Chapter 689

Lu Mi raised his eyebrows, looked back at "Tewanaco," and gave an equally brilliant smile.

After the two people in different scenes looked at each other across the blurred void, they each cast their gazes toward different places.

Lei Yasa, Ivelista, and the man and woman who had just arrived in Tizamo Town tonight clearly also saw the people in other scenes and were all somewhat surprised and stunned by this incomprehensible weird situation, but they couldn't affect each other.

Those gravekeepers in the same scene as "Tewanaco" were like praying, not knowing whether they were completely unaware of the changes around them or whether they saw it as normal.

After Lu Mi looked around, he vaguely understood what kind of situation this was.

"No matter how real this place is, various encounters will reflect on reality to varying degrees, but essentially it is still a dream. And under the influence of that black ancient tomb or the cold corpse inside the ancient tomb, this area has split into multiple dream fragments. Every time a batch of people arrives, a new fragment is generated...

"If it weren't for the arrival of Ai Nana or me triggering some anomaly, it would be impossible for people in different fragments to interact. They can't attack each other, nor can they see, hear, or discover each other's existence.

"This should be the reason why the gravekeepers disappear every time the 'Dream Festival' starts.

"They didn't disappear; they were just in different dream fragments from the participants of the 'Dream Festival.'

"And according to the results of the previous spirit channeling, is this some kind of hiding?

"But that black ancient tomb hasn't opened yet..."

As Lu Mi's thoughts raced, Ai Nana's voice became sharper and sharper, full of fear:

"He walked in front of me!

"Save me!

"Save me!"

Lu Mi stared at Ai Nana, who kept retreating and trying to avoid the invisible thing, but couldn't discover the shadow she spoke of no matter what.

Within the short ten-plus seconds from when Ai Nana started to be afraid until now, Lu Mi successively used abilities like "Spirit Vision," "Weakness Detection," and "Fortune Observation," but didn't discover any anomalies.

He was just short of taking out the "Secret-Peeping Glasses" and the "Eye of Truth."

Lu Mi reached his hand into the "Traveler's Bag." Without figuring out the general situation, he didn't know what method could save Ai Nana, who was afraid to the point of collapse.

Just when his fingers touched the "Secret-Peeping Glasses," Ai Nana suddenly froze.

After a second, she turned her head to look at Lu Mi and said quite blankly:

"He, he turned and walked away.

"He seemed to recognize me..."

"Recognized you?" Lu Mi felt it was necessary to confirm whether Ai Nana's mental state was normal.

Ai Nana answered with a confused face:

"Yes, he nodded at me, and then he left."

Is this the reason why after the "Dream Festival" starts, if you want to approach the black ancient tomb, you must have someone who has received the grace of the ancient tomb or that corpse to lead the way? Fenn Bote and Congressman Yu Ge should have also played the same role in similar scenes, but they didn't belong to the "Night" pathway and didn't have dream-related abilities, so they hadn't noticed... Did those people in other dream fragments also receive the grace of the black ancient tomb or that cold corpse? Lu Mi's heart stirred, and he asked Ai Nana:

"Where did he go? Where did that shadow go?"

Ai Nana's gaze moved to the edge of the scene where she was.

Her eyes widened bit by bit, and she raised her palm, which still retained fear but was also somewhat excited, pointing to the dream fragment where the man and woman were:

"He went there.

"He passed through, he passed through!"

Accompanied by Ai Nana's "commentary," Lu Mi and the others all felt that the black ancient tomb had become a little more solid and heavy, and the whole area vibrated even more violently.

At the same time, Lu Mi discovered a familiar burning sensation on his left chest, and no whispers that seemed to come from infinitely far away yet were close at hand sounded in his ears.

His head felt dizzy for a moment, and he saw a huge water-colored vortex, saw a dim village filled with gray fog, and saw those figures in the village.

There was the shepherd Pierre Bote who believed in fate, there was Lu Mi's friend Azema Lizier, and everyone raised their pale arms, as if shouting silently.

Lu Mi also saw his own semi-underground two-story house and saw Aurora sitting quietly on the orange-red roof, hugging her knees.

Lu Mi no longer resisted the occurrence of hallucinations.

He also roughly understood what was going on:

As that shadow entered other dream fragments, the anomaly of the black ancient tomb became more serious, and it contained the power of the Death domain, "awakening" the villagers of Kordu Village within the seal from afar.

These villagers were already dead and only had soul fragments left, so they would naturally be affected by the power of the Death domain.

Such cognition made Lu Mi feel the long-lost pain, sadness, and bitterness again.

He "looked at" Aurora, who had thick golden hair draped down, light blue eyes, and was wearing a light blue dress, and didn't try to resist the invisible power of death.

"He walked in front of that woman." Ai Nana continued to explain responsibly.

