For now, Angor had to worry about Laplace.
He was still standing next to the whip-shaped crystal object. According to the location of the Dream Gate, Laplace should be inside the crystal creation.
The crystal object was a product of "Wonderland", but Angor had no idea what it could do or why Laplace would "vanish" like that.
But now, he could try to find the answer from the Tree of Authority.
He didn't know who would get the Dream Crystal yet, so he was worried that he might get carried away by the information about "Dream Wonderland" and miss the best opportunity. But now, he had cleared out all the "cleaners" from the Dream Realm and the Mirror World. He should be safe now.
Unless, of course, the Nightmare Realm was unwilling to become a third party and decided to send some cleaners as well.
But that was unlikely.
Angor believed that the Nightmare Realm wouldn't send "cleaners" here.
His confidence came not only from Shava's identity, but also from the fact that he had been keeping an eye on the nightmare passage in outer space. As far as he knew, even if there were nightmare creatures in the passage, they would only be tiny parasites, such as the rainbow dragonflies. Angor could deal with them for now, so he wasn't too worried.
Now that he had the Dream Crystal and was safe for the time being, he could try to get more information about "Wonderland".
With that in mind, he slowly landed on the ground and found a place with fewer cracks to sit down. Then, he focused his mind on the Tree of Authority.
It didn't take long for him to locate the light spot on the Authority Tree.
Again, he didn't want to get all the information he wanted. He only wanted to get a general idea of how Wonderland worked.
With that in mind, he activated the Tree of Authority and began to search for information about Wonderland.
One thousandth of a second.
That was all the time Angor had to search for information about Wonderland.
It was a very, very short time. However, the information still rushed into his mind like a flood, which made him feel dizzy for a short while.
And this was when Angor was prepared to limit the time and speed of the information transfer. If he didn't do that, he would have fainted right away. Both the Dream Crystal and the real world would be affected, and he wouldn't be able to wake up anytime soon.
The dizziness lasted for about a minute before he came back to his senses.
When he came back to his senses, he looked like an idiot. He waited for another three minutes before his eyes regained their brightness.
During those three minutes, Angor was sorting out the information he got.
Unfortunately, the information he got was too complicated, and three minutes wasn't enough. He still couldn't figure out the general effect of Wonderland.
Still, he didn't come back empty-handed.
He obtained a method that seemed to be quite useful at the moment: activating the Tree of Authority, he could investigate the situation in the "Fairyland".
Without a doubt, Laplace was inside the whip-shaped crystal. Angor didn't know what to do about it.. But now, he could use the Tree of Authority to check what was going on inside Wonderland.
At least, he now could see what was Laplace's condition.
He stood up from the ground and still felt a little dizzy, as if he was suffering from anemia. However, it only lasted for about a second before he slowly recovered.
He shook his head, adjusted his vision, and flew back into the air.
While looking at the crystal in front of him, Angor felt a little excited, but he also felt a little cautious.
What made him excited was that he could not only learn about Laplace's situation but also figure out what the ability of "Dream in Paradise" was if he sank his mind into the "paradise". What he saw with his eyes and what he sensed with his mind could be used as evidence for the information in his mind, allowing him to analyze the truth of "Wonderland" faster.
However, he had to be careful because some of the authorities might not be beneficial to living beings.
For example, the "Evil Mist" in the dream wasteland was beneficial to the long-term development of the dream wasteland, but it wasn't friendly to living beings inside.
Unfortunately, the "Evil Mist" was the first authority Angor "lost" in the dream wasteland.
If the "Evil Mist" was the first authority Angor "lost" in the dream wasteland, Laplace would be in trouble.
Uneasily, he activated the Tree of Authority and sent his thoughts into the whip-shaped crystal creation.
…
Meanwhile, Laplace still didn't know what was going on outside. She was still looking for the masked man in the big house.
The interior of the house was much more luxurious than the outside.
