Gao Wen slowly opened his eyes, but this time, Amber's approaching face was not in his line of sight.
A slight snoring sound was coming from the side.
Looking down at the sound of snoring, he saw that the half-elf lady with pointed ears was lying on the desk, resting her head with her hands, and had fallen into a deep sleep.
This guy, after falling asleep, makes people much quieter.
Gao Wen couldn't help laughing, as soon as his body shook, Hu Po, who was sleeping on the table, woke up suddenly, staring at this side: "Hey, you are back!"
Gao Wen opened his mouth, and just as he was about to speak, Amber immediately bbped loudly: "Hey, let me tell you, I'm not lazy, I just took a nap, you can't deduct my salary for this matter, I The six senses are sharp, and I am always alert when I sleep..."
Gao Wen: "...I haven't said anything yet."
Sure enough, this guy's quietness is only limited to when he is asleep—but with his eyes open, one amber can definitely make more noise than two thousand ducks.
"Didn't I prepare the words in advance to prevent you from saying anything?" Amber wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, muttered while looking Gawain up and down, and frowned suspiciously, "But having said that, , it’s been a long time this time—what’s going on over there?”
"I followed Daniel to investigate some things." Gawain nodded, and at the same time, he began to replay the experience of exploring the depths of the spiritual network in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't help frowning. With emotion.
This exploration... has collected too much information, and a lot of information can make him dumbfounded!
"It seems that the harvest is not small this time?" Amber keenly noticed the subtle changes in Gao Wen's expression, "And some things are quite troublesome?"
Gawain nodded slightly: "The situation is special, and a meeting is needed. Kamel, Hetty, Wright, Veronica, um... Pittman is also called, plus you."
Amber silently wrote down these names, and immediately noticed that most of these names were related to a certain field.
She raised her eyebrows and twitched her ears slightly: "Is it related to the gods or the rebellious plan?"
"Well," Gawain responded briefly, then thought for a while, and then ordered, "Also, go and investigate, investigate the abnormal spellcasting signals recorded by magic monitoring towers in various parts of the southern border recently, especially the signals of dream-like divine spells. , In addition, there are monitoring of various types of spiritual communication. In addition, there are records of investigations and arrests of believers of the Eternal Sleepers."
"The Eternal Sleepers... The Eternal Sleepers in the southern border have almost been captured by you." Amber was a little surprised for a while, "There are magic monitoring towers everywhere, and the middle and low-level believers are basically tied up by the regional security team as soon as they go out." The water pipes of the bureau are connected, and you still have "special means" over there, and the higher-level believers have either been deported or are under surveillance to collect intelligence—why is there a sudden large-scale investigation?"
"Maybe I missed an important target," Gao Wen said with a serious expression, "A soul body, an archbishop who sleeps forever is hiding in the southern border!"
As he spoke, those words that once shocked him appeared in his mind:
Selina Gelfen, archbishop (death), female, spirit body.
Current location: Ansu/Correction/Cecil Empire - Southern Border! !
"This goal is no small matter. Ordinary security team operations are very likely to disturb her. Your military intelligence bureau's operations are secretive, which is more suitable." Gao Wen took a deep breath and looked into Amber's eyes. "I'm not sure if you can really find it, but at least Try it out—her name is Selena Gerfen…”
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Somewhere in the Typhon Empire, in an underground ancient facility, the sound of footsteps broke the silence in the dark corridor.
A middle-aged man wearing a white robe with a gentle and elegant temperament and a monocle walked in the long corridor covered with stone slabs and carved with reliefs on the walls on both sides. Behind him were several people wearing A priest of the Sleeper in dark robes with an owl mask on his face.
This man is the "Principal Yuri" in the real world.
Compared with the "image" in the psychic network, Yuri's temperament and clothing in the real world have not changed much, but his image in the psychic network is a young man, but in reality, he is already middle-aged, There is a little more white hair on the head.
"Hey... I'm going to rest," Archbishop Yuri couldn't help complaining while walking on the road, "Archbishop Selina, have you forgotten that people in the real world need to rest?"
Flickering lights suddenly appeared in the air, and the figure of Selina Gerfen appeared beside Yuri. The female archbishop in a white dress said calmly: "You have enough sleep time—under the current situation , too much rest is a waste.”
Yuri couldn't help but glanced at the side, and sighed helplessly again.
He knew that Selina Gerfen was not actually in this corridor, not in this facility.
She is not even in this world anymore.
As early as hundreds of years ago, the former saint of the church was martyred. In the chain reaction that led to the collapse of faith, she used her life to protect the minds and souls of thousands of congregants , the body was torn apart by the power of the gods, and the soul was also torn apart.
It was Pope Megaul III who personally took action, collected the broken soul of Selina Geerfen, and kept it in some kind of "container" at the dream level.
To this day, the archbishop's soul is still moving between containers, and her consciousness is wandering in the spiritual network.
At this moment, the Selena in front of Yuri and the Selina in the eyes of the priests of the Eternal Sleeper behind him are actually just projections in their minds—this projection is so real that even the supernatural Or, it is also difficult for Yuri to distinguish the illusory place of the woman in front of him, the sound, smell, light, shadow and color... everything is so real.
