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At 3:13 in the morning, Gehry woke up in bed screaming, gasping for breath, sweat all over his face and body, he lifted the blanket in disbelief, touched his body a few times, there were no wounds, and looked around, there were no poisonous snakes, no pythons, he did not encounter the terrible snake python disaster, those terrible pictures just now were just a nightmare.

The middle-aged man wiped his sweat and sat on the bed with a long sigh of relief, fortunately, fortunately it was just a dream, the Voyager was not attacked by a snake python, it was all fake, and then he held his head again and let out a painful moan, but that dream was too real.

Even now, middle-aged men can still feel the cold touch left on their skin by slippery poisonous snakes, the pain of being entangled by a giant python and squeezing their ribs and sternums, the suffocation and despair of not being able to breathe freely like a dehydrated river fish, and the involuntary squirting and the pleasure of even the soul collapsing after being bitten by several poisonous snakes.

This profound experience and touch is etched in the soul, as if he really went through it all and only temporarily lost that memory for some reason.

A minute later, the human mercenary struggled to get out of bed and went to the bathroom to take a shower and use cold water to expel the heat and mental exhaustion from his body.

Changing into new underwear, he propped his hands on the sink and looked at himself in the mirror, his beard was scruffy and a little decadent, and his pupils looked a little distracted from the unparalleled pleasure and involuntary squirting in his dreams, as if he had indulged in lust for several nights in a row.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but in the blink of an eye, he saw that his eyes in the mirror had become vertical pupils like poisonous snakes and pythons, dark gold, but when he concentrated and looked closely, everything returned to normal.

"Fuck the grass!"

The middle-aged man cursed, he was obviously a mage who knew magic and martial arts, but at the moment he was tormented by nightmares, both panicked and helpless, so he could only slam his fist on the mirror like a coward, venting his anger and pressure in this primitive way, so that he could feel better.

However, in the next second, the neighing of countless poisonous snakes sounded in Gary's ears, and he looked up to see countless of himself reflected on the broken lenses, each of his eyes being vertical pupils, looking at him with a smile and an indescribable strangeness.

A pair of cold and inorganic snake pupils, densely packed, and the gaze that shot out of them was like substance, as if it was about to nail the poor middle-aged man in place.

The human mercenary was startled, staggered back a few steps, and almost fell to the ground, he didn't know if it was a hallucination or a reality just now, at this moment, the only thing he could be sure of was that a big hand called fear in the stomach pouch was reaching up little by little, grabbing his heart and dragging it downward.

He was afraid.

This is not the first time that a human mercenary has had nightmares, in fact, he has dreamed every night since entering this pristine rainforest in the state of Shaloman.

At first, in his dreams, he could only see large expanses of fog with abundant water vapor, and under his feet was a piece of gravel, similar to a beach, and there was nothing around, no matter how he moved, he could not see anything other than the fog, and the whole world was monotonous and hollow.

It's just that when he woke up the next day, he could still feel the dampness and moisture in the air that could wet his clothes, the blankets, short sleeves, shorts, socks that covered his body, everything he touched seemed to be wet, and he could wring out the water at any time.

A strange delusion.

"Maybe it's because it's the state of Sharoman. That's all the human mercenaries can convince themselves.

The illusion of a huge island on the southern side of the continent is not surprising that the Voyager has a typical tropical rainforest climate, with high temperatures and rains all year round, both humid and muggy, and many people on the Voyager are complaining about this, especially when it rains.

For the next few nights, Gehry dreamed the same dream, feeling more and more, and there was an equally misty lake in the mist, a cliff that surrounded the lake......

In the midst of it, a voice called to him, to the bottom of the lake, to the bottom of the lake.

On the fifth night, the human mercenary listened to the voice that kept ringing in his heart, and really entered the lake, he swam in the dead silence of the lake, constantly downstream, bringing up a series of bubbles, and at the bottom of the lake, where the sun could not reach, was a large group of shadows that could not be seen, deep and mysterious.

Faintly, he saw several thick tentacles shaking at the bottom of the lake, beckoning to him, looking forward to his departure.

