Chapter 183 Technology of the Eternal Sleeper

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After climbing up the stairs of the cellar and leaving the north tower from the ground, Gawain and Amber only saw how the castle had changed.

As Gawain speculated, the castle as a whole was shrouded in a long-term illusion, and all the appearances it presented were shaped by the dreamer Lilith Kant in a dream, but at the same time it It's not a simple dream. The boundaries between reality and fantasy are particularly blurred here. They overlap and influence each other. Things that happen in the real world can interfere with the dream, and the things in the dream will also reflect into reality.

When the dream completely faded away, the ruined appearance of the eroded castle could be seen.

In the most severely eroded area of ​​the dreamland, half of the tall and majestic north tower has disappeared, and it has broken off. The ground points to the sky, showing a ferocious appearance in the early morning light, while the open space around the tower is full of bricks and tiles that have been buried in loess and vines; the main body of the castle far away from the north tower is preserved. It is still intact, there is a place where "reality is better", so the servants living in the main body of the castle have indeed maintained the ancient castle. It does not show many signs of collapse, but the outer walls can also be seen everywhere. Uneasy cracks, vines and moss growing recklessly, and as the power of the dream faded, some of those vines and moss have even climbed to the high spire of the main building.

On the way to the main building of the castle, Gawain and Amber encountered Knight Philip who was rushing over.

The young knight had not experienced combat, but destroying a huge magic center by himself was enough to exhaust him. Philip looked very tired, and there was still a deeper psychological fatigue in his eyes, but After seeing Gawain, he cheered up immediately and stood up straight: "Sir! I'm glad to see that you are safe and sound!"

Gawain looked at Philip's expression and nodded slightly: "It seems that you have seen something that is very psychologically stressful."

"Yes, my lord, as you expected," Philip sighed, "the place where Steward Carter disappeared is the inner border of the dream, where there is a... "

Gawain nodded: "Take me there to see that you didn't demolish the whole place, right?"

"Of course not, my lord, those are all evidence of cultists," Philip nodded, "but those people... I'm afraid they're all gone."

"...I guessed it," Gawain sighed, "Take me there to see the situation. By the way, Amber, you go to the castle first, I guess everyone there should have woken up and are in panic.

You go find the advisors in the castle, the treasurer, the chief knight and the priest, reassure them and gather the chiefs and knights of the realm, I will go to the main hall to preside over the situation soon. "

Amber blinked: "Are you sure those people will listen to me?"

"You are also the duke's guard to some extent now. Do you think you will have no right to speak in front of the servants of ordinary minor nobles?" Gawain glanced at this guy, "And now the dream is over, about the castle's past thirty years. It’s easy to be guided in a situation where the right perception is coming back into everyone’s brains, and this incredible shock will send everyone into a huge panic.”

The second half of Gawain's sentence didn't seem to have entered the half-elf's head at all. Amber's whole body began to float just after listening to the first half of the sentence. After a quick circle, at least sixty ways to make money appeared. And the eighty methods of deception basically revolve around the central idea of ​​Huwei Huwei, but unfortunately she was just floating for a few seconds when Gao Wen saw the details, the latter stared directly: "You dare to use me. Your name is deceived, and I will slap you on the wall!"

Amber rolled his eyes: "Can't you threaten in another way?"

"Then shoot the ground," Gao Wen waved his hand, turned his head and walked away, "In short, if you dare to lie, shoot on the wall, and if you dare to steal, shoot on the ground..."

However, the upright Knight Philip asked worriedly after following in Gawain's footsteps: "Then what if she lied to you after she stole something and said she didn't steal it?"

Gawain stopped and glanced at Philip silently: "...Have you considered getting your head burned?"

"what?"

Gao Wen sighed in his heart: Sure enough, the hardest thing about living in another world is not being able to communicate with the locals, even if the other party is a prank.

The two came to the underground hall found by Knight Philip.

The magic power entrenched in the hall has dissipated, and the depressing and crazy atmosphere has disappeared, but it is still a gloomy place. In Gawain's line of sight, the platforms that are neatly arranged around the stone pillars are like a A slicing table exudes a bloody smell, and on these slicing tables, the "lamb" to be slaughtered is still alive.

Gawain noticed those tubular objects that connected the victim's head and stone pillars, like some kind of biological tissue. They were blood vessels and nerves that tangled and grew, but they were obviously not proliferated or mutated from the human brain. One end is connected to the foundation of the stone pillar, where there is a layer of swollen and twisted flesh and blood structure, which is tightly attached to the rune of the stone pillar like an independent organism, while the other end is connected to the human body. Probably some kind of parasitism or maybe the result of surgery.

Since Knight Philip destroyed the runes on the stone pillars, these "biological tissues" attached to the stone pillars have now shown obvious signs of weakness and dying. They have begun to shrink and crack, and a reddish liquid flows from the cracks. More than half of the victims connected to them are dead.

