Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 532 The Awakened University Scholar

Lucrezia suddenly broke away from the dream, but it took several seconds to calm down before she opened her eyes. Then she let out a long sigh of relief, opened her eyes on the chair, and slowly looked around the room. Confirming several "suggested items" that I set up in the laboratory in advance.

The first thing after waking up from the weird dream is never to get up immediately, but to calm down the mind and confirm the details of the real world to prevent being trapped by double dreams.

After a while, she confirmed the details of the real world, confirmed that she had completely escaped from that dream, and confirmed that Master Taran El had also woken up.

The elf university student was tied to a pillar not far away by several ropes in a state of embarrassment, his head was swollen, and the wind-up doll Luni was on guard with a sharp kitchen knife.

"Ms. Lucrecia, you are awake!" Seeing the "Sea Witch" wake up, the university student immediately called for help, "Your servant tied me up! I don't know what I did wrong... ..."

Lucrecia frowned suddenly: "Luni, what's going on?"

"He suddenly yelled in his sleep, jumped out of bed after waking up, and hit his head on your laboratory table," Luni reported seriously while clutching the kitchen knife, "I think he was Nightmare tainted, tied up to prevent secondary damage."

The university student suddenly protested loudly: "How many times have I said this, you stupid brain! I was only scared in a dream! I saw Duncan Abu Normar! As an ordinary person with a normal mind, I would not Allow me to be scared awake when I see him in my dream?"

Lucrezia's expression suddenly twisted when she heard the words of the two "people" in front of her. She pursed her lips and stood up from her chair, who was also just woken up in shock: "Lu Ni, put down the kitchen knife and let go of Mr. Scholar. —what he said was true."

"Yes, Mistress." The clockwork puppet immediately lowered its head, swiped the kitchen knife in its hand cleanly, and cut the rope on Taran Ayer's body, and then turned her wrist, and the cold-lighted sharp blade was unknowingly caught. Which secret compartment of the body did she receive.

Taran Al broke free, staggered two steps forward in embarrassment before finally standing still, and couldn't help turning his head to stare at the rigid clockwork doll: "You wooden head!"

The wind-up doll didn't care about the scholar's anger at all, it just stepped to the side of its mistress, and asked curiously: "The old master is here?"

"He...he's here, in various senses," Lucrezia said with a little hesitation at the corner of her mouth, and then she waved her hand to the side, and a chair floated from the corner of the room and Falling in front of her, "Mr. Taran Ayer, please sit down first, I have something to understand."

Taran Al moved his sore arms, muttered and sat down in front of the "Sea Witch", and was still talking to himself: "Come, come, anyway, it won't be here in a while... ..."

Lucrezia listened to these words silently, without saying anything, just reached out to a low cabinet next to her, took out a bottle of potion from the depths of the cabinet, and placed it on top of the cabinet.

Taran El watched her action curiously: "What is that?"

"This is the 'witch potion' that will be used later," Lucrezia said casually, obviously not intending to answer directly, and then directly changed the subject, "About the period when the sun went out and the dream just now, I I have something to ask—I know we have already communicated briefly in the dream world, but due to the blockade of the subconscious in the dream, you may not be aware of some things at the time, so now I need you to recall all this in a waking state .”

Noticing the seriousness in the lady's words, Taran Ayer's expression immediately became serious, and the scholar's demeanor returned to him: "Okay, just ask, I feel that my mind is much clearer now .”

"You observed the surface of Vision 001 when the sun was extinguished, and this is the sketch you left behind," Lucrezia was not polite, and took out the crumpled draft paper and handed it to the other party, "Yes this one?"

"Yes, I drew this."

"I have checked that the drawing itself does not carry mental pollution, but the contents of the picture are confusing and disturbing. You have drawn these chaotic lines like branches on the surface of that 'sphere', but after my analysis, this Do you have any memory of the fact that many of the lines seem to have been scribbled suddenly near the end of the painting to cover up the original, clearer appearance of the painting?"

Taran Ayer frowned suddenly.

He reached out to take the draft paper that Lucrezia handed over, looked at the spherical image covered by chaotic lines, his brows furrowed more and more, and his mind fell into contemplation and memory.

