Volume 1 Bronze Mask Chapter 2 The Soul of the Year

In the task briefing, Chen Yu just glanced at it and habitually ignored it.

It's not feasible at all, it's just nerdy talk on paper.

Dawn Class Protective Gear ...... It can be called a walking gold cave. According to the company's internal procurement price, I can work for more than ten years without eating, drinking, or being injured, and I can almost ...... Save for a down payment.

As for the transcendence of the Nightkeeper sequence, it is not a wasteland outcast who can hunt and trade at will by the slave catcher, where is it so easy to invite.

Known as the transcendent of the extraordinary, the Night Bearer is recognized as the most powerful and stable sequence of awakenings.

The powerful spiritual innate ability and stable spiritual core allow the Night Bearer to freely develop the depth and breadth of his abilities without having to worry about the risk of losing control like other Transcendents.

But while the future is bright, most of the night bearers have fallen on the way to the dawn.

Heaven and the abyss are only separated by a line, but it is a watershed like a moat.

The ability of the Awakened Night Practitioner sequence is extraordinary, and it has to go through a dormant period of more than two years, and the ability cannot be used. During this time, they were just ordinary people with the label of transcendental.

People are accustomed to the exaltation of the transcendent, looking up, in awe, and worshipping them as gods.

But if the gods are only superficial. Soon it will be swept off the altar by the dark side of human nature and reduced to a pathetic ...... Plaything.

The night holder in the dormant period of ability, for the snooper in the treacherous corner, is a god who can be played with, satisfying the inner curiosity, emptiness, repression, possessiveness, pleasure, vanity......

Those who can survive to a stable period after awakening are undoubtedly living as a big man.

However, most of the night bearers who have entered the dormant period of ability can only hide their names on the edge of the crowd, for fear of being caught by some poor and red-eyed person and sold to the laboratory and turned into living specimens.

The companions around them may one day become enemies that pose a deadly threat, waiting for the stage of brilliant bloom, and their enemies may be the whole world.

In a long rush towards a bright future, the vast majority of the night keepers fell in fear, curiosity, captivity, and despair.

Therefore, the night practitioner who is good at the ability of the spiritual field is not a cabbage in the field, how can it be so easy to find.

Moreover, the ability of the Night Holder sequence is not completely irreplaceable.

It's not all like that, then like this, and then like this and that.

In addition, the analysis and suggestions provided by the company's intelligence department are as good as the weather forecasts in the old land broadcast daily on the radio station. If you don't listen to it, you always feel empty; If it's serious, it's really disturbing.

William said a long time ago that in the workplace, it is not uncommon for laymen to lead insiders.

Besides, the Ministry of Intelligence, as a civilian and transparent munitions company, does not often come up with some alarmist conclusions, so how can there be any other place to brush up on its presence.

……

The echo of footsteps faded away.

At the end of the passage, it was still dark.

The lakeside breeze gusts, sending a crisp sound from afar.

"Jingle bell—"

Like a wind chime strung with slender tassels, it is shaking enthusiastically, welcoming visitors from afar.

It's like a prelude to the opening of a theater.

A thick black mist poured in, like an endless night curtain falling from the sky.

The black fog was deep, mysterious, and invisible, swallowing up sound, light, and everything else.

Apart from...... A small boat that swayed slightly under his feet.

The familiar dream reappeared.

A dark, boundless dream.

The sound of waves crashing against the hull of the boat was faintly heard in my ears, and the sound of the water waves rattled, and the boat also rose and fell.

The tones of this world are so rudimentary, as if the paint in the ink palette has bottomed out, and the painter has to use boring black to make a few perfunctory strokes.

Perhaps it was once magnificent, but it was eventually lost to the wind erosion of time, day after day of wear, fading, exhaustion, until it fell silent.

In this world, the role of vision has been reduced to the extreme, and you can only barely see the mottled hull and the outline of your own body. But correspondingly, the senses of hearing and touch are amplified, becoming delicate, vivid, and even ...... Authentic.

The splashes that splash on the body from time to time are cold and biting, and every inch of skin that comes into contact is clearly feedback.

At the bow of the ship hangs a bronze palace lamp with a simple shape, carved with intricate hollow patterns, and there seems to be a text-like symbol, but it is old and vague, and it is really difficult to understand its meaning.

Chen Yu looked at it, his eyes were gradually attracted, and he couldn't take it off anymore.

The palace lamp is vicissitudes and tired, like a traveler who has wandered for a long time, has long been lost in endless exile.

Perhaps it has run out of oil and lost its power to burn and illuminate.

Perhaps it has been waiting for a flame all its life to save it from its long and tormenting wait and sinking.