Even those who didn't die can't be saved. They have been connected to those "nerve cords" for too long, their individual consciousness has been completely wiped out, and their brain tissue has been irreversibly damaged. Nerve cells are just providing computing power to this huge "human brain array computer", and as the magic power dissipates here, they will soon die.

The only good thing is that they feel no pain in the process.

"I can't identify what this is," Knight Philip resisted his disgust and squatted near the foundation of one of the stone pillars with Gawain. He pointed at the twitching and shrinking biological tissues in front of him with his scabbard. " Not even in the ancient books of the craziest black magic, and in the crazy ravings of the heretics, I have never heard of such... creatures. The Eternal Sleepers are not druids, they have not modified species or The ability to summon life, these biological tissues should be found and reproduced from where they are specially used to extract souls, but... where did they find these things?"

"Maybe these are really what all things will die and help the eternal sleepers cultivate," Gao Wen frowned, "They are connected after all."

Knight Philip was surprised: "Will the cooperation between those cultists be so close?"

"If the reason for their fall is as I think, then the level of cooperation between them will probably be beyond the imagination of most people in the world," Gawain sighed, "I am more concerned about the use of the Eternal Sleeper than these. of this technology.”

Philip is a warrior after all, and is a little slow in this regard: "Technology?"

"The letter left by Victor Victor mentioned that this is a computing node built by the Eternal Sleeper," Gawain pointed to the victims who were connected by nerve cords, "They seem to be trying to create an alternate reality. Real dreams of the world, and using the power of dreams to achieve something, which requires terrifying computing power that you can simply understand as brain power. No one big magician's brain can do this feat, so they think Come up with this crazy idea, which is to connect the brain and create a human brain array computer, you know what that means?"

"Meaning they're going to kill more people?"

"This is just an appearance, the deep meaning is: it means that these cultists are not only crazy, but also have crazy technology!" Gawain said seriously, "They are still living in the situation of being rejected by mainstream society and hiding from the world. It continues to develop, and even develops new technologies that far exceed the level of contemporary magic. You must know that cultists with only crazy thinking are not scary, but the scary thing is that these cultists have scientific research capabilities or even weak scientific research capabilities!"

As he spoke, he stood up and looked around the entire underground hall.

"The most terrible thing is that the crazy technology they have created will make their technological progress even more terrifying if used in the right place..."

After collecting some runic rubbings and wreck samples, Gawain and Philip Knight left the place.

After the power of the dream recedes, the main hall of the castle is one of the areas with the smallest changes. Except for the signs of aging accumulated over thirty years on the outer walls, pillars, and ceilings, it is still a brightly lit, tidy and bright life. The daily cleaning behavior of the living servants in the castle is real, and the characteristics of the intersection of dreams and reality ensure that their cleaning effects are not limited to dreams.

In fact, due to the end of the dream effect, the faintly gloomy aura that had always been entrenched in it also disappeared, and the main hall of the castle was now much warmer and calmer than before.

It's just that this warm and peaceful atmosphere can't make the people gathered in the hall feel at ease.

Fear is looming over everyone, even the Chief Knight, who has been faithfully guarding this place for thirty years.

When the dream ended, the talents in the castle suddenly woke up, their shielded consciousness and memory were all working, and at the moment of gaining the ability to think freely, everything they had experienced here in the past 30 years became bizarre. Nightmares sleepwalking through an aging castle, caring for a phantom who's been dead for decades, and a ghostly mistress wandering the ruins of the North Tower are all eerie.

And for the servants and knights, advisors, and executives who were old enough How the hostess used magic to control everyone's minds in madness a few years ago, and everything that happened every day after that, the changes that happened to the castle every day, poured into their hearts.

And those territorial stewards who were called back and lived near the castle were also in fear, because as long as people who frequented the castle were affected by dreams, it was only compared to those who have been in and out of the castle for 30 years. The servants and knights who have not left the castle are slightly less afraid.

But no matter what, no one can remain calm as long as they realize what they have been through.

Amber was standing on the high platform at the end of the main hall, scratching his head anxiously.

There is a place where the lord can stand on weekdays, but now no one has any opinions on the "little girl" standing above, because everyone knows that she is the duke's guard. In this emergency, she is the duke. She was standing there as a spokesperson for her, so instead of questioning her, everyone turned their eyes to her with anticipation.

But this made Amber want to immediately find a chance to go back to the shadows and become a big man. It turned out that it was not as good as he thought before!

"Don't panic, don't... don't be nervous! The duke went to purify the last lair, don't panic when he comes over in a while, he's here!"

Amber stood on the stage to appease everyone in vain. Just when she felt that she could not control the scene if she dragged on for another second, Gawain finally appeared with Knight Philip.

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