Bertera Augustus entered the hall.
But it wasn't what Bard remembered.
In Bard's memory, the headmistress always wore a dress with all religious symbols erased, her face was cold and alienated, her eyes seemed to be filled with darkness forever, and her lower body was always covered with intertwined roots and vines , the unsettling rustling of her signature footsteps.
But this "Beltera" who walked in was completely different. She was wearing a green and white druid dress with the Holy Spirit Druid emblem on her chest. Without a sense of coldness and darkness, she walked into the hall unhurriedly, revealing a pair of normal legs wearing long boots under the hem of the skirt.
The appearance is the same, but the difference is very obvious.
Only Gao Wen, who inherited the memory of the original owner of the body, couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity after seeing this "Beltera".
Bertila also noticed the uninvited guest in the hall. As a person in the dream, she actually noticed Gawain and Bud who had theoretically broken away from the structure of the dream.
She raised her head, with a dazed look on her face, she glanced at Bud first, as if she was looking at a stranger she didn't know, then her eyes fell on Gao Wen, and after a long time, she looked at him curiously and hesitantly. Opened: "Gao Wen... brother?"
Gawain frowned.
Seven hundred years ago, Bertila, who had not yet become a dark druid but was still the favorite "Her Royal Highness" of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, called Gawain Cecil at that time.
They were not brother and sister, but they had a good relationship. Even though Gao Wen was later ordered to sit in the southern border and could not move around freely, there were many letters between the two. In fact, in the memory that Gawain inherited, "he" heard the news that Bertila went to the Ancestors Peak, and he received a letter from the other party, which was also the last letter sent back by Bertila.
And then, the end of all things will be born.
Is this harmless-looking Beltira in front of her what she looks like after falling into a dream? Or... is it a hoax
Noticing that Gawain didn't respond, Bertila hesitated to speak again, this time even a little nervous and worried: "Brother Gawain? What is this place? And...why do you suddenly look so much older?"
Seven hundred years ago when Bertila fell into darkness, Gawain Cecil was not yet thirty. In the following years, Bertila did not appear again. Obviously, the "Beltera" in this dream Tira" still maintains her early memories, and the Gawain Cecil in her mind should still be that young and heroic brother.
Bertila stood in the hall in a daze. She was visibly alert and confused when she looked at the men in black robes around her. She looked at Gawain again, looking helpless and harmless. Let go of your guard, especially if an acquaintance stands here, I am afraid nine out of ten will be affected by feelings.
But unfortunately, Gawain was not Gawain Cecil.
He has already perceived that the key to this dream should be on "Beltera".
What's more, in the final analysis, the dream is just a dream, and the harmless little princess Typhon... has already gone with the wind.
Gao Wen raised his hand, and a huge shock of data was released, and endless fragments of light and shadow suddenly appeared in the whole dream, and the vast amount of information almost destroyed this unstable false world in the blink of an eye. The patriarchs of the meeting turned into phantoms one by one, and the entire hall quickly disintegrated in the shaking.
Bud felt dizzy in his head, and the dividing line between reality and dream was unprecedentedly clear. He felt that he was waking up quickly, and before he completely escaped from this dream, he heard Gawain's calm instructions: "After waking up, immediately return to sleep. Stand by, do nothing but stay awake, and wait for us to come down to meet you."
The meeting hall began to collapse, and the fragments of earth and stone turned into ethereal shimmering particles and lines that dissipated into nothingness. Bertila, who was standing in the middle of the hall, looked at all this blankly. Suddenly, her eyes became clearer, and her expression instantly changed Come alive.
She seemed to have just woken up from a big dream, but also seemed to be only half awake. With a half-dream and half-awake expression, she looked at Gao Wen whose figure was about to disappear completely, and opened her mouth slightly.
On the surface, Gao Wen slowly opened his eyes, and all the perceptions of the real world quickly returned to his body, and the connection from the spiritual level gradually calmed down. He was not surprised to see Amber's big face hitting him again. In front of him, he stretched out his hand to push it away, but the latter didn't care, and bbped loudly while waving his arms to maintain his balance while retreating: "Are you awake?"
Gao Wen hummed, shook his head lightly to dispel the last bit of discomfort, and the last bit of reverberation from the dream appeared vaguely and quickly dissipated in his movements: "...brother, I got into trouble..."
He frowned strangely, but in the next second his expression returned to normal, but Amber, who had just been pushed away, came over with a bluff: "Hey, what's wrong with you, your expression was serious just now..."
Gao Wen had no choice but to push away the shame of all things again.
Why is this guy who doesn't know what to do usually only have such keen senses when he doesn't need it...
"It's nothing, a little dizziness, it's gone," he said casually, ignoring the "special medicine for dizziness and headache in middle-aged and elderly people" recommended by Pittman, and began to order the next action, "The action team is here, Bud is here The following exploration tasks have reached the expected goal, so let's go down to meet them."
"You want to go down in person?" Margarita, the female knight next to her, was taken aback. She was already surprised when she saw that Gawain came to the entrance of the giant tree's root system. Going down, I immediately felt that something was wrong, "I'm afraid it's dangerous down here, you..."
"I have already gone down once, and the risk factor of mental wandering is not lower than that of personal exploration." Gawain smiled, and interrupted the female knight with a wave of his hand, "I have already destroyed the dream 'trap' below, which is a special technique. If that The trap is cast manually, so the caster must be dead. If it is cast by some kind of magic device, the device must be completely scrapped, and there will be no more danger. As for whether there are physical threats other than dream traps … Didn’t everyone see the images that Bud sent back all the way down?”
Margarita seemed to want to say something more, but Gawain interrupted her again: "Speaking of which, your character is really similar to Philip, and it's quite serious."
