Under the leadership of Selena, the exploration team of the Eternal Sleepers, with only eight people left, began to march towards the center of the town.
The dream lantern swayed slowly in the seemingly eternal darkness, and the dim light shone on the deserted streets. Daniel and the others were on full alert, always paying attention to whether there would be any strange changes in the surrounding streets, while Gawain followed silently. The team was on the sidelines, and their eyes fell on Selina Geer.
Patty who likes to run in the dream world, Patty who is weak but still trying to smile in the real world, and "Patty" with a solemn expression and a lantern in front of him, three shadows hovered in his mind, and Overlapping with the scene in front of me, I gradually formed a weird impression——
He seemed to see Selina Gelfen holding Patty's hand and walking in front of the procession.
He shook his head to get rid of this unreliable association in his mind, then raised his head, his eyes reflected a ray of light rising from the end of the street in the distance.
It is morning glow.
Daniel and the others also stopped in their tracks, watching in amazement as a brilliant radiance suddenly cut through the darkness, and appeared at the end of this town that seemed to have fallen into an eternal night. The radiance rapidly expanded in everyone's field of vision. Almost in the blink of an eye, it turned into an endless golden-red morning glow, splashing recklessly on the high and low roofs of the town, and then the golden-red morning glow turned into pale golden sunlight, completely dispelling the dark shadows between the streets.
A giant sun slowly rises in the sky, the light is brilliant, and the darkness recedes.
"It's dawn..." Daniel stared blankly at the magnificent scene of the rising sun, as if he was overwhelmed by the magnificent scene, but he quickly realized that a long staff appeared in his hand, each A mind-protecting spell blesses the entire team in just a few seconds.
Its daybreak! This is a scene that this phantom town has never seen before—it is its third state except midnight before the bell and midnight after the bell!
In this place, all phenomena that have never appeared before only mean danger!
Other Eternal Sleepers also responded one after another, preparing various offensive and defensive spells, or vigilantly observing the changes in the street, and soon, the changes happened before everyone's eyes—
Suddenly, figures appeared in the streets and alleys.
It was like a phantom suddenly waking up from a dream and entering reality. The streets of the small town that were empty one second, and countless shadowy phantoms emerged in the next second, and these phantoms quickly changed in the next few breaths. So solid and real, they turned into pedestrians coming and going, and turned into countless residents in the small town!
These people wore classical costumes that were different from the real world, with numb and empty faces. They swayed on the street like ghosts and corpses, but soon "woke up" and quickly became vivid in expression and flexible in action. Waiting for people to come and go, walking and talking, as if living in this small town normally from the beginning, as if this town has never had any weirdness, never any abnormality!
Layers of dizzying ripples of light rippling in Archbishop Magnum's hand, a powerful spiritual storm almost came out of his hand, but the moment the spell was about to take shape, the fiery-looking archbishop abruptly cut off the spell. own spells, and blocked the actions of others: "Wait a minute! See the situation!"
Archbishop Yuri was surrounded by complicated golden runes, and he almost used offensive spells. After Archbishop Magnum reminded him, he abruptly stopped casting spells, and looked around—
Those people who were coming and going on the streets of the small town didn't seem to notice Daniel and his party at all. They were still busy with their own lives, busy on their way, busy talking with their relatives and friends, the eternal sleepers standing in the middle of the road The team is so abrupt and eye-catching, but it seems to be invisible in the eyes of all residents.
A little cold sweat could not help but break out on Daniel's forehead.
This phantom town has become "lively", but this bustling, lively street is more eerie and terrifying than the uninhabited street shrouded in night before!
"This is also the projection of No. 1 sandbox," Selena's voice suddenly broke, breaking the silence in the team, "These residents should only be operating according to the information recorded in the projection, like a large illusion, and will not interact with us." generate interaction."
"... This greatly inspired me to weave nightmares," Archbishop Magnum muttered louder than ordinary people, "Why didn't I think of such a scene before?"
"Go ahead," Selina shook her head. "Also, pay attention to the content of these 'phantom residents' conversations. Their daily conversations may reveal part of the current situation of No. 1 sandbox."
A group of people continued to move towards the center of the town, walking cautiously on the streets of the town where pedestrians came and went.
Everyone is trying not to come into contact with those "phantom residents"—although everyone is very curious about whether these shadows can be contacted, and what will happen after contact with them, but those who can participate in the exploration mission have at least basic caution , under the premise that the situation is unknown, no one has made such a bold attempt that may cause some consequences.
Gawain devoted part of his attention to carefully listening to the conversations of the phantom residents: he was also curious about the "life" in the No. 1 sandbox.
Most of those conversations were of little value—just like any normal street chat, the "residents" were talking about the weather, the harvest, family problems, food, rice, oil and salt.
The people in the No. 1 sandbox seem to be living ordinary lives. They live, grow old, sick and die in that virtual world, get married and die, have their own troubles, have their own wishes, run around for life, and worry about the future...
The only difference from the real world is that they will refer to the "Upper Narrator" from time to time in their conversations—they pray to him, swear by him, and even use him as part of everyday colloquialism.
They will say "even the upper-level narrator will be surprised" to describe the degree of unbelievableness of a thing, and they will say "the upper-level narrator must know", which actually means that they know nothing about something - Only God knows this.
Gao Wen frowned slightly, his mood fluctuated.
In a sense, the Eternal Sleepers really created a miracle, a miracle bigger than the "false god's body" of the Death Society.
So many people have living real minds and "virtual personalities" created by the sandbox. They live in such a simulated world, living their colorful lives from generation to generation, with their own emotions. And the pursuit of yearning, it has been running for more than a thousand years before there is a flaw in this world.
