The onlookers, who seemed to say goodbye to the body, finally left.

Gawain breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, glanced at Amber on the nearby easy chair with his eyes closed, and then at Tyr who was waiting for "food for the spirit" in the corner of the room, calmed down slightly, and began to condense his spirit again, precipitate his thoughts, and let himself enter the mental network of the Eternal Sleeper.

……

Glen Collar, Crackstone Castle, Patty's bedroom.

The light of the sun had completely fallen on the other side of the mountains, and the faint starlight had appeared at the end of the horizon on the other side, and the bright magic crystal lamps lit up in the room, dispelling the darkening night along with the garden lamps and street lamps inside and outside the castle.

The textbooks weren't very difficult, and they were only at the level of elementary education at the Imperial College of General Studies, but Patty had missed out on so much education that she had only started reading these basic textbooks until now.

But she was still happy because she had been lucky to be able to sit comfortably in her chair and read like this, without constant pain and convulsions, without constant pain and convulsions.

A wisp of air blew through a vent in the corner of the room, blowing the hair next to Patty's cheek, and the girl looked up with feeling, only to see that there was no one around her.

Patty lowered her eyelids and pursed her lips in frustration.

It's been a long time since she's had that incredible dream, never seen the kind "Sister Serena" again, never seen the irascible red-haired uncle again, and never seen the big uncle who calls himself "Uncle Sercy".

Everything in that dream seemed to have been turned into messy fragments along with her years of nightmarish days, blurred in the girl's mental world, which had been gradually recovered, and her mother told her that they were hallucinations induced by analgesic ointments, and that as her body gradually recovered, the strange and long dream would eventually be forgotten by her, like the strange fantasies of every child's childhood, for Patti ...... Finally grew up.

But Patty still thinks of the things in her dreams from time to time, of the pretty streets and gardens, and of the kind people in her dreams...... She never dared to tell her mother, in fact, she really wanted to go back to that dream world and see those uncles and aunts again.

Because she forgot to say goodbye to them the last time she dreamed.

But her mother must be worried, so Patty keeps everything to herself.

Another breeze blew, but it came from the opposite direction of the vent, and Patty quickly turned around, but still saw no figure.

Only the corner of her eye swept across the glass window, and she vaguely seemed to see a warm and familiar lantern floating in the reflection, but when she rubbed her eyes and looked closely, she could see nothing.

……

Pale golden rune brilliance flowed like water on the surface of the large round table, and under the dimming light that only served a decorative purpose, figures appeared around the round table.

Compared to the last Synod of the Supreme Bishops, there were clearly several vacant seats at the round table, and the archbishops who were normally present had obviously noticed this, but they only glanced at the vacant seats, but none of them asked aloud.

Soon, almost everyone's eyes fell on the position next to Selena Geer's clone.

A special "participant" sat there in the open, smiling at the archbishops' gaze.

"Everyone came on time." Gawain said with a smile, and looked at the few people he knew in the conference hall in turn-Archbishop Yuri's position was several seats away from him this time, the archbishop's face was obviously much better than last time, and Archbishop Magnum was on the opposite side of the round table, he pursed his mouth, and he didn't seem to have any intention of releasing the psychic storm, which made Gawain nod with satisfaction.

Originally, don't carve everything into the subconscious, is this kind of thing used for self-defense?

The atmosphere was somewhat strange, obviously, even if this was the second time that the Extraterritorial Wanderers had appeared, the archbishops were not very accustomed to this situation of "large neutral wild monsters suddenly became high-level of the organization", the participants looked at each other, and only after exchanging glances did a few people greet Gawain with embarrassment, while more people could only squeeze out a smile, not knowing how to respond to the "Extraterritorial Wanderer" in order to appear to be in danger.

Gawain didn't care about this, anyway, he had expected a similar situation, and after a brief greeting, he observed the venue, and then unsurprisingly found that there were a few people missing.

"How many people seem to be absent?" He looked unhurriedly at Megael III, who was floating in the air, "Do you need to wait?" ”

"They have unfortunately been polluted by the upper narrator," Megael III's starlight aggregate slowly squirmed, and a gentle voice came from it, "it's no longer suitable to be here." ”

Gawain nodded and said casually, "...... Oh, that's unfortunate. ”

Even the archbishop of the Supreme Bishopric has been put on the purge...... It seems that Megael III's purge of the Order is indeed unusual, is this in preparation for the upcoming sectarian reorganization and core transfer?

In two or three days to do this, this dream pope's ability is indeed extraordinary......

With a little emotion in his heart, Gawain shook his head and took the opportunity to lead the topic to the pollution of the upper narrator: "Speaking of the pollution of the upper narrator, Selena, did the runes I gave you last time have any effect?" ”

"It had a surprising effect," Selena immediately responded, with undisguised joy in her eyes, "The people who were contaminated by exploring Sandbox One before were quickly quiet after seeing the runes, and now give them a 'rune calm' every six hours, and the most tainted people have stopped praying to the upper narrators. The quarantine will continue for a while, and if they don't have a recurrent seizure after the event is over, they can be declared cured. ”

"That's good," Gawain said in a good mood, "You see, the upper narrator can still deal with it, can't it?" ”

The "runes" he mentioned were the same kraken runes he handed to Selena the last time he talked to him through the telepathic projection, and they were rubbed from Tyr's sea demon form.

