Draenor pulled out the saber from his waist and slashed at his left arm.

"Shhh It was clearly a dream, and the wound was carved into his arm, and although not a drop of blood was shed, the heart-rending pain was so real.

A massive scarlet tornado towered over the lake, and the hurricane howled like a blade stinging Draenor's skin.

"Vicky! Come over here! ”

Vekiriko heard Draenor shouting and slowly stepped back. Everything in front of me was like an endless nightmare, and countless clouds of dust rolled up on the surrounding mountains, pouring into the tornado like a school of fish.

"It's ...... What the? Vikily felt her heart pounding against other organs in her chest, the pain almost making it impossible for her to breathe, and her blood boiling in all corners of her body.

"Vicky!" Draenor caught Viklico, who had fallen towards the lake, her face pale, her pupils dilating in her sockets under the scarlet light.

The tornado stretched towards the sky, and finally seemed to touch the end of the firmament, and the huge waves of blood stopped in the air and gradually solidified, turning into artery-like biological tissue. Countless blood-red lightning bolts spread out in the air, slowly pressing towards the crescent moon.

Draenor could feel the strangeness of the huge vessel, though it was a little blurry, but he could make sure that at the junction of the vein and the lake, there was a huge sphere beating slowly like a heart.

The orb resembled a giant bird egg without a shell, like an embryo of a mammal, and Draenor was exhausted by the successive visions, and what was happening before him was unimaginable as a human.

"Ding-ding-"

Suddenly there was a crisp sound in my ears, like the bell of a shepherd to drive out the sheep.

Draenor gradually felt the air become agitated, and everything around him moved at a breakneck speed.

The crescent moon no longer dimmed, it emitted an increasingly intense light, forcing back the veins that spread across the sky. The arteries solidified by the tornado also lost its strength and fell heavily on the surface of the lake, and the stirred wave formed a bloody storm in the air.

Vikirico stopped twitching, her pupils gradually returning to their normal size in the moonlight.

"Whew-whew...... What was that...... Draenau? Where are we? Viklico seemed to regain her memory, her heart still beating wildly from the thrill.

"Are you awake? No...... In a real sense, you're not fully awake. We're trapped in the same dream. ”

"The same dream?" Vicilico straightened up with Draenor's support, her trembling hands outstretched, the bulging veins slowly submerged beneath the cortex, and she became aware of what was happening in front of her.

She had been having strange nightmares before, but at some point, a strange voice called her to the lake.

"Looks like yes, what's going on with that voice just now?" Vikili looked at Draenor quizzically.

"Sound, do you mean the ringtone?" Draenor was sure he heard the eerie ringtone, and it didn't seem like a hallucination.

"Not a bell, more like a woman's call, calling a name, like I've seen in the underground church, 'Naulion.'" Vikily could feel that her blood pressure had not dropped significantly, and her temples were still tingling with a sharp pain from swelling.

Draenor didn't hear any human sounds, and all that rang in his ears was the crisp sound of a bell.

The lake faded its blood-red color, and the strange orb sank deep into the bottom of the lake. The nightmare seemed to subside, but the labor pain in his arm reminded Draenor that it was all happening before his eyes.

Vicchirico looked rather weak, and he didn't know if it had anything to do with what she said about her ability to dream. He suddenly remembered everything that had happened in the temple before, the triangular pyramidal temple, the relief words about the "crescent moon" and "bells".

"Do you remember what you saw in the temple? Those words, those weird spells! Draenor asked Velkily while she hadn't fainted again.

"Remember, 'The bell rings to celebrate the light brought by the Lord of the New Moon', does it have anything to do with this dream?" Vicilico clutched her forehead, she didn't know what Draenor was thinking.

"'Nightmare Ring'...... I think it was the bell that banished the nightmare on the Lake of Blood. ”

From the moment the bell rang, the nightmare dispersed and vanished like a mist dispelled by a blast of wind. Draenor suddenly realized that everything that had happened on the battlefield was not a nightmare, but rather like someone was manipulating him, extracting broken memories from his brain and putting them together like a jigsaw puzzle.

This inexplicable sense of fear made him shudder, war, death, loss, these were the things that Draenor feared most in the depths of his heart, and now it was being used by someone as a tool to torture him, constantly stimulating his brain.

The curse of the full moon, the nightmare of the new moon, Draenor felt like he was being drawn into the abyss of mystery, and the long-buried past in this world seemed to be slowly approaching him.

"Delanor, I feel ......" Vikirico's feet gradually lost the weight of her feet on the ground, and she slowly drowned in the lake as if she had fallen into a swamp.

"Vicky! How to ......"

He realized the strange thing coming from under his feet, and the flesh and blood on his body gradually melted into the lake as if it had melted.

The lake made waves and quickly swallowed the two of them.

Draenor felt the moonlight in front of him blur and the air turn to choking blood. His brain became heavy as if frozen, and in a trance, he seemed to hear someone hysterically shouting his name at the bottom of the lake.

"Draenor ......"

"Mr. Delanor, Mr. Delanor! Wake up! ”

He snapped his eyes open, and the texture of the ground ran down his fingertips to his nerves. He looked around, and he was back in the temple, and there was a rising red sun from the stone pillar, and Viklico had opened her eyes and curled up, and Jeanne was sitting beside him.

"Mr. Delaenau! Miss Vicky, you're finally awake! Jeanne finally breathed a sigh of relief, and she almost cried out loud in fright.

"Jeanne? Now it's ...... Morning? Draenor finally came back to reality, the scarlet nightmare still tugging at his pulse.

"It's almost noon, you haven't woken up, I've tried everything, and finally even this clock is used!" Jeanne pointed to the top of her head, the metal clock.

