Bertilla Augustus walked into the hall.

But it wasn't what Bard remembered.

Bard remembers that the imam was always dressed in a gown that had been stripped of all religious symbols, her face cold and detached, her eyes as if there was a layer of darkness in her eyes forever, and her lower body was always intertwined with roots and vines, and the unsettling rustle was her signature footsteps.

But the "Bertila" who walked in was completely different - she was dressed in a green and white druid dress, with the emblem of the Holy Spirit Druid on her chest, her face looked younger, and there was no sense of cold and gloom, she walked into the hall unhurriedly, and under the hem of her skirt was a pair of normal legs in boots.

The appearance is the same, but the difference is incomparable.

Only Gao Wen, who inherited the memory of the original owner of the body, couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity after seeing this "Bertila".

Bertila also notices the uninvited guests in the hall - as a dream-minded person, she actually notices Gawain and Bard, who are theoretically out of the dream's structure.

She raised her head, with a certain kind of confusion on her face, first glanced at Bard, as if looking at a stranger she didn't know, and then her eyes fell on Gawain, and after looking at it carefully for a long time, she spoke curiously and hesitantly: "Gawain...... Brother? ”

Gawain frowned.

Seven hundred years ago, Bertila, who had not yet become a dark druid and was still the favorite "princess" of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, was called Gawain Cecil at that time.

They were not brother and sister, but they had a good relationship, and even though Gawain was later ordered to sit in the south and could not move around at will, there was a lot of correspondence between the two. In fact, in Gawain's inherited memories, "he" learned that Berthira was heading to the Ancestral Peak, when he received a letter from the other party - that was also the last letter sent back by Bertila.

Then, the Society of the Death of All Things was born.

Is this harmless-looking Bertila in front of her what she looked like after falling into a dream? Or...... Is it a scam?

Noticing that Gawain did not respond, Bertilla hesitated to speak again, and this time there was even a little nervousness and worry in her tone: "Brother Gawain? What is this place? And...... Why do you suddenly look so much older? ”

Seven hundred years ago, when Berthira fell into darkness, Gawain Cecil was not yet thirty, and in the years since, Berthira has not reappeared, and it is clear that the "Bertila" in this dream still maintains her early memories, and the Gawain Cecil in her mind should still be the young and heroic brother.

Bertila stood in the hall a little dazed, obviously a little guarded and confused when she looked at the black-robed people around her, and she looked at Gawain again, showing helplessness and harmlessness, and it seemed that people couldn't help but let down their guard, especially if an acquaintance stood here, I am afraid that nine times out of ten it would be affected by feelings.

But alas, Gawain is not Gawain Cecil.

He had already sensed that the key to this dream should be in "Bertila".

What's more, in the end, dreams are just dreams, the harmless little princess Typhon...... It's already gone with the wind.

Gawain raised his hand, and a huge data shock was released, and endless fragments of light and shadow suddenly appeared in the entire dream, and the vast amount of information destroyed this already unstable false world almost in the blink of an eye, and the patriarchs who were holding meetings turned into phantoms one by one, and the entire hall quickly disintegrated in the shaking.

Bud felt his mind dizzy, the line between reality and dream was clearer than ever, he felt that he was waking up quickly, and before he could completely get out of this dream, he heard Gawain's calm order: "Wake up and stay in place immediately, do nothing but stay awake, and wait for us to come down and answer." ”

The council hall began to crumble, and the fragments of earth and stone dissipated into nothingness as ethereal shimmering particles and lines dissipated into nothingness, and Bertila, who was standing in the middle of the hall, watched all this blankly, and suddenly, her eyes became clear, and her expression instantly became vivid.

She seemed to have just woken up from a big dream, and as if she was only half awake, with a half-asleep and half-awake expression, she looked at Gao Wen, whose figure was about to disappear completely, and opened her mouth slightly.

On the surface, Gawain slowly opened his eyes, the perceptions of the real world quickly returned to his body, and the connection from the spiritual level gradually calmed down, and he was unsurprised to see Amber's big face plate in front of him again, so he reached out and pushed it away, but the latter didn't care, waving his arms to keep his balance in the retreat while shouting: "Are you awake?" ”

Gawain hummed and shook his head slightly to dispel the last bit of discomfort, and the last bit of aftersound from the dream also vaguely surfaced in his movements and quickly dissipated: "...... Brother, I'm in trouble......"

He frowned strangely, but in the next second, his complexion returned to normal, but Amber, who had just been pushed away, came over: "Hey, what's wrong with you, just now the expression was instantly serious......"

Gawain had to push this shame away again.

Why is this guy who usually doesn't have a score for anything to be so sharp-sensed when he doesn't have to......

"It's nothing, a little dizzy, it's already fine," he said casually, ignoring the "special medicine for treating dizziness and headache in middle-aged and elderly people" recommended by Pitman to himself, and began to order the next action, "The action team is here, Budd's exploration mission below has reached the expected goal - we will go down and respond." ”

"You're going down in person?" Margarita, the female knight next to her, was taken aback, she was already surprised when she saw Gawain coming to the entrance of the root system of the giant tree, she didn't expect this "His Majesty the Emperor" to plan to go down in person, and immediately felt that it was very inappropriate, "I'm afraid it's very dangerous down here, you ......"

"I've already gone down once, and the danger factor of spiritual roaming is no lower than exploring it in person," Gawain smiled and waved his hand to interrupt the female knight's words, "I have destroyed the dream 'trap' below, it is a special technique, if the trap is cast manually, then the caster must be dead, if it is cast by some kind of magic device, the device must be completely scrapped, and there will be no more danger." As for whether there is a physical threat beyond the dream trap...... Didn't everyone see the image that Bard sent back all the way? ”

Margarita seemed to want to say something more, but Gawain interrupted her again: "Speaking of which, your personality is really a bit like Philip, and it's quite true. ”

Margarita immediately straightened her chest and said loudly with a serious face: "Seriousness and prudence are the necessary qualities of a knight......"

