Gawain slowly opened his eyes, but this time, Amber's approaching face was not in his sight.
Slight snoring was coming from the side.
Looking down following the snoring, he saw the pointed-eared half-elf lady lying on the desk with her hands under her head, already asleep.
This guy makes people feel much calmer after falling asleep.
Gawain couldn't help but smile. As soon as his body swayed, Amber, who was sleeping on the table, suddenly woke up and stared at this side: "Hey, you are back. !"
Gawain opened his mouth, and just as he was about to speak, Amber shouted loudly: "Hey, I'm telling you, I'm not lazy, I'm just taking a nap, you can't do it for me. This thing is deducting my salary. My senses are sharp and I am always alert when I sleep..."
Gao Wen: "...I haven't said anything yet."
< p>Sure enough, this guy's tranquility is limited to when he is asleep - as long as his eyes are open, one amber can definitely make more noise than two thousand ducks.“Didn’t I prepare my words in advance to prevent you from saying anything?” Amber wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth, muttered and looked at Gawain up and down, and wrinkled in confusion. He raised his eyebrows, "But having said that, it took a long time this time - what happened on the other end?"
"I followed Daniel to investigate some things." Gawain nodded, while thinking in his mind Zhongbian began to replay this experience of exploring the depths of the spiritual network. The more he recalled it, the more he couldn't help but frown and sigh in his heart.
This exploration... really collected too much information, and much of it would make him stunned!
"It seems that the harvest this time is not small?" Amber keenly noticed the subtle changes in Gawain's expression, "And some things are quite troublesome?"
Gawain nodded slightly : "The situation is special and requires a meeting. We tentatively call Kamel, Hetty, Wright, Veronica, um... Pittman will also call, plus you."
Amber silently Jotting down these names, I immediately noticed that most of them were related to some field.
She raised her eyebrows and twitched the tips of her ears: "Is it related to the gods or the disobedient plan?"
"Yes," Gawain simply responded, and then thought for a moment. , and then ordered, "In addition, you go and investigate. Investigate the abnormal spell-casting signals recently recorded by magic monitoring towers in various places in the southern region, especially the signals of dream-like magical spells, as well as the monitoring of various types of psychic communications. In addition, There are also records of investigations and arrests of Eternal Sleepers cultists."
"Eternal Sleepers... You have almost captured all the Eternal Sleepers in the southern region." Amber felt a little strange for a moment, "There are them everywhere. In the Magic Monitoring Tower, the middle and low-level believers are basically tied to the water pipes of the Public Security Bureau by the regional security team as soon as they go out. You also have "special means" over there. Have the higher-level believers been deported?, which is under surveillance and used to collect intelligence - why is it suddenly necessary to carry out a large-scale investigation? "
"Important targets may have been missed," Gawain said with a serious expression. "A soul body, an Eternal Sleeper Archbishop is hiding in the south! ”
As he spoke, words that shocked him appeared in his mind:
Selena Gelfen, Archbishop (death), woman, soul Body.
Current location: Ansu/Amendment/Cecil Empire-Southern Territory!
“This goal is no small matter, and ordinary security team actions are likely to disturb her. It is more suitable for the Military Intelligence Bureau to operate covertly," Gawain took a deep breath and looked into Amber's eyes, "I'm not sure if you can really find it, but at least try - her name is Selina Gerfen... "
...
Somewhere in the Typhon Empire, in an underground ancient facility, the sound of footsteps broke the silence in the dim corridor.
A person A middle-aged man wearing a white robe with a more elegant temperament and a monocle walked in a long corridor covered with stone slabs and with reliefs carved on the walls on both sides. Behind him, there were several people wearing dark robes. , the eternal sleeper priest with an owl mask on his face
This man is the "Archbishop Yuri" in the real world
Compared with the "image" in the spiritual network. Up, Yuri's temperament and clothing in the real world have hardly changed much, except that his image in the psychic network is that of a young man, while in reality, he is middle-aged and has a little more gray hair on his head. < /p>
"Alas...I'm going to rest," Archbishop Yuri couldn't help complaining while walking on the road, "Archbishop Selina, have you forgotten that people in the real world need to rest? "
The swaying lights suddenly appeared in the air, and the figure of Selina Gelfen appeared next to Yuri. The female archbishop in a white dress said calmly: "Your sleep There is enough time – and in the current climate, too much rest is a waste. ”
Yuri couldn’t help but look beside him and let out another helpless sigh.
He knew that Selina Gerfen was not actually in this corridor. , is not in this facility.
She is no longer in this world.
This former church saint was martyred hundreds of years ago. In the chain reaction that led to the collapse of faith, she used her own life to protect the sanity and souls of thousands of members of the sect. Her body was torn apart by the power of the gods, and her soul was also torn apart.
Yes. Pope Megall III personally took action to collect Selina Ger's broken soul and stored it in some kind of "container" on the dream level.
To this day, this is still the case. The archbishop's soul is still transferring between containers, and her consciousness is wandering in the spiritual network.
At this moment, Selena is in front of Yuri, and several people are behind her.Selena in the eyes of the Eternal Sleeper priests is actually just a projection in their minds - this projection is so real that even as a high-level transcendent, it is difficult for Yuri to distinguish the illusion of the woman in front of him. , sound, smell, light, shadow and color... everything is so real.
But if a person who is completely unaffected by psychic spells stands here, he will see that there are actually only Yuri and a few high-level priests wearing masks in the corridor, and there is no so-called female archbishop at all. .
