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 the wisdom god Lahm, madam," she said hurriedly, as if afraid that if she spoke late, the misunderstanding would deepen, and then she would really establish some secret connection with a terrible subspace shadow.

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

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

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

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

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

"An antique shop?" Lucretia was a little puzzled, "And your father is..."

"Oh, this girl is the daughter of Maurice Underwood." At this time, Talan Ehl, who hadn't said much, finally spoke, feeling that the atmosphere was a bit wrong. "Relax, Lady Lucretia, this young lady is indeed a psychiatrist, she is helping me leave here!"

Lucretia, however, was stunned for a moment after hearing Talan Ehl's words, and then looked at Heidi, with a subtle expression on her face: "Maurice Underwood?"

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

Lucretia was expressionless, but recalled the scene when she last met the new crew members of the Forsaken Home through the crystal ball, recalling the respected scholar, her father's current knowledge consultant!

What a small world!

The coldness in her eyes melted, her smiling expression regained sincerity, and her gaze towards Heidi softened: "Hello, Miss Heidi!"

"You... hello."

Heidi was confused, feeling that her life seemed to have experienced several ups and downs in such a short time, but she didn't know what happened, and could only nervously respond to the witch's greetings.

"Do you... know my father? And you and Master Talan Ehl know each other too?"

"This world is smaller than you think," Lucretia said casually, without directly answering the other party.

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

"Not sure, my time perception is now problematic, maybe a few days? Maybe longer!"

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

Talan Ehl spread his hands: "Yes, only the sudden death method hasn't been used yet."

"If the usual subconscious awakening methods don't work, then other methods won't work either. This is not a normal dream – nor is it an external curse or mental attack." Lucretia waved her hand. "I have already checked your condition in the real world, and arranged a place to control mental pollution in the laboratory, so these situations can be ruled out... Miss Heidi, can you tell me the information you currently have?"

Heidi was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and after two seconds, she realized it and quickly told the "witch" everything she knew.

She even started from when she accepted the invitation from the City Hall in Prand, without daring to miss a single detail!

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

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

The witch said with a solemn face, "It seems that if the guidance is not smooth... 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 Ehl seemed quite calm, and just asked curiously at this time.

"What exactly is going on with this dream?"

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

Talan Ehl fell into recollection!

After a long time, he opened his mouth uncertainly: "I was not attacked... I only remember seeing many blurry shadows and lines in the sun through the equipment on the tower at that time, and I wanted to record them all, but those things were too chaotic and blurry... No matter what, I couldn't see them clearly, so I could only draw a rough outline, and then..."

His voice suddenly became unusually hesitant, and his eyes also showed a strong sense of confusion and bewilderment. It seemed that the more he recalled what he saw at the moment he fell asleep, the more he could not confirm his memory!

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

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

He gradually became static, finally without any movement or sound, even the subtle movements of his breathing and eyeballs completely stopped. The breeze blew through the forest, and could no longer move his hair and the corners of his clothes!

Talan Ehl transformed into a "sculpture" frozen in the dream!

And with his stasis, everything in the dream finally began to change. A strange and low roar filled the entire world, as if infinitely huge things were slowly collapsing. Those towering trees gradually lost their color, and began to unravel downwards from the canopy. The lush plants on the ground gradually weathered and dissipated, turning into flying smoke!

Heidi looked at all this in shock, 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 as I guessed, this is not a real dream, but a protective veil woven on top of the dream... What we see is not Talan Ehl, 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 blocks the lower-level dream... I have never seen it before, and Talan Ehl is not an expert in the spiritual field. Although he has done some targeted training, theoretically he cannot weave such perfect protection."

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

If Talan Ehl really did this, then he must have sensed a huge 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 of the forest actually began to reverse – those towering trees were regrouping one after another, 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 shock!

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

The protective veil of this dream has regenerated, but the weaver of the veil is not Talan Ehl. It is another force that is protecting the deep truth of this dream.

At the moment she realized this, Lucretia suddenly realized two things. First, in addition to the "elf girl" mentioned by Heidi and Master Talan Ehl, there is at least a third dreamer in this dream.

This dreamer is the real controller of this "disguised dream"!

Second, the intruder is still nearby, and the source of the pollution is right here.

The protective veil of the dream is spontaneously reorganized. It is because it sensed a huge danger that it suddenly reversed in a situation where it was clearly beginning to dissipate – and judging from the scale of the entire forest and the movement when it was reorganized, the source of this danger is definitely beyond imagination!

Whether it was the Oblivion cultists that Heidi had expelled before, or the intruders that Talan Ehl had already dealt with, they were not the real reason for the closure of this dream.

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

"There is something in this dream, the intruder is still here."

"Pay attention to the anomalies around you."

Lucretia immediately reminded, and then began to quickly search for any suspicious things in her sight.

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

The air, the sound of flowers blowing through the forest, the sound of water in the distance, the sunlight falling through the canopy...

Everything is so real, everything is so natural, everything looks so normal!

Which one is abnormal in this dream?

Wait...

...Sunlight?

A shock ran through Lucretia's heart!

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

But even with so many canopies blocking it, sunlight still shines throughout the forest, making every corner here exceptionally bright!

"The sunlight is the intruder."

She reacted instantly, loudly reminding Heidi, and Heidi subconsciously raised her head, looking through the gaps between the canopies at the sky of this dream!

Between the layers of overlapping canopies, large and small gaps have appeared at some point. Between the gaps are the sky and the sunlight, and the sun that illuminates the dream!

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

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