After getting the real main mission.
Annan knew what he should do:
He first dragged the table to the middle of the corridor, then put the note back into the letter. He entered the "beheading room" with already lit candles and lit all the candles inside.
Subsequently, Annan directly lit the candles on the table outside.
He originally thought about entering the beheading room again, chopping off his head and returning to reality.
But it's no longer needed—
After Annan lit the candles on the table... he felt a trance and returned to the real world again.
At this time, the young Benjamin seemed to have realized something.
He just sat beside the unconscious Evelyn, bowed his head and remained silent - he didn't know what he was thinking about, but he was always in a bad mood.
Should it be said that he deserves to be the future "Master Benjamin"
The brain is really useful...
"Let's continue."
Seeing that Benjamin didn't seem to want to move forward very much, Annan spoke softly, and reached out to grab Benjamin's hand.
It seemed that he didn't want to break free from Evelyn's hand... Benjamin froze for a moment, but followed Annan's strength and stood up.
"Evelyn..."
Following Annan walked forward in silence for a while, Benjamin spoke hesitantly, and asked in a soft voice: "Are you...
"...want to leave me?"
Annan paused slightly when he heard this.
Since this is future Evelyn's nightmare... It means that in the end Benjamin agreed to help her with the ceremony.
Well, Annan shouldn't need to say too much...
With an attitude of talking too much and making mistakes, Annan just sighed and said in a low voice: "If I leave here with you now, I will leave you..."
This is the real truth.
As soon as Annan said this, he couldn't help but feel strange about his own line - it was a rare experience for him to be able to tell the truth in a nightmare.
I am so kind.
In order for the two of you to have a happy ending in the future, I will do my best to perform here.
I'm such a good single dog.
Annan couldn't help sighing in his heart.
But Benjamin, a silly boy, is forcing a person who loves you the most to improvise...
"Yes, is that so..."
After staring at Annan for a while, I could only read the sincere Benjamin in the eyes of "Evelyn", and murmured.
After that, he remained silent for a while. Until watching Annan go to the last room and open the door—
Seeing the bladeless and rotten guillotine, he froze in place as if he had lost his soul.
Seeing him as if he had lost his soul, Annan couldn't bear it.
He added in a low voice, "It's all right, Benjamin.
"You in the future... will find me."
"… is that so?"
Benjamin's pupils brightened slightly.
Annan nodded solemnly.
Yes... he just came back from the future.
Benjamin won the position of pope, apparently to travel back in time and cut off Evelyn's cycle.
The time when he learned about this matter should have been shortly before he left for the White Tower.
At that time, Benjamin should have obtained the key to the nightmare and learned the truth of the year...
Annan hesitated for a moment, but still replied in a low voice: "Yes, because... I came back from the future.
"This place is actually a nightmare."
Immediately, Annan roughly explained the mechanism of this nightmare—and what Benjamin would do in the future.
It was just a nightmare anyway, and it didn't hurt to tell him.
But looking at the child's despairing expression, Annan couldn't bear it... He didn't even know how Evelyn could bear it back and let Benjamin complete the ceremony.
"... I would like to believe you."
After Benjamin listened to Annan's narration, he pondered for a long time before slowly nodding, and said solemnly: "But it's not because you told me this...
"It's because you are Evelyn."
But I told you, I'm not the real Evelyn—
Annan just wanted to make such an excuse, but suddenly understood what he meant.
At this time, Benjamin has not yet entered the world of superhumans. Nightmare, reincarnation, future... This kind of thing is too far away for him.
From his point of view, it is entirely possible that Evelyn made it up to deceive him.
What Benjamin meant was that even if Evelyn made it up to deceive him, he would still believe in such bizarre things.
Annan was silent for a while, the corners of his mouth raised.
Showed a sincere smile.
He handed the rope to the young Benjamin, and he lay down in front of the decayed guillotine.
The next moment, Annan was in a trance and entered the dream world again.
But at this time, he saw another "Evelyn" standing in front of him, and wanted to turn around a little uneasy.
So Annan immediately stopped her:
"Annan... don't move, don't look back!"
Hearing Annan's words, "Evelyn" immediately stopped moving and stood there silently.
Annan paused, thoughtful.
It was during this time period...
He quickly calmed down and continued:
"Get on the ground by yourself, hurry up... Bah, you don't have to poke your ass. Well, in order for you to trust me, I will mention a key word, player and planner. Can you? Get on the ground quickly, don't waste time..."
