Deep Dream

"Looks like I can't disturb that disgusting thing."

His current Transcendental abilities are powerfully restraining against the Dead Zone, but their use is limited, so he can only choose to temporarily avoid confrontation.

[Load Save, after opening the dormitory door]

He returned to the narrow and dark doorway.

This time.

After unlocking it, he chose to gently push the door open, heading away from the location of the Deathborn Aggregate.

The corridor was also pitch black.

Su Wen was certain that if he wasn't playing on a computer, where he could forcibly increase the brightness several times, experiencing it in real life would be no different from a blind man groping an elephant.

Left, left.

Second room:

[Door Locked]

Third room:

[Door Locked]

He continued forward.

Fourth room:

[The doorknob is creaking]

Su Wen felt like he was about to disturb that monster again.

He quickly slowed his movements and entered the room.

Inside the room was a metal chair covered in bloodstains, the blood seeming not yet dry.

On it was a page torn from what was also a notebook:

[Seeing a doctor, so painful]

[I don't want to be sick]

The handwriting on it was crooked and messy.

It looked like.

It was written in extreme pain.

['Deep Dream' Corruption +1 (Currently 4 points)]

Su Wen couldn't get much information.

He turned his head.

In the darkness.

That huge monster was also preparing to squeeze in through the door, its two black, empty eyes staring intently at him.

Fortunately, Su Wen had the Extraordinary Trait - Fear Resistance, and wasn't affected; if someone with a weak heart were in his place, they'd probably faint.

There was definitely no way to run now.

He picked up the blood-stained iron stool, swung it around, and slammed it hard against the Deathborn Aggregate's head.

The monster seemed to be in pain, hissing silently.

But the next second, it pounced on him even more fiercely.

[You have died!!]

[Choose to Load Save?]

He chose to Load Save.

This time.

Su Wen entered the fourth room, grabbed the notebook, and prepared to smash the window of the room with the iron stool.

[Touching the edge of the dream]

[Insufficient energy]

[Unable to destroy]

It was a regional restriction.

Not even a big world.

Garbage game.

He cursed inwardly.

He watched as that terrifying, huge figure was spying on him from the shadows.

Then he chose to Load Save again.

This time.

He had already collected the information from the fourth room.

Now it seemed like he needed to change his strategy.

It was now known that there were four places where he could obtain 'Deep Dream' Corruption.

But because of Load Save, he chose not to enter the Fourth room's corruption zone, so he couldn't obtain it. His current accumulated value is three points.

It's also unclear whether entering the Deep Dream will lead to a bad ending.

At the end of the corridor was a pure black door. Su Wen tentatively pushed it open.

[Strength check passed]

[The door is slowly opening]

An even more unsettling scene appeared beyond the door.

In the extremely dim environment, he could see bodies kneeling on the ground, all headless, replaced with the heads of puppets from a horror show.

He silently closed the Black Gate behind him first.

Then he began to count them one by one.

Ten.

Eleven.

There were a total of eleven puppets kneeling on the ground, their bodies pieced together with grafted parts.

The replaced puppet heads all streamed with bloody tears, and the mouths painted on with oil paint were stretched into perfectly angled smiles, all cast from the same mold.

[Identification: Corpse Puppet, pieced together from corpses, mindless dead servants, acting on command, anomalous factor, fragment of Abyssal Contamination.]

At that moment.

All the puppets stared intently at him.

The next second.

Those disgusting things all stood up one by one and charged at him.

"Come on, let's give it a try."

As a Chief Player who had participated in many games, he didn't think these scraps could be more elite than the assassins who attacked the Duke of Bavaria before.

Su Wen retreated, first grabbing the arm of the closest puppet and slamming it directly into the second puppet.

The two bodies were instantly smashed into a fragmented mess.

A deep darkness rose in his vision.

['Deep Dream' Corruption +1 (Currently 4 points)]

"Contact with these twisted things increases corruption?"

Su Wen thought while dodging, "Maybe it does, but I haven't fully figured it out yet."

He now had a general idea.

To verify whether his idea was correct.

Su Wen, as a researcher of theoretical physics, decided to grab another puppet and try again.

He dodged an attack.

As a First Order Transcendent, it would be a bit embarrassing to lose against these mindless, less-than-First Order disgusting things.

Su Wen grabbed the shoulder of a Corpse Puppet.

It didn't trigger Deep Dream corruption.

He then tried a further action.

His arms worked in conjunction with his waist to exert force.

A back suplex!

As the corpse became a bloody mess on the wall.

His vision also seemed to sink deeper as if into a dream.

['Deep Dream' Corruption +1 (Currently 5 points)]

[Deep Dream Transition Mechanism triggered]

[World-Level Contamination Increase +50]

[A deeper darkness envelops you]

In the deeper darkness, an abnormal blood red color was added to the picture.

It was still the same black room.

But the Corpse Puppets that were originally there had all disappeared.

Only a note was left behind:

[8-14: They have all been cured, cured forever]

[8-15: Only I am left]

[8-16: Even if they're healed, are they still like that?]

[Appraisal: Diary page fragment, identical to the ones found previously.]

At this moment.

He heard faint sounds coming from outside the door.

He quietly pushed the door open.

And then he saw the Deathborn Aggregate in the hallway, tearing apart a Corpse Puppet in its hands.

It was attaching the Puppet's parts to itself.

Then it casually tossed the remaining useless parts onto the floor.

The ground was covered in broken corpses and spreading bloodstains.

It looked incredibly terrifying and disgusting.

But the Deathborn Aggregate's movements were slow now.

And there was only one path forward.

Su Wen had no choice but to follow behind it.

The next second.

The monster suddenly turned around.

And grabbed Su Wen tightly.

Load Save

Su Wen's hand speed was still fast.

He didn't know if the monster's movements were fixed or if it had discovered him.

He could only use his life to test Load Save.

This felt a bit like trying to obtain the Knowledge Secret Treasure from three thousand years in the future.

Third death

Eighth death

Fifteenth death.

"A backstab occurs at 3.78 seconds, 5.62 seconds, and 12.8 seconds, these are three fixed time points.

And from the most recent death, I can conclude 'My position can't be behind it, I must stick to the right wall.'"

Su Wen tested with a rigorous attitude, using his life.

Load Save

The scene returned to the position after the 'Deep Dream' started.

Darkness and blood-red enveloped everything.

He was about to reach the location within the Deep Dream corresponding to the previous Fourth house.

But this also meant.

The Fair Knight was about to begin collecting the final evidence.

To complete the Judgment that would end everything!