Chapter seven hundred and eighty third true face
When the two archbishops Yuri and Magnan recovered, Gauvin stopped his direct communication with Daniel and re-turned into an extraterritorial wanderer who listened quietly and was harmless by the people.
From a certain perspective, he felt that he, the "extra person" who followed the eternal sleepers from beginning to end, seemed to be the most terrifying element in this strange place...
On the other side, Daniel learned from Archbishop Yuri what the other party had experienced when recalibrating his mind.
"You said...you saw the projection of the upper narrators in the depths of your memory?" Daniel looked particularly serious, staring into Yuri's eyes, "And the part of your memory that symbolizes the 'potent self' has begun to praise the upper narrators?"
Archbishop Yuri nodded with a gloomy expression, and Magnan next to him also echoed: "I have encountered a similar situation. Damn it. I went back to when I was a pastor in the Church of God of War, and the church was full of people. Suddenly, everyone began to pray to the upper narrator... I swear that from the fact that I gave up the belief in God of War and became a nightmare mentor to the present, the most terrifying nightmare I have woven is at this level!!"
Gao Wen listened to the two archbishops telling their respective experiences, realizing that both of them should belong to the Eternal Sleeper Priest who had been "transformed" halfway. One of them was a nobleman from Tifeng and the other was a priest from the God of War Church, but it was obvious that they had completely broken with the past and were promoted to the top leaders of the Eternal Sleeper through their own strength and long-term loyalty.
This is very similar to Daniel's experience. Before becoming a dark priest, he was a high-level mage who left the Tifeng Mage Association and was also "transformed" into a sleeper halfway.
"Now I have to confirm something," Daniel stared at Yuri and Magnan, two archbishops, "have you been contaminated by the upper narrators?"
Yuri and Magnan looked at each other, neither of them showed any objection.
Deep in their own memory, at the bottom of their subconscious, they have personally experienced the strange erosion of the "upper narrators". They will not underestimate the power that humans cannot understand, nor will they blindly believe in their own judgment of their own situation.
After all, if pollution comes from one’s own subconscious, it is impossible for a person to realize that he has been polluted.
Daniel is the security supervisor of the spiritual network and has high attainments in the fields of mental warning and pollution protection. It is reasonable for this archbishop to conduct inspections.
But before that, Archbishop Yuri asked the first question: "Article Daniel, why are you not affected by the abnormal environment here?"
Daniel's expression had not changed because he had already communicated with Gao Wen and had already conceived the answer at this time: "As a safety supervisor, I have a habit of working.
"I never completely immerse my mind in any level of consciousness. During this exploration, I also retained some of the thinking threads within the shallow consciousness layer.
"When the town changes, my mind that stayed outside noticed the abnormality, and thus awakened myself."
Daniel was not talking nonsense. What he was talking about was an effective protection plan that he discussed when he exchanged the strange situation in this phantom town with Gao Wen just now. The only part he lied to the two archbishops was that he actually had neither this unique habit nor did he do any "distribution thinking" operations in this exploration.
But after going back this time... maybe I should really develop such a "habit".
After all, the spiritual network is no longer safe. Before completely solving the threat from the upper narrators, he, a security supervisor who often deals with network pollution, must protect himself.
Yuri and Magnan, the two Archbishops, seemed to have no doubts about Daniel's words. They nodded, and the loud-sounding Magnan immediately asked: "How do you plan to check if we are contaminated by the upper narrators?"
While speaking, the short stature, the archbishop of Eternal Sleeper, who had a very large caliber, couldn't help but look down at himself, and his tone was quite dissatisfied: "This damn place, I must use this look to move..."
"Our virtual disguise doesn't seem to work here," Archbishop Yuri glanced at Magnan. "You should accept your true appearance and be immersed in your virtual disguise. It is not a archbishop's right."
"I know I know...you talk too much nonsense!"
Daniel didn't care about the conversation between the two colleagues in front of him. He just nodded and answered Magnan's question just now: "It's simple to check whether you are contaminated, but you need to cooperate and let me check your superficial memory. Don't worry, I can confirm whether there is any belief in the upper narrators..."
He hoped to take this opportunity to reasonably check the superficial memories of the two archbishops, so as to collect some information and only check the superficial memories, which would not be too sensitive or offensive, but it still requires sufficient reasonable reasons. At the moment, this seems to be a very good opportunity.
On the grounds of "excluding pollution from the upper narrators", the two archbishops will probably not refuse.
Gao Wen, who was standing aside, also showed a faint smile, obviously quite satisfied with Daniel's performance.
However, things didn't go as far as Gowen and Daniel expected
Before Daniel finished speaking, Yuri and Magnan’s two archbishops responded, a voice suddenly came out of the nearby streets, which was Selena Gerfen’s voice:
"No need to confirm that if Archbishop Daniel is contaminated by the upper narrators, they will now become residents of this town."
Daniel's expression almost changed, but in the end he remained calm, turned to the direction where the sound came Yuri, Magnan and the others also turned their heads curiously and saw a lantern appearing first at the entrance of the alley not far away.
Selena Gerfen was not affected by the strange environment here?!
As the question suddenly emerged in his heart, Gao Wen turned his eyes with a little surprise and saw the figure walking out of the alley with a lantern in his hand.
He saw Patty.
Viscount Glen's daughter, a child running in the dream city, and Patty, who calls Gowan "Uncle Selsi" in the dream world.
