bookandnovel Chapter 3668 The Power Arrives
Chapter 3668 The Power Arrives
Chapter 3668 The Power Arrives
After about ten minutes, Starworm returned to the manor villa in silence.
At the gate of the villa, he met Gleipnir who had been waiting there.
"You..." Looking at Gleipnir's calm appearance, the Starworm hesitated again and again, but couldn't help asking: "Why don't you just tell me?"
"Tell you what?" Gleipnir raised his eyebrows and looked over.
“…There is nothing outside the fog.”
Gleipnir: "And then?"
Starworm hesitated for a moment and whispered, "I circled around the location of the fog, and the entire manor seemed to be covered by an invisible dome."
“Looking out through the dome, you can vaguely see the outlines of some city buildings, but they are not clear enough to know if they are real.”
Gleipnir nodded: "Then why do you think this is?"
Starworm pondered and said, "I don't know, but there are only two possibilities. First, someone used some kind of great power to separate this manor from the city."
"Secondly, the so-called city outline outside is completely false. This manor is actually a constructed box garden, or... a cage."
Gleipnir did not comment on Starworm's guess, but continued to ask: "Which possibility do you prefer?"
Starworm thought about what happened during the period after he was awakened, and finally said silently: "Maybe... the second one."
The reason is also very simple.
The starworm brought himself into Laplace's perspective. If it were him, and he suddenly encountered an alien who was unaware of good or evil, intentions, or strength, in order to avoid bringing disaster to this world, he would definitely choose a relatively hidden or even relatively closed place to awaken the unknown existence in the star mark.
This kind of enclosed place is most likely a cage isolated from the outside world.
Therefore, the second possibility is the greatest.
Gleipnir did not comment on the Starworm's answer. Instead, he chuckled and said, "Now, do you understand? Why don't I just tell you the answer? Because you may not believe what I say. Only when you personally see the barrier outside the fog, will you think and associate. Finally, find the truth."
Gleipnir's answer also indirectly confirmed that she deliberately let the starworm go outside.
Starworm: "I have seen the barrier you mentioned. Can you tell me why there is a barrier here?"
Gleipnir: "Why is there a barrier here? You guessed it. We were worried that something might happen if we woke you up, so we found a place that is isolated from the world."
If Starworm had received this answer before, he would definitely be skeptical, but after he saw the barrier that isolated the fog, he believed it.
"So...you let me discover this 'truth'. Are you planning to tell me that I'm imprisoned?"
Gleipnir looked at the starworm whose face gradually calmed down and shook his head gently: "No, I just want to tell you that the world you see is not the real world."
"Do you want to see the real world outside?"
Starworm repeated in a low voice: "The real world outside?"
"Yes, it's the outside world." Gleipnir: "In the beginning, I trapped you here simply because I didn't understand you. Now, although I don't know much about you, but..."
Gleipnir lowered his eyelids and said in a voice that was almost like a whisper: "You know, we don't want to offend the Star Lord."
"So, if you want to see the outside world, I can take you out."
The moment Gleipnir mentioned "Star Lord", the Starworm knew that the other party could not be lying here.
Starworm said almost without hesitation: "Of course I want to go out!"
It wasn't just out of curiosity, wanting to see what the so-called "real" world was like, but more importantly, he wouldn't be able to collect more intelligence if he stayed here.
However, after Starworm finished speaking, he still hesitated: "But Ms. Laplace, do you know about this?"
In his opinion, Laplace was the person in charge, and only with her consent would he be qualified to leave.
Gleipnir: "Of course I know. Do you think I would be waiting for you here without her consent?"
Starworm groaned: "Since Ms. Laplace agrees, then... I want to go out and see the outside world."
"Very good." Gleipnir nodded. "I'll take you out, but before I leave, I need to make three rules with you."
Starworm: "Please speak."
"First, after you leave, I need you to cooperate with me in making some small attempts. Don't worry, it will be just like letting you sleep before. It's a very common attempt that won't be too difficult."
