Hobart recalled the hint Lina had written on the tent when she was near death. Seeing the scene before him, Hobart suddenly understood. Lina had probably already been somewhat delirious at the time and had used the wrong grammar.
The hint should have been: the Curse was in the dream.
Moreover, this "Curse" was actually the Curse of the Oil Painting. Anyone who had seen or approached the Oil Painting would have a Wooden Sculpture of their own in this hall.
In other words, whether or not they opened the Grave Owner's Stone Coffin, they would be "cursed" by the Oil Painting and silently killed in the Dream World, or attacked by monsters again when they were weak.
Lina was a Beyonder of the God of Death pathway. Her spirituality was sharper than that of Beyonders from other pathways, so she had probably understood the meaning of the Curse before she died.
Of course, her final hint had not been for Hobart and the others, but for her companion, because anyone who saw or touched the Oil Painting would certainly suffer the same Curse as she had.
But how could they solve this problem? Only now did Hobart realize that he did not know much Beyonder knowledge about dreams. Furthermore, the problem before him involved both dreams and curses, leaving him without any good solution for the moment.
If nothing else worked, they could only try moving the Wooden Figure out of the hall and into the real world.
Christine, beside him, was also stroking his chin in thought. After a long while, he suddenly said, "Perhaps that item might be useful."
He opened his Briefcase and actually shoved his entire arm inside to rummage through it.
Hobart could not help sighing. He had not expected the Briefcase Christine carried