But if a person who is completely unaffected by psychic spells stands here, he will see that there are actually only Yuri and a few masked high-ranking priests in the corridor, and there is no so-called female archbishop at all.
"You're right, there's really no room for rest now," Archbishop Yuri shook his head, looking forward, with a hint of worry in his eyes, "This crisis is no small matter, if the truth is as you and I guess... Then we definitely made an almost irreparable mistake."
At the end of the long corridor, a door depicted with many runes, inlaid with crystals and magic metal appeared in front of it, and as Yuri and others approached, it automatically and silently slid open to both sides.
Behind the gate is a brightly lit and extraordinarily wide hall.
The hall is rectangular, and there are neatly arranged square columns inside. The runes on the surface of those columns are shining, the light is wandering, and there are a lot of "cables" like vines and flesh fibers wrapped around them. Extending into the ceiling, one end spreads out around the column, leading to a neatly arranged wide seat.
Those seats are distributed around the pillars, forming separate areas, and about half of the areas are "full" at the moment, sitting on the chairs are the Eternal Sleepers wearing black robes and star pendants hanging from their collars. , some of those believers leaned on the back of their chairs, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep, while others remained awake, but the nerve cords and runes behind the seats were also shimmering.
In the other half of the area, the nerve cords behind the seats were stripped out and extended to a corner of the hall. In that corner, there were beds lined up with dozens of sleeping cultists lying on them. .
Some personnel in gray robes or brown short robes walked around the sleeping believers, taking care of these compatriots who could not wake up due to pollution.
Seeing this scene, Yuri couldn't help frowning.
He walked towards the area where the bed was placed.
A tall, thin priest with messy blond hair greeted him and bowed respectfully: "Bishop Selina, Bishop Yuri."
Then he turned to Selina Geerfen specifically: "Archbishop, I have increased the number of times of spiritual appeasement according to your instructions, and the state of those people has stabilized."
This is a middle-level priest, and he does not have a high status in the church. Among the believers at this level, many people don't even know the fact that Archbishop Selina is actually dead—they can always see that the latter is teaching The regiment stronghold appeared, and they could even talk to it occasionally. Under the cover of sensory projections with no dead ends, Archbishop Selena in their eyes has always been a living person.
Selena nodded to the middle-level priest, and said casually as she walked forward slowly: "Be sure to pay attention to the state of those nerve cords, the consciousness of these operators is now torn apart, and the fragments of their minds are deeply trapped in No. Deep in the sandbox, once the nerve cord connection fails...they can't come back."
The priest with messy blond hair lowered his head and responded: "Please rest assured, we pay special attention to this."
Yuri glanced over the people lying on the beds.
Their faces were calm and their breathing was steady, as if they were just falling asleep in a long dream, but they were deeply trapped in it and could not wake up. The artificial nerve cords extended from the back of their heads, connecting the pillars in the hall, the surface of the nerve cords, and the runes. The glimmer surged.
Most of the eternal sleepers can actually rely on dream magic to directly connect to the network, but such a connection is not the most efficient. Therefore, in this "control hall", the operators connected to the network need to rely on materialized nerve cables to communicate with each other. Connect, join the network.
These nerve cords are technologies from the Death Society, which were immature more than ten years ago, but have been improved a lot in recent years, and the negative effects have been greatly weakened.
When the No. 1 sandbox got out of control and the pollution broke out from the inside out, the operators directly connected to the No. 1 sandbox were impacted in this state of "physical connection". The impact was almost useless, and the pollution almost instantly occupied the minds of these compatriots, and used it as a springboard to enter the spiritual network.
Now, the contaminated ports of these operators have actually been shielded, and the overflow of No. 1 sandbox no longer uses them as a springboard, but the pollution has already spread to the brain servant array and several virtual connection ports, even without these operators as a springboard, The connection between No. 1 Sandbox and the Psychic Network can no longer be closed.
And these operators themselves are still tightly bound by the No. 1 sandbox, and their consciousness has sunk into the depths of the sandbox, unable to wake up.
After a long silence, Yuri suddenly said: "If you go deep into their dreams, you may be able to directly observe the situation in the No. 1 sandbox."
"But it is more likely to face the deepest pollution, and the end will be the same as these people," Selina Geer shook her head, "It is difficult for the human mind to resist the impact of information on that scale. After all, even an extraordinary level The strong are still 'mortals' in essence."
Selena emphasized the word "mortal", which made Yuri frown.
"Archbishop Selena, what do you think appeared in Sandbox No. 1... is really..."
"It's still too early to say this, at least wait until the situation is reported to the Pope." Selina said, and raised her head, "looking" to the other end of the hall.
She does not have a pair of eyes of her own that can be opened in the real world, but here, she can "see" everything here through the senses of a large number of believers on site.
In that direction, there are rows of neatly arranged windows on the wall at the end of the hall, and through the crystal glass covering the windows, it can be clearly seen that there is another hall opposite it.
In that hall, there are more densely arranged square columns, each surrounded by rectangular platforms.
A large number of unconscious "brain servants" lie on those platforms, their brain nerves are connected to the nerve cord network in the hall, and their bodies rely on various biomass channels for nutrient delivery and metabolic circulation.
"We originally wanted to create a sweet dream..." Selina Geerfen sighed leisurely, "but it is going to turn into a nightmare after all."