Chapter 711 Bertila in the Dream

Bertila Augustus entered the hall.

But it wasn't what Bud remembered.

In Bard's memory, this matriarch always wore a robe with all religious symbols erased, her face was cold and alienated, her eyes seemed to be forever entangled in a layer of darkness, and her lower body was always intertwined with roots and vines. , the disturbing rustling is her signature footstep.

But this "Bertiera" who walked in was completely different. She was wearing a green and white Druid dress, with the emblem of the Holy Spirit Druid on her chest. Her face looked younger, and there was no Without feeling cold and gloomy, she walked into the hall unhurriedly, revealing a pair of normal legs in long boots under the skirt.

The looks are the same, but the difference is very obvious.

Only Gawain, who inherited the memory of the original owner of the body, couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity after seeing this "Bertier".

Bertila also noticed the uninvited guest in the hall. As a person in a dream, she even noticed Gawain and Bard, who had theoretically been separated from the dream structure.

She raised her head, with a vague look on her face, first glanced at Bud, as if she was looking at a stranger she didn't know, and then her eyes fell on Gawain. He opened his mouth: "Gao Wen... brother?"

Gawain frowned.

Seven hundred years ago, Bertila, who had not yet become a Dark Druid, but was still the favorite "Princess Princess" by the Eastern Expeditionary Soldiers, called Gawain Cecil at that time.

They are not brothers and sisters, but they have a good relationship. Even if Gawain was later ordered to sit in the southern border and could not move around freely, there were many correspondence between the two. In fact, in the memory that Gawain inherited, "he" learned that Bertila went to the Ancestor's Peak, and he received a letter from the other party, which was also the last letter that Bertila sent back.

And then, the end of all things will be born.

This seemingly harmless Bertiera is what she looked like after she fell into a dream? Or...is it a scam?

Noticing that Gawain didn't respond, Bertiera hesitated to speak again, and this time there was even a little nervousness and worry in her tone: "Brother Gawain? What is this place? And...why do you suddenly look so much older? "

Seven hundred years ago, when Bertila fell into darkness, Gawain Cecil was still under 30. In the years after that, Bertila never appeared again. Obviously, the "Berty" in this dream La" still maintains her early memories, and the Gawain Cecil in her mind should still be the young and heroic brother.

Bertiera stood in the hall dazedly. She was obviously wary and confused when she looked at the people in black robes. She looked at Gawain again, showing helplessness and harmlessness. Put down your guard, especially if an acquaintance is standing here, I am afraid that most of you will be affected by emotions.

But unfortunately, Gawain is not Gawain Cecil.

He has already sensed that the key to this dream should lie in "Bertiera".

What's more, in the end, the dream is just a dream, the harmless little princess Typhon... has already gone with the wind.

Gawain raised his hand, and a huge shock of data was released, and endless fragments of light and shadow suddenly appeared in the entire dream. The vast sea of ​​information destroyed this false world, which was not very stable, in the blink of an eye. The deans of the meeting turned into phantoms one by one,

The entire hall quickly disintegrated in the shaking.

Bud felt dizzy in his head, and the boundary between reality and dream was unprecedentedly clear. He felt that he was waking up quickly, and before he completely escaped from this dream, he heard Gawain's calm command: "After waking up, immediately Stand by, do nothing but stay awake and wait for us to come down."

The council hall began to collapse, and the fragments of earth and stone turned into ethereal shimmering particles and lines that dissipated into nothingness. Bertila, who was standing in the middle of the hall, looked at all this blankly. Suddenly, her eyes became clear and her expression instantly changed. come alive.

She seemed to have just woken up from a big dream, and it seemed that she was only half-awake. With a half-dream and half-awake expression, she looked at Gao Wen, whose figure was about to disappear completely, and opened her mouth slightly.

On the surface, Gawain slowly opened his eyes, the perceptions of the real world quickly returned to his body, and the connection from the spiritual level gradually calmed down, and he saw Amber's big face plate with a pestle again. In front of him, he stretched out his hand and pushed it away, but the latter didn't care, waving his arms to keep his balance in the back, and shouting loudly, "Are you awake?"

Gao Wen hummed, shook his head gently to dispel the last bit of discomfort, and the last bit of reverberation from the dream also vaguely appeared in his movements and quickly dissipated: "...Brother, I'm in trouble..."

He frowned strangely, but in the next second, his expression returned to normal, but Amber, who had just been pushed away, came over and said, "Hey, what's wrong with you, your expression was serious just now..."

Gawain had to push this shame of all things away again.

Why is this guy who usually doesn't do anything good, only when he doesn't need to be so sharp...

"It's nothing, a little dizzy, it's all right," he said casually, ignoring the "special medicine for dizziness and headaches for middle-aged and elderly people" recommended by Pittman, and began to order the next action, "The action team is here, Bud is in The following exploration tasks have achieved the expected goals and we will continue to meet them.”

"Do you want to go down in person?" Margarita, the female knight next to her, was taken aback. She was already surprised when she saw Gawain coming to the entrance of the root system of the giant tree. Going down, I immediately felt very uncomfortable, "I'm afraid it's very dangerous down here, you..."

"I've already gone down once, the risk factor of spiritual wandering is not lower than personal exploration," Gawain smiled and waved his hand to interrupt the female knight, "I have destroyed the dream 'trap' below, it is a special method, if that If the trap is artificially cast, the caster must be dead. If it is cast by some kind of magic device, the device must be completely scrapped and there will be no more danger. As for whether there is a physical threat other than the dream trap ... Haven't everyone seen the images that Bud passed down all the way?"

Margarita seemed to want to say something more, but Gawain interrupted her again: "Speaking of which, your personality is really similar to Philip's, and it's quite serious."

