Chapter 60: No, there is Xiao Dai
"Damn it, how could things turn out like this!"
In a corner of the earth, the Eighth Herrscher was venting her anger in frustration. Under her control, various objects in the room flew up into the air, smashed heavily on the wall, and finally turned into a pile of rubbish piled up in the corner.
The Eighth Herrscher considers herself to be a very smart person, so she has been making plans since her birth, so things are going smoothly.
She knew clearly that she was not the first Herrscher to be born, so she also understood that every plan of the Herrscher before her had ended in failure. However, even so, the news about the Herrscher was not widely spread in society. Apparently, there was an organization that specialized in dealing with the Herrscher and was handling related matters in the shadows.
Because her abilities were not suitable for frontal combat, the Eighth Herrscher decided on her strategy immediately after her birth.
She will hide her own existence and drag everyone into a dream where they cannot wake up. She will let the coma become a plague that spreads among humans until no one in the entire society can remain awake. At that time, human civilization can be declared over.
In order to hide as perfectly as possible, the Eighth Herrscher even used other people's identities to spread the keyword hypnosis on the Internet. This prevented humans from using IP addresses to open the box offline. In order to be sufficiently concealed, she did not choose large-scale hypnosis, but randomly selected different types of people from all corners of the world into dreams. In this way, even if these people's families would try various methods to rescue them, they would not attract too much attention in the overall network environment.
This type of dream design was named "Spider Web Dream" by the Eighth Herrscher. It connects the consciousness of people trapped in the dream to weave a dream network that is large enough to cover the entire world. Once the network is formed, it will spread in all directions with each node as the center, so that people around will be infected in their sleep and eventually sink into the dream.
The most important thing is that through this method, the Eighth Herrscher can rely on looking through the memories of the sleepers to find clues about the mysterious organization. As long as she refers to the theory of six degrees of separation, she can quickly discover the opponent's flaws, and then use dreams to catch them all in one fell swoop and completely eliminate all hidden dangers.
In the Eighth Herrscher's conception, this plan was basically perfect. By the time there were enough cases of coma on the Internet to attract enough attention from humans, her own dreams would have probably grown to a size large enough to cover the entire world. By that time, even if they wanted to resist, it would be too late.
But, but…
But her plan has just begun. How is it possible that someone can accurately locate those unconscious people, and then master the corresponding method of entering dreams to find her own traces, and finally escape successfully from the layers of mental mazes!
The Eighth Herrscher couldn't help but shudder when she thought of the human who appeared in her dream and communicated with her in a flat and indifferent tone.
She knew very well that although her plan seemed perfect, it had a crucial flaw. That was that in the first stage of the spider web dream, the power she could use was extremely limited.
Once someone is able to discover the abnormality at this stage and use absolute power to nip everything in the bud, then no matter how terrifying the spider web dream becomes after it grows up, it will just be a joke.
But humans are such stupid and short-sighted creatures that they are unable to unite when faced with such a terrifying threat. How could anyone realize that something was wrong at the very beginning and launch a targeted offensive?
Even if he could realize where the problem lies, how could he convince others to take action on such a trivial matter?
If these things are still reasonable, then his escape from the maze of the mind is simply inexplicable.
Recalling the scene she saw from the playback of the dream fragments, the Eighth Herrscher felt that her brain was unable to work—a human being, when faced with layers of realistic dreams, did not sink into them, nor did he look for flaws, but directly broke free from them by committing suicide. There must be something wrong with this person!
It's okay if it happened once or twice, but how the hell could someone commit suicide 128 times in a row? Is he really not crazy?
(TL: WTF)
No one understands dreams better than the Eighth Herrscher. She can simulate everything in dreams. A waking death can certainly break free from dreams, but that kind of real death experience will definitely be deeply imprinted in the other person's mind. Experiencing this feeling more than a hundred times in a row, anyone will definitely not be able to bear it. Even if they can escape from the dream, they will eventually become a madman.
But will that person really become a madman? No, is that guy really still a human being?
The more the Eighth Herrscher thought about it, the more outrageous it seemed. She even felt a strange emotion rising up in her stomach. It was an emotion that should never appear when facing humans. It was called "fear."
She is the judge of civilization, how can she be afraid?
"Calm down, calm down..." The Eighth Herrscher took a few deep breaths and finally calmed down. She then smiled again, "Don't be nervous. Even if he's not crazy, so what? He still has to be my stepping stone."
As she spoke, the girl rubbed her fingers subconsciously. In her field of vision, a ray of light of varying brightness was flipping at her fingertips.
That is a specific spiritual fragment belonging to a certain person.
With this thing, she could easily track the man's location. If he really was from a mysterious organization that opposed the Honkai...
Then, she can visit them in person.
..........
"It is very likely that the Eighth Herrscher will come to visit us."
In the familiar conference room, Ai Yue dropped a bombshell in front of the tired-looking Dr. Mei.
"You, what did you say?" Dr. Mei was stunned for a moment, and even her yawn was interrupted. "The Eighth Herrscher? What on earth did you do?"
"To put it simply, I went to talk to her, but unfortunately we ended up parting on bad terms." Ai Yue explained simply, "I stayed in the dream for a long time. Since the other party is a Herrscher who specializes in this area, I'm afraid she is capable of tracking my location."
"You want to catch a turtle in a jar?" Dr. Mei didn't think Ai Yue was a fool who would bring trouble upon himself, so she roughly guessed what he was thinking. "Do we need Kevin and the others to come back?"
Sakura has already brought the first batch of mental resistance drugs and soldiers to support Kevin and others, and also brought Kalpas with her. Therefore, the Fire Moth currently only has Mobius as a fusion warrior. If Ai Yue really intends to solve the problem of the Eighth Herrscher here, then Mobius alone will definitely not be enough.
"No, I have helpers." Ai Yue said with a smile, and suddenly heard a knock on the door, "It seems that they are here."
Dr. Mei blinked and saw the door of the conference room open. Two familiar figures walked in from outside: "How is it, is the Eighth Herrscher here?"
Vill-V, who had not been seen for a long time, appeared here with Aponia, who was supposed to stay in the deepest place.
(TL: Hi~ I want to ask if you have any HI3rd fanfic recommendations?)