Lucrezia's words came from the opposite side: "A very important question is, do you really remember all the details that happened from observing the surface of the sun to falling asleep? It seems that you are also interested in the picture. Confused by these messy lines on..."

"I... I'm really confused," Taran Ayer said slowly, "It does look like an obvious smear, but I don't remember why I covered all the details of the previous picture... It seems... "

He stopped suddenly, and after much deliberation, he hesitated to continue: "Perhaps, I saw something extremely terrifying? Or the truth that should not be made public? I drew it uncontrollably, but in the I suddenly woke up before operating the 'Express Mail', so I hurriedly covered it...but for some reason, I wanted to send it again..."

Even though there was still some confusion, and even though there was an obvious break in memory, Taran Ayer's reason and logic as a senior scholar still prevailed. He analyzed what happened to him, and then his expression suddenly became serious: "How many people are watching now? Have you got this piece of paper?"

"A small number of senior scholars in the Academy of Truth," Lucrezia nodded, "the original is still with me, and what they see is only the content after you smeared it. I have already warned them, plus you The deep sleep is a warning to everyone, so don't worry about someone taking this sketch to analyze and restore the picture you saw in private, but the boundless sea is very big, and it cannot be ruled out whether there are other "braves" who have done it with you Such a bold thing."

Taran El nodded thoughtfully, and then he heard the "witch" continue to ask: "About that dream, what do you remember? How did you enter the dream? Your consciousness once sank into it The real 'last layer'?"

"I just remember standing in that 'forest' as soon as I woke up, as described in some ancient books, the boundless dense forest, the place where elves originated... My thinking in that dream seems very The slowness, the sound heard, the information perceived, and the reaction to the outside world seem to be separated by a thick barrier..."

Taran El was talking as he recalled, and then frowned suddenly.

"However, there is a very strange thing, that is, shortly after you appeared, my mind did 'sink' for a while, but it did not sink into the last layer of the dream, but a... like a 'layer' and a 'layer' ' In the transition place, many chaotic lights and shadows are intertwined, like several different dreams projecting each other, and in that chaotic area, there are many hazy figures around me..."

"Many hazy figures?" Lucrecia interrupted the other party instantly, "Please describe clearly, are they phantoms in a dream, or are they 'dreamers' like you?"

"I don't know. At that time, my mind was almost frozen. I could only feel their existence, but I couldn't accurately describe what they were, but one thing is certain...that was not a phantom," Taran Al said with a serious expression , "they actually exist, if not other 'dreamers', then other 'mental entities' contained within that dream."

"I understand," Lucrezia nodded calmly, then exhaled slightly, "This is really... crucial information."

"I hope this will come in handy," Taran Al said sincerely, then looked at the draft paper in his hand, "Then about this sketch..."

"Now I think it's best not to let ordinary scholars get in touch with this thing. No matter what you 'smear', it is obviously harmful to ordinary people." Lucrezia reached out and pulled the draft paper back. Let father see, maybe he will think of something."

Taran Ayer blinked after hearing this, and then nodded after reacting: "Oh, indeed, Captain Duncan is definitely not afraid of the hidden things in this picture, so let's wait until he comes, I'm not in a hurry..."

"Ah, that's another thing I want to tell you," Lucrezia adjusted her sitting posture leisurely, looking into Taran Ayer's eyes, "My father has arrived at Lightwind Harbor. "

Taran Al's eyes widened, his expression froze for a moment.

"Perhaps due to the special impact of the extinguishing of the sun, the Lost Country arrived at its destination in an instant," Lucrecia nodded, "He should be interested in chatting with you face to face, or inviting you to his ship—— He cares a lot about the sun going out."

Taran Al continued to be dazed for a few seconds, his eyes finally flickered, and he seemed to wake up for a moment, then he gasped and leaned back——

Lucrezia looked at it expressionlessly, and calmly picked up the medicine bottle that was placed on the low cabinet before and handed it to the doll Luni who was standing beside her: "Give it to Mr. Talan El."

Lu Ni snorted, took the potion and went to execute the hostess' order, while Lucrecia looked at the university student who was being drugged, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Look, it came in handy."

Today's "Sea Witch" once again successfully prevented the sudden death of Master Taran El on his ship.

(End of this chapter)