Sword of Dawn

The Eternal Sleeper activated all the thinking network nodes, and the unfinished "eternal dream" began to connect the thoughts of all believers into the same world;

The death of all things will activate the "false god's body" in advance, and the powerful flesh and blood polymer will gradually wake up;

Under the deep sea, the God of Storm, who had fallen for tens of thousands of years, twitched his body—and his twitching was the signal to eat.

The sirens held up their knives and forks—and some of their pincers and tails, too.

No one knows these earth-shaking events that happened outside of human society. The only thing slightly related to it is that in the northern part of the Loren Continent, in the depths of the mountain range on the southern border of the Kingdom of Ansu, a man named "Tyre" The siren saw the treasure that Gao Wen solemnly collected.

The siren lady let out a cheerful cry: "Oh! It must be delicious!"

Gawain grabbed her by the tail just in time before the salted fish spirit rushed up and gnawed a hole in the crystal cube, and while pulling her back casually, he rushed forward to save the precious god tissue sample.

"Hey, don't hide! You asked me to come here just for extra food!" Tire slapped the ground with his tail angrily, then rushed up to try to snatch the crystal cube from Gawain's hand, "You give me, you give I'll try it..."

Gawain yelled loudly while dodging Tyre's pounce: "Stop, stop! I told you to come here to see if this thing is a 'big squid', who said you should eat it!"

"If you don't let me eat it, why do you want me to watch it!" Tier couldn't catch the "delicious snack", and the whole fish was almost crazy, "I missed the dinner that only happened once in many years! I thought you wanted Make it up for me!"

However, Gawain's determination is beyond Tyre's imagination. No matter how much she jumps up and down, Gawain can't give this salted fish essence the only sample of the god so far as a supper, and after Tire finally gets tired from jumping, she can't help it. Don't calm down: "Let me tell you, these things are not the 'big squid' we usually dig—but they really look like them."

"Isn't this a giant squid?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure! No siren would mistake a giant squid!" Tire put her hands on her hips, and she didn't know how she could support herself so stably with a curved fish tail—usually she stood on two legs Unable to stand still, "In my opinion, this piece of snack should have fallen from some kind of creature similar to the species of giant squid...Hey, where did you get this thing? This thing has a lot of reserves. Big? You tell me, I don’t eat your processed piece, I can go for food by myself..."

Gao Wen: "..."

Are you deep sea salted fish spirits a group of creatures more frightening than the deep sea evil gods? !Are you the God of Harmony of the Deep Sea? !

"Unfortunately, I only have such a sample at hand," Gawain stared blankly at Tire for a long time, and after tightening the latter's tail, Gawain couldn't help but shook his head and told the other party the bad news, "And I don't Know where to find more - this sample is from us 'landers' from 1000 years ago."

Tire knew the average life expectancy of humans on land, so he was taken aback immediately: "Huh? You have to pass down a piece of dim sum for thousands of years? You can't waste food, so you don't want to eat so much..."

Immediately afterwards, she began to feel emotionally there, what kind of land people are in dire straits, what kind of biscuit can be used as a family heirloom, etc., her thinking is fragmented and all kinds of nonsense.

Looking at Tire like this, Gawain felt cold sweat on his forehead. He didn't know how to explain to this guy that the flesh and blood of gods couldn't be eaten here—he felt that this was simply a relationship between man and god, life and death. , a matter of race and fate level, but after listening to it, Tyr probably thinks that this is a matter of recipes...

For the first time since time travel, Gao Wen felt that he had lost sanity...

Chapter 0225

Gawain could hardly remember how he and Tire completed the next communication. He only knew that he had managed to pull the three-dimensional and wonderful deep-sea harmony god to complete a series of experiments—mainly to test the siren The latter's various reactions when in contact with the god's flesh and blood.

After testing, he found that although Tire was not afraid of the influence of the god's flesh and blood like himself, there was still a big difference between the two: when he came into contact with the god's flesh and blood, the latter would show obvious signs of shrinking and inactivation, while the When you come into contact with the flesh and blood of the gods, the latter will not have such a reaction of fear and retreat.

Another difference is that Gawain didn't think that weird biological tissue would be "tasty", but Tire could drool on his feet (tail) when he looked at the meat in the crystal cube...

