Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 61 Painful Grace
"Xiao Li, these are the basic precautions. After reading the files and understanding the relevant information, there is nothing to be afraid of taboos. Besides, the danger of this 'thorn of pain' itself is very low."

"Then I won't disturb you from absorbing pheromones. Just be careful not to touch the forbidden objects directly. When you're done, come find me in the lab... We'll have a celebration party tonight."

After Jiang Lei carefully explained the precautions, he left the study room first.

Since absorbing pheromones can also cause mental erosion, for the sake of personnel safety, an absolutely quiet and undisturbed venue is required.

Apart from security personnel and emergency personnel outside the study room door to prevent accidents, there were no other people nearby.

Because the urgent project that Director Frank was responsible for had been completed ahead of schedule, the research report submitted by the team passed the department review and received a very high score.

The director waved his hand and announced that as per custom, they would have a short break and a celebration banquet would be held tonight.

Frank is not the only research team within the Control Bureau. Research on forbidden objects is divided into multiple topics, with each topic being tackled by at least two teams.

Which team solves the problem first and submits a correct research report is related to the interests of the entire team.

The fact that the urgent project was completed in just ten days was partly due to Li Nanke.

Although he was a layman intern, his cheating behavior of directly obtaining reference answers from the "Wanxiang System" and then reversely deducing the problem-solving process gave the team new research ideas and greatly accelerated the research speed.

This not only gave some minor shocks to the researchers within the team, but also dealt a dimensionality reduction blow to Director Felix's team on the adjacent floor of B22.

I heard that the lights in the laboratory on the B22 floor were never turned off last night, and the entire team began a long journey of overtime work.

And Director Frank is planning to invite Felix to the celebration party tonight...

Perhaps because of Li Nanke's excellent performance, the forbidden item containing pheromones quickly turned into a reward.

Li Nanke glanced at the camera in the corner of the study room, not caring whether anyone was watching him. He picked up the glass box containing the 'Thorns of Pain' and lay down on the bench.

He pressed his hands on the glass box and closed his eyes, seemingly using meditation to better absorb pheromones, but in fact he was sleeping and falling asleep through visualization.

Life and work in the laboratory are both fulfilling and relaxing, and the treatment is excellent. If Li Nanke had not been seriously ill and had not entered the great other shore, such a work and life would undoubtedly be his dream come true.

But after experiencing the unspeakable thrills in the forbidden dream, the thresholds of various senses continued to break through the limits, and the strong feeling of being alive between life and death crises.

Li Nanke suddenly felt that even if there was no mandatory 90-day limit in the other side, he would most likely take the initiative to enter the next dream.

I concentrated my mind and calmed my breath, using the Ujjayi breathing method to clear my mind of distracting thoughts. Soon my consciousness became hazy and I fell into chaos...

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Li Nanke woke up slowly and opened his eyes.

The field of vision is limited by the obstacles in front of us. Only a narrow straight slit allows light to enter. What comes into view is the dim and desolate sky.

He could feel the cold, hard covering of his face and realized that he was wearing a metal helmet with a long, narrow opening.

He felt a prickly sensation on his back, not only because of the metal armor he was wearing, but also because he was lying on top of a pile of bodies also wearing armor.

Several arms and legs that did not belong to him were crossed on his body, but the owners of those limbs showed no signs of life.

A disgusting bloody stench filled his nose, and the sound of footsteps echoed faintly in his ears, as if some giant object was moving slowly. Li Nanke pushed away the limbs pressing on him and struggled to stand up from the pile of corpses.

Looking around, he found himself in a desolate canyon. Numerous corpses were piled up in front of the rock walls on both sides, like hills of blood and flesh.

They were wearing the same medieval armor as Li Nanke, which was covered with cracks. The bodies were stacked on top of each other, and broken swords were scattered all over the ground.

These corpses had obviously been dead for a long time, and most of them had begun to rot. Smelly pus was flowing out of the gaps in the armor, and flies and insects were flying around.

He raised his head and looked at the distant sky. The setting sun was hanging above the mountain top, as if it never set. The whole world was shrouded in dimness.

As the "dong, dong" sound of the giant's footsteps became clearer and clearer, the sense of crisis in my heart gradually became stronger.

From afar, a distorted shadow appeared at the end of the canyon.

At the same time, a synchronized reminder sounded without a trace of emotion, and bloody words appeared.

[Dream——'Painful Divine Grace']

[Dream details: Suffering, pain, torture, self-abuse, and the resulting divine grace descending upon the world.]

【Believers firmly believe that as long as they suffer physical or mental pain and torture and sincerely "repent", they can obtain divine grace. 】

[God’s grace sometimes comes in the form of blessing and grace, and sometimes in the form of punishment and guilt, but people can never understand the will of that great existence, and do not know whether God’s grace will come to them, nor do they know how God’s grace will come to them.]

[As time went by, this belief became more and more distorted, and different doctrines and sects with different understandings of "repentance" were born. Among them, the "Holy Congregation of Repentance" was the most powerful, and the grace of pain bestowed extremely powerful powers on its followers.]

[It was at this time that a great disaster swept across the world, and most of the believers with twisted beliefs transformed into twisted monsters that wreaked havoc on the earth.]

[The world fell into chaos, and the most distorted faith of the Holy Society of Penitence became the source of all fear. ]

[The grace of the God of Pain descends upon you, bringing you back to life after dying in battle... But facing such a distorted and deformed world, how can you repent? ]

As the dream synchronization information appeared, a memory quickly flooded into my mind.

As a believer of the 'Sorrowful Charity', Edward also believed in the grace of suffering, but he remained rational enough.

He and other believers in the sect rose up to fight against the Holy Society of Penance. However, the Holy Society of Penance not only had a powerful punitive army composed of fanatics, but also various extremely terrifying mutated monsters.

The Mourning Society was brutally suppressed and killed by the Punishment Army, and Edward was also buried here...

Li Nanke looked up and saw a huge twisted shadow slowly approaching on the canyon road.

It was a powerful humanoid monster transformed from a crazy believer.

The footsteps caused the ground to tremble, and the thump, thump, thump sounds hit the heart like drums.

The strong sense of crisis that surged like a tide almost surrounded and engulfed Li Nanke.

"This forbidden item isn't dangerous. How come we ran into such a strong enemy right after we came in..."

He had a cold expression and stern eyes.

(End of this chapter)