Chapter 174: Dream
Under the pitch-black night, off the coast of the main island of Mon Carlo, a giant translucent half-dream creature, the Pseudomoth, was struggling hard in the sky above the sea. Dozens of thick and long water snakes rushed out from the sea, dancing wildly in the night sky, biting the dream moth and trying to drag it down from the air. Although one of the water snakes was killed by the roaring explosion just now, this did not weaken the water snakes' control over the Pseudomoth.
Standing on the land of a distant island, Edward stared at the pseudo-moth that he was restraining in the sky, and used more power to pull it down from the sky. After losing a water snake, he immediately used his power to create a new giant water snake to fill the vacancy, and increased the pulling force even more. The height of the pseudo-moth in the air began to decrease visibly.
"No, I don't... Just controlling one or two cannons by sleepwalking can't do anything to me..."
Looking at the false moth that was taken off the sky, Edward murmured in a deep voice. While he was speaking, the false moth had been dragged closer to the sea surface by its struggle. Withered wings in panic controlled the false moth to wave its tentacles wildly, causing damage to the water snakes around it. However, as long as these large water snakes of Edward had a little damage on their bodies, they would immediately draw on a steady stream of seawater to replenish it, always maintaining a complete form. On the other hand, the false moth itself was bitten by these water snakes and was covered with wounds. There were too many torn tentacles and torn cracks, and the false moth's own self-healing ability could not keep up for a while. The silver mist-like blood spurted out from the wounds of the false moth and evaporated in the air.
With many injuries on its body, the strength of the pseudo-moth began to weaken, and it could no longer withstand the drag of the water snake, and was dragged closer to the sea surface even faster. At this time, in the port very close to the sea surface where the pseudo-moth was, a group of uniformed Mon Carlo city guards suddenly rushed out. They came to the coast, lined up and raised their guns to shoot at the pseudo-moth. With a burst of gunfire, the flying bullets hit the pseudo-moth not too far from the coast, causing very minor injuries. It can be seen that this seems to be a kind of projectile with spiritual enchantment.
After noticing this tiny bit of damage, Ku Chi also focused his attention on the group of city guards lined up on the shore, and then a surge of anger rose in his panicked heart. Edward, the old boss, was suppressing him, and now these guards under his command dared to touch him. He could not tolerate being bullied to this extent.
Thinking like this, although Ku Chi was not quite sure how those guards resisted his hypnotic fluctuations and were still awake to attack him, this did not prevent him from immediately launching a counterattack against those small fry who dared to attack him. He controlled the pseudo-moth to pull out two tentacles and then stretched them out to sweep towards the shore a hundred meters away. In an instant, these guards were touched and swept by the translucent pseudo-moth tentacles, and they fell to the ground one after another. Their dream cocoons were directly stripped away and rolled away by the pseudo-moth's tentacles and sucked back into the pseudo-moth's body. If they could escape successfully, Ku Chi could absorb the nutrients of the dream cocoon stored in his body to heal the pseudo-moth.
If a normal person comes into contact with the tentacles of the pseudo-moth, they will be immediately sucked into the dream cocoon. Even if someone is as strong as Edward and can resist the peeling of the dream cocoon, he will suffer serious mental damage. And these ordinary city guards cannot withstand even one contact with the tentacles of the pseudo-moth.
Although the miscellaneous soldiers were cleared out, the problem faced by Withered Wing and Pseudo Moth was still not out of the immediate predicament. The water snakes continued to drag the Pseudo Moth, and the Pseudo Moth was getting closer and closer to the sea surface. Faced with this situation, Withered Wing could only struggle more and more desperately, and would even rather be bitten by the water snakes and tear off a few more pieces of his dream body flesh than escape from their control, because Withered Wing knew that once he was dragged into the sea, everything would be over.
Just like that, in the nearly life-and-death struggle, large parts of the pseudo-moth began to be torn off, but this could not stop the pseudo-moth from being pulled further down. Just when the pseudo-moth was about to be dragged into the sea, bursts of sharp sounds of breaking through the air suddenly rang out in the sky, followed by a series of roars that sounded around the pseudo-moth.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!”
A series of explosions went off in the air, and the flames and fire completely engulfed the pseudo-moth and the water snake that was biting it. The powerful shock wave spread violently in all directions, rolling up huge waves on the sea surface and slapping in all directions, rushing onto the nearby port dock. The city guard troops who had just fallen here had now disappeared without a trace.
"Another bombardment... and a salvo of bombardments from multiple directions! How is it possible! How could that guy control so many of my fortresses at the same time! Even if he is a black dream chaser, it is impossible for him to sleepwalk and control so many dream puppets at the same time! Did he use some secret props again? ! " Edward thought in his heart in amazement when he noticed the strange phenomenon happening on the sea in the distance, but the situation at this time did not allow him to think more.
After the powerful explosion, the fire and flames quickly dissipated, and above the sea, the heads of the water snakes that were biting the pseudo-moths disappeared in an instant, scattered by the impact of the explosion.