Starworm nodded. If it was just this kind of attempt, he would cooperate.
only……
Gleipnir had said before that he would see the other side of the world after a sleep, which made him misunderstand that there was a special dream realm here. As a result, nothing changed after waking up, except that he saw the "barrier" outside the manor.
The "barrier" in the fog most likely existed originally and should have nothing to do with whether he sleeps or not.
If that's the case, then why did Gleipnir let him sleep before?
Facing Starworm's doubts, Gleipnir simply said: "Is there a possibility that I didn't lie to you, but you haven't reached the qualification to 'see the other side of the world' yet?"
Looking at Gleipnir's meaningful expression, the Starworm hesitated.
He recalled the dream he had had before.
It seems like there is no end to this endless and long dream bridge...
Perhaps, it wasn't that there was no special dream realm, but that in order to reach it, one had to go to the other side of the dream bridge? And the reason why he had been trapped on the dream bridge and couldn't see the end was, as Gleipnir said, because he hadn't met the qualifications?
But, is that really the case?
Starworm was a little skeptical, so he asked Gleipnir, but Gleipnir did not tell him the truth. He just said, "You need to discover the truth yourself."
"What I say may not even be absolutely correct. Because my understanding of this world is not as profound as you think."
"I just know more about this world than you do. But what I know is not the truth, you should understand."
Starworm nodded.
What we see and hear is just the iceberg floating on the sea. The truth is the shadow hidden beneath the sea.
Gleipnir: "Also, what I said about you cooperating with me in some attempts after you get out is actually helping you see the other side of the world."
"As for whether you can see the other side of the world in the end, this... I am not sure either."
"Let's continue to make three rules."
"Second, when you go out into the world, there will be very little help I can give you. You need to be self-reliant."
Starworm: "I understand."
"Third, I am not taking you away without any conditions. I hope you can tell me some knowledge, or intelligence."
Starworm was stunned: "What information? If it is information about the Star Train, I have said what I can say."
More information is kept secret.
"Not the information about the Star Train." Gleipnir: "I want to know mostly about your experiences."
"As I said before, what you have seen and heard does not represent the truth. You can choose not to tell the truth, but I hope you will stop deliberately distorting and deceiving what you have seen and heard."
The starworm thought about it and guessed that what Gleipnir wanted to know was most likely the people and things in various worlds.
Starworm knew a lot of this information. After all, as a conductor of the Star Sea Train, he had indeed witnessed many stories from the world.
If it were just this information, Starworm wouldn't mind sharing it.
"Okay." Starworm: "Do you want to ask now?"
Gleipnir shook his head. "No, I will find time to ask you later."
Anyway, no matter where the starworm went in the Dream Crystal Plain, Angel could locate it. Then, he could just teleport to find him.
Of course, the best way is to let Starworm have a text column, and then give him a temporary manor door card. Then he can ask whatever he wants in the manor.
However, Gleipnir was not sure whether Starworms could have text columns, and more attempts were needed.
"Okay, now that we have agreed on three things, I can take you away from here now." Gleipnir: "Or do you plan to continue shopping here?"
Starworm looked back at the manor. He was actually a little curious about some of the written creations here, but compared to these, he was more curious about the outside world.
Anyway, he could still see text creations outside, and perhaps he could also see the "mountains and rivers" type of text creations that he cared about the most. ——He was really curious, what was the text description of the mountains and rivers? In a nutshell, or in a detailed description?
Thinking of this, Starworm did not hesitate any longer:
"I'm leaving now."
Gleipnir: "Okay, let's go."
As the words fell, the starworm was wondering how to leave, but found that Gleipnir's body had begun to slowly turn into words and dissipate.
And he himself was also slowly turning into words...
But compared to Gleipnir's disappearing speed, his seemed to be slower.
Gleipnir had completely disappeared, and even the remaining light of the text had turned into tiny fireflies.
But for himself, it seemed that only the palms of his hands disappeared.
Of course, this disappearance is still spreading, but the speed is really slow. Compared with Gleipnir, it is nothing.
Why is this?
Not only Starworm was asking this question, but Angel and Laplace, who were witnessing everything from a God's perspective and broadcasting the holographic video in the manor hall, were also asking the same question.
