After climbing up the stairs of the cellar and leaving the North Tower from the ground, Gao Wen and Amber saw what changes had happened to the castle.

As Gauwen speculated, the castle was shrouded in a long-term illusion. All the appearances it presented were shaped by the dream creator Lilith Kant in the dream, but at the same time it is not a simple dream. The boundary between reality and illusion seems particularly blurred here. They overlap and influence each other. Things that occur in the real world can interfere with the dream, and things in the dream will also be reflected into reality.

Only when the dream has completely faded can you see the eroded and crippled appearance of the castle.

In the area where the most severely eroded dreams, the tall and majestic northern tower has disappeared halfway, and it broke from the middle. The entire upper half had collapsed and collapsed many years ago. The remaining huge rock structure pointed unevenly towards the sky like broken bones, showing a hideous appearance in the dim light of the morning. The bricks and tiles buried in loess and vines can be seen everywhere in the open space around the tower; the main body of the castle, which is far away from the North Tower, is still well preserved, and it is a place where "reality is better". Therefore, the servants living in the main body of the castle have indeed maintained the ancient castle. It has no signs of collapse, but the disturbing cracks and vines and moss can be seen everywhere on the exterior walls. As the power of the dream fades, some of the vines and moss have even climbed to the high spire of the main building.

On the way to the main building of the castle, Gao Wen and Amber met the Knight Philip who was rushing to come.

The young knight did not go through the battle, but destroying a huge magic center by his own strength was enough to exhaust him. Philip looked very tired, and there was a deeper sense of psychological fatigue in his eyes. However, after seeing Gao Wen, he immediately cheered up and stood straight: "Sir! I'm glad to see you safe and sound!"

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

"Yes, sir, as you might expect," sighed Philip, "where the housekeeper Carter disappeared was the 'internal border' of the dream, there was a ritual ritual venue full of blasphemy and sin, and I really couldn't describe the scene there."

Gao Wen nodded: "Take me over and see if you probably didn't tear down the entire place, right?"

"Of course not, sir, those are all evidence of the cultists," Philip nodded, "but those people... are probably beyond help."

"...I guessed it," Gao Wen sighed, "Take me over and see what happened. By the way, Amber, you go to the castle first, I guess everyone there should be awake, and in panic, you go to find the consultant, the treasurer, the chief knight and the priest in the castle, to calm them down and to gather the supervisors and knights in the territory, and I will soon go to the main hall to preside over the overall situation."

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

"You are now more or less the Duke's Guard. Do you think you have no say in front of the servants of ordinary little nobles?" Gao Wen glanced at the guy, "And now that the dream is over, the correct knowledge about the castle over the past thirty years is returning to everyone's brains. This incredible shock will cause everyone to fall into a huge panic situation, and people are easily accepting guidance."

Gao Wen's second half of the sentence seemed to have not entered the half-elf's head at all. Amber had just heard the first half of the sentence and had already started to float. After his brain was running quickly, at least sixty ways to make money and eighty tricks appeared. Basically, they revolved around the central idea of ​​Hu Feihu Wei. Unfortunately, she was seen through the details by Gao Wen within a few seconds. The latter glared directly: "If you dare to cheat me with my name, I will slap you on the wall!"

Amber rolled her eyes: "You can't threaten in another way?"

"Then just pat the ground," Gao Wen waved his hand, turned his head and left, "In short, if you dare to lie, you will pat the wall, and if you dare to steal something, you will pat the ground..."

However, the straightforward Knight Philippe asked worriedly after following Gao Wen's footsteps: "What if she lied to you after stealing things and said she didn't steal it?"

Gao Wen stopped and looked at Philip silently: "... Have you considered moistening your hair?"

"ah?"

Gao Wen sighed in his heart: Sure enough, the most difficult thing in wandering in another world is that he cannot communicate with local people, even if the other party is a supporting actor.

The two came to the underground hall where Knight Philip discovered.

The magic power entrenched in the hall had dissipated, and the depressing and madness aura also disappeared, but it was still a gloomy place. In Gao Wen's sight, the platforms neatly arranged around the stone pillars were like detached platforms emitting bloody smell, and on these detached platforms, the "lambs" to be slaughtered are still alive.

Gao Wen noticed those tubular objects that connect the victim's head and stone pillar, like some biological tissue. They are entangled and grown blood vessels and nerves, but they obviously do not proliferate or mutate from the human brain. One end is connected to the base of the stone pillar, where there is a layer of expanded and twisted flesh and blood structure, which is tightly attached to the runes of the stone pillar like some independent organism, and the connection between their other end and the human body should be the result of some kind of parasitic (or maybe surgical).

