Chapter 417: Reality and Fakeness
Conquer the northern shore of the sea, Navaha.
In the dark night of Navaha, after the powerful invisible force swept the entire city, almost everyone in the city fell into a deep sleep. In this lonely silence, grotesque, illusory and distorted monsters were floating in the night sky, becoming the nightmare of all witnesses.
Under the ceremony of the Black Dream Hunters, the hypocritical moth in the dream has already descended into reality. The gigantic moth, which is more than ten meters long, flaps its dizzy triangular wings and flies and hovers above the city. The white cocoon on its body slowly wriggles, and the slender tentacles gently sway. The countless pairs of eyes on its head look in different directions. The fluorescent light covering its whole body illuminates the city. The space around it is slightly distorted, and the scenery of trees and grass emerges from the distortion.
The newly emerged pseudo-moth relaxed its body, as if issuing a silent call. Those sleep-deprived patients who had worshipped in the mental hospital, whose minds had been hollowed out, stood up one after another after hearing this silent call. They began to move together, climbed over the doors and windows to reach the outside, and walked towards the city in the dark night, groaning like zombies. In the city, the original believers of the moth also had their sleep deprivation aggravated instantly at the moment of the pseudo-moth's emergence, and immediately progressed to the final stage of the disease, becoming the pseudo-moth's indulged bodies. They also whimpered and crawled out of their homes and began to wander on the streets.
For a while, except for those who had fainted, the only people wandering around Navaha were these zombie-like sleepers. They made strange noises as they traveled through the streets and alleys, as if they were celebrating the birth of the false moth together.
In the dark underground, at the ceremony site of the Black Dream Hunters, in the vast dark space, the giant pupa that was originally suspended in the air was no longer visible. The sleepers who were paying homage were now scattering and rushing to the ground, anxious to meet the new false moth. Now, at the ceremony site, only the Black Dream members who were wearing robes and standing in a circle were left.
"The scaly moth... has already emerged. After more than ten years, our scaly moth has finally emerged..."
Looking up at the darkness in the sky, Gomez murmured in a daze, and Garcia on the side also answered.
"Yes... but unfortunately, it is not the time for it to emerge yet. Its development is not yet fully mature, and its condition is not perfect. I can feel its current emotions. It is crazy, it is frightened, it is hungry..."
Also staring at the darkness above, Garcia murmured that although more than ten years of hard work had finally paid off, the result was not perfect. At the moment, her heart was filled with a complex mixture of joy and complexity.
"The moth's mental state is very unstable now. It must eat a lot to make up for the damage caused by its premature emergence. We must also help it stabilize its spirit and guide it.
"Everyone! Our ritual is not over yet. The Scale Moth needs our guidance. We must stay with the Scale Moth and guide it to feast on dreams! Then guide it away from here!"
Garcia spread his arms and shouted loudly to his companions around him. Since the pseudo-moths that were accelerating their metamorphosis were very mentally incomplete, they needed their help to stabilize and guide them in order to move normally.
After hearing Garcia's call, the Black Dream Hunters at the scene sat cross-legged on the ground, lowered their heads and fell into a deep sleep. Seeing this, Garcia and Gomez did the same. At one moment, all the Black Dream members who were gathered in a circle fell into a deep sleep.
In their dreams, the members of Black Dream, with Garcia as the core, began to establish contact with the pseudo-moth above the city. Their dream cocoons had already formed one with the pseudo-moth. Sometimes they could obtain extraordinary abilities from the pseudo-moth, and at the critical moment when the pseudo-moth itself encountered problems, they could also use this connection to help the pseudo-moth. For example, the underdeveloped pseudo-moth now needs their help.
After the members of Black Dream woke up one after another, the giant moth floating above the city made another round of strange movements. Its head without mouthparts seemed to let out a new round of howling, and then the dancing frequency of the many tentacles under its front abdomen began to increase.
The translucent tentacles waved and grew longer, then extended towards the building below. These invisible tentacles penetrated the windows and walls and rushed straight into the bedrooms. The sleeping residents had their heads entangled by the tentacles that suddenly broke out of their homes. Immediately afterwards, they groaned in pain in their dreams and developed the same symptoms as patients with sleeping sickness.
In the woods of the dream world, the huge body of the pseudo-moth still exists here, and it is more real. Those who are touched by its tentacles in reality will have their dream cocoons forcibly teleported to the pseudo-moth's side, and then be captured by the pseudo-moth and melt into the pile of hemp-like cocoons in its abdomen, becoming its nutrients. Those whose dream cocoons are taken away in reality will gradually become sleepers.
The pseudo-moth that has already emerged from its phoenix does not need moth worship to obtain the dream cocoon. As long as its illusory tentacles in reality come into contact with humans, it can forcibly seize the dream cocoon. At this moment, the pseudo-moth is using this method to hunt.
The bizarre moth from the dream was hanging over the real city, constantly extending countless translucent tentacles to capture innocent people in their dreams. This coastal city with a population of more than one hundred thousand had now become a cafeteria completely open to it. It was thirsty and needed to replenish the hunger caused by premature metamorphosis here. Before the hunger was temporarily relieved, the members of the Black Dream Hunting Group were still unable to completely control the fake moth to fly away from this place of trouble.
"What on earth is that monster?"
In the port of Navaha, on the deck of the cruiser, Jod, the commander-in-chief of the Glowing Fleet, was looking at the scene in the distance in amazement and said that even though he had experienced countless storms at sea, this was the first time he had seen such a scene.
"I don't know exactly what it is, but I can guess that it should be an extraordinary object that comes from the dream world but can affect reality. I have heard that some cultists who worship 'shadow' can control such objects. There must be some secrets hidden under the city that we have not noticed..."
Standing behind Joad, the old monk Weir was holding the Holy Book of Glory and speaking lightly. At this time, there were two other figures standing beside Weir. One of them was Joad's adjutant Santos, and the other was also an officer wearing a captain's uniform, and he seemed to be the captain of another cruiser.
The two of them had just been awakened by the old monk using the commandments to break their sleep, and at this moment they were looking at the bizarre and illusory creature in the distance with the same astonishment.
"Holy Lord, there is such an evil thing hidden in this city. What is it doing with its tentacles extending into the city?"
"This kind of thing gives me a very ominous feeling. Everyone, should we go over to find out what's going on over there?"
Santos and another captain looked at the false moth in the distance and said solemnly. At this moment, the false moth that was constantly hunting seemed to have sensed the more delicious dream cocoon. It immediately changed its position, flapped its wings, and flew straight towards the port. Seeing this, the only four awake people on the fleet immediately began to be alert.
"It's coming towards us, perhaps attracted by something. Everyone, fulfill your duties and prepare for battle! Protect the fleet, protect the people, and protect all the believers of the lord!"
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