"You are right, there is really no room for rest now," Archbishop Yuri shook his head and looked forward, with a hint of worry in his eyes, "This crisis is not trivial. If the truth It's just as you and I guessed... then we have definitely made an almost irreparable mistake."
At the end of the long corridor, there is a door painted with many runes and inlaid with crystals and magic metal. The door appeared in front, and as Yuri and others approached, it automatically and silently slid open to both sides.
Behind the door is a brightly lit and extremely spacious hall.
The hall is rectangular, with neat square columns arranged inside. Runes shine on the surface of those columns, light travels, and there are a large number of "threads" that look like vines or flesh and blood fibers. "Cable" is wrapped around it, with one end extending into the ceiling, and the other end spreading out around the columns, leading to the large seats arranged neatly.
Those seats are distributed around the pillars, forming independent areas. About half of the areas are "full" at the moment. Sitting on the chairs are wearing black robes and hanging from their collars. The Star Pendant's Eternal Sleeper cultists. Some of those cultists leaned on the backs of their chairs, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep, while others remained awake, but the nerve cords and runes behind the seats also shimmered.
In the other half of the area, the nerve cords behind the seats were stripped out and extended to a corner of the hall. In that corner, there were beds lined up with dozens of people lying on them. Cultists of the Eternal Sleeper in a comatose state.
Some personnel wearing gray robes or short brown robes walked around the sleeping believers, taking care of these compatriots who were unable to wake up due to pollution.
Seeing this scene, Yuri couldn't help but frown.
He walked towards the area where the bed was placed.
A tall, thin priest with messy blond hair came up to him and bowed respectfully: "Archbishop Selina, Archbishop Yuri."
Then he made a special statement Turning to Selina Gerfen: "Archbishop, I have increased the number of times of mental comfort according to your instructions, and the conditions of those people have stabilized."
This is a middle-level priest who is teaching The group does not have a high status. Among the believers at this level, many people do not even know the fact that Archbishop Selina is actually dead - they can always see the latter appearing in the group's stronghold, and even occasionally. Talking to them, under the coverage of sensory projections without blind spots, they see the Lord SelenaTeach has always been a living person.
Selena nodded to the middle-level priest, and said casually while walking forward slowly: "Be sure to pay attention to the state of those nerve cords. The consciousness of these operators is now torn apart, and the mental state is... The fragments are trapped deep in the No. 1 sandbox. Once there is a problem with the connection of the nerve cord... they will not be able to come back."
The priest with messy blond hair lowered his head and responded: "Don't worry, we will. Pay special attention to this."
Yuri glanced at the people lying on the bed.
The faces were calm and the breathing was steady, as if they were just falling asleep in a long dream, but they were deeply trapped in it and could not wake up. The artificial nerve cords extended from the back of their heads and connected to the pillars in the hall. On the surface of the nerve cord, the faint light of runes surged.
Most eternal sleepers can actually connect to the Internet directly by relying on dream magic, but such a connection is not the most efficient. Therefore, in this "control hall", operators who connect to the network need to rely on The materialized nerve cords are connected to each other and integrated into the network.
These nerve cords are technologies from the Death Society of All Things. They were immature more than ten years ago, but have been improved a lot in recent years, and the negative effects have been greatly reduced.
When Sandbox No. 1 went out of control and pollution broke out from the inside out, the operators who were directly connected to Sandbox No. 1 were impacted in this "physical connection" state, and human beings were weak. The brain protection was almost useless in the face of such an impact. The pollution almost instantly occupied the minds of these compatriots and used it as a springboard to enter the spiritual network.
Now, the contaminated ports of these operators have actually been blocked, and the overflow of Sandbox No. 1 no longer uses them as a springboard, but the contamination has already spread to the brainserver array and several virtual connection ports, even though Without these operators as a springboard, the connection between Sandbox No. 1 and the Mind Network cannot be closed.
These operators themselves are still tightly bound by Sandbox No. 1, and their consciousness sinks deep into the sandbox and cannot be awakened.
After a long silence, Yuri suddenly said: "If you go deep into their dreams, you may be able to directly observe the situation in Sandbox No. 1."
"But it is more likely. Facing the deepest level of pollution, the fate will be the same as these people," Selina Gale shook her head. "The human mind is difficult to resist the impact of information on that scale. Shangya is still a 'mortal'."
Selena emphasized the word "mortal", which made Yuri frown.
"Archbishop Selina, do you think that what appeared in Sandbox No. 1 is really..."
"It's too early to say this now, at least we have to wait. Report the situation to His Majesty the Pope," Selina said, raising her head and "looking" towards the other end of the hall.
She does not have a pair of eyes of her own that can be opened in the real world, but here, she can "see" through the senses of a large number of believers present."Everything here.
In that direction, there are rows of neatly arranged windows on the wall at the end of the hall. Through the crystal glass covered by the window, you can clearly see that opposite it is another Hall.
In that hall, there are more dense square columns, and each square column is surrounded by a rectangular platform.
A large number of unconscious "brain servants". Lying on those platforms, their brain nerves are connected to the nerve cord network in the hall, and their bodies rely on various biomass pipelines for nutrient transportation and metabolic circulation.
“We originally wanted to create one. A sweet dream..." Selina Galfen sighed leisurely, "but it will eventually turn into a nightmare. ”