Such superb technology...
But can't you just do some personnel work
If these technical geeks spend half of their death-killing skills to practice artificial intelligence and other technologies, they may almost restore the iron man's mind of the Gondor Empire back then! !
Gao Wen had a strong urge to complain, and the whole team had already reached the end of the street, the edge of the square in the middle of the town.
The small church with a gray-white exterior wall and a tall spire is standing quietly on the square.
The spire of the church is bathed in brilliant sunlight, and the outer wall is shining brightly under the giant sun, symbolizing the wall painting of the upper-level narrator, and residents keep stopping to pay respect and worship.
An elderly priest wearing a simple gray robe stood in front of the open door of the church, watching the square with people coming and going with a smile on his face, and some residents stayed beside him, listening to the elderly priest telling about the story of the upper narrator The truth, everything looks so harmonious and beautiful.
It will almost make people forget that this is a weird projection located in the "imaginary number area", forget that this is a phantom town full of twisted and dangerous forces, and forget that they are in an exploration team with a mission...
Archbishop Yuri woke up from a trance in an instant. He saw a lantern swaying in front of him, and the voice of Selina Geerfen sounded in his ears: "Don't relax, remember this is just a projection, everything here all fake."
Gawain glanced at the Eternal Sleepers before him in confusion, and murmured in his heart—what happened just now? Another force is trying to corrode them? Why don't you feel it yourself
The old priest not far away from the church door raised his head, smiled and glanced at the eternal sleepers who were on guard against the enemy, and said in a gentle tone: "Why resist? This is not a very beautiful world. Is it?"
As the priest's voice fell, in the nearby streets and alleys, on the square in front of the church, those town residents who were busy with their lives, and those projections who had turned a blind eye to Daniel and others, suddenly all stopped in their tracks, as if The momentary stillness of a puppet stopped.
In the next second, they turned their heads slowly at the same time, and their eyes fell on a few uninvited guests in the square.
Residents of the entire town quietly cast their gazes. At this moment, even Gao Wen felt horrified!
Of course, the Eternal Sleepers are facing a formidable enemy. Only Selina calmly met the eyes of the old priest, and after a few seconds, she slowly said: "Sure enough... you have a soul that is close to the real. A projection formed by the town's master mind?"
The elderly priest looked indifferent, and slowly shook his head: "I don't understand what you are talking about, I just think you should try to stay here for a while—the land that is sheltered by the upper-level narrator is lucky, why go back to that dangerous nothingness ?”
Gao Wen frowned slightly—dangerous nothingness? What's the meaning
Refers to the "imaginary area" outside this small town? Or... some current state in Sandbox One
Yuri’s eyes fell behind the elderly priest not far away, on the church with the open door, and after carefully perceiving the information structure in this area, he said in a low voice: “That church is the exit—the inside It should be connected to the phantom town on the surface, and connected to the backbone layer of the spiritual network."
Magnum snorted: "I guess that guy definitely doesn't intend to let us swagger in."
Selena slowly raised the soul lantern in her hand, and stepped towards the church not far away: "I'm curious, can your upper-level narrator really protect your soul here?"
"The upper-level narrators are everywhere..." The elderly priest slowly opened his hands, "Where the Lord's people stand, the Lord is there..."
Layers of halos emerged behind the old man, and a huge oppressive force suddenly descended. The entire church square resounded with ethereal, holy, and powerful sacred music——
Except for Gao Wen who couldn't be observed, everyone at the scene more or less felt that their minds were being withdrawn, and the consciousness of resistance was disintegrating.
In this projected town, in the depths of the imaginary number area outside the No. 1 sandbox, an upper-level narrator priest who can only be called a phantom, only with the blessing of some kind of "faith", displays Introduced a truly powerful magic!
The faces of Selena and Gao Wen, who was in a state of psychological invisibility, changed slightly at the same time. The former took a step forward, and the lantern in his hand shone brighter than ever before, impacting the halo that emerged behind the old man, facing the square The power that pervades the world and keeps everyone's minds separated.
The golden runes floated around Yuri, expanding into layers of barriers that could protect everyone. At the same time, the archbishop shouted without looking back: "Magnum! You can do something you are good at now!" !"
Magnum, with bristling red hair and short stature, waved his hands: "Psychostorm!"
In an instant, layers upon layers of tides of light, seemingly real and unreal, floated on the entire square, and the tide suddenly turned into a brilliant storm. The powerful spiritual power washed away everything in Gawain's sight, and washed away those things that had already begun. All of a sudden, "phantom residents" with fanatical expressions on their faces flooded in.
In this projection town supported by spiritual power, the spiritual storm, which should belong to a relatively secret spell, set off a real "storm!"
A large number of hideous projected residents melted quickly in the storm like wax figures in a raging fire, and were torn to pieces. Gawain heard the roar of the old priest in front of the church—after he really showed his fangs, the other party was gone. To maintain the gentle and polite appearance before, a crazy and distorted mind is the real form of the other party!
More projected residents rushed out from the streets and alleys, flocking to the exploration team in the center of the square. The owl priests guarding the team all cast mental attack spells, constantly reducing the number of enemies, and Gao Wener On the other side, Archbishop Magnum's thunderous roar sounded again: "Psychostorm!!"
A new storm hit, and the slate floor on the square was blown to pieces by this "real storm", and the "projection residents" that kept coming in were wiped out one by one. Joy, the discomfort in everyone's minds that their minds were peeled off and their resistance consciousness faded quickly diminished.
Immediately afterwards, Archbishop Magnum raised his hands again, his voice was louder than thunder in the storm:
"Heart-spirit-wind-storm!"
"Heart-spirit-wind-storm!!"