Ark Undead

"Not necessarily, but it's very likely."

Kal'tsit continued her calm analysis.

“Right now, no one has woken up except us. The only point where you have any obvious traces that could be influenced by someone is the heavy rain you encountered when you entered Iberia, and the sea creature that deliberately appeared in front of you.”

"But at that time, I didn't feel anything... wait a minute."

Logos seemed to have thought of something; he reached up and pulled up the hem of his shirt, revealing his chest.

Right on his chest, a strangely shaped character appeared, sometimes expanding and sometimes shrinking with each breath.

Even the immortals were drawn to the words.

"The curse has no effect on me, which means I should be considered clean."

Logos frowned.

Should I try taking a nap now?

"No need, you don't need to take that risk right now. I came out of the dream, but I still haven't grasped how it works. Is it dependent on me, or are we being captured by something?"

Kal'tsit shook her head.

"If you can't even avoid your life curse, you'll fall into a deep sleep and not know when you'll wake up. It's not worth it."

The two tacitly discussed specific actions directly during their exchange.

Before the Undead could even react, Kal'tsit had already rejected one of the action plans.

"There are still too few people awake. The current number is completely insufficient to gather intelligence."

As Kal'tsit was speaking, a huge explosion suddenly erupted outside the window.

boom!

A dazzling beam of light shot straight into the sky, drawing the attention of all four people at the same time.

At the same time, an old but powerful voice rang out in the square.

"Is anyone still awake? Let me check!"

That's the voice of Saint Carmen.

Kal'tsit immediately stood up from the ground and went to the window to look at the square.

The saint was seen holding a lamp in one hand and a huge hand cannon in the other, aiming it at the sky.

Just as Kal'tsit looked over, Carmen also felt her gaze.

He turned around and met their gazes directly.

"Dr. Kal'tsit, is that you?"

"It's me! Carmen..."

Seeing that Carmen had actually regained consciousness, Kal'tsit was about to say something when she saw the dark muzzle of a gun pointed at her.

Kal'tsit's pupils contracted sharply, and the next moment, a flash of light appeared, and the Cleansing Flame was struck by the hammer, exploding from the barrel into a burst of light that rushed towards Kal'tsit, who was standing by the bed.

"Roar!"

At the critical moment, a huge black monster emerged from the shadows beneath Kal'tsit's feet, blocking her path and shielding her from the attack.

The eruption of the Cleansing Flame created a beam of light that struck Mon3tor, blasting a sizable crater. This even caused Mon3tor to let out a low, irritated growl.

Mon3tor's blade was pointed at Carmen in the center of the square; it would charge out at Kal'tsit's command.

Kal'tsit did not allow Mon3tor to attack, but instead hid behind Mon3tor and continued to shout.

"Lady Carmen, Mr. Undead is also conscious. We are very pleased to see you return to reality!"

The old man was about to pull the trigger again when he heard Kal'tsit mention the undead. He paused for a moment, then narrowed his eyes.

How can this be proven?

Carmen questions Kal'tsit.

Kal'tsit turned to look at the Undead.

The immortal came to the window and waved to him.

In Carmen's left-hand lantern, the pale flame visibly flickered and shrank in size.

Noticing the change in the cleansing flame within the lantern, Carmen slowly tucked the hand cannon into her lower back, then lowered the lantern held high in her left hand and walked toward the room of the undead.

394. Reality Anchor

"I'm very sorry, Ms. Kal'tsit."

Carmen's first words upon arriving at the Undead's room were to apologize to Kal'tsit.

"However, you should understand why I did this."

In the brief confrontation between Carmen and Kal'tsit, although Carmen fired a bullet at Kal'tsit, Kal'tsit did not question Carmen about why she attacked him.

This suggests that Kal'tsit must have experienced the same thing.

Sure enough, Kal'tsit nodded.

"In that dream, you also took advantage of my momentary lapse in attention and pulled out a hand cannon, shooting me in the head."

Kal'tsit pointed to her forehead, her tone flat.

“I can remember that feeling, so in the subsequent dreams, every time I met you, I would make the first move.”

"Um..."

Carmen didn't say anything more. Since there was no taint between her and Kal'tsit because of that shot, Carmen stopped dwelling on it.

Instead, he looked at the undead on the other side and bowed slightly to them.

"Mr. Undying, thank you very much for your help."

"why?"

The Undead was puzzled. He had only shaken Carmen's lantern slightly, so why was Carmen thanking him?

Instead, it was Kal'tsit who spoke.

"It seems you also found the path to enlightenment through the immortals?"

"Well... strictly speaking, I wasn't able to leave because of Mr. Undead. But the idea of ​​leaving the dream did come from him."

Carmen looked somewhat tired, suggesting that he had encountered considerable trouble in his dream.

"You must have experienced many reboots, each time returning to the moment you just woke up in the morning."

"Yes."

Kal'tsit nodded.

To be honest, Kal'tsit's mood has improved slightly now, because Carmen's experience is very similar to hers.

If that's the case, perhaps we can compare the contents of their dreams and find the reason.

"Let me tell you what I went through first."

Carmen accepted the Undead's invitation to sit by the campfire, and then spoke slowly in his aged voice.

"I have experienced twenty-six reboots. Almost every reboot has brought me a large group of creatures that I cannot understand. They pounce on me, and I have to fight them."

"About ten times, I died in battle. In the remaining restarts, I successfully cleared the monsters around the camp and headed into the distance."

As Carmen finished speaking, he glanced out the window almost instinctively.

The window of the Undead faces the square, and beyond that, the horizon stretches out. Looking in this direction, if the view is good enough, you might even be able to vaguely see the sea.

"Although I didn't hear any sound, I had a vague feeling that something was waiting for me on the beach."

Thinking of this, Carmen shook her head, suppressing the thought.

"No, I feel there's something wrong with this way of thinking. I can't quite put my finger on it..."

"Me too."

Kal'tsit agreed.

“Something is preventing me from going to the beach, but I don’t go. As long as I set out on the road to the beach, there will be no obstacles in my way.”

The more dangerous a safe zone is, the more acutely one can feel the problems within it.

That's why neither of them chose to go to the beach.

"Yes, me too. I first tried to enter other rooms in the camp to look for people who were still awake. But they would either attack me directly after we met, or lure me into a trap."

Carmen looked at Kal'tsit and said.

“During this period, I emptied the camp three times. On those three occasions, I killed almost all of my own people who remained in the camp. But there was one person who never showed up.”

With that, Carmen turned her gaze to the Undead.

"Mr. Undying, you didn't enter a dream, did you?"

"No, I'm not. Go to sleep."

The immortal nodded.

"And this gentleman?"

Carmen then looked at the Logos logo next to her.

"In my memory, I have never met you."

“I am not asleep, Lady Carmen.”

Logos also admitted this.

"Perhaps the people you see in your dreams don't include those who have awakened?"

If that's the case, then this dream is interesting.

As Kal'tsit listened to their conversation, her mind raced, piecing together the information.

"In other words, Lady Carmen experienced it twenty-six times in the dream, and I experienced it fifty-six times. The number of restarts should not be fixed. But the time we woke up was not far apart."

"Furthermore, neither Mr. Carmen nor I have ever seen the Undead in our dreams, or rather, neither have we ever seen Mr. Undead use his power."