Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 326 Black Fog and Deep Dreams

"Vital signs are normal."

"The magic power is reacting normally."

“There is no erosive reaction.”

A group of people withdrew from the black fog.

The composition of this team is quite complex. There are volunteers who volunteer to take part in the experiment, death row prisoners who are about to be executed, and nobles involved who were told that if they participate in this investigation, their sentences can be reduced or their families will not be implicated.

Different people were divided into different groups and brought different equipment to explore the black fog.

After the demons withdrew to the East Territory, they continued to shrink, and their main base was placed in the East Territory near the sea and on the edge of the black fog. After all, although the demons were not affected by the black fog, those human nobles were.

As for those places near the royal capital and the northern border, they can basically be said to have been abandoned. But even so, due to the influence of the black fog, it is difficult for Linde to directly recover these places eroded by the black fog. He can only send people to explore slowly.

At this time, Flora was carefully checking the equipment of the evacuated troops.

Ordinary equipment would be unable to resist the pervasive black fog. Even if the condemned prisoners were fully wrapped in protective gear, they would still be desperately transformed into monsters under the erosion.

However, if you are baptized with holy water in advance, it can still have a certain purification effect. At least in the short term, people wearing equipment baptized with holy water can move freely in the black fog.

Another key point is the human mental state. Just as Harold mentioned in the message he sent at the risk of his life, the more fearful and desperate a person's mental state is, the less he perceives the possibility of survival, the easier it is for him to be corroded and turn into a monster.

The same is true in reverse. Those battle-hardened soldiers and nuns who stepped into the black fog would not turn into monsters without purification by holy water, and even the most basic erosion phenomenon would not occur.

Especially the nuns in the order, who were wearing full equipment and even observed the black fog moving away from them without being baptized by holy water.

However, no matter whether it is the nuns or the prisoners, if they stay in the black fog for a long time, their mental state will be affected and will become worse and worse. It is okay for those with strong wills, but the mental state of those hopeless prisoners will decline very quickly. Even if they are baptized with holy water, they will only go crazy before they turn into monsters.

This survey result made Lind ponder. The degree of erosion by the black fog was actually related to people's mental state.

The lantern dream suggests that a person's spirit will have a direct impact on the dream, so can we infer and judge the impact of the black fog on the person's spirit from the changes in the dream? And can this impact be completely resisted?

With Lind's approval, Lantern Dream began to conduct research in this area.

On the other hand, there is the Lantern Dream's research on online dreams. Although nominally it is used to study the impact of people affected by the black fog on online dreams, to be honest, its essence is to study the deep dreams that the Lantern Dream proposed before, that all human beings are connected to each other. It's a bit like selling dog meat under the guise of selling mutton in order to defraud research funds.

"That's the result of this investigation, as well as the report from Lantern Dreamland."

Lilith handed Lind the lantern dream and the latest research results of the church with a tired look on her face.

"Well, hard work."

Linde took it, but found that Lilith had not left yet and was staring at him with dark circles under her eyes.

"Brother, can I take a break now?"

Perhaps in order to stabilize people's hearts, the Goddess Church carried out the election of a new Pope at an extremely fast speed, and Lilith was elected as the new Pope with a high vote, and she was also the first female Pope in history.

This was naturally good news for Lind. Lilith had completely gotten rid of her former identity as the queen and transformed from a politician to a religious figure. Her status had not changed much, and she was reasonably placed under Lind's command.

But now there are too many religious matters. Lilith not only has to find a way to incorporate the huge Goddess Church into the Northern Church, but also has to find a way to ease and repair the relationship with the Lantern Dream.

Although with Lind's assistance, the Lantern Dreamland was not opposed to returning to the big family, the Goddess Church might not be willing to do so.

"It's not me who arranges your vacation. Can't you, the Pope, take a vacation for yourself?" Lind said as he flipped through the documents from the church.

But Lilith lay directly in front of Linde's desk and refused to leave. Linde had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll find someone to hand over to the church. You go and rest first."

"Great! I knew my brother was the best!"

After saying this, Lilith didn't show any sign of fatigue at all, and skipped out of Lind's study. Lind could only helplessly cover his head while reading the investigation report.

Lind arranged so much work for Lilith, all in order to consolidate Lilith's power and reputation in the religion. Although this would lead to Lilith's growing fame, the greater the fame, the safer she would be. However, ever since Lilith was connected to Lind's external brain, she started to mess around.

In the latest research report, Lantern Dream tried its best to describe the current research progress using words that Lind could understand. It can only be said that Lantern Dream's research direction is correct, but the methods are becoming more and more weird, because Lantern Dream has not yet found a way to replace the Brain Servant to provide computing power, or other things are not as efficient as the Brain Servant.

There may be something that can replace the brain servant, such as the so-called "holy grail" held by the tower, but it is obvious that thing is not loaned out.

Therefore, Lantern Dream has developed another way to extract computing power, which is to render the brain servants' technology harmless, minimize the impact and load on the brain, and provide computing power to the collective dream by piling up. Not only that, the brain servants that provide computing power can also communicate or play in the collective dream organized by Lantern Dream, and use this to treat mental illness.

But this requires Linde's support.

The report from Lantern Dream was very similar to what Lind had seen in his previous life, when the director described the activities in a very exaggerated way in order to approve the funding for the activities. However, in the end, Lind agreed to it together with his previous research on deep dreams. On the premise that Lantern Dream guaranteed that the technology would be handled harmlessly, he also asked people from the Northern Research Institute to help Lantern Dream.

Deborah once again represented the tower in the capital. Bernice had just taken over some of Lilith's work and was reporting to Lind on the latest research progress on the lantern dream. After Bernice finished her report, Deborah asked, "Governor, can I take a look?"

"Are you interested in this?"

Lind shook the report in his hand and looked at Deborah.

Deborah then realized that she was showing too much interest, but she still reached out and took the report handed to her by Lind.

The more I read, the more silent Deborah became.

That group of nuns have actually touched the edge of the ocean of consciousness. If they continue to dig deeper, they might be able to touch the ocean of consciousness. However, Deborah feels that it is still too early for humans to come into contact with these secrets.

After a long silence, Deborah said, "Governor, we need to meet with the person in charge of Lantern Dream."

At this moment, the researcher from the tower rushed in and whispered to Deborah. At the same time, the communicator on Lind's desk rang.

After confirming the message from the communicator, Lind looked up at Deborah and found that Deborah's expression was as shocked as his.

A giant black dragon flew over several small countries and then headed towards the area in the east that was controlled by the demons.