"Yes, that's what I'm talking about."

Margarita: "......"

The female knight was once again unable to keep up with Gawain's topic, and in a moment of astonishment, His Majesty the Emperor had already crossed her and walked towards the entrance not far away.

Amber approached Margarita, who had just recovered from her stunned state, and opened her mouth to say, "Hey, to be honest, I've always thought you and that Philip were particularly suitable for something...... Do you want my help? I know a lot of people! ”

Margarita's face suddenly turned grim, and she was about to reply to the statement that she didn't care about the knight's code, but Amber had already jumped up and down to keep up with Gawain's footsteps, and ran into the entrance not far away, and as she ran, she heard her shouting: "Ah! You wait for me! You can't bring a shadow master with you to drill into such a dark place, I'm God's Chosen You know, I've been God's Chosen for decades......"

……

Bard opened his eyes, finally seeing what was really happening around him.

He hadn't entered any council chamber at all—he had walked into a magical chamber he had never seen before.

It was a mysterious room full of runes, with intricate magical symbols carved into the ceiling, walls, and floor, but there were only two black stone pillars on the ground, also engraved with magic runes, and nothing else.

At this moment, all the runes have been extinguished.

Bud didn't know when the room appeared, he only knew that it wasn't there when he left the base camp - or maybe he didn't have enough clearance to know the secret room existed.

He guessed that it was because of the collapse of the underground that caused some of the rooms and corridors to be misaligned, and the crisscrossing roots that affected his spatial judgment, which caused him to accidentally go to the wrong place and strayed into this secret room, which was affected by the magic device here.

Regardless, it seems that with the end of the dream, the device here has ceased to function.

He kept Gawain's order in mind, although the runes that could be seen everywhere here made him a little uneasy, but considering that he was close to the depths, the hidden danger caused by walking around would be much greater than these runes that had been extinguished, he still stayed honestly, found a place in the room with a wide view and a corner of the wall, and quietly waited for the arrival of the answering personnel.

He waited a long time.

The passage of time can be stressful for ordinary people, and the dim and eerie environment is even more unsettling, but Bard, who has experienced more terrifying challenges and trials, has long been steely, and the darkness here can almost be described as gentle compared to the indescribable realms he has witnessed—he stands quietly in the corner, keeping his mind and body in the best condition, counting the beats of his artificial heart to estimate the time, until some flickering lights appear outside the room.

Gawain followed the road markers left by Bud along the way to the depths of the lair.

The scale of this underground palace was astonishing, and its architectural style did not conform to that of any human kingdom, which made him a little confused and speculative. Although the palace was badly damaged in the collapse, and the cultists of the Society of the End of All Things had destroyed or altered much of its original appearance over the centuries of remodeling and addition, he could tell from the solid walls and the ancient runes buried in the floor and roof that the palace was not built by the Ansu people.

It wasn't even built by the Gondor people.

But now was not the time to delve into the details of the palace, he had already seen Bard Wendell standing by in the room, and the dense magic runes and two magical devices that looked like stone pillars in the room.

As an old Yin Bi who has devoured the knowledge and memories of the Eternal Sleeper, and is able to move freely in the Eternal Sleeper's mental network, and even participated in the construction of the Eternal Sleeper's insecure system, the Internet Rubbing Laboratory, and the Mind Network Vulnerability Cluster, he is really familiar with these things.

"It's the technique of the Eternal Sleeper," Gawain stepped forward to check the two extinguished rune pillars, "...... It should be an assistive device that projects the user's spirit outward. Don't worry, it's been completely scrapped, all the core runes are melted, and they can't be repaired. ”

It was only at this time that Bard finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately subconsciously asked, "You...... Know the technique of the Sleeper? ”

Gawain smiled: "I understand a little, I understand a little." ”

Bard was stunned for a moment, quickly adjusted his expression, and cautiously lowered his presence.

He was exposed to the "little secret of His Majesty the Emperor" again.

But Gawain didn't care about any of this, because as Daniel had mastered the security structure of the Mind Network of the Sleepers, and as the various secret hands, backdoors, and springboards he had set up in the mind network grew to scale, forming a large and complex "shadow network", he was no longer as worried about the Sleepers discovering the invasion as he had at the beginning.

He has a whole bunch of ways to reconnect the network, a whole bunch of ways to disguise himself and Daniel, and even a whole bunch of ways to create the illusion of network security, to create the illusion that the intrusion was ruled out, to create the illusion that he never hacked......

He has even set up "Gawain Cecil", "Extraterritorial Wanderer", "Ansu Pioneer", etc. as hidden keywords, as long as someone in the entire psychic network mentions these keywords, he can immediately know about them, and determine whether he has been exposed before the information is transmitted, so as to take further action.

Of course, if possible, Gawain still hoped that the Eternal Sleeper would never be aware of his intrusion, but based on the "little secret" that Bard had come into contact with, he couldn't deduce the connection between Gawain and the Eternal Sleeper's psychic network, let alone ...... Even if Bud had made it out alive today, he would have been closely monitored for a long time.

In the current situation where the Eternal Sleepers in the South have basically been completely swept away, the secrets hidden in their hearts are unspeakable...... It's always a secret.

Gawain turned his head and looked at the exit of the room.

"Now, let's continue our search."

The Eternal Sleeper's device can amplify and project people's dreams, but the device itself is not dreaming.

In this dark and deep place, there are ...... capable of dreaming Person.

Judging from what Bard saw in the dream, these dreamers are probably not in a good state, and most of them have lost control of their minds and flesh. The capacity of the body.

That's easier to deal with.

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