Mental pollution is mutual.
At least that's how it seems to Gawain.
According to the experimental reference provided by the Eternal Sleeper and the technical information left by the Disobedient, Gawain can now almost confirm that the birth process of the gods is related to the beliefs of mortals, or to be more precise, it is the belief of mortals. Collective thoughts are projected into a certain dimension deep in the world, thus giving birth to gods. If this model is true, then the process of dealing face-to-face with gods is actually a process of confronting SAN - that is, mutual contamination.
The knowledge of the gods will unimpededly contaminate any mind that establishes a connection with it (at least Gawain does not know how to block this connection yet), and in turn, those minds that establish a connection with the gods will inevitably It is also having a reverse influence, but one thing is obvious. The minds of ordinary people cannot compare with the minds of gods, so the process of destroying SAN has become a one-sided erosion.
But what if there is a mind that is not affected by the knowledge of gods and at the same time has a huge memory bank to "connect" with gods?
The mountain-like upper narrator cracked, and his torso fell slowly. His remaining power was still trying to maintain itself, but this remaining power also followed the movement of those divine patterns. It was dim and quickly dissipated. Gao Wen stood quietly, watching all this while constantly suppressing and dissolving the erosion and pollution he had suffered.
He was severely eroded, much more serious than it seemed. This time he is no longer facing the flesh and blood of gods sealed in crystal cubes, nor is he the stitched corpse of a pseudo-god created using biochemical technology. The upper-level narrator is a real, complete, and living god. Even if it It is very weak and has a special personality. It is quite a risky move to fight against pollution.
But this is the only way Gawain can think of.
The sword cannot kill the upper storyteller, and no matter how high the fighting skills are, it cannot fight against the nightmare itself. To destroy the invisible and immaterial gods, we can only use the same immaterial and immaterial power. In the previous battle, He used a long sword to fight against Duarte, which was just a cover for both sides to cover up their mental pollution.
Gawain looked down at his hands and found that his arms had gradually returned to human form, and he was relieved.
The upper-level narrator is a young and inexperienced god. This is Gawain’s only advantage. If it is the gods that have existed for countless years in the real world... it is better not to take such risks again. thing.
In the depths of darkness, next to the spider web, the birdcage of unknown material also disintegrated silently. Selina felt that the invisible influence that suppressed her own power was really beginning to dissipate, and she quickly left without checking her own condition. Bu came to Gawain's side, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief as she watched him gradually return to his human form.
"Is it all over?" She looked at Gawain and then at the fallen upper storyteller, and asked in disbelief.
Gawain didn't answer for a while, but stared at the huge spider crawling in the center of the spider web. He was also asking himself - is it really over? That's it?
A trace of doubt came to his mind along with alertness, and Gawain's face suddenly turned serious: "Wait, I'm afraid not yet!"
He stared at the spider that seemed to have lost its breath. God, speaking very fast: "Duart said that he is the 'human nature' of the upper-level narrator... So where is the corresponding 'divine nature'?! Also, before we saw that the upper-level narrator was protecting some 'Cocoon' - where are those cocoons?"
Selena also reacted suddenly, as if a part of her mind that had been affected and blocked suddenly started to operate, making her realize what she had ignored. Key point: "That girl named Naritiel?!"
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Deep in the Underground Palace of the Eternal Sleeper, in the corridor leading to the central area, Archbishop Semler's The voice echoed in the long corridor:
“Soon after the operation started, something happened. First, the containment area was contaminated, and then other areas. Many priests who were completely normal suddenly became upper-class Believers of the Narrator - we have to face everyone with the highest vigilance..."
"Understandable," Magnum said gruffly, "The upper-level narrator...this This thing is so evil, I just took one look at it in the sandbox and almost couldn't come back! But fortunately, I helped you find a way to quickly identify the polluters..."