From the point of view of whether he can suppress and intimidate the lump of meat, Gawain is obviously stronger than Tyre, but Gawain will still feel exhausted from the bottom of his heart when facing Tyre—— Communicating with this kind of seafood is too TM exhausting.

After sending Tire back to the room, the exhausted Gawain came to the terrace again.

Hetty had gone back to her room to rest, and Rebecca also returned to her room with her precious new gift, the telescope. For a while, Gawain was the only one left on the terrace.

He raised his head and looked up at the star-studded sky. In the moonless night, the "O" located in the middle of the sky was emitting a particularly eye-catching brilliance, watching the world like the eyes of the legendary gods.

Until today, he has not been able to find the shadow of the monitoring satellite among the stars.

Whether he asked Heidi to perform the eagle eye technique or used the newly manufactured astronomical telescope, Gawain was unable to find the monitoring satellites, nor could he see any traces of man-made objects in space.

Of course he knows how difficult it is to find satellites in space with only primitive astronomical telescopes and limited eagle-eye techniques, not to mention whether he can see them, even if he can see them, it would be difficult for him to rely on current technical means Tracking, but at the same time, he also knows that there is an "intuitive connection" between himself and the satellite. With the assistance of the satellite, he still failed to find the shadow of the satellite. There can only be two explanations for this.

Either the size of the satellite is very small, and the magnification of the current observation method is seriously insufficient, so that it cannot be observed at all, or the satellite is hidden by some kind of concealment technology...

If it is the former, then with the advancement of technology, it is only a matter of time to observe the ancient satellites from the surface. If it is the latter, then Gao Wen can only wait for himself to point out the aerospace technology and go to the sky to check it out. up.

Gao Wen's thoughts fluctuated, one thought after another was turbulent in his mind, and at this moment, he suddenly felt himself in a trance.

That kind of trance is hard to describe in words, it seems that the "consciousness" that was originally locked in his body suddenly "extends" for a moment, and in that short trance, Gao Wen felt that his thinking suddenly became abnormal Sensitive, the range of perception is extremely wide, and even the soul has expanded beyond the body, and has established connections with countless souls in extreme distances——he wakes up suddenly, realizing that all of this is by no means an illusion.

And just when he was thinking about what was going on, the feeling of trance struck again, and this time he grasped the context of this feeling in time - the next second, some knowledge came naturally from his mind Emerging, Gao Wen discovered that he actually knew how to control this wonderful state, and use this state to establish a connection at the spiritual level. He almost immediately realized where this knowledge came from—the eternal sleep that he swallowed. By!

He condensed his spirit almost subconsciously. Under the guidance of the knowledge and experience he had devoured, he instantly re-stabilized his mind, and at the moment when he regained control of his mind, Gao Wen saw The scene turned upside down in an instant.

He found himself standing in an indescribable city. This city has almost exhausted human imagination of words such as "majestic", "magnificent", "elegant", and "beautiful". There are countless white and magnificent buildings. Standing in the middle of the city, the edges of every tower and palace are inlaid with rims made of pure gold. A large number of magic crystals containing endless power are suspended above the city, and the escaping magic energy forms a gorgeous aurora sky. , Between the aurora canopy, one can see large and small floating lands, floating castles and palaces suspended in the extremely high sky, just like the legendary residences of the gods.

Whether it is the City of Thousand Towers that the Violet Kingdom is proud of, or the Temple of the Stars, which the elves claim to be the pinnacle of art, or even the capital of Gondor 700 years ago, nothing can compare with this city—it is hardly like It is built by human beings for living, but it is more like it was created specifically to express imagination and confirm the majestic scenes in myths and stories. With Gao Wen's heart, when I saw this city and the world They were all shocked and could not speak for a long time.

What is this place?How did this come about?This...is also a trick of the Eternal Sleepers?Is it an illusion they created?

Gao Wen was thinking in astonishment. Only the real dream of the Eternal Sleeper could explain the incredible scene in front of him, but he also found that this scene was infinitely more complicated and grand than the illusions he saw last time. Knowing that the Eternal Sleeper who invaded his brain last time is already one of the best high-level personnel in the cult, the illusion he created should be regarded as the top level among the Eternal Sleeper cultists, but the scene in front of him...

He is so taller than the cultist last time that he doesn't know where he went.

Could it be that a more powerful eternal sleeper has appeared?To deal with their own?

