Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 4043 The Brave Man’s Letter

When the giant city spirit was setting up fog in the valley, Angel also came to the vicinity of the brave statue and set up an isolation circle there. Through illusion guidance and vision deviation, he cleared the crowd within fifty meters around the brave statue.

Then he set up a sound-proof barrier, and the surrounding noise disappeared instantly.

The crowds of people in the distance were also obscured by the fog.

Out of sight and out of hearing, Angel felt that the feeling of crowding had eased a little.

Angel looked up at the statue of the brave man.

The young brave man in the statue stands tall and straight, full of vigor and vitality, with one hand holding the shield firmly; the other hand holds high the sword, with the tip of the sword pointing sharply into the distance, as if making a fearless declaration to the unknown challenges.

Every time he saw the statue of the brave man, Angel felt something strange.

There is a hero copy but there is no hero.

Where did the hero go?

Angel shook his head, shook off unnecessary and irrelevant thoughts, slowly stretched out his hand and touched the statue of the brave man.

Along with the surge of power, a large amount of text information poured into the text column.

"The special dream "The Adventure of the False Hero" has begun."

Current number of participants: 15

"Mission objective - complete the test and save the children who were captured by the bad guys."

"The current maximum exploration degree is: 36%"

Angel fixed his eyes on the title "The Adventure of the Fake Hero". The next second, his gaze passed through the boundless barrier and entered the small town where the copy was located.

But after seeing the situation in the small town, Angel's expression froze for a moment.

He had many speculations before, such as why the Hero's Dungeon was blocked? What happened to the thirteen people except Gabriel and Huici? Did anyone encounter an accident? If they did, did Gabriel and Huici lend a hand?
But all these speculations have now been overturned.

No one encountered any accidents, and Gabriel and Huici did not lend them a hand, but instead wielded their blades.

Yes.

Gabriel and Huici were currently fighting against the thirteen people...

……

The small town in the morning light should have been filled with the smell of fireworks, warmth and hope.

But today, it has become a completely different place.

There were people holding torches everywhere, patrolling and searching the town with angry looks on their faces.

The people they were searching for and arresting were Gabriel and Huici.

The two of them were now hiding in the cellar of an abandoned hut.

"Hu, hu - I can feel that it is safe here for the time being." Huici carefully poked his head out from the lid of the cellar, took a quick look outside, then immediately retracted his head, closed the lid tightly and said: "However, I can't be sure how long it will be safe, but it shouldn't be too long. After all, this town is too small..."

When Huici said this, his body was still trembling slightly. ——He himself had never thought that he, who was timid and cautious, would one day fight against the whole town and play hide-and-seek.

All of this was Gabriel's fault.

Huici glared at Gabriel hatefully. If it hadn't dragged him to this copy, he wouldn't have encountered such a thing.

"The Sand Table Wonderland must have already arrived. If we don't go, they will definitely think I'm a deserter!"

Gabriel said innocently, "You didn't explicitly say yesterday that you wanted to go to the Sandbox Wonderland."

"I just didn't explicitly say 'enter the copy', but that doesn't mean I won't 'participate and witness'!" Huici retorted.

Gabriel manipulated the illusion puppet and shrugged, "Didn't I go there either? I expressed my stance yesterday, and I will definitely be scolded more when the time comes..."

Huici said bitterly: "But I don't want to be implicated! It's all because of you! We can't get out now, and we can't contact anyone even if we want to!"

Gabriel still comforted him heartlessly: "It's okay. Mr. Angel knows that we are in the Hero's Dungeon anyway. When he asks about it, he will know that we are not unwilling to go, but we are helplessly trapped in the hidden plot."

After he finished speaking, seeing that Huici still had a resentful look on his face, Gabriel hurriedly said, "Okay, if you want to complain, go out later. Let's solve the current problem first."

Huici choked. Although he still wanted to continue criticizing Gabriel, he also knew the priorities and silently shut his mouth.

Gabriel floated to the vicinity of the cellar lid and manipulated the nodes on the illusion doll, creating a piece of dusty ruins and tiles outside the lid, hiding the entrance.

"It should be able to hold out a little longer now."

After saying this, Gabriel floated back into the cellar and turned to face the depths of the cellar: "Now it's time to verify whether what the fat guy said is true."

