Frankly speaking, Lucrecia's mind was blank at that moment - it was blank for nearly two or three seconds before she regained her ability to think and realized what was happening.

What is more terrifying than being trapped in a nightmare contaminated by the descendants of the sun is suddenly seeing one's father returning from the warp in the depths of this nightmare, and what is even more terrifying than this is that the sickle in one's hand is chopping towards his father's neck.

Now, the sickle has lost control, and faint green fire is burning on its black blade and long handle. It is like it has entered another dimension and can no longer be controlled by itself. Lucrecia's whole body is stiff and she keeps holding the sickle in vain. After a long time, she finally utters: "You... the sickle in your hand is really unique..."

"Do you always do this when you're nervous?" Duncan finally let go of his hand, and the green flame dissipated. "What's going on here?"

As the flames faded, Lucrecia finally felt that the sickle formed by the power of dreams and curses was back in her hands. She hurriedly grabbed it, stepped back half a step and prepared to answer her father's question. However, in the next second, a sense of crisis suddenly came from nearby!

Those "inferior creatures" of the sun's descendants finally reacted, and they obviously would not give their enemies the opportunity to chat in peace. With the light and shadows constantly flickering and jumping in the sunlight, several shadows pounced behind Lucrecia!

With almost no chance to think, Lucrecia turned around abruptly, and the sickle in her hand immediately turned into a long whip wrapped with thorns. However, just as she was about to swing the whip hard, the shadows that had pounced on her suddenly paused in mid-air and revealed their figures, and fell to the ground one after another as if they had lost the source of power, and began to struggle violently!

At the same time, Heidi, who was controlling several personality clones and barely holding on, suddenly felt the pressure around her ease.

She transferred her "self" from one dying personality to another in good condition, and then watched in amazement as the black figures around her fell down one by one, like fish being roasted by the scorching sun, struggling hard on the ground.

Deep inside their black coats of unknown material, they kept swelling and wriggling, and their horrible limbs began to rot and decompose rapidly. Along with disgusting sounds, a terrible stench and foul pus and blood gradually spread from under their bodies.

Even as a professionally trained psychiatrist, Heidi couldn't help but take two steps back when faced with this scene. Then, as if she realized something, she subconsciously raised her head to look at the sky - but the moment she looked up, she forcibly controlled her impulse.

The terrifying experience she had when she looked up and witnessed the "son of the sun" was still deeply imprinted in her mind, making her dare not verify her guess.

At this moment, she heard the stranger who suddenly appeared in front of Lucrecia say to herself: "It's okay, the sky is safe."

For some reason, this sentence seemed to carry some kind of powerful power. Although there was no reason, Heidi suddenly had a strong impression in her mind: the sky was safe.

She slowly raised her head and looked at the "sun" hanging high in the sky, shining and radiating heat.

The "thing" was still floating quietly above the forest, with countless twisted and entangled tentacles and pale eyes piled up like a randomly growing mass of flesh, and the light was like a raging flame, rising and burning on the surface of this deformed and horrible "mass of flesh" - however, deep in the flames, a hint of dark green was spreading and quickly covering the entire surface of the entity.

The moment she saw those twisted tentacles and pale eyes, Heidi couldn't help but feel a trace of fear in her heart. However, she soon realized that her mind was not eroded by this "witnessing".

The pollution of the "sons of the sun" seemed to be blocked by the spreading green flames, or rather... eroded and assimilated by the latter, and thus rendered harmless.

The struggles and screams of the dying "inferior organisms" tortured Lucrecia's eardrums. Those in black were dying rapidly under the alienated sunlight, just like dissolving in strong acid. She looked at this scene in confusion and turned to look at Duncan: "What's going on?"

"I polluted their temporary sun, and now it is 'toxic' to them.

"This is what I learned during the 'Black Sun Incident' in Plande - these 'residues' can only survive under certain 'sunlight'."

Duncan said this with a calm expression, then raised his head and stared at the twisted being that was still floating quietly above the forest.

He thought of the "black sun" that he had glimpsed through the "golden mask" before, and thought of the pale ancient god dying under the burning of the corona. However, compared with the "black sun" he saw at the beginning, the thing hanging high in the sky of this dream world was obviously much smaller and much weaker.

So...it seems this is the "Son of the Sun" that those crazy believers are talking about.

