After killing the "Venomous Woman", Helen's Dream's background was revealed.
However, this was not the most important thing right now. The most important thing was the current exploration progress.
Laplace then turned his gaze to the two remaining Skull Roses.
These two Skull Roses had their eyes closed from the very beginning and had no intention of attacking. It was as if they had fallen asleep, and they looked quite peaceful.
Laplace walked in front of the two skull roses and did not move for a long time.
"Should we kill them?" Angor asked.
Kill them? In other words, they were different from the Corpsehead Roses. Perhaps they had a reason to not die.
Why would Angor say that? The reason was simple. He knew the faces of these two people.
Previously, when they flipped through the illustrated book in the study, they had clearly drawn these two people. They were the former masters of the Fan Family — the real noble couple who were killed by the cook and the head maid.
They were Helen's biological parents.
Angor didn't know why Helen's parents were in Bila's stomach. But from what he learned, this noble couple wasn't as disgusting as the others.
Since he did not know more about them, he could not say that they were not bad people. He could only say that they were much nicer than the other greedy, greedy, and greedy people.
What's more, their Skull Rose did not attack Laplace, which made it seem less hostile.
This was why Angor asked, "Should we kill them?"
Laplace stood in front of the two skull roses for a long time, thinking about the same thing.
She was not hesitating because of moral reasons, but because she was considering whether killing them would affect the exploration progress.
Laplace could not make a decision, so he looked at Glepnir.
Glepnir did not answer right away. Instead, she closed her eyes and fell into silence. Her wrinkled face was trembling, and her silver robe was covered with faint starlight. The starlight escaped from the scales, gathered, and rushed into Glepnir's forehead. It seemed the starlight was giving her a new revelation.
Several seconds later, the strange phenomenon around Glepnir calmed down. She slowly opened her eyes.
"They are already dead, so they will still die in the end. But I don't know if we should do it ourselves. "Glepnir's words reached everyone's ears.
Angor was still confused. What did she mean by "they are already dead, so they will die"?
What the hell are you talking about?
Also, we don't know who will kill them … They are already dead, so what's the point of talking about giraffes?
Why can't you just tell us if we should do it or not?
Angor sighed in his mind. My dear Dodoro always gives me whatever I can find. If I can't, I'll just show it to him.
Laplace nodded. "I understand."
"What do you mean?" Angor hesitated for half a second and asked out of instinct.
Laplace said, "Ignore them for now. Just put them aside. Let them decide whether to kill them or not. Whether or not I can do it will depend on what I discover later. "
"So you're saying you'll kill them if they attack you first? You'll pretend you don't see them? "
Laplace nodded. "Something like that."
"Then what do you mean by 'it depends on what you find later'?"
Laplace didn't answer. Instead, she gestured with the scale in her hand and looked at Bila's body.
Three layers of Bila's peritoneum had been cut open, and her body was no longer a "meat mountain". Judging from Laplace's gesture, she was going to cut open the fourth layer of Bila's peritoneum.
Angor was right. Laplace tossed the two head roses aside and picked up the scale to cut open Bila's stomach.
"I'm curious. Why do you want to cut open Bila's stomach?" Angor couldn't help but ask.
"Because the answer is in her stomach." Laplace paused for a moment.
"The answer is in her stomach? This … How did you know? "
Laplace said indifferently, "Do you still remember the name of this special dream?"
With this question, Laplace told Zhang Tie what he was thinking...
From the name of this special dream, regardless of whether it was the "Carnival of the Gluttons" or the "Feast of the Gluttons", the main characters were all gluttons.
The meaning of gluttony was self-evident — a creature with a voracious appetite.
And the "gluttons" were confirmed to be Bila.
Since Bila was controlled by her appetite, Angor could easily guess why there were no other creatures in the dream: Bila ate them all.
It wasn't a random guess.
"The reason why I entered this special dream was because I was on her hunting list."
It was a food list, not a kill list. Although Bila was hunting Laplace, she didn't want to kill him. Instead, she wanted to "hunt and devour" him.
This meant that Laplace's appearance on the hunting list was equivalent to Bila adding him to her menu.
In other words, Bila didn't just eat ordinary food. She also ate intelligent creatures.
After coming to this conclusion, he thought about what Grepnir had said: Helen's dream, Bila's sweet dream, and the feast of the gluttons all happened in the same space.
He only knew that Laplace killed Helen in Helen's dream, but Helen's body wasn't in the house, so the only possibility was that it was in Bila's stomach.
Therefore, Laplace had cut open Bila's stomach to find Helen.
However, he didn't expect that the Rose of Skulls would appear before he could even find Helen.
Now he understood why Laplace cut open Bila's stomach. But he was still not sure if he could find the answer by doing that.
"Can Helen's body really make the exploration progress reach 100%?"
Laplace said indifferently, "Is Helen definitely dead?"
"… Huh?"
Laplace asked, "What if Helen is still alive?"
Angor was confused. He saw Laplace kill the masked man with his own eyes. Why would Laplace say something like "Helen's still alive?"
While Angor was getting more and more confused, Laplace continued, "Is he dead for sure? I killed Bila in Helen's Dream before, and after killing her, my exploration rate directly reached 99%. This also means that I really killed Bila. "
"But you saw how Bila came back to life. If Bila can come back to life, why can't Helen? "
Glepnir chimed in, "It's hard to do that in reality. But don't forget, this is a dream, not reality."
