Chapter 669: Gradually Gentle

Camus's spirit tightened instantly, propped up with his left hand, stood up, and vigilantly looked around.

He found that he was still on the second floor of Tevanaco's house, and Rhea, who was leaning against a wooden pillar, was getting up with a bit of trance and bewilderment.

Everything around him was no different from before he fell asleep.

"Are you, joking?" Camus asked Louis Berry cautiously.

What kind of "Dream Festival" is this?

This is clearly a state of waking up normally after a nap!

Lu Mian turned his body and pointed to the outside of the window:

"You guys listen to the movement in the jungle."

Camus and Rhea instinctively listened to the sound outside and found that the jungle not far away was dead silent, as if it had fallen asleep in the dark night.

This... Rhea's gaze tightened slightly.

She was born and raised in the primitive jungle and had stayed in Tizamo Town for nearly a year, so she knew very well that the jungle wouldn't have such an absolutely quiet state.

Lu Mian pointed to the floor next to the mosquito-repellent candle:

"You guys look at this place again."

Camus and Rhea looked over and found that the mosquito corpses that should have been there were all gone.

Lu Mian laughed:

"Of course, you guys can also think that I woke up early, cleaned the environment, and secretly influenced your hearing of distant sounds. This is just a prank."

Camus thought for a few seconds and said:

"I tend to believe you, but I need to do some confirmation."

"Yes." Rhea, carrying the hunting bow and arrows, echoed.

Lu Mian looked at them, nodded slightly, and concluded calmly:

Now it can basically be determined that being able to remain awake after entering this special dream is brought about by some kind of power hidden in "Siso's" house, not because I myself possess any special traits.

He invited Camus and Rhea to sleep in "Siso's" house and enter the special dream, not only because he wanted to share intelligence with the Patrol Force and pull a few more helpers.

This was also an experiment, an experiment to determine key details.

Over the past few days, Lu Mian had done many similar experiments and mastered many rules related to dreams.

He put his hands in his pockets, followed behind Camus and Rhea who were rushing downstairs, and watched how they would confirm whether it was currently a dream.

After leaving Tevanaco's house, the two Patrol Force members ran directly to the nearest townsperson's house.

After discovering that the livestock kept on the ground floor of the building had disappeared, Rhea walked quickly to the second floor and tried to open the door with a simple iron-black key.

Camus opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to stop it, but finally didn't make a sound.

Seeing this scene, Lu Mian nodded thoughtfully and muttered to himself silently:

"Beyonders of the 'Arbitrator' pathway will subconsciously maintain the current order and are unwilling to destroy it.

"If Beyonders of this pathway also have an official status, this tendency will become stronger..."

Rhea pried the door open and entered the house, and after turning through all the rooms with Camus, they didn't find the family that lived there.

Then, the two went to the police station near Saint Cien Church.

The local Patrol Force had five rooms here.

Colobo, Maslow, and Loban were gone, and the two policemen on duty were also gone.

"I believe now that this is a dream." Camus turned his body and said to Louis Berry, who was wearing a golden straw hat, hands in his pockets, and following slowly behind, "But I am completely awake, not like I'm dreaming."

Lu Mian hadn't responded yet when Rhea, on her light brown face, frowned slightly:

"Just now when running on the street and searching these rooms one by one, I felt a bit familiar."

"Familiar?" Lu Mian relaxed his brows and asked calmly.

This experiment could actually have unexpected gains?

Rhea thought for a while and said:

"I seem to have had a similar dream.

"In the dream, it was also this dark, very quiet, the street was very empty, only me, running around, looking for..."

"Is it a fragment, or a complete dream?" Lu Mian asked further.

Rhea recalled for a few seconds and said:

"I don't know, I only remember having several such fragments."

"Is it often dreamed, or occasionally?" Lu Mian guided Rhea to confirm the details.

Rhea answered very affirmatively:

"Occasionally."

"Occasionally...

"Even if the people of Tizamo Town didn't sleep in this house on a specific date, they could occasionally enter this special dream, but couldn't remain awake, just like dreaming normally?

"Perhaps, that's not truly entering, but their own spirituality, based on changes in environmental elements like the red moon, had intermittent sympathy with this special dream. Unfortunately, Rhea clearly doesn't remember the moon, weather, etc., when dreaming of similar fragments. If I could use 'Dream Divination', I could help her recall it...

"The Tizamo people I asked in Port Pylos didn't mention similar dreams. Hmm, one is that such dreams are very ordinary, no one would specifically remember them, and the other is that they have left Tizamo Town for many years..." Lu Mian's thoughts surged, and he turned his head to look at Camus, seeing what this "Interrogator" wanted to ask.

Camus thought with a condensed state that didn't match his age and asked Rhea:

"Do you think the Tizamo townspeople have anything special?"

Very keen, since this dream seems to be able to affect the entire town and the people in the surrounding area, these people have a good chance of showing certain abnormalities in real life... Lu Mian nodded secretly.

