Mermaid Reef

The attic is suspended in mid-air, and below is the endless abyss.

Wisps of black mist rose from the floor, and the walls continued to bend, making people dizzy.

Hans tried his best to remain calm, looking directly at the black monster in the attic.

Hans had seen many illustrations of monsters in the albums of the secret order, and most of them came from dreams—that is also the place where human beings are most likely to come into contact with mysterious powers.

When human beings are asleep, their spirits may drift to places they don't know, and contact and exchange with the spirits of other creatures.

It may be a plant, or an animal, and the most dangerous is the evil god's family...

Nightmares usually occur on the brink of danger. Human beings will wake up quickly, and those who are unlucky will be entangled by mysterious forces and become weak and seriously ill.

The secret order that Hans joined has been treating this disease for humans since the twelfth century. In addition to praying and holy water, they will give patients amulets and pendants, listen to patients about what they see in nightmares, and guide patients on how to get rid of the disease. The entanglement of dreams.

However, this kind of service is only for nobles and wealthy businessmen.

The senior members of the religious order are more interested in mysterious runes and ancient ruins, and ordinary members are also happy to increase their own strength, rather than interpreting dreams for others.

Those who are proficient in dream interpretation are generally female members of the order, they are gentle and patient... Similarly, women do not have a high status in the order.

Hans learned these skills from his mother. His father sacrificed for the order early on. His grandparents were all members of the order and lived in poverty, so Hans’ mother no longer expected her children to have Extraordinary strength, she hoped that her child would be appreciated by the nobles through these abilities, and then leave the religious order to serve the powerful.

Men can act as secretaries and family doctors of nobles, but women cannot.

It is not a wise choice to leave the religious order directly. The lives of civilians are even more difficult, and they do not have the strength to protect themselves.

As a result, Hans found that there were a lot of people in the church who planned like his mother, and Hans' appearance as an adult was very disappointing. He was too tall, and his physique was thick, and he could scare children into tears with a single stare, so he was not suitable for Physician.

More importantly, with this bear-like appearance, there is no way to mix into the upper class.

Hans had no choice but to give up the doctor's career.

This does not mean that he has lost the skill and ability to understand dreams.

Isn't it useful now?

The black monster entrenched in the attic stared at Hans silently.

It held the roaring Linde firmly with its vine-like limbs, and this action made it look more human, while Linde trapped in a nightmare was more like an irrational monster.

"Do you want to live?" Hans raised his voice.

Linde stopped struggling, his deformed face revealed desire and expectation.

Hans insisted on talking to Linde, because Linde is the master of the dream.

"Apologize, what is more important than your own life?" Hans persuaded.

Linde slowly lowered his head and muttered to himself, "Apologize, apologize..."

The attic monster's attention returned to Linde.

Linde suddenly roared, his body continued to expand, his head pressed against the ceiling, his voice echoed violently in the dream: "No! These are not real! You are all liars!"

The attic collapsed in an avalanche in an instant, black mist enveloped the dreamland, and only Linde's wild laughter remained.

The plank Hans was holding on to fell with him, and he was very distressed.

He has read about such patients in ancient books, who seem to break through the blockade of nightmares, but actually make the nightmares more complicated-the simpler the dream, the more obvious the source, and the easier the solution.

Now it's not something that can be solved by apologizing.

Hans fell heavily to the ground, looked up and found that it was a carriage, and outside was the scenery of the English countryside.

Childhood Linde sat on the carriage with a gloomy face and clenched hands.

"When can I go home?"

The old Brandon sitting next to the carriage, still looking dead, said in a cold voice: "Pastor Conor took my son, my wealth, and they went to sea. If he can't bring it back, I want I will not give you back to him."

"Crazy! You are all crazy!" Linde jumped up and cursed.

Old Brandon didn't respond.

When Hans saw this scene, he knew it was all Linde's imagination.

As a child, Linde didn't dare to raise any objections at all, he just felt depressed like that, so he vented in his dream.

Linde's mutated body shattered the carriage, he tore old Brandon apart, the dream blurred again, and Hans started another round of fall.

Then there is the old Brandon's study room. Knowing that there is no news from the team that Pastor Conor went to sea, he vented his anger on Linde, threatening to kill Linde, and Linde broke out again.

The scene where the dream changed for the fourth time was Old Brandon's ward. He was dying, and Linde laughed wildly.

For the fifth time, Lynd murdered his titular brother, eldest son of Brandon Sr., heir to the family.

"...It's me! I have worked so hard to get everything I have! The Brandon family owes me! My father owes me too!" Linde shouted grimly, "They treat me like a wretch, an arbitrary Fiddler's trash! Damn them! The Brandon family still wants to fight an inheritance lawsuit? I deserve it all!"

Hans's head hurt so much that he covered it.

The dream changed back and forth, and what Linde said was actually the same meaning.

——Linde didn't want to apologize, he felt he was right.

"Where is that child?" Hans couldn't help asking.