Now, this offspring of the sun was being rapidly devoured by the polluted flames. The light and heat it emitted were being transformed into something enough to incinerate itself. However, this strange and terrifying "creature" did not show any painful reaction. It still just hung high in the sky quietly and silently, as if it had no feelings of pain or fear at all.

Simply emitting light and heat, just like... a real sun.

However, as Duncan stared into its pale eyes, he always felt that this thing actually had thoughts - it was thinking, it was observing, it had purpose, and it was rational. It was not like the dying black sun that only wanted to extinguish itself, nor was it like those crazy cultists who only wanted to destroy the entire world.

This "creature"...what is he thinking at this moment?

"What are you thinking about?" Duncan couldn't help but ask in his heart.

"Can I go back now?" Deep in the vague information sent back by Ghost Flame, he heard a voice that sounded calm and gentle, "There is nothing here that I am looking for."

Duncan's eyes widened slightly in an instant.

However, the next moment, just when he wanted to establish more communication with this "descendant of the sun", an illusory roar suddenly came from the sky, and then the burning flame suddenly shrank into a small dot as if collapsing inward, and the next moment, the ghost flame that had lost its target scattered.

The "false sun" overlooking the forest disappeared.

A dim and slightly reddish light replaced the "sunny" sky of the previous moment, and the whole forest fell into a dusk-like atmosphere.

Lucrecia's surprised voice came from the side: "You destroyed it?"

"No," Duncan shook his head slightly, and said the information he had just sensed, "It left. That was not its true body, but just a projection formed by the Son of the Sun in the dream, like a tentacle used for perception - now it has retracted the tentacle from the dream."

Lucrecia nodded thoughtfully, but soon she suddenly realized something else: "Wait, where is that Annihilation Cultist?!"

"He ran away," Duncan said casually. "When those 'inferior organisms' died, he kept reducing his presence. Then, when the false sun in the sky collapsed and disappeared, he took advantage of the chaos and escaped."

Lucrecia frowned upon hearing this and subconsciously looked around the forest which had already fallen into the dark dusk. "Damn... I was also distracted... I should have left a curse on him..."

"It doesn't matter," Duncan just waved his hand, "Let him run for a while."

Lucrecia was slightly startled when she heard this, and raised her head to look at Duncan: "You...deliberately let him go?"

Duncan did not answer her directly, but narrowed his eyes slightly, as if sensing something, then smiled and shook his head: "Anyway, he has seen me."

Then he ignored Lucrecia's expression that changed in an instant, and turned to look at Heidi, who was standing anxiously more than ten meters away, trying hard to reduce her presence.

He came before the psychiatrist - strictly speaking, before a large group of Heidis - and first confirmed her condition.

There were about seven or eight Heidis with varying degrees of injuries on their bodies. Three of them were extremely seriously injured and were lying on the ground thrashing like dying fish. It was obvious that their personalities had withdrawn, leaving only some terminal convulsions based on conditioned reflexes. The other two Heidis looked to be in good condition. One of them stood there with a dull expression, while the other nervously avoided Duncan's gaze.

Duncan glanced at the "large group of Heidis" in front of him expressionlessly, and sighed in his heart that the ways of psychiatrists in this world were really wild. Schizophrenia was even more schizophrenic than schizophrenia. Then he walked straight past the "Heidi" with a nervous face and evasive eyes, and came to the psychiatrist with a dull expression.

"Are you okay?"

The dull "personalization" was startled, and a lively expression suddenly appeared on his face: "How do you know..."

Of course, she had already guessed who this tall, majestic, and pressure-bringing man in front of her was. She was already extremely nervous and had thought of using her avatar to cover up a little to avoid direct contact with this terrifying "subspace shadow." However, she didn't expect that she couldn't hide it for even a second.

"You can use your clone to protect yourself when you're nervous," Duncan said with a smile and a friendly attitude. "Of course, I didn't expect your clone to be so...powerful before. Now I'm impressed."

"Sometimes... patients with schizophrenia are more difficult to deal with. If you don't have enough points, you can't beat them..." Heidi explained subconsciously, but then she realized, "Wait, how did you know..."

Duncan smiled and raised his finger to point at the amethyst pendant on Heidi's chest.

"Technically, this pendant is a gift from me to you."