Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 523

[Chapter 521 Beyond the Boundaries of Dreamland]

The intruder’s thinking reaction disappeared, but it was not because he was eliminated by himself, but because he somehow escaped from this “building” formed by the distorted dream.

Heidi frowned, sensing the information that the avatar she had released was constantly coming back, and at the same time swept her eyes across the “ward” in front of her.

As the thought response of the intruder disappeared, the ward also quickly returned to its original appearance, and the horrible and deformed scenes caused by the pollution gradually faded away, and the walls that looked like withered flesh and blood turned into clean white walls in medical facilities, with cracks. The rotten scorched earth also returned to the floor state, and outside the ward, the eerie atmosphere that filled the entire facility was also quickly dissipating.

But Heidi didn’t relax her brows at all, but became more and more vigilant about the strange changes at the moment.

Because this is abnormal: the eroded and distorted dream is a closed structure. The intruder’s consciousness is the attacker of the dream here, but it is also a part of the dream. If you want to forcibly leave the dream, it will definitely cause a big “” movement”, of course, a sufficiently powerful “dream expert” can suppress this kind of movement to a very small extent, but that intruder…is not so strong.

Heidi knows her abilities. As an “excellent student” who has studied in the Academy of Truth, and has received meticulous teaching from her father since she was a child, she has always been confident in the field of dreams. Get out of this distorted nightmare when you are aware of it—the other party must be hiding by some means, or hiding in a cognitive hole.

She hesitated for a moment, and slowly walked towards the hospital bed in the middle of the room.

The strange elf girl was still lying peacefully on the hospital bed, her brows were tightly furrowed, showing no sign of waking up.

Theoretically, this girl is the core of this dream, and her trap caused this distorted “medical facility” to appear in her dream, but under normal circumstances, she should wake up at this time.

Because the power of the intruder has already left—whether the cultist hid or really ran away, the pollution he left here has obviously subsided, and after the pollution subsides, the trapped person immediately disappeared in his dream. Waking up is justified.

Because in most cases, people can do countless strange things in their dreams, but there is only one thing they can’t do-continue to sleep in their dreams.

Even if it is a dream within a dream that is nested layer by layer, human consciousness must be “active” in the last layer of dream.

Heidi stepped forward to check the status of the elf girl, then she hesitated, reached out to help her sit up, and then pushed her down on the bed forcefully.

To no avail, her “patient” remains a sleeper.

“The fall response is invalid…” Heidi looked serious and thoughtful, and muttered to herself, “Isn’t this the last layer of her dream? The ‘middle layer’ of the dream within the dream? It’s not right… Even It’s the middle layer, and the ‘drop response’ can also be awakened…”

She muttered, then stopped suddenly, as if she suddenly thought of something, turned around and ran out of the ward.

The sound of hurried footsteps echoed in the medical facility, and Heidi ran quickly in the long and deep corridor. Along the way, she saw a clone of her personality that she had released before—the “Heidi” holding the golden cone were still in the facility. Wandering and searching, or checking the corridors, or the stairs, or the eerie empty rooms with the doors ajar, looked busy.

Heidi ran among these avatars, and every time she passed one, the avatars would turn around and catch up, and quickly returned to her body. The avatars scattered in other parts of the facility also received instructions, and appeared from nearby forks. a regression ontology.

The medical facility is no longer the structure she is familiar with. The misplaced projection of the dream has resulted in a large number of messy corridors, dead ends and side roads in this building. Some stairs are even upside down and twisted, connecting those from the space like an absurd abstract painting The structurally unreasonable rooms and halls look extremely strange.

However, such a chaotic space is nothing to Heidi, who often deals with dreams. She easily distinguishes the correct path, avoids those dead ends that lead to infinite loops, and finally successfully reaches the end of the path—a door

. The door stood quietly in front of her line of sight, with the words “exit” written on the door.

Heidi stopped, and the last personality avatar ran from behind and quickly merged into her body. She took a light breath and walked slowly towards the door.

That is the exit of the “medical facility”, theoretically, it is also the “boundary” of this distorted dream.

She put her hand on the doorknob, slowly calming her heartbeat.

Dream boundaries are dangerous. They represent the “cognitive limit” of the dreamer. As a “visitor”, crossing the dreamer’s cognitive limit rashly means that one’s consciousness will fall into a huge “undefined” area , in this chaotic zone that is no longer under the control of the dreamer and dominated by the subconscious, unwelcome intruders will encounter various dangers, and even… encounter those who hover on the edge of mortal reason. , The terrible thing dormant in the spirit world.

Heidi hesitated—it was not medically acceptable to proceed.