As Gao Wen remembered, she wore a pure white dress with long light brown hair draped behind her, her eyes were big, and she had healthy limbs in the dream world, but she also had a completely different expression from Gao Wen’s memory: her expression was quiet and calm, with a steady attitude that was not in line with her age, and there was a hint of vicissitudes of maturity in the depths of her eyes.
She was holding Selena Gerfen's lantern in her hand, followed by four high-level priests wearing owl masks, walking slowly towards this side.
Gao Wen blinked, calmed down in the shock that came like an explosion, and realized one thing:
What he saw was not Patty, but Selena Gerfin with Patty's face.
In this "town after the bell rings", everyone has been removed from the virtual disguise in the spiritual network and instead appears in the real world. So why does an ancient soul like Selena Gerfen, who has lost its real body and has lived in the network with ideology, appear like Patty Glen?
Patty Glenn was disguised by Selena Gel? Or...
In a short moment, Gao Wenlian thought of countless clues, and a large amount of fragmented intelligence emerged like an explosion, and was finally connected into a whole by a line. He thought of Patty Glen's head crown, Selena Gelfen and Patty Glen strolled and played on the tree-lined avenue of Dream City, and even thought of the lantern that appeared in Kant inexplicably, and the traces of the activities of the Eternal Sleeper that appeared around Cecil before the Southern Unification War...
Finally, what he thought of was what he was investigating recently, a passage he saw last time in Selena Gerfen’s information:
Selena Gerfen, Archbishop (death), female, soul body.
Current location: Ansu/Revised/Cecil Empire-Southern border.
So that's it.
Gao Wen breathed a sigh of relief, and many thoughts slowly settled in his heart. He did not rush to make any conclusions about Selena Gerpoint or Patty's state, but he had several more reliable guesses in his mind. When he was thinking, Selena... Selena with Patty's appearance also came to Daniel and others.
Gao Wen's hidden effect is still in effect. Except for Daniel, no one at the scene knew that there was another bystander standing quietly beside them.
Daniel and the other two saw Selena holding a lantern. They did not hide their surprise. Obviously, it was not only Daniel's first time seeing it, but also Yuri and Magnan, the two Archbishops, saw this "Dream Saint", for the first time. Magnan couldn't help but speak: "Article Selena, you are..."
"Didn't you also restore your true posture?" Selena responded calmly without waiting for the other party to finish speaking.
Her attitude was very plain and steady, and her voice was also an adult voice, but it became particularly weird if all this was placed on a little girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old.
In fact, Patty in the real world should be almost fifteen years old this year, but due to the injury, she always looks much thinner than her peers. This also affects her image in the spiritual network and is indirectly reflected in Selena Gerf's "real posture".
"Real posture..." Daniel subconsciously muttered, and it took quite a bit of effort to prevent his expression from appearing too strange.
"...My situation is very complicated, so don't dig deeper," Selena shook her head, then raised her head, and her eyes fell on Yuri and Archbishop Magnan. "You are lucky, you are only exposed to the erosion of the upper narrators, but not polluted."
"You don't look affected?" Yuri looked at Selena in confusion and the several owl priests behind Selena. "How did you do it?"
Selena glanced at Yuri, lowered her head and looked at her young body at the moment, and suddenly there was a hint of self-deprecating in her eyes: "The pollution of the upper narrators will erode the deep consciousness... As a soul that is put together, a mind that runs in the network, I do not have deep consciousness.
"It is precisely with this particularity that I not only resisted the erosion of this town, but also had the opportunity to shelter other eroded compatriots."
While speaking, Selena looked back at the four high-level priests wearing masks following behind her, sighed and shook her head.
"Unfortunately, I was one step late. The deep consciousness of two people has been polluted, becoming a believer of the upper narrator, and becoming a part of the town. With my ability, I can no longer find them."
The weirdness and danger of Phantom Town made Daniel and others feel shocked.
While Selena spoke, Gao Wen carefully observed her and the "owl priests" behind her, especially the latter. In his careful observation, he did not find that these people had the sense of incongruity caused by the replacement of "upper narrators". While relaxing in his heart, he did not dare to relax completely.
This made him sigh that the "weird" brewing in the sandbox No. 1 is really strange and dangerous, especially because it directly threatens people's mind, which makes people feel even more unpredictable, making people never dare to relax their vigilance. Even if he seems to be unaffected, he will not dare to let go of his heart when facing the upper narrators and their related influences!
"Article Selena, we are now trapped in this 'town after the bell rings' and can no longer contact the surveillance team behind us." Yuri did not show any relaxation after confirming that Archbishop Selena in front of him, but reported the current bad situation. "And we cannot sense the boundaries of reality and cannot directly leave the Internet, so the situation is not optimistic."
"I don't need to perceive the boundaries of reality, but I can feel that there is a distorted barrier between this town and the normal network, which should be that it is preventing us from leaving," Selena said in a deep voice. Although the calm voice seemed a bit like a forced adult incongruous feeling on a little girl, no one at the scene cared about this. "I guess the key to this distorted barrier is in the middle of the town, where the church stands..."
"It makes sense," Daniel showed a sudden appearance. "In the first exploration, the church appeared after the bell rang, and this is the town after the bell rang! We didn't find the church 'outside', but it might be here!"
"Let's go," Selena breathed softly, "The church is not far away, but we have wasted a lot of time."
After the words came, she had turned around, held the lantern in her hand, and walked towards the town square.
The sleepers who had lost two people to the death, followed, and Gao Wen followed silently and quietly looked at Selena.
Chapter completed!