Conan: Start with three choices, but sequence potion

Chapter 211: Old Silver Coin Appears

The blood-red beam of magic circle lit up, enveloping everyone in the Lantern Bearer Team, forming a protective shield created by a complete alchemical field.

For a Sequence 7 alchemist, when he has made all preparations and is determined to engage in positional warfare, the effect that can be achieved is extremely terrifying.

"secret!"

Vermouth immediately tried to activate the Scarlet Eye to break the magic circle.

"It's useless, Your Excellency."

Dunn said calmly, "Even with the favor of the witch, you are only a Sequence 9."

"Are you planning to betray the church collectively?!" Vermouth was really puzzled. She didn't understand. It was clear from the recent confrontation with the Aurora Society that these people were all trustworthy.

"How do you define 'betrayal'?" Dunn said with a wry smile that even Vermouth was a little touched. "We are still loyal to the witch, and Scarlet is still protecting us."

"We always say, 'May the scarlet be with you.'"

"But now people are suffering from 'sleepwalking'. Do you want us to just stand by and watch, and remain silent because of suspension and investigation?"

Vermouth was speechless.

But the crimson light on her body gradually faded.

She was thinking.

Suzuki Sonoko chimed in at the right moment: "Aren't the rules of the church meant to better protect people and promote the greatness of the witch?"

"." The dark red cloak on Vermouth turned into light and dissipated. She sighed, "You have convinced me."

"Now, as a member of the Crimson Church, I approve the temporary lifting of the suspension of the Seventh Lantern Bearer Team. At the same time, I approve the application for the borrowing of Sealed Artifact 1-033 and give priority to handling the Tingen 'Sleepwalker' incident."

She lifted the alert at Pandora Gate with her own authority.

"Great!" Suzuki Sonoko cheered, "I knew Lilith would understand!"

"Thank you." Dunn forced a somewhat stiff smile.

“Don’t be too happy too soon.” Vermouth poured cold water on him, “1-033 is not omnipotent. If it involves a high sequence, we alone will not be able to solve it anyway.”

"We should at least try." Dunn touched the mirror of the Mirror of Asdro, on which distorted words in the ancient Feysac language began to appear.

【If you want to be saved, you must first perish. 】

"What does it mean?" Suzuki Sonoko couldn't quite understand this mysterious riddle.

Leonard, who was well-read in poetry and books, touched his chin and guessed, "Perhaps it means that we should actively try to enter 'sleepwalking'?"

"There are words on it again." Kyogoku Makoto reminded.

Everyone rushed over.

"Based on the principle of reciprocity, it's my turn to ask questions."

"If you answer incorrectly, or lie, you will be punished."

The word "punishment" was as red as blood, as if it was still dripping with liquid!

Dunn pursed his lips and looked at the mirror with some trepidation, waiting for questions from the Mirror of Asdro.

"Who is your beloved?"

Everyone's eyes instantly focused on the forgetful and dull captain.

Taking a short breath, Dunn closed his eyes as if relieved.

Then, he said in a brief but unquestionable tone: "Daly."

"Daly Simone."

The mirror of 1-033 dimmed, symbolizing the end of this question and answer session.

The others looked at each other.

"Everyone can only ask Asdro one question a day."

Dunn handed over the antique mirror and said, "We need more information. Who's next?"

After seeing how embarrassing the questions asked by this mirror were, almost everyone developed a subtle fear of it.

In the end, the mirror was pushed into the hands of the honest Kyogoku Makoto.

"What should I ask?" He sought advice from everyone around him.

"Ask it what preparations it needs to make before entering the dream, or whether there is any human influence behind this 'sleepwalker' incident." Suzuki Sonoko helped him with ideas.

"Oh."

Kyogoku Makoto relayed the question smoothly.

Several blurry and dreamy images slowly emerged on the Mirror of Asdro.

[Ms. Daly wore a pure white wedding dress. The other party was a middle-aged man in a well-tailored suit. His face was blurry but he had a noticeable stubble on his chin.]

Everyone looked at Dunn, whose face turned red and white.

The scene quickly changed and turned into endless and deep darkness.

[Many colorful dreams began to break apart and were swallowed by the abyss-like darkness. People fell into it, and the sleeping faces in reality began to become hideous. ]

"It seems that people's 'nightmares' are also materialized into nightmares under the 'sleepwalker' phenomenon, eroding people's spirits." Vermouth looked solemn.

At the edge of countless dreams, the familiar outline of the city can be vaguely seen.

"Could that be..." Suzuki Sonoko's eyes were filled with extreme horror.

