In this twilight dream, Li Nuo does not need to gasp, does not consume physical strength, and does not feel tired after "running" for a long time.

It took a full 20 hours for him to reach the mountain range at the feet of the figure. Such a long journey was far beyond his imagination.

Along the way, he discovered three unbelievable things.

First:

The slender thing that hangs the figure in the air is not the "lasso" that Li Nuo envisioned.

To be precise, this thing is not on the figure's neck, it is actually a pure black hook.

Leno couldn't make out the material, but he could make sure that the black hook, which was like a crescent moon, pierced through the figure's jaw, stabbed out from the top of the head, and pierced through the figure's head from the bottom up.

All of the figure's weight is applied to the hook, and there is no other point of focus on the whole body.

If the figure is still alive, it must suffer great pain at all times.

And this is the second unbelievable thing that Li Nuo discovered!

The figure was not half clothed. His muscles were shriveled and his skin was gray, and the dried blood spread from his skull to his body like a river of crimson.

The jaw pierced by the hook opened the flesh and rolled the wound upside down, revealing dark red carrion and blood clots.

His face was contorted with pain, and his eyes were white like dead fish's eyes.

But even so, the figure was not dead.

Every 1 hour, his head twists and turns, as if trying to break free of the hook.

With this movement, the hook that caught his head shook slightly, which in turn exacerbated his pain.

The roar that resounded through the heavens and the earth was the sorrow and pain he uttered.

Along the way, Li Nuo heard about 20 screams.

As the distance between him and the figure gradually shortened, each mournful cry he heard would be more majestic and more pathetic than the previous one.

The last time I heard a scream was 50 minutes ago, and ten minutes later, the figure was about to cry out again.

Li Nuo was not in a hurry at this time.

He stopped, hid behind a rock, and pinned his pale golden body into a crack in the stone.

This has to do with the third thing.

When the figure screams, it will set off an extremely strong wind.

Li Nuo's body in the dream world was a pale golden ball of light.

He can feel the sunlight and wind passing through his body, and he also has a faint tactile response when he touches flowers, trees, and rocks.

Such a strange ball of light is very light.

The wind that blew as the figure screamed was enough to roll him up and throw him away from the figure.

So you have to find a shelter to shelter from the coming wind before the figure screams.

This is the lesson that Li Nuo has learned after experiencing several times of grief.

However, this time the sorrow was very different.

The figure hanging in the air was directly above Li Nuo's head.

After Li Nuo hid in the crack of the stone, he looked up at the figure in the height, and silently calculated the time of the next mournful cry through the temporary effect countdown on the personal panel.

After 30 seconds of silence, the figure screamed punctually.

His head turned, and his gray-white eyes scanned the ground, as if he had spotted a pale golden ball of light beneath his feet.

Li Nuo suddenly felt the gaze of the figure—numbness with a little hope, as if praying for help and salvation.

The figure opened its chapped lips slightly, and a mournful cry came as scheduled.

Swift and strong winds blew from above, and the surrounding trees rattled and dust flew into the sky.

Li Nuo hurriedly drilled into the cracks in the stones, and after preparing to survive this sorrowful scream, he took off vertically.

Unexpectedly, in the midst of the howling wind, he heard a strange sound that he had never heard before.

"Poof!"

It was like a sharp weapon piercing flesh, and it was like a blood scab falling off from a wound. The sound was faint in the wind, but it was not difficult to discern.

Li Nuo looked up and saw the figure spitting out a cloud of blackened blood.

As soon as the filthy blood left the body, it was blown away by the strong wind, turning into countless jet-black blood droplets that fell in all directions.

And that strange sound was made when the black hook stretched and retracted after the figure spat out the dirty blood, piercing the figure's head again.

"The figure must have seen me, and he seems to want me to help him out. So why did he suddenly vomit blood? The previous few times of grief, this did not happen. ”

Li Nuo pondered in the wind that gradually subsided:

"Could it be that there is something in the dirty blood that has been blown away by the wind to help him get out of trouble? There is a possibility. Perhaps, the black hook pierced the skull again, which was a punishment for the figure trying to save itself. ”

Li Nuo looked at the corner of the sky, where the black blood droplets that fell were the closest to him.

There are less than 4 hours of dream time left.

