Gawain slowly opened his eyes, but this time, he didn't have Amber's face in his sight.

A slight snoring was coming from the side.

Looking down at the sound of snoring, he saw the half-elf lady with pointed ears lying on her desk, with her hands under her head, already asleep.

This guy is much quieter after falling asleep.

Gawain couldn't help laughing, and as soon as his body shook, Amber, who was sleeping on the table, woke up suddenly, and stared at this side: "Hey, you're back!" ”

Gawain opened his mouth, and just as he wanted to speak, Amber followed and shouted loudly: "Hey, let me tell you, I'm not lazy, I'm just taking a nap, you can't deduct my salary for this, I have a keen sense of the six senses, and I'm always awake when I sleep......"

Gawain: "...... I haven't said anything yet. ”

Sure enough, this guy's silence was limited to when he was asleep - when his eyes were open, a single amber could make more noise than two thousand ducks.

"Didn't I prepare my words in advance to prevent you from saying anything," Amber wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, and muttered as she looked Gawain up and down, frowning a little confusedly, "But then again, it's been a long time this time - what's going on over there?" ”

"I went with Daniel to investigate something." Gao Wen nodded, and at the same time, his mind began to replay the experience of exploring in the depths of the spiritual network, and the more he reminisced, the more he couldn't help frowning, and his heart was filled with emotion.

This exploration ...... There's so much information he's gathered, and a lot of information can make him stunned!

"It seems that this harvest is not small?" Amber keenly noticed the subtle change in Gawain's expression, "And something is quite troublesome?" ”

Gawain nodded slightly: "The situation is special, a meeting is needed, and Kamal, Hetty, Wright, and Veronica are tentatively summoned, hmm...... Pittman also called, plus you. ”

Amber silently jotted down the names, and immediately noticed that most of them were related to a certain field.

She raised her eyebrows, the tips of her ears twitching slightly, "Something to do with the gods or the plan of disobedience?" ”

"Well," Gawain replied briefly, then thought for a moment, and then ordered, "In addition, you go and investigate, investigate the abnormal spell casting signals recorded by the magic monitoring towers in various parts of the southern region recently, especially the signals of dream-like magic magic, as well as the monitoring of various psychic communications." In addition, there are records of the investigation and arrest of the Eternal Sleepers. ”

"The Sleeper...... The Eternal Sleepers in the South have almost been captured by you," Amber was a little strange for a moment, "There are magic monitoring towers everywhere, and the middle and low-level cultists are basically tied to the water pipes of the security bureau by the regional security team as soon as they go out, and you still have 'special methods' over there, and the higher-level cultists have either been expelled from the country, or are under surveillance, and are used to collect intelligence—why do you suddenly have to conduct a large-scale investigation?" ”

"Probably missing an important target," Gawain said with a serious expression, "a soul body, an Archbishop of the Eternal Sleeper is hiding in the South!" ”

As he spoke, the words that shocked him for a while came to his mind:

Selena Gerfen, Archbishop (Death), Female, Soul Body.

Current Position: Ansu/Correction/Cecil Empire - South!!

"This is a very small target, it is very likely that ordinary vigilante operations will disturb her, and your MIA operation is secretive, so it is more suitable," Gawain took a deep breath and looked into Amber's eyes, "I'm not sure if you can actually find it, but at least try - her name is Selena Gehr ......"

……

Somewhere in the territory of Typhon's Empire, in an ancient facility underground, the silence in the dimly lit corridor was broken by the sound of footsteps.

A middle-aged man in a white robe, with a more elegant temperament and monocles, walked down the long corridor covered with stone slabs and carved reliefs on the walls on either side, while behind him were several priests of the Eternal Sleeper in dark robes and owl masks on their faces.

This man is none other than the real-world "Archbishop Yuri".

Compared to the "image" in the psychic network, Yuri's temperament and clothing in the real world have hardly changed much, except that his image in the psychic network is that of a young man, and in reality, he is middle-aged and has a little more gray hair on his head.

"Alas...... I'm going to rest," Archbishop Yuri couldn't help but complain as he walked along the way, "Archbishop Selena, have you forgotten that people in the real world need to rest?" ”

Flickering lights suddenly appeared in the air, and the figure of Selena Gerfen appeared next to Yuri, the female archbishop in a long white dress in a nonchalant tone: "You have enough sleep time - in the current situation, too much rest is a waste." ”

Yuri couldn't help but glance at his side, and let out another helpless sigh.

He knew that Selena Gerfen wasn't actually in this hallway, not in this facility.

She is not even in this world anymore.

Hundreds of years ago, the former saint of the Church had been martyred, and in the chain reaction that led to the collapse of faith, she used her life to protect the sanity and souls of thousands of members of the Order, and her body was torn apart by the power of the gods, and her soul was torn apart.

It was Pope Megael III who personally took the initiative to collect Selena Gehr's broken soul and preserve it in some kind of "container" located at the dream level.

To this day, the archbishop's soul still moves from vessel to container, and her consciousness wanders through a network of minds.

At this moment, Selena in front of Yuri and Selena in the eyes of several Eternal Sleeper priests behind him were actually just projections in their minds—this projection was so real that even as a high-level peak transcendent, Yuri could hardly distinguish the illusory place, sound, smell, light, shadow, and color of the woman in front of him...... Everything is so real.

