Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 831

[Chapter 812 Sand and Fire]

The fragmented memories were suddenly reshaped, and the distorted and alienated cognition was restored there. It was as if the whole world returned in the breath. Fanna heard an illusory roar coming from the depths of her consciousness – in this roar, she Know your “self” again.

The yellow sand in the sky was bombarded by invisible forces, swirling in the wind, and wisps of black smoke emerged out of thin air, reintegrating into Fanna’s body. She recalled her name, her origin, and where she came from. After this, she recalled the incident on the Lost Home and her captain.

She turned around and saw the tall and majestic figure standing next to her, staring at her quietly, as if she had been standing there a long time ago.

Vanna finally took a long breath. After a brief period of confusion and confusion, she calmed down and spoke softly as if talking to herself: “I feel like I have had a long, long dream – this is really a dream.” “It’s

been a long journey.”

“Fortunately, you weren’t completely lost,” a smile appeared on Duncan’s face. “At that moment, in the depths of burned history, I could barely see your shadow.”

Vanna felt it. A little scared, but she quickly put this emotion aside. She raised her head and looked around, realizing that the endless desert and the abandoned city wells in the desert had not disappeared because of her “awakeness”.

All of this is not an “illusion” designed for her alone, but something like a “vision” that does exist at this “node”. It is the eternally locked dream of Eternal Burning Fire, and another A kind of “reality” – she just woke up in the dream of the ancient god, but she has not yet left this huge dream.

But as she woke up, this had changed – the bustling city that was about to appear in her perception had retreated into the depths, and the phantoms and sounds in the streets and alleys had completely disappeared. Now, in this city It was quiet, and among the dead ruins, only the floating lights still illuminated the ruins silently.

“Burned history…” She couldn’t help repeating the captain’s words softly, finally understanding the nature of this desert, and then recalled her own experience, “But I saw many people here. Things, the meeting of the Frost Queen, a certain gathering during the archaeological discovery in the old city-state era, and the wanted list of the Sea Mist Fleet, these conversations are all parts that have not been ‘burned’. “

Hearing Vanna’s words, Duncan just said a few words calmly: “…the residual warmth is still there.”

Vanna’s face changed slightly, and while her eyes quickly became serious, she recalled the time when she first set foot on this island of ashes. What I saw were the faint red glowing burn marks between the warm ashes, and the smoke rising from the distance.

“Where are the others?” She shook her head, temporarily suppressed the strong uneasiness in her heart, and asked.

“It has been temporarily scattered back to the ship,” Duncan said casually. “The situation at this “node” is different from before. Perhaps it is because Tarrikin’s situation is so bad, or perhaps it is the special power of ‘history’. This piece of ashes is too It’s dangerous…I came here to find you alone.

“Worrying you.

“

“Fana exhaled, with an apology in her tone.

“Let’s not talk about this anymore,” Duncan waved his hand, “Let’s talk about your experience. Can you still recall it? How much do you know about this “desert” now? “

Fana quickly sorted out her mood and thoughts. She knew that the captain had not yet finished what he had to do here, so she immediately recounted the experiences she still remembered in this boundless sea of sand – —Including the sounds that had appeared in her ears, the ruins she saw along the way, and the “ding-ding-ding” sound that always appeared in her ears when the wind and sand blew up.

In fact, she could not remember the experience in the first half of her “journey”. When she first fell into this boundless sea of sand, her mind was in a state of confusion for a long time, but she still remembered the feeling of

“forgetfulness” and blindness, this is the strongest impression I have on the first half of the journey, and this feeling seems to be the ‘impression’ left by me deliberately strengthening my subconscious mind at that time. I should have realized what happened to me at that time Changes, but unable to resist this change, I can only forcefully write down this feeling, in the hope that I can remind myself of the existence of ‘forgetting’ later…

“All my clearer memories of the ‘journey’ are from It started after I forgot my name and origin. It was also from then on that I began to see those lost ruins in the desert more frequently, and later on, I began to hear those voices.

“This is a process of gradual integration, and the most dangerous part of this process is…it is not malicious at all, everything is like the breeze and sunshine, unknowingly eroding my mind, waiting for me By the time she realized it, there was no way out of this city. “

Fana couldn’t help but exhale softly when she said this. When she recalled the previous sinking and loss, she still couldn’t help but feel a little scared – and nervous. Then, she remembered another thing.

