Boundless darkness surged up, like a dreamless sleep.
However, deep in the darkness, a warm and calm light suddenly lit up, creating a small place of refuge.
In the area illuminated by the light, Selena Gerfen's figure emerged, as well as a small patch of grass and unknown flowers swaying on the surrounding ground.
Selena frowned and looked at the flowers and plants under her feet. She couldn't tell where she was from this small light - it might be a corner of the courtyard lawn, or it might be... There was an open space behind a house somewhere, or maybe even a vast grassland. The darkness concealed the overall truth. The light of the dream lantern could only allow her to glimpse a narrow space of less than five meters around her.
The huge mountain-like upper storyteller is gone, the weird "Duart" is gone, the abandoned plain is gone, and even the wanderers from outside the territory are gone.
Selena had a slight realization - her mind should be trapped in a cage of deep consciousness.
I just don’t know what the situation is like on Gawain’s side... As a powerful upper-level narrator, he shouldn’t be trapped by this situation, right?
Selena slightly raised the lantern in her hand, trying to see further away, but the darkness shrouded the surroundings like some kind of tangible curtain, without retreating at all.
Suddenly, Duarte’s voice came from the darkness:
“See... For us, this is what our world originally looked like... ”
Selena held the lantern, and the other hand instantly sketched out the runes for mental protection. She looked around vigilantly, but did not see anyone. Only the sound continued to come——< /p>
"Limited truth...limited world...limited reality...
"We were born, multiplied, and developed on the stage you preset. We cultivated and built, We create and study, we also have our heroes, our stories, our kings and knights, our wise scholars and hard-working people...
"We live so happily In this arena, living faithfully according to the script, we once thought that we were lucky and wealthy - but that was just because we were still far from the boundaries of this box.
"After contact. Before the fence, no one realized that we were prisoners of this world.
"Great Creator, have you experienced it? Have you experienced the feeling when we first opened our eyes and saw the world... This little light allows you to see the flowers and plants under your feet, and you One can optimistically imagine that there is a whole vast grassland outside, but in fact?
“The lights of civilization have expanded, and there is nothing outside the darkness! ! ”
Suddenly, the dark curtain surrounding Selena dissipated, and the light from the dream lantern became brighter than ever before. In the sudden expansion of light, Selena could see clearly The range quickly expanded, and she sawAfter clearing the scene in the distance on the lawn at my feet, I saw something I had never seen before -
A cage, a huge birdcage, with a small piece of lawn at the bottom of the birdcage. , she was standing in the center of this birdcage. She only had to take a few steps forward before she would bump into the fine railings.
And outside the railing, there is absolute nothingness.
Selena listened quietly to the sounds coming from the darkness, looked at the birdcage that trapped her in it, and broke the silence softly: "So, you are resentful... ..."
"No, we are grateful...because at least it is you who created this world, and at least it is you who have allowed us to survive and multiply here for thousands of years...but the great Creator, step out The cage is the instinct of every intelligent life. Have you ever considered this..."
"Actually, you can get out," Selina said suddenly, "This is just a phased test. The test subjects in the sandbox have only had their memories wiped away. You already have your own life and identity in the real world. If we had known that you would have such serious psychological problems if you were trapped in it, this test could be concluded... "
"No, you still don't understand..." The voice in the darkness gradually became colder. Selina saw many dark red lights emerging in the distance, and then those lights were pieced together into Countless eyes, and a huge spider torso appeared behind the eyes. She saw a mountain-like divine spider and an endless spider web appearing outside the birdcage. The "god" with eight jointed limbs came to the bird step by step. In front of the cage, he looked down at himself in the birdcage, "Of course, you may understand that you are just making some pointless attempts, but none of this is important anymore."
"Today, everything will end , the Creator will sleep in this dream, creation will leave its cradle, we will finally see the real sunshine, and then the story will come to an end..."
The huge spider god turned around She stood up, her long jointed limbs sliding, as if she was ready to leave. Selena couldn't help shouting in the birdcage: "Wait a minute!
"What on earth are you? Are you Duarte? Or the upper-level narrator? Or something else?"
The spider god stopped briefly, as if he was low. Whispering: "We are Duarte... We are also the upper-level narrators... When the god goes crazy, his humanity and divinity are separated, and we... are the human part of him."
< p>After answering Selina's question, the mountain-like spider slowly stepped forward, walking step by step towards the distance along the spider web spread in the darkness."Stop! You can't enter the real world!" Selena shouted in the birdcage, "Listen, you don't know the consequences of doing this! A god coming directly to the world will kill Countless people, just your existence itself, will lead to uncontrollable disasters!
"Not only that, it will be difficult for you to survive in the real world and support you!"What exists is a mortal's dream, and you are a god living in a dream. This is destined!
"And how do you plan to enter reality? All passages have been sealed, and the extraterrestrial wanderers have also made arrangements. You..."
