Chapter 6: The Trap

"What's going to happen?" Colin asked quickly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"I can't explain it for a while, and what I learned is just rumors. The tone of the aphorism scroll calmed again, "You should have just understood the true meaning of some of the superiors, and you were affected by this and went back to Leyer's dream. The dreams of the superior are compiled by his knowledge, and when you understand the knowledge of a superior person, you can try to retrace his dreams. But then again, the fall you fell really hard, and I hurt for you. ā€

After listening to the explanation of the paper scroll, Colin thought about it for a while, and was still a little puzzled: "But why did you enter Reye's dream, why did you enter both times?"

"For the first time you used the ink of communication on me, establishing a connection between you and me, the window to the present world of Leyer. That's why Leyer found you. ā€

"Hmph. Paper Roll smiled maliciously, "It's just that Leyer didn't expect you to have the ability to go back to his fragile body......

"In that case, Leyer created you?" Colin asked.

"Yes and no. Just as the illusion needs an anchor in the illusion, the dream of the superior also needs the anchor of the present world. Of course, this anchor point is not so critical, and the dream of the superior without the anchor can survive, but it may not be possible to do that......" The paper scroll then said: "I am one of the many anchor points occupied by Leyer, but we are in an equal contractual relationship: he protects me and will not be destroyed, and I will communicate the present world for him." We are independent. ā€

Colin carefully combed through the relationships, and it was clear that the paper scroll was hiding some facts: what was the purpose of the superior communicating the present world? what was "that thing"? and, even more strangely, why was the superior trapped in his own dreams? There were also some ambiguous words, and Colin was not in a position to force the paper scroll to answer now.

"So now that Leyer is dead, is your contract broken?" Colin moved his slightly numb arm, it seemed that Colin had been unconscious long enough.

"In the sense of the word, Leyer is not dead. ā€

"What? hasn't he already been eaten by me?" asked Colin, surprised.

"What you eat is both Leiye and not, and what you eat can be said to be Leiye's child. The adage paper scroll said slowly, "The superior also has a lifespan, and every three hundred centuries the superior must cultivate a newborn to pass on knowledge as a new self, and the inheritance of knowledge is the inheritance of consciousness for the superior." ā€

"You mean that I'm eating Leyer's newborn? So without a newborn, Leyer won't be alive soon. Colin suddenly realized.

"You're right, but it also means you'll never get the full knowledge of Leyer. Reye's dreams will be sealed in order to survive in the end, and you will never have a chance to sneak in. ā€

"Oh, by the way, what are the contents of the three maxims I just got?" Colin remembered about those three maxims.

"Oh, come, I'll explain it to you......"

In the gloomy cavern, there was no sound, only the whispered exchange between Colin and the Epigram Paper, and the knowledge of the superior was indeed incomprehensible.

After spending a lot of time, Colin said in a deep voice as if he had some understanding: "Whispering in the Demagogy...... It's a useful ability. ā€

Speaking of this, Colin seemed to suddenly think of something, and hurriedly put his hand into the water: "Well, it seems that it has been too long, and the woman's information has disappeared...... Wait!what's that!" In a trance, Colin saw an illusory shadow crouching on the ground in another section of the cavern, placing some device.

Colin cautiously approached the area where the phantom had just been, and searched carefully.

Eventually, Colin found an untraceable filament on the murky cavern floor, barely recognizable by the faint reflection of the river surface on the filament. Following the thin line, Colin found a fragmentation bomb hidden under the moss on the nearby rock wall!

"Paper roll, how long have I been down, has anyone been here?" Colin, a little frightened, hurriedly asked.

"I can't be sure when you passed out, and when I fell asleep, I had no concept of the passage of time, let alone the perception of changes in the outside world. It was only when these three aphorisms were imprinted that I realized it. The aphorism scroll is still in my pocket at the moment, and it seems that it is not yet asleep.

"From the vision, it seems that these traps should have been set after I went down the well and docked. The other party has discovered my existence, but has not tried to extinguish it, but has left this trap, what is behind this......" Colin was pondering, he had a faint bad feeling that a catastrophe was coming, but he couldn't suppress the desire to explore the taboo.

After a moment's hesitation, Colin froze and cautiously stepped over the tripwire. The moment his front foot hit the ground, Colin was stunned in disbelief: he saw another black tripwire under his feet, and this trap had two tripwires, one bright and one dark!

"Bang!" the bomb burst, scattering fragments.

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Observing the ripples on the water, Antutan sneered and stretched out his right hand to grab it in the air. The two black shadows from before rushed out again.

"The fool who explores the forbidden will suffer the worst death, hehehe......" The old assassin lowered his head again and continued to meditate, leaving him with little time left, and he also had to leave a way back for himself.

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The two shadows scurried to the spot where the trap had been set before, and as usual, they needed to find the body, dissolve it, and bury it. At this moment, there was also a trace of unhappiness in the hearts of these two people, originally there were not many dissolving gels carried on this trip, and when they caused the dragon disaster, they evacuated in a hurry and lost some of them, and one more corpse on this joint bone is one more hidden danger for the future mission.

"I didn't expect that trap to be used so quickly, it's a shame......"

"It's come to this, it's his life that is not good, and our life is not good, I just hope we don't die this time. The two dark shadows exchanged words in a hurry.

In a short time, the two had already arrived at the scene of the incident.

"Hmm, this corpse is wrong!" the leading black shadow startled, Colin's body fell on the riverbank, unscarred, a far cry from the corpse that had been killed by the fragmentation bomb before.

"Alert!" the shadow snorted, pulling out the dagger at his waist.

The dark shadow behind him suddenly hesitated.

"Didn't you think that a murderer's corpse would be more efficient and clean than dissolving glue?"

The murdered assassin's eyes widened in disbelief and he collapsed into the river, and as he lay dying, he said weakly, "Jacques, we are brothers......"

Seeing that the surrounding river water was stained red with blood, Jacques said coldly: "Hawke, do you think I don't know what you were thinking just now? If I hadn't killed you just now, it should have been me who fell here at this moment!"

"You ......" Hawke's eyes widened and he breathed.

Jacques cleaned up Hawke's body, confirmed Colin's life and death, and created traces of a fight at the scene. Now the scene looks like the murderer and Colin have died after a fight.

Sneering and nodding, the shadow turned to leave.

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