Volume 7 The Inverted Hanged Man Chapter 75 In Dreams

　　After returning to her senses, Audrey became wary while maintaining a light smile.

　　She vaguely felt that there was a force in the underworld pushing her to come to Hedlak, the village with the custom of dragon worship.

　　It was like fate.

　　Audrey had once entered the “Hall of Honesty” and realized that the murals in it had all come to life, and she knew that Sequence 1 of the “Audience” pathway was called “Writer”, and from that name, she had made some associations, which were difficult to realize at this time. She had made some associations from that name, and was suspicious that it was not correct.

　　At this point, Hebert laughed:

　　”I’ve heard of this village, and I remember the family having an estate nearby.”

　　As he spoke, he looked up at the sky:

　　”It’s almost evening, why don’t we stay over here and continue hunting tomorrow?”

　　Alfred had little resistance to this suggestion from his elder brother, to him, there was no essential difference in which manor he stayed at tonight.

　　He nodded and said:

　　”Then send someone back to inform father and mother.”

　　Audrey did not say anything, her turquoise eyes turned slightly, her gaze sweeping over the faces of her two brothers.

　　Hibbert’s eyebrows suddenly furrowed slightly, he added after a few seconds:

　　”It’s better to go back, the manor over here was not notified in advance, there must be little preparation, perhaps unable to serve so many horses, hounds and servants.”

　　”Besides, there’s still more than an hour until evening, enough time to return.”

　　Alfred saw that his elder brother had changed his mind so quickly, and subconsciously wanted to sing a counter-argument, but after a second thought, he felt that the other party still had some truth in what he said.

　　Considering that his sister was also here, he said with a “hmm”:

　　”Then return as soon as possible.”

　　After saying that, he didn’t wait for Hebert, clamped his legs together, waved his horse whip, and led the way to the road.

　　Hebert frowned, and then relaxed.

　　Without saying anything more, he led his sister, with a group of attendants, servants and hounds, reversed the direction, along the edge of the forest, back to the other side of the manor.

　　Audrey followed quietly, not expressing her own opinion on how things were going.

　　……

　　Late at night, in a manor house in East Chester County.

　　Audrey, who used her “manipulator” ability to change her two brothers’ minds and prevent them from approaching the village of Hedlake, lifted the velvet quilt, lay down, and fell into a deep sleep.

　　In a daze, she suddenly sat up.

　　She then looked around, saw the familiar dresser and lavatory entrance, and realized that she was still in her room, but there was no longer a red moon or stars outside the window, and it was a deep darkness.

　　This is not the real world …… Audrey made an instant judgment and examined herself.

　　Soon she came to a conclusion:

　　This is a dream, a rather strange dream, the one that actively kept her awake.

　　Sure enough here it came …… Audrey did not feel alarmed, only a little chagrined.

　　She hadn’t handled the afternoon thoughtfully enough, causing the problem to spill over into this estate where her parents were.

　　She now thinks that she should have gone along with Hebert’s idea of going directly to the family estate near the village of Hedlake, and then reasonably “arranged” for Hebert and Alfred to return to this side, leaving herself to stay there and wait for any changes that might occur.

　　That way, even if something happened, it wouldn’t affect her parents, her brother and most of the maids and maids.

　　However, her main idea at that time was not to follow the “fate”, and to avoid the village of Hedlak as much as possible.

　　But sometimes, if you don’t look for danger, it will come to you.

　　Avoiding and delaying is not the solution to the problem.

　　Audrey whirled around and rolled out of bed, standing barefoot on the thick carpet.

　　She had initially confirmed that with her demigod level “dreamwalker” level, she could directly break away from this strange dream world and return to the real world, once again avoiding the suspected “invitation”.

　　After glancing left and right, Audrey pursed her lips, took the blue cloak hanging on the nearby coat rack, and draped it over her body.

　　Then she took a deep breath and took a step toward the door.

　　In the process, a star-like crimson “tattoo” appeared on the back of one of her hands.

　　”The tattoo then faded as if it had never existed.

　　This was the mark left behind after she first entered the ancient palace above the gray mist, and for a long time it did not show any peculiarities until early this year, when Mr. Fool told them that when it was too late to pray, they could inspire the corresponding “tattoo” instead of The step of chanting the name of a person can be replaced by inspiring the corresponding “tattoo” when it is too late to pray.

　　In short, this is the treatment of a “God’s Favorite”.

　　Of course, it couldn’t convey any information, and could only be used in critical situations to make Mr. Fool look over.

　　And more importantly, that star-like crimson mark was more conspicuous, and could easily be discovered by the surrounding people and the secret followers, so, in the case of needing to hide her own special circumstances, Audrey preferred to utilize the “manipulator”‘s various abilities to implant the idea of praying to Mr. Fool into the “God’s Favorite”. Audrey preferred to use the “manipulator’s” abilities to implant the idea of praying to “Mr. Fool” into the mind of an unassuming human being in the vicinity, so that he could complete the prayer and ask for blessings on her behalf at the right time and in the right scene.