"Stop mentioning your 'means'," Yuri interrupted with an unforgettable expression on his face, "I have never said such vulgar words in decades. I now very much doubt that you left the Church of the God of War not because of I studied heretical classics in private, but I was kicked out because of my vulgar words and deeds!"
Magnan stared: "What happened to the crime they gave me at the beginning?"< /p>
Samler's gloomy and serious face was a bit darker than usual. He ignored the conversation behind him, just kept a tight face and continued walking forward.
Yuri also sighed and said no more.
When Magnum found that no one responded to him, he shrugged indifferently, stepped forward vigorously, and walked in the middle of the team.
The deep and long corridor seems to have no end, extending all the way to the central area of the underground palace. The light of the magic crystal lamp shines on the helmets of the spiritual knights next to it, glowing brightly.
A vague translucent shadow suddenly passed from the corner of his eye, causing Magnum to stop subconsciously.
It seemed to be part of a huge joint, so transparent that it was almost invisible. It penetrated the nearby walls and ceilings, flashed past the boundary of Magnum's sight, and quickly retracted. inside the walls.
"Archbishop Magnum?" Yuri noticed that Magnum suddenly stopped with a serious expression on his face, and immediately stopped, "What's going on?"
p>"Yuri, I seemed to see something flash past just now," Magnum said seriously, "It looked like some kind of limb... a spider's."
Semler immediately frowned. He looked around, confirmed the memory just now, and shook his head: "I didn't see anything."
Everyone shook their heads, and it seemed that only Magnum saw that flash. The passing shadow.
Illusion? Got it wrong? Visual hallucinations caused by mental trance and excessive stress?
Several thoughts appeared in the minds of the priests at the scene for less than a second before being eliminated directly. Yuri directly raised his hand, and the invisible magic power summoned tangible runes, and a wave of water flowed directly. The halo spread to the entire corridor - "Mind Detection!"
Other priests and spirit knights also acted individually. Some activated protective spells, and some began to scan for unknown spiritual marks nearby. Some raised their weapons and formed a formation to protect the relatively vulnerable priest in the center of the team.
The Eternal Sleeper never says that he "sees it wrong" and never believes in the so-called "nervous hallucination".
They are experts in the field of dreams and explorers of the spiritual world. They are already on the dangerous path of confronting God. Being vigilant to the point of being neurotic is the professional habit of every Eternal Sleeper. Someone in the team said Saw something unusual? Regardless of whether it's true or not, let's throw in twenty mental detections first!
However, after all the detection spells were activated, no one saw what Magnum mentioned, and no abnormal spiritual imprint was sensed in the space near the corridor.
"Nothing was found..." Archbishop Semler said in a low voice.
"Regardless of whether you have discovered it or not, remain extremely vigilant. Detection spells are not omnipotent - there are too many things in this world that mortals cannot see," Yuri warned aloud, and then looked at Magnum, "Pay attention to your surroundings. There are some things...maybe only you can see."
Magnum was startled for a moment, and looked into Yuri's solemn eyes, and he understood. meaning.
He once accidentally looked directly at the upper storyteller without protection.
Perhaps some irreversible damage has been left deep in his soul.
The entire team did not weaken their vigilance at all and began to return to the central area of the underground palace.
Behind them, in the distance of the deep and long corridor, a vague, almost transparent shadow flashed past again.
It was a spider joint that penetrated the wall and roof, and moved quickly, as if an extremely huge transparent spider was walking between the stones and soil deep underground. , weaving an invisible spider web.
Magnum and Yuri followed the team led by Sammler and finally safely arrived at the central area of the underground palace, which is also the control center and largest computing center of Sandbox No. 1.
This is the most important and core area of the entire Eversleeper headquarters. It is the most important area under any circumstances.We must give priority to guarding every place and never allow any place to be breached.
