In the territory of Typhon, the headquarters of the Eternal Sleeper is hidden deep in the underground palace.
Archbishop Yuri, who was wearing a white robe and had a gentle temperament, led a group of priests quickly through the deep and long corridor.
The magic crystal lamp in the corridor sheds a bright light, but it seems unable to dispel the gloom gathering on the archbishop's face. His face is gloomy, his eyes are extremely serious, and the sound of leather boots on the ground is like a tight sound. The drum beats in the ancient corridor, echoing in the hearts of every accompanying priest around.
Amidst the subtle friction of the mechanical device, the magic door leading to the deep prayer hall opened on both sides, and Yuri Chalvin entered a half-moon-shaped room with various mysterious ancient runes painted on the walls. hall, his eyes quickly swept across the entire place.
Dozens of priests wearing white robes or long skirts are scattered on the cushions in the hall. They are all young priests, but their bodies are filled with extremely obvious and vague emotions. Some of the powerful magic power was out of control, and each of them looked a little sluggish, as if they had suffered mental injuries of varying severity, and there were people taking care of them beside them.
An Eternal Sleeper priest waiting in the hall noticed Yuri's appearance and immediately came up to him: "Archbishop..."
Yuri waved his hand to interrupt the other party's greeting and said He said quickly: "How is the situation of the Psychic Choir?"
The Eternal Sleeper Priest who came up looked back at the scene in the hall, with worry in his tone: "Everyone in the Psychic Choir is The members have left the network and returned to the real world. They are all here. The good news is that there are no casualties. The bad news is... they were mentally contaminated while covering the retreat of the advance troops."
Archbishop Yuri. His brows instantly frowned: "Spiritual pollution? All members?"
The members of the Psionic Choir are all powerful mental masters, especially good at fighting pollution from the mental level, and in various dream worlds. Shelter partners, but now...an entire psychic choir gathered together, and they all suffered from mental pollution?
Neither Yuri nor the accompanying priests wanted to believe this, but the facts forced them to accept the status quo -
"Everyone is contaminated, no one is spared," responsible for management The priest in the deep prayer hall said in a low tone, "Including the peak of the high-level spiritual song, Your Excellency Wendy."
Uri Chalvin couldn't help but take a breath for two seconds. Finally, he slowly exhaled a breath of filthy air and asked in a deep voice: "How deep is the pollution... No, just tell the truth. How many followers of the upper-level narrator are there here?"
The priest in charge of the hall shook his head with a deep expression. At the same time, Yuri's eyes had already passed him and looked at the members of the "Psychic Choir" who were being cared for in the rear hall.
Among the many "singers", a young lady with exquisite appearance wearing an exquisite and gorgeous white gauze dress with gold patterns noticed his gaze. She raised her head and showed a gentle and tranquil smile. Then he raised his right hand and placed it horizontally in front of him, with his palm facing down, as if covering the invisible earth, with a trace ofThe silky magnetic voice sounded, as if it went straight into the heart: "Sir, please allow me to take a moment of your time to introduce to you our omniscient and omnipotent Lord, the salvation of all living beings in the world, and the upper level narrative..."
This person Before the beautiful lady finished speaking, the nearby Eternal Sleeper priests who were responsible for taking care and monitoring had already swarmed over. Some held her shoulders, some opened her mouth, and some poured some kind of medicine into her mouth quickly. There was also a strong priest holding a golden spike high, and without hesitation, he stabbed the spike into the back of the lady's neck while shouting: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency Wendy!"
You Li couldn't help but close his eyes - for him, this scene was even as scary as the sudden spread of the upper-level narrator's beliefs by "Spiritual Song" Wendy just now.
During this short commotion, several members of the psychic choir seemed to be influenced by Wendy, and suddenly and enthusiastically spread the teachings of the upper-level narrator to the surrounding compatriots. , and immediately attracted emergency treatment from the people around him, or his speech ability was forcibly interrupted by magic spikes, or he was pressed to the ground and drank potion, or he was directly hypnotized into sleep by powerful spells.
Due to prompt handling, chaos did not spread.
At this moment, a female voice suddenly came to Yuri's ears: "It seems that the forbidden runes in the deep prayer hall cannot suppress the spiritual pollution they have suffered, and continue to let these polluted compatriots treat Being together can only make the situation worse."
Yuri opened his eyes and saw that Selina Gerfen had "arrived" in the hall at some point and was standing next to him. , the lantern in her hand emitted an unpredictable light, quickly calming down Yuri's slightly impetuous mood.
The surrounding priests may have already known Selena's true status, or they may have taken Selena's "sudden appearance" as a matter of course. They did not show any abnormal behavior at this moment, but saluted neatly: " Archbishop Selina."
Selina nodded briefly, turned her eyes to the members of the psychic choir in the hall, and sighed softly.
"Execute the highest level of 'containment' and transfer all mentally contaminated personnel to separate compartments in the deep area of the palace. On the premise of maintaining a comfortable environment and maintaining a good mental state, they are prohibited from interacting with anyone. Contact and talk with unrelated people
“The caregivers are rotated every six hours to prevent long-term contact and contamination. In any case, caregivers must ensure that there are three people in groups, one person in direct contact and one person next to them. Auxiliary, one person observes from outside the cubicle. Absolutely prohibit individual contact - if individual contact occurs, regardless of how long the contact lasts, regardless of whether the person involved has a conversation, the contactee must implement the same level of containment.
“From now on, dream control will be implemented in the underground palace, and unauthorized dream roaming is prohibited. Except for the containment target, no one is allowed to fall asleep in the deep zone - if you accidentally fall asleep, no matter whether you fall asleep or not. , must carry out the same level of containment.