　　At the moment, she believed that the owner of the dream knew that she had a problem, and therefore didn’t feel the need to go through all the trouble of just hiding which being she was praying to.

　　After walking to the door, Audrey probed the handle, twisted it gently, and pulled back.

　　The slightly darkened hallway then came into her eyes.

　　The main building of this manor has a history of hundreds of years, and many places still retain the characteristics of the past, especially the corridor part, especially so – it does not have gas wall lamps, and the wall is inlaid with one after another or silver or copper casting candelabra, with varying numbers of candles on top of it, emitting a dim and dull light, illuminating the entire corridor with shadows, giving the impression that it could be haunted at any moment.

　　Dreamland even replicated this …… Audrey glanced around and stepped into the corridor.

　　As thoughts flashed through her mind, a long, thick, pale yellow carpet appeared under her feet.

　　Stepping on the carpet, Audrey followed her spiritual intuition and walked to the right.

　　After two or three steps, she suddenly stopped, only to realize that there seemed to be something hidden behind the closed doors on either side of the room, something that gave her a strong desire to explore.

　　This is papa and mama’s bedroom, this is Hebert’s sleeping room, this is Alfred’s room …… Audrey made a slight distinction and frowned slightly.

　　The classical doors of the rooms with their embossed carvings, illuminated by the dim candlelight, looked mysterious and made people want to know what was hidden behind them.

　　As her thoughts raced, Audrey realized with a sudden rush what they represented in the dream world.

　　These were doors of the mind, and behind each door was the world of their owner’s mind.

　　In other words, after Audrey pushed open the door to Alfred’s room, she would see all kinds of secrets he had hidden deep inside.

　　By the same token, she would also be able to peek into the true minds of Earl Hall and Lady Caitlin.

　　Slowly withdrawing her gaze, Audrey closed her eyes and continued to walk forward, not allowing herself to be affected.

　　After experiencing so many things, she understood one thing more and more:

　　Demigods in the realm of the mind should know how to restrain themselves and respect others.

　　On the premise of being able to decipher the true thoughts of others from body language, facial expressions, and emotional fluctuations on a normal basis, if one is still unsatisfied and unusually greedy in exploring the hearts of others and digging up privacy and secret secrets, then it might end up backfiring on one’s self.

　　This is a very simple truth: everyone has some dark, bad thoughts, but they are better controlled and don’t let them affect their own behavior. Under such circumstances, if the demigods in the realm of the mind are still obsessed with digging up these thoughts, digging up the ugly part under the mask, they will easily be disappointed in human nature, and will be impregnated with all kinds of negative consciousnesses, and will gradually go crazy without even realizing it.

　　This is one of the reasons why “spectators” are so easily perverted or mad, even though they can clearly “pacify” themselves and treat the corresponding psychological problems.

　　They are both safe and dangerous.

　　Therefore, Audrey set herself a code of conduct, only observe and “read the mind” of acquaintances and try not to enter the dream, but for strangers there is no restriction to enter the dream, and do not enter the world of each person’s mind if it is not necessary.

　　Along the corridor, Audrey, clad in a blue cloak, made her way to the end.

　　She then opened her eyes and turned her gaze to the room to her left.

　　It was a semi-open tanning room.

　　Pursing her lips again, Audrey breathed steadily as she reached out and grasped the handle of that door.

　　As that wooden door opened back, the scene inside was gradually revealed.

　　It was no longer a room; the floor was one rounded stone after another and clump after clump of green and black weeds, and the depths were too dark to see.

　　Audrey stepped slowly in, and the door of the room creaked shut behind her.

　　The outline of part of something flew out in that gloom:

　　A huge stone pillar dozens of meters high towered over it, and above it rested a lizard-like monster with a long body.

　　This monster squatted at the top of the stone pillar, just like a small mountain, the body surface is full of gray stone-like large scales, eyes light gold and vertical.

　　This was a mind dragon from a mythological legend.

　　With a clatter, the two wings of this mind dragon spread out, almost covering the sky.

　　Their skeleton was like metal like leaf veins, covered with a grayish masked skin membrane with mysterious patterns.

　　The mind gargoyle made a buzzing sound as Audrey looked up:

　　”You have been to Levihide before.”

　　It was undoubtedly in Gargoyle.

　　”Miracle City” Levihid …… How did it know …… Audrey had just flashed these two thoughts when she heard the mind gargoyle on the other side of the room speak:

　　”The consciousness in every mind is making certain exchanges with the collective subconscious sea, and Levihide is a very special existence, and the imprint it forms in your mind is the same. I naturally sensed this when your ‘virtual personality’ was swimming in the sea of collective subconsciousness and not far from me.”

　　This is beyond the scope of my abilities, and is not something the Dreamweaver can do. …… This psychic dragon corresponds to Sequence 2, “The Insightful One”? k Surprisingly, it didn’t directly manipulate me. …… As Audrey’s thoughts flickered, the psychic dragon spoke once again:

　　”I’m pretty sure you don’t mean any harm at the moment.”

　　Audrey was silent for two seconds, tilting her head and asking:

　　”Aren’t you worried it’s a trap?”