In the dark barrel, when Gu Jun saw these mission rewards, he really wanted to scream, but he kept himself calm.
He first looked at the host information column, but found that all his body indicators changed to "?", indicating that he was in an abnormally paralyzed state.
He looked at the four rewards one by one, "1 Calop scalpel". Obviously he couldn't claim this right now, otherwise he might just stab himself to death if it fell into the barrel. And those three
The whereabouts of the dissecting instruments are unknown. It could be on him, in Zugana, or in the black merchant's possession.
"It's a scalpel, not a scalpel." Gu Jun thought to himself, "This can trigger illusions related to treatment."
But if he had an illusion now, the energy he had finally recovered might be completely wiped out.
"10 pages of the incomplete curse book", he carefully checked the floating objects on the sea of consciousness. These ten pages were combined with the previous page of the curse book. They seemed to be different pages in the same curse book. He
I pulled the page closer and took a look, and saw that it was also filled with notes, written in Langton's handwriting.
"Last time, I was rewarded with one page for completing an abyss mission, but this time it's ten pages."
This also shows how difficult that nightmare house is to deal with, and destroying it is a great achievement.
Reading the curse book consumes a lot of energy, so Gu Jun did not read it in detail for the time being, but just glanced at the content briefly.
These ten pages cover more basics of spells, focusing on "rituals".
There are two main types of spells, one is incantation and the other is ritual.
Compared with simply chanting and casting spells, rituals often have stronger effects, and some things can only be achieved through rituals.
Each ceremony has detailed requirements, and different ceremonies have different requirements:
Celestial phenomena, time of year, climate, location, number of people, procedures, tools, spells, sacrifices...
"Rituals also require sacrifices, and usually more sacrifices..." Gu Jun looked at it thoughtfully, thinking of the bent-limb burial pit, the Inuit people on the top of the ice and snow mountain, and the sacrifices they would make to the banyan tree in the next life.
Will be devoured by carefully designed altars...
Those are all rituals, and they are inseparable from fanaticism and darkness.
However, it is also written in these ten pages of the curse book that there are dark rituals and light rituals.
Gu Jun looked at it carefully without realizing it, and also read some of Langton's notes. He felt a mental ache before he asked him to stop.
These ten-page spell book will be of great help to him in understanding the spells and rituals. If he can bring this knowledge back, it will also help the Tianji Bureau. But it seems to be of little use to his current predicament.
At this time, Gu Jun paid attention to the caretaker's diary. After he devoured the nightmare house, he didn't know what happened to the caretaker's young man's dream. Now the prompt said "saved"?
He thought for a while before opening the diary and taking a look.
Added text in the last few pages of the diary states that Dr. Carlop cured the town residents and the entire plague, and the town of Wasan returned to its former peace.
Suddenly, a new prompt box popped up in the system:
[Your spirit has been purified, the corrosion rate is -0.1%, now 48.9%]
"Huh?" Gu Jun did feel like he was refreshed. This was an unexpected surprise, although it was only -0.1%.
This degree of decline somewhat illustrates how seriously he has been eroded now.
But it is great news that it can subside. There is hope for recovery!
Gu Jun suddenly felt excited. Although the wall of the barrel was still in front of him, light seemed to be shining through.
Closing the diary, he continued to observe the "three old photos" without zooming in to take a closer look. They seemed to be landscape photos, but they were old but gave people a sense of brightness.
He clicked on the leftmost one and took a closer look. Sure enough, he felt refreshed again... This color photo looked like a very ordinary landscape photo. He could not recognize where the green mountains and green waters in the photo were, and there were no
Strange feeling, there is no shooting and printing date, and I don’t know who took the photo.
[Your spirit has been purified, the corrosion rate is -0.01%, now it is 48.89%]
"-0.01%?" Gu Jun's mood was complicated, and he continued to look at the other two photos, which were also landscape photos, with the same -0.01% erosion level in each photo.
After three photos, the erosion rate increased to 48.87%, which was very slow, but he felt something else... as if the texture of his mental power was a little different.
