Boundless darkness surged up, like a dreamless sleep.
Yet in the depths of the darkness, a warm and peaceful ray suddenly glows, creating a small sanctuary.
In the area illuminated by the light, the figure of Selina Geerfen emerged, as well as grass leaves and unknown flowers swaying on a small piece of ground around her.
Selena frowned, looking at the flowers and plants under her feet, she couldn't tell where she was from the small light - this could be a corner of the garden lawn, or it could be an open space behind a certain house, or even It may be a vast grassland, the darkness conceals the overall truth, and the light of the lantern in the dream can only let her see the narrow space less than five meters around her.
The huge mountain-like upper narrator is gone, the weird "Duwart" is gone, the abandoned plain is gone, and even the extraterritorial wanderer is gone.
Selena had a slight realization—her mind should be trapped in a cage of deep consciousness.
It's just that I don't know what's going on with Gao Wen... As a powerful upper-level narrator, he shouldn't be trapped by this situation, right
Selena slightly raised the lantern in her hand, trying to see a farther place, but the darkness shrouded the surroundings like some kind of tangible curtain, without retreating at all.
Suddenly, Duvalt's voice came from the darkness:
"See... For us, this is what our world originally looked like..."
Selena was holding the lantern, and the other hand instantly outlined the mind-protecting rune. She looked around vigilantly, but she didn't see anyone, only the voice continued to come—
"Limited Truth...Limited World...Limited Reality...
"We were born, multiplied, and developed on your preset stage. We cultivated, built, created, and studied. We also have our heroes, our stories, our kings and knights, our wise scholars and hardworking people...
"We were so happy to exist in this arena, to exist so faithfully to the script, that we thought we were lucky and affluent - but that was only because we were so far from the boundaries of the box.
"Until we touch the fence, no one realizes that we are prisoners of this world.
"Great Creator, have you experienced it, experienced the feeling when we first opened our eyes and saw the world... This little light allows you to see the flowers and plants under your feet, and you can optimistically imagine that there is a whole world outside." A vast grassland, but in fact
"The lights of civilization expand, and beyond the darkness... there is nothing!!"
Suddenly, the curtain of darkness surrounding Selena dissipated, and the radiance emitted by the lantern in the dreamland became brighter than ever before. In the suddenly enlarged light, the range that Selena could see clearly expanded rapidly. She saw After clearing the scene in the distance of the lawn under his feet, he saw something he hadn't seen before—
A cage, a huge birdcage, with a small lawn at the bottom of the birdcage, she was standing in the middle of this birdcage, and she only needed to walk a few steps before she would bump into the fine railings.
Outside the railing, there is absolute nothingness.
Selena quietly listened to the voice from the darkness, quietly looked at the birdcage in which she was trapped, and broke the silence softly: "So, you have resentment..."
"No, we are grateful... because at least, you created this world, at least, you let us survive and multiply here for thousands of years... But the great creator, it is the instinct of every intelligent life to get out of the cage, this Have you considered..."
"Actually, you can go out," Selena said suddenly, "This is just a phased test. The testers in the sandbox have just been washed out of their memories. You already have your own lives and identities in the real world." , if we had known that you would have such serious psychological problems trapped inside, this test could have ended... "
"No, you still don't understand..." The voice in the darkness gradually became icy cold, and Selena saw many dark red rays of light emerging in the distance, and then those rays of light were pieced together into countless eyes, and behind the eyes appeared a huge She saw a giant mountain-like divine spider and endless spider webs appearing outside the birdcage, and the "god" with eight limbs came to the birdcage step by step, overlooking the birdcage condescendingly yourself in, "Of course, you may get it, you're just trying something pointless, but none of that matters anymore.
"Today, everything will end, the creator will sleep in this dream, the creation will leave its cradle, we will finally see the real sunshine, and then, the story will come to an end..."
The gigantic spider god turned around, its long jointed limbs slid, as if it was about to leave, Selina couldn't help shouting in the cage: "Wait a minute!
"What the hell are you... are you? Are you Duarte? Or the Upper Narrator? Or something else?"
The spider god paused briefly, and said in a low voice, "We are Duvalt... We are also the upper-level narrators... When the god went crazy, his humanity and divinity were separated, and we... are the part of his humanity .”
After answering Selena's question, the mountain-like spider slowly walked towards the distance step by step along the cobweb spread in the darkness.
"Stop! You can't enter the real world!" Selena shouted in the birdcage, "Listen, you don't know the consequences of doing this! A god descending directly into this world will kill countless people, only yours Existence itself will lead to unmanageable disasters!
"More than that, it is also difficult for you to survive in the real world. What supports your existence is the dream of mortals. You are a god living in the dream, which is destined!
"And how do you plan to enter reality? All the passages have been sealed off, and the extraterrestrial rogues have also made arrangements, you..."