The water snakes biting the pseudo-moth were constructed by seawater controlled by Edward's spirit, and had a dual structure of spirit and matter. The tentacles of the pseudo-moth could affect the spiritual structure of the water snakes, while the explosion of the shells could destroy the material structure of the water snakes. However, the shells were too weak to cause any damage to the illusory dream body of the pseudo-moth, so after this round of bombardment, the pseudo-moth was almost unaffected by the explosion, but all the water snakes were blown up.
After the explosion, Ku Chi was surprised to find that the mysterious explosion that occurred before had reappeared, and the water snakes that bound him were now swept away. So he did not miss the opportunity and immediately controlled the pseudo-moth to fly at full speed, flying towards the sky above, in the direction away from Mon Carlo, and at the same time began to try to escape from the dream world again.
"Don't even think about escaping!"
Seeing the pseudo-moth's movements, Edward, holding the copper short staff, immediately spoke sternly, and then summoned several huge water snakes from the sea under the pseudo-moth, which bit the pseudo-moth again. At the same time, in the various coastal defense fortresses on the main island of Mon Carlo, continuous artillery fire sounded again.
With the sound of sharp explosions breaking through the air, countless shells streaked through the sky above Mon Carlo and landed on the battlefield where water snakes and pseudo moths were fighting. The shells exploded in mid-air, and the shock waves they formed quickly spread to the water snakes around, blowing up and scattering those water snakes chasing the pseudo moths one after another, greatly hindering the progress of Edward's water snakes chasing the pseudo moths. Due to its own characteristics, the pseudo moth was almost unaffected by these shells and could continue to fly even if affected by the explosion. Seeing this scene, Edward couldn't help but grit his teeth, feeling anxious.
'Why...why can that guy control so many coastal defense batteries at the same time? Why do the shells he fired explode directly in mid-air? This shouldn't be!? '
Edward was anxious and confused in his heart. In fact, it was very difficult for the shells fired from various places on the island to directly hit the long water snakes. Although the water snakes were seven or eight meters thick, they were still too thin at a firing distance of thousands of meters. Moreover, these water snakes were still swinging under Edward's control, making it even more difficult to hit them directly. The reason why the first shell hit the target was not only because of good luck, but also largely because the water snakes were biting the pseudo-moths and were in a stalemate.
And the artillery fire that blocked the water snakes was not aimed directly at the water snakes. The shells flying from all over the island were not aimed at the water snakes, but at the airspace where the water snakes were chasing the false moths. These shells exploded directly after reaching the predetermined airspace, and the large-scale impact continued to affect the water snakes passing by. The continuous air explosions created a blasting restricted area in front of the water snakes chasing. But this situation made Edward very puzzled. He clearly remembered that his shells were triggered by fuses and would only explode when they hit objects of a certain strength. They should not have air explosion capabilities.
What Edward didn't know was that the puppets controlled by Dead Wing were not the dream puppets, but Dorothy's corpse puppets, who were controlling these coastal defense turrets. In the bloody underground gang society and black gold trade in Mon Carlo, corpses of various causes of death were produced every day. These corpses were sent to specialized corpse collectors when no one claimed them. They were either sold to the "Cup" Society as feed or processed into fish feed. It was from the corpse collectors in Mon Carlo that Dorothy found a large number of usable corpses. After the Pseudo-Moth hypnotized the entire city, she quickly controlled the coastal defense fortresses at various strategic points.
Dorothy removed the Fountain of Youth beforehand and deliberately left traces of hypnosis on the auction house staff, causing Edward to use his extraordinary means to search for the Black Dream Beyonder in the city. He eventually found Withered Wing and caused a conflict between the two sides, leading to a fight, thus completing her plan to get Edward to help her find Withered Wing.
Although this plan was successful, Dorothy also knew that if Edward and Dead Wing really clashed, Dead Wing would definitely not be able to defeat Edward on Edward's territory. Not only could he not defeat him, but he could not even escape. Dorothy's goal was the divine object on Dead Wing, and she could not let Dead Wing fall into Edward's hands. Therefore, she had to ensure that Dead Wing could at least escape smoothly in the conflict with Edward, and controlling so many coastal defense fortresses was an important measure for her to help Dead Wing.
The coastal defense guns in these fortresses were operated by Dorothy, and the shells they fired were slightly modified by Dorothy. Considering that Edward might use the water flow to wrap the shells and make them misfire, Dorothy added a small insect to the warhead of the shell. These insects could conduct Dorothy's electricity and form electric sparks in the warhead, thereby detonating the warhead.
In this way, with the help of the corpse fuse, Dorothy was able to manually detonate the shells fired by the coastal defense artillery, or even if they passed by the target in mid-air without directly hitting it, she could manually detonate them remotely. Dorothy relied on countless well-placed air-burst bombs to hinder the water snakes that were chasing the pseudo-moth one by one.
Above the dark sea, the pseudo-moth controlled by Withered Wings was about to fly away from Mon Carlo completely with the assistance of countless artillery bombardments. At this moment, its body had become more and more transparent, as if it was about to fly out of the restricted area and escape into the dream world. Not far from the pseudo-moth, Dorothy, who was wearing a long robe, looked at the scene in front of her and couldn't help but speak.
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