Chapter seven hundred and eighty fourth mental storm
Under Selena's leadership, the Eternal Sleeper Exploration Team, which had only eight people left, began to march towards the center of the town.
The dream lantern swayed slowly in the dim darkness that seemed to be eternal. The hazy and blurred light shone on the quiet and deserted streets. Daniel and others were on guard and were always watching whether there would be strange changes in the surrounding streets. Gao Wen followed the team silently, with his eyes falling on Selena Gerfon.
Patty, who likes to run in the dream world, Patty, who is weak in the real world but still struggles to smile, and the solemn expression in front of him, holding a lantern in his hand, three shadows circling in his mind, overlapping with the scene in front of him, gradually forming a strange impression-
He seemed to see Selena Gerfen walking in front of the team with Patty's hand.
He shook his head, threw this unreliable Lenovo out of his mind, then raised his head, and his eyes reflected a ray of light rising from the end of the distant street.
It's morning glow.
Daniel and others also stopped, watching in surprise and doubtful eyes as a brilliant light suddenly cut through the darkness. At the end of this town that seemed to be trapped in an eternal night, the light quickly expanded in everyone's sight. In almost the blink of an eye, it turned into endless golden-red morning glows, splashing on the staggered roofs of the town. Then the golden-red morning glow turned into a light golden sunshine, completely dispersing the dark shadows between the streets.
A huge sun slowly rose in the horizon, with light shining and darkness retreating.
"It's dawn..." Daniel stared at the magnificent scene of rising sun, as if he was shocked by the magnificent scene and couldn't speak, but he quickly realized that a long staff appeared in his hand, and various spells that protected the mind were blessed on the entire team in just a few seconds.
It's dawn! This is a scene that has never appeared in this phantom town - it is its third state except for midnight before the bell rings and midnight after the bell rings!
In this place, all phenomena that have never happened only mean danger!
Other eternal sleepers also responded, prepared various offensive and defensive spells, or observed the changes in the streets vigilantly, and soon, the changes happened before everyone's eyes—
Abrupt figures appeared on the streets and alleys.
It was as if the phantom of sudden awakening from a dream and entering reality. The streets of the town that were empty the previous second, and the next second, countless shadows appeared. These phantoms quickly became solid in the next few breaths. They turned into pedestrians coming and going, and turned into countless residents in the town!
These people were wearing classical costumes that were different from the real world, with numb and empty faces. They were shaking on the streets like wandering souls, but they soon "awakened" and quickly became vivid and flexible in their expressions. They came and went around Daniel and others, walking and talking, as if they had lived in this town normally from the beginning, as if the town had never had any weirdness or any abnormality!
Archbishop Magnan's hand was filled with layers of dizzying ripples, and a powerful spiritual storm almost broke out. However, at the moment when the spell was about to take shape, the archbishop, who seemed to be hot-tempered, cut off his spell and stopped others from acting: "Wait a minute! Depend on the situation!"
Archbishop Yuri was surrounded by complex golden runes, and the aggressive spells almost took action. After Archbishop Magnan made a reminder, he stopped casting the spell and swept his eyes around—
The crowds coming and going on the streets of the town seemed to have not noticed Daniel and his party. They were still busy with their lives, busy rushing to talk to their relatives and friends. The team of Eternal Sleepers standing in the middle of the road was obviously so abrupt and eye-catching, but it seemed to be invisible in the eyes of all residents.
Daniel couldn't help but feel a little cold sweat on his forehead.
This phantom town has become "lively", but this bustling and lively street is even more strange and terrifying than the unmanned streets shrouded in the night before!
"This is also the projection of Sandbox No. 1," Selena's voice suddenly sounded, breaking the silence in the team. "These residents should only be active according to the information recorded in the projection, such as a large illusion, and will not interact with us."
"…This greatly inspired me to weave nightmares," Archbishop Magnan muttered in a louder volume than the average person's voice, "Why didn't I think of such a scene before?"
"Keep going forward," Selena shook her head, "and pay attention to the content of these 'Phantom Residents' conversations. Their daily conversations may reveal some of the current status of Sandbox One."
The group continued to head towards the center of the town, and walked cautiously on the streets of the town where pedestrians came and went.
Everyone is paying attention to not contacting those "phantom residents" - although everyone is very curious whether these shadows can be contacted and what will happen after they come into contact, people who can participate in the exploration task at least have basic caution. Under the premise of unknown circumstances, no one makes such a bold attempt that may cause any consequences.
Gao Wen divided part of his attention and listened carefully to the content of the conversation between the Phantom residents: he was also curious about the "life" in the sandbox No. 1.
Most of those conversations are of no value - just like any normal, street residents chat, what the “residents” are talking about is nothing more than weather, harvest, family matters, and food, food, oil and salt.
People in the sandbox No. 1 seem to live an ordinary life. They are born, old, sick and dead, married and funerals in that virtual world. They have their own worries, their own wishes, running around for life, and worrying for the future...
The only difference from the real world is that they often mention the "upper narrators" in conversations - they pray to Him, swear with Him, and even treat it as part of everyday common sayings.
They would say, "Even the upper narrators will be surprised" to describe an incredible level of something. They would say, "The upper narrators must know", which actually means that they know nothing about something - only God knows about this matter.
Gao Wen frowned slightly, and his mood fluctuated.
In a sense, the sleepers really created a miracle, a miracle that was even greater than the "body of a false god" where all things ended up.
So many people have a living real mind and a "virtual personality" created by sandboxes. They live in such a simulated world, spending their own colorful lives from generation to generation, with their own joys, anger, sorrows, and pursuits. It took more than a thousand years for this world to have a mistake.
