Chapter 1011

Xinhong residential area, in the rented house.

After telling Anthony the results of her and Franca's discussion and urging him to hand Ludwig over to Franca before probing Peng Deng, Lu Mian lay on the bed.

He closed his eyes, entered a meditative state, and outlined his own phantom in his mind.

Then, he imagined himself jumping out from a very high place, falling rapidly in a state of free fall.

In such a state, the sound of whistling wind rang in his ears.

But he didn't leave the dream immediately; he vaguely heard humans talking in the wind, with words coming from different directions.

At this moment, Lu Mian seemed to have returned to Cordu Village, returned to the warm summer afternoon. At that time, he was lying on top of a haystack, drowsy. Nearby, old women were gathered together, catching lice for each other while chatting about various rumors in the village. Children were running back and forth from time to time, farmers working were returning to the village early, and members of the parish priest's family were passing by cursing...

Lu Mian opened his eyes, and his nose seemed to still be able to smell the scent of grass mixed with the smell of sheep manure.

He let out a breath, then turned over and got out of bed, walked out of the room, and came to the first floor of the luxury villa.

Lady "Justice," Lady "Magician," and Lady "Judgment" were all in the living room.

"Important intelligence?" Lady "Justice" understood that Lu Mian wouldn't actively exit the dream unless there was a very critical matter.

And she hadn't discovered that the current real dream had a strong rejection of Lu Mian, which meant Lu Mian wasn't kicked out of the dream.

"Right," Lu Mian sat on the single sofa. "This has to start from a psychological shadow Franca saw in the underground area of Dawn Hospital."

Lady "Justice" looked at Lu Mian for a few seconds:

"Start from how you saved 'Cup of St. 2.' 'Cup of St. 7' was kicked out of the dream too early and doesn't know much."

Lu Mian smiled and said:

"I used a corpse oil candle."

"You completed a secret pact ritual and gained feedback?" Lady "Magician" had already roughly guessed the process of the matter from the changes in Lu Mian's real body state and the stress reaction that appeared in Trier in the Fourth Epoch, and now she was just confirming it.

Lu Mian described what he saw, heard, and felt during the secret pact ritual in words, and finally said:

"The residual aura of the 'Blood Emperor' has undergone a relatively obvious change, and it has merged a bit with the seal of the 'Netherworld Daoist.' I seem to have a little something extra on me, but I can't discover it."

While speaking, he showed the old blood spots hidden under the pale skin of his palm.

Lady "Magician" nodded gently, and countless brilliant starlight lit up in the depths of her eyes, rotating slowly.

After twenty or thirty seconds, she said with a smile in her voice:

"I don't know whether to say you are lucky or unfortunate.

"That terrifying will not only gazed at you but also bestowed power upon you.

"But due to the lack of necessary rituals and the existence of the 'Netherworld Daoist' seal, that power merged with the residual aura of the 'Blood Emperor' and was placed under the seal, unable to be used. Otherwise, you would already be an endowed 'War Bishop' or something else by now.

"Although this power is sealed, it still brought you some influence. For example, the soul fragments of the Cordu Village villagers under my seal have undergone some mutations, ready to become your 'soldiers'."

"No wonder I vaguely heard everyone's 'communication' when I left the dream just now..." Lu Mian suddenly realized.

The extra thing on him turned out to be a new power.

Lady "Magician" continued:

"Whether there are hidden dangers in that power itself, I can't tell for now, but after it merged with the 'Blood Emperor's' residual aura, there are inevitably hidden dangers, and the activity is stronger."

Speaking to this point, Lady "Magician" paused:

"Plus the Omebella bloodline in your body, if there were no 'Netherworld Daoist' seal, I would suspect you would become pregnant through induction, unable to abort, and give birth to a deeply polluted, mutated version of Alista Tudor."

"Wouldn't the 'Blood Emperor' have to call me Dad?" Lu Mian in the "Despair Demoness" state laughed.

"It's calling Mom," Lady "Magician" corrected.

Lu Mian didn't continue this topic, turning to talk about how he entered the vortex, how he took advantage of the lightning strike to open the passage, and saved Franca.

"It seems our efforts are still useful," Lady "Justice" revealed a gratified smile.

"Which god does that incantation involve?" Lu Mian asked.

Lady "Justice" "hmm"-ed and said:

"The 'Lord of Storms.' This is His true name. Don't recite it randomly; the damage of lightning is area-of-effect and indiscriminate. Moreover, Mr. 'Fool's' avatar used this to trigger lightning strikes before. The cognition in the subconscious is that the lightning brought by this incantation is very terrifying and has strong destructiveness."

A god's true name as an incantation? How is Mr. 'Fool's' avatar more like a "Provoker" than me? Lu Mian nodded gently.