His original plan was to try to lift off to touch the figure's feet as fast as possible and in the shortest route after reaching the mountain directly below the figure, and then explore ways to passively deconstruct the figure.

Now, he has a new plan, which is to see what the black blood droplets are.

This plan is much safer than the original.

Because in the process of climbing vertically, he had nowhere to hide from the strong wind.

If he couldn't reach the figure's feet within 1 hour, he would probably be blown away, and the last 20 hours of hard work would have been wasted.

From a security point of view, it is safer to look for black blood droplets.

But if the black blood droplets have no deconstruction value, then Li Nuo would be a trip for nothing, and he would be delayed for several hours.

Li Nuo weighed it for a moment and decided to go and see the situation of the black blood droplets first.

After the wind had subsided, he emerged from a crack in the stone and floated to a height of ten meters, identifying the exact location of the black blood droplets.

The good news is that the black droplets of blood seem to be intensely corrosive.

After they landed, they reacted violently with the plants on the ground, and black plumes of smoke rose up, just pointing out the direction to Li Nuo.

Li Nuo didn't hesitate and flew directly towards the nearest black blood droplet.

The forested mountains are full of greenery and fallen leaves.

Fresh air is often mixed with the musty smell of rotting leaves.

Lino has adapted to the smell.

But as he flew towards the black droplets, a fishy smell distinctly different from the rotting leaves of the trees penetrated into his "nostrils" along the forest breeze.

Li Nuo couldn't help but slow down his flight speed and became vigilant.

At this moment, a message came from the system:

【Attention! You are affected by something unknown and get the negative effect of an unknown name. 】

To be on the safe side, let's figure out the negative effects first, and then don't be too stingy with energy.

Li Nuo chose the "negative effect of an unknown name" with his mind, and silently deconstructed it.

[System Message: You are about to deconstruct the "Unknown Name Negative Effect". 】

[It is estimated that it will consume 3 energy points, which can make the completion of deconstruction reach 100%.] 】

[Do you confirm deconstruction?] 】

Li Nuo said silently in his heart:

"Confirm to deconstruct."

A short trance-like feeling flashed through my mind, and the system message came again:

[Solve the work! 】

[You got the panel info for this debuff:]

Name: Soul Corruption

【Level】Level 1

Type: Death magic effect

【Effect】

While affected by this effect, your Spirit stat is temporarily reduced by 1 point every 1 minute.

When the Spirit stat reaches zero, you lose 0.1 Soul Power every 1 minute.

【Description】

1. Your "Spirit" is 15 points and your Soul Power is 1.2.

When your soul strength is below 1, you will randomly lose skills, knowledge, or memories, and the lower your soul strength, the more severe the consequences.

Theoretically, you can stay in Soul Corruption for up to 26 minutes.

2. "Soul Shield" can effectively suppress "Soul Corruption". After activating the "Soul Shield", you will not be affected by the "Soul Hatching" for a while.

3. After you leave the area of effect of "Soul Corruption", the temporarily reduced "Spirit" will be restored.

4. After you leave the Twilight Dream Realm, the Soul Power you lost will be restored, but the skills, memories, and knowledge you have lost due to your Soul Power being below 1 will not be restored.

…

Li Nuo raised his head and glanced at the dim blood spots on the figure's body.

"It seems that this kind of dirty blood, which can cause negative magical effects, has a lot of it on the figure. I'm going to have to keep an eye on it. After all, the hook that pierced through the figure's head was a kind of death-like magical creation? ”

As he pondered, Li Nuo flew quickly, aiming directly at the root of the black pillar of smoke.

After a while, he saw the black stained blood.

A large forest withered with the arrival of the blood.

The leaves are scorched yellow, the rotten leaves are decomposed into waste residue, the trees are withered and decayed, and the air is filled with a strong rancid smell.

The blood that was the initiator was the size of a grown man, but now it has been reduced to a small pool of water one meter square.

The stained blood in the pool was as black as ink, the liquid was viscous, and a large number of tiny bubbles appeared on the surface.

As the bubbles burst, wisps of yellow-green smoke are carried into the air, tarnishing the purity and tranquility of the woodland.

"Yellow-green smoke..."

Li Nuo's gaze deepened.

He thought of the poisonous fog in Tomb 1079.