The amethyst pendant hanging on his chest was no longer hot, and this “fake product” that was essentially just a piece of cheap glass was completely cold at the moment.

Feeling the coolness from the pendant, Heidi made up her mind.

The magic pendant had never had a problem so far, and she decided to trust its response.

“For this step, fifteen points will be deducted less in the professional class…”

the psychiatrist muttered, and pushed the door open forcefully.

The expected huge darkness and chaotic shadows did not appear, nor did they see the terrifying abyss rifts and spirit world monsters.

Heidi stood at the border of this dream, staring dumbfounded at the scene in front of her.

A lush… forest appeared in her vision.

Wherever you look, there are towering giant trees that you have never seen before. The huge tree crowns with luxuriant branches are layered and criss-crossed in the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and there are countless flowers and shrubs covering the ground. There are many tall and scattered small bushes and vibrant vines, and unknown bird calls echo among the giant trees from time to time, which sounds novel and… strange.

The sun is shining on this dense forest, and the vitality brought by it is a scene that Heidi, who has lived in the city-state since childhood, has never seen.

She couldn’t even comprehend it all.

She couldn’t imagine why there were so many huge trees growing together, why the precious land was full of strange plants, but no shadow of people could be seen, why the sound of ocean waves couldn’t be heard in her ears, The nose can only smell the smell of plants and soil.

She fell into chaos, which was a double chaos from sensory perception to cognition. Even as a high-achieving student of the School of Truth with a full scholarship, she was so dazed for a moment that she almost forgot where she was and what she was going to do.

But fortunately, the professionalism cultivated over the years and the strong mental self-control skills allowed her to wake up quickly after just a few seconds of being dazed. She took a big breath and forced herself to return to a state where she could think calmly.

Then, she looked back at the direction she had come from.

The “medical facility” was right behind him, surrounded by a large expanse of huge trees and countless criss-crossing vines, the walls were covered with unknown plants, and man-made buildings suddenly appeared in the forest. It looked out of place.

But Heidi quickly made some judgments from this incongruous scene—

“The scope of the dream should indeed be limited to the inside of this medical facility, and this strange place outside the gate is not the structure that the dream should be…some kind of mutant ‘Marginal Consciousness Zone’?

“I can’t see any elements related to the city-state of Pland, all of which are plants I don’t know… Is it a scene located in the elf’s subconscious? But even the elven city-states like Qingfeng Harbor or Moco do not have vegetation of this scale…

“Or…the outside is the real ‘last layer of dreams’? Then this scale is too big, and there are so many details… Her brain should have been burnt out…” Heidi said

puzzledly Talking to himself, then touched around and took out a brightly colored ball of wool.

She clasped the thread end of the ball of wool with her fingers, and threw the ball of thread far away.

Brightly colored balls of thread rolled on the ground, jumping and spreading among the wet stones, soil and vines.

Heidi stared carefully at every moment when the ball of thread rolled, checking whether the lines falling on the ground were blurred or abnormal.

If there is, it proves that there are hidden “cognitive holes” in this seemingly “detailed” place, and she must carefully avoid those holes to prevent slipping into a nightmare.

The ball of thread rolled smoothly to a long distance without any abnormality in the middle.

Heidi breathed a sigh of relief, and finally took the first step towards this “weird place” full of plants along the approximate path rolled by the thread ball.

She has temporarily put away the revolver, and only holds the “golden cone” for body protection tightly with her left hand.

In this unknown “edge area”, it is best not to use things that move too much – although the lush plants here look pleasing to the eye, there may be something hidden in the silence of the surrounding environment.

She must be careful not to wake up the “existence” that sleeps on the border of mortal consciousness.

As she proceeded cautiously, Heidi couldn’t help but gradually had a question in her mind:

Did that cultist escape from the dream in a similar way? Instead of “waking up”, but running directly to this weird place outside the dream?

In front of this… Will there be any traps?

Heidi had all kinds of thoughts in her mind, but suddenly, something moved in her heart.

The next second, she suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction her intuition pointed to.

Among several unknown trees, in a small forest clearing, stood a figure with its back facing him.

It was a stranger wearing a southern-style light-colored coat, with messy blond hair, and a slightly stooped back. Even though his back was facing this side, the two pointed long ears protruding from the edge of his hair fell off immediately. In Heidi’s eyes.

an elf?

(Time to push the book, the title of the book is “Strange Records of Abnormal Priests”, classified as light novels, the author Yelv Weizhi, himself is one of my readers. It is said that the original name of the book is Gatling Bodhisattva, the masked priest… the style can be roughly imagined Yes. In short, I can support it.)

(End of this chapter)