The Demon Lords

Chapter 966 - 218: The Breach

The princess is afraid of her brother, of course, the word "afraid" isn’t quite accurate here. If we were to force an explanation, it could be understood as something that triggers strong unease in the princess’s heart.

But no matter what, there’s a gap, Zheng Fan found it.

Next, it’s about rendering. During this rendering, tear open the gap, let the surging tide rush in following the gap, turning the heart into a chaotic swamp.

Perhaps it had been too long since he felt this free, or perhaps in such an environment, certain emotions in people are easily filled up, also known as...inflation.

"God said, let there be light."

Instantly,

Daytime,

The blinding light filled the surroundings.

Switching abruptly from the previous dark theme to an extreme contrast is a blunt and direct yet effective way of scene transition.

The princess instinctively covered her eyes, with a sharp pain coming from them.

And when she began to gradually adjust to the brightness around her, or when the brightness began to level out, she raised her head and found herself standing in a very familiar scene.

Very familiar,

Very familiar,

Like home,

And indeed, it was her home.

Zheng Fan was constantly observing the princess’s expression. He could be very close, very close to the princess without worrying about being discovered.

The instant switch of consciousness,

The vision of the familiar environment coming in,

Confusion would briefly occupy the mind,

But soon, a person’s rationality would wake up, thus thinking about the environment one is in, then instinctively judging reality from illusion.

The firmer one’s heart is, the quicker this rational awakening happens.

So, it is crucial, at this moment, right before she comes to her senses, to drag her attention into the next point.

Zheng Fan snapped his fingers,

Behind the corridor,

Came a sound:

"Sister... Sister... Sister..."

In fact, presenting the image of the young Lord of North Border’s estate directly here is most appropriate and effective.

But the problem is, Zheng Fan has never seen what that legendary young lord looked like, and even if he had seen him, how could he simulate what he looked like as a child?

Any presentation in the illusion, like anything appearing in a dream, is a projection from the real world. If you haven’t seen it in reality, there’s no way to imagine it in a dream.

So, to avoid overcomplicating things, Zheng Fan started with "sound" to reveal it to her.

Sounds are much easier to blur.

As the saying goes, seeing is believing, hearing is making believe; this explains that the recognizability of sound is certainly not higher than seeing directly.

As long as you aren’t particularly unlucky, and the young lord wasn’t a uniquely voiced child, mimicking a child’s voice at that age is likely to be misleading enough.

Indeed, the princess’s attention was immediately drawn to the sound.

The familiar estate environment,

The voice calling her "Sister,"

This hint is overflowing with richness.

The princess’s expression began to change, she was tense, she was fearful.

Immediately after,

Zheng Fan’s hands began pointing incessantly in other directions,

The voice of the "young lord" calling out for sister also started to shift positions constantly.

Behind the corridor,

Behind the walls,

Behind the door,

In the well,

In short,

Places where the sound can come from but which cannot be seen by the eye.

This was a further intensification, increasing the princess’s sense of panic, and this step had to be quick, done while the princess had just entered this scene and hadn’t had time to fully understand her situation.

But these are not the most important things,

Because people’s reaction to stimulation can become numb,

It requires progressive stimuli to last long.

Zheng Fan snapped his fingers again,

This time,

He made a bold decision,

That is to decisively relinquish the initiative of this dream, to give up the sole control of the environment, I retreat and you advance, when you lose it, someone else is bound to gain it.

Essentially, the princess also unconsciously gained the ability to alter and adjust this dream, but she just wasn’t aware of it yet.

In Zheng Fan’s view, the most terrifying thing in the world is really just imagination filling in the blanks.

No matter how terrifying or horror-inducing an entity is, once it falls into specific form, it instantly becomes mundane.

This is akin to how the scariest scene in a horror movie is often the cautious exploration with background music before actually encountering the ghost.

However, once the ghost appears before you, intending harm, most of the horror has actually subsided, even making one feel a sigh of relief.

At this moment, letting the princess fill in the blanks herself is the most reasonable course of action.

Sure enough,

Soon,

The voice began getting louder and closer,

Zheng Fan standing right beside the princess,

Saw a small boy in a purple jacket stumbling toward them.

However, what darkened Zheng Fan’s gaze was that the boy’s face was a blur.

You must know that even a chopstick here was extremely detailed, but the boy’s face was completely indistinct. This definitely wasn’t a problem with the princess dreaming; it only indicated one thing: the princess herself has never seen her brother!

Because she hasn’t seen her brother in reality, naturally she can’t dream up his appearance.

Nevertheless,

With the boy’s appearance,

The princess’s emotions finally underwent a drastic change.

"Go away, stay away from me, away!"