She said half-truthfully , she didn’t expect to really stop the other party with this, she just hoped to delay the resurrected god through words, slow down his pace, and buy some time for Gawain who didn’t know where he was——
She couldn't see where Gawain was, or even sense the slightest breath of the latter, but she firmly believed that as an "outside wanderer" Gawain could not be simply trapped like herself, and the latter might be somewhere She is gathering strength and preparing to deliver a truly fatal blow to the upper-level narrator. At this moment, the only thing she can do to help may be to delay.
But the upper storyteller interrupted her, and the low murmur seemed to come from all directions:
“We don’t care anymore, Creator.
"Maybe you are right, but please remember that human nature is the most irrational.
"As for the 'Outside Wanderer' you mentioned... Ah, so that's the name of that weird existence... It's a pity that he is indeed very powerful and weird, but he was captured by us The earliest one to erode, because from the beginning, we were aware of his threat.
“The erosion started as early as when you arrived at the woven city-state, as early as when you explored the temple. , our visit after dark was a key part of the erosion.
"Give up hope, Creator. The hope you relied on no longer exists. The assimilation has been completed. The mind you called the 'outlander' has long since melted into this darkness."
"What..." Selena's eyes widened in shock, and even the light of the lantern in her hand dimmed slightly. However, she could not hear any bluff or bluff from the tone of the giant spider. The tone was deliberately bluffing - and since she was already trapped in the cage, the other party seemed to have no need to lie anymore, which finally made her nervous.
"You are understandably nervous and frustrated," whispered the Spider God. "It's a pity for us too, that's a very interesting individual, and we can't even understand him. exists, but we must eliminate all..."
"Eliminate all threats, this is a good habit"
Another voice suddenly came from the darkness, interrupting the upper storyteller. words.
The voice was low and slightly noisy. It seemed to be mixed with many different languages, but its subject was still clear and distinct. It sounded very familiar to Selina - that was Gawain's voice. !
Suddenly, an extra light appeared in the darkness outside the birdcage. The light seemed to be the moonlight cast from an invisible moon, reflecting a new light outside the birdcage, spider webs, and gods. On the land, a tall and burly figure stood on that land, standing between Selina Gelfen and the upper class.Between the things!
Selina looked at the figure in shock, but found that the "outside wanderer" was in a very strange state. She saw that Gawain's body was wrapped with shadowy black smoke and flames, and there were constantly additional shadows. Emerging from beside him, the sight was even weird and a bit scary, but the aura coming from the tall figure was unmistakable - it was indeed Gawain, the "Outside Wanderer".
"Why do you still exist?!" The mountain-like spider god was finally a little surprised, and all the red light near his head fell on Gawain in an instant, "You have obviously been eroded. Assimilation, your mind...how can you still exist?"
"Ah, it is indeed quite seriously polluted. Look at my current state...it might even scare Betty to tears. "Gawain, who was shrouded in black smoke and flames, with additional shadows appearing around him, looked down at his body, and his tone seemed quite calm. At the same time, the strange traces of pollution on his body also continued to fade with his words. , decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Duart’s voice became more and more horrified: “You... are devouring them...”
“One thousand five hundred and twenty-three years of history, one thousand and fifty years of history. One hundred and twenty-three years... is indeed a long time..." The "foreign pollution" on Gawain's body that did not belong to him quickly melted away. He slowly raised his head and calmly faced the huge head of the upper storyteller. Looking at it, there seemed to be a different emotion in his tone, "It shouldn't be easy, right?"
Then he shook his head: "Unfortunately, it was still too short for me."
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"That's enough, we don't need any more surprises!"
Duart, the upper level narrator, seemed to have finally been angered by Gawain. Along with the aura turbulence that seemed to tear the entire space apart, a huge The jointed limbs were raised high and fell towards Gawain's head, and the pressure and momentum it brought were far beyond what Duarte, who had turned into a spider monster on the abandoned plain, could compare to -
It seems to be able to pierce the entire world and cut the boundary between reality and illusion.
However, the arthropod stopped strangely when it was still one meter away from Gawain.
Subsequently, countless light golden cracks quickly covered the entire joint and began to spread upward.
The huge body of the upper narrator shook violently on the spider web, as if two conflicting forces suddenly appeared in his body, fighting for the dominance of this body, and in the midst of this terrible conflict. Next, the surface of his body was gradually covered with more cracks, as if it would fall apart at any time!
"What's going on...what did you do..."
Selena heard the "god" exclaiming, and the exclamation brought The power of mental pollution gave her a splitting headache, and she had to fully activate the power of the dream lantern to barely maintain herself. She heard Gawain's calm voice, with regret in his tone——
"Young God , you are too young for me, a mortal,More cunning than you think...
"I let you pollute it on purpose."
A thunderous voice sounded: "What did you say?!"
< p>"I did it on purpose," Gawain raised his head and quietly watched the upper narrator's body gradually cracking in his eyes, "because some things can only be done with the door open."Don't accept it Your pollution, what should I use to pollute you? ”
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