It looked like an ordinary house from the outside, but the interior was decorated in the style of a noble.
The winding corridors, the rose-patterned carpet, the knight armor collection, the oil paintings on the red walls, and the lace curtains … everything looked like a noble's house.
It was just that it had the style and feel of a noble, but it was still lacking a little.
It was like a nouveau riche who wanted to live a noble life, but he only saw a small part of a noble's house, so he tried to copy it into his own house and ended up with a bad result. Also, the owner of the house didn't dare to show his house to outsiders. The exterior decoration was simple, which meant he didn't have enough status and needed to remain humble. The interior decoration, however, revealed the owner's ambition. He wanted power and power, and even if he had to draw a tiger or a dog, he still wanted to squeeze into the circle of nobles.
Laplace didn't mind the difference between the interior and exterior decoration. However, the ambitious owner of the house left behind a lot of information for Laplace to learn about his noble life.
For example, ordinary people rarely hung their own portraits on the outside. In fact, they wouldn't even look for a professional painter to draw their own portraits. Even if they wanted to decorate their house, they would at most hang some cheap paintings to decorate it.
However, the owner of the house, who wanted to be a noble, imitated the style of a noble. Not only did he look for a painter to draw his own portraits, but he also drew portraits of every member of the family. Next to the portraits were the names and deeds of the owners of the portraits, as if he was afraid that outsiders wouldn't know how "noble" his family was.
Along the way, Laplace saw many such portraits.
There were portraits in the corridors, in the rooms, and in the hall. There were portraits of single people, couples, mother and daughter, father and daughter, and family portraits. In just a few steps, Laplace grasped the information of most of the people living in the house.
Among them, it was worth mentioning that Laplace didn't find the masked man in the portraits.
The masked man was wearing a mask, so it would be difficult to find him among all the portraits that showed his face. However, that wasn't the case. The masked man had a very obvious body shape. His muscles made him look like a "Devil's Muscle Man" under normal circumstances. Even if he was wearing clothes, one could still see the bulging and tearing state of his clothes.
However, none of the portraits that Laplace saw had the masked man's body shape.
Most of them were fat.
Except for the matriarch of the family, who looked thin and mean, the others were all fat, but the degree of fatness was different.
Among them, the fattest was the head of the family and his only daughter.
As for the daughter of the head of the family … Laplace had seen her before. She was the girl who was chased by the masked man before and turned into fertilizer for the big Mary Rose.
Since the daughter of the head of the family was the one who was being chased, then it shouldn't be anyone else in the family who chased after her, right?
After all, from the frequency of the daughter's appearance in the portraits, Laplace estimated that she was the most favored in the family. Since she was favored, the others in the family shouldn't be so against her, right?
Of course, if there were jealous people in the family, it could be that they killed each other. However, Laplace carefully looked at the portraits and didn't see that the head of the family had any other children besides his daughter.
In other words, this was their only successor. Therefore, it was unlikely that they would be jealous of each other.
Who could the masked man be?
Laplace pondered as she walked.
Along the way, she also saw a lot of bloodstains, which showed that the masked man's pursuit had been ongoing … Perhaps it was no longer a pursuit, but a torture?
If he really wanted to kill the daughter of the head of the family, he could have killed her the first time, but there was blood everywhere, which was obviously unreasonable.
After a while, Laplace came to a fork in the road.
One path went up to the second floor, and the other path went through the curtain to the main hall.
Laplace looked at the two paths, but in the end, she didn't choose either one. Instead, she chose the back of the stairs … A small room.
This kind of room built behind the stairs was mostly a storage room.
The door of this storage room wasn't too high, only about 1.4 meters. This was definitely not a normal height. At such a height, ordinary people would have to bend over to enter.
The master of this family probably wouldn't go up there, so maybe it was for the servants?
The door wasn't locked, and with a gentle push, it opened.
