Heidi looked blank, then terrified!

Because she knew who the father of this "Sea Witch" was, and this terrifying joke was not funny at all.

"I am a follower of Rahm, the God of Wisdom, Madam," she said慌忙, as if afraid that saying it too late would deepen the misunderstanding and really establish some secret connection with a certain terrifying subspace shadow.

[I'm just a normal psychiatrist, you must be mistaken.]

Lucretia merely frowned slightly, her gaze calmly falling on the unremarkable amethyst pendant on the psychiatrist's chest, still faintly emitting a familiar aura. She might mistake other things, but her father's aura...

She even felt her father's gaze quietly watching her through the pendant!

[Where did you get this pendant?] Lucretia suddenly asked!

"This... was a gift from my father, he bought it from an antique shop." Heidi quickly explained, without thinking too much at the moment, "It's not a special item, it just happens to have a bit of spiritual protection..."

"Antique shop?" Lucretia was a little puzzled. "And your father is..."

"Oh, this girl is Maurice Underwood's daughter." Talan Eal, who hadn't spoken much, finally spoke, sensing something was wrong. "Relax, Madam Lucretia, this young lady is indeed a psychiatrist. She's helping me get out of here!"

Lucretia was stunned the moment she heard Talan Eal's words, then looked at Heidi, a subtle expression on her face: "Maurice Underwood?"

"Y-yes," Heidi nodded. "That's my father's name..."

Lucretia's face was expressionless, but she recalled the scene when she last met the new crew members of the *Lost Home* through the crystal ball, and recalled the respectable scholar, her father's current knowledge consultant!

What a small world!

The coldness in her eyes melted away, her smile became sincere again, and her gaze towards Heidi softened: "Hello, Miss Heidi!"

"Y-you... hello."

Heidi was bewildered, feeling as if her life had gone through several ups and downs in just a short while, but she didn't know what had happened. She could only nervously respond to the witch's greeting.

"Do... do you know my father? And do you know Master Talan Eal as well?"

"The world is smaller than you think," Lucretia said casually, not directly answering.

Then she looked at the elven scholar opposite her. "From your self-perception, how long do you think you've been trapped in this dream?"

"Not sure, my sense of time is off. Maybe a few days? Or maybe longer!"

Lucretia frowned. "Judging by the cognitive deviation, it's already a bit dangerous... I guess you've already tried various awakening methods, including the falling method?"

Talan Eal spread his hands. "Yeah, I just haven't used the sudden death method yet."

"If conventional subconscious awakening methods don't work, then other methods won't work either. This isn't a normal dream – nor is it an external curse or mental attack." Lucretia waved her hand. "I've already checked your condition in the real world and set up a mental contamination control site in the lab, so we can rule out these situations... Miss Heidi, can you tell me what information you currently have?"

Heidi was stunned for a moment, then, after two seconds, her senses reacted, and she quickly told the "witch" everything she knew.

She even started from when she accepted the city hall's invitation in Prand, not daring to omit a single detail!

Lucretia listened to this long string of information patiently, her expression changing several times!

"From a dream far away in Prand, entering Talan Eal's dream... The distance between these two city-states isn't simple, and that dream entrance has now disappeared..."

The witch said with a solemn face, "It seems that if the guidance isn't proper... even you, the psychiatrist, will be trapped in this place!"

[So do you two experts have a conclusion now?] As the only "patient" on the scene, Talan Eal seemed quite calm, and at this time he was just a little curious to ask.

"What exactly is going on with this dream?"

"Before drawing a conclusion, I need to confirm one thing first," Lucretia asked with a serious face, not answering directly. "How did you fall asleep? I found the draft you left on the tower. At the time, you seemed to be planning to send it to the academy via 'swift mail'. Were you attacked on the tower? Or did you see something while observing the sun?"

Talan Eal fell into回忆.

After a long time, he hesitantly said, "I wasn't attacked... I only remember seeing many vague shadows and lines inside the sun through the tower's equipment at the time. I wanted to record them all, but those things were too chaotic and blurry... I couldn't see them clearly no matter what, so I could only draw a rough sketch, and then..."

His voice suddenly became extremely hesitant, and a strong sense of confusion and bewilderment emerged in his eyes, as if the more he recalled what he saw at the moment he fell asleep, the more he couldn't confirm his memory!

Finally, Talan Eal stopped, unable to recall what he experienced in the last second before he fell asleep.

