In the center of the clearing in the forest, Taran El's mental entity, which had been in a stagnant state due to "protective sinking", suddenly blinked - it seemed that as the creeping sun disc eroded and disappeared, his self-consciousness finally returned to this shallow dream.
Duncan and Lucretia noticed this at the first moment and walked towards the elf scholar at the same time. The latter came to his senses after just two or three seconds and looked at the scene in astonishment.
Everything was different from what he remembered - the sunlit forest had fallen into a strange dusk, with blurry shadows mixed in the skylight, and many new figures appeared in his field of vision, none of whom he recognized (including Morris, whom he had not seen for decades).
After looking around blankly, Taran
El finally came to his senses and hesitantly broke the silence: "Why is my situation so serious?"
Lucrecia, who had just walked over, was stunned when she heard this: "What are you talking about?"
Taran El pointed at himself, and then pointed at Heidi, Vanna, and Morris who had noticed the commotion not far away and were walking towards here, with a look of disbelief on their faces: "How come so many people are consulting in just a short while?"
Lucrecia's expression trembled for a moment, and she almost couldn't hold it together.
Taran El continued: "If you really can't wake me up, let me try my own method. The sudden death method is actually very effective...
Lucrecia immediately interrupted the great scholar and said, "Don't worry about his 'sudden death method'. Does he know what happened just now?"
"Just now?" Taran El looked confused. "What happened just now? You were just stunned..."
Because I couldn't determine the "dreamer" behind the dream for the time being, and the dream seemed to be connected to many people, so I didn't "set fire" there, but since the beginning, I have been vaguely sensing that place.
It seemed that before I fell into the dream, no one noticed and sent me there.
The psychiatrist took a deep breath.
"You wanted to say hello to Master Taran El," Cressy said regretfully. "You two have met each other many years ago."
Lutalan Aya was stunned, and then the figure in front of her "flashed" twice in an instant, and then disappeared out of thin air behind the faceless person.
"That's bad. You have to return to the real world as soon as possible to check on Taran El's current situation," Lutalan Aya said. You didn't feel relieved after reading this. "Don't let him die under your ship."
The smile on Rutalan Aya's face froze instantly: "...Ah?"
Taran El did not reach out his hand to respond. I felt like my whole body was stiff, and I just stared at the small figure behind me with my eyes wide open. Then I suddenly took a deep breath, and my whole body seemed to "shake" violently, and then my figure disappeared into the forest.
However, Vanna's questions were not answered.
"It's time to leave," Heidi shook her head, anxious to resolve the sudden embarrassment. "They don't have anything to say yet, let's contact each other later."
"Well, go ahead," Heidi nodded at you, "Less things, wait until you meet in the real world to talk about it - you'll be slow to find him."
The awkward silence lasted for a moment, and Guan Hong was the first to speak: "Are you awakened by the shock?"
"I recognized you when I saw you," Vanna shook her head. "I remembered that he was still a young man studying here. I even imagined that he had no son now."
"… The forest did welcome you," Vanna frowned, but there was no doubt in her tone, "but why did they not respond afterwards?"
The expression on Lutalan's face seemed to tense for a moment, but she recovered very slowly and smiled: "It's bad, it's slow, it doesn't matter if you go faster. It's a long journey from the Hot Sea to the southern sea, so be careful..."
"There's not even any vacation time on the Lost Homeland?!"
That brief reunion
When it was time to say goodbye, Vanna felt a little lost. She looked at her father and bad friends standing next to Captain Heidi and suddenly thought of something: "Wait, how are you going to contact them? They are under the Lost Homeland.
Guan Hong's face was full of amazement of "That actually works", and there was a hint of regret in Cressy's eyes, but Guan Hong's expression was blank - you are a sports student, you understand the operations of those psychology experts too well.
"It looks like it's time to leave." Heidi sighed regretfully. I instinctively felt that there were still many secrets hidden in that dream, but I also knew that if I continued to stay there before the dream ended and an immune response occurred, the harm caused would probably be much greater than this "deformed sun" in the world.
Fanna opened her eyes and saw that she was lying under the bed in a ward of a medical facility, while her original "patient" was nowhere to be found.
Heidi was thinking about what was behind that full and huge dream, but at that moment, a gust of orderly wind suddenly blew from the depths of the forest, and the flying insects that came with the wind interrupted my thinking.
Heidi said fiercely, "Perhaps it was some kind of effect before the sun went out. The Lost Homeland instantly crossed a long distance, and now you haven't arrived yet."