The space inside the door wasn't too big, and the things inside were, as Laplace had guessed, a storage room. There were a lot of tools inside, such as brooms, cleaning cloths, drying basins, and other cleaning utensils.
Judging from these furnishings, Laplace's guess was right. This was definitely a servant's room.
The reason why Laplace chose to open this small room was that she smelled a faint smell of blood inside. Now that she opened it, there were indeed bloodstains inside.
However, unlike the bright bloodstains outside, the bloodstains here were a little black and even dried up.
This meant that the bloodshed happened earlier here.
So, the daughter of the head of the family had already been tortured and killed earlier?
Laplace thought for a while and felt that something was wrong. As the "master", how could the daughter of the head of the family go to this servant's room?
Or, she had been hiding here for a long time to avoid the masked man?
Laplace pondered for a moment, then left the small room and returned to the fork in the road.
This time, Laplace chose to go to the main hall.
The reason was very simple. The main hall was not far away. Although it was covered by curtains, there were still bloodstains on the curtains, indicating that the masked man had been here before.
There were no bloodstains on the stairs leading to the second floor. For this reason, Laplace decided to go to the main hall to take a look.
However, in order to avoid missing it, Laplace still threw a scale in the direction of the stairs. It could be used as a means of surveillance and also as a weapon to attack.
After doing all this, Laplace walked forward.
She pushed open the blood-stained curtains, revealing the luxurious main hall.
Laplace looked around. It was actually cleaner than she had imagined. The only bloodstain was on the curtains.
Laplace slowly walked into the main hall. She didn't care about the gorgeous decorations around her. Finally, she stopped in front of a fireplace.
From afar, there was nothing strange near the fireplace. Above it was the corridor on the second floor.
But looking closer, she found that there was a blank space between the fireplace and the wall on the second floor. The color was completely different from the surrounding walls.
Laplace gestured slightly. She could basically confirm that there was once a long painting in this blank space.
Because it was warmed by the fireplace below all year round, the color of the painting was different from the surrounding walls.
But why was the painting gone now?
Where was it?
Laplace closed his eyes, extended his perception, and searched the nearby area. In the end, Laplace found the half-burned painting in the burning fireplace.
Laplace took the painting out of the fire in the fireplace.
Just as she was about to look at the painting's content, a sound suddenly came from behind.
Laplace looked back and saw that another door of the main hall was opened. A strong masked man walked out from inside.
When the masked man saw Laplace, he was obviously stunned and subconsciously put on a defensive posture.
However, the masked man's defense was still too late.
Laplace was much faster than the masked man. When the masked man raised his hand, Laplace's hoof strike had already reached his face.
…
He focused his mind on the whip-shaped crystal creation.
Immediately, he entered a strange perspective.
It was similar to God's perspective, but it was also different. It was more like the Eye of the Box.
As the "Eye of the Box", he secretly peeked at everything happening inside the miniature birdcage.
From the bird's eye view, he could see a large house and the illusionary street outside the house.
With just a thought, he could zoom in on the view.
Using the "Eye of the Box", he quickly observed the house as well as the garden outside.
During this process, not only did he familiarize himself with the "Eye of the Box", but he also saw some interesting things.
For example, there was a strange man-eating rose in the rose garden, and there was a human head trampled on by a hoof at the entrance of the rose garden. No doubt, it was Laplace's doing.
He also saw a young girl buried in the ground. It was worth mentioning that the girl was still alive, but unconscious.
However, he did not see Laplace outside.
Does that mean that Laplace is actually in... the big house?
With a thought, Angor zoomed in on the outside of the house and saw everything inside.
The house had three floors. Angor glanced at the layout of each floor. Then he looked at the main hall on the first floor.
Because Laplace was fighting a masked man here at the moment.
Calling it a fight was an exaggeration. The masked man was not qualified to be compared to Laplace at all. This fight was completely one-sided. The masked man had no power to fight back in front of Laplace.
Laplace had not used his ultimate move yet: Scale Bombardment.
