Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 591
[Chapter 589 Giant]
Fanna immediately tensed up her muscles and nerves, watching with full vigilance the tall figure that was gradually emerging from the dust and mist – if the situation went slightly wrong, she would be ready to jump over it.
But what came from the wind and dust was just a gentle and rational voice: “Ah… a traveler. It seems that I haven’t seen a stranger here for many years.” Vanna was stunned for a moment
, Immediately afterwards, she saw the giant-like figure walking out of the dust and mist.
He was four to five meters tall, so Vanna could only try her best to raise her head to see the giant’s face clearly. His body was wrapped in a dark, rag-like robe. The robe once seemed It was an exquisite piece of Chinese clothing, but now only the tatters and tatters of countless vicissitudes of life were left. The giant’s body was skinny, as if it had been worn down by the long journey to the point where it was almost a bone – but the skinny hand was holding a hand tightly. An exaggeratedly huge scepter.
Even in the hands of a giant, the long staff seemed too heavy and huge. Its body was like a straight tree trunk with links, and the top of the staff was as enlarged as a swollen rock, with an almost uncarved roughness. outline, and on the surface of the long staff, you can see countless dense, complex and mysterious lines, covering the entire cane.
Vanna’s eyes were involuntarily attracted to the cane – it really didn’t look like a tool for traveling, but more like an amazing weapon or some kind of ritual object with heavy symbolic meaning, which made her Instinctively, there was…a kind of pressure that was almost awe.
But soon, her attention shifted from the cane to the giant.
Because the giant was bending slightly towards her, and his weather-beaten face was casting a gentle gaze at her – the giant’s face did not look like a human being. Although it also had clear facial features, the lines of the facial features seemed too cold and sharp, It even gave people a rock-carved texture, and his eyes glowed with a chaotic brownish-yellow color, and flames seemed to be beating deep in the eyeballs. Every line of sight seemed to bring heavy pressure to people.
“Traveler, where do you come from?” asked the giant.
When he spoke, even the surrounding wind and sand seemed to be stirred by invisible forces. The chaotic air flow circled around Vanna, but not a single particle of sand fell on her.
Fanna tried hard to control her heartbeat and expression. She quickly reported the shocking situation on her side to the captain deep in her consciousness. At the same time, she organized her words and thought carefully before answering the giant: “I came from outside the desert. Come, it’s far away from here, and I don’t know why I came here. May I ask… who are you?” “
Oh, outside the desert… this is a desert now,” the giant nodded slowly, But he did not answer Fanna’s question, but said with emotion in his tone, “You… are very interesting, Traveler, you are not the same as the human beings in my memory, but I am not sure if I remembered it wrong – after all I haven’t seen a stranger in a long, long time.”
Different from the human beings in memory?
Fanna’s heart suddenly moved after hearing what the other party said, and then she thought of what was “different” between herself and ordinary people.
This mysterious giant… saw that he had been blessed and “resurrected” by the subspace?
But before she could think about it further, the giant spoke again: “Traveler, you said you came from a very far away place. How far was that? Did you cross space or time?” Vanna was stunned for a moment
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What does this question…mean? !
She raised her head in astonishment and looked into the giant’s cloudy and burning eyes: “I… don’t quite understand the meaning of this question.” “…
Then just pretend you didn’t hear it, traveler, maybe the starting point of the journey is no longer there. It makes sense, and the end point is the same.” The giant shook his head, but then he seemed to suddenly discover something and looked at Vanna curiously, “Are you talking to other people?”
Vanna, who was reporting the situation to the captain deep in her consciousness, stopped momentarily. Although she controlled the expression on her face immediately, she knew that the subconscious changes in her eyes probably did not hide from the giant’s eyes.
However, the giant seemed to just ask casually, and did not really seem to care about the question. He shook his head: “It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to say it. Everyone has their own secrets.” Vanna calmed down and controlled her face
. His expression changed, while observing every move of this mysterious giant, he cautiously asked again: “Who are you?” “Are
you asking for my name? Let me think about it…” This time, the giant finally responded. She asked her question, but after a moment of thinking, the giant shook his head, “It’s been too long, I don’t remember…it’s really been too long.”