Rhea thought for a long time before saying:

"There's nothing special, just very well tamed..."

Mentioning this, Rhea sighed a bit:

"They are very polite to people, very courteous, have a gentle personality, stable emotions, are very obedient, follow orders, and even if they get angry, they can quickly calm down. When encountering trouble, they tend to let the official handle it, rather than fighting privately or arguing on the street..."

These were all situations Lu Mian had heard Camus mention and also seen in relevant materials. On the surface, there was no problem, belonging to a state after being tamed.

Rhea finally added:

"Their only problem is that they are not enthusiastic. Everyone is not enthusiastic. This is not to say that they use courtesy as a mask to cover up the coldness and hostility in their hearts. They are just simply not enthusiastic, as if they are unwilling to directly show similar emotions."

Hearing this, Lu Mian thought of the Tizamo people he had come into contact with over the past few days.

Except for some gentlemen and ladies from the Northern Continent, everyone else was calm, gentle, didn't like to argue, and always communicated with others politely and courteously.

Immediately after, Lu Mian associated this with the Tizamo people he had asked in Port Pylos.

They would be afraid, worried, ingratiating, with rich expressions and vivid emotions.

This was clearly different from the townspeople of Tizamo!

"Are the emotions of the people here sucked away by the dream?" Lu Mian finally found the abnormality in the Tizamo people.

Their problems obviously didn't come entirely from the attacks and influence of that primitive tribe in the jungle!

Hearing Lu Mian's speculative words, Camus couldn't help but "hiss":

"I said the Tizamo people felt strange. They were too docile. Even real cows and horses would occasionally have intense emotions and resist... It could have such a reason..."

Rhea's heart moved, and she said with hidden fear in her solemnity:

"I've been here for nearly a year, and I feel I've become much gentler...

"The most intense emotions I had haven't disappeared, they are still in my heart, but many times they are just like they are asleep..."

Rhea began to analyze herself.

"It seems that people within the range of Tizamo Town will gradually be affected by this special dream, and can slowly get rid of it after leaving." Lu Mian looked at Camus, "We who have only been here for a few days don't have any problems for now, but staying for a long time might also become gentle."

Without waiting for Camus to respond, Lu Mian turned to ask:

"When will the support from the Patrol Force and the General's Guard arrive?"

Mentioning this, Camus's face suddenly became ugly, and he cursed through gritted teeth:

"Those selfish bastards! It's very likely there won't be massive support.

"The General's Guard said they already have a Beyonder squad here, and there is an army. The Patrol Force only has Vice Captain Reyasa indicating he will come to support. Shit, those shits!"

Lu Mian froze for a moment, then laughed out loud.

The newly built institutions under the rule of the native general are indeed different from the official organizations of the Northern Continent.

If the Patrol Force were replaced by the "Eternal Blazing Sun" Church or the "Mother Goddess of Earth" Church, official Beyonders would have already

"The current situation is that General Quilarir feels that with a great adventurer like me, who has the 'Fool' Church as a backer, he can use the power of the 'Fool' Church to solve the problems in Tizamo Town, so there's no need to send more of his own Beyonders to help?

"Also, Beyonders aren't cabbages that can just grow out of the ground. If he really loses too many capable subordinates, General Quilarir won't just feel the heartache; he also won't be able to govern Matani State effectively anymore...

"Relying purely on recruitment to fill the vacancies isn't fast enough, and he can't trust them quickly either. Even if he can recover the Beyonder characteristics and train the remaining people, there are still huge problems. Low sequences are fine, but mid-sequence advancement has a not-insignificant probability of failure. After all, the vast majority of Beyonders here haven't mastered the 'Acting Method' yet..." Lu Mian quickly understood General Quilarir's mindset.

He said to the somewhat agitated Camus:

"I'll take you two around this dream to introduce it."

"Alright." Camus took a breath.

He and Lyra followed Lu Mian, wandering through the dark, dead-silent, and empty small town.

After a long time, Lu Mian led the two patrol officers into the primeval jungle and told them that he had seen an image of Tewanaco in the chaotic zone ahead, which seemed to be composed of dream fragments, and suspected that the brand of that "Desire Apostle" existed here.

Walking among the trees that looked like giants in the night, Camus felt increasingly oppressed.

Before he could ask for details about Tewanaco's figure, he suddenly heard the sound of a bowstring being drawn.

Snap.

An arrow wreathed in electric light flew from afar, passing over Camus, who had dodged in time, and embedded itself into a rubber tree behind him.

Amidst the crackling, charred wood, Lu Mian, Camus, and Lyra looked toward the not-so-distant area and saw a woman standing on the branch of a giant tree.

The woman was wearing dark leather armor, holding a hunting bow and arrows, her brown hair tied into two strands and draped down.

Her skin was light brown, and her face, which possessed a wild beauty, was filled with undisguised coldness and hatred.

Lyra!

She was Lyra!

(End of chapter)