Inside the dark barrel, when Gu Jun saw the mission rewards, he wanted to scream but he forced himself to remain calm.
He turned to the host's information tab and realized all his vital stats had changed to '?'. 'Abnormal paralysis? '
Gu Jun looked at the 4 rewards one by one. 'One Carlop Brand Scalpel', he obviously could not claim this now or else he would only stab himself if he dropped it into the barrel. The 3 autopsy instruments were still missing. They could be with him, the Zoogs or the black merchants.
'It's a scalpel, not a scalpel. 'Gu Jun thought,' This should be able to trigger an illusion related to treatment. '
However, if he triggered an illusion now, his mental power that he had just recovered would be completely obliterated.
"10 pages of the incomplete spell book." Gu Jun carefully inspected the floating object in his mind. These 10 pages were placed together with the previous spell book page. They appeared to be different pages of the same spell book. He pulled one page closer to take a closer look. It was also filled with notes, it was Lenton's handwriting.
'The last abyssal mission only rewarded me with 1 page, this time it's 10 pages. '
This proved how difficult the nightmare house was to deal with. Destroying it would be a great achievement.
Reading spell books was mentally exhausting so Gu Jun did not read them in detail. He only skimmed through the content.
The 10 pages explained more basic knowledge of spells, the focus was on 'rituals'.
There were 2 main types of spells, one was spells and the other was rituals.
Compared to simple chanting, rituals often had a stronger effect. Certain things could only be achieved through rituals.
Rituals had detailed requirements, and different rituals had different requirements:
Astronomical phenomenon, time, weather, location, number of people, procedure, equipment, spell, sacrifice …
'Rituals also require sacrifices and usually more than that … 'Gu Jun studied the pages. He was reminded of the crooked grave, the Inuit on the snowy mountain, the sacrifice to the banyan tree from the Afterlife Cult, the altar that the cult had carefully designed …
Those were all rituals, they were related to darkness and fanaticism.
However, it was also written on the ten pages that there were Dark Rituals and Light Rituals.
Unknowingly, Gu Jun was reading carefully. He also read some of Lenton's notes. He only stopped when he felt a sharp pain in his spirit.
These ten pages would be of great help to him in understanding spells and rituals. If he could bring this knowledge back, it would be a great help to Phecda. But for his current predicament, it did not seem to be of any use.
At that moment, Gu Jun turned his attention to the watcher's diary. After he consumed the nightmare house, he had no idea what happened to the young watcher's dream. Now, the notification said, "Saved"? He thought for a while before opening the diary.
In the last few pages of the diary, it was written that Doctor Carlop had cured the town's residents and the plague. Warsong Town had returned to its former peace.
Suddenly, a new prompt box popped up.
"Your spirit has been purified, Corruption Rate -0.1%, currently 48.9%."
"Eh?" Gu Jun did feel that his spirit had been nourished, that was a pleasant surprise even though it was only 0.1%.
This degree of decline more or less showed how seriously he was being eroded.
But the fact that it could fade was good news, it meant that he had hope of recovery!
Gu Jun was instantly excited. Even though he was still looking at the wooden barrel, the light seemed to pierce through it.
Closing the diary, he continued to study the 3 old pictures. He did not pull them closer to take a closer look. They looked like landscape pictures, they were old but they gave off a sense of beauty.
He clicked on the leftmost picture to take a closer look, and as he expected, his spirit had been nourished again … This color picture looked like a normal landscape picture. He could not tell where the green mountains and clear waters were, and there was nothing out of place about it. There was no date of photography, so he had no idea who took it.
"Your spirit has been purified, Corruption Rate -0.01%, currently 48.89%."
“-0.01%？” Gu Jun's emotions were complicated, and he continued to look at the other two pictures. They were also landscape pictures, and the corruption rate was also -0.01% each.
After three pictures, the corruption rate was 48.87%. It was very slow, but he had a different feeling … it was like the quality of his spirit was a little different.