Gao Wen frowned. He didn't expect those eternal sleepers to forget their lessons so quickly and found themselves again. Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly noticed a new figure suddenly appeared in the empty city streets. A faint shadow.

After the shadows appeared, they quickly solidified, and soon became lifelike figures one after another. They emerged like the aborigines who suddenly appeared in the city, and walked and lived in the city—— This scene made Gao Wen couldn't help but think of the "loading" process in the virtual scene.

Wait, these aren't "lifelike figures", they are real!

Gao Wen saw almost instantly that these figures that suddenly appeared were not illusions: each of them had a vivid brilliance on their faces, and their words and deeds were no different from those of real intelligent creatures. More importantly, they were acquired through devouring With knowledge and skills, he can completely judge which part of the illusion is fabricated out of thin air, and which part is reflected in reality.

The figures that suddenly appear in this city all have "reality mapping"-these are all real real people!

Gao Wen's heart was pounding, he vaguely realized what kind of place he had entered, but before he could carefully observe the "residents" moving around in the city, someone tapped him on the shoulder from the side.

Gao Wen forcibly restrained the urge to fight back and expose himself on the spot. He turned his head calmly and looked curiously at the person who patted his shoulder—it was a handsome young man who was looking at him curiously. .

Before Gao Wen could figure out how to speak, the young man took the initiative to speak: "I thought I was mistaken just now—it is actually the image of Gawain Cecil? It looks very similar to the portrait!"

Gawain was startled when he heard the words "Gaowen Cecil", and thought he had been exposed, but after hearing what the other person said, he immediately realized: Thanks to the experience of being exposed to games in his previous life, he will immediately Guess what the other party means by "image".

Did the "residents" of this city set their own image in this world?

He looked around, and immediately thought that his guess should be right - because it is impossible to have so many handsome men in the real world.

In the real world, it is even less likely that there will be scorpion-tailed people who have been extinct for thousands of years.

what is this?Is it a large-scale immersive VR game made by the Eternal Sleeper... These cultists actually tossed such a set of emotional things in private?This style of painting... This style of painting is different from what he has seen since time travel!

But all these thoughts just flashed in Gao Wen's mind, and he smiled without any abnormality on the outside: "Try something new once in a while."

"That's right, that's right, the image of Gawain Cecil is indeed heroic," the handsome young man laughed, "But you don't need to keep that beard, it looks too old-fashioned, I think the portrait of Gawain Cecil when he was 25 years old is better than the portrait of his death..."

The mustache provoked you!The portrait provoked you!Moreover, it has been more than half a year since Gawain Cecil was unmasked, the portrait that year is no longer a portrait, do you understand that!

The corners of Gao Wen's eyes twitched, and he forcibly resisted the urge to beat up this young man who looked handsome and kind, but in fact he was such a cruel and vicious cultist, and he said a few perfunctory words with a fake smile Then he walked away quickly.

He lowered his head and moved quickly in the gorgeous and wide streets of this incredible city, and finally found a corner where no one was there.

After getting out of the sight of the cultists, the first thing he did was to find a way to hide his true face.

Although there was a cult member who didn't doubt his face before and thought it was some kind of special "personal hobby", Gawain didn't dare to take the risk of facing his own face in this world, which is most likely to be the Eternal Sleeper. Floating around in the "virtual world" created by the Internet of Human Brains, after all, he had swallowed a high-ranking eternal sleeper before, and the chance of his face drawing hatred was too high.

He is not an Eternal Sleeper, but the Eternal Sleeper he swallowed left him a valuable wealth of knowledge. Gawain still remembers how he used his ideas to create things out of thin air in the dream world—and in this world, He found that the idea of ​​creation has become much easier than last time.

A few minutes later, a tall young man with short pale blond hair came out from the corner of the street.

Chapter 0226

Gawain walked on the avenue of this "City of Fantasy" with Charles I's face on his face, without any worry that he would be exposed.

Because he has seen more than 20 Charles I along the way...

Charles I is not an earth-shattering handsome guy, but obviously, walking on the street with the face of the founding king of Ansu has a different feeling. These eternal sleeper cultists immersed in the virtual world still have seven emotions and six desires after all. Mortals who still have personal hobbies in some... strange places.

All this gave Gao Wen an inexplicable sense of disobedience.

Is this what the Eternal Sleepers are trying to pursue and create?An illusory, beautiful, even mythical world... dream?