Linde suddenly lowered his head and stared at Hans.

Hans felt that he might not really be suitable to be a doctor, because his patience was gradually losing.

Hans wanted to leave this guy immediately, but he was still trapped in this dream, and he couldn't get out until the matter was resolved!

"You are indeed unfortunate, but you have also snatched enough compensation for yourself, but what about that child? What can he do to you?"

"Enough compensation? It's ridiculous. What kind of compensation is something that I need to fight for?"

Linde roared, his body deformity worsened.He destroyed everything in front of him like a beast, and Hans had to keep dodging Linde's attacks.

"If it wasn't for that monster, that little devil! How could all this have happened?

"How ridiculous, to believe that sacrificing a monster to a god can gain the power of a god!"

"Madman! The monster born by the old lunatic makes them believe in this lie. He is the origin of the disaster!"

The more Hans heard it, the more he felt something was wrong.

Sacrifice?god?strength?

Ordinary people may take these words as Linde's crazy ravings, but Hans, who was born in a secret sect, will not let go of the doubts in it.

"What does that child look like?" Hans asked aloud.

Linde couldn't hear him at all, he just focused on attacking and biting.

Hans stopped running, he raised his fist and beat Linde violently.

That bear-like physique played a huge role.

What beast?beat!

What fangs and teeth?Break up!

Hans didn't care about the scars from the bite on his body at all, he picked up Linde, threw the guy on the ground like a sack, and stepped on a foot.

"Can you speak well?"

"..."

Linde seemed to be out of breath, his figure was clear for a while, and then blurred for a while.

The dream also turned gray and white like fading.

Hans realized that he had beaten his head too much, and he thought angrily, as expected, he is not suitable to be a nightmare healer. Fortunately, this is not a powerful person, otherwise the church will punish him severely.

"Hello!" Hans picked up Linde again and shook it.

At this time, many black vines suddenly appeared in the dream space, preventing it from collapsing.

A child who couldn't see his face stood in the distance, staring at Hans.

Hans took a step back, and he began to panic.

"You, you are not imagined by Linde! You are not a monster that came out of Linde's heart after he fell into a dangerous dream and was polluted!"

Hans was not afraid of the attic monster before, because no matter how terrifying the opponent looked, it was all derived from Linde's malice. Linde thought the opponent was hateful, and the image that appeared in the dream of that person was more terrifying.

Now Linde has obviously lost consciousness, the dream is about to collapse, and Linde's life will die along with it, but the attic monster appears again!

It also prevents collapse.

It didn't want Linde to die so easily.

It was a creature that had invaded Lind's dreams, a real monster.

In other words, it is the attic monster that dominates this dream, not Linde.

Hans: "..."

After tossing for a long time, I got the wrong treatment object.

Hans sat down in frustration.

Running is impossible, he must find a way.

From Linde's words, it is not difficult to see that there is a reason for the attic monster to entangle Linde.

It may have been the child who was kept in the attic and later sacrificed.

Of course Hans knew what a "sacrifice" was, and he even knew what a "god" was.

It was because of this that he felt fear, which meant that the sacrifice was successful, and the other party was at least one of the evil god's family members.

Hans thought of the series of events that happened in Venice today, and he suspected that all of them were related—the mysterious trace found by the Eye of Rose in the evening, the vibration of the underwater forest, the burning bell tower and the monster inside, and he saw that the monster really The nightmare that fell into the back.

For Venice, for the Order...

For his mother, he must solve this nightmare!

Hans regained his composure, he left Linde and walked towards the child firmly.

The child was wearing a ragged dress with his hands exposed.

He had two tumor-like plaques on his elbows, and there were dark brown scars and ulcers all over his body.

His hair was thinning, he was malnourished, and his eyelids were grotesquely thick like a battered doll in a warehouse.

The child opens his eyes.

Light blue pupils, clear and calm eyes.

From these eyes, Hans was sure that this was the real body of the attic monster.

At the same time, Hans' heart sank. If he remembers correctly, this appearance and expression...is the "natural sacrifice" recorded by religious groups and mystics.

Such a person is born without fear.

The weird appearance will be shown in infancy, and it can't be hidden at all.

Some people who are obsessed with the study of mysteries and who will look for this appearance feature all over the world can't wait to use this sacrifice as a medium to obtain extraordinary power.

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The author has something to say:

man born without fear

——It is that the cerebral cortex does not secrete certain hormones, and it is also said that a certain part of the brain has a problem

This is a recessive genetic disease. The external characteristics are lipoid proteinosis. When injured, the wound will turn black, the skin will be poor, and various rashes will occur.

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In the world of restraint, there is a very important sentence. The oldest and strongest emotion of human beings is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear comes from the unknown.

I don’t know if there are other texts that have set it like this. Anyway, my first thought is, what if someone is born without fear?

Of course, his body and spirit cannot resist the power of evil gods, just like life close to the sun, it will only be reduced to ashes

But under special circumstances, will a special story happen (our protagonist Jason appears like this)