Was the disappearance of the corruption also a kind of digestion?
"If that's the case …" He thought, "If I digest all the corruption, my spirit will become very powerful, right? But what will I become? "
There was no answer to this question, so Gu Jun first opened the mission list to see how he could save himself.
If he still had to save people or dissect something, he would probably have to take a break.
[Normal Mission: Roll your eyes 3000 times in one day. Mission Reward: 1 old picture.
Difficult Mission: Roll your eyes 15000 times in three days. Mission Reward: 5 old pictures.
Abyssal Mission: Reduce the corruption rate by 10% in one week. Mission Reward: Unknown]
Gu Jun understood now. The mission description would change according to his condition. Rolling his eyes was the only thing he could do now. 'Old pictures' should be similar to the previous one, a kind of mental food that could purify the corruption rate.
The normal mission was no problem; the difficult mission did not require three days, it could be completed in one day.
The system refreshed daily, and if he completed a difficult mission every day …
"If each picture can reduce the corruption rate by 0.01%, then I can reduce it by 0.05% in one day." Gu Jun calculated. "When the corruption rate is reduced to 8%, my body will return to its previous state. Then reducing it by 1% will take 20 days, and reducing it by 40% will take 800 days. "
800 days. If he could survive and rely on this method to save himself, he would need more than two years.
"That's too long." Gu Jun grumbled. This was like a bucket of cold water splashed on his head. The black merchants would not have supported him for two years for nothing.
Furthermore, two years in the dream world, how long was it on Earth?
He did not know the exchange rate between the two. It appeared that the exchange rate was different on the island and inside the nightmare house. It might be different depending on the area in the dream world. Therefore, two years for him might be two years, several years, or even longer in the real world.
Perhaps for the system, time was meaningless. Two years was just a blink of an eye, but it was different for Gu Jun.
Gu Jun's mind turned to the abyssal mission. This was a paradox. He could not move due to the high corruption rate, so how could he reduce the corruption rate by 10% in one week?
But based on his past experience, there was a chance to complete the abyssal mission …
"Five sweet dreams." Gu Jun looked at the reward. This was the first time he had seen such a reward. Was the chance inside?
Sweet dreams. He was reminded of the old captain of Barcé from the white ship who wanted to take away 100 sweet dreams from him and Wu Shiyu. Were these two the same thing?
This special reward was only given five, which meant that these 'sweet dreams' were very valuable. Now that he thought about it, the old captain wanted to take away 100 … that was really cruel. If not for the complicated power inside his body, it would be hard to predict what would have happened.
"What is the use of these 'sweet dreams'?"
He only saw five bubbles floating on the surface of the sea. They seemed to be flickering with some gorgeous scenes. Five sweet dreams.
He was reminded of the explanation from the old captain of Barcé. "Nightmares have power, so do sweet dreams. But everyone's sweet dreams are limited. Without these sweet dreams, one will lose the ability to dream. Those who have their dreams taken away will be summoned by the dream. "
"Did these five sweet dreams originate from someone as well? Are they five sweet dreams of the same person, or one sweet dream of five different people? "
"Are the sweet dreams a one-time use or can they be used multiple times?"
"Can they directly reduce my corruption rate? Or can I use them to perform some kind of summoning? "
Gu Jun looked at the five bubbles, and many questions crossed his mind. He felt like these sweet dreams would not directly reduce the corruption rate but they would bring him opportunities. Whether that was the case or not, he had to figure it out himself. However, there were only five sweet dreams, and he could not afford to mess around with them.
"Either I digest this corruption or I'll be consumed by this corruption."
There would be no answer if he did not try. He thought about it and decided to give it a try. If anything went wrong, he would stop immediately. He gathered his spirit and tried to click on the leftmost bubble. Circles of ripples appeared on it, and the bubble grew bigger as if it was trying to pull him in …
"Hmm." Gu Jun did not feel any discomfort. He let it go and entered this sweet dream.
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