Every time I touch the edges and corners of the palace lamp, I can feel a strong resonance and throbbing in my chest, which is a longing from the depths of my soul, illusory and ethereal, but like the song of a kraken, with unspeakable mystery and deadly charm.

It needs to be lit.

I had to light it up.

Chen Yu desperately wanted to light the palace lantern, and this desire was stronger than instinct.

I want to use light to dispel the darkness and fog that spreads all over the place, and then see the outline of the world.

However, there is an invisible force in the shadows that stops him.

I can't ask for it, and the pain is like a hundred claws scratching my heart.

It's obviously in his own dream, but he is like a doll being manipulated, and he can only be an unwilling bystander. It is not possible to make the slightest change in the development of the dream.

He couldn't speak, he couldn't activate his abilities, his mental power and essentia lost contact, and he became an ordinary person with his armor removed. You can't conjure up fire at will, and you can't even imagine what the fire looks like.

This boring dream has been repeating itself for three whole years.

For three years, he never gave up trying to light a flame, but never once did he succeed.

This time, it's still the same.

A tingling sensation came from my mind, and a feeling of weightlessness and emptiness followed, which soon flooded my body. His consciousness gradually blurred, and he gradually forgot what he was about to do.

This time it seems to be a little different.

At the moment before returning, Chen Yu saw that the silent wick of the palace lamp showed a little maroon, like a heated tungsten filament. It's a pity that the picture is fleeting, and the trance is like an illusion.

Consciousness gradually diverged and sank like drowning, sinking into the dead and barren black deep sea.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

I don't know how long later, the thick bell suddenly rang in my ears. Chen Yu slowly opened his eyes.

It was still an endless night fog, but it was not as silent as a dream, and there were a few more dim stars in the night sky. A little starlight falls, although it does not illuminate the way ahead, but it always warms the hearts of nocturnal walkers, and they have some confidence to resist the despair and loneliness that follow them.

Chen Yu's heart sank. It was the first time he had fallen asleep during a mission, and had even fallen into a dream that only occurred during a deep sleep. Moreover, he fell asleep standing up.

The appearance of dreams is really out of place, and there are many unusual places. If you want to make sense, there is only one explanation - you passively entered the dream world.

Someone has unleashed an ability on himself and invaded the depths of consciousness, but he is unaware of it, and can only be at his mercy! Has the man discovered his secret?

Transcendents from other forces have already taken over the ruin, or are the natives here warning themselves?

But in terms of the characteristics of their abilities, they are very similar to the dreammakers of the Night-Keeper sequence, and only they can influence and even manipulate the dreams of others.

But when a dreammaker engages people in a dream, there is a prerequisite, and that is to give a hint to the other person, which can be a glance or an action...... Only when the other party suspects that he has been affected in some way, and his spirit fluctuates instantaneously, can he succeed in dreaming.

The more capable the dreamer, the more clever and subtle the means of applying hints, which makes it impossible to guard against it. But Chen Yu was almost certain that he hadn't seen a living person for nearly a day. Not to mention the Dream Maker.

The unknown and mystery are even more frightening.

What's worse is that the passage in has disappeared. There was no way back for him.

In front of him was a wide lake, and a few leaves fell on the surface of the river, slowly sinking.

At night, it is difficult to discern the depth of the lake, and under the waves on the surface of the lake, several huge shadows can be vaguely seen wandering in the depths of the lake.

The weeping willows like bangs on the lakeside stain the night, stirring up layers of ripples on the surface of the lake.

On the other side of the lake, a shadowy pagoda can be seen, three stories above the canopy, and an intricately shaped wind chime hangs from the corner of the eaves of each floor, and a crisp collision sound can be heard from time to time.

A sprinkling of spray splashed on the shore, wetting the vamp.

It's so cool!

Chen Yu shook his head and hurriedly took a few steps back.

In the bamboo forest behind him, there was a sudden sound of bamboo leaves rubbing rapidly.

"Squirting—"

It seemed that something was moving rapidly in the forest, and it was rushing towards the lake.

The speed of the thing was amazing, the bamboo shadow swayed, and the swaying bamboo branches that it brought up formed a narrow straight line.

Finally, in a gap where the trees were not dense, Chen Yu saw a flash of white shadow. His long hair dragged to the ground, and his broad coat swayed back like a bravado scarecrow.

However, the white shadow rolled up the whistling wind, and in the blink of an eye, it came to the front.

A cold aura came to his face.

Chen Yu's heart suddenly burst into his heart, and he watched as the white shadow passed through several thick tree trunks, and a trembling sensation spread throughout his body.