Such superb technology...
Isn't it okay to do some personnel?
If these technical mates have half of their ability to commit suicide and steadily develop technologies such as artificial intelligence, they may soon restore the iron mind of the Gondor Empire back then!!
Gao Wen was filled with a strong urge to complain, and the entire team had arrived at the end of the street and the edge of the square in the center of the town.
The small chapel with a gray-white exterior wall and a high steep roof was indeed standing quietly in the square.
The church's spire is bathed in the brilliant sunshine, and the exterior walls are shining brightly under the huge sun. In front of the wall paintings of the upper narrators, residents are constantly stopping and paying tribute.
An elderly priest in a simple gray robe stood in front of the open door of the church, staring at the crowded square with a smile, with residents staying beside him, listening to the elderly priest telling the truth about the upper narrator, everything seemed so harmonious and beautiful.
It almost makes people forget that this is a strange projection located in the "Imaginary Zone", forget that this is a phantom town full of distorted and dangerous forces, forget that you are in an exploration team with a mission...
Archbishop Yuri woke up from his trance in an instant. He saw a lantern passing by in front of him, and Selena Gerfen's voice rang in his ears: "Don't relax, remember that this is just a projection, everything here is fake."
Gao Wen glanced at the eternal sleepers in front of him in confusion, muttering in his heart - What's wrong just now? Another force is trying to erode them? Why don't he feel it?
The elderly priest at the church door not far away raised his head, smiled and looked at the sleepers who were on guard against the enemy, and spoke in a gentle tone: "Why should you resist? Isn't this a very beautiful world?"
As the priest finished speaking, in the nearby streets and alleys, in the square in front of the church, the residents of the town who came and went to busy life, and those projectors who had turned a blind eye to Daniel and others, suddenly stopped, and stopped like puppets that had stopped in an instant.
The next second, they slowly turned their heads and their eyes fell on the uninvited guests in the square.
The residents of the entire town quietly cast their gazes. At this moment, even Gao Wen felt creepy!
Of course, the sleepers were even more like facing a great enemy. Only Selena calmly faced the gaze of the elderly priest, and then slowly spoke after a few seconds: "Sure enough... you have a soul that is close to the real one. Are you a projection formed by the mind of the master of this town?"
The old priest looked calm and shook his head slowly: "I don't understand what you are talking about. I just think you should try to stay here for a few more days - it's lucky to be protected by the land of the upper narrator, why go back to that dangerous nothingness?"
Gao Wen frowned slightly - Dangerous nothingness? What does it mean?
Is it a "image zone" outside this town? Or... the current state in the sandbox No. 1?
Yuri's eyes fell behind the elderly priest not far away, on the church with open doors. After carefully sensing the information structure of this area, he lowered his voice and said, "That church is the exit - the phantom town inside should be connected to the surface and the main layer of the spiritual network."
Magnum snorted: "I guess that guy definitely doesn't plan to let us go in with a big swagger."
Selena slowly raised the soul lantern in her hand and stepped step by step towards the church not far away: "I'm very curious, can your upper narrator really bless your soul here?"
"The upper narrators are everywhere..." The old priest slowly opened his hands, "Where the Lord's people stand, the Lord is..."
Layered halos appeared behind the old man, and a huge oppressive force suddenly came, and the sound of ethereal and holy music sounded over the entire church square-
Except for Gao Wen, who could not be observed, everyone on the scene felt that their mind was being withdrawn and their consciousness of resistance was disintegrating.
In this projected town, deep in this imaginary area outside the sandbox No. 1, an upper narrative priest who can only be said to be a phantom, exerted a truly powerful magic with the blessing of a certain "faith"!
Selena and Gao Wen, who was in a state of invisibility in psychology, changed his expression slightly. The former took a step forward, and the lantern in his hand burst into brighter light than ever before, impacting the halo that appeared behind the old man, and fighting against the power that permeated the square and made everyone's minds constantly withdraw.
The golden runes floated around Yuri, expanding into layers of barriers that could protect everyone. At the same time, the archbishop shouted without looking back: "Magnan! You can do something you are good at!"
Red hair stood up, and the short Magnum waved his hands: "Spiritual Storm!"
In an instant, layers of light tides floating on the entire square, which suddenly turned into a brilliant storm. The powerful spiritual power washed away everything in Gao Wen's sight, and washed away the "phantom residents" who had already begun to come and had a fanatical look on their faces.
In this projection town supported by spiritual power, the spiritual storm, which should be a relatively secret spell, set off a real "storm!"
A large number of ferociously-faced projection residents melted rapidly in the storm like wax figures in the fire and were torn to pieces. Gao Wen heard the roar of the elderly priest in front of the church - after truly revealing his fangs, the other party no longer maintained the previous illusion of gentleness and politeness. A crazy, twisted mind is the other party’s true form!
More projection residents rushed out of the streets and alleys, and a thunderous roar rushed to the exploration team in the center of the square. The owl priests guarding the team used mental attack spells to continuously reduce the number of enemies. In Gaowen's ears, the thunderous roar of Archbishop Magnan exploded again: "Spiritual Storm!!"
A new storm came, and the stone floors on the square were blown into pieces by this "real storm". The continuous "projection residents" were scattered into pieces. The whistling sound of the storm even overwhelmed the magnificent sacred music above the church. The discomfort in the hearts of the people, and the discomfort of resisting the subsidence of consciousness quickly weakened.
Then Archbishop Magnan raised his hands again, his voice louder than the thunder in the storm:
"Heart-spirit-wind-storm!"
Chapter completed!