When the two archbishops Yuri and Magnum regained their senses, Gawain stopped communicating with Daniel directly, and turned back into a harmless extraterrestrial wanderer who listened quietly and was harmless to humans and animals.
From a certain point of view, he felt that this "extra person" who followed the eternal sleepers from the beginning to the end, but was unknown, seemed to be the scariest element in this weird place...
On the other side, Daniel learned about Archbishop Yuri's experience in recalibrating his mind.
"You said...you saw the projection of the upper-level narrator in the depths of your memory?" Daniel looked very serious, staring into Yuri's eyes, "and the part of your memory that symbolizes the 'potential self' has already begun to praise the upper-level narrator ?”
Archbishop Yuri nodded with a gloomy expression, and Magnum next to him also echoed: "I also encountered a similar situation, damn it, I went back to when I was a priest in the Church of God of War decades ago. It was full of people, and all of a sudden, everyone started praying to the upper narrator... I swear, from the time I gave up the belief in God of War to become a nightmare instructor to now, this is the level of the worst nightmare I have woven!! "
Gawain was listening to the two archbishops talking about their respective experiences, and realized that these two people should belong to the priests of the Eternal Sleepers who were "transformed" halfway. One of them was a nobleman of Typhon, and the other was a priest of the Church of God of War. But obviously, they have completely broken with the past, and through their own strength and long-term allegiance, they have been promoted to the top of the Eternal Sleepers.
This is very similar to Daniel's experience. Before becoming a dark priest, he was a high-level mage who left the Typhon Mage Association, and he also "transformed" into an eternal sleeper halfway.
"Now I have to confirm one thing," Daniel stared at the two Archbishops Yuri and Magnum, "Have you been polluted by the upper-level narrator?"
Yuri and Magnum looked at each other, neither of them showed any objection.
In the depths of their respective memories, at the bottom of the subconscious that should belong to them, they have personally experienced the strange erosion of the "upper narrator". They will never underestimate that kind of power that human beings cannot understand, let alone be blind Trust your own judgment about your own situation.
After all, if the pollution comes from the subconscious mind, it is impossible for a person to realize that he has been polluted.
And Daniel is the security director of the mind network, and he has high attainments in the fields of mental early warning and pollution protection. It is very reasonable for the archbishop to conduct inspections.
But before that, Archbishop Yuri first raised a question: "Archbishop Daniel, how are you not affected by the abnormal environment here?"
The expression on Daniel's face did not change because he had already communicated with Gao Wen, and he had planned the answer he should have at this time: "As a security supervisor, I have a habit of working.
"I never completely immerse my mind in any level of consciousness. When I was doing this exploration, I also kept a part of my thinking thread in a shallower level of consciousness.
"When the town changed, the thinking I stayed outside noticed the abnormality, so I woke myself up."
Daniel was not just talking nonsense. What he said was an effective defense plan that he discussed with Gawain just now when he was exchanging the strange situation of this phantom town. The only part he lied in front of the two archbishops was that In fact, he neither has this unique habit, nor did he do any "allocation of thinking" operation in this exploration.
But after going back this time... Maybe I really should develop such a "habit".
After all, the psychic network is no longer safe. Before the threat of the upper-level narrator is completely resolved, he, the security director who often has to deal with network pollution, must protect himself.
The two archbishops, Yuri and Magnum, seemed to have no doubts about Daniel's words. They nodded, and Magnum asked with a loud voice, "How do you plan to check whether we have been polluted by the upper-level narrator?"
While talking, the Archbishop of the Eternal Sleeper, who is short in stature but has a big name and caliber, couldn't help but look down at himself, and his tone was quite dissatisfied: "This damn place, I still have to move around like this..."
"Our virtual disguise doesn't seem to work here." Archbishop Yuri glanced at Magnum. "You should accept your real appearance calmly and indulge in your own virtual disguise, which is not what an archbishop should do."
"I know I know...you talk too much nonsense!"
Daniel didn't pay attention to the conversation between the two colleagues in front of him. He just nodded and answered Magnum's question just now: "It's easy to check whether you are polluted, but it requires your cooperation and let go of your mind. Let me check you. The superficial memory. Don't worry, I only check the superficial layer, and I can confirm whether there is any belief about the upper narrator... "
He hopes to take this opportunity to reasonably check the superficial memory of the two archbishops in order to gather some information. If he only checks the superficial memory, it will not be too sensitive and offensive, but it still needs a reasonable enough reason, and right now this seems to be a very good opportunity.
Presumably the two archbishops would not refuse to "exclude the pollution from the upper narrator".
Gawain on the side also showed a faint smile, obviously quite satisfied with Daniel's performance.
However, things did not develop as Gawain and Daniel expected.
Before Daniel finished speaking, and before the two archbishops Yuri and Magnum answered, a voice suddenly came from the nearby streets and alleys. It was the voice of Selina Gerfen:
"There is no need to confirm. If Archbishop Daniel is polluted by the upper-level narrators, they have already become residents of this town at this moment."
The expression on Daniel's face almost changed, but in the end he remained calm, and turned to the direction from which the voice came. Yuri and Magnum also turned their heads curiously, and saw a lantern first appearing at the entrance of an alley not far away. .
Selina Geerfen was not affected by the weird environment here? !
Accompanied by the question that suddenly emerged in his heart, Gao Wen also turned his eyes with a little surprise, and saw the figure walking out of the alley with a lantern in his hand.
He saw Patty.
The daughter of the Countess Glenn, the child who runs around in the dream city, Patty who calls Gawain "Uncle Selsey" in the dream world.