He lowered his gaze and looked at Vanna, with a mark like a mark on his thin face. Wrinkles gradually piled up: “You know, traveler, when there is no other voice in the world, ‘name’ will become a meaningless concept. No one else needs to remember you, and you don’t need to tell anyone else.” Once someone introduces themselves, you will slowly forget about them, just like they are slowly forgotten by the world…”
He paused, as if he suddenly fell into some distant memories. After a long time, he woke up with a start, his voice low. He said: “But apart from the name, I remember some other things, if you think this makes sense… A long time ago, they said that I was a god in this world, and that was not the case here at that time.”
The chaotic wind gradually subsided, and the turbulent and floating dust around them slowly stopped. In this boundless sea of sand, the giant and the lost traveler looked at each other.
He said he had been a god.
Vanna’s eyes widened. All her guesses about this mysterious giant did not include this “answer”. She didn’t know how to react for a moment, and then she felt an absurd contradiction – —As
a follower of the storm goddess Gemona, and as a saint of the Deep Sea Church, one of the four righteous churches, in the depths of this mysterious dream of the Nameless One, she actually encountered a giant who claimed to be a god. Theoretically, she met a giant who claimed to be a god. …She should rise up and fight at this time to eradicate this existence that claims to be a god in order to fulfill the mission of the judge.
But she is no longer the reckless person who dared to jump when she saw Captain Duncan. On the Lost Home, she learned to face those unbelievable things with a more rational attitude.
“Are you a god?” Fanna said nervously, “Who are you talking about ‘them’? What exactly is this place?” “They once lived here,” the giant said, but he didn’t seem to realize it
. Fanna was instantly vigilant. He just raised his hand and pointed at the boundless sea of sand with his long staff. “But that seems to have happened a long, long time ago… Or maybe it didn’t last long?” The giant paused in confusion
. After standing down, he looked at the long staff in his hand, and after a while he slowly shook his head: “Time… once turned into something I didn’t recognize. It was stretched to almost infinity in an instant, and then started again. Being compressed, I can no longer determine when that happened. I only remember that this was once the most prosperous hinterland of the kingdom. The yellow sand under your feet was once a forest and fertile soil that stretched for thousands of miles. Huge canals spanned the wilderness. They led the rivers on the plateau through the hills. I watched them build a pure white city here. High walls connected the mountains. Towers rose from the ground in the jungle. Bright flames lit up the night sky… I remember , That’s beautiful.”
The giant said slowly, as if he hadn’t talked to anyone for a long time and was no longer used to organizing logic when speaking, so that his words seemed a little confusing, like talking to himself in a dream. ——Fanna could only try her best to keep up with what the other party was saying, to understand and guess the information conveyed in the other party’s words, and to imagine what the other party described as how this desert had looked in a long time ago.
Then, the giant suddenly stopped, lowered his head and looked at Vanna, and asked curiously: “What about you? Traveler, who are you? Do you have a name?” Vanna pursed her lips subconsciously
, She resisted the urge to answer for the first time.
You cannot rashly reveal your name to an unknown being – especially since this being calls itself “god” and is most likely a superior being with powerful power.
He may not have any malicious intentions, but some extraordinary beings who are powerful enough to interfere with the fate of mortals often do not need any subjective malice at all. After becoming the captain’s follower, Vanna understands this better than ever before. profound.
After a moment of hesitation, she spoke cautiously: “My name is Vanessa. I don’t have any great identity. I’m just a person who accidentally got lost.” “
Vanessa…” the giant mumbled softly, then shook his head. , “You don’t call me by this name.”
Fanna felt her heartbeat speed up instantly.
But then the giant waved his hand: “But it doesn’t matter. As I said just now, everyone has secrets. If you don’t want to reveal your name, then I will continue to call you ‘Traveler’ – anyway, there is no place here.” There is no one else, and we will never mistake each other.”
Fanna was silent for a moment, and after a brief moment of embarrassment, she nodded.
“Traveller,” the giant continued, “where are you going?”
Vanna hesitated for a moment, then looked up at the silhouette of a ruined city in the distance.
“Let’s go together,” the giant noticed Vanna’s gaze and made a friendly invitation. “Although I can’t remember those long-ago things, we can go together. I still have some knowledge about this world… Impression.”
Fanna didn’t speak for a while, as if she was waiting for something.
After a moment, the captain’s order came from the depths of her consciousness –
“Accept this invitation.”
“Okay,” Vanna nodded, looking up at the giant who claimed to be a god, “It’s an honor to embark on the journey with you.”
(End of this chapter)
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