The second half of the sentence that she swallowed was——

Tokyo. The other side of Tingen people's dreams seems to be the prosperous city that exists in their reality.

Suzuki Sonoko could even clearly identify her own tower, the tallest tower in Tokyo, the Suzuki Tower.

What exactly is going on?

Isn't the Metaverse just a set of servers distributed according to region?

Isn’t the extraordinary path hidden therein a gift from fools?
She suddenly felt a chill down her spine, and the history she had seen in the reading room before came to her mind.

[That dimension far away from the real world is called the 'God-forsaken Land'. 】

[And those gods and people who were abandoned were recorded in history as]

【The remnants of the old days. 】

But now is not the time to think about all these messy things, so Suzuki Sonoko had to put this uneasy guess aside for the time being.

Asdro's question to Kyogoku Makoto was relatively simple. It simply asked in a handwriting that clearly showed its confusion: "Are you really a human?"

"Yes." Although Kyogoku Makoto felt strange, he did not hesitate. "I am a human."

The writing on the mirror disappeared and it returned to its normal appearance.

"From the images it gives, it seems that dreams will change differently depending on one's own thoughts," Dunn analyzed. "If one cannot quickly realize that one is dreaming and wake up from it, one will gradually sink into it and eventually be eroded by the nightmare."

"We need some means to ensure our own wakefulness, and we need to use the peculiarities of dreams to go from our own dreams to the dreams of others and help them wake up."

Luo Shan asked in some embarrassment: "But how should we do it?"

"Can 'opening the door' create a passage between different people's dreams?" Suzuki Sonoko suddenly had an idea.

".It's hard to say."

"I think I can try it."

Everyone started discussing it.

At this moment, Vermouth's face suddenly turned ugly.

"All the entrances and exits from the underground passages leading to the ground have been blocked. The Rangers and Pioneers have deployed spiritual shields around them to affect the use of extraordinary abilities!"

"They claimed that the Lantern Bearer Team had rebelled and asked us to give up resistance and accept trial."

"How could this happen?" Suzuki Sonoko frowned, took out her cell phone and began to verify the information sent back from the Suzuki Charity Foundation, and found that it was true.

"How long have we been in action? Lilith has also cut off the alarm of Pandora Gate in time and approved the authority. Who else can tip off other Beyonder teams?"

Dunn realized that something was wrong: "Judging from the efficiency of this operation, they issued a blockade order before we even officially entered the Pandora Gate."

Vermouth immediately took the Mirror of Asdro and asked it, "Tell me, who is behind all this, targeting the Scarlet Church?!"

A deep blood color began to appear on the Mirror of Asdro, and the image became extremely blurry, so that only the rough outline could be seen.

That's a desktop, or rather, it should be a desktop.

The square block of color on the table is supposed to be a book, and next to it lies a white block of color that looks like a quill.

Suddenly, the picture was abruptly cut off.

There was a constantly trembling blood-red vortex on the mirror, as if something was unable to bear the weight and was about to crawl out of it.

But eventually it calmed down, and the mirror resumed reflecting everyone present.

The heart-pounding atmosphere eased a lot, and everyone's heart couldn't help but beat faster, feeling nervous.

"etc."

Suzuki Sonoko's voice suddenly trembled, and she pointed hesitantly at the image reflected in the mirror.

"There is an extra person in the mirror"

Suzuki Sonoko, Kyogoku Makoto, Leonard, Roxanne, Vermouth, in addition to Dunn holding the mirror, she actually saw a sixth figure.

"No one?" Dunn looked behind them in confusion, but did not see any extra people.

"In the mirror!" Suzuki Sonoko exclaimed.

It was a plain and gentle figure, wearing a rather simple white robe, with a thick light golden beard that covered the lower half of his face, and golden eyes as clear and pure as a baby's.

He had a silver cross pendant on his chest, and looked like an ordinary priest, looking at them with a warm smile.

The calm words seemed to echo directly into everyone's hearts.

"Are you spying on me, Asdro?"

1-033 fell into silence, ignoring even the question of the principle of reciprocity, just like an ordinary mirror.

It was as if it was just a momentary illusion for them. The figure never appeared in the mirror at all, and silence returned to Pandora's door.

"What was that just now?"

Kyogoku Makoto was still a little slow to react and was a beat slower than everyone else.

“Don’t think about it!” Vermouth immediately stopped them from mentioning it again, her beautiful red eyes filled with fear, “The Scarlet Eye is sending out a warning frantically!”

"Don't think, don't talk, don't remember anything about Him!"

After a long time, she finally received the second oracle from the Scarlet Witch.

"because."

"'Everything that is said must be known'."

(End of this chapter)