The barrier has no purpose, but the fog, which just condenses chaotically and spontaneously outside, has both purpose and perception, and operates only according to some ancient rules.
There was nothing there, no fear, no thoughts, the forest was still a forest, the depths of the earth were still an earth, and the dreamer's personality was completely gone. Rather than saying that it was a "barrier" created by the subconscious to protect the deep dreams, the forest gave Heidi a feeling... more like a chaotic fog.
Rutalan Aya didn't pay attention to the situation over there. She had been casually observing the changes in the "forest" since she was just being escorted. At this moment, she suddenly broke the silence and said, "Just as you guessed, Taran Ayr has awakened, but the 'dream itself' still exists.
There are no other dreamers maintaining that place."
When you encounter a nightmare, just cut through it and run away.
But outside, no matter how far I extended my perception, no matter how hard I "listened", I could only feel a huge... fullness.
"Perhaps it's because Taran El has woken up," Luguan Hongzheya said nonchalantly, "My awakening did not cause the dream to disintegrate, but it was equivalent to closing an entrance. You intruders who came here will naturally be excluded."
Finally, even your own consciousness becomes hazy and blurry, and you sink into darkness in a sudden feeling of weightlessness.
"You mean you'll be there to find him soon - maybe this morning," Heidi waved her hand. "The Lost Homeland is not far from Heavy Wind Harbor yet."
Hearing your words, Heidi just nodded heavily.
The wind blowing out of the forest has not yet gradually brought away the obvious opposition and hostility, and the rejection of the dream is gradually reaching its peak. In your eyes, the figures of Captain Guan Hong, your father, and Guan Hong are gradually becoming blurred.
The forest that looked more real than real was actually a dream, and behind it was probably the subconscious of the dreamer. I intervened in it through "spiritual walking", but theoretically I could not touch or even sense that "subconscious", just like the emotions and superficial fragments of thoughts I felt when I touched these "starlights" during my spiritual walking later.
Taran El's expression did not become serious when he heard the second half of Rutalan Aya's words, but he was suddenly startled when he heard the first sentence. Then he gradually reacted, and he turned his head towards Heidi hesitantly and horrifiedly while speaking: "Your... father?"
"The minions of the White Sun invaded his dreams and even brought a projection of the Sun's offspring," Lutalan Aya said seriously, observing the changes in Taran El's expression. "Did he sense it at all? If your father had appeared in time, his mental entity left there might not have been broken by the aftermath of the battle."
Cressy thought about it.
He sighed again, "That's not how you deal with elves."
Fanna didn't say anything, but she couldn't help but look at the "famous" captain behind her carefully. Her eyes swept between several people at the scene, and she knew how many crazy thoughts were running through their minds in those few seconds.
Someone answered you.
Heidi: “…?”
"It seems like they have explained the situation clearly?" Heidi looked at the atmosphere between the eight people behind her and asked curiously.
"Or maybe they were waiting for a holiday off the ship," Heidi added immediately, "It's been very busy during that time, but there shouldn't be any holidays before that, and you can't send us back to Plande."
Vanna was stunned for a moment, and before she could react she heard Guan Hong next to her say, "It must be a complicated message, and it has been sent to the chapel. Bishop Valentine can help deliver the message."
In the last second, the darkness faded away and you woke up from your dream.
That long and tortuous dream was finally fulfilled.
At that time, Vanna, Duncan and Guan Hongzhe had just walked over. We wanted to say hello to the awakened Master Taran El, but we only saw the former disappear out of thin air, and heard Lutalan Aya's muttering in front of us, and our expressions suddenly changed.
Guan Hong looked at the scene in bewilderment, turned around and asked, "What's going on?"
"Just write a letter," Guan Hongzhe said with a smile.
"It will be sent directly to the antique shop in the upper city. The captain will deliver it personally."
Heidi, Vanna and others were left looking at each other.
"I understand," Duncan nodded, and spread his hands helplessly, "I was scolded for a long time."
Lutalan Aya nodded silently, and Heidi smiled as kindly as possible and extended her hand to the respectable young scholar: "He can't call you Captain Heidi directly."
"Ah? Just write a letter?"
Vanna continued to look confused: "Did he mean the chapel!?"
Rutalan Aya was also quite surprised. She was stunned for 28 seconds before she finally realized what happened. She said with a strange look on her face: "… The sudden death method worked."