Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 425

[Chapter 423 What You See in the Darkness]

How Did That Key Get to the First Generation Consul?

This is the question that Agatha is most concerned about at the moment-because no matter in which historical record, whether it is from the perspective of the queen’s supporters or the current city-state authorities, the “uprising” or “rebellion” half a century ago “The descriptions are consistent on one point, that is, there is an irreconcilable conflict between the Frost Queen and the rebel army.

The two sides are enemies, and there is no possibility of any understanding or cooperation, let alone any “inheritance” relationship-then why did Queen Lei Nora’s key go to the city-state consul? And Winston also called it a “curse” and a “gift”?

Thinking quickly, Agatha lowered her head and looked into Winston’s eyes: “There is another truth about the uprising back then—could it be an agreement between the Frost Queen and the rebel army…” “It wasn’t so dramatic

. Twist, Ms. Gatekeeper, although this does sound like a good story – a crazy city-state ruler and a rebel leader love each other, and use a big uprising that can end the chaos of the previous dynasty to complete the transfer of power and responsibility, screenwriter and novelist You will love this theme, but unfortunately, there is no such warmth in real history.

” The great uprising is inevitable, and the tear between the Mad Queen and the Frost subjects is irreparable. The failure of the Abyss plan has pushed the city-state to the brink of collapse. The first consul raised troops against the queen for the survival of more people. There was no room for peaceful dialogue between them from the very beginning.

“But you are right about one thing. There is indeed a kind of ‘tacit understanding’ between the queen and the rebel army—the queen knows that her overthrow is inevitable, and the rebel army also knows that the queen’s crazy behavior is not just ‘Insanity’ is so simple, she must have a lot of secrets.

” So, the night before the execution, the leader of the rebel army, the first consul, found the imprisoned queen, and he wanted to find out what the queen was hiding. What.

“Then, the queen gave him the key and told him—as long as the execution is over and her life is over, the person holding the key will naturally know everything.” Winston stopped, with a mocking expression on his

face With a helpless expression, he lowered his head and stared at the brass key in his hand. After a long time, he smiled wryly and said, “Do you know what the last sentence she said to the leader of the rebel army? The history books of later generations never said that.” As described, this sentence is only known to the consuls of the past.

“‘I tried my best, you think you can, it’s okay, then it’s your turn now’—this is what she said after the first consul took over the key. “

“…all choices have a price. After hearing this unknown history, Agatha sighed softly.

“Ms. Gatekeeper,” Winston suddenly raised his head, with a strange smile, and lifted up the brass key, ” Would you like to give it a try? Take the key and take a look at the scenery that Le Nora once saw? Agatha

suddenly hesitated. She stared at the key that Winston handed over, and felt her already sluggish heart beating again. A low-pitched pressure spread from the key. Half a century of darkness and malice——however, after a few seconds of silence and hesitation, she still took a breath and stretched out her hand towards the key. A slightly

cold touch came from her fingertips.

The next second, boundless Countless phantoms suddenly sprang out of the boundless darkness, chaotic fragments of light and shadow swept in like a storm, filling Agatha’s sanity, and in the fragments of information that came from madness, flashes began to flash in her mind. Scenes of phantoms –

in the endless dark deep sea, some kind of huge and terrifying dark limbs are slowly growing and growing; ancient

and chilling eyes look at the city-state from the deep sea, glancing indifferently like an indescribable ancient god The

dark and terrifying substances overflow and rise from the deep sea, turning into replicas of the real world. In the transformation of virtual and real, those substances sometimes turn into shadows, sometimes into entities, and the boundless deep sea is densely packed with people. The chaotic and dirty figure looks up at the city with empty eyes;

And in the farther place, the darker and deeper seabed, the whole world, the whole boundless sea, under hundreds of city-states, are all shadows, as if the old world sank in the boundless darkness, and the abominations emerged from the ancient corpses. In

the depths of these countless phantasms, Agatha can always feel a certain kind of “gaze”—it is not a gaze, not any kind of definite source. Will, she felt as if she was being stared at by the years itself, something older than history, bigger than the city-state, and even something that seemed to come from the deepest part of the world… was watching herself.