He slowly raised his head with confusion, his gaze sweeping over Heidi and Lucretia in front of him, then looking around, looking at this lush, incredible dense forest!

He gradually became 静滞, finally no longer having any movement or sound, even the subtle movements of breathing and eyeballs completely stopped. The breeze blew through the forest, but could no longer move his hair and the corners of his clothes!

Talan Eal turned into a "sculpture" frozen in the dream!

And with his 静滞, everything in the dream finally began to change. A strange and deep rumble spread and echoed throughout the world, as if infinitely huge things were slowly collapsing. Those towering trees gradually lost their color, and began to disintegrate downwards from the canopy. The lush plants all over the ground gradually weathered and dissipated, turning into flying smoke!

Heidi looked at all this in amazement, then suddenly turned her head to look at Lucretia:

"This is a veil? Not a real dream?"

"It seems you learned well at school, Miss Heidi."

Lucretia raised her eyebrows. "That's right, just like I guessed, this isn't a real dream, but a protective veil woven above the dream... What we're seeing isn't Talan Eal, but just the mental entity he temporarily created to protect himself. So no matter what, we can't wake him up from here. The real dream is hidden in a deeper place!"

"Why is this happening?" Heidi was surprised.

"I... have never seen such a realistic protective veil. It completely obscures the dream below... I've never seen it before, and Talan Eal isn't an expert in the spiritual realm. Although he's done some targeted training, theoretically he shouldn't be able to weave such perfect protection."

Lucretia shook her head, but one thing was certain: the weaver of this veil was trying to hide something in the depths of the dream...

If Talan Eal really did this, then he must have sensed a great danger after entering the dream...

She suddenly stopped!

Because the "collapse" of the forest gradually stopped?

Not only did it stop, but after a few seconds, the entire collapse process actually began to reverse – those towering trees were regrouping, and the dissipated colors quickly returned to the earth. The "veil" that was about to shatter actually began to regenerate at an astonishing speed.

The veil regenerated, Heidi exclaimed in surprise!

Lucretia, in addition to being surprised, immediately looked at Talan Eal's mental entity – the latter still stood quietly in place like a sculpture, showing no signs of "activating" again!

The protective veil of this dream regenerated, but the weaver of the veil was not Talan Eal. It was another force protecting the deep truth of this dream.

The moment she realized this, Lucretia suddenly realized two things. First, besides the "elf girl" and Master Talan Eal mentioned by Heidi, there was at least a third dreamer in this dream.

This dreamer was the true controller of this "disguised dream"!

Second, the invader was still nearby, and the source of pollution was right here.

The dream's protective veil was spontaneously reorganized. It was because it sensed a great danger that it suddenly reversed even though it had already begun to dissipate – and judging from the scale of the entire forest and the movement when it was reorganized, the source of this danger was definitely beyond imagination!

Neither the Annihilation cultists Heidi had previously driven away, nor those invaders Talan Eal had already dealt with, were the real reason for the closure of this dream.

At the same time that Lucretia reacted, Heidi also suddenly realized the reason for the veil's regeneration.

"There's something in this dream. The invader is still here."

"Pay attention to the abnormalities around you."

Lucretia immediately reminded, then quickly began searching for all suspicious things in her vision.

Sensing the flowing aura in the air, she wanted to find out where the "pollution source" that this veil was trying to resist was hidden!

Air, the sound of flowers and wind blowing through the forest, the sound of distant water, sunlight sprinkled through the canopy...

Everything was so real, everything was so natural, everything looked so normal!

Which one is abnormal in this dream?

Wait...

...Sunlight?

A shock suddenly went through Lucretia's heart!

There are countless towering trees in this forest, countless lush canopies, and the purpose of these canopies is to block sunlight!

But even with the遮挡 of so many canopies, sunlight still shines throughout the entire forest, making every inch of this place particularly bright!

"The sunlight is the invader."

She reacted instantly, reminding Heidi in a loud voice, while Heidi subconsciously raised her head, looking at the sky of this dream through the gaps between the canopies!

Between the layers of stacked canopies, large and small gaps had appeared at some point. Between the gaps were the sky and sunlight, and the sun that illuminated the dream!

Huge and dark twisted tentacles intertwined and entangled into a ball, interspersed with countless pairs of huge pale eyes, like a terrifying freak floating in the sky, entrenched above the forest!

The bright sunlight, like a light-cast shell, covered the surface of this malformed thing transparently, quietly illuminating the entire dream!