That woman? Jiamou, Miss Ailuo, and Lu Jianuo all cast their gazes toward the corresponding dream fragment.

The lady in the light-colored long dress who had just arrived in Tizamo Town tonight didn't hear what Ai Nana was saying, only knowing that the patrol people were all looking at her.

Her spirituality had a bad premonition, and she quickly turned her head to ask her companion:

"Dewaho, did you perceive any malice?"

The man called Dewaho, wearing a dark gray formal suit, slowly shook his head and said:

"No."

In the dream fragment where Lu Mi and the others were, Ai Nana said again with high emotions:

"He, that shadow, reached out his hand!

"His hand pressed on, pressed on that woman's head!"

As soon as Ai Nana finished speaking, Dewaho saw his companion, the lady in the light-colored long dress, suddenly kneel down, her knees hitting the ground, her expression stiff, and her face unusually pale.

Woo!

In all the dream fragments, a cold and chilly wind blew with a "woo" sound.

Lu Mi "saw" Aurora on the orange-red roof stand up, looking toward the high sky with a dazed expression, as if sensing something.

She opened her mouth and said a passage of words almost instinctively.

Lu Mi didn't understand the corresponding language, but he had heard something similar before.

That was the language used by the "Armor Shadow" Chen Tu, and it was the language to which one or two words that Fanka occasionally blurted out belonged!

Although he couldn't understand it, it might be because there was a soul-level connection between the two sides, so Lu Mi vaguely understood what his sister was saying.

She was muttering a sentence to herself:

"The immortal strokes my head, and my hair is tied to grant longevity."

In the dream fragment where Dewaho was, the hat of the lady in the light-colored long dress, who was kneeling on her knees involuntarily, flew away.

On her neck, on the back of her hands, and on the surface of her face, pores opened one after another, and white feathers stained with light yellow stains grew out one after another.

Dewaho looked at this scene with a solemn expression, didn't try to interrupt his companion's anomaly, but instead retreated a few steps.

He didn't understand what had happened. Although he hadn't sensed malice toward himself yet, he still cautiously pulled away from the abnormal person.

The blue eyes of the lady in the light-colored long dress had lost their focus, appearing unusually dazed and lacking vitality.

Just in the time it took to blink a few times, the white feathers stained with light yellow oil stains seemed to have their own consciousness and life, drilling out crazily from the gaps in the long dress fabric and from between each strand of hair.

Soon, the lady in the light-colored long dress was wrapped in white feathers stained with light yellow oil stains.

Her body became very light, gradually floating up, becoming more and more illusory.

Her blue eyes looked at Dewaho, and she shouted with an empty voice and excited emotions:

"I have become a god! I have achieved longevity!"

This monster covered in white feathers hovered above the black ancient tomb, constantly shouting:

"I have become a god! I have achieved longevity!"

In another dream fragment, Lu Mi heard Aurora change her wording.

She whispered with a somewhat fearful expression:

"Feathering into an immortal..."

The next second, the illusory monster, which was covered in white feathers from head to toe and could no longer see its original appearance, flew down toward the black ancient tomb in its own dream fragment.

She passed through the stone wall on the surface of the tomb chamber and disappeared there.

Suddenly, the cold and chilly wind that had just blown stopped and solidified.

That black ancient tomb appeared to shake obviously, and the tomb chamber door outlined by hair-like gaps made a heavy friction sound, as if someone inside was trying to push it open.

Lu Mi glanced at Aurora "in front of his eyes" and Kordu Village "around him" as they began to fade, as if they were being erased by an eraser.

Lu Mi glanced at the tomb chamber door that was slowly opening outward and turned his head to look at "Tewanaco" in another dream fragment.

This dream projection wasn't surprised at all by the anomaly just now, nor did it show any fear. Instead, the gravekeepers who had always been very quiet around him stood up one after another.

With a splash, in the sound of illusory water, the tomb chamber door of the black ancient tomb opened completely.

Accompanied by this change, all the dream fragments that stood out in the blur seemed to have been pulled by an invisible force and blended together.

Dewaho, Lei Yasa, Ivelista, "Tewanaco," and the gravekeepers appeared in front of the black ancient tomb at the same time, appearing near Lu Mi and the others.

"Tewanaco" laughed, as if he had long expected that someone among the outsiders would feather into a "god," and expected that the ancient tomb door would open at this moment.

He took out a golden mask from his black robe.

That mask seemed to be made of pure gold, and oil paint, either white or black, was applied around the eyes and on the face, appearing quite weird.

Tewanaco put this golden mask on his face, and then, unlike the other gravekeepers who retreated and fled, he ran wildly toward the black ancient tomb, toward the open tomb chamber door.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Lu Mi heard a clear heartbeat.

It came from inside the black ancient tomb.

(End of chapter)