Draenor gradually remembered that the mysterious bell he had heard in his dream before should have come from there. Jeanne only thought about trying to revive the two of them, but she didn't expect to inadvertently dispel their nightmares.

"Thank you Jeanne, thanks to you, we were able to wake up." Draenor let out a long breath, not knowing how to thank her for a moment.

"What are you talking about? In fact, I was a little hesitant at first, you didn't close your eyes for two or three days along the way, maybe you just slept a little longer, but you didn't expect such a terrible thing to happen. ”

"Whew, it's really dangerous." Viklico sat up straight, her back aching, as if she had just rolled in the thorns.

"Something terrible?" Draenor felt a little weird, and he quickly reached out and grabbed Jeanne's shoulder,

"What do you mean by terrible things?"

"It's okay, please calm down, Mr. Delanor! Alas, it seems that you and Miss Vicky really need to get some rest, you two have been having nightmares since the wee hours of the morning, and you are still talking like a conversation, and you are going to scare me to death! Jeanne looked at Vicilico and said.

"Well, that's weird. It didn't look like a dream, how to say it, like a nightmare and the edge of reality, but I did dream of Draenor. Vekiriko touched her head and struggled to her feet.

Yes, the coincidence was unbelievable, and Viklico also met Draenor in a dream, and according to Jeanne, they must have had a conversation in the dream.

Draenor calmed down, trying to piece together the fragments of memories in his mind.

"It seems that all this is real, we meet in dreams, and we can still have a conscious conversation. Vicky obviously didn't know me when she first appeared, but she returned to normal after a coma, which was so weird. ”

Draenor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand and analyzed it with a serious face.

"Poof...... Hahahaha, look at this kid! I've been so tired enough that you've started talking nonsense in the middle of the day! Cooper said as he sat cross-legged against a stone pillar, striking a crystal on the masonry with the back of his axe, surrounded by the weapons of the crowd.

"Maybe you didn't fall asleep at all, and it was because you broke into this temple without permission that you were entangled by the curse of the Daredevil!" Cooper deliberately teased the two of them, reaching for Viklico's spear.

"It's also possible...... Feed! What are you doing? Don't touch my spear! Vicky ran over to stop Cooper.

"Wow! You slept like dead pigs there, and I worked tirelessly to clean up all this broken copper and iron in the middle of the night, but instead put a hot face on my cold ass! Cooper blew his beard and glared at Vickyly.

"Curse, is it another curse...... Draenor was about to break down at the word, but luckily he finally woke up, he stood up, and handed the backpack to Viklico.

"I also think it's strange, how can it be that both of them are in a dream, maybe it's some kind of half-dream-half-awake illusion." Draenor explained to Viklico that it was more like trying to convince himself, but it would be enough if it would make him forget the nightmare.

"I'm still a little unwell, if you can, you can help me carry it first. By the way, where's your gun? ”

Vicheric reminded Draenor that the shortened firearm had been hanging from his right belt.

"Here you go, blue-haired boy, I've been working here for a long time and I've made such a little powder." Cooper tossed a bulging bag to Draenor, and he unsealed it, revealing a bag full of crystal powder.

"Where did you get that?" Draenor was pleasantly surprised, at least his gun would come in handy.

"Idiot, I came from that battleship, I've been busy for so long, at least I have to get some salary!" Cooper pulled out a fist-sized piece of crystal from behind him and smirked at it.

"Thank you very much, Uncle Cooper!" Draenor finally figured out Cooper's character, this dwarf uncle was short-tempered and spoke badly, but he had suffered a lot since he fought with them, and he was indeed a good-hearted old man.

"The next step is to walk through the ruins, and we have two paths to go. One is to detour from the villages in the west to the south, which is a longer but safer journey;

"The second is to walk straight south until we reach the kingdom of the Lycos, Snowway, this road is not very familiar to me, and there is always a sense of foreboding."

Cooper pointed in the direction in front of him and said to the group.

Vikiriko remained silent, she looked at Draenor and put the decision in his hands.

"Go straight, time comes first, try everything." Draenor pointed his finger in the direction of due south on the compass.

Vickily waited for the answer she wanted, and she knew that the young man in front of her was slowly growing up.

After packing up their packages and continuing on their way, Vikiriko turned around and remembered the bell hanging in the temple, quietly removed it and put it in his backpack, and followed the group along the path of the ruins towards due south.

She seemed to be relieved of the strange events that had happened before, and she was as lively as ever, following Jeanne to stop and go ahead.

"Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your body? Miss Vicky? Still worried about Viklico's health, Jeanne crouched on the ground looking for signs of her prey.

"It's nothing big except that my stomach growls with hunger, teach me quickly! How do you know for sure it's a turkey footprint? Vicky asked, pointing to a mess of trails on the ground.

Delaeno was a little anxious about her calmness, and quickly quickened his pace to catch up with Viklico.

"Vicky, do you really believe that what happened last night was just a so-called 'curse'? I know you've seen the lake of blood, and the overly dazzling crescent. Draenor whispered to Vicilico, reflexively remembering the horrific scene, and he couldn't help but feel creepy.

"It's bizarre, but we don't seem to have suffered any real damage, and I'd rather believe it's just a coincidence than a curse." Vicky Ke became serious, but quickly picked herself up again.

"There's still a long way to go, dwelling on the past isn't good for us, cheer up a little bit...... Jeanne, let's see if we can catch it! My stomach is bursting with hunger! ”

After Viklico finished speaking to Draenor, she turned and continued to look for the turkey with Jeanne, and Cooper glared back at Draenor, carrying the axe and continuing to walk forward.

Only Draenor stood in silence, his left arm raised, staring at the hideous scar.

"yes, maybe it was all a nightmare...... Right? ”

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