This ghostly thing, which doesn't look very serious at first, is like a disembodied image that can pass through all obstacles in front of it. Is this a hallucination? Still is...... Legendary ghosts.

The white shadow's long hair covered most of his face, and the part that vaguely leaked out was actually a blurry black mist.

A strong sense of crisis suddenly erupted, stimulating Chen Yu's nerves. In the midst of the lightning, he only had time to deflect his body, and a white light rushed close to his scalp.

The white shadow was immense, but it came and went in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, it dissipated into the depths of the dense forest.

Chen Yu's reaction speed was already very fast, but compared to the weird white shadow, it was a little slower after all, and his body couldn't avoid it completely.

Half of the body that was pierced by the white shadow was numb at first, and then there was a strange feeling, empty, and there was no mass.

Chen Yu's face was ugly, and he had palpitations, so he hurriedly lowered his head to investigate. The right half of his body is still there, unharmed or missing. But his mood did not relax at all. Because when I tried to move my body, I didn't get any feedback from my right leg and right hand. He pressed it with his movable left hand, confirming a bad premonition that half of his body was no longer sensitive.

The body looked unharmed, but it looked like it had been handed over to the mechanical torso of the control center, and control was stripped from the body.

The dark jungle is quiet, like a frozen splash of ink on the landscape.

The waves on the surface of the lake have disappeared and are as calm as a mirror that does not reflect.

The wind in the tower stopped, and the wind chimes hanging from the eaves seemed to be asleep.

Even the dry and fallen leaves under his feet would rather be broken than make a sound.

The night was a little thicker, and the line of sight was compressed by half.

This eerie silence does not bring a sense of security, but rather allows fear to spread.

Chen Yu's Adam's apple moved, the subtle movements affected the muscles of his face, cold sweat flowed down his nose and into his lips, and the salty taste stimulated his nerves. He tried to calm his emotions, endured the growing worries and uneasiness in his heart, and his brain raced to think about the current situation and what to do.

The moment the white shadow passed by, Chen Yu suddenly figured out something.

The group of rice buckets in the Ministry of Intelligence are really good for nothing except for being good at producing and selling gossip. The business field should no longer collapse, and it will simply become an assist for the hostile camp at its own expense.

The insiders are insiders, and the outsiders are pitted goods.

Based on the information from which outrageous source did they determine that this was an Old World relic?

Dreaming that the probability of the next two-color ball lottery number is not outrageous, okay!

The moment he walked out of the passage, Chen Yu had already sensed that something was wrong. But inexplicably lost consciousness and fell into the dream space, and it was too late to quit when he woke up.

It can forcibly pull people into dreams, strange noises, strange black fog, white shadows that defy the laws of physics, and even time has been slightly deviated...... There is no record of any similar phenomenon in the company's internal data, which can be accessed by the authority of his agent.

By all indications, this is not a relic of the old world that has been preserved by chance, but a ...... with its own enchantments and rules Uncharted. Moreover, there is no trace of being developed.

I can't tell if it's luck or misfortune, but I accidentally found a secret place that has not yet marked the coordinates.

If the detailed coordinates are marked and sold to the company......

Chen Yu smiled bitterly and shook his head, now is obviously not the time to take stock of the benefits of this trip.

In the wasteland, the unknown may bring wealth, but more ...... It's dangerous.

Especially in the secret realm where the [Iron Law] has not been discovered, if you inadvertently violate the Iron Law, you will definitely die.

The development of every secret realm is accompanied by the white bones of the forest. This is one of the important reasons why the federal government acquiesced to the existence of slave traps outside of Safe City.

The [iron law] of any secret realm cannot be violated, and if you want to find out and avoid it, there is no shortcut, you can only use exhaustive methods - let the homeless people and death row prisoners do all kinds of behaviors in the secret realm, constantly probe, refine experience in death, and use the corpse mountain and blood sea to open up a safe passage.

Chen Yu has only one person, one life, and cannot use the extravagant and cruel exhaustive method to deal with the [Iron Law].

But if you want to live, the Iron Law can't be avoided.

What a paradox.

It is difficult to keep my mind focused and I start to feel distracted. This is a very bad sign.

Chen Yu bit the tip of his tongue fiercely, and the salty feeling came from his mouth, and the strong pain made him restrain his spirit.

He limped in the direction of the ferry. There has never been a moment in life when normal walking was so slow and uncontrollable.

I don't know what kind of wood made of the plank road sinks slightly, creaking as the footsteps fall, like an old man who is about to die, and the lung tube emits a heart-wrenching friction sound like a dilapidated bellows.

Chen Yu paused, frowning.

The sound of the plank road squeezing?

Before you know it, the silent lakeside reappears...... Sound.