While the runes that originated from the Kraken still have many mysteries, and Cecil's runemasters have not yet been able to fully decipher their mysteries, Jenny's research team has sorted out several effective rune combinations and applied them in some ways. They have been used to cure Daniel's mental illness, have been made into a "mental protection system", and have proven effective against the body of false gods, and now, those runes from the deep sea have proven to be effective against the mental contamination of the upper narrator!

Of course, after recovery, people may fall into a short-term squid mania, or become too energetic, too optimistic and cheerful for a certain period of time, these are all sequelae, but compared to the believers who are completely mentally polluted and become unspeakable, or even lose their minds and become sacrifices to come, these "sequelae" are obviously acceptable and even negligible.

In all fairness, Gawain always felt that the rune effect of the Kraken "Let's go dig the big squid together" should actually be some kind of spiritual pollution similar to the erosion of gods, after all, there is now evidence that the "race totem" of those deep-sea salted fish did steal the god position of the Lord of the Storm, and the pattern of their sea demon form is obviously related to the authority of the storm, but the spiritual pollution effect of those deep-sea salted fish spirits is so funny that sometimes Gawain can't tell whether it is an evil god or a harmonious god. But one thing is certain, and that is that it doesn't hurt to be cheerful and optimistic......

This may be the so-called only spiritual pollution can fight spiritual pollution......

The archbishops at the scene listened to Gawain and Selena talk about purifying the pollution of the upper narrator, but none of them opened their mouths to mention the archbishops who were only absent today and were declared "believers of the upper narrator", and did not mention the "pollution nodes" that disappeared in the psychic network in the last two days, and everyone had a very tacit understanding on this matter-

Some people, who have been polluted by the upper narrator, will come back soon after purification, and some people, who are absent today, really can't come back......

"So, let's get back to the topic," Gawain took the initiative to end the conversation after talking about the runes, and he turned to Megael III in mid-air, "Are you ready for another operation against Sandbox One?" ”

"Everything is ready," the starlight aggregate in mid-air squirmed as it squirmed, "including all levels of monitoring and assistance in the network, as well as real-world dream shielding and guiding personnel. As for the specific personnel who entered the No. 1 sandbox...... Having learned the lessons of the last time, we will no longer send ordinary priests in, and this time there will only be three people who will enter the No. 1 sandbox except you. ”

As soon as Megael III finished speaking, the three figures sitting around the round table had already stood up.

Gawain was not surprised to see Selena, Yuri, and Magnum.

Obviously, having explored Phantom Town themselves and dealing with the affairs of the upper narrator for a long time, they have once again become members of the exploration team.

As for Daniel, he was not selected for the operation, and Gawain was not surprised - as the head of security of the psychic network, Daniel could play a rather limited role in Sandbox 1, and he should be assigned to provide technical support in the backbone network to ensure the stability and reliability of the network environment and prevent unexpected data contamination in Sandbox 1.

"Team of four...... The fewer people there are, the less trouble there will be," Gawain nodded, not caring much about the specific "teammates", "Is there anything else I need to pay attention to?" ”

A female archbishop in a white robe with a slightly gloomy temperament stood up, and she seemed to be the head of the technical side: "According to the agreement, after you enter Sandbox One, we will partially restore the time iteration of the system, and the time flow rate in Sandbox One will be increased to ten times that of the real world - this is the highest rate that the sandbox security system can currently support without causing pollution to worsen." ”

The female archbishop's voice fell, and Daniel, who was dressed in black robes, also stood up, and continued: "During this period, the backbone network will use all the remaining computing resources to maintain the stability of the consciousness level, which can maximize the pollution in the sandbox and not leak out, which can be supported in the real world for a day ......"

Gawain nodded knowingly: "It's easy to understand - relying on time acceleration, you have bought us ten days to act, and in these ten days, no matter how much we make a move in Sandbox One, you will do everything possible to ensure that the outside world is not polluted." ”

The gloomy woman nodded: "That's right, you can let go of your hands and feet." ”

Gawain asked, "What if I don't finish the upper narrator in ten days, or if the action in the sandbox fails?" ”

The female priest with a gloomy temperament immediately replied, "...... We'll destroy all Brain Servant nodes, and all Clerics connected to Sandbox One will immediately kill themselves to cut off the spread of dreams. We'll do everything we can to prevent the arrival of the upper storytellers, and you...... We think you definitely have a way to leave. ”

"I have a way to get out...... Gawain said, his gaze swept over Magnum and the other three around the round table, "The three of them can ......"

"I wrote a suicide note." Yuri said indifferently.

"Damn it!" Magnum's voice rang out immediately, "We said we didn't need that!" ”

Yuri glanced at the short, red-haired man, "If you need to make up for it, I can lend you pen and paper - in the real world." ”

"Damn, I don't need to!!"

Gawain ignored the two archbishops who seemed to be on good terms, and he looked at Selena beside him, "Did you say goodbye?" ”

"I've met once." Selena said calmly.

Gawain nodded: "Okay, let's go." ”