Chapter 3499

Since the doctor thought the news Xia De brought back was so serious, Xia De didn't continue to persuade:

"Then okay, do I need to avoid it temporarily?"

"No need, I actually need you to act with me. There is a risk in doing this, and I need you to watch me."

"Then what preparations do we need to make?"

"No preparation is needed, we just need to enter the world of dreams and seek answers on the boundary between reality and illusion."

There are many potions to make people fall asleep in Schneider's clinic. After simple preparation, he tied Xia De's wrist and his own with a black thread, and then the two lay on the sofa in the reception room and fell into a deep sleep.

After closing his eyes, it felt like his body was falling, but soon his consciousness changed from a half-dreaming and half-waking state to clarity. Xia De looked around; this was still the reception room of the clinic.

The curtains were tightly closed, and the lights were unusually bright. This is the doctor's dream, and the doctor is busy in front of the fireplace at this moment. Hearing Xia De's footsteps, he said:

"Next, I will take you into my deep dream until I touch the edge of that power. Besides following me, detective, you must pay attention to the dream environment at all times. If the surroundings suddenly turn black, or my eyes turn black, please kill me directly in the dream so that we can wake up forcibly."

"No problem, I will pay attention."

With a burst of flames, black flames ignited in the fireplace. The doctor stepped into the fire first and disappeared, and Xia De followed closely and stepped into the fire.

A momentary coldness made him shiver. Behind the flames was a dimly lit corridor. The corridor was extremely narrow, and it would feel crowded if two people walked side by side. The corridor looked like it was extending infinitely forward, and the walls on both sides were hung with various paintings. The content of the paintings seemed to be the doctor's memories, and dense doors stood on the walls, of all sizes and styles.

"I have built complex mental barriers for myself to prevent that power from getting out of control when I lose consciousness. Now I will take you through these mental barriers. We need to walk a long way."

Behind the door of the corridor was still a corridor, and the left and right sides of the brand new corridor were still various doors. This is like a huge maze, and only the doctor himself knows the way of the maze.

He took Xia De to walk through the doors and corridors constantly. During this period, the two did not have any communication. After walking for a long, long time, the doctor stopped in front of a black iron door. He squatted down, grabbed the handle under the door with both hands, and pushed it up with effort.

Behind the door was complete blackness:

"This is the destination. Although behind the door is only slightly touching the edge of that power, you must also be careful. If you feel that you are not right, you can also kill me to end the dream forcibly."

After the instructions, the doctor entered the door with Xia De.

The shoes landed on the ground behind the door, immediately stirring up a ripple. They were now stepping on the black lake, but because the sky had a gray color, Xia De did not draw his sword.

The lake was quite calm, and not far ahead, a black plant seemed to be growing on the lake. And when the doctor took Xia De closer, Xia De saw that it was a black sapling.

At the first sight of it, Xia De felt nausea and disgust from the bottom of his heart. The shape of the sapling was like a gaunt palm, and the black color of the skin was just an ordinary color, but in his view, it was even more indescribable than the most terrible things he had ever seen.

Seeing that sapling was like seeing a corpse in a beautiful landscape oil painting, or like suddenly learning that all your relatives had passed away on a sunny day when you were in a good mood.

That instinctive disgust even made Xia De want to swing his sword and cut it directly. Even though he controlled his body, he believed that his face still had a very terrible expression.

The doctor did not explain anything, just said:

"You can just stand here, don't continue to approach. Wait for me for a while, I'll go fortune-telling."

As he spoke, he turned into a black crow and flew forward, then stopped on the branches of the pitch-black sapling and looked down at the black water surface. The black crow and the black tree merged together perfectly, as if these two kinds of scenery should naturally coexist like this.

"Is that tree the embodiment of the Demon King's power in the dream?"

Xia De thought in his heart, and then asked:

【Can Moon Fire burn this kind of thing?】

"She" in his ear answered softly:

【Moon Fire in its current state cannot do it. It needs to absorb more moon spirit rhyme to enhance the power of Moon Fire.】

Xia De nodded gently, his eyes also staring at the water surface under the tree, but he didn't see anything appear in the water surface. The crow on the tree looked very carefully. After a long while, the crow spread its wings and flew back to Xia De's side.

The doctor reappeared. After he turned back from the black crow form, he held his head again, closed his eyes like low blood sugar, and eased for a long while before talking to Xia De:

"There is a result, but the result is even more unbelievable than the news you brought."

"You don't want to say that the demon is not Black Hand - Tifurong at all, right?"

Xia De asked. The doctor stood under the gray sky and shook his head, his face showing a complex expression of helplessness, confusion, and slight fear. The complexity of this expression was too high, and Xia De couldn't read it.

