also be dead." It must have been completely scrapped, and there will be no more danger. As for whether there is a physical threat beyond the dream trap...haven't everyone seen the images sent back by Bard?"

Margarita seemed to want to say something more, but Gawain interrupted her again: "Speaking of which, your character is really similar to Philip, both of them are quite serious."

Margarita Ta immediately raised his chest and said loudly with a serious face: "Seriousness and prudence are the essential qualities of a knight..."

"Yes, that's what I'm talking about."

Margarita: "..."

The female knight once again failed to follow Gawain's topic. In a moment of confusion, His Majesty the Emperor had already passed her and walked towards the entrance not far away. .

Amber came close to Margarita, who had just recovered from her dazed state, and opened her mouth to talk nonsense: "Hey, to be honest, I have always felt that you and that Philip are particularly suitable for something to happen... …Do you want my help? I know a lot of people!”

Margarita’s face suddenly turned serious, and she was about to respond righteously to the other party’s statement that she didn’t care about the knight code. However, Amber had already jumped up and down to keep up with Gawain's footsteps and ran into the entrance not far away. As she ran, she heard her shouting: "Hey! Wait for me! It's so dark. You are not allowed to bring a Shadow Master with you. I am God's Chosen, you know. I have been God's Chosen for decades..."

...

Bard opened his eyes , finally saw the real scene around him clearly.

He didn't enter any meeting hall at all - he entered a magical secret room that he had never seen before.

This is a mysterious room covered with runes. The ceiling, walls and floor are densely engraved with complex magical symbols. Apart from this, there are only two pillars standing on the ground in the room. There are black stone pillars that are also engraved with magic runes, and there are no other furnishings.

At this moment, all the runes have been extinguished.

Bard didn’t know when this room appeared. He only knew that it didn’t exist here when he left the base camp. It may also be that he didn’t have enough authority, so he didn’t know the existence of this secret room. .

He guessed that it was because the underground collapse caused some rooms and corridors to be misaligned, and the crisscrossing roots affected his spatial judgment, that he accidentally walked into the wrong place and entered this place by mistake. A secret room, affected by the magic device here.

But anyway, it seems that with the end of the dream, the devices here haveStopped running.

He kept Gawain's orders in mind. Although the runes everywhere here made him a little uneasy, considering that he was close to the deep level, the hidden dangers caused by wandering around would be greater than these extinguished runes. However, he still stayed there honestly, found a position in the room with a wide view and close to the corner, and quietly waited for the arrival of the receptionist.

He waited for a long time.

The passage of time will cause ordinary people to accumulate stress, and the dark and strange environment is even more unsettling. However, Bard, who has experienced more terrifying challenges and trials, has already become stronger than those he once had. The indescribable situation he witnessed, the darkness here can almost be described as gentle - he stood quietly in the corner, keeping his mind and body in the best condition, counting the beats of his artificial heart to estimate the time, Until some flickering lights appeared outside the room.

Gawain followed the road signs left by Bard along the way and came to the depths of the lair.

The scale of this underground palace was surprising, and its architectural style that did not conform to any human kingdom made him a little confused and guessed. Although the palace was severely damaged in the collapse, and the cultists of the Death Society destroyed or changed most of the original features of the place during hundreds of years of reconstruction and additions, he was still able to learn from the solid wall materials and buried structures. The ancient runes on the floor and roof indicate that this palace was not built by the Ansu people.

It wasn't even built by Gondorians.

But now is not the time to explore the detailed origins of this palace. He has already seen Bud Wendell waiting in the room, as well as the densely packed magic runes and two stone pillars in the room. magical device.

As an old man who has devoured the knowledge and memory of the Eternal Sleeper, and is able to move around in the Eternal Sleeper's mental network at will, he even personally participated in the construction of the Eternal Sleeper's insecure system, network-scraping laboratory, and mental network vulnerability cluster. Yin Bi, he is really familiar with these things.

"It's the technology of the Eternal Sleeper," Gawain stepped forward to inspect the two extinguished rune stone pillars, "...it should be an auxiliary device that projects the user's spirit outward. Don't worry. , has been completely scrapped, all the core runes have been melted, and cannot be repaired."

Until then, Bard finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked subconsciously: "You... Do you understand the technique of the Eternal Sleeper?"

Gawain smiled: "I understand a little bit, I understand a little bit."

Bad was stunned for a moment, then quickly adjusted his expression and lowered himself cautiously. sense of presence.

He came into contact with "His Majesty the Emperor's little secret" again.

But Gawain doesn’t care about this, because as Daniel completely masters the security architecture of the Eversleeper’s mind network, the various secret hands, backdoors and springboards he originally set up in the mind network are gradually developing. It has grown to a large scale and formed a huge and complex "shadow network". He is no longer as worried about the Eversleeper being aware of the invasion as he was at first.

He has a lot of ways to reconnect to the network, a lot of ways to disguise himself and Daniel, and even a lot of ways to create the illusion that the network is safe, that the intrusion has been ruled out, and that there has never been an intrusion. ...

He has even set "Gawain Cecil", "Outside Wanderer", "Anzu Pioneer", etc. as hidden keywords, as long as someone in the entire psychic network mentions them He can immediately know these keywords and determine whether he has been exposed before the information is transmitted, so as to take further action.

Of course, if possible, Gawain still hopes that the Eternal Sleeper will never notice his invasion, but based on the "little secret" that Bard has come into contact with, he still cannot infer that Gawain and the Eternal Sleeper The connection between the spiritual network, not to mention... Even if Bard gets out alive today, he will definitely be closely monitored for a long time.

Under the current situation where the Eternal Sleeper cultists in the Southern Territory have been basically completely wiped out, the secrets hidden in the heart that cannot be told... will always remain secrets.

Gawain turned his head and looked towards the exit of the room.

"Now, let us continue the search."

This device of the Eternal Sleeper can amplify and project people's dreams, but the device itself cannot dream.

In this dark and deep place, there are people who can dream.

Judging from what Bard saw in his dream, the condition of these dreamers is probably not very good, and most of them have even lost the ability to control their own minds and bodies.

This is easier to handle.