“By the way, before I recalled the Lost Home, I also met a person, a ‘person’ who didn’t belong here like me,” she said quickly, “he said his name was ‘Puman’.” “

“Puman?” Duncan’s expression suddenly changed slightly, “That famous ‘mad poet’?”

“Yes, I was in a trance at the time and didn’t realize his identity, but now that I have restored my memory, I It is certain that that is the “mad poet” recorded in history,” Fanna nodded with certainty, “His appearance is the same as recorded in the book, and he is highly nervous and polite. He goes around asking people about this, Seems to be looking for a way to leave. “

Duncan thought: “…could it be another ‘shadow’ in this desert?”

“Probably not,” Vanna shook her head, “He once showed his form in front of me. , he said that he fell into a dream again, and he mentioned that he was locked in a basement in reality, with “robed guards” patrolling his “cage, and I felt… that he entered here by mistake.” “

“Walked into the dream of the ancient gods at the end of the world?” Duncan couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows, “Even for the legendary “mad poet:”, this is a bit outrageous…

he muttered. , and then thought thoughtfully: “The things you described seem to be facilities used by the church to house innate psykers. Frost Queen Leigh Nora mentioned similar things.”

“Frost Queen. …..Yes! That’s it,” Fan Yang Shunjian reacted and added another detail, “Puman even mentioned the Frost Queen. Although he didn’t explicitly say the name, he should be referring to it. It was the Frost Queen – a person who appeared many years after his death and was also imprisoned in a cage…

Listening to Vanna’s story, Duncan frowned deeply, about the famous “mad man” Many speculations about “Poet” couldn’t help but pop up, but soon, a sudden cold wind howled through the night, allowing him to suppress these restless thoughts.

The wind reminded him that there is something more important. “We will discuss the matter about the mad poet after we go back

.

Moss and Xin Kressia should be more professional than us in this regard. They are real scholars,” Duncan said solemnly, “Now. The top priority is to find Tarijin and a way for you to leave here safely. “

And at this moment, just as Duncan’s voice fell, a distant voice suddenly came faintly from the depths of the cold wind. It sounded like the hammering of gold and stone, with vague and intermittent sounds –

“Ding… Ding Ding…

” That’s the sound! Fan Chaoyangjian reacted and immediately turned to look at Duncan, “I It was this tinkling sound that she heard along the way. Whenever it sounded, there seemed to be some changes in the desert. If there were new ruins, if she heard those voices…

She stopped suddenly. .

The dinging sound continued, and then, Fanna suddenly noticed something.

The sound no longer seemed to come from all directions. This time, she seemed to be able to determine the direction from which the knocking sound came.

After a brief moment of shock and judgment, she and the captain raised their hands and pointed toward the depths of the city almost simultaneously, saying in unison: “…over here!”

The voice was far away, but the direction was extremely clear.

The two of them rushed towards the direction of the sound without hesitation.

And the sound never disappeared, as if it was deliberately guiding them. The tinkling sound echoed in the depths of the city all the time, and the well became clearer and clearer as time went by.

On the way, Fanna suddenly recalled what the “mad poet” said to herself before disappearing –

this city is infinite, outside the city is the desert, and outside the desert is the city… Go outside, Can never leave this.

You can’t leave by going outward – so you should go forward.

The “infinity” of history is some kind of counter-intuitive “one-way infinity”!

Whether it’s to find the exit from here or to find the ancient god in charge of history, we should go forward!

She finally figured it out .

, immediately told the captain next to him what he had discovered, and after hearing this, Duncan just nodded with a serious face, then raised his hand and pointed around.

“The city is disappearing.”

Fanna was startled and looked around.

The city is blowing away in the wind.

Those collapsed stone pillars were weathering and disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye, and yellow sand fell from between the high walls and towers. This process was not fast at the beginning, but almost in the blink of an eye it turned into a collapse of astonishing scale—— Yellow sand poured down like a waterfall from every commanding height of the city. The ruins were covered by the dust and became part of the sand in the next second.

After just a few breaths, the entire city disappeared from her sight, as if its previous existence was just a dream.

Once again, there was only an endless sea of sand in front of her.

And the sound that was already close at hand –

ding… ding ding…

She raised her head and saw a small fire under the cover of night.

Just like the small fire she had seen a long time ago in another dream where there was only a sea of sand.

And the giant who had also met in another dream and even walked together, that old but tall figure, was sitting next to the fire that seemed to be extinguished by the cold wind in the next second, lowering his head. With his head bent, he struck with the stones and chisels in his hands, carving into the…sand beneath his feet.

Ding…ding ding…