“The above is the order of the Pope. ”
Selina distributed the instructions from Megall III one by one. The severity of the measures made Yuri's expression change a little, but in the end he did not question these orders at all.
He knows very well that these are extraordinary times, and any strict containment and control measures are necessary, because...
The influence of the upper-level narrator is gradually breaking through the No. 1 sand box, He has begun to try to break through that wall and enter the real world.
The Eternal Sleepers in the hall began to carry out the orders from Pope Megall III. The members of the psychic choir who were in a trance and had been contaminated by the upper-level narrators accepted the arrangements in a daze. Driven by their remaining sanity, they cooperated to the greatest extent possible with the "containment" they were about to face.
Selena turned her attention to Yuri: "Now do you understand what it is that attacked the advance troops?"
Yuri sighed and shook his head: "I just returned from the rest area of the Spiritual Knights before - due to the cover of the psychic choir, they were lucky enough not to encounter contamination, but their cognition and memory were severely misaligned. The few people who could barely recall the situation described it as very strange. Scene: They said they were attacked by their own shadows."
"My own shadow...sounds like a mental backlash..." Selina pondered, "What else? Are there any other details?"
Yuri thought for a while and nodded: "I don't know if there is a detail that can be used for reference - the advance troops were attacked after nightfall in Sandbox No. 1. "
Night... The "night" in Sandbox No. 1 seems to have a particularly special mystical significance. Before, the phantom town was shrouded in abnormal night, but now Sandbox No. 1 seems to have a special mystical meaning. It presents similar weirdness.
The hall fell silent for a while. Selena stood quietly, bowing her head in silence, seeming to be lost in thought and making a difficult decision.
A minute later, she raised her head and looked into Archbishop Yuri's eyes: "Convene an emergency meeting and call all archbishops who can still act to participate. We... I'm afraid we have to make some difficult decisions. ”
Yuri looked into Selena’s eyes.
As the oldest archbishop in the Order of the Eternal Sleeper, and as a saint who "survived" seven hundred years ago, she has the same qualifications as Megall III to convene the Supreme Council of Bishops, but in the past In the hundreds of years, she rarely did this, and the few times she did so were all moments that could affect the fate of the order.
After a moment, Yuri nodded: "I understand, I will make arrangements."
......
Cecil City, Gawain at dusk Zhong stood on the terrace, overlooking the scenery of the dark mountains in the distance, but suddenly, a familiar wave of consciousness surged deep in his mind, interrupting his rare moment of leisure in the day.
A major accident occurred during the exploration operation in Sandbox No. 1? Supreme Bishop of the Eversleeping OnesThe team held an emergency meeting?
Gao Wen stood quietly, but deep down he was listening intently to the report from Daniel. After a moment, he slowly exhaled, turned around, left the terrace, and returned to his room.
The maid Betty came to him with a clatter.
"Betty, inform the other attendants that we will no longer receive visitors tonight," Gawain ordered the little maid in front of him. "When Hetty and Rebecca come back, tell them as well that I may Will not leave the room."
After Betty left, Gawain turned to the air next to him: "Keep the door."
Amber's voice came from the air: "Hey. , Understand!”
After everything was arranged, Gawain didn’t waste time. He stepped onto a couch in the room, adjusted his posture to a more comfortable position, and soon entered a deep sleep. "Dream".
In the changing light and shadow, he has passed through the invisible spiritual barrier and arrived at the dream city deep in the spiritual network.
In the splendid and magnificent dream city, it is extremely deserted.
Gawain immediately noticed the unusual atmosphere around him. He stood on the edge of a square and looked at the street not far away, but saw that there were only a few people on the street where people were coming and going. The lonely priests were patrolling, and not a single person could be seen in the square that was originally used as a gathering place. Only guards could be seen near the mind crystal where people usually queue up, and no "visitors" could be seen.
A familiar scent appeared next to him, and Daniel's figure appeared next to Gawain.
As soon as he appeared, the old mage bowed and saluted: "Salute to you, my lord."
Gawain looked at the other party: "Daniel, where are the people here?"< /p>
“The Mind Network has implemented an emergency security policy. All middle and low-level users have switched to basic connection mode, providing only limited access to the network, providing necessary computing power, and no longer directly immersing their consciousness in dreams. City," Daniel lowered his head and replied, "This is to prevent the contamination of the upper-level narrator from spreading and entering the real world."
Then he paused and explained: "The advance troops are dealing with No. 1. A serious crisis was encountered during the exploration of the sandbox. One archbishop was even mentally contaminated and became a believer of the upper-level narrator in the real world. Now the whole order has entered the most urgent state."
" ...It seems that the situation has deteriorated very seriously," Gawain shook his head, "When will the meeting be held?"
"In five minutes," Daniel nodded and replied, "It has been reset according to your order. The virtual port of the central temple has arranged a 'seat' for you."
At this point, Daniel paused for a moment and couldn't help but confirm again: "My lord, do you really want to 'audit'. ?"
Gawain looked at Daniel: "The first thing to see is whether the 'seat' you set up is concealed enough to block the sight of Megall III."
"This. Don’t worry at all – as tensions grow andI have proven myself several times that I have controlled all the security permissions of the psychic network. I am also personally responsible for the underlying rewriting work of the central temple. You can get an absolutely safe 'audience seat'. "
"Then don't worry," Gawain nodded, "Of course I have to listen to the current situation. ”
This time, the Supreme Bishops’ Conference of the Order of the Eternal Sleepers will be attended by “outside wanderers”.
(Recommended Blue and White’s new book “I Overcame 999 Heavenly Tribulations” , the author of Dungeon Player, is as imaginative as ever. Of course, this is not important, the important thing is to make sacrifices to the sky.)