Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 435

[Chapter 433 The Call of Fire]

In the port area, Liszt, who was commanding the garrison to resist the attack and at the same time keep the port running as much as possible, suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the city-state in a daze.

In the city-state, mysterious distorted buildings are emerging and emerging from the sky above the normal streets, the distant land is warping and turning upside down, faint thorn-like phantoms cover the mountains, and chaotic and chaotic lights and shadows are descending from the illusion—however In this horrible and weird scene, some fine and pale “dust” suddenly fluttered down.

The pale dust floated out of nowhere in the sky, they fell one after another, like the first snow in winter, they passed through the overlapping phantoms and twisted and alien neighborhoods, scattered on the frosty streets bit by bit-weightless , but seems endless.

In the place where the dust was scattered, the city-state that had been blurred and chaotic due to the overlapping of phantoms seemed to suddenly become “distinct”. There is a boundary between real streets again.

But at this moment, he has no time to think about what is going on, or even think about his fate for the next minute.

The roar of steam walker fire and the roar of distant coastal defense guns brought him back to reality.

“Keep those freaks out of the wharf area!” Liszt walked through the walkway between the buildings, passing through the defense line made up of steam walkers and temporary barricades, and shouted at the soldiers and commanders, “Make sure the oil depot and ammunition channels are smooth! The port must not fall!”

Gunpowder smoke filled all directions, and the air was mixed with the pungent smell of blood, engine oil and the dirty mud when it dried up. A steam walker was destroyed, and there was an immediate The next spider machine rushed out of the cover, maintaining the weak line of defense.

And inside this line of defense are the scarred dock facilities, as well as teams running between the port buildings.

Liszt came to a high place and looked towards the direction of the pier.

When those monsters ran out of the thick fog in large numbers, the port almost fell. He and his soldiers paid a great price to clean up the pollution in the port area and build a large road on the road leading to the city-state. Line of defense, and has been resisting until now.

According to the last external communication, this is the only port still in operation in Frost—the ports in other places are either still in a state of fierce competition, or have fallen, or cannot be reached due to heavy damage to key facilities. run.

He must continue to operate here at all costs – because the sea front is already in jeopardy, if the only coastal support is lost, the city-state navy will really be finished.

But… with another terrifying, twisted city-state gradually invading reality, will it really hold up here?

Liszt turned his head, took one last look at the swollen and abscess-like deformed land that was rising from the city-state, tried his best to ignore the appearance that it was gradually spreading towards the port, turned away from the defense line, and returned to the defense headquarters .

It is also busy here, the officers and staff are overwhelmed, the intelligence from everywhere is not optimistic, and the calls and beeps of various radio communication equipment are ringing non-stop.

A communications soldier was sitting in the corner of the room, repeating hoarsely into the radio: “Notify all offshore ships, this is Donggang, we still exist, repeat, we still exist – this is the only safe supply port, do not approach Other ports…”

Liszt went straight to one of his subordinates: “How is the situation at the supply dock?” “

The ‘Laurel’ is replenishing ammunition and repairing the bomb elevator, and its sister ship has lost power and is being towed back by barges , our ammunition, fuel and fresh water are still sufficient, but the crane at Pier No. 4 has been damaged, and it is paralyzed over there…”

Liszt listened with a gloomy face, and then there were hurried footsteps from the side It was heard that another junior officer came to him with a nervous expression: “Sir, there are situations…” “There are

situations everywhere now,” Liszt said loudly, “Report directly!”

“Yes, a ship is applying to enter the port for repairs. It’s…a ship of the Sea Fog Fleet,” the junior officer said with complicated eyes. “The undead on board said that their transmission mechanism was faulty, and the maintenance equipment on board could not cope.” Liszt was stunned for a moment

. , Three seconds later, he gritted his teeth: “Let them enter the port, and help them fix it as soon as possible.” “

Yes, sir.”

The subordinate left, and Liszt walked to the window quickly, observing the situation on the sea surface.

A battleship billowing with thick smoke was slowly approaching the maintenance dock, the Frost Queen’s flag was flying on the bow, and on the farther sea surface, there were floating wreckage everywhere.

“It’s been half a century… This flag finally returned to Frost in this way…”

Liszt muttered subconsciously.

But in the next second, a burst of noise suddenly came from the direction of the corridor, interrupting the exclamation of the commander-in-chief of port defense.

“What’s the situation again?” He turned his head and asked loudly.

A soldier pushed the door in nervously and hastily, and said to the commander-in-chief with embarrassment: “Sir! There are two… ordinary citizens, two girls, who don’t know how they came in, and insisted on talking to you… …”

“Ordinary citizens? Arrange them to avoid…” Liszt subconsciously said, but just in the middle of speaking, a burst of noisy movements quickly approached from the corridor, and then he heard the voice of a young girl Screaming outside—

“Everyone give way! Give way! Time is precious! How do you say that word… window, oh, the window period is only a short while!”

Liszt raised his head in astonishment, and the next time In seconds, he saw that two young girls had broken through the soldiers’ barriers and forcefully broke into this crucial command post.

One was short and thin, wearing a black cotton skirt, but he pushed two big-waisted soldiers out of the door at once. The other was slightly taller, wearing a plain brown coat and cotton skirt, and his face seemed a little nervous.