As Knight Philip destroyed the runes on the stone pillars, these "biological tissues" attached to the stone pillars were now showing obvious signs of weakness and dying. They began to shrink and crack, and a light red liquid flowed out of the cracks, and most of the victims connected to them were dead.

Even those who were not dead were obviously unable to save them. They had been connected with those "nerve cords" for too long, their individual consciousness had been completely erased, and their brain tissue was even more irreversible and devastating. Their remaining brain nerve cells were just providing computing power for this huge "human brain array computer". As the magic power here dissipated, they would die soon.

The only thing to be thankful is that they can no longer feel the pain in the process.

"I can't tell what this is," Knight Philip suppressed his disgust and squatted near the foundation of one of the stone pillars with Gao Wen. He pointed the twitching and contracting biological tissues in front of him with his swordsels. "Even in the ancient books that record the craziest black magic, and the crazy murmurs of the heretics, I have never heard of this... creature. The sleeper is not a druid. They have no ability to transform species or summon life. Where should they find and reproduce these biological tissues, specifically for the extraction of souls, but... where did they find these things?"

"Maybe these things will be cultivated by the end of death," Gao Wen frowned, "They are in touch after all."

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

"If the reason for their depravity is as I thought, the closeness of cooperation between them would probably be beyond the imagination of most people in the world," Gao Wen sighed. "In comparison to these, I am more concerned about the 'technology' used by the Eternal Sleeper."

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

"Visson Victor left a letter that this is a 'computing node' built by the Eternal Sleeper," Gowen pointed to the victims who were connected by nerve cables. "They seem to be trying to create a 'real dream' that can replace the real world and achieve something with the power of the dream, which requires terrifying computing power. You can simply understand it as brain power. The brain of any great magician cannot accomplish this feat, so they came up with the crazy idea, that is, to connect the brain and create a 'human brain array computer'. Do you know what this means?"

"Meaning they'll kill more people?"

"This is just an appearance. The deep meaning is: it means that these cultists are not only crazy, but also master crazy technology!" Gao Wen said seriously, "They are still constantly developing while being excluded by mainstream society and living in seclusion, and even developed new technologies far beyond the level of contemporary magic. You should know that cultists who only think crazy are not scary. What's scary is that these cultists actually have scientific research capabilities and even scientific research capabilities are not weak!"

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

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

After collecting some rune rubbings and wreckage samples, Gowan and Knight Philip left the place.

After the power of dreams faded, the main hall of the castle was one of the least changed areas. In addition to the sudden signs of aging accumulated over thirty years of time, the place is still bright and the clean and clean behavior of the living servants living in the castle is practical, and the intersection of dreams and reality ensures that their cleaning effect is not limited to dreams.

In fact, due to the end of the dream effect, the gloomy aura that always occupies here also disappears, and the main hall of the castle is much warmer and more peaceful than before.

But this warm and peaceful atmosphere cannot help those gathered in the hall feel at ease.

Fear is looming in everyone's heart, even the Chief Knight who has been loyal to this place for thirty years.

When the dream ended, the people in the castle suddenly woke up. Their blocked consciousness and memory were all activated. In the moment they gained the ability to think freely, everything they had experienced here in the past thirty years turned into a bizarre nightmare. Sleeping in an aging castle, caring for a phantom that had been dead for decades, a ghostly hostess wandering among the ruins of the North Tower, all of which was creepy.

For those servants, knights, consultants, and supervisors who were older enough, things were even more terrifying: they clearly remembered when the corpses of the old master and the little master were secretly sent back to the castle, and also clearly remembered how the mistress of the thirty years ago used magic to control everyone's mind in madness. What happened every day after that, and the changes in the castle every day, were pouring into their hearts.

And those who were called back, the territorial officials who lived near the castle were also in fear, because as long as those who frequently entered and exited the castle were affected by dreams, their fear was slightly lighter than those servants and knights who had never left the castle for thirty years.

But no matter what, as long as you realize what you have experienced, no one can remain calm and composed.

Amber was standing on the platform at the end of the main hall, scratching his head in a hurry.

There was a place where the lord could stand on weekdays, but now no one has made any comments on the "little girl" standing on it, because everyone knows that it is the Duke's guard. In this emergency, she was standing there as the Duke's spokesperson. So instead of questioning her, everyone turned their attention to her.

But this made Amber want to find an opportunity to immediately roll back into the shadow and become a big shot. It turned out that the feeling of being a big shot was not as good as before!

"Don't panic, don't be nervous... don't be nervous! The Duke went to purify the last nest. He would come here in a while, he would come here!"

Amber stood on the stage and comforted everyone in vain. Just when she felt that she would be unable to control the scene for another second, Gao Wen finally appeared with the Knight Philip.
Chapter completed!