Last night, Gehry finally reached the bottom of the lake, where he met the owners of the tentacles, a group of huge octopuses with three red eyes, with spikes and cuticles on their heads, like the heads of giant dragons.

As soon as they saw the human mercenary, they surrounded him in the center, waving their tentacles and letting out a low roar from their mouths.

Time passed little by little, and it wasn't until he saw an emotion called anxiety in the Three-Eyed Octopus that Gary was convinced that the Three-Eyed Octopuses were talking to him, trying to convey something, in a strange language that humans couldn't understand.

It was the worst conversation in the 32 years of a middle-aged man's life, the two sides belonged to different animal groups, the language was different, they could not communicate, all efforts were futile, and it could even be said that it was meaningless.

At the end of the dream, the largest, three-eyed octopus, angrily waving eight tentacles—20 feet long and thicker than an adult's waist—entangled him in frustration.

Gary didn't want to think twice about the last three seconds of last night's dream: the devil knew why the Creator had created such ferocious creatures with countless mouths with sharp teeth on their tentacles.

In the first two seconds, the human mercenary was dizzy by the three-eyed octopus, and in the last second, he was gnawed into a bare skeleton by the tentacles of the three-eyed octopus, and sank to the bottom of the lake, screaming to wake up.

On the seventh night, tonight, the dream was completely different from before, and it was the only dream that was not connected to the previous one.

This time, there was no fog, no lake, no tentacles, no three-eyed octopus in the dream, but the middle-aged man encountered a terrifying snake python disaster directly on the Voyager, and even the goblin engineering weapon fell into the disadvantage, was bitten by a poisonous snake, was entangled by a giant python, and enjoyed the ultimate pleasure on the edge of death.

The fact that it took seven days and seven dreams was unusual.

Moreover, he is a mage, and the mage has always believed in the mystical powers of dreams, prophecies, and the sixth sense, even if it is no longer the time of magic and mages.

Perhaps, it was the great Creator who was warning him.

"Gary, you're in trouble. The middle-aged man sat on the ground and said to himself.

"I'm resigning. Gehry said to his companion at breakfast.

The second human mercenary on the Voyager, bald and plucked out his ears: "What did you say?"

"Now is not the time to play this kind of trick, Ralph. You heard me right, I'm quitting, I'm quitting, I'm leaving Voyager, just today. ”

The bald man cautiously looked left and right to make sure that there were no other goblins, and then he whispered: "You are crazy, do you know how much energy and connections I spent in order to catch up with the advanced laboratory of the fairy industry, and how rare this opportunity is? As long as you find the ruins of the Earth Mother Temple in the depths of the rainforest with them, you can get 500,000 yuan." ”

In order to express more, he also made a gesture of five: "500,000!"

"I know. Gehry was not in the mood for breakfast, and left the fork still on the plate, with a broken omelette on top of it, "But if I don't leave, let alone 500,000, I won't even be eligible for 5,000." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Remember the dream I mentioned to you earlier?"

"If you mean the fog, the lake, the three-eyed octopus or something, yes, I remember—" The bald man thought of something and couldn't help but laugh, "Gary, you can't get the so-called warning from your dreams, do you? God, I never knew you believed that. Believe me, it's just a trivial dream. Dreams!"

"It's true. ”

"You're just too tired and need a good rest. ”

"I'm serious!" "I'm serious!" Under the emotion, the cup of coffee in front of the lid surged and condensed into a sharp sword stabbing on the table, making a bang, "This primeval forest is not normal, every night I will dream, the same dream, keep going, the dream may really come true, we will encounter countless snake python attacks - shut up, listen to me - countless poisonous snakes and pythons with extraordinary strength!"

"Listen, Gehry, I know you don't like the humid and muggy weather of Saloman—" The bald man had to change his words for a moment under the angry glare of his companion, "Well, well, take a step back, even if your dreams are true, how are you going to convince Bagger and Braque, this is not a problem that can be solved by a letter of resignation, and those vampires will not let you go easily." ”

"Yes, I'm not going to let you go, especially now, I'm very interested in the few dreams you have in your mouth. ”

Just as Gary was about to say something, a voice that clearly belonged to a goblin interjected interjected.

