This was a space without rules. Anything could appear and disappear in an instant.
This could be considered Lin's' proud 'work. Not only did this dreamscape have a perfect realistic effect, it could also make all creatures connected to it feel real pain.
Therefore, when Monte II was attacked by the brain worm, he was indeed feeling tormented. Moreover, because there was no real death in this dreamscape, it could torment a creature forever as long as its body was still alive outside.
Of course, this was only an ideal situation. Generally speaking, if the brain worm received all kinds of uncomfortable emotions for a long time, the creature would usually die very quickly. This was basically caused by the excessive 'fear secretion' inside. It needed another emotion, such as happiness, to wash away this secretion.
Under the immense pressure, in order to avoid pain, Monte II finally revealed the truth about himself …
In reality, the brain worm didn't want to ask him anything. It just wanted to kill him. However, because Lin wanted to ask, the brain worm expressed that it wanted to be the interrogator.
Monte II's journey was actually not very special …
Back then, he was burned by the wyvern's flames and sank into the deep sea. Just when Monte II thought his life was over, he encountered some deep sea creatures, the Ancient Abyssal Squids.
These Ancient Squids didn't kill Monte II. Instead, they dragged him to a cave at the bottom of the sea. There was no water there, so Monte II could live there.
There was also a huge Mantis Shrimp inside. Monte II found that this Mantis Shrimp seemed to have a good relationship with the Ancient Squids. The two seemed to be able to communicate. Moreover, they had been feeding Monte II.
Monte II didn't know what was going on. Why would they feed him? He didn't understand the situation at all. However, he thought that he could wait here until his wounds healed …
Under the care of the Ancient Squids and Mantis Shrimp, Monte II's burns quickly healed. He could also move freely. However, because this was a cave at the bottom of the sea, he couldn't establish a tribe here. Therefore … Monte II planned to leave.
However, when he wanted to leave, a problem appeared. Once Monte II got close to the exit, the Ancient Squids and Mantis Shrimp would immediately block him and not let him leave. If Monte II insisted on going through, the Ancient Squids would even attack him. However, after he went back, the Ancient Squids would return to their previous good state …
This was very strange. Monte II later tried many times. For example, when the Mantis Shrimp went out to hunt, when the Ancient Squids were sleeping. However, no matter what, some of the Ancient Squids didn't sleep. They could always stop Monte II...
After a long time, Monte II gave up on running away and decided to live in the cave. In truth, there wasn't much of a problem in the cave. There was plenty of food and the place wasn't too small, but as the brain of the tribe, Monte II couldn't stand the feeling of not being able to expand the tribe.
Therefore, it did not completely give up on leaving. Monte II later thought of a special method. It began to try to communicate with these ancient squids …
In the beginning, it was very difficult. They didn't understand each other, but after a long time, Monte II slowly understood the Ancient Squid's special language. Monte II also used its body movements to let the Ancient Squid understand its language.
In the beginning, they could only communicate with simple things. Later, they could communicate with more complicated things. Monte II could even ask them to bring in food. He could also ask the Ancient Squids to tell him about the situation outside.
Even so, the Ancient Squids didn't let him leave. No matter how good their relationship was, once Monte II got close to the exit, the Ancient Squids' emotions would instantly change.
Later, Monte II understood that he couldn't get out no matter what. He also didn't know why the Ancient Squids were like this.
However, he believed that the Ancient Squids and Mantis Shrimp were under the command of some creature …
Since he could communicate with the Ancient Squids, Monte II could also communicate with the Mantis Shrimp. The Mantis Shrimp's intelligence might be weaker than the Ancient Squids, but it could still understand a lot of information. Later, Monte II "heard" that a huge thing had appeared on a nearby island.
The Mantis Shrimp first told the Ancient Squids. Then, the Ancient Squids showed the general appearance of this thing to Monte II.
At that time, Monte II knew that it was the brainworm's ship. After all, it had built a ship before. The ships they built were very similar.
"Impossible! They can't be very similar! My ship is even more perfect than this stupid creature's ship! "At this point, the brainworm suddenly changed the topic …
Then, Monte II thought of a new plan. He let the Mantis Shrimp attack the brainworm's ship. In fact, he didn't want to attack the brainworm. He just wanted to attract the brainworm's attention.
Monte II wanted to follow the Mantis Shrimp to this place after the brainworm's ship was sunk. If the brainworm attacked this cave, he could take the opportunity to escape.
However, Monte II started to doubt his own plan. After all, he knew that the brainworm didn't have any aquatic soldiers. Otherwise, he wouldn't have used Cryopteris to shout at it from the other side of the island for so long.
However, since he would be trapped here forever, why not give it a try?
At this point, Lin realized that Monte II had made a mistake. Monte II's decision to let the Mantis Shrimp attack the brainworm's ship was unwise. He might as well let the Mantis Shrimp attack and attract other huge marine creatures, such as the Ocean Horseshoe Crab. These creatures could even collapse the entire cave.
However, this could also be because Monte II didn't know about the nearby marine creatures.
The Mantis Shrimp was indeed very obedient. It went to sink the brainworm's ship, and this continued for a long time. Every time the brainworm built a new ship, it would sink it. This continued until the brainworm ran into Lin's dream and found her. Then, the following series of events happened.
… So that's how it is.
After Lin understood, she felt that all of this was very interesting. It seemed that Monte II wasn't the real suspicious point. What was strange was the Ancient Squid and the Mantis Shrimp that raised him?
However, all of this was said by Monte II himself. So, were these events true? Or … was there another possibility? The brainworm obviously didn't believe it completely …
However, Lin felt that it should be true. This was because Lin knew that when some creatures said things that didn't match what they knew to be true, their bodies, especially their brains, would have some subtle reactions. Lin could test these reactions to determine whether the creature was telling the truth.
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