Gao Wen could clearly feel that this virtual world was very different from the illusions he had encountered before. This place was not only more magnificent, but also more real, making it easier to indulge in it. Every leaf and every ray of sunshine here , and even every speck of dust has been molded and operated according to the real world, while the "residents" walking in the streets and alleys enjoy all this with satisfaction and joy, as if they don't remember at all This is like a virtual space.

Gao Wen was still a little surprised - he didn't expect that there would be so many people in the Eternal Sleepers.

If this huge city and the floating lands and palaces in the sky are full of people, then the number of Eternal Sleepers cultists may reach a sensational level, and millions of them are possible.

A low-key cult group that is secretly developing... Could it have such a large population?

Gao Wen walked in this dream city full of doubts, and in the process of meeting the "residents" of the city, he also gradually increased his understanding of this incredible place.

Crossing the avenue in the center of the city, Gawain wandered here following his intuition, looking for things that might reveal more about the mysteries of the city, but when he tried to pass through a dome building that no one visited, he had to He didn't stop.

There is a loophole here in the supposedly perfect "dreamland". He saw that the light and shadow inside the dome building were messy and broken. In the gaps in the marble floor, you can see large gray-black dull voids, and the messy and broken light in mid-air connects with the voids, forming a chaotic appearance.

This is already the fourth "unfinished area" he has found in the city.

He thought of the information he had heard from the "residents" before.

This city of dreams was activated in advance. It seems that in the original plan of the Eternal Sleepers, they will have to prepare for a long time before activating this huge spiritual network. However, the change of the situation forced them to start all this in advance. As a result, there are many "loopholes" in the city of dreams.And not only is the city of dreams unfinished, even the land and palaces floating in the sky are also unfinished works - many lands are only complete in outline, without any plants and colors on the surface, and the palace is simply an empty shell , inside is the "spiritual void" that can devour the mind.

Gawain didn't know what was the "change in the situation" that prompted the eternal sleepers to activate this spiritual network in advance, but he instinctively believed that this was mostly related to the "return of the stars" - Tyre once said that those gods and gods chattering with each other on the sea The "Son of the Storm" who fought against the Kraken seems to know about the return of the stars and the recovery of the gods. They often hold grand astrological ceremonies, or draw paintings related to the stars and ancient gods on the reef, and Gawain has reason to believe that, with The Eternal Sleepers who are closely related to the Son of the Storm must also know this information.

The stars returned to their positions, and the gods woke up. In order to welcome this grand event, so the cultists had to offer "sacrifices" that had not been prepared in advance?

This is the only reasonable explanation that Gao Wen can think of. Although there are still many unknowns in it, the general direction should be correct.

It's just that no cultist would have guessed that the positions of the stars in this world have been correct sixteen times—their gods still can't wake up.

Gao Wen didn't know if there were other god corpses on this planet, but he knew that the only god whose whereabouts were clear was lying on the bottom of the sea, and there wasn't enough for those deep-sea gods to eat.

In this way, the psychic network activated by these cultists in advance is tantamount to a waste of effort, and the loss of manpower and material resources, plan disruption and rearrangement, and exposure risks caused by their forced advance in the process will severely hit their arrogance .

Thinking of this, Gao Wen couldn't help laughing happily, shook his head and left the impassable dome with a smile.

He knows that the three major dark sects have a rich background, even if they all start some large-scale rituals in advance by accident and suffer losses, they will not have any impact on their foundation, but in any case, the loss is the loss—— At least in a short period of time, the frequency of their troubles will be greatly reduced.

The "residents" in the city are still "living" happily, and everyone has a beaming look on their faces. They use hallucinations and dreams to numb their nerves, and immerse themselves in the joy of fulfilling their long-cherished wishes. I just don't know how long their happy mood can last--probably last until the stars' positions have passed, but still no one wakes up.

In order to avoid trouble, Gao Wen did not go back to the main road of the city, but walked along the small road between the buildings, gradually approaching the central area of ​​this dream city, and the moment he stepped into the central area, he felt The surrounding atmosphere has changed.

There is a solemn and solemn atmosphere lingering here. The relaxed and leisurely atmosphere in the outer city area disappeared as if blocked by an invisible barrier. Gao Wen looked around in astonishment, and finally saw something. An extremely thin, almost transparent "wall" stands behind him, and this wall extends to both sides, as if to surround the entire city center.

