Chapter 111 Report (asking for monthly ticket) A few days later, an investigation report on Cordu Village was submitted to the Eighth Bureau of the Intis Intelligence and Homeland Security Committee, the "Machine Heart" of the "God of Steam and Machinery" Church, and the Inquisition of the "Eternal Sun" Church. Several bigwigs read the report for the first time: "Preliminary situation: In the past year, there have been many cases of missing persons in Grabaka Province of the Feyneport Kingdom and Upper Hel Province of the Renburg Republic, which are close to the Daliege area. Several Beyonders without official permission have also mysteriously disappeared. These incidents vaguely point to the shepherds who migrated between these three areas. Among them, those from Koldu Village are our main focus. “So, after receiving that strange letter for help, we attached great importance to it and dispatched elite personnel to the area as a joint investigation team. "The following is the investigator's full written statement: “The anomaly in Koldu Village is divided into two layers, one is reality, and the other is dreams. “The reality part: “The village of Koldu was actually destroyed by a massive but ultimately unsuccessful ritual of worshipping the evil god, and except for a very few, no one survived. “Most of the villagers became nutrients for a failed evil god’s creation, and the rest were reorganized in strange ways and transformed into different monsters. “That evil god sacrificial ceremony brought about changes in the terrain. The river dried up and changed its course. The village square and church were pushed to nearly 40 meters high by a small-scale mountain-building movement, turning into a giant blood-red pillar. “The failed evil god’s creation was at the top of the giant pillar, but when we found it, it had already been destroyed. This could have been caused by its own collapse, or it could have been caused by the interference of other forces. "The houses in Koldu Village were also reorganized. Some of them formed a circle of twisted thorns around the blood-red pillar, and some of them spread out layer by layer in a circular manner...

“In these severely damaged buildings, we only found some coins and the most common small blue books. We did not find any written materials or anything that could clearly point to Koldu Village. The reason is unknown. "Only the target Lumian Lee's home has books, newspapers, magazines and other things with clear directions. "In the ruins of Koldu Village, there are two areas surrounding the blood-red giant pillar that are inconsistent with the overall abnormality. One area can make people fall asleep and enter a dream without resistance, and the other area has strong vitality, is full of flowers, plants and trees, and has a baby crib that rocks on its own. “For the latter, we suspect it is closely related to Lady Puaris of Koldu Village (see the dream section for a detailed explanation). “On the other side of the blood-red pillar, we excavated four relatively well-preserved bodies. Their location is likely to correspond to the original church cemetery. “The first body was a female, no older than 20 years old, strangled to death; “The second body was that of a young male, also no older than twenty years old, who had died from drowning; "There were coffin fragments around the third body. It was a female, over 60 years old, who died of mechanical asphyxiation. Combined with other traces, we speculated that she was smothered with a pillow. “The fourth body was a male, not yet decomposed, with his tongue cut off and obvious marks of strangulation on his neck. “For speculations about the above corpses, please see the dream section. "... "As soon as we entered the ruins of Cordu Village, we were probably affected by the power emanating from Lumian Lee's body. We lost track of the date and no longer thought about when to leave. "We fell asleep one after another. After entering the dream state, our bodies remained in a state of only weak activity, and we did not need to replenish food for several days. If this state continued for another ten days or half a month, I was not sure whether we would wake up from hunger or starve to death in our dreams. "The entire ruins are in a cycle that could return to their original state at any time. The trigger point is most likely Lumian Lee's self-perception and the various restrictions he set. The former means that if Lumian Lee subconsciously believes that it will restart, it will definitely restart. The various restrictions come from the fact that he does not want anyone to destroy the current state of Cordu Village and the development of the dream. Once related things happen, it will immediately lead to a restart. "... “We asked villagers from several surrounding villages, and they didn’t notice anything unusual in Koldu Village. "Through their responses and the information we had previously obtained, we determined three things: "First, there has never been a legend about a dead wizard in Koldu Village (this refers to a story told by Lumian Lee in the dream: there was once a wizard in Koldu Village. After his death, an owl flew to his bedside, looked at him for a while, and then flew away. The wizard's body then became so heavy that it required nine oxen to pull it); “Second, no lizard-like elves have appeared in the Dariege area; “Third, Lent is a traditional folk custom and there is nothing wrong with it originally. "... "Dream Part: "This is a dream from Lumian Lee, a dream so real that we can't even tell we're dreaming. "We visited some psychologists and dream experts, and based on their opinions, we have some guesses about this dream:

"It is a combination of the things Lumian Lee has personally experienced, all the novels he has read, and his conjectures and speculations based on the above things. At certain key points, it shows obvious coincidences and the characteristics of wishful thinking. “In this dream, not all of the situations we encounter are real, but not all of them are completely imaginary. "The disrupted facts, the details of people's daily interactions and Lumian Lee's impressive fantasy scenes are reassembled in a very chaotic and symbolic way and presented to us. "This is not only a characteristic of dreams, but it may also come from Lumian Li's subconscious avoidance or fear of certain issues. "In the following sections we will describe in detail every detail of our experience: "... "We should have noticed that we were dreaming a long time ago. The most obvious point is that we didn't remember that we needed to change clothes until Lumian Lee reminded us or the clothes were seriously damaged. “This is a very abnormal behavior, but humans cannot think so much in dreams. "It has been confirmed that we did not send a telegram, and the corresponding reply is likely to come from Lumian Lee's subconscious and the knowledge he possesses. "Combining the various events in the dream with the reality, we have the following speculations: "Our consciousness and cognition enrich our dreams to some extent, and also expose some of our secrets to Lumian Lee. "There are at least two different evil gods in Cordu Village. One is represented by Mrs. Puaris, the wife of Administrator Beost, who is close to the nature of the 'Mother Earth Goddess'. The other is the one followed by the former parish priest Guillaume Bene and most of the villagers. It was also He who caused the destruction of Cordu Village in the end. "During the Lenten celebration, the 'Spring Spirit' was beheaded and forcibly sent away, which symbolized that the power represented by Mrs. Puaris was driven out of Cordu Village. It is very likely that a bloody battle broke out between the two sides. At the same time, the beheading of Ava Lizier, the incarnation of the 'Spring Spirit', also symbolized that when this girl discovered something unusual in reality and tried to escape or inform on someone, she was secretly strangled to death by Guillaume Bene's group. “The fact that Raymond Craig was thrown into the river and his spirit appeared under the church symbolizes that he, like Ava, was considered an informer and was forcibly drowned. "Jean Maury discovered that his wife Sibyl was having an affair with the former parish priest, and he became so angry that he became mute. This symbolizes that as a devout believer of the Eternal Sun, he had his tongue cut off when he tried to inform on the village after noticing something unusual. His subsequent disappearance represents that he was murdered. "The death of Naroka has the same strong symbolic significance as Ava, Raymond, and Jean. First, she should have followed Madame Puaris secretly and wanted to let the spirit of her dead husband return home through the soul messenger. Therefore, her performance after death was entering the other side of the world. Second, she was probably murdered by her youngest son Arno Andre. The reason was probably that he discovered the problem of Guillaume Bene's group and wanted to tell Madame Puaris. "Combined with our search of the ruins, the Lenten celebration and Mrs. Puaris's words that she could leave at a certain time symbolize that this lady and her husband Beost, the butler Louis Lund, and the maid Cassie had already left Cordu Village before the Twelfth Night ceremony. They are still alive and their whereabouts are unknown. “This is reflected in the dream that this lady refused to provide help at the critical moment. “But based on the situation presented in that strange area with vigorous vitality, we suspect that Mrs. Pualis left something behind before she left, and indirectly participated in the ceremony of Twelfth Night. "The black-robed man in the wizard's tomb should symbolize Lumian Lee's alienated personality due to pollution, but for some reason, Lumian Lee's pollution level was not deep, so that in the self-competition, he easily won with more courage... "The strange lizard-like creatures in the mouths of Aurore Lee, Michelle Garrigu and others may very well represent how they were gradually polluted, alienated, and eventually transformed into another version of themselves. "... "question: "1. Why did Lumian Lee know what abilities Guillaume Bene, shepherd Pierre Berry and others possess? If he had secretly seen them in real life, it would be understandable that he had not been discovered once or twice. However, there must be an internal reason why he had so much information but had not been processed. "2. Why did those villagers and Aurora Lee behave like real people, making it difficult for us to tell that we were dreaming until Lumian Lee thought they were abnormal? “3. What does the other world symbolize? "4. What do the large number of children that Mrs. Puaris keeps in the castle and the cribs that contain invisible things symbolize? "5. Why did Lumian Lee imagine the villagers' contamination process as a lizard-like elf parasitizing their bodies? "6. What does it mean that Lumian Lee and Aurore Lee tried to escape from Cordu Village but ended up in the other world? "7. Why did the Twelfth Night ritual fail? "8. Why can Lumian Lee allow us to enter his dream? He obviously does not have this ability. “9. Why did he suddenly gain normal extraordinary abilities? “10. Why was he able to survive? Why was he able to cause the ruins of Cordu Village to fall into a loop even though he was not very strong? "11. The time when Aurore Lee's abnormality appeared in the two cycles was completely different. What is the reason for this and what does it mean? "12. What do the legends of dead wizards represent? "13. What does the corpse of the wizard lying in the coffin in the crypt symbolize? "14. What does the owl symbolize? "15. What does the change of constellations symbolize? “16. Where does this matter originate? "... “Conclusions and recommendations:

"This is a typical disaster caused by worshiping evil gods. There are currently six survivors: "Lumian Lee, former parish priest Guillaume Bene, Puaris de Roquefort, Beaustelle, Louis Lund, Cassie. “The five behind are all followers of the evil god. We must find them as soon as possible and eliminate them completely. "As for Lumian Lee, it is not recommended to kill him directly. Before we figure out what is wrong with him, his death may lead to more serious changes. The best way to deal with him is to capture him and seal him away somewhere. "Reported by: Ryan Vichiel, a member of the "Mechanical Heart", Lia Belote, a major of the Eighth Bureau, and Valentine de La Corte, the "Purifier" of the Inquisition." PS: Please vote for me~ (End of this chapter)