Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 564

[Chapter 562 People Walking in the Wilderness]

Due to the delay in the afternoon, when Shirley and Nina returned to No. 99 Crown Street, it was already approaching dusk, and it was time to have dinner.

In this “Elf City”, there really isn’t much that can be called normal food, but fortunately, normal ingredients can always be purchased, and Lucretia’s “servants” prepared a sumptuous meal for the guests. For dinner, Nina and Shirley finally ate “food that humans should eat.”

It’s just that they didn’t feel comfortable eating this meal.

What they heard and saw in that underground holding facility still makes them a little dizzy – there are too many things they don’t understand, there are too many things beyond the three perspectives, about the Great Annihilation, about the starting point of history. “Black Wall”, about those doomsdays, about those destroyed old worlds, and the “new world” born in the deep sea era…

For two girls who can only be regarded as “eldest children” in the strict sense, these Things are getting a little too complicated and ahead of their time.

After hurriedly finishing dinner, Shirley returned to her room. She sat in front of the table in a daze for a while, then heard the soft sound of chains shaking next to her, and Agou poked his head out of the shadows.

Shirley lowered her head, glanced at this “friend” who had almost eaten her but raised her since childhood, and asked seriously: “Did you understand all the things the captain said today? The fragments of several worlds were piled together and then there was the Deep Sea Age and so on…”

“I can understand part of it,” Agou lay down and gently rubbed Shirley’s knees with his huge head, “but those are too beyond common sense. I didn’t understand the part.”

“I almost didn’t understand it,” Shirley said honestly. “Of course, I understand those sentences, but it’s a bit difficult for me to imagine how those things happened. This brain is gone – after all, why should we care about how the world was born?”

She said in confusion. Although she knew that she was showing a very shallow look, she never had anything to hide in front of Agou. of.

“You can still live if you don’t know anything, right?” she continued, “Anyway, the two of us have survived like this for the past ten years…”

Agou suddenly raised his head, and his eyes were filled with blood-colored light. Its empty eye sockets stared directly into Shirley’s eyes, and a low and hoarse voice came from its skeletal body: “You can live without knowing anything, but we must also know that this survival is not a matter of course – It’s like this for ordinary people, and it’s like this for the world itself.”

Agou’s suddenly serious attitude startled Shirley. She was stunned for a moment, and then vaguely seemed to understand something, and she showed a thoughtful expression. The look of thinking.

“The world will not ‘survive’ like this forever,” Agou looked at Shirley’s reaction, laid his head down again, and said in a low voice, “The Great Annihilation can destroy those ‘old worlds’, then Today’s Deep Sea Age may still be ended by another force. Ordinary people may not know anything about it until the day the end comes. They will usher in the end in the illusion of long-lasting peace, just like that person. In the hometown of the ‘warriors’, for those people who are waiting for the triumph of the brave men in the kingdom, ‘ignorance’ is their greatest blessing… For them, they don’t know anything and can live, because they don’t know that there is death. How far.

“But Shirley, we’re not the ones who stayed in the Kingdom—we’re on the Lost Home.

“You have also seen those omens, the black sun descending in Plande, the Creator’s blueprint that is out of control in the depths of the frost, the boundless sea when Vision 001 is extinguished, and those nagging cultists… If you are A ‘person living in the kingdom’ cannot come into contact with them.”

Agou said nonchalantly. It shook its head, carefully put away its fangs, and rubbed Shirley’s knees with the tip of its nose.

“Shirley, it’s true that you can live without knowing anything, but you already know it now – the captain is worried about those ominous omens, and you are too, but you just didn’t notice it.”

Shirley became quiet. She sat quietly on the chair for a long time before reaching out and placing her hand on Ah Gou’s skull. There was a little uneasiness in her voice: “A Gou, are we the ones walking in the wilderness… Just like that ‘soldier’, are we also trekking towards the doomsday?”

“We are heading towards the doomsday, and the doomsday is coming towards us. ‘Recognition’ is a two-way street. When we know its existence, there is no difference between them. The only question is…how and when it will catch up with us. I think this is what the captain is worried about.” “…

Agou, why do you understand so well? Do you understand…this feeling?”

Agou. The blood in the dog’s eyes slowly changed in light and dark: “Because I once felt something similar – when you were very, very young.”

It raised its head and looked into Shirley’s eyes.

Its voice is very soft, just like it did many years ago when it tried to calm the frightened little girl to sleep during a thunderstorm – “

In the beginning, you were a… little creature that I couldn’t understand at all, you So small, so weak, your arms can be broken as easily as thin wooden sticks. Even if you live in symbiosis with the devil, you are so fragile that you can die at any time… “

Every day, every second, I worry about this” When death comes, I don’t understand your breathing, I don’t understand your heartbeat, I don’t understand how humans survive, I don’t even know that you need to find food until you have been hungry for several days – as a deep demon , I was not used to ‘thinking’ at that time, and you… didn’t communicate much with me at that time.