"No, I didn't recognize the wrong demon. It is indeed it, and your perception is not wrong. It really hasn't recovered after being injured by you last time. It's just that its power was catalyzed, so it would have the ability to enhance relics. I probably know the intention of its action. It wants to observe whether what you used is really that power. After all, that bullet was fired by you."

"So, what exactly catalyzed its power."

This is the key to the problem, but the doctor hesitated for a while before saying softly:

"A drop of blood."

"Blood? Whose blood?"

The doctor did not answer, but turned to look at the direction of the black sapling. Xia De also looked over. At this moment, the world under the already oppressive gray sky became even more oppressive and dull, and even the light became weaker—

"Demon King."

The two had their own thoughts and stood on the water surface under the gray sky for a long time before Xia De spoke:

"Doctor, can you be sure?"

"Can confirm, there will be no mistake."

"But why..."

"Don't know, all I can see is that drop of blood. I don't know where that drop of blood came from, nor do I know the relationship between Black Hand - Tifurong and that thing, let alone whether there are other existences behind it."

The doctor even seemed a bit at a loss:

"I never thought that the power of that thing would appear in front of me in this way. Although it was only a drop of blood, theoretically speaking, even a drop of blood shouldn't appear."

The doctor's words revealed a terrible possibility. Although he said that the Demon King could not appear on Fatumunster Island, the appearance of that drop of blood indicated that the weapon demon was highly likely to have a direct connection with the Demon King. If that drop of blood was just accidentally obtained by it, it would be fine. If not... the matter of the Pseudo-Human House was over, but more dangerous things appeared immediately.

The dream world became darker and more blurry. Xia De went to look at the black tree not far away again, and then found that the tree seemed to be taller and more ferocious than when they first appeared.

Xia De still doesn't know what the "Demon King" is. He can only be sure that the other party is an existence no less than "Desire," and is the most dangerous and strange existence in this world under the gods.

With the power of a drop of blood, it could make the weapon demon possess the power to catalyze a relic to almost an Unknowable-level. Although the 【Pseudo-Human House】 itself was quite extraordinary, this was still unimaginable.

It's not that Xia De hadn't considered that he would be forced to fight the so-called "Demon King" one day—because of the doctor's existence, this was almost certain.

But this thing appeared too early.

Except for divinity, Xia De could almost be sure that he had no other means to deal with the so-called "Demon King."

But it just so happened that the divine descent of the "God of Bad Luck" was almost inevitable this time, and the number of divinity he currently held was exactly three drops. Promotion and dealing with evil gods required at least two drops of divinity, and once the last drop of divinity was used, he would have to face the predicament of having no divine power.

What's more, divinity can only guarantee that he can defeat the so-called "Demon King," which does not mean that he can definitely solve the doctor's problem. Divinity is omnipotent, but Xia De who uses divinity is not omnipotent. After all, he is not a real god yet.

He needs to learn more knowledge and information about this ancient existence and understand more about the doctor's current situation to ensure that the problem is solved at once. This all requires time and opportunity, and now it is obviously not the best time to face that thing.

"I still maintain my previous view that that thing absolutely cannot appear on the snowy mountain."

The doctor said suddenly, and Xia De also jumped out of his complicated thoughts:

"Not even a little possibility?"

"Not even a little possibility."

He said so:

"No matter where that drop of blood came from, it was just a drop of blood. Judging from your description, the power of that drop of blood should have been exhausted. Besides catalyzing the Pseudo-Human House, it at most allowed Black Hand - Tifurong's injuries to heal slightly.

It used this means to test you, but you didn't show any power of that thing. I think it will be very cautious not to contact you later. It should have guessed that the one who possesses the power of that thing is not you, but the person behind you. Fortunately, I didn't stay on Fatumunster Island for long, I didn't meet it, and it didn't meet me. And now I know its trump card, but it doesn't know what my situation is."

Xia De asked:

"Is what it possesses only a drop of blood? Will there be more power?"

"Even if there is, there won't be much."

The doctor tried his best to ask Xia De calmly:

"I probably figured it out. Although it sounds incredible, I can only associate it like this for now—detective, do you remember why Black Hand - Tifurong stayed on the island?"

"Of course I remember. The maid lady in the castle told me that the demon wanted to find a weapon on the island that could break the shackles and restraints from a conceptual level."

Xia De was just annoyed by the doctor's news, but at this time, being reminded by the doctor, he also suddenly realized a more terrible possibility:

"Break the shackles, destroy the seal... is it trying to... break the seal of the 'Demon King'?"