Heidi looked confused, then horrified!
Because she knew who the father of this "sea witch" was, this horror joke was not funny at all.
"I am a believer of the God of Wisdom, Lahm, ma'am," she said hurriedly, as if she was afraid that if she spoke too late, the misunderstanding would deepen, and she would really establish some kind of secret connection with some terrible Warp shadow.
[I am just an ordinary psychiatrist, you must be mistaken. ]
Lucrecia just frowned slightly, her eyes calmly falling on the ordinary-looking amethyst pendant on the psychiatrist's chest, which still exuded a faint familiar aura. She might have mistaken other things, but her father's aura...
She even felt that her father's eyes were quietly looking at her through the pendant!
[Where did you get this pendant from? ] Lucrecia suddenly asked!
"This... is a gift from my father. He bought it from an antique shop." Heidi explained quickly, but didn't think much about it for a moment. "It's not a special item. It just happens to have a little spiritual protection effect..."
"Antique shop?" Lucrecia was a little confused. "And your father is..."
"Oh, this girl is the daughter of Morris Underwood." At this time, Taran El, who had been silent, finally spoke up. He felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong. "Relax, Ms. Lucrecia, this lady is indeed a psychiatrist. She is helping me get out of here!"
Lucrecia was shocked when she heard Taran Al's words, and then she looked at Heidi with a subtle expression on her face: "Maurice Underwood?"
"Yes... yes." Heidi nodded, "That's my father's name..."
Lucrecia had a blank expression on her face, but her mind recalled the last time she met the new crew members of the Lost Homeland through the crystal ball, and recalled the respected scholar, who was now her father's intellectual advisor!
what a small world!
The coldness in her eyes melted away, and her smile regained its sincerity. Her gaze towards Heidi also softened: "Hello, Miss Heidi!"
"you
... ... Hello"
Heidi was confused. She felt as if she had experienced several ups and downs in her life in such a short time. However, she had no idea what was going on and could only nervously respond to the witch's greetings.
"You... knew my father?" And you knew Master Taran Eyre as well?"
"This world is smaller than you think." Lucrecia did not answer directly, but just said perfunctorily.
Then he looked at the elf scholar opposite him and asked, "Based on your own perception, how long do you think you have been trapped in this dream?"
"Not sure. My perception of time is problematic right now. It could be a few days? Or maybe even longer!"
Lucrecia frowned. "From the perspective of cognitive deviation, it's already a bit dangerous... I guess you have tried various awakening methods including the falling method?"
Taran El Yi Nanshou: "Yes, even the sudden death method is useless."
"If conventional subconscious awakening methods don't work, then nothing else works. This is not a normal dream, nor is it an external curse or mental attack." Lucrecia waved her hand. "I have checked your condition in the real world and set up a place in the laboratory to control mental pollution, which can rule out these situations... Miss Heidi, can you tell me the information you have now?"
Heidi was stunned for a moment when she heard this. After two seconds, she came to her senses and quickly told the "witch" in front of her everything she knew.
She even started from the moment she accepted the invitation from the City Hall in Plande, not daring to miss a single detail!
Lucrecia listened to the other party's long string of information very patiently, and her expression changed several times!
"From a dream far away in Plande, I entered Taran. In Ai's dream... The distance between these two city-states is not simple, and the entrance to the dream has now disappeared..."
The witch looked solemn and said slowly, "It seems that if the guidance is not smooth... even you, a psychiatrist, will be trapped in this place!"
[So, have you two experts come to a conclusion now?] As the only
Patient", Taran El seemed
He was quite calm and just asked with some curiosity at this time.
"What on earth is going on with this dream?"
Before I draw a conclusion, I need to confirm one thing. Lucrecia did not answer directly, but asked seriously, "How did you fall asleep? I found the draft you left behind in the tower. At that time, you seemed to be planning to send it to the academy via Swift Mail. Did you encounter an attack in the tower? Or did you see something while observing the sun?"
Taran, Al is lost in memory!
After a long while, he spoke uncertainly: "I was not attacked... ..I just remember that I saw many fuzzy shadows and lines in the sun through the equipment on the tower, and I wanted to record them all, but those things were too chaotic and blurry... I couldn't see them clearly anyway, so I could only draw a rough outline, and then...
... "
His voice suddenly became unusually hesitant, and his eyes were filled with confusion and bewilderment. It seemed that the more he recalled what he saw when he fell asleep, the more he could not confirm his memory!
Finally, Taran, El stopped and could no longer remember what happened in the last second before he fell asleep.