Margarita immediately raised her chest, and said loudly with a serious face: "Conscientiousness and prudence are essential qualities for a knight..."
"Yes, that's what I said."
Margarita: "…"
The female knight failed to keep up with Gao Wen's topic again, and after a moment of stupefaction, His Majesty the Emperor passed her and walked towards the entrance not far away.
Amber leaned over to Margarita who had just recovered from her stupefied state, and opened her mouth to babble: "Hey, to be honest, I always thought that you and that Philip were very suitable for something to happen... Do you want me to help? I There are so many people I know!"
Margarita's face turned serious immediately, and she was about to rebuff the other party's statement that she didn't care about the rules of chivalry, but Amber was already jumping up and down to keep up with Gawain's footsteps, and ran into the entrance not far away. , while running, she yelled: "Hey! You wait for me! You must not bring a shadow master with you in such a dark place, I am God's Chosen, do you know that I am God's Chosen Dozens Years... ”
…
Bud opened his eyes and finally saw the real scene around him clearly.
He didn't enter any chamber at all, he walked into a magical secret room he had never seen before.
This is a mysterious room full of runes. The ceiling, walls, and ground are densely engraved with complex magic symbols, and other than that, there are only two standing on the ground that are also engraved with magic runes. Wen's black stone pillars, no other furnishings.
At this moment, all the runes have been extinguished.
Bud didn't know when this room appeared. He only knew that it didn't exist here when he left the base camp, and it might be because he didn't have enough authority, so he didn't know the existence of this secret room.
He guessed that some of the rooms and corridors were dislocated due to the underground collapse, and those criss-crossing roots affected his ability to judge space, which led to him accidentally going to the wrong place, entering this secret room by mistake, and being enchanted by it. device impact.
But anyway, it seems that with the end of the dream, the device here has stopped working.
He kept Gao Wen's order in mind. Although the runes that can be seen here and there made him a little uneasy, considering that he was already close to the deep layer, and the hidden dangers caused by walking around would be much greater than these runes that had been extinguished, he remained honest. He stopped, found a corner of the room with a wide view, and quietly waited for the arrival of the reception staff.
He waited a long time.
The passage of time will cause ordinary people to accumulate pressure, and the dark and strange environment is even more disturbing, but Bud, who has experienced more terrifying challenges and tempering, has already been hardened. Compared with those indescribable situations he has witnessed, The darkness here can almost be described as gentle. He stood quietly in the corner, keeping his mind and body in top condition, counting the beating times of his artificial heart to estimate the time, until some flickering lights appeared outside the room. .
Gawain followed the road signs left by Bard to the depths of the lair.
The scale of this underground palace is astonishing, and its architectural style that does not conform to any human kingdom made him even more confused and guessed. Although the palace was severely damaged in the collapse, and the cultists of the Doom Society have destroyed or changed most of the original features in the hundreds of years of reconstruction and additions, he can still learn from the solid wall materials and buried buildings. Ancient runes in the floor and roof indicate that the palace was not built by the Ansu.
Not even built by the Gondorians.
But now is not the time to explore the detailed origins of this palace. He has already seen Bud Wendell standing by in the room, as well as the densely packed magic runes and two magical devices that look like stone pillars in the room.
As an old Yinbi who has devoured the knowledge and memory of the eternal sleeper, and can move freely in the spiritual network of the eternal sleeper, and even personally participated in the construction of the insecure system of the eternal sleeper, the network rubbing laboratory, and the loophole cluster of the spiritual network, he is very concerned about these things. It's so familiar.
"It's the technology of the Eternal Sleeper," Gao Wen stepped forward to check the two extinguished rune stone pillars, "...it should be an auxiliary device to project the user's spirit outward. Don't worry, it has been completely scrapped. All cores The rune is melted, and it can't be repaired."
It wasn't until this time that Bard finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then subconsciously asked, "You... know the technology of the Eternal Sleeper?"
Gao Wen smiled: "I understand a little, I understand a little."
Bud froze for a moment, quickly adjusted his expression, and cautiously lowered his sense of existence.
He came into contact with "His Majesty's Little Secret" again.
But Gao Wen didn't care about these, because as Daniel thoroughly grasped the security structure of the Eternal Sleeper's mind network, as the various dark hands, backdoors, and springboards he set up in the mind network gradually developed into a large scale, forming a huge and complex network. The "Shadow Network", he is no longer as worried about the Eternal Sleeper being aware of this invasion as he was back then. Computer side::/
He's got a whole bunch of ways to reconnect to the network, a whole bunch of ways to disguise himself and Daniel, even a whole bunch of ways to fake it, pretend it's safe, pretend it's been ruled out, pretend it's never been hacked...
He has even set "Gauvin Cecil", "Extraterrestrial Wanderer", "Ansu Trailblazer" and so on as hidden keywords, as long as someone mentions these keywords in the entire spiritual network, he will know immediately , and determine whether they have been exposed before the information is passed on, so as to take further action.
Of course, if possible, Gawain still hopes that the Eternal Sleeper will never notice his intrusion, but based on this "little secret" that Bard has come into contact with, he still can't deduce the connection between Gawain and the Eternal Sleeper's mind network. What's more... Even if Bud gets out alive today, he will definitely be closely monitored for a long time.
Under the current situation that the followers of the Eternal Sleepers in the southern border have been basically wiped out, the secrets hidden in the heart... will always be secrets.
Gawain turned his head and looked towards the exit of the room.
"Now, let's continue our search."
The device of the Eternal Sleeper can amplify and project people's dreams, but the device itself cannot dream.
In this dark and deep place, there are... people who can dream.
Judging from what Bard saw in the dream, these dreamers may not be in a good state, and most of them have even lost the ability to control their mind and body.
This is easier to deal with.