Gao Wen cautiously did not move around, but carefully observed the situation around this transparent wall. He soon discovered that almost all the "residents" were only active outside the wall, and only a small number of "residents" would pass through. The walls, and these "residents" who pass through the walls are divided into two types, some just walk in casually like myself, and some have to stop in front of the wall for a long time, recite some formulas or press their hands on the wall to input some instructions Only after that can you come in.

Is this a "permission lock"?Only those who are qualified can pass?

Gawain looked down at his body in astonishment. He was sure that he just walked in casually. Even after passing through the wall, he realized the existence of this barrier due to the change of surrounding breath.

I have some kind of "high authority" here?

Where did this high authority come from... Could it be the "authority" of the eternal sleeper that he swallowed?

Gao Wen frowned. If this is the case, then this group of Eternal Sleepers is really messed up in the authority system. The dead members of the religious order don't even have a cancellation number--if someone else is wearing a vest, they will be like this came in...

But after thinking about it carefully, he found that this is actually not a loophole - under normal circumstances, the death of this person is equivalent to automatic cancellation. Who would have thought that there would be a devourer like himself who would wear a dead man's vest Come in...

In any case, Gao Wen raised his vigilance and decided to avoid contact with others more cautiously: the higher the authority, the fewer people can pass through, and the fewer people can pass, he will attract attention in it The higher the probability, if the eternal sleeper swallowed by him is an existence similar to the four heavenly kings and five elders in the entire cult group, then he will break into the highest authority space and follow the remaining few heavenly kings. Once the elders meet each other, everything is exposed.

He is not afraid that he will lose to this group of weak chickens who have less than a few hundred years of memory experience in the confrontation at the spiritual level, but if he is canceled and kicked out of this spiritual network, he will be in big trouble.

While walking forward in such a low-key manner, he suddenly noticed a small square in front of him. An extremely beautiful light blue crystal was suspended above the ground in the center of this small square. The shimmering particles emitted from the surface of the crystal The mysterious and beautiful reflection of the entire square, and around the crystal, there are scattered figures standing - they didn't talk to each other, obviously not gathering here, Gawain saw a few of them put their hands on the The surface of the crystal, while the rest of the people just stood there with their eyes closed, as if thinking.

What are those crystals for?

Gao Wen frowned, and began to search for the memory of the Eternal Sleeper that he had devoured. After a difficult search, he finally found a clue from the messy and broken information—it seemed to be some kind of message used to transmit information. Things, and they are also high-end products.

Is it the superior communication node of the mind network?The "embodied projection" of communication nodes in virtual space?

Gao Wen hesitated for a moment, and decided not to let this opportunity go.

He came to the square calmly, and put his hand on the crystal. The cultist next to the crystal gave him a sideways look, but no one spoke. The two nearest people just moved a little, Make room for Gao Wen.

Gawain didn't respond too much, just nodded slightly - he has established a connection with the crystal, and now he must concentrate on it.

After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally figured out how to use the knowledge he had devoured. Suddenly, he felt some pieces of information flashed in his mind, and in the next second, the huge database The door is open to him!

It worked!

Huge amounts of data and information are flowing through Gao Wen's mind. He observed in amazement the "database" constructed by these Eternal Sleepers cultists in this spiritual network, and lamented once again that this world can't tell whether it is advanced or not. Outdated tech tree.

Who would have thought that a group of crazy cultists would create a huge spiritual network, a huge virtual world, and a huge information exchange and processing structure in such a seemingly backward world of the Middle Ages!

Of course, they built all this with unreasonable magic, and the way of using this advanced system is also very primitive and backward. In Gao Wen's view, they are obsessed with creating a virtual world of extreme enjoyment, and their level of care Far more than using this psychic network to solve various practical problems, but it is undeniable that this is really a great creation.

It was so great that Gao Wen couldn't help thinking of it...

At the same time that various thoughts of stealing technology came to mind, Gao Wen did not stop searching for those information streams - most of these information were useless, because this virtual world had just started, and most of its information network The content is all about the operation of the virtual space everywhere, but suddenly, a piece of information caught his attention:

"A plan to crack No.18 of Gawain Cecil's memory fragments, and a notice to requisition more computing power."

Chapter 0227 Make trouble, make trouble