There was no emotion in that “watching”, no malice or kindness, He just watched, like a soulless shell watching an uninvited guest who ignorantly broke into the truth, and said indifferently—— “Oh, come

here It’s gone.”

“Boom!”

Agatha felt a rumble in the depths of her consciousness, and her remaining rationality made her desperately float up in the countless layers of phantoms, and in the process, her perception and thinking were suppressed At the limit – she can feel that there is more information, more thought fragments surrounding her, which may even contain the will or words left by Queen Le Nora, but she can neither see nor hear don’t know.

When she regained the initiative of this body again, all the illusions were over. She opened her eyes in the darkness and chaos, and saw that Winston Consul was still in front of her eyes, and even kept handing herself the brass The last gesture of the key—only a second seemed to pass.

I returned to this weird creeping dark space again… Wait, no, something changed!

Agatha suddenly noticed the strange change in her vision, raised her head in horror, and looked around her.

The darkness in all directions seems to have receded a lot compared to the beginning, and those black invisible objects slowly wriggling and deforming in the darkness seemed to be gradually condensing and turning into entities. Between the constantly creeping virtual reality, she saw even more Many things that spread and grow out of the surrounding space – they look like dry tree branches, but their scale densely fills the entire space, the black “tree branches” bridge and gather with each other in nothingness, faint flashes Then walk among them, like…

a fast-moving capsule transported in a steam pipe.

And in the depths of this complicated network of “branches” like thorn bushes, through the layers of phantoms, Agatha saw a huge… limb.

It was a sturdy limb like a tentacle arm. Its huge scale was like a giant pillar supporting the heaven and earth. The surface of the giant pillar was covered with dark blue lines. The patterns formed by those lines… looked like countless pairs of eyes.

Mental pollution? phantom? Crazy borderline?

Countless thoughts flashed through Agatha’s mind. She closed her eyes immediately, only to find that the “giant pillar” supporting the heaven and earth was still in her field of vision. She tried to pray to the God of Death and use magic to stabilize her body. Will, but found that his sanity was clear, and there was no sign of erosion at all.

After several quick emergency measures failed, she realized one thing –

she was not crazy, but saw a “scenery” where she didn’t know where and whether it was real or not while she was sober and sane.

She stood in this magnificent and terrifying “landscape”, as if she lost her mind, until the voice of the consul Winston pulled her back: “Oh, it seems that you have seen it.” The middle-aged

consul As she spoke, she raised her head slowly and sighed softly: “It’s spectacular, isn’t it?”

Agatha lowered her head hesitantly, only then did she notice that what Winston was “relying on” was not a tree stump at all—it was actually the surrounding Part of the huge “tree branch” structure is an end extending from the tree branch, and there is a faint black structure on top of it, spreading to the deepest part of this weird space.

“This…these branches…”

“This is the thinking of the ancient gods, and this is what it looks like when we mortals see it,” Winston said lightly, “You are just touching the key for the first time. , there are very few things I can see, but I have been with this key day and night for more than ten years… what it tells me is far beyond your imagination.”

Agatha seemed to be in a dream, and she understood Winston dully. Subconsciously repeated the words: “The ancient gods…thinking?

” An idea, and this idea is strongly imprinted here, turned into a huge structure that you see-oh, don’t try to decipher something from it, don’t try to understand the laws of those flashes, you will go crazy.”

Ah Jiasha turned her head suddenly: “Someone went crazy because of this?”

“Yes,” Winston laughed, “Have you forgotten? Her name is Lei Nora…”

Agatha was speechless for a moment, and another It took a few seconds for her to speak softly: “Then… what is that thing outside the ‘thornbush’?

” part of the city-state.”

(End of this chapter)