It wasn't until late at night that Roland took everyone back to Liuliting—the block where Scroll first entered the dream world.
Like Cheongzi Community, it is an old street that has been around for a long time, but it is more commercial in nature than the former. On both sides of the street, there are many convenience department stores, fly halls, mass-market ktvs and Internet cafes. The scale is not large, and the main force of patronage is basically the office workers and students nearby.
Although the environment looks a bit dirty and messy, it is suitable for books to hide their identity.
The entrance and exit of the connection point is right next to the street. From the outside, it is no different from an ordinary iron gate. As for this gate originally located here, or it only appeared after the scroll entered the dream, Roland still does not know. However, this position is obviously extremely important. He is already considering whether to acquire the stores on both sides through the relationship between the association and the Sanye Group.
After all, the domain of consciousness of the scroll can only carry one God's Punishment Witch for action, and if it is targeted by multiple fallen demons, there will still be a certain danger. As the key person who will pass on knowledge, obviously you can't take any risk. If you can station a dozen or so battle witches around the connection point, the security will undoubtedly be higher.
Taking advantage of the sparse flow of people, Roland conducted a final round of tests on the interaction between the two domains of consciousness.
When the dream world ceases to function, no matter where the scroll is, it is excluded from the dream world and returned to the little archive.
This is also the biggest difference from God's Punishment Witch.
Although the consciousness of the latter will return to his body, his position in the dream world will be fixed at the moment he left. This is also the reason why Roland asked them to go in and out of Rose Cafe or the warehouse next door as much as possible - otherwise, when the personnel changes, there may be a situation where someone disappears out of thin air.
The problem of the scroll is obviously more serious.
At least in an emergency, the Witch of God's Punishment can still keep in and out with Roland to achieve a "seamless connection", while Scroll cannot do this. This also means that every time she enters a dream, she must start in the archives, and when she comes out of the dream, it also ends in the archives.
However, considering that as long as you teach Scroll to use a mobile phone, you can always ensure that both parties are in the correct position before waking up, and Falti's magical flying insects are always monitoring this area, so it is not a difficult problem to solve. .
The same rule holds true in reverse.
When the scroll took the initiative to leave his domain of consciousness, both the God's Punishment Witch and Roland in the domain would be forced out. The former returned to the body of reality, and the latter appeared at the gate of the iron gate. It wasn't a good feeling, it was like a roller coaster ride.
And the last point was quite unexpected to Roland.
After the scroll left the world of consciousness first, the iron door still existed, but behind it was neither a wall nor the small gray room, but a red nothingness.
That is the symbol of erosion.
According to Garcia, erosion fissures are not something that can be seen everywhere, and where they exist, there are usually association commissioners watching over them. In other words, this erosion should be brought about by the archives.
Sure enough, the realm of consciousness is not simply a relationship of containment and accommodation. Roland realized that they are all part of the realm of consciousness, occupying the power from the source of magic, and this is probably the most appropriate interpretation. This is also consistent with Lan's statement - as long as the dream world devours more cores, he will have the opportunity to invade the realm of the gods.
Another question also arises.
If the consciousness field of other high-level demons is allowed to enter the range of his key beam, what will happen to the dream world
Can they also appear in this city like scrolls
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The next day, Roland received the latest news from the front.
In the envelope were two pieces of letter paper, one was written to him by Wendy. The first part of the letter briefly described the current situation of the witches, and the second half focused on Nana Pine.
This little girl who has followed the Witch Union all the way has finally ushered in her adult day.
And like Lucia, Mystery Moon and others, her magic power also condensed when she became an adult. According to the division of the Federation, she can be regarded as a veritable high-level witch.
The specific ability content was not explained in the letter. Maybe everyone was too busy, or Nana's magic power was so precious that it was not allowed to be spent on testing... But Roland didn't care about it for a while. For him, The most important thing is that Nana crossed this threshold unharmed.
And the other stationery is much thicker.
Among them are the reports of the First Army and the plans submitted by the General Staff—this is also a major drawback of the existing information transmission channels. In order to save transportation resources, the front line often waits until the things that need to be reported have accumulated to a certain extent. It will be delivered back to Neverwinter. Therefore, it is obviously the same letter, but some of the contents are different in time by several days or half a month.
At the end of the page, Roland's brows suddenly wrinkled.
"Did something happen?" Nightingale, who was standing beside him, asked.
"The devil launched a full-scale attack on the positions of the First Army." He said solemnly, "--just a week ago!"
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Wolf Heart, Wind Howling Fort.
The shrill siren resounded over the city again.
This is the third time since sunrise today.
"Damn monsters, don't they know they are tired?" Juda spat fiercely on the ground, took out a paper bag from his arms, and poured it for a long time, but couldn't pour out anything.
"Here." A hand suddenly stretched out from beside him, "Is this what you're looking for?"
Joda turned her head and found that the speaker was Fara, and what she handed over was a small white pill.
"You… don't need this?" He picked up the pill hesitantly.
"I'm not as vulnerable as you are, I just don't sleep for a day or two," Farah replied with a deadpan expression, "and I hate these things, who knows what they're made of! I advise you better also Eat less."
"Maybe you're right," Juda breathed out, throwing the medicine into his mouth, "but it will at least keep me alive for a while."
When the medicine melted on the tongue, an extremely bitter taste quickly filled the mouth, and at the same time, the biting chill, dizzying tiredness and exhaustion in the air seemed to be swept away, even with stiffness. His fingers and limbs became flexible. He felt himself again as the keen hunter, not as an exhausted prey waiting to be slaughtered.
It's this feeling-
Joda picked up the spear and stood firmly in the firing position.
These medicines were only distributed to each soldier as ration material half a month ago. Its official name is called delaying agent, but everyone prefers to call it "no-failure pills". As long as you take one tablet, you can completely shield the pain of the body, and it will not erupt until a few hours later.
Although some sand people were quite resistant to this drug at first, and even associated it with the legendary Kuanghua Pill, such voices disappeared after a short time. The reason is that the First Army does not enforce the use of the delaying agent, and also indicates the characteristics of its sequelae on the packaging paper bag, requiring that it should not be taken continuously - this practice is completely contrary to the rumors about the three princesses heard by Joda.
In addition to the sand people's troops, those northerners also received the delay agent, even the officers were no exception, which also dispelled the doubts of most people. Some people even claim that the drug could have been made fragrant and sweet, but the bitter taste was added to prevent people from eating it as a snack.
And after the devil launched a frantic attack, the white pill instantly won the trust of all the soldiers. Facing the enemy's attack from morning to night, Joda couldn't imagine how he could be in such a situation where there was almost no rest if there was no delaying agent. Dozens of hours in high-intensity battles.
As an experienced hunter, he naturally understands how big the gap is between going into a fight in perfect condition and fighting continuously with exhaustion.
He can accept no matter how serious the sequelae is, as long as he doesn't take it and kill him.