Margarita immediately raised her chest and said loudly with a serious face: "Conscientiousness is a must for a knight..."

"That's right, that's what I said."

Margarita: "..."

Once again, the female knight was unable to keep up with Gawain's topic, and in a moment of daze, His Majesty the Emperor had already passed her and walked towards the entrance not far away.

Amber got close to Margarita, who had just recovered from the stupor, and opened his mouth to write: "Hey, to be honest, I always think you and that Philip are especially suitable for something to happen... Do you want me to help? There are so many people I know!"

Margarita's face suddenly turned pale, and she was about to return to the absolute side righteously. She didn't care about the words of the Cavalier Code, but Amber had already followed Gawain's footsteps and ran into the entrance not far away. , while running, she heard her screaming voice: "Hey! Wait for me! You must not bring a shadow master in such a dark place, I'm God's choice, you know, I'm God's choice dozens of times Years..."

...

Bud opened his eyes and finally saw the real scene around him.

He didn't enter any council room at all. He entered a magical secret room he had never seen before.

This is a mysterious room full of runes. The ceiling, walls and ground are densely engraved with complex magic symbols. In addition to this, there are only two standing on the ground, which are also full of magic symbols. The black stone pillar of Wen has no other furnishings.

At this moment, all the runes have been extinguished.

Bud didn't know when this room appeared. He only knew that when he left the base camp, there was no such thing here. It may be that he did not have enough authority, so he did not know the existence of this secret room.

He guessed that some of the rooms and corridors were dislocated due to the collapse of the ground, and the criss-crossing roots affected his spatial judgment ability, which caused him to accidentally go to the wrong place, enter this secret room by mistake, and was affected by the magic here. device impact.

But anyway, it seems that with the end of the dream, the device here has stopped working.

He kept in mind Gawain's order. Although the runes that could be seen everywhere made him a little uneasy, considering that he was already close to the depths, the hidden dangers caused by wandering around would be much greater than these runes that had been extinguished. He still honestly Stopped, found a position in the room with a wide view and a corner, and quietly waited for the arrival of the responders.

He waited a long time.

The passage of time will make ordinary people accumulate stress, and the dark and eerie environment is even more disturbing, but Bard, who has experienced more terrifying challenges and tempering, has long been steel in his heart, compared to those indescribable situations he had witnessed, The darkness here can almost be described as gentle as he stands quietly in the corner, keeping his mind and body in top shape, counting the beats of his artificial heart to estimate the time until some flickering lights appear outside the room .

Gawain followed the road markings Bud left along the way to the depths of this lair.

The scale of this underground palace was astonishing, and its architectural style that did not conform to any human kingdom made him even more confused and guessed. Although the palace was severely damaged in the collapse, and the cultists of the End of Everything destroyed or changed most of the original features of the place during hundreds of years of renovations and additions, he was still able to learn from the solid wall materials and buried Ancient runes on the floor and roof determined that the palace was not built by the Anzu.

It wasn't even built by the Gondorians.

But now is not the time to explore the detailed history of this palace. He has already seen Bud Wendell, who is on standby in the room, as well as the densely packed magic runes and two magical devices that look like stone pillars.

As an old yinbi who has swallowed the knowledge and memory of the eternal sleeper, can move freely in the spiritual network of the eternal sleeper, and even personally participated in the construction of the insecure system of the eternal sleeper, the rubbing network laboratory, and the spiritual network vulnerability cluster, he is very concerned about these things. Really familiar.

"It's the technology of the Eternal Sleeper." Gawain stepped forward to check the two rune stone pillars that had been extinguished. "...It should be an auxiliary device that projects the user's spirit outward. Don't worry, it has been completely scrapped. All The core rune is melted and cannot be repaired."

Until this time, Bud finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then subconsciously asked: "You... know the technology of the Eternal Sleeper?"

Gao Wen smiled: "I understand a little, I understand a little."

Bud was stunned for a moment, and quickly adjusted his expression, cautiously reducing his sense of existence.

He came into contact with "His Majesty's Little Secret" again.

But Gawain didn't care about these, because as Daniel completely mastered the security structure of the Eternal Sleeper's mind network, and as the various secret hands, backdoors and springboards he set up in the mind network at the beginning gradually developed into a large scale, a huge and complex network was formed. "Shadow Network", he is no longer as worried as the Eternal Sleeper will notice the invasion.

He has a whole bunch of ways to reconnect to the network, a whole bunch of ways to disguise himself and Daniel, and even a whole bunch of ways to fake, fake cybersecurity, fake hacks ruled out, fake never hacked...

He has even set "Gaowen Cecil", "Outer Territory Wanderer", "Ansu Pioneer" as hidden keywords. As long as someone mentions these keywords in the entire spiritual network, he can immediately know, And to determine whether they have been exposed before the information is passed on, so as to take further action.

Of course, if possible, Gawain still hopes that the Eternal Sleeper will never notice his intrusion, but based on this "little secret" that Bard came into contact with, he still cannot infer the connection between Gawain and the Eternal Sleeper's spiritual network. What's more... Even if Bud is out alive today, he will definitely be closely monitored for a long time.

Under the status quo that the Southern Territory Eternal Sleepers have been basically wiped out, the secrets hidden in the heart that cannot be told... are always secrets.

Gawain turned his head and looked towards the exit of the room.

"Now, let's keep searching."

The device of the Eternal Sleeper can magnify and project people's dreams, but the device itself cannot dream.

In this dark and deep place, there are... people who can dream.

Judging from what Bud saw in the dream, the state of these dreamers may not be very good, and most of them have even lost the ability to control their own mind and body.

This is easier to handle.