The fading of this corrosive force is also a form of digestion?
"If this is the case..." he thought, "if I digest all this erosion, my mental power will become very powerful, right? But what will I become?"
There is no answer to this question now. Gu Jun first opens the task list to see how to save himself.
If he still had to treat illnesses, save lives, or dissect something, then he would probably have to rest.
[Normal task: Complete rolling your eyeballs 3,000 times in one day, task reward: 1 old photo
Difficult task: roll your eyes 15,000 times in three days, task reward: 5 old photos
Abyss mission: Complete the reduction of erosion by 10% within a week, mission reward: unknown]
Gu Jun understood that the content of system tasks would be adjusted according to his status. Rolling his eyes was the only thing he could do at the moment. The "old photos" should be the same as the ones just now. They can be regarded as a kind of spiritual food.
Cleansing erosion.
Normal tasks are no problem; difficult tasks don't take three days and can be completed in just one day.
System tasks are refreshed every day. If you complete a difficult task every day...
"If each photo can -0.01%, it can -0.05% in one day." Gu Jun calculated, "With about 8% of the erosion left, the body can probably return to what it was before. Then it would take 20 to lose 1%.
days, it takes 800 days to reduce 40%.”
800 days, if I can survive without incident and rely on this method to save myself, it will still take more than two years.
"It's been too long." Gu Jun muttered. It was like a bucket of cold water was poured on his head. There was no way that this group of black businessmen had kept him for two years in vain.
And two years in the dream world, how long is it in the earth world?
He doesn't know the exchange ratio between the two. It seems that on a desert island, the ratio in the Nightmare House is different. It probably varies with different areas of the dream world. So his two years may also be two years outside.
Years, years, or even longer.
Perhaps for the power of the system, time is meaningless, and two years is just a short moment; but it is different for him.
Gu Jun's consciousness turned to the abyss mission. This was really a paradox. He couldn't move because of the high corrosion rate, so how could it fade by 10% in a week?
But according to past experience, there is a chance that the abyss mission can be completed...
"Five sweet dreams." Gu Jun finally looked at the reward. It was the first reward he had seen. Is the opportunity in it?
Sweet dreams. He thought of the old captain Balzai of the White Ship who wanted to take away 100 sweet dreams from him and Wu Shiyu. Are the two the same thing?
This special reward is only given to 5, which shows that this kind of "sweet dream" is very precious. Looking at it now, the old captain wants to take away a hundred... It is really cruel. If it weren't for the complex power in his body,
It's really hard to predict what the consequences will be.
"What's the use of this 'sweet dream'?"
He only saw five radiant bubbles suspended in a place on the sea, which seemed to be flashing some gorgeous scenes and five beautiful dreams.
He thought about what the old captain Balcer had explained: "Nightmares have power, and beautiful dreams also have power. But everyone's dreams are limited. If you lose these dreams, you will lose the ability to dream. Those who have been robbed of their dreams will
, will also be called by dreams.”
"Are these five sweet dreams from someone else? Are they five sweet dreams of the same person, or one sweet dream of five different people?"
"Is the dream a one-time consumption, or can it be used multiple times?"
"Can it directly reduce my corrosiveness? Or can I use it to perform some kind of summoning?"
Gu Jun looked at the five bubbles, and many questions rushed through his mind. He felt that these beautiful dreams could not directly reduce the erosion, but they would bring opportunities. Whether this was the case had to be explored by himself, but there were only five beautiful dreams, so he could not provide them.
Do whatever you want with him.
"Either digest this erosion, or be swallowed by this erosion."
There will be no answer if you don't try. He thought for a while and decided to give it a try and stop immediately if something went wrong. He mustered up his energy and tried to click on the dream bubble on the far left, and there were circles on it.
Ripples appeared, and the bubbles grew larger, seeming to pull him in...
"Well." Gu Jun didn't feel any mental discomfort, so he just let it go and entered this beautiful dream.