Don't call me evil god

Chapter 939 Two "World Lines"

All those strange feelings and illusions disappeared at this moment, and the world revealed its true appearance in front of Lena!

A heavy and ancient stone door twisted and changed on the "wall", appearing and disappearing until it became completely solid.

The surface of the stone gate is engraved with complex patterns using relief techniques.

Just by looking at these patterns, Reina felt dizzy and nauseous.

Trying her best to suppress her body's physiological reactions and making up her mind, Reina cautiously took a step forward and approached the stone gate.

When she stretched out her fingers and touched the "stone gate", Reina was finally sure.

She came to the right place!

The heavy door was ajar and looked defenseless. It could be opened with just a push.

Reina remained calm enough.

“There’s some kind of cognitive disruption here.”

"Without the [Cognitive Protection Barrier], others would not be able to discover the secrets hidden here."

The cognitive interference is not just an ordinary hallucination.

Illusions created purely by illusions cannot change the true situation of things.

For example, when a monster constructed from an illusion is attacked, even if its stomach has been ripped open and its intestines and internal organs are scattered all over the floor, these are still fake and do not have any real damage effect.

No matter how real the illusion is, it still cannot break through the limits of reality.

The impact on the cognitive level can be described as overlaying a new world line on the original world.

Those who are affected are like crossing a world line and living in another "reality" entirely.

For example, this stone gate.

In the real world, it is a heavy and ancient door.

In the world whose cognition was affected, it turned into a solid wall of magic-forbidden stone.

Both are real.

Which one you will be exposed to depends on the world that the person perceives.

……

Reina did not rashly continue to explore.

She is sober.

The situation behind the stone gate is unclear.

Since there is cognitive interference here, it means that Annabell's accomplices, the cultists of the Church of the Supreme Truth, must be nearby!
Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to maintain the disruption.

The enemy's situation is unknown, so just rush in. Being trapped is a small matter, but being exposed is a big matter.

The reason they disguised themselves this time was to avoid a head-on collision with the guys from the Church of the Supreme Truth before thoroughly investigating the situation.

The deeper your side hides the better if you can see through cognitive interference.

Reina calmly took a half step back and turned around, intending to look for her companions and reunite with them.

That's what she planned.

But the scene behind Lena stunned her, and she almost couldn't help but scream out loud!
"……Well?!"

Subconsciously, I covered my mouth tightly with both hands to suppress the scream.

There is no smoking den or corridor in sight!
The world becomes a different place in front of Reina!
A spectacular crystal altar stands in the center of the flat and open square!

The square was surrounded by the familiar thick darkness of the Deep.

Above the crystal altar, a huge heart of flesh and blood was suspended in the air.

One after another, the dazed gray dwarves knelt on the ground with dazed eyes, holding the mysterious gospel powder in their hands, letting the blue-purple smoke produced by the burning powder float towards the flesh and blood heart in the center of the crystal altar.

Every wisp of smoke that enters the heart causes it to contract and expand slightly.

The deep heartbeat vibrated Reina's eardrums.

not far away.

Reina saw her fellow members of the investigation team.

They all looked stiff, with their eyes tightly closed. Observe carefully.

Several red threads like blood vessels can be seen spreading and growing from the flesh and blood heart, gradually approaching the companions.

This process is slow but is gradually being completed.

"Breathe...breathe...breathe..."

After taking a few deep breaths to calm herself down, Reina pretended to tilt her head slightly and glanced at the heavy stone door behind her.

The stone gate is still the same stone gate.

The material is thick and simple, and the patterns are complex and strange.

A bold idea came to my mind:

"The place this door leads to is not the secret room hidden in the psychedelic opium den!"

"Because the entire psychedelic smoking room is a huge secret room!"

"We are already in the secret room!"

"Behind the door is the real deep area outside the secret room!"

……

Lena lowered her eyes, trying not to pay attention to the magnificent crystal altar, the flesh and blood heart floating in the air, and the gray dwarves who were obviously participating in some mysterious ritual.

Fingers slid across the phantom light curtain.

[Cognitive Protection Barrier] was manually closed by her.

The world before my eyes was distorted for a moment before returning to "normal".

Familiar corridor.

The familiar magic-forbidden stone wall.

There was also noise coming from the public area at the end of the corridor, near the entrance to the psychedelic smoking den.

"hiss……"

Reina gasped.

She even couldn't tell which one was real and which was fake, the "world" she knew at the moment and the "world" of the crystal altar and the heart of flesh and blood.

In this world line, they coaxed and tricked the gray dwarf Gree into the opium den, Dolan spent a huge amount of money to enjoy the most luxurious gospel, and all of them could think, communicate and act normally.

But in the world line she just witnessed.

Everyone was in a dazed and absent-minded state!
Without exception!

Reina now even suspected that after she closed the [Cognitive Protection Barrier] and returned to this world line, was she in that world line also in that dazed and dull state at this moment?

Is there also a red thread slowly approaching her?

What happens when the harness touches itself?
Being devoured by the heart of flesh? Controlled?

Or worse?
Reina shuddered.

While quickly sharing everything she discovered with her companions through the group chat.

While quickly walking towards the so-called "private room" where everyone was staying.

"No matter what secrets are hidden here, we must leave as soon as possible!"

"The Psychedelic Tobacco Den is not a tobacco den at all. The gospel that the gray dwarves smoke is probably... not really smoked!"

"Even if this isn't the base of the Church of the Supreme Truth, it's most likely the location of one of their ceremonies or a place of sacrifice!"

"This is not our home ground. Besides, we haven't determined where those cultists are hiding yet. We'd better evacuate as soon as possible! We can decide how to deal with it after we have investigated thoroughly!"

The message sent by Lena was like a depth charge, immediately causing uproar in the group chat.

"What the hell??!"

"After opening the cognitive protection barrier, there is no smoking den here?!"

"Everything we see is fake?!"

……

(End of this chapter)