He slowly raised his head in confusion, his eyes swept across Heidi and Lucrecia in front of him, and then looked around, looking at this lush, incredibly dense forest!
He gradually became still, and finally stopped moving or making any sound. Even his breathing and the slightest movement of his eyes were completely still. The breeze blowing through the forest could no longer blow his hair or the corners of his clothes!
Taran El turned into a "sculpture" solidified in a dream!
And as he was still, everything in the dream finally began to change. A strange and low roar permeated and echoed throughout the world, as if something infinitely huge was slowly collapsing. The towering trees gradually lost their color and began to unravel from the crown downwards. The lush plants on the ground also gradually weathered and dissipated, turning into floating smoke!
Heidi looked at all this in shock, then suddenly turned to look at Lucrecia:
[Is this a veil? Not a real dream?"
"It looks like you're doing well in school, Ms. Heidi."
Lucrecia raised her eyebrows. "Yes, just as I guessed, this is not a real dream, but just a protective curtain woven above the dream... What we see is not Taran. Ai'er, but just
He created this temporary mental entity to protect himself, so we can't wake him up from here no matter what. The real dream is hidden in a deeper place!"
"Why is this happening?" Heidi was surprised.
"I... have never seen such a real protective curtain. It blocks the dreams below so tightly... I haven't seen it either. Moreover, Taran El is not an expert in the spiritual field. Although he has done some targeted training, in theory he can't weave such a perfect protection."
Lucrecia shook her head, but one thing was certain: the weaver of this curtain was trying to hide something deeper in the dream...
If this was really done by Taran El, then he must have sensed a great danger after entering the dream...
She suddenly stopped!
Because the "collapse" of the forests has gradually stopped
Not only did it stop, but after a few seconds, the collapse of the entire forest actually began to reverse - those towering trees were reorganizing themselves, the dissipated colors quickly returned to the earth, and the "curtain" that was about to break began to regenerate at an astonishing speed.
Weimu was reborn, and Heidi screamed out in surprise!
Lucrecia was surprised and immediately looked at Taran. El's mental entity was still standing there like a statue, with no sign of reactivation!
The protective veil of this dream is reborn, but the veil
The weaver of this dream is not Taran Ai'er, but another force that protects the deeper truth of this dream.
The moment she realized this, Lucrecia suddenly realized two things. First, in addition to the "elf girl" mentioned by Heidi and Master Taran El, there was at least a third dreamer in this dream.
This dreamer is the one who is truly controlling and escaping this "disguised dream"!
Second, the invaders are still nearby, and the source of pollution is here.
inside.
The protective veil of the dream was reorganized spontaneously. It was because it sensed a huge danger that it suddenly reversed even though it had already begun to dissipate. Judging from the scale of the entire forest and the movement when it was reorganized, the source of this danger was definitely beyond imagination!
Neither the Annihilation Cultists that Heidi had expelled nor the invaders that Taran Aiel had dealt with were the real reasons for the closure of this dream.
At the same time as Lucrecia reacted, Heidi suddenly realized the reason why the curtain regenerated.
"Something is in this dream, and the invader is still there."
"Pay attention to any abnormalities around you."
Lucrecia gave a warning immediately, and then began to quickly search for anything suspicious within her sight.
Sensing the breath flowing in the air, I want to find where the "source of pollution" that this veil is trying so hard to resist is hiding!
The air, the scent of flowers, the sound of the wind blowing through the forest, the sound of water flowing in the distance, the sun shining through the treetops...
Everything is so real, everything is so natural, and nothing seems unusual!
Which one is abnormal in this dream
etc...
..Sunlight
Lucrecia's heart was suddenly shocked!
There are countless towering trees and lush treetops in this forest, and the purpose of these treetops is to block the sunlight!
But even with so much tree canopy blocking the view, the sunlight still shines throughout the entire forest, making every inch of the forest exceptionally bright!
“Sunlight is an intruder.”
She reacted instantly and reminded Heidi loudly, and Heidi subconsciously raised her head and looked at the dream sky through the gap between the tree canopies!
Between the layers of treetops, gaps of varying sizes had appeared without anyone noticing; between the gaps was the sky and the sunshine, as well as the sun that illuminated dreams!
The huge, dark, twisted tentacles coiled and intertwined, tangled into a ball, interspersed with countless pairs of huge, pale eyes, like a terrifying monster floating in the sky, hovering over the forest!
The bright sunshine was like a layer of light-cast shell, transparently covering the surface of this deformed object, quietly illuminating the entire dream!