Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 573

[Chapter 571 Corruption and Uninvited Guests]

I don’t know if it’s an illusion. Ever since entering this twisted and weird “forest”, Agou has been a bit sentimental – he has lamented a lot of things and recalled some past events that he has not mentioned for a long time. There are some things that even Shirley herself can’t remember, but it still remembers them very clearly.

After some hesitation, Shirley decided to express her feelings.

“Sentimental? Me?” Hearing Shirley’s words, Agou was stunned at first, and then became confused, “Really? I’ve been feeling and reminiscing?” “Well,”

Shirley nodded repeatedly, “Although you usually Occasionally, she would bring up old memories like an old lady, or tell me a lot of truths, but never in such a…sentimental way. It sounded strange to me.”

Agou gradually stopped, and he finally It was vaguely aware of the weak effects it had received. After a moment of thinking, it tilted its head and scanned the gloomy forest with its horrifyingly hollow eyes, the blood-colored glimmer in its eyes slowly dimming.

“The forest is affecting us… It’s a certain kind of emotion,” it said in a deep voice. “There is a low and depressing ‘atmosphere’ lingering in the whole forest. It makes me unable to help but think wildly, like… like being immersed in In a huge mind, it is constantly disturbed by it…”

Shirley suddenly opened her eyes nervously: “Ah…ah? You mean, this forest is… thoughtful?! You have been affected by it. Is it serious?”

Agou shook his head from side to side: “No, it shouldn’t be said to be this forest, it should be said to be this dreamland… Don’t forget its name, the Dream of the Nameless One. The dream itself is composed of the mind. The things created… But don’t worry, it’s not serious. This effect doesn’t seem to be targeted, it’s just a passive interference caused by the environment. Shirley, are you okay?” “I’m fine,”

Shirley pointed at herself. The expression on his face was also a bit confused, “Yes, even you were affected, why didn’t anything happen to me… maybe it’s because I’m more heartless?”

“It would be nice if it were that simple,” Agou muttered, “Don’t let down your guard. Subtle influences are the most dangerous. The more you think everything is fine, the easier it is for something to happen. If you feel suddenly depressed or nervous and panicked, you must seek advice first. Tell me as soon as possible.”

“Well,” Shirley nodded quickly, then she frowned again, looking uneasily at the forest that seemed to never end, and whispered, “What did you say… Captain? Can we be found when the time comes? We shouldn’t be unlucky enough to be trapped here forever, right?”

“No, don’t think about it,” Agou said immediately, “Didn’t you feel the vague call in your heart just now? That means the captain already knows about this, and he should be thinking of a way. Let’s just protect ourselves during this period.” “

Oh.”

Shirley agreed honestly, but at this moment, there was a strange feeling. A sticky sound, as if something was gradually melting and flowing down, suddenly came from not far away, interrupting the communication between her and Agou.

This chilling sound made Shirley’s hair stand on end. She tugged on the black chain beside her: “Agou! This time you heard…” “You heard it, there was something

nearby – —”

Agou said quickly, turning his head to look in the direction of the strange noise. At almost the same time, an incomprehensible scene appeared in his and Shirley’s field of vision –

a bush suddenly started to appear. Growing wildly, large tracts of pitch-black material burst out from between the dense leaves like a spurt. In the blink of an eye, they formed countless limbs that fluttered and squirmed in the air, and at the ends of the countless limbs, thin, eye-like eyes opened. The giant tree next to the crack collapsed as if “melting” in a series of strange noises. The thick trunks flowed down like mud. The tree crown that covered the sky lost its support, but instead gradually grew towards the sky, and then began to grow again. The distorted light and shadow like illusory flames were stretched and distorted into countless pale flocs flying down. The earth was churning, as if it suddenly turned into a soft and sticky skin, and it seemed that something terrible was in the soil. Zhongzuanxing is about to break ground…

The next second, all kinds of chilling strange sounds suddenly erupted. Illusive burning sounds, sticky squirming sounds, and noisy hissings filled all directions in the blink of an eye. The mutated trees spread almost in the blink of an eye. Everywhere you look, everything in front of you seems to suddenly come to life, and in the crazy and twisted growth, it takes on the appearance of the deepest nightmare!

Everything is mutating, everything is distorting, everything is impacting the boundary between perception and reason – right in front of Shirley and Agou, this dream surges, and something dark and malicious finally emerges from the earth, which is the flow of The shadow was shrouded in shapes and things that could not be described in words. It seemed that there were countless eyes and fangs piled up in the squirming mud. Shirley only glanced at them and realized that her only Things that should be done.

“Run!”