Annan didn't even need to search memory.
Because he can say such things casually...
Seeing the "Evelyn" of the second week obediently lying in front of the guillotine, Annan looked at the rope connected to the guillotine with some hesitation.
... Do I have to cut it off
Such an idea just popped up in Annan's mind, and he hasn't done it yet.
He saw that the rope suddenly broke by itself.
— It's the Benjamin of the real world!
The guillotine roared and fell, cutting off Evelyn's head—the head happened to fall and fell into the white flower basket.
But strangely, Evelyn did not shed much blood after her severed head.
In other words, her blood has been coagulated for a long time.
Seeing her scarred, hairless, hideous head falling into the flower basket... Annan was in a daze for a moment.
... Evelyn, it really has been dead for a long time.
As Annan thought about it, he suddenly noticed that his body, as well as Evelyn's skin in the dream, gradually began to become transparent.
And the corpse that fell on the guillotine also began to shine with light, gradually turning into light powder and finally disappearing.
His own body absorbed the light powder.
The soul seemed to become stronger, and the feeling of transparency disappeared.
The knowledge of countless supernatural beings emerged in Annan's heart... It was a gift from Princess Pale.
Annan knew almost all of this knowledge...but to Evelyn, it was a mystery from another world.
At that moment, Annan seemed to realize something—
Did Evelyn, the first week, come up with this solution at this time, between life and death
Store your soul in a nightmare...
When Annan was thinking.
Similar to the feeling when using Frost Sword Technique, the power of unfamiliar elements flows in Evelyn's body with difficulty...
Is this... the power that belongs to the silver rank
What element is this
With a thought in his mind, Annan brushed the rope lightly with his hand, and the rope became complete and bright again. He touched the flower basket, and the pure white flower basket became brand new; so Annan pulled up the guillotine to the highest point again, tied it up and fixed it again.
Afterwards, Annan returned to the ground and picked up the chain at the door.
He finally saw—
Countless men, women and children with transparent bodies smiled and applauded him, as if he had just given a perfect speech.
Annan looked down at his solid body, and finally saluted them politely.
Afterwards, those people dispersed again and returned to their previous positions.
And Annan moved the stone statue back to its original position, and returned to the "prison" in the basement with the chain.
He reached out and touched the lock, and the lock was healed again.
He closed the door and fastened the chains. Putting his hand into the handcuffs and tightening them carefully—and in the process, Annan inevitably scratched his left wrist... as if he had struggled hard, leaving some scratches.
Fresh blood—not coagulated and dried blood, gushed out from Evelyn's wrist continuously.
[Health: 80%]
Annan stared at the fresh blood slowly flowing from his wrist.
Turning dry blood into fresh blood...is it also the power of this element
Restore the broken to whole, heal the old to new life...
Evelyn's power is not time and mirror images... but some kind of ability related to new life.
… I see.
Annan suddenly realized.
Evelyn never travels through time from beginning to end.
In reality, Evelyn has been transformed into a half-dead daughter.
But she was about to die.
Because Evelyn is forcing herself to think that this is the reality—
—That's why Annan woke up here in the first place.
Evelyn is just a silver-ranked Transcendent.
Her power is far from being able to reverse the boundary between reality and dreams.
... But if all this was her dream, it would make sense.
She constructed such a nightmare, kept her soul in the nightmare, and did not die or give it to Pale Princess; the price was that she had to repeat this never-ending cycle of nightmares.
The only way out is to wait for the future Benjamin to decipher the message of the nightmare, cut off the curse, and forcibly retain her soul.
It can be called a great cause.
Such incredible trust.
[Health: 30%]
Annan suddenly felt sleepy, and he subconsciously opened his task panel:
[Main task: Form a loop (completed)]
[Witness the completion of the sacrificial ceremony (completed)]
[Light a candle as a half-dead daughter (completed)]
[Back to the beginning (completed)]
[Health: 5%]
… I did all I could do anyway.
When Evelyn wakes up again, she will forget all this.
But for "Evelyn by the Lake", it is just a forgotten dream. "Benjamin" in Nightmare will also be reset.
When she came to the lake, she would still see Evelyn smiling and chatting...until she plunged into the lake, returned to another world, and started a new cycle.
As for how to save your childhood sweetheart... I will leave it to you to solve it yourself, Your Highness the Pope.
Thinking of this, Annan fell into a drowsy sleep.