Chapter 430 Nightmare: Dream Within a Dream, Clear the Level!
With Annan's voice falling.
In the captain's room where he and the white-haired boy were located, the huge, ice-blue pupil finally came over and stopped moving.
For some reason, Annan had a clear understanding in his heart.
He didn't move, just calmly accepted the shining of that light.
The icy blue light shone on Annan's back, casting a long projection that just shrouded "Danton" who was crouching on the ground.
--as predicted.
Annan's "self-examination" gaze did not hurt Annan at all.
The damage he suffered in the nightmare before began to be made up for.
As Annan's breath gradually became stable, "Danton" opposite Annan gradually curled up, and his breath became weaker and weaker.
All seven fear fragments were collected by Annan.
There is a saying in this world that a person will only be unlucky seven times in a row at most. Because "seven" is the number of luck and accidents - there are only seven opportunities for him to shoot directly at Annan.
After seven times, the "accident" is over.
Now it is Annan's home.
The self-seeing eye on that day is a mechanism like a firewall.
Its existence is to find and kill the invaders in the consciousness field of "Danton".
And this "Danton" is actually a kind of "Trojan horse" - he combines Annan's memory, and naturally some belong to Annan's emotions, and some belong to Annan's will.
He will be judged as "altered Annan".
Originally, he would not be swept out by the "self-seeking" eye.
When Denton invaded other people's minds before, he never failed once when he used this method.
Only Annan was different.
——Annan has an incomparable confidence and affirmation of his own form and his own soul.
Annan was absolutely certain that he would never change... In other words, Annan already knew the direction of his change.
Even if there is only a little impurity in the middle, it will be destroyed by Annan immediately.
... This firmness and strictness towards oneself is simply not like a human being.
"you failed."
Annan raised his eyebrows and looked down at "Danton" with his hands in his pockets: "Do you know why it failed?"
"The chef doesn't look at the recipe and looks at the art of war?"
"Danton" responded subconsciously.
"—Ooh, as expected of me!"
However, Annan was not surprised or stunned by this. Instead, he stretched out his hand and applauded him very excitedly and happily: "Well received!"
"...Aren't you going to kill me?"
"Danton" raised his head from the shadows and looked at Annan with complicated eyes: "Now you can do it."
"I can."
Annan replied, "But I don't believe you.
"I don't believe that as long as you are killed here by me, you will die so easily - I want to destroy you more cleanly and completely."
With Annan's voice, the surrounding world trembled again.
The world has changed again.
The captain's cabin gradually collapsed and was flattened. The three-dimensional world gradually turned into a plane, and then into a high mountain.
That icy blue pupil became even bigger and even penetrated between heaven and earth.
But this time, with Annan thrown into the new world...and "Denton" itself.
He had no resistance in the face of Annan, who was mainly anti-customer, and was fixed on the beheading platform.
The shape of the first stage of this station is exactly the same as what Annan saw from Princess Pale.
It is the judgment seat of immortality.
- it is enough to end everything.
"You modify other people's memories without authorization for your own selfish desires."
Annan's voice rumbled in the sky.
"You steal other people's positions and identities.
"You bully the weak, play around, and deceive the will of others.
"You live by stealing and stealing...you're a thief of the mind, Denton."
"What is this, are you trying to judge me?"
"Danton" couldn't help laughing: "But that's the philosophy of our Soul Reaper School.
I was taught this way since I was a child.
"It's all 'everyone for me'. 'Individuals are weak and limited, and they can't do anything by themselves. Only by making good use of the power of others can we survive in this world and go higher.' .
"Since the purpose is to use others, is the shell moral and meaningful?"
It was in the style of sophistry like Annan.
Use confusion as the knife and search for the essence as the spear.
But Annan himself was not dragged by his nose.
Because this in itself is the wisdom of Annan.
"Indeed, there's nothing wrong with using the power of others to achieve one's own ends. There's nothing wrong with that. It's also a life choice."
Unexpectedly, Annan did not deny the matter.
He just replied softly: "It's just that you are accustomed to stealing for a living, and you are accustomed to a life that is within reach, and you will make your soul lazy, not thinking about progress, and not trying to change;
"You think that you are a strong person, and you play with the fate and mind of the weak at will, which will make you arrogant and less cautious;
"If you don't respect other people's past, you will make your own will become weak and your heart will not be tough enough.
"In every challenge you have faced in the past, you have chosen the most despicable and simplest answer. And this skipping class will finally send you to the hell you created with your own hands."
—That is, now, now, here.
"Your failure is inevitable. Even if you don't meet me, you will meet other people. And in the end, you will still fail after all.
"—Because you were originally a loser, that's why you came to me."
exactly.
--fail.
All the fears Denton instilled in Annan were various, different scenarios, and different types of [failures].
After all, it's because Denton himself has a strong fear of failure.
Because he was a complete failure himself.
And he is deeply afraid of his own failure, afraid of Bernardino who defeated him with an unstoppable force... This fear has been deeply engraved in his brain and has not been released to this day.
Fear of identity being discovered.
The fear of power nullification.
Indecisive fear.
Powerless fear.
Fear of self-sacrifice.
Fear of repeated failure.
And, facing the fear of death.
- Ahhh.
I see.
Everything is clear.
Denton took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
This is not... Annan's fear.
But his own fears, turned into nightmares.
——Because Annan's memory and Denton's memory were confused after they were all absorbed by him.
Although he wanted to murder Annan and trap his mind... But Denton instinctively created a nightmare that was transformed by his own fear.
This is why there are some levels, Annan passed so easily.
It's not that his dream control ability is too weak.
But because the fear of [failure] in his own heart has not dissipated.
"Yeah, I failed..."
Denton smiled bitterly and slowly lowered the head on the beheading stage.
He has been playing with dreams for decades, but Annan, who is not even a soul-reaver, has a thorough grasp of people's hearts.
This is really, how...
At the moment of his life and death, the cordless beheading blade hanging high above his head slammed down.
It was easy to cut off Denton's neck.
"—what an irony."
No mind reading required.
Annan calmly followed Denton's last words and said so.
The world in front of him instantly turned into darkness.
Nightmare: A dream within a dream—
- Complete clearance.