She only had time to shout, and before she could finish her words, she had already turned around and ran out, running in a direction that seemed to be “stable” at the moment. The rugged woodland was rolling and undulating under her feet, every time. Taking a step out was like stepping on cotton, or the skin of some kind of soft-bodied creature. The touch was disgusting and terrifying.

The body strengthened by the symbiosis of the deep demons unleashed its greatest potential at this moment. She felt that she had never run so fast in her life!

The dark and ferocious chain was stretched straight in an instant, and Agou was pulled by Shirley and flew directly into the air, rising and falling in the air as the latter ran.

Shirley just dragged Agou and ran all the way out in the forest. However, after running for a while, she took the time to look back and saw that the surging nightmare was still chasing behind her, so she shouted again at the top of her lungs. She shouted: “Change!”

Before she finished speaking, she swung the chain in her hand forward, and Agou was thrown forward by her –

Agou had already adjusted his posture before landing, and his four paws were firmly on the ground. Then without any delay, he continued to run forward with the momentum he had just thrown over him!

Now it’s Shirley’s turn to fly in the air.

And during these relays, the ever-changing, nightmarish “forest” was always chasing behind them, like a nightmare phantom that could never be shaken off.

It even gave Shirley a terrifying illusion, as if the entire forest had come to life, and with furious malice, it was chasing and hunting her and Agou from all directions, as if it was determined to eat them alive. Own!

But luckily, just when she felt that she really wouldn’t be able to run away, the “nightmare” that was chasing her behind suddenly slowed down.

Just as suddenly as it happened, the distortion and corruption of the forest stopped without warning –

Shirley dragged Agou and ran forward for several dozen meters before she realized this belatedly. He suddenly stopped next to a fallen giant tree, turned his head and looked at the dark corruption in the distance that had stopped spreading, his eyes widened in astonishment, and while breathing heavily he said: “Agou… Huh… Stop over there…”

Agou’s huge body whizzed past her under the action of inertia, and crashed into a pile of nearby boulders.

After the loud roar, Agou climbed out of the pile of boulders with difficulty. While shaking his head, he said loudly: “What?!” “

Ah…” Shirley looked at Agou awkwardly and pointed into the distance. The dark and twisted area that stopped spreading, “It suddenly stopped over there.”

“Wait a moment…” Agou grunted, ran to the pile of rocks and opened his mouth, “Ugh–“

accompanied by an unpleasant smell. The corrosive substance burned away the earth and rocks, and the dizzy Dark Hound finally finished vomiting. Then it shook its head, slowly returned to Shirley, and looked up at the place where the terrible corruption stopped.

A clear “border” remains in the forest. One side of the border is still lush and vibrant plants, but the other side has turned into a chilling, indescribable… full of weird twisted shadows and crawling matter. land.

Countless activated vines and flowing shadows emerging from the soil are still crawling slowly in that dark area. Even if they are no longer spreading in this direction, looking at them still makes people feel frightened from the bottom of their hearts.

Shirley didn’t even dare to look over there a few more times. She finally controlled her breathing, and her voice was still trembling: “Then… what the hell is that thing?”

“I don’t know… I’m not an expert in dreams,” Agou came to Shirley’s side and stared into the distance with extreme vigilance, “But this may be what this ‘Dream of the Unknown’ really looks like… Something deadly is spreading in the depths of this dreamland, but the scale of this dreamland is too big. The captain and the others didn’t catch up last time – we caught up.” “Why am

I the unlucky one…” Xue Li suddenly frowned and muttered, but she quickly closed her mouth and looked in a certain direction with a wary face.

Agou also instantly retracted his gaze from the corrupted area. He let out a low roar in his throat and stared at an open space a few meters away.

A strange scent is approaching.

Although I don’t know how the strange aura appeared, it is obvious that… someone is entering this dream.

are friends? Or an enemy?

Shirley and Agou felt something…familiar but alarmingly annoying from the strange atmosphere.

The next second, under their gaze, a hazy phantom suddenly appeared in the empty open space – just like the bubbles in a dream gradually became clear, a human figure gradually condensed into the phantom.

A tall, thin young man with a sinister face wearing a dark blue coat appeared in the open space.

The moment the young man appeared, both Shirley and Agou noticed a dark phantom of a chain disappearing near the other’s shoulder blade, and an ominous phantom that looked like a bird vaguely appeared at the end of the chain.

Shirley’s eyes changed slightly in an instant, and she subconsciously tugged on the chain connected to A-Gou.

The “uninvited guest” not far away also reacted instantly. After noticing the strange smell at the scene, he suddenly turned his eyes.

The girl in black skirt standing with the deep hound appeared in his field of vision.

He was surprised for a moment, then frowned:

“…There are already people in this area?”

(End of Chapter)