Witch, Fireball and the Evil God of Steam-Chapter 736 - 108: Soul

The next day, early morning.

The alarm on Ethan's phone jolted him awake from sleep. Almost simultaneously, he reached towards his chest, breathing heavily.

He couldn't remember when he had fallen asleep. The prepared .45 pistol had slid onto the wooden floor. He quickly checked the magazine, and the bullets were still full.

Ethan glanced around in a daze.

Everything in the bedroom was as usual, with no signs of intrusion, and no bullet marks on the walls or closets.

Was it a nightmare?

Ethan carefully recalled the events in the nightmare. First, the Time Traveler broke into his home, then he raced to the committee district, where behind that door, he confronted the existence called the God of Truth by the followers—a massive white light sphere, omniscient and omnipotent amid the stars.

Setting aside the horror movie-like scenes in the first half, the encounter in the latter part resembled the visions described by the followers of truth.

But...

Cognition pollution 100%, and what does the number 3791 mean?

Ethan wrote down the echoes he last heard on paper. After that, his consciousness seemed to be absorbed by the light sphere, and then he woke up in his own bed. In reality, he didn't meet the committee members in the conference room.

A nightmare could indeed explain everything.

It is always connected with human subconscious, and those bizarre creatures he had once faced would be released by the subconscious, and he just fell into a deep sleep at some time node during the night.

A voice sounded in Ethan's mind, trying to rationalize everything he encountered in the nightmare.

But there is a flaw in this nightmare to follow.

Ethan turned over and got out of bed, heading straight for the bookshelf where the surveillance camera was hidden. He opened the book titled Sanctuary Code and retrieved the intact camera inside.

With apprehension, he accessed the footage.

From returning home at dusk until he turned off the recording mode just now, most of the time was dull and boring. During the long night, a man living alone lay in bed, playing with a .45 caliber pistol. When the time reached 4 AM, the image in the footage finally changed.

The man on the bed seemed to hear some disturbance, he stuffed a pillow under the quilt to pretend he was still lying there, then slipped behind the curtain—this matched Ethan's nightmare, knowing that the Time Traveler would break into the bedroom next, and he would fire a magazine of bullets.

The only difference was that no other person appeared in the footage from beginning to end.

The man hiding behind the curtains fired bullets at the air, then seemed possessed, moving in front of the camera, wrestling with empty air, standing on tiptoes, and then heavily throwing himself on the ground, then with all his might ran out of the room.

Afterward, the bedroom returned to its original state.

At six in the morning, a fatigued man staggered back into the bedroom, collapsed onto the bed, and slept until the moment he was suddenly awakened from his slumber.

Ethan frowned, unable to explain what the footage showed; even describing this tape as performance art would not be an exaggeration. If he had died in this bedroom last night, even if Zhuang Xiao found the footage, it would still be hard to explain what exactly happened last night. From an objective standpoint, it only recorded a man gone insane, performing dangerous acts in his bedroom.

At the same time, other inexplicable things appeared.

He carefully compared the content in the footage but couldn't find the bullet holes that should have appeared in the closet.

The handgun, located in a blind spot of the camera, somehow had moved to the floor by the bed, looking as if it had slid down while he slept.

Besides himself, no one else appeared in the footage from beginning to end.

Ethan suddenly wondered if this was also what Duli experienced on the night of his suicide?

Awakened in the dead of night, sensing an intruder in the house, then being killed by the intruder... but actually, if there were people present at the time, perhaps they would see another scene. They would see Duli leaning against the bed frame, slowly putting a gun into his mouth, pulling the trigger.

And after "cognition pollution" and the number "3971," the question from the God of Truth was intriguing.

Ethan felt that the deity was curious why he survived the Time Traveler's attack.

The answer lay in Ethan; he became the "variable" of the entire nightmare.

If not for the protection of the Wind Blade and the Elemental Elf, death would have been an unavoidable outcome.

He had to take action.

Before the second "nightmare" arrived, he had to convey everything he knew to Zhuang Xiao. He organized the data from the tape and walked towards the door.

.................

At the same time, a meeting was also underway in the Imperial Capital.

The participants of this meeting were influential guests. Almost without exaggeration, it could be said that in the limited history of humanity, no meeting ever recorded could compare. Since the dawn of the new day, the Imperial Knight Order had been bearing unprecedented pressure.

The residents of the Imperial Capital spotted numerous renowned figures within the city. These uninvited guests all had a common identity—Evil God's Followers. Every face was a frequent visitor on wanted lists, with a series of astronomical numbers below the portraits, the enormous bounties like badges of honor for their achievements.

This era is about to run amok!

Reporters from various newspapers in the Imperial Capital sensed the breath of big news, bustling around even before dawn, with some even drafting today's headlines.