“So I always feel that you may die anytime, anywhere due to something that I can’t understand yet. Your breathing, heartbeat, blood flow, these strange ‘phenomena’ are all extremely fragile ‘temporary balance’ in my eyes. The termination of any link will make you leave me, so when you woke up as a child, you would always see me groping and observing beside you, because I wanted to check your breathing and heartbeat, and to check whether you were dead. .

“This kind of worry is very similar to the captain’s worry now. “

Agou paused for a moment, raised his head and looked towards the second floor, but quickly looked away again.

“The captain and I can’t be compared, and I shouldn’t speculate on his thoughts. But today, in his eyes, I felt that familiar… worry. This seemingly vast and boundless sea, for him, Yan is probably equivalent to how I saw you many years ago – a small and weak ‘weird thing’. I don’t know how he survives, I just know that he will die at any time.”

Agou talked a lot, and now it finally calmed down, but Shirley still looked at it blankly and made no sound for a long time.

“Why don’t you speak?” Agou asked doubtfully.

“You…never told me this before,” Shirley said in a daze, “It turns out that when I was young…” “It’s

all over,” Agou whispered, “You survived. Then all the worries and difficulties at the beginning are things of the past.”

Shirley pursed her lips, and suddenly raised her head with some worry, looking in the direction of the second floor: “Agou, you said… we will be the story The warriors and his companions there?”

“If possible, I don’t want to be like them.” Agou shook his head. “The warriors can’t stop the end of the world with a steel sword. They are trekking towards the doomsday. The journey is difficult but destined to be in vain – but since the captain is leading us, we obviously have more than just a steel sword, so I am willing to be optimistic.” “Captain…”

Shirley sighed, “I don’t know what the captain is. What are you doing now… He hasn’t even come down to eat dinner.”

“Are you going to go up to deliver food later and take a look?”

“Um, still not – Alice will definitely go anyway.”

“That’s true.”

…

Looking at the wonderful sky outside the window where the daylight faded and the sky dimmed, but a layer of golden “sunlight” was always filled in the gaps between high-rise buildings, Duncan exhaled slightly, turned around and turned on the light in the room.

Although the “sunshine” that filled the streets brought eternal “illumination” to Qingfeng Port, after the fall of Vision 001, the sunlight that spread from the nearby sea and was blocked by buildings could not shine. It lights up the entire city. In the depths of the city-state, where the “sunlight” is blocked by buildings, the night can still be seen, and here, people still need the comfort of lights.

The bright lights dispersed the darkness that was spreading from all around, making the room seem a little warmer.

Outside the window, as the power of Vision 001 faded, in the starless and moonless sky, the pale crack at the creation of the world was gradually emerging.

The cold and pale light permeates the night, but is cut into pieces by the “sunlight” that diffuses between high-rise buildings, showing a strange phenomenon that cannot be seen in other city-states, where the creation of the world and the sun appear at the same time and intersect with each other. Scenes.

Duncan looked at the splitting “trauma” in the sky, but his mind was still recalling the “memory illusions” he saw today.

He thought of the “deep red” that stretched across the sky, like a huge scar.

What is that “red light” that stretches across the universe and whose propagation laws seem to no longer conform to common sense in physics?

Whether it was in the vision when the New Hope crashed, or in the oil painting at Alice’s Mansion, or in the hometown of the “Soldier” on the verge of destruction, there was that red light.

There is no doubt that that red light is the “culprit” that scholars have been searching for, leading to the “Great Annihilation” event, or at least the “first symbol” of the Great Annihilation.

Staring at the “Creation of the World” that also spanned the sky, Duncan couldn’t help but have a series of unfounded “associations” in his mind – the

destruction of every “old world” was accompanied by the appearance of that huge red light, and in In the “Deep Sea Age” of the new world, the pale creation of the world hangs high in the sky… Is there any connection between the two?

The “creation of the world” that shines in the night sky in the boundless sea is the reverberation of the old apocalypse? Or is it the remnant of the destructive power during the Great Annihilation?

Duncan even came up with a more disturbing conjecture –

whether the destructive power has never dissipated at all, it has just entered a certain state of slumber, coming to the sky every night, and the so-called “creation of the world”… is just that The form of “red light” during sleep.

Could the function of Vision 001 be to periodically “hypnotize” the “Crimson Doomsday”?

During this series of speculations, Duncan’s eyes gradually became serious, and another question that he had not thought about before suddenly appeared in his mind.

In his hometown, at least in the hometown he remembered…he had never seen that “red light”.

(End of chapter)