"Under normal circumstances, it takes less than a second to completely dissipate." Laplace: "But the situation of starworms is very different."
"He's more like sinking into the mud now, very slowly."
"Why is that?" Laplace looked at Angel.
The only person who could possibly answer this question is Ingres. If even Ingres doesn't know, then this will truly be an eternal mystery.
Angel did not answer immediately, but carefully observed the changes of the starworm. At the same time, he looked at the Dream Crystal Origin from a God's perspective.
Outside the Uriel instance.
Gleipnir had already come out and was waiting here.
Opposite Gleipnir, a stream of light slowly emerged, and a pair of hands stretched out from within the light.
As for these hands, only the outline of the hands can be seen, and the skin cannot be seen. They are completely black.
Through these dark hands, you can vaguely see bits of starlight.
Gleipnir looked at the "black hand" struggling to reach out in surprise. Although these hands had no skin, she guessed the origin of these hands.
It was the Starworm's hand.
This is what the starworm looked like before it developed skin. There was only the outline of a human figure, but the outline was filled with the dark starry sky and nothing could be seen.
"So, this is a starworm?!" Gleipnir was surprised and subconsciously wanted to enter the manor to check the situation.
But before she entered the text space, Angel's voice came to her ears.
"This is a star worm... If nothing unexpected happens, his body is being reshaped by the Dream Crystal."
"You don't have to come in, just wait outside. It shouldn't take long before his body comes out."
After hearing Angel's message, Gleipnir gave up the idea of entering the manor, but the suspicion in her eyes did not disappear so quickly.
The star worms are coming out so slowly, it turns out they are reshaping their bodies?!
"But why did the body suddenly reshape itself?" Laplace asked.
Now, two holographic live broadcasts appeared in front of Laplace's eyes.
In the live broadcast room on the left, the protagonist is Starworm, and the location is at the entrance of the manor.
In the live broadcast room on the right, the protagonist is still Starworm, but there is a new supporting character, Gleipnir, who is located outside the Uriel dungeon.
In the live broadcast room on the left, the starworm's hands slowly disappeared; while in the live broadcast room on the right, the hands slowly stretched out, but they changed from white hands to dark hands with the outline of the starry sky.
According to Angel, the reason why the Starworm got out so slowly and turned back into its original form when it arrived in the outside world was because it was reshaping its body.
But why?
Laplace murmured to himself, "Could it be that your guess just now is true? The reason why Starworm cannot see the hint of the Wonderland is because he has never really stepped into the Dream Crystal Origin."
"And now, he has finally left the manor and stepped into the Dream Crystal Plain, so he has reshaped his body?"
Angel nodded: "That's probably the case."
"I can feel that there is a great power that has descended outside the Uriel instance and is reshaping the body of the star worm."
This kind of great power is not the power of authority, but a power that is higher than the level of authority.
Ingres couldn't determine what it was.
But he knew that this power was spread throughout the entire Dream Crystal Origin, and contained a combination of the power of nightmare, the power of dreams, and the power of the mirror realm. If he had to put it in a specific way, it was similar to... the basic power that constituted this world.
In other words, the basic operating rules of this world.
In the past, this kind of power was hidden. Even Angel could only vaguely sense its existence, but there was no way to further understand its context.
It’s not that Ingres doesn’t have the authority, but that he doesn’t have enough knowledge about the world, energy, and laws.
Now, because of the special case of the star worm, the great power hidden in the veins has emerged, reshaping its body and making the star worm more in line with the essence of the Dream Crystal.
In other words, it pushed the starworms into the world of Dream Crystal Origin.
This is the truth that "Weili" told Ingres.
Of course, Wei Li cannot speak and has no independent consciousness, but when it came to reshape the body of the starworm, Angel, as the creator of the Dream Crystal, "read" what Wei Li meant.
It was also at this time that Angel realized that his previous guess was correct.
The reason why the starworm could not see the fairyland hint was because he lacked the finishing touch of "integrating into the dream crystal origin".
And when the starworm left the manor and went to the outside world, the final push finally came.