Soul Devouring Bird!

On a chosen day, the Nine-Tailed Fox released a large-scale Meme Contamination across the globe.

η011: Hundred Birds Painting.

Anyone who sees this painting will lose their memory for a period of time, which is actually a side effect.

The real effect of this Containment Object is that anyone who sees this painting will dream of a place called the Hundred Birds Forest at night.

There is a bird in that forest called the Soul Devouring Bird.

This bird will suck a person's vital energy, or Mental Energy, in their dreams.

When Mental Energy is drained, some memories will also disappear, so this is a side effect.

Some people may never wake up again after having a certain amount of Mental Energy absorbed from them.

Of course, it's fine if you only use it once or twice.

Because the Mental Energy absorbed in dreams is actually not that much, but this may not be the case for some people with weak Mental Power.

Moreover, this is not the first time Bai Ye has used the Hundred Birds Painting.

Soon, the image was posted on all information networks, and everyone was forced to see it.

And for those who don't have mobile phones or computers, and don't live in cities.

The Nine-Tailed Fox will then barge directly into their home and, depending on the number of people, use either the Forgetfulness Spray or the Hundred Birds Painting.

If there's only one person, then spray them with a spray bottle.

If there are many people, such as in a town, then gather everyone together and use the Hundred Birds Painting.

Using the Mental Contamination of Containment Object to carry out global brainwashing is also an inhumane method that emerged under the Bai Ye extreme regime.

009's speech may have been intended to deliberately vilify Bai Ye, but most of it was true.

After all, if Bai Ye hadn't done those things, no one would believe him even if he made empty promises.

Some of these things were experienced firsthand by the Sequences and were witnessed by all.

This long-suppressed anger erupted, but no one dared to directly confront the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Many things cannot be accomplished overnight. They are angry, but they are not so angry that they have lost their minds.

If they could break through Bai Ye's Nine-Tailed Fox by joining forces and charging in, then Bai Ye wouldn't have made these people feel so hopeless.

It was precisely because they had tried, they had worked hard, and they had confronted Bai Ye head-on that they understood how terrifying Bai Ye was.

To deal with Bai Ye, we need more allies.

If necessary, it is not unreasonable to borrow some power from the non-existent surface world!

So what is this force that doesn't exist in the representation boundary?

The answer points in two directions.

The King Bee, the Black Queen organization Queen Bee 004, can degrade herself to come to the surface world, which is the first direction.

The last direction points to the Old Ones.

Many people may have already noticed that some Old Ones can contact people in the surface world through Dreamscape and carry out Mental Contamination.

After Sea King entered the Dream World, new Fishman appeared in the real world.

Why is that?

Because many people overlook one thing: this seemingly divided world is actually always closely connected.

The surface layer is the material world, and the inner layer is the Spirit World.

The Dreamland where the fifth rank resides is undoubtedly the place closest to the Spirit World.

It is connected to the Dreamscape of all life.

When a person dreams, their mind wanders to a realm beyond the physical world, infinitely close to the Spirit World, and arrives in the world of dreams.

However, some people saw indescribable things in their dreams.

North Ridge City.

Inside a private residence, a group of police officers uncovered a Grave Robber Gang.

"The tomb bricks match up."

Do you believe me now?

Jiang Chen shrugged as he spoke.

Yang Lin glanced at the room full of cultural relics. "Consider this a great achievement for you. Now, do you remember what you told me?"

"Don't rush, there are too many people around and it's not convenient to talk right now. Let's wait a while and find a quiet place so I can talk to you slowly, okay?"

Yang Lin agreed.

He glanced at his watch and suddenly blurted out a question.

What is today's date?

"August 6th."

August 6th?

Yang Lin lowered his wrist. Today isn't August 6th, it's August 12th.

However, everyone forgot about those six days, and the calendar dates went back a full six days.

It was as if the whole world had been turned back in time.

It all started after that photograph appeared.

Yang Lin still remembers all of this, and he has been having strange dreams for six days in a row.

For those six days, he would dream of a withered forest filled with dead bones.

The forest was full of strange birds, which attacked Yang Lin as soon as they saw him, wanting to devour him.

Yang Lin killed them all.

But the nightmare didn't end there. In the following days, he would still dream of the Hundred Birds Forest, and the birds were stronger than before.

These birds are the embodiment of spirit; they feed on the souls of all things, and anyone bitten by one will lose a part of their memory.

If a person loses the memory of seeing the Hundred Birds Painting, then naturally they will no longer dream of the Hundred Birds Forest.

However, if your Mental Power is very strong and you defeat those Soul Devouring Bird time and time again, then the nightmare will continue, and the Soul Devouring Bird will become stronger and stronger.

This is like an endless cycle.

Unless you give up the struggle.

But giving up the struggle means giving up a memory.

The stronger the Soul Devouring Bird, the more memories they devour. Once you've defeated them time and time again, you can no longer afford to fail.

Because if you fail, they will devour you completely, leaving you utterly destroyed and never to wake up again.

Yang Lin has now entered this irreversible situation.

Unless he doesn't sleep.

This is not impossible for Yang Lin. He has been an Awakened since he was very young, and he has been cultivating his Mental Power under Meng Qing's guidance.

His strong Mental Power also means he doesn't need to sleep often.

Because sleep is a process of replenishing Mental Power.

Of course, this is mental; whether the body can withstand it is another matter.

However, few people may realize that the Hundred Birds Forest is not only harmful.

Because everything has both advantages and disadvantages.

Yang Lin's repeated killing of the Soul Devouring Bird was like a process of spirits devouring each other.

The more Soul Devouring Bird you kill, the stronger your Mental Power becomes.

This is the effect of the Hundred Birds Painting Containment Object, the Soul Devouring Bird Trial.

"Um?"

Yang Lin suddenly discovered a wood carving in a room.

It was a strange wooden carving of a marine creature.

A monster with an octopus-like face sat in a chair, with two pairs of broken and deformed wings on its back.

Yang Lin picked up the wood carving, and Jiang Chen obviously saw it too. "Modern handicrafts, deliberately made to look old, 10 yuan, that's the most I can offer."

Jiang Chen probably didn't see it, but there was a line on the top of the relief that pierced through the wall and stretched towards the sky, ignoring everything.

"Did you see that?"

"What do you see?"

"Wire."

A line formed from Mental Power extends towards the sky.

Connected to something invisible.