Without an answer to the old questions, a new fog started to haunt them.
Gu Jun looked up at the starless night sky, but his heart was comforted by the fact that Earth had not changed and was not destroyed.
Peacock, Malachite and the rest came from there, perhaps all the 'land's travellers' had come from the same place for the past 30 years.
"I, I …" At that moment, Peacock groaned in pain. She lifted her eyes to look at him. Her eyes were filled with confusion, "Mr. Nightmare Man, I don't understand …"
She slowly stood up and looked around her. There was nothing but yellow sand and barren wasteland. Tears gushed out from her eyes, "Where is our City of Kindle?"
"You saw it?" Gu Jun's head twitched, "Are we the only ones around?"
"City of Kindle …" Peacock was about to take a step forward when her knees buckled. She collapsed to the sand, "Where is the City of Kindle? Where is the temple? "
Gu Jun answered for her, "How did it all disappear like an illusion? That is my problem as well, this is what I saw from the very beginning. " But in the mental connection, he did catch a glimpse of the City of Kindle, it did not appear to be a delusion.
"Is it the Ossarians? But it can't be that everything is gone … Have we come to the wrong place? But … "Peacock saw the two holy relics in the nightmare man's hands. She mumbled," The relics are still here … "She suddenly ran towards the lake.
Now, she could come and go directly in this desert. She ran to the side of the pile of rocks and looked at the stone with the engravings.
It was so simple, there was no statue beside it, it was just a pile of broken rocks.
Peacock turned back helplessly. When she passed Malachite, Malachite ignored her. She picked up the ceramic puppy from the sand and caressed it.
"Kathlyn." Gu Jun did not plan to leave it at that. He called out in English, "Can you hear me? You are not just Peacock, Kathlyn! "
He was sure that there was another persona hiding in the peacock's shell, and that persona might know more.
"Ah …" Peacock's mind was stirred again. "What is this? Ah … Kathlyn Lee …" Her face twisted and her voice changed. She mumbled in English, "Where am I … Have I lost my mind? Have I completely lost my mind …"
She sometimes spoke English, and sometimes shouted in the language of the land's wanderers: "Get out, who are you, get away from my head!"
Her two consciousnesses seemed to be struggling and colliding painfully, causing her to grab her head as if she was tearing it apart.
Gu Jun walked over to look at her for a while, and watched as she gradually stopped panting.
"Mr. Nightmare Man." Peacock whispered, "I know her now. Kathlyn, she is here." Her expression suddenly changed, and the look in her eyes changed as well. She looked less mature and more youthful. "Damn it, damn it, Mr. Mask, do you really exist? Oh my god, what are those? Rats? "
"Calm down." Gu Jun comforted her. "You're Kathlyn Lee, right? What's the last date you remember? Answer me! "
Kathlyn was spooked by him, but she managed to calm down. "Something like that."
"Has there been any change in the world?" He asked again, "Is there anything happening in China? Plague? Supernatural disaster? Have you heard anything about that? "
"I … have not." Kathlyn shook her head with confusion. "Let's just leave it at that."
Gu Jun sighed in relief, his heart that had been tense for so long relaxed slightly.
Assuming she was not lying, it had been half a year since he boarded the white ship and entered the dream world.
The Nightmare Illness had really been eradicated. Be it Eastern State, China or the whole world, there were no major incidents during this period.
"What's the last thing you remember?" He asked again.
"I don't know." Kathlyn did not feel embarrassed, she answered honestly, "I have some mental issues, you know, I need medication to be fine. Tom, my boyfriend, he's the same. Seriously, why is he standing there like an idiot? Tom! I know this is going to sound weird, but we're going to see something weird. "
"What is it?"
"A city in the desert." Kathlyn shrugged. "It's like a mirage. There are houses, roads and people. According to Peacock, it's called the City of Kindle. By the way, I have no idea what she is. This kind of hallucination started when I attended a party when I was 16 … "
"Judy's birthday party?" Gu Jun asked. Kathlyn was stunned. "How did you know that? You're my imaginary friend? "
"No." Gu Jun said, "You can't remember how you got here at all? Other than Tom, is there anyone else? "
"I really can't remember." Kathlyn frowned as she tried to think but she could only shake her head. "I only remember meeting Tom at the cinema and then I left my apartment … and then I was here."
Gu Jun then asked Kathlyn some more questions but he did not manage to get any more information. According to her, she and Tom were normal people.
Gu Jun arranged his thoughts. Compared to schizophrenia, they were more like multiple personalities. There was an extra soul in their bodies … the soul of the land's travellers from the future. The signs started from the party many years ago until recently when they entered the dream world. There were five of them.
After that, it was Peacock and the rest who took control of their bodies, saw and recognized other things.
What a person saw, heard and felt was information received by the brain.
This information did not have to come from the real world, it could be some kind of preset, implanted or controlled, like puppets being manipulated.
Be it Kathlyn or Peacock, they had no idea about each other and these disordered thoughts.
Like the chess pieces on a chessboard, they did not know they were chess pieces.
Who was the one controlling the puppet and playing chess behind the scenes? How could they do this? What was the purpose of this?
And what was the origin of these three holy relics? Who, and when, placed it here? The land's travellers from before?
The more Gu Jun thought about it, the more he felt a splitting headache. A gust of cold wind blew the yellow sand, like an invisible hand had enveloped him.
Was the information about the future real or fake? The chaos of Phecda, the rise of the rebellion, the era of haemoptysis, Mutated Scale Disease, Petrification Disease …
The Pnakotic Manuscripts, the Ancient Seal, what was the connection between them …
"Where did the land's travellers go in the end?" Gu Jun asked the Elder Zoog, "Do you guys know?"
"Erm." The Elder Zoog patted his head awkwardly, "Even us Zoogs would not pay much attention to a few nameless people."
"Mr. Nightmare Man." Then Peacock reappeared. Kathlyn disappeared. She asked with confusion, "Is this one of your nightmares?"
At the same time, the Zoogs chattered among themselves. The Elder Zoog clapped to interrupt her and said nervously, "Mr. Nightmare, I'm not sure if I should say this but the channel is becoming unstable. Based on our experience, it is about to collapse."
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