On the afternoon of the day the airship boarded, the cutting-edge laboratory immediately went into action.

Given the information provided by the human mage Gehry, the cutting-edge lab targeted the relatively less threatening viper, but despite this, when the first viper was brought aboard the airship, they lost six expendable personnel and two members of the special operations team, all of whom died suddenly.

Through special equipment, human mercenaries saw countless poisonous snakes and pythons covered in dark gold scales for the first time in reality, and they were in the same number as shown in the dream, and they were in the thousands, lurking in every corner of the primeval rainforest.

His dreams are real!

The euphoria of initial success did not last long on the airship, for it was not long before the cutting-edge laboratories discovered that research on venomous snakes could not be carried out smoothly, and an unprecedented difficulty lay ahead of them.

"Over the past three hours, we've tried all sorts of things, whether it's blood, scales, venom, or other tissues, once they leave the viper's body, they mutate into this special substance within five seconds. Bagger said as he showed Brack what was sealed in a high-strength transparent glass tube, "Because of this accident, we lost three scientists. ”

It was a black liquid that looked very viscous, like bitumen, and the strangest thing was that it seemed to be alive, writhing in a glass tube.

As an engineer, Braque may not be good at biological experiments or research, but he also knows that it would be impossible to study venomous snakes in such circumstances.

"Not a single bit of data has been collected?" he asked, a little reluctantly.

"Unfortunately, yes. It's unlike any other species we know, and I'm not even sure if it's really a snake or if it's just in the form of a snake, a whole new form of life. Bagel raised the glass tube in his hand and said to the engineer, "As for the study of the substance itself, I must say that the experimental material on the airship is probably not enough." ”

Bagger's reference to experimental material refers to "expendable personnel", which are usually death row inmates or life incarcers — people who can be extracted from prison with the strength of the elven industry without too much formalities — and who are trained to perform dangerous tasks, and sometimes used as living test materials.

The engineer extracted the key information: "Do I need to go back to headquarters for further research?"

"Unfortunately, it is subject to various conditions...... But we didn't find nothing. Bagger's assistant scattered five other glass tubes, also containing a liquid like asphalt, in the laboratory, and his tone gradually became excited, "Look closely at the direction of their movement, a very interesting phenomenon." ”

Although the more or less black liquid in the glass tube is constantly wriggling, if you look closely, you can see that they are always pointing in the same direction, and all six glass tubes are, like a compass pointing to the south forever.

"What does this mean?"

"It means that if we keep moving in the direction indicated, there is a probability of more than seventy percent of us finding the nest of the snake python. Bagger opened his arms and raised his voice, "When a python dies, it turns into a viper and is reborn in the form of a viper, and when a viper dies, it turns into this special substance, and I have good reason to think that the viper is continuing to exist in a way that we cannot comprehend." ”

During the seven days that the Voyager stayed where it was, Gehry continued to dream the same thing, and every night, he would come to the bottom of the lake and meet the grumpy three-eyed octopus.

Sometimes, the human mercenary realizes that this is just a dream, a dream that belongs to him, but he can't wake up, and can only keep repeating the links of communicating with the three-eyed octopus, not understanding it at all, being eaten by the angry leader of the three-eyed octopus, and waking up from the dream, again and again.

At the suggestion of Goblin Dr. Bager, Gary had taken three adult doses of special drugs on the night four days earlier to stimulate his brain and stay awake, but it didn't work, and when the clock struck midnight, the human mercenaries immediately fell into a deep sleep as if by magic, no matter how stimulated by the outside world, they didn't respond.

What's even more strange is that since the plague of the snake python in the dream on the seventh day, not a single poisonous snake has appeared in the subsequent dreams, which makes Gary can't help but wonder if the three-eyed octopus and the snake python are not in harmony and will not appear in the same dream, or even ......

Belong to different camps.

Forced to leave the state of Salroman by engineer Brack, and with no ability to defend himself against dreams, analyzing and interpreting the contents of dreams with Bagger and the think tank affiliated with Fairy Industries became his only way to deceive himself and make fun of his suffering.

Today is the first day of boarding the airship and the fifteenth day of the strange dream, and before going to bed, Gehry takes a deep breath and comforts himself, "I must find out what the three-eyed octopus is talking about, just to get rid of the fate of being eaten as soon as possible." ”

The feeling of being eaten by the three-eyed octopus tentacles that was refracted from the dream to reality was not pleasant, and the two dark circles that could not be concealed and the increasingly weak spirit all told how bad his state was.

As for whether understanding the words of the Three-Eyed Octopus will lead to other uncontrollable consequences, is there anything more terrifying than being gnawed into a skeleton by the leader of the Three-Eyed Octopus every night?

Anything else was acceptable in comparison—his standards were getting lower and lower under the torment of fourteen dreams.

What's more, the cutting-edge laboratory has begun to study poisonous snakes, and the devil knows if there will be accidents during the experiment, resulting in the disaster of snakes and pythons.

Close your eyes, fall asleep, and the dream begins.

Just like the other day, the human mercenary wakes up at the bottom of the lake, surrounded by a school of giant octopuses with three red eyes, uttering strange words that humans simply cannot understand.

Gary forced himself to concentrate all his attention, analyzing the syllables and frequencies of the Three-Eyed Octopus's speech in the same way as he had been taught in recent days by special training in a cutting-edge laboratory, listening carefully and trying to communicate.

Time passed, presumably the Creator finally heard his prayer, and gradually, the sound of the three-eyed octopus fell into his ears and gradually became regular, the first syllable, the second syllable, the third syllable, the first syllable......

They keep repeating three unique syllables!

"How come I didn't find out about such a simple thing before?"

The sudden surprise diluted the human mercenary's long-standing confusion and fear of dreams, and he learned to repeat the three unique syllables, "Ta-", "Luo-", and "Si-", and a group of three-eyed octopuses that were clearly starting to get excited proved that his choice was not wrong.

After a few minutes, the humans finally put together the three syllables in their entirety: "Talos—"

Rumble!

The moment the last syllable was completed, the water at the bottom of the lake was agitated, turbulent and tumbling, the whole world trembled, and countless substances like flames and spiritual light poured out of the void, and for a while, the surrounding lake water was dyed dark green.

Eventually, the dark green luster converged into a huge flame that burned brightly, and in the center of the flame, stood a young, tall, four-armed Naga.

The Naga was more handsome than anyone a human mercenary had ever seen, with a venomous snake wrapped around his neck and four wrists that he had seen in his dreams, and a deadly attraction that made it impossible to look away from him at the sight of him.

"I'm sorry to let you come to me in this way. The four-armed Naga was the first to speak.

Although he was apologizing, Gary did not see any expressions or movements related to sorry on the four-armed nagas, on the contrary, whether it was the tone of his voice or the attitude of raising his chin slightly, he was telling another fact: It is your honor to meet me, human.

I don't know what's going on, Naga's arrogance didn't cause any discomfort, as if it was a matter of course.

Of course, Gary didn't care about any of this, he just wanted to know the origin of the dream and the snake python, and leave Saroman as soon as possible, it was the social experience that his companion bald head had been talking about that made him temporarily force down a lot of doubts - when the other party apologized, whether it was sincere or not, you had better react as soon as possible.

Moreover, until now, the initiative is clearly in the hands of the other side, and it does not hurt to lower the posture a little.

However, just before the human mercenary organization was about to say something like "it's okay" and "it doesn't matter" to show open-mindedness and forgive the other party, the four-armed Naga complained, "Fifteen days, it took you a full fifteen days to pronounce my name. ”

"Honestly, human, I'm disappointed in you. ”

"Right...... Excuse me?"