The intruder's thinking reaction disappeared, but not because he was eliminated by himself, but because he somehow escaped from this "building" formed by a twisted dream.
Heidi frowned, sensing the information that the personality clone she released was constantly sending back, and at the same time, her eyes scanned the "ward" in front of her.
As the intruder's thinking reaction disappeared, the ward quickly returned to its original appearance. The horrific and deformed scenes caused by the pollution gradually faded away, and the walls like withered flesh and blood turned into neat white walls with cracks in the medical facility.
The rotten scorched earth also returned to the floor, and outside the ward, the eerie atmosphere that filled the entire facility was quickly dissipating.
But Heidi did not relax her brows at all, but became more and more wary of the strange changes at this moment.
Because this is not normal: the eroded and distorted dream is a closed structure. The intruder's consciousness is the attacker of the dream here, but it is also a part of the dream. If you want to forcefully escape from the dream, it will definitely cause a big "
"Motion", of course, a powerful enough "dream expert" can suppress this kind of movement to a very small level, but the intruder... is not that strong.
Heidi knew her own abilities. As an "excellent student" who had studied at the Institute of Truth, and at the same time she had received careful instruction from her father since childhood, she had always been confident in the dream field. She did not believe that the "intruder" could do it without causing any trouble at all.
Escape from this twisted nightmare without realizing it - the other party must have hidden it through some method, or hidden in some cognitive hole.
She hesitated for a moment and slowly walked towards the bed in the middle of the room.
The strange elf girl was still lying calmly on the hospital bed, her brows furrowed, showing no sign of waking up.
Theoretically, this girl is the core of this dream, and her trapping caused this distorted "medical facility" to appear in her dream, but under normal circumstances, she should wake up at this time.
Because the power of the intruder has left - whether the cultist is hiding or really running away, the pollution he left here has obviously faded away, and after the pollution faded, the trapped person immediately fell into a dream
It makes sense to wake up.
Because in most cases, people can do countless weird things in their dreams, but there is only one thing they can't do - continue to sleep in their dreams.
Even if it is a dream within a dream that is nested layer by layer, human consciousness must be "active" in the last layer of dreams.
Heidi stepped forward to check the elf girl's condition, then she hesitated for a moment, stretched out her hand to help her sit up, and then pushed her to the bed with force.
To no avail, her "patient" remains a sleeper.
"The fall response is invalid..." Heidi looked serious and thoughtful, muttering to herself, "Isn't this the last layer of her dream? The 'middle layer' of a dream within a dream? That's not right... even if
It is the middle layer, and the 'drop response' can also be awakened..."
She muttered, then stopped suddenly, as if she suddenly thought of something, turned around and ran out of the ward.
The sound of rapid footsteps echoed in the medical facility. Heidi ran quickly in the deep and long corridor. Along the way, she saw the clones of her previously released personalities - the "Heidis" holding golden cones were still in the facility.
Wandering around and searching, checking the corridors, the stairs, or the empty rooms with their doors ajar and having a strange atmosphere, they looked busy.
Heidi ran through these personality clones. Every time she passed one, the clone would turn around to catch up and quickly return to her body. The personality clones scattered in other parts of the facility also received the order and appeared from nearby forks one after another.
A return to the original body.
The medical facility is no longer the structure she is familiar with. The misaligned projection of the dream has led to a large number of messy corridors, dead ends and forks in the building. There are even some stairs that are upside down and twisted, connecting those from space like absurd abstract paintings.
The rooms and halls are structurally unreasonable and look extremely weird.
However, such a chaotic space is nothing to Heidi, who often deals with dreams. She easily discerns the right path, avoids dead ends that lead to endless loops, and finally successfully reaches the end of the road——
A large door stood quietly in front of her sight, with the word "Exit" written on it.
Heidi stopped, and the last personality clone ran from behind and quickly integrated into her body. She took a gentle breath and slowly walked towards the door.
That is the exit of the "medical facility". In theory, it is also the "boundary" of this twisted dream.
She put her hand on the door handle and slowly calmed her heartbeat.
Dream boundaries are dangerous. They represent the "cognitive limits" of the dreamer. As a "visitor", rashly crossing the dreamer's cognitive limits means that your consciousness will fall into a huge "undefined" area.
, in this chaotic zone dominated by the subconscious that is no longer under the control of the dreamer, unwelcome intruders will encounter various dangers, and even...encounter those who are wandering on the edge of mortal sanity.
, a terrifying thing dormant in the spiritual world.
Heidi hesitated—it would not be medical practice to proceed.