The strength gained from shedding scales alone was enough to make the masked man beg for mercy.
However, Laplace was only stunned for a moment when the masked man begged for mercy, and he continued to attack.
No matter how the masked man cried or begged, Laplace did not let him go.
In a short time, the masked man's limbs were all torn apart.
Next, Laplace raised his muscular, scaly leg and pointed his shimmering hoof blade at the masked man's head.
The masked man was trembling in fear. He was sweating profusely, and his voice became muffled as if he was trying to say something.
Unfortunately, Laplace couldn't understand what he was saying.
He could only guess from his frightened voice that the masked man was begging for mercy, begging even harder than before.
Which meant … the masked man's head was his biggest weakness.
After coming to this conclusion, Laplace suddenly paused.
She slowly pulled back her leg with a puzzled look.
…
"Why aren't you doing anything?"
Just as Laplace was deep in thought, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Angor?" Laplace looked at the air with a puzzled expression.
"It's me," Angor replied.
Laplace didn't hesitate to ask a series of questions. "Where are you? What happened? What's going on here? "
"I'm outside, near a whip. Do you know what it is?"
Laplace nodded. "You're talking about a whip made of crystal? I was pulled into this space by this whip … "
Laplace quickly recounted what he had seen in the outside world and what had happened.
"So that's how you got in. But I'm right next to the whip, and it didn't pull me in. Does that mean only one person can enter this place at a time?"
Angor paused and mumbled, "Why does this feel like … a solo quest?"
"Solo quest?" Laplace frowned. "What do you mean?"
"You can think of it as a single-player trial."
Laplace understood a little. She did not dwell on the strange word. Instead, she continued to ask, "What happened just now? What are those crystal creations?"
Angor did not hide anything and told her about the new authority.
"I think they have something to do with crystal creations. But I don't know what the specific effects of these crystal creations are yet, but from what I can see, they seem to be creating a trial type of space? "
"That's the new authority? It's too unreliable … I mean, it's too strange. " Laplace complained and asked, "Since you can't come in, how can you see me and talk to me?"
"It's because of the authority. I have a special authority that can affect other authorities to a certain extent. For example, I can see you and what's happening in this place. But that's all. I think I know even less about this place than you do. "
Angor gave a general description of the "Tree of Authority" but did not explain it further. Laplace did not ask further. She thought that authority only corresponded to the laws of the outside world, such as elemental laws, space laws, and so on. But now, it seemed that there were all kinds of strange authorities in this world, so Angor's "authority" was possible.
"By the way, why aren't you doing anything? That whip in the masked man's hand is the same as the one I saw outside. Maybe if you kill it, you'll be able to leave this place? "
Angor witnessed how Laplace dealt with the masked man. Why did Laplace let him go when he could have killed the masked man?
Sympathy? No. He did not see any sympathy in Laplace's action of tearing off the masked man's limbs.
If that was the case, why would Laplace let the masked man go?
"Now I'm sure you know very little about this authority," Laplace spoke in a casual tone after a moment of silence.
"What do you mean?"
"When I was about to kill the masked man, some information appeared in my mind out of nowhere."
Information appeared in your mind? What kind of strange and complicated information was that?
Laplace: "The message only appeared for a moment, but the meaning was very clear …"
Laplace hesitated for a moment before she explained the information to Angor.
Not long ago, when Laplace was attacking the masked man, she vaguely felt some strange information lingering around her. But at that time, she didn't pay too much attention to it. She just thought it was a pheromone released by the masked man when he was attacked. But just as she was about to kick the masked man to death, the wandering information drilled into her mind without any hindrance.
[Special individual???? Executing …]
[Currently in Wonderland???? Exploration progress: 65%]
[Execution ends and you will leave Wonderland??? ]
[Execution ends and you will receive information related to 'question mark'. ]
[Unexplored areas will undergo unknown changes after leaving. ]
(End of Chapter)
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