As it spoke, it walked deeper into the cellar with a strange laugh, as if it was sharpening a knife.

Soon, a dim kerosene lamp in the depths revealed three tied children.

There were two men and one woman, each of them looked no older than ten years old.

At this time, the three children had their mouths stuffed with rags, staring at Gabriel with innocent, frightened and scared eyes.

Especially the sharp teeth exposed from Gabriel's big mouth, which scared the three children so much that they kept shaking their heads and whimpering.

Although Gabriel was a bit "non-mainstream", he was still a member of the Mirror Ghost Clan after all, and he enjoyed the fear of the three children. However, Huici looked at these children who were about the same height as him, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes: "Are you...really going to kill them?"

Gabriel said without hesitation: "Of course we have to kill him. If we don't kill him, how can we verify whether what the fat guy said is true or not? Besides, we have already come this far. If we don't kill him, they will remember our faces and we will definitely fail the subsequent missions."

Huici hesitated: "But what if what he said was false and these people are actually real people? What should I do then?"

Gabriel snorted twice: "It's true, anyway, they will appear again after the copy is reset. Hey, you are not sympathizing with them, are you?"

The gray porcelain lips pursed for a moment, and finally shook his head: "No, I just feel a little uncomfortable."

Gabriel: "If you don't like it, just go to the side and I'll kill you!"

As he spoke, Gabriel extended his curled tentacles from his body, and in the children's desperate and terrified eyes, he slowly reached up to their necks...

"I like this expression, I give you 100 points!"

"Boom-"

The little boy fell to the ground, lifeless.

But as he died, his body turned into smoke and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this scene, Gabriel expressed a sense of realization: "...Now we just need to verify whether this child has refreshed in his house, and then we can determine whether what the fat boy said is true or false."

In fact, even without verification, Gabriel had already roughly confirmed in his heart that the fat man was not lying.

After death, the body does not turn into a corpse but turns into smoke. If this is a human, it would be strange.

These kids are totally fictional!

Gabriel turned around and pointed at the two remaining children with his sharp mouth: "Your luck is also very bad. I only wanted to catch one person for an experiment, but you two happened to find out, so I had to arrest you both."

"Now that he is roughly confirmed not to be really dead, you can all follow him on the journey."

"After you die, you will forget about today and about how we kidnapped you. Everything will be back on track..."

Accompanied by two muffled groans.

The last pair of children also died and disappeared into smoke.

"Okay, I'll use illusion to cover my body and go out to verify whether the three children have been refreshed. You stay here..." Gabriel: "As long as they have been refreshed, the townspeople will regain their sanity. Then I'll use illusion to change our image and they won't be able to recognize us."

"When the time comes, you can either quit directly or continue to complete the little fat man's task."

After saying this, Gabriel used the nodes in the illusion doll to conceal his figure and quietly floated out of the cellar...

……

Under the dim oil lamp.

Huici curled up deep in the cellar, sighing and complaining in his heart about why he had to enter the dungeon with Gabriel; at the same time, he prayed silently that this matter would end quickly.

Just when Huici was waiting in boredom, he suddenly heard a familiar whisper in his ears.

"Gray Porcelain, can you hear me?"

Huici raised his head suddenly and looked around, but didn't see anyone.

"I'm talking to you outside the dungeon now. If you can hear me, just speak. I can hear your voice."

Talk to me outside the copy?
Huici realized it later and spoke slowly: "Mr. An... Mr. Angle?"

Angel: "Yes, it's me. It seems that the signal connection is good this time."

"Signal connection?"

Angel's voice, with a smile on his face, reached Huici's ears: "You can understand that I used some special props exclusive to the Dream Mirror Organization to contact you from outside the dungeon."

Huici was in disbelief at first, but when he thought about it again, the various magical aspects of the dream mirror seemed very reasonable.

Thinking of this, he also put aside the slight sense of disobedience in his heart and said quickly: "Mr. Angel, has the sandbox wonderland arrived? Are you here to ask for punishment? Gabriel and I don't want to go, it's because..."

"Don't worry, I'm not here to blame you." Angel: "The Sand Table Wonderland has not completely arrived yet, there is still a three-day buffer period. These three days are just the registration time, so it doesn't matter whether you come today or not."

Angel briefly pointed out the situation in the sandbox wonderland, and then said: "I was worried that something happened to you in the copy, so I came to check the situation."