The amethyst pendant hanging on the chest no longer generates heat. This "fake product", which is essentially just a piece of cheap glass, is now cold.
Feeling the coolness coming from the pendant, Heidi made up her mind.
This magical pendant has never had any problems so far, and she decided to trust its reaction.
"This step will be deducted fifteen points at least in professional courses..."
The psychiatrist lady murmured and pushed the door open.
The expected huge shadows of darkness and chaos did not appear, nor did we see the terrifying abyss rifts or spiritual monsters.
Heidi stood at the edge of this dream, staring at the scene in front of her in stunned silence.
A lush... forest appeared in her field of vision.
Everywhere you look, there are towering giant trees that you have never seen before. The huge tree crowns with leafy branches are criss-crossing in the sky, blocking the sky and the sun. There are countless flowers, plants and shrubs covering the earth, and you can still see them in the middle.
There are many tall and short trees and vibrant vines, and unknown bird calls echo among the giant trees from time to time, which sounds novel and... strange.
The sun shines all over this dense forest, and the vitality it brings is a sight that Heidi, who has lived in a city-state since she was a child, has never seen before.
She couldn't even understand it all.
She simply couldn't imagine why there were so many huge trees growing together, why the precious land was covered with strange plants, but there were no shadows of people, why there was no sound of waves in her ears,
I can only smell the smell of plants and earth in my nose.
She fell into chaos, a double confusion from the senses to the cognition. Even as a top student with a full scholarship and a master's degree in the College of Truth, she was so dazed that she almost forgot where she was and what she was going to do.
But fortunately, the professionalism she had cultivated over the years and her strong mental self-control skills allowed her to wake up quickly after just a few seconds of daze. She took a deep breath and forced herself back to a state where she could think calmly.
Then, she looked back in the direction she came from.
The "medical facility" was right behind him, surrounded by a large expanse of huge trees and countless criss-crossing vines. The walls were covered with unknown plants, and man-made buildings appeared suddenly in the forest.
Seems out of place.
But Heidi quickly made some judgments from this incompatible scene——
"The scope of the dream should indeed be limited to the inside of this medical facility. This weird place outside the gate is not the structure that a dream should have... some kind of mutated 'borderline consciousness zone'?
"I can't see any elements related to the city-state of Puland. They are all unfamiliar plants... Is this a scene in the subconscious of this elf? But even elf city-states like Qingfeng Port or Moko do not have this scale.
of vegetation…
"Or... is the real 'last layer of dreamland' outside? Then the scale is too big, and there are so many details... Her brain should have been burned out long ago..."
Heidi muttered to herself in confusion, then touched around her and took out a brightly colored yarn ball.
She clasped the thread of the yarn ball with her fingers and threw the yarn ball far away.
Brightly colored threads rolled on the ground, jumping and spreading among the wet stones, soil and vines.
Heidi carefully watched every moment as the ball of thread rolled, checking whether there were any blur or abnormalities in the lines that fell on the ground.
If so, it would prove that there are hidden "cognitive holes" in this seemingly "detail-rich" place, and she must carefully avoid those holes to prevent her from slipping into a nightmare.
The thread ball rolled smoothly to a far distance without any abnormalities in the middle.
Heidi breathed a sigh of relief and followed the rough path of the ball of thread, finally taking the first step towards this "weird place" full of plants.
She had temporarily put away the revolver and only used her left hand to hold the "golden awl" for protection.
In this "edge zone" where the situation is unknown, it is best not to use things that make too much noise - although the lush plants here look pleasing to the eye, there may be something hidden in the silence of the surrounding environment.
She must be careful not to awaken those "beings" sleeping at the edge of mortal consciousness.
As she moved forward cautiously, a question gradually emerged in Heidi's mind:
Did the cultist escape from the dream in a similar way? Instead of "waking up", he ran directly to this strange place outside the dream?
Are there any traps ahead...?
All kinds of thoughts were running through Heidi's mind, but suddenly, something moved in her heart.
The next second, she suddenly raised her head and looked in a certain direction pointed by her intuition.
Among a few unknown trees, in a small clearing in the forest, stood quietly a figure with his back to him.
It was a stranger wearing a southern-style light-colored coat. He had messy blond hair and a slightly stooped back. Even though his back was facing this way, the two long pointed ears sticking out from the edge of his hair fell immediately.
caught Heidi's eyes.
An elf?
(Time to recommend the book, the title of the book is "Abnormal Priest's Strange Stories", classified as light novel, the author Yelu Weishi is one of my readers. It is said that the original name of this book is the Masked Priest Gatling Bodhisattva... the style can be roughly imagined