Laplace nodded. "Besides, I killed Bila and Helen in 'Helen's Dream', not 'Bila's Sweet Dream'."
"So, it's very likely that Helen came back to life with Bila, but not in 'Helen's Dream'. She came back to life in 'Bila's Sweet Dream', a new and special dream."
"Of course, Bila's Sweet Dream is Bila's home field. Helen didn't have a home field advantage when she came back to life. She was eaten by Bila right away. "
"But is Helen dead for sure?" Laplace answered her own question. "Not necessarily."
Laplace believed that Helen was still alive because of a prophecy Glepnir gave her.
To reach a 100% exploration rate, one had to live and die.
This prophecy was the reason why Glepnir had been struggling to find the answer.
Laplace didn't understand the meaning of the prophecy either. But now, she had an idea.
The 'need to live and also need to die' here definitely didn't mean that she and Gleipnir would live and die. Since it wasn't the two of them, who was it referring to?
Bila? Not exactly.
Because Bila alone couldn't make her live and die at the same time.
Life and death were two completely different states. They couldn't coexist.
Since they couldn't coexist, there was only one possibility left. There must be someone alive in this special dream, and this person was someone other than Bila.
Laplace and Glepnir had checked every other place and confirmed that there was no one alive.
Combined with his previous speculations, the only possibility was that the Helen who was swallowed by Bi La wasn't dead. He was still alive!
So, this prophecy didn't refer to one person, but to both Helen and Bila!
… …
Laplace didn't hesitate. She waved the scales and cut open the fourth layer of Bila's peritoneum.
When the peritoneum was cut open, a cocoon wrapped in vines fell out of Bila's stomach.
At the same time, Bila's body shrank from a mountain of fat to an ordinary figure.
No one cared about the changes in Bila's body. Everyone's attention was on the vine cocoon.
It was a humanoid cocoon made of vines. Most importantly, the cocoon was still struggling. It was as if someone was trapped inside and trying to get out.
Laplace carefully used the scale to cut a small hole in the cocoon.
Perhaps it was because the interior was too swollen, causing the pressure difference between the inside and outside was too great, or perhaps the person inside was struggling very hard. Laplace had only made a small cut of less than five centimeters, but in the blink of an eye, the cut had expanded to dozens of centimeters.
Next, a large amount of stinky acid gushed out of the cocoon.
As the acid washed over him, the hole grew bigger and bigger. Finally, a person whose entire body was corroded was washed out by the acid.
The person was so badly corroded that his flesh was exposed. He was still struggling to get out of the cocoon as if he didn't notice the change in his surroundings.
Angor also noticed that there was a slightly corroded mask on the man's face.
It was the same mask as the one worn by the masked man in Helen's dream.
So this was the masked man? Was he really Helen?!
He saw Laplace picking up the scale and aiming it at the masked man on the ground while releasing a murderous aura.
The masked man was also intimidated by the murderous aura. Originally, he was still struggling. His eyes were also confused. Now, he slowly came back to his senses.
"Is she really Helen?" Angor asked.
He wasn't stupid. Laplace didn't really want to kill the masked man. He just wanted to hear the "execution" notification.
Laplace considered for a moment and nodded. "Yes."
As soon as he finished speaking, Laplace put away the scale and came to the masked man's side. Then, he stretched out his hand and covered the mask.
Under the masked man's astonished gaze, Laplace pulled the mask off his face with all his might.
After the mask was pulled off, something strange happened.
Just like Bila, the masked man's body began to shrink rapidly.
Not long after, the masked man shrunk from a corroded muscular man into a small boy as thin as a chick.
The boy broke free from the outer layer of corroded skin. It was like the corroded skin was a piece of clothing, and the skin underneath was exposed.
The corroded skin was hideous and ugly, but the boy's skin wasn't pretty either.
His entire body was covered with whip marks, bruises, and a large number of new and old bloody holes.
These were not caused by the dream. Perhaps this was how the boy looked like in real life.
It was also because the little boy had been treated unfairly in reality and was extremely thin and small that he had imagined himself to be a strong and muscular man.
The real him was just so cowardly and petty.
When he saw Laplace, Gleipnir in the distance, and the human head balloon floating in the air, he was so scared that he trembled.
This was his real personality.
It wasn't the powerful masked man in Helen's Dream, but the cowardly boy in Bila's Sweet Dream who had hatred in his heart but was powerless to resist: Villaff Van Halen.
Little Helen looked around blankly, feeling that everything around her was very frightening.
Even Laplace was included.
Little Helen seemed to know who Laplace was. Perhaps the memory of being killed in Helen's Dream was still in her mind.
However, when little Helen turned her head and saw the two human head roses blooming not far away, she was stunned.
"Ah … Ah …"
Little Helen seemed to be saying something, but the moment the words left her mouth, it turned into "Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah."
As for the reason, everyone understood when she opened her mouth … She didn't have a single tooth in her mouth, and her tongue was covered in blisters from being scalded.
Little Helen couldn't be so cruel to herself. Without a doubt, this was done by Bila or her family.
Although he couldn't say a complete sentence, everyone could guess what little Helen was talking about.
She was calling out to her parents, full of emotions.
As she called out, tears welled up in little Helen's eyes. However, she didn't cry. Instead, with wet eyes, she crawled to the skull roses and called out with babbling sounds like a baby learning how to speak.
Following his muffled call, the two heads that had been closing their eyes finally opened their eyes …
(End of Chapter)
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