Relying on the strong barriers and relatively wide internal space here, Archbishop Semler built several lines of defense and urgently formed a "bishop's regiment" composed of the remaining archbishops and bishops to guard here. At present, all the priests who are sure to be safe and uncontaminated have been gathered here, and there are several teams composed of spiritual knights and combat priests operating in other areas of the underground palace while continuing to suppress those who have been contaminated by the upper-level narrators. Everywhere, looking for any compatriots who are still awake.
In the huge solid hall, there was a tense state of war.
Heavily armed spirit knights guard all entrances and exits of the hall, and have set up obstacles in the outer corridors and several solid rooms connecting the corridors. Wearing battle robes and light metal armor, they fight The priests are waiting behind the barriers and monitoring the mental state of their own personnel at all times.
In this tightly guarded hall, around the large stone pillars in the central area, the technical priests responsible for controlling the sandbox system and the psychic network were sitting neatly with nerve cords connected to the backs of their heads. In the control seat, the normal operation of the system is still maintained.
They have exerted powerful psychological cues on themselves before connecting. Even if the hall is breached and the sword is pressed against their throats, these technical priests will maintain the system until the last moment.
Yuri noticed that there were still traces of the battle in the corridor outside, and some technical priests who seemed to have lost consciousness were lying in a corner of the hall.
He and Magnum have been active in the sandbox world for a day and a night. Only two hours should have passed outside, but in these short two hours, the real world has already happened. So many things.
The pollution and commotion in the underground palace... may be more dangerous than what Semler described.
Before Magnum walked into the hall, he first carefully observed the roadblocks set up in the corridor and the configuration of combatants. Then he took a look at the weapons and equipment placed against the wall in the hall and the status of the reserve team. Finally, he nodded to Samler: "Not bad."
As a former God of War priest, he could tell that the emergency defenses here were guided by professionals.
"There are several priests who were soldiers. I temporarily elevated their command authority. Without them, the situation would probably be even worse," Semler said in a deep voice, "Just before I set out to Before confirming your situation, we suffered a counterattack, and the contaminated spirit knights almost broke through the defense line of the hall... It is not a pleasant thing to raise a knife against your compatriots."
"This is a professional matter. For professionals, your decision is correct. As for raising a knife against your compatriots..." Magnum shook his head, "Let us pay for this mess slowly after we all survive."
"Archbishop Yuri, Archbishop Magnan, I'm glad to see you appear safely."
With gentlenessA magnetic voice came, and a gentle female priest wearing a white dress walked out from the depths of the hall.
"Archbishop Wendy," Yuri first noticed the woman coming out, "I heard it was you...is this blood?!"
He looked in front of him in surprise. The leader of the psychic choir saw that the white gauze dress of the other party was now soaked in blood. The dazzling dark red soaked into the fabric, and complex curves were drawn on the chest and skirt of the dress. The runes look weird and mysterious.
But after taking another look at those runes, Archbishop Yuri’s nervousness quickly dissipated for the most part. He realized what those runes were—a gift from an outsider who could A "gift from the deep" to combat spiritual pollution from the gods.
Wendy smiled, her face a little pale: "I want to come out to report the news, but I am worried that if I leave the room and leave those runes, the pollution in my body will relapse again, so I have to put the runes' Bring it with you - blood is the only 'magic-guiding material' I can find down there."
She raised her wrist, revealing the wound on her arm, which was already being healed by the spell. The lower part is mostly healed, but the coagulated blood still remains and cannot be wiped away in the future.
Using her own blood to draw the runes was a helpless move. There were originally many contaminated upper-level Narrator believers in the containment area, but Wendy was worried about whether the contaminated blood was safe, so she He had no choice but to use his own blood to paint the runes.
Looking at Wendy, the "Spirit Song" who came out to report the news covered in blood, looking at the traces of battle in the corridor outside the hall, looking at the roadblocks set up in the underground palace, and the priests and knights behind the roadblocks, Yuri Sighed softly.
After sighing, you still have to raise your head - because the danger is far from over.