The rancid mist emitted by the undead creatures was exactly the same as the smoke emitted by the blood in front of them.

And also.

The figure in the sky was obviously not human, but more like a giant or a god.

Let's say he's some kind of giant creature.

Isn't his relationship with the Dirty Blood similar to that between the Fist of the Empire and the Necronomicon Sect?

He's a giant.

The "Fist of the Empire" is also a giant, but an artificially created biochemical giant.

The negative effect of Tainted Blood, "Soul Corruption", is a death-type magic effect, and the Necronomicon Cult is also a hostile force related to death spells.

Both in this twilight dream and in reality, there is a clear opposition between giants and death-like magic.

Thoughts swirled through Li Nuo's mind.

For a moment, it was difficult for him to judge the connection between reality and twilight dreams.

If it is assumed, there is a hostile relationship between the real cyborg giants and the Necronomicon Sect, and then there is the Twilight Dream.

Then the so-called twilight dream is a portrayal of reality.

But if it is assumed that there is a twilight dream first, then there is a conflict between the cyborg giants and the Necromantic Sect.

Then, the scene of the hostile scene of the biochemical giants and the necromantic in reality is the result of the twilight dream interfering with reality.

It is important whether there is reality first, or twilight dreams first.

Because, Li Nuo always felt that it was no accident that the empire developed biochemical giants.

Judging from the knowledge of Tatis historiography mastered by the original owner:

The ancient Tatis dynasty was a typical feudal dynasty, there were no extraordinary ones, no extraordinary routes, and no one mastered extraordinary powers.

However, all this changed dramatically in the process of the emperor overthrowing the rule of the ancient dynasty as a criminal soldier.

The Biochemical Giant "Fist of the Empire" is an extraordinary route created by the current Emperor when he overthrew the old dynasty and established the empire.

In Tatis historiography, the Necronomicon infiltrated the royal family of the ancient Tatis dynasty and secretly plotted evil plans to sacrifice the subjects of the entire dynasty.

Emperor Tatis is a hero who sees through the conspiracy of the Necromancy, stops the evil plan, and overthrows the evil dynasty.

If Li Nuo hadn't seen the Twilight Dream, he would definitely be convinced of Tattith's historiography, believing that the cyborg giants were developed independently by the Empire.

But now...

He saw the twilight dream.

A new idea quickly took shape in his mind:

It was from the Twilight Dream that Emperor Tartis was inspired to develop the "Fist of the Empire" in reality.

His purpose is to use the technological power of biochemical mutation to reproduce the giant in the twilight dream.

And the evil force of the Necronomicon Sect may have also discovered the Dusk Dream Realm, or other things that can bring extraordinary power, and only then did they master the death magic.

The origin of extraordinary power has always been a topic that no one in the empire dares to discuss.

It is esoteric, obscure, mysterious, full of uncertainty and crisis, and has the potential to lead people to fall into the Necromancy.

The original owner of Li Nuo's body didn't know much about this aspect.

The professors at City College do the same – at least on the surface.

But now it seems that the Dusk Dream, this realistic and weird dream, is definitely inseparable from the appearance of the biochemical giant "Fist of the Empire".

Li Nuo stared at the pitch-black waterhole for a long time, and gradually came back to his senses.

He picked up a handful of twigs and threw them into the pool.

As soon as the branches came into contact with the water, billowing smoke erupted.

In just half a minute, the branches were corroded by the blood in the pool, and only some debris floated to the surface.

"It seems that this pool of dirty blood is nothing special except that it is extremely corrosive and will release 'soul corruption'."

Slightly disappointed, Li Nuo turned to leave.

At that moment, a series of bubbles erupted from the black blood, the blood rolled, and something that was rapidly corroding rose from the bottom of the water.

Li Nuo stopped and looked back.

The thing floating on the surface of the water was red, as if it were a fresh clot of blood, and it seemed to be wrapped in a ball of blood.

Li Nuo raised his non-existent eyebrows, unleashing deconstruction.

[System Message: You are about to deconstruct the "Extraordinary Trait of an Unknown Name.] It is estimated that it will cost 30 energy points to deconstruct this item 100%. 】

"Extraordinary! The figure in the sky casually spat out a whole bunch of extraordinary characteristics!? ”

Li Nuo was slightly stunned and hurriedly ran to the waterhole.