She was just as in Gawain's memory, wearing a pure white dress, with long light brown hair hanging behind her, big eyes, and healthy limbs in the dream world, but she carried a completely different color from Gawain's memory His expression: that expression is calm, tranquil, with a stability that doesn't match his age, and there is a hint of vicissitudes of maturity in the depths of his eyes.
She held Selina Gerfen's lantern in her hand, and behind her were four high-ranking priests wearing owl masks, who were walking towards this side unhurriedly.
Gawain blinked, calmed down in the shock of the explosion, and realized one thing:
What he saw was not Patty, but Selina Gerfen with Patty's face on her face.
In this "small town after the bell rings", everyone is stripped of the virtual disguise in the spiritual network, and instead presents the real appearance of the real world, so a person like Selina Geerfen has lost the reality. Why does the ancient soul living in the network with ideology appear as Patti Grant
Patti Grant is Selena Geer in disguise? or...
In a short moment, Gao Wen thought of countless clues, and a large amount of fragmented information emerged like an explosion, and was finally connected into a whole by a thread. He thought of Patty Grant's tiara, and thought of Selina Geerfen took Patti Grant strolling and playing on the boulevards of Dreamland City, and even thought of the lantern that inexplicably appeared in the Kant area, and thought of the appearance around Cecil before the Southern Union War Traces of the activities of the past Eternal Sleepers...
In the end, what he thought of was the thing he was investigating recently, which was a passage he saw in Selina Geerfen's profile last time:
Selina Gelfen, archbishop (death), female, spirit body.
Current location: Ansu/Correction/Cecil Empire - Southern Border.
It turned out to be like this.
Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, and many thoughts slowly settled in his heart. He was not in a hurry to make any conclusions about the state of Selena Geerfen or Patty, but he already had a few reliable guesses in his mind, and While he was having a lot of thoughts, Selena... Selena with the shape of Patty also came in front of Daniel and the others.
Gawain's concealment effect was still in effect, except for Daniel, none of the Eternal Sleepers at the scene knew that there was a bystander standing quietly beside them.
The three of Daniel saw Selena holding a lantern, and they didn't hide their surprise. Obviously, not only Daniel saw it for the first time, but even the two archbishops Yuri and Magnum saw this "dream saint" for the first time. With such an appearance, Magnum was the first to say: "Archbishop Selina, you are..."
"Didn't you also restore your true posture?" Selina responded indifferently without waiting for the other party to finish speaking.
Her attitude is very calm and calm, and her voice is also the voice of an adult, but all of this is placed on a little girl who is only thirteen or fourteen years old, and it looks extraordinarily weird.
In fact, Patty in the real world should be almost fifteen years old this year, but due to injuries, she always looks much thinner than her peers, which also affects her image in the spiritual network, and indirectly in the game Lena Gerfen's "true attitude" is reflected.
"True posture..." Daniel muttered subconsciously, and it took a lot of effort to keep his expression from looking too strange.
"... My situation is very complicated, so don't get into it," Selina shook her head, then raised her head, her eyes fell on Yuri and Archbishop Magnum, "You are lucky, you only have access to the upper-level narrator's eroded, but not polluted."
"You don't seem to be affected?" Yuri looked at Selena and the owl priests behind Selina in confusion, "How did you do it?"
Selena glanced at Yuri, looked down at her young body at the moment, and suddenly there was a trace of self-mockery in her eyes: "The pollution of the upper-level narrators will erode the deep-level consciousness... As a combined soul, a network running in the network Mind, I am not deeply conscious.
"It is precisely because of this particularity that I not only resisted the erosion of myself by this small town, but also had the opportunity to shelter other eroded compatriots."
While speaking, Selena glanced back at the four masked high-ranking priests following behind her, sighed and shook her head.
"Unfortunately, I was one step too late. The deep consciousness of two people has been polluted, and they have become believers of the upper-level narrator and a part of this town. With my ability, I can no longer find them."
The weirdness and danger of the phantom town made Daniel and the others tremble.
Gawain carefully observed Selena and the several "owl priests" behind her when she spoke, especially the latter. During his careful observation, he did not find that these people had been called by the "upper-level narrator". "The sense of disobedience caused by the replacement, while relaxing a little in my heart, I dare not relax completely.
This made him lament that the "weirdness" brewed in No. 1 sandbox is really weird and dangerous, especially when it directly threatens people's minds, it is even more difficult to guard against, and people will never dare to relax their vigilance, even if he seems to be able to avoid it Affected, even in the face of the upper-level narrator and its related influences, he dare not relax at all!
"Bishop Selena, we are now trapped in this 'town after the bell rings', and we can no longer contact the surveillance team behind," Yuri did not reveal it after confirming that Selina was indeed the person in front of him. The appearance of the slightest relaxation, but reporting the current bad situation, "And we still can't perceive the boundary of reality, and we can't directly leave the Internet. The situation is not optimistic."
"I don't need to perceive the boundary of reality, but I can feel that there is a twisted barrier between this town and the normal network, which should be preventing us from leaving," Selina said in a deep voice, although the steady voice Putting it on a little girl seems a little bit of a sense of being an adult, but no one at the scene cared about it, "I guess, the key to this twisted barrier is in the middle of the town, where the church stands..."
"It makes sense," Daniel said with a dazed look, "in the first exploration, the church appeared after the bell rang, and this is the town after the bell rang! We didn't find it 'outside' That church, but it might be here!"
"Let's go," Selena exhaled softly, "The church is not far away, but we have already wasted a lot of time."
After the words fell, she had already turned around, holding a lantern in her hand, and walked in the direction of the town square.
The Eternal Sleepers, whose staff had been reduced by two, followed up, and Gawain also followed silently, and quietly glanced at Selina.
... The little short legs were moving quite fast, he couldn't help thinking.