He was silent for two seconds and said:

"I was prepared for my own collapse and loss of control, or even death, due to the secret pact ritual. I only had one thought, and that was to open the abyss passage as soon as possible, or destroy that illusory abyss.

"This might not be enough, so I let Jenna and Rosanne go and ask Zhou Mingrui, who was at the emergency center of Dawn Hospital, to go to the underground area and take a look. I don't know if this will bring good results or bad changes. If problems arise, how high is the probability that they can be remedied? But none of this was the most important thing at the time."

As he spoke, Lu Mian in the "Despair Demoness" state raised his chin slightly.

Lady "Justice," Lady "Magician," and Lady "Judgment" all fell silent.

Lu Mian revealed a bright smile and continued:

"If that really brings destructive results, and you have monitored it, you can kill my body in the real world in advance to stop all of this.

"Death is good; if I'm dead, I won't know anything, and I won't have to care about anything."

Lady "Justice," Lady "Magician," and Lady "Judgment" looked at each other for a few seconds, sighed, and revealed warm, calming smiles:

"I don't agree with your style, but I am very happy to see that you have your own thoughts and choices."

Lady "Magician" also sighed and said:

"If you encounter similar things later, you can try reciting my honorific name. The power that seals those soul fragments on you comes from me. I can use them as a medium, borrow the connection generated by the honorific name, and exert a certain influence, but I don't guarantee success.

"Also, if you are willing to pay the price of being permanently kicked out and unable to enter the dream city again to get out of the predicament, then I can give you a better incantation."

Lu Mian's straightened waist and back relaxed a bit, and his chin was no longer slightly raised.

He asked curiously:

"What incantation?"

"Director Agacia's honorific name," Lady "Magician" laughed. "Reciting this outside the dream won't have any effect, and might even make the reciter become the Celestial Master's marionette unknowingly, but reciting it in the dream can attract a gaze and open any passage. But similarly, Director A's essence is an image produced by the fusion of Mr. 'Door's' residual spirit and the dream's subconscious, possessing special symbolism. Her actions might be influenced by the Celestial Master, but relatively speaking, compared to reciting Mr. 'Fool's' honorific name, this receives less interference."

"It can be like this..." Lu Mian said thoughtfully. "Did we follow the rules on the surface of the dream city too much before? We have been trying hard to act as citizens with Beyonder powers... Remember, you are only acting; the essence there is a dream..."

Lady "Magician" laughed:

"We also thought about this problem. The method of reciting Director A's honorific name was thought up by me, but before finding rule loopholes that can be utilized, you had better not easily destroy the rules. Otherwise, hehe, there are too many bloody lessons in front, so I won't list them one by one."

Lu Mian nodded, adjusted his state, and detailed the scenes Franca saw in the psychological shadow at the bottom of the illusory abyss, the inferences she made, and the problems she discovered.

At the end, he said:

"After Franca realized that Mr. 'Fool' was a 'transmigrator,' she discovered that she had actually ignored names like Sherlock Moriarty and Merlin Hermes before. Logically speaking, she should have inferred that Mr. 'Fool' was a 'transmigrator' like her through them at the first moment, just guessing that he transmigrated from another world.

"In the dream city, many of our thoughts seem to have been restricted, and we ignored parts of things unknowingly, just like An Xiaotian's problem, just like the evidence that Mr. 'Fool' is a 'transmigrator.' This might be the Celestial Master's will playing a role, creating a fooling effect.

"And what He deliberately let us ignore and avoid likely hides the correct direction."

Lady "Justice" listened attentively. Her expression was a bit stunned and surprised at first, but soon revealed relief and sentiment.

Lady "Magician" and Lady "Judgment" had similar reactions.

After Lu Mian finished speaking, Lady "Justice's" green eyes flickered, and she recalled:

"You don't know on what occasion we first saw Mr. 'Fool,' in what way, and what kind of performance he had afterward, so you definitely can't understand why we didn't think in the direction that Mr. 'Fool' might be a transmigrator, growing up step by step as an ordinary person..."

"After the Cordu Village disaster, I vaguely felt there was such a possibility," Lady "Magician" added.

Lady "Justice's" expression became very soft, and there was a bit more smile on her face:

"Having done so many things with a mortal body, reaching this level, and confronting the Celestial Master with true humanity, I, I admire Mr. 'Fool' even more, uh, and I feel even more distressed for him..."

Lu Mian asked curiously:

"What things has Mr. 'Fool' done?"

In his view, the current Mr. 'Fool' is closer. This Great Being was once a human and was a "fellow countryman" with Aurore.

And Lu Mian only knows things related to Gehrman Sparrow and what the scriptures tell.

"We can tell you about it properly, but for now, let's exchange the key problems you discovered," Lady "Justice" said with a smile.

PS: Asking for double monthly tickets for the last half day of September~

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