Both of them looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the thin one looked even younger.

“Leave immediately,” Liszt said immediately, his irritability made his tone unfriendly, “this is not a place for you to mess around, if you get separated from the asylum crowd, just…” “Are you the boss here? We have important things to do,

” The thin girl bluffed without waiting for anyone to finish her sentence, “Is there any place nearby that won’t be used temporarily? We need to set the fire…” “Set the fire

?” Then he realized that this was a nasty joke—he couldn’t understand why two unexplained civilians would come here to make trouble at this time, but then, the sense of vigilance brought by his profession made him vigilant, and immediately shouted Ordered, “Soldiers, control them!”

Several soldiers rushed in immediately, trying to grab the two strange girls, and the short one jumped up and down: “We really have something important! The angle of your place It’s perfect, just an open space! You…”

She stopped suddenly, staring out the window, as if she had found something.

“Hey! That’s fine over there! The entire avenue is deserted, and it leads directly to the coastline!” The girl jumped up high, and two or three soldiers couldn’t hold her down. Then she turned her head and greeted her companions , “Nina, you go there, and then add the two arson spots just discovered in the south, the city-state side will definitely be enough!” “

Ah… good!” The young girl called Nina responded immediately Immediately afterwards, she turned her head and bent slightly towards Liszt with embarrassment and apology, “Yes… sorry, sir, my friend is not very good at dealing with people, let’s go now…” Liszt

stared , The outrageous situation in front of him made him a little confused, but he subconsciously took a step forward: “Stop, you…”

He didn’t finish speaking.

Because something even more outrageous happened.

The young girl in front of him suddenly had a surge of heat, and then she turned into a jumping and dazzling arc-shaped flame in the blink of an eye. All the souls of the people burned up – the next second, the flame flew towards the open window next to it, like a meteor flying upside down, and rushed straight to a high platform near the port area.

Liszt looked at this scene in astonishment, but before he could turn his head around, the flame suddenly rushed back into the room.

The flame bent down towards him, outlining the outline of the girl, and a polite voice accompanied by crackling and crackling came out: “Thank you for protecting the city, I’m leaving! Goodbye!” The arc-shaped flame rushed again

. out of the room.

“Goodbye, goodbye!”

In the room, the short girl yelled again and again, and then, a dark crack suddenly appeared around her, and shadows surged in the crack, dragging her out of thin air and disappearing before everyone’s eyes.

“This…this shit…”

Liszt looked at this scene in astonishment and blankly, and subconsciously rushed to the open window, but only had time to see an arc of flames rushing straight into the sky from a distance.

And under this raging flame, the coast illuminated by the glaring light… suddenly burst into flames!

“The Frost Coast is on fire!”

On the watchtower of the Seamist, an undead sailor picked up the horn and shouted loudly.

The waves were heaving and the cold wind was blowing back, Tirian stood like a standing rock on the edge of the bow deck, and in his one eye, reflected the frost coast where several fires were burning.

A bright flame jumped over the city-state, constantly igniting the no man’s land on the edge of the city-high cliffs, reefs protruding from the water, lost towers, and damaged forts. The fire points are gradually connecting, as if… Continuous candlesticks.

Around the Sea Fog, the vast and endless sea was burning in large areas.

The wreckage of the fake fleet was burning, the ships of the Fog Fleet or the City Navy were burning, the leaked oil was burning.

The entire sea is being ignited by the flames of war.

And in this burning sea, the twisted and strange light and shadow of the mirror world are reflected – the ghost fleet that keeps rising, the grotesque and terrifying mirror frost in the distance, and the boundless darkness that surrounds these twisted things .

“Captain!” Aiden, the first mate, ran up and shouted beside Tirian, “the last barrel of fuel has been poured out, and the surrounding fire is about to engulf the ship!” “I know,” Tirian said

calmly Said, a smile slowly appeared on his face, “What’s the reaction from the Frost Navy?” “

They also followed our instructions and ignited the excess whale oil, but they still couldn’t figure out what we were going to do. It was done in complete confusion—they wanted an explanation from us.”

“Explanation…”

Tirian muttered softly, raising his hand slowly, pointing around the Seamist, pointing at the seamist that was getting more and more dense. A dark, increasingly eerie sea.

“Aiden, what do you think the surface of the sea looks like?”

Aiden froze for a moment, then looked up and looked around.

In the next second, his expression gradually froze, and even a trace of panic emerged.

On the surface of the sea, the wind and waves have subsided quickly at some point, and the boundless darkness makes the entire sea area gradually present a mirror-like texture.

The flames are burning in front of the mirror, from the Frost Coast to the sea area where the fleet is fighting, the continuous flames of war… It’s like a ritual candlestick in front of the mirror.

The sound of the wind, waves and artillery on the sea seemed to have suddenly weakened, and everything seemed far away from another world, and in this eerie and brief silence, Aiden heard his captain speak softly.

“Father said that if you want to find him, you should find a mirror and light a fire in front of the mirror.”

Tirian slowly opened his hands, facing the sea that was gradually turning into a black mirror.

“The fire has been lit, are you there?”

Then, Frost Sea Territory opened his eyes.

“I am here.”

(End of this chapter)