But if there was a person standing here who was completely unaffected by psychic spells, he would see that there were only Yuri and a few high-ranking priests wearing masks in the hallway, and there were no female archbishops at all.

"You're right, there's really no time to rest now," Archbishop Yuri shook his head, his gaze turned to the front with a hint of worry in his eyes, "this crisis is not trivial, if the truth is as you and I guessed...... Then we made an almost irreparable mistake. ”

At the end of the long hallway, a gate depicting runes, inlaid with crystals and magical metal, appeared in front of it, and slid automatically and silently to the sides as Yuri and the others approached.

Behind the door, there is a brightly lit and extraordinarily wide hall.

The hall was rectangular in shape, lined with neat square columns, the runes on the surface of the columns shimmering, the light wandered, and a large number of vine-like and flesh-like "cables" wrapped around it, one end reaching into the ceiling, and the other end scattered around the columns, leading to a wide and neatly arranged seat.

The chairs were distributed around the columns, forming separate areas, about half of which were now "full", and on the chairs sat the Eternal Sleepers in black robes with star pendants hanging from their collars, some of them leaning back in their chairs as if they had fallen asleep, while others remained awake, but the nerves and runes behind the seats also shimmered.

In the other half of the room, the nerve cords behind the seats were peeled away and extended to a corner of the hall, where beds lined up dozens of sleepless Sleepers.

A few men dressed in gray or brown robes walked around the sleeping cultists, tending to their fellow citizens who were too contaminated to wake up.

Seeing this scene, Yuri's brows couldn't help but furrow.

He walked towards the area where the bed was housed.

A tall, thin, blond-haired priest greeted him and bowed respectfully: "Archbishop Selena, Archbishop Yuri." ”

Then he deliberately turned to Selena Gefen: "Archbishop, the number of mental comforts has been increased according to your instructions, and the state of those people has stabilized. ”

This is a mid-level priest who does not have a high status in the Order, and many of the Christians at this level are not even aware of the fact that Archbishop Selena is actually dead - they can always see the latter appear in the Order's stronghold, and even occasionally talk to him, and under the cover of sensory projections, they see Archbishop Selena as a living person all along.

Selena nodded to the mid-level priest, and said casually as she walked forward, "Be sure to pay attention to the state of those nerve cords, the consciousness of these operators is now fragmented, and the fragments of their minds are sinking deep in the depths of the No. 1 sandbox, once the nerve cords are connected to the problem...... They won't come back. ”

The blond-haired clerical officer bowed his head and replied, "Rest assured, we pay extra attention to this. ”

Yuri's gaze swept over those lying on the bed.

Their faces were calm, their breathing was steady, as if they were just asleep in a long dream, but they were too deep in it to wake up, and artificial neural cords extended from the back of their heads, connecting the pillars in the hall, the surface of the nerve cords, the glimmer of runes surging.

Most Sleepers are actually able to connect directly to the network through the Dream Magic, but this connection is not the most efficient, so in this "control hall", the operators who connect to the network need to rely on materialized neural cables to connect to each other and merge into the network.

These neural cords are techniques from the Society of the End of All Things, which were immature more than a decade ago, but have improved a lot in recent years, and their negative effects have been greatly diminished.

When Sandbox 1 gets out of control and pollution erupts from the inside out, the operators directly connected to Sandbox 1 are impacted in this state of "physical connection", and the weak brain protection of human beings is almost useless in the face of that impact, and the pollution almost instantly occupies the minds of these compatriots, and uses it as a springboard into the psychic network.

Now, the contaminated ports of these operators have actually been shielded, and the overflow of Sandbox One no longer uses them as a springboard, but the contamination has long since spread to the Brain Servant Array and several virtual connection ports, and even without these operators as a springboard, the connection between Sandbox One and the psychic network cannot be closed.

The operators themselves are still tightly bound by Sandbox One, and their consciousness is sunk deep in the sandbox, unable to wake up.

After a long silence, Yuri suddenly said, "If you go deep into their dreams, you may be able to directly observe the situation in Sandbox One." ”

"But it's more likely to face the deepest pollution, and the fate is the same as these people," Selena Gele shook her head, "The human mind can't resist an information shock of that scale." After all, even a powerhouse of the transcendent level is still a 'mortal' in nature. ”

Selena emphasized the word "mortal", which made Yuri frown.

"Archbishop Selena, what do you think is the ...... in Sandbox No. 1 It's really ......."

"It's too early to tell, at least wait for the situation to be reported to His Holiness the Pope." Selena said, looking up and "looking" at the end of the other side of the hall.

She doesn't have a pair of eyes of her own that can be opened in the real world, but here, she can "see" everything here through the senses of a large number of disciples on the scene.

In that direction, the wall at the end of the hall was lined with neatly arranged windows, and through the crystal glass covered by the windows, it was clear that there was another hall opposite.

In that hall, there were denser square columns, each surrounded by rectangular platforms.

A large number of unconscious "brain servants" lie on those platforms, their cranial nerves are connected to the nerve cable network in the hall, and the body relies on various biomass pipelines for nutrient delivery and metabolic circulation.

"We were trying to create a dream...... "Selena Gerfen sighed, "but it was going to turn into a nightmare." ”