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Chapter 692 Survivors
Emma's intrusion into the Unseen Lands truly terrified the survivors.

When the enormous claw formed from the black mist tore open the stone door of the passage, they thought it was some madman from the past breaking in.

Until the black mist dissipated, revealing Emma's face.

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The atmosphere was somewhat strange when these two women, who had previously had little interaction, met again.

Emma has been gone for several years, traveling between the Realm of the Wake and other realms, using the Byakkiss of old Theon to search for Milo's trail.

Rebecca has remained steadfastly on this shattered homeland for years.

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The eerie atmosphere lasted for about ten seconds before Rebecca broke the silence, pointing to the hissing campfire below the altar and asking:
"Want to eat?"

It looks like Emma arrived just in time for dinner.

But she clearly didn't have the time for that.

"No, I'm in a hurry." She glanced at the familiar and unfamiliar faces on the unseen ground, then said to Rebecca, "Gather your people, it's time to leave."

Rebecca was about to say something.

Emma retorted directly, "You know this is just a dream, what's the point of guarding an illusory dream?"

Having said that, he tossed several golden bottles to Rebecca:

"Hurry up and bring everyone along, give them this to drink."

So the believers in the unseen land began to busy themselves.

There wasn't much to pack. All you could find on that barren land was junk. Before leaving, you only needed to pack the most valuable items, such as Rick's food bag, Lonnie William's wheelchair (yes, he's back in his wheelchair), and the charred, stubbled hand stuck at the top of the altar as a symbol of some kind of faith.

Emma held back until the very last moment and told Rebecca the truth.

The truth about Milo being alive.

She simply couldn't stand the woman's haggard and melancholy appearance.

Upon hearing the news, Rebecca was stunned for about seven or eight seconds before suddenly bursting into laughter, a relieved laugh escaping her tears: "I knew it..."

Emma saw Rebecca's strange reaction, shook her head, turned and walked away, muttering, "I should have kept quiet."

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The relationship between tombstone dreams and the waking world is very special.

These are two possibilities for the same event, coexisting on the timeline, yet not entirely identical.

The most striking feature is that the will of a single organism seems to exist in both worlds, and can even experience two physical deaths, but its spirit will only ever exist in one.

Simply put, there are two worlds here, but there won't be two blood moons, nor two Megs.

Including Emma, ​​Theon, and the Byakki who come and go in the Tombstone Dream, they are all unique.

Those who enter the Tombstone Dream from the waking world, such as C, the Blood Saintess, and Rebecca, even if they are still alive in the Tombstone Dream at that moment, will not have two identical people. The will from the waking world will combine with the will of the dream to become unique, while the one in the waking world will cease to exist.

Therefore, the Tombstone Dream is a dream, but this dream was created by the son of Azathoth, and it is incredibly close to reality, even capable of replacing it.

Therefore, for those who broke into the Tombstone Dream from the waking world to provide Milo with information, they undoubtedly cut off all their escape routes. They no longer had two chances to die physically. When the sole will appeared, death was truly death.

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of course there are exceptions.

That was the evil young visionary Marty.

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When the survivors collectively set foot on that old land, the gods' gaze was already completely focused on that valley, and they no longer had time to care about these ants.

After years of silence, the sky was finally graced with a dazzling glow once more.

That was the resentment and rage of the gods.

If your will is strong enough, hold your breath for a moment, and you will soon hear the gods' hysterical, frantic curses.

In the distant valley, a negotiation is taking place between mortals and gods.

The blood moon still hangs high in the sky as a witness to all of this.

The believers who had emerged from this unseen land all understood each other perfectly. Without Emma saying anything, they all realized that the faith connection that had been severed for years had been re-established. The cultists who had originally belonged to the Silver Twilight Holy Light Association began to prostrate themselves devoutly in the direction of the valley. Lonnie William even rolled off his dilapidated wheelchair and wept bitterly.

Just as the Red Witch said, the ignorant and weak believers and their followers will take all the actions of the superior as "for me", so when they realize that the one they serve is fighting against some terrible being, they will want to tear their hearts out and offer them up.

Just like the story of how Milo turned against the incarnation of the Black Goat of the Forest because of Grasso's death.

Actually, the entire sentence above should be in quotation marks, because the cause-and-effect relationship here was fabricated by an observer.

But this did not stop the desperate people in the eastern forbidden zone of the Dreamland from trying their best to summon Milo.

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Additionally, when the survivors set foot on the surface...

The aforementioned Matti also appeared at just the right time.

Yes, he was not killed by the black knife.

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Perhaps it's necessary to reconstruct the scene from that night.

The black-knife assassin plunged his menacing, barbed dagger into the child's chest.

But Black Knife didn't notice that a blood-stained sheet was spread out on the ground next to the child's body.

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That's right, the one stabbed to death by the black knife was the self from the conscious world who had already been killed by Marty.

The corpse, which he had already wrapped in a bed sheet, came in handy later, taking the brunt of a black knife blow for him.

The real Marty survived... no, that's not accurate. It should be said that the Marty in the tombstone dream survived.

There were indeed two Martys here.

They shoulder different missions, and even their ways of thinking are vastly different.

That's because the child inherently possesses two personalities: one is a patricide and a sadist, and the other is a coward who cowers in the closet.

In the dream of the tombstone, his will was not unified, and he could not "play himself" in the dream like others, so two Martys appeared.

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Of course, all of this is just Marty's own judgment. Perhaps he was simply lucky to have escaped being killed by the black knife.

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The man appearing now, Marty, has grown considerably since a few years ago.

Everyone was astonished when they saw the boy, who was barely a teenager. It was hard to imagine how a child could survive on the post-apocalyptic surface. But in fact, Marty wasn't entirely independent; he had someone with him.

He was a burly man, but with a hunched back.

It is Kang, who has become an immortal being favored by the Canamagus Testament.

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He lost almost everything in that war.

Finn died before his eyes, and Emma disappeared.

Moreover, Kang was the only one who witnessed Milo's complete annihilation under the wrath of the gods; the curse of immortality both protected him and tormented him.

Because he could only watch all of this happen before his eyes, powerless to change anything.

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Only a few years had passed, but for the immortal Kang, it felt as if he had aged a hundred years. The hope of life had long been stripped away; these past few years had not been about living, but simply about not dying.

But when he spotted an incredibly familiar face in the not-so-crowded crowd, his mind suddenly went blank...

All those emotions and memories that had been sealed away, or had to be temporarily abandoned, surged up all at once.

When the withered and aged father embraced his daughter who rushed into his arms, he found himself so estranged that he didn't know how to express himself or offer comfort.

He could only repeat it over and over again in a hoarse voice:

"Dad will kill them all, Dad will kill them all..."

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(End of this chapter)