In response to Ingres's comfort, a touch of emotion flashed in Huici's eyes.

"me……"

"Don't be too anxious. Take your time."

"Yeah." Huici sniffled and then said, "Although we experienced a big commotion before, we are fine for now. I, I am safe."

"What about Gabriel?"

Gray Porcelain: "It, I don't know at the moment. But it should be no problem to use the nodes in the illusion puppet given by the master to cover its figure."

"That's good." Angel knew Gabriel's situation very well. He asked this question just to show the limitations of the "cross-dungeon communication item".

In fact, he had chosen Gabriel to question at first.

But who knew that Gabriel ran outside to the street, surrounded by people patrolling with torches everywhere. In order to avoid Gabriel being distracted, Angel sent the message to Huici.

It doesn't matter who you ask. Since Huici followed Gabriel into the copy, he must know what changes have taken place in the copy.

"Speaking of which, the Hero's Dungeon has been closed now. People outside can't get in, and none of you inside can get out." Angel: "What happened?"

Faced with Angel's questioning, Huici naturally did not hide anything and told him everything that happened after they entered the Brave Copy.

After listening to this, Ingres was also a little confused.

Because the development of the story was a little beyond his expectations.

Last night, after Huici and Gabriel entered the copy, they found the fat man's residence according to the hint given by Angel during the previous meeting.

However, the fat boy’s house was “sealed” and the door could not be opened.

Even if they wanted to pry open the door or dig the ground, they couldn't get into the fat man's house. It was as if his house had become an iron wall.

In order to open this door, Huici and Gabriel had put a lot of thought into it. They used various means, even sneaking into other people's homes, using illusions to cover their bodies, and searching through boxes and cabinets for a while. It was almost dawn when they finally found a way to break the seal.

Fortunately, the other houses in the town were not sealed, otherwise they would probably be groping in the dark.

However, this also highlights the specialness of the fat boy's home. Only his home is sealed, which obviously means that there is some unspeakable "secret" here.

When they broke the seal and entered the fat man's house, they saw a fat man who was half asleep and half awake.

The little fat boy in this state seemed a little different from his ignorance during the day.

They approached cautiously...

The little fat man seemed to have noticed them, raised his head, and whispered: "I am a brave man. If you take me out of this cage, I can give you endless wealth..."

Gabriel and Huici were confused: "???"

They really wanted to ask the little fat man what was going on, but he didn't seem to wake up and just kept repeating some incomprehensible words.

such as:

"The sword in the chest in the secret room."

"The squares contain numbers."

"The red string will glow in the moonlight."

"..."

“I hid all my treasures there.”

At first they didn't understand what it meant, but after the last sentence came out, they knew that it was a "treasure hunt" game.

The repeated words at the beginning are most likely clues to the treasure.

Why are they so sure?
Because the thing they found to break the seal in order to enter the fat man's house was a red rope.

And this red rope can only be used at night, which just represents "moonlight".

Therefore, "the red rope will glow under the moonlight" probably represents the time and place to open the treasure.

As for the other sentences, they are probably about the code to unlock the treasure?

In short, after getting this clue, Gabriel and Huici began to look for the treasure in the mouth of the "little fat man" seriously.

They ran back and forth to various areas several times, and finally found the treasure hidden in an uninhabited house.

The so-called "treasure" is just a letter written in blood.

To sum up the content of the letter, it is a brave man's letter asking for help.

"I am Valentine. Commissioned by the chief of Long Night Village, I am on my way to the devil's lair to save the poor children who were captured by the devil..."

"I have fought against snowmen on the towering snowy mountains. I have also confronted evil turtles the size of islands in the Sea of ​​Chaos. I have also killed a group of blood-sucking demons who wanted to attack the people..."

"All of this is worth it, because as a brave warrior, this is my unshirkable mission. These experiences are not only my glorious achievements, but also necessary training for me to enter the devil's lair."

"But just as I was about to reach the demon's lair, I encountered a naughty child demon. It used its despicable power to trap me in this false cage..."

"Everything here is fake. Almost everyone is a fake person created by the Childish Demon..."

"But the consciousness of the childish demon will be dormant in the bodies of these dummies. You just need to find it and bring it to me when the moonlight is the strongest. By then, I will be able to defeat it and break free from the shackles of this cage..."