The faces of the two human mercenaries changed, and following the direction of the sound, they found a small device under the table, with a red indicator light on it.

"Don't worry, it's just a bug that combines eavesdropping and communication, from a cutting-edge lab. Now, act, gentlemen, come to room 302, and we need to open our hearts and have a good talk. You'd better do what I tell you to do, and you won't want to know the consequences of disobeying orders. ”

Three minutes later, room 302.

"I know you still have parents, and they have always disliked your adventures because it was too dangerous. You can imagine how sad and helpless they must be when you go missing in this mission. ”

Engineer Brak sat on a chair with a small body and said to Gehry: "But rest assured, Fairy Industries is keen on charity projects and pays great attention to humanistic care, we will give your parents a one-time compensation of 1 million, and work hard to search for your whereabouts and provide clues for two lonely old people." ”

"With this little hope, your parents have been struggling for five, or maybe ten, years, and when they finally come out of the loss of their child, I will personally inform them that you have been found in a small town. ”

"But misfortune has befallen this broken family once again, when two hopeful and withered old men are in a car accident on the way to the town, in which your mother is paralyzed and left in a vegetative state. After settling your mother, your father gritted his teeth and moved on, but sadly, the human who appeared in the town was not you. ”

"The old man paid a terrible price, but he got nothing. Hope, despair, and from hope to the muddy valley of despair, in just a few years, the poor old man first lost his son, and then lost his beloved on the way to find his son, he didn't know whether to hate himself or live like shit, and in the end, his will completely collapsed. ”

"Tsk, but the tragedy doesn't end there, under the torture of heavy blows and pain, the old man unfortunately contracted a unique product-"

"That's enough!" Gary clenched his fists, holding back his anger, he knew that Brac was the real viper compared to Bagger's madness in experimental research, he was cunning, vicious, and most importantly, he was capable enough to turn that words into reality, "What do you want to do?"

The bald man's face is also ugly, he is not afraid of death, but this threat is far more terrible than the threat itself, of course, it is more effective, not many people can face that kind of despair and pain, if his parents suffered all this because of him, he would definitely die without turning a blind eye.

"Don't worry, gentlemen, it's just a little joke and it won't come true, I promise, of course, if you're willing to answer me a few questions—take a seat. ”

The human mercenary rudely pulled out his chair and made a screeching sound.

Braque didn't care about human attitudes, just as Gary had to care about his parents, he grinned and laughed out loud - he loved the feeling, and his desire for control was greatly satisfied.

"I've heard you have the same dream for seven days in a row, describing the content of the dream, seven, all of them. ”

"Describe the lake and the surrounding geography in detail—" the engineer commanded the other goblin sitting on the side, turning his head, "draw it." ”

"Describe the specific characteristics of the three-eyed octopus, venomous snake and python. ”

"Describe in detail the extraordinary powers possessed by venomous snakes and pythons. ”

Engineer Braque was extremely cautious, asking several questions back and forth, verifying each other, such as "what describes the dream of the fifth night", "in which dreams did the viper appear", "does the python have three kinds of supernatural powers, right, which are the three types", and reviewed every word that came out of the human mercenary's mouth.

Gary sat in his chair and answered the questions resignedly, over and over again, and after an hour, when he felt like he was going crazy, the interrogation finally came to an end.

"Well, humans. Braque pulled out a photograph from his locked briefcase and placed it on the table, "Is this the poisonous snake you saw in your dream?"

"What!?"

Gary picked up the photograph, which from the background clearly belonged to the deck of a ship, with a venomous snake wrapped around the railing, draped in dark golden scales, exactly like what he had encountered in his dream last night.

"What the fuck is going on?"

"A month ago, a 50-member expedition from Fairy Industries mysteriously disappeared in the primeval forest, and this photo is our only clue. Braque gestured to Gary, "Now, your dream is the second. ”

"The remains of the Mother Earth Temple?"

"Obviously, that was just a façade, and our purpose was to investigate the truth about the disappearance of the expedition. ”