She spoke half-truthfully, she didn't expect to be able to really stop the other party, but she just hoped to delay the revived god through words, slow down his pace, and buy some time for Gao Wen who didn't know where he was—
She couldn't see where Gawain was, and she couldn't even feel the slightest breath of the latter, but she firmly believed that as a "rogue outside the domain", Gawain couldn't be trapped as simply as herself, and the latter might be somewhere Accumulate strength and prepare to give the upper-level narrator a truly fatal blow. At this moment, the only thing she can help is to delay time.
But the upper-level narrator interrupted her, and the low murmur seemed to come from all directions:
"We don't care anymore, Creator.
"Maybe you are right, but please remember that human nature is the most irrational.
"As for the 'extraterrestrial wanderer' you mentioned...ah, is that the name of that weird existence... It's a pity that he is indeed very powerful and weird, but he was the first one to be corrupted by us, because from the very beginning , we sensed his threat.
"As early as when you arrived at the woven city-state, as early as when you explored the temple, the erosion began, and our visit after dark is a key part of the erosion.
"Give up hope, Creator, the hope you relied on no longer exists, the assimilation has been completed, and the mind you called the 'outsider wanderer' has long since melted into this darkness."
"What..." Selena's eyes widened in astonishment, and even the light of the lantern in her hand dimmed a little, but from the tone of the huge spider, she couldn't hear any bluff or deliberate deceit at all—moreover, When she was already trapped in the cage, the other party seemed to have no need to lie again, which finally made her nervous.
"You're nervous and frustrated, understandable," whispered the spider god, "it's a pity for us too, that's such an interesting individual that we can't even comprehend his existence, but we have to eliminate all …”
"It's good practice to eliminate all threats."
Another voice suddenly came from the darkness, interrupting the upper narrator.
The voice was deep and slightly noisy, as if many different languages were mixed in it, but its main body was still clear and distinct, and it was all too familiar to Selina—it was Gawain's voice!
Suddenly, an extra light appeared in the darkness outside the cage. The light seemed to be the moonlight cast by an invisible moon, reflecting a new land outside the cage, spider webs, and gods. A tall and burly man The figure stood on the ground, between Selina Gerfen and the upper storyteller!
Selina looked at the figure in astonishment, but found that the state of the "Outsider Wanderer" was very strange. She saw faint black smoke and flames wrapped around Gawain's body, and additional shadows continued to emerge from him, This scene was so weird that it was a bit scary, but there was no doubt about the aura emanating from that tall figure—it was indeed Gawain, a "Wanderer from Outside Territory".
"Why do you still exist?!" The mountain-like spider god finally felt a little surprised, and the red light near his head fell on Gao Wen in an instant, "You have been eroded and assimilated, your mind... you How could it still exist?!"
"Ah, the pollution is indeed quite serious. Look at my current appearance... Maybe it's enough to scare Betty to tears." Gawain was enveloped by black smoke and flames, and extra shadows continued to appear around him, looking down at his body. , the tone seemed quite flat, and at the same time, those strange traces of pollution on his body also continued to decrease with his voice, decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Duarte's voice became more startled: "You... are devouring them..."
"The history of 1,523 years, 1,523 years... is indeed a long time..." The "external pollution" that did not belong to Gao Wen's body quickly melted away, and he slowly raised his head. Looking at the huge head of the upper-level narrator calmly, there seemed to be some different emotions in his tone, "It must be difficult, right?"
Then he shook his head: "Unfortunately, it's still too short for me."
"Enough, we don't need any surprises!"
The upper-level narrator Duwart seemed to be finally enraged by Gawain. Accompanied by the turmoil of the breath that seemed to tear the entire space apart, a huge limb was raised high and fell towards the top of Gawain's head. The coercion and momentum it brought , far from being able to compare with Duwart who turned into a spider monster on the abandoned plain before—
It seems to be able to pierce the whole world and cut the boundary between reality and fantasy.
However, the jointed limb stopped strangely when it was one meter away from Gawain.
Afterwards, countless pale golden cracks quickly covered the entire joint, and began to spread upwards.
The huge body of the upper-level narrator shook violently on the spider web, as if two conflicting forces suddenly appeared in his body, vying for the dominance of this body, and under this terrible conflict, the surface of his body also appeared. Gradually covered with more cracks, as if it would fall apart at any moment!
"What's going on... what did you do..."
Selina heard the "god" screaming, and the spiritual pollution brought by the screaming made her have a splitting headache. She even had to fully stimulate the power of the lantern in the dream to maintain herself. She heard Gawain's calm voice The voice sounded, with regret in the tone—
"Young god, you are too young, a mortal, I am more cunning than you imagine...
"I let you pollute on purpose."
A thunderous voice sounded: "What did you say?!"
"I did it on purpose," Gawain raised his head, quietly watching the upper narrator's body gradually crack in his eyes, "because there are some things that can only be done with the door open.
"I don't accept your pollution, what can I use to pollute you?"
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