Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 134 The Strange Shadow
In all fairness, Duncan is not an expert in the supernatural field, and he also lacks understanding of subjects related to dreams and the spiritual field, but he still vaguely judged that the scenery presented on this street should not be just what Shirley saw in her dream. ".

Because those ashes whispering for help really gave him a wonderful sense of déjà vu——

He thought of the factory, and the people in that factory, hidden by the curtain, burned to ashes in the fire.

Of course, the ashes in the factory did not ask him for help - those ashes gave him a more intuitive and strong signal: let him directly see the "echo" of the fire 11 years ago.

Subconsciously, Duncan thought there was some connection between the ashes on this street and the ashes in that factory that appeared in Shirley's dream.

He raised his head and looked around the surrounding scenery. In the dim red light, the whole street showed the tragic appearance after the fire. Among the falling sparks and dust, there were countless piles of ashes, as well as imprinted on the nearby walls. Suspicious shadow.

"You were only six years old back then, no matter how many things you subconsciously observed, it probably wasn't enough to support such a huge dream—and you had to create these embers calling for help in the dream, as well as phantoms of such a large area in the distance."

Duncan said softly, and his voice made Shirley, who was a little nervous, suddenly feel at ease.

Shirley raised her head and looked at Duncan who was standing next to her—the current "Mr. Duncan" was different from what she had seen in ordinary times. He was a gloomy and majestic captain, to be honest , This looks quite scary, even without the "real vision" like Agou, she can still feel a deep pressure from the other party.

But in this nightmare that made her more and more strange, such a powerful existence can still give her some sense of security: at least for now, this existence is on her side.

"Let's go forward and see where the scope of the dream can extend."

Duncan's voice suddenly came from the side, Shirley was stunned for a moment, and quickly pulled Agou to follow the other's footsteps.

Amidst the murmuring cries for help from countless piles of ashes, the two and a dog walked through the streets covered in embers and sparks, and gradually walked towards the distorted and shaking shadowy buildings.

They walked on the street for an unknown amount of time, and Duncan had been carefully observing the changes in the surrounding scenery along the road, but what surprised him was that the scenery on this street remained the same as before.

There were no more distorted phantasms, nor did they become more vague, eerie, or "dangerous dream-creatures" as Gou described them.

Duncan stopped suddenly, frowning slightly.

"Mr. Duncan?" Shirley cast a curious look, "Did you find anything else?"

"...How far have we left the 'origin'?" Duncan raised his head, looking back at the direction he and Shirley came from, and the house where they started had disappeared in the hazy red mist.

"'Origin'?" Shirley was stunned for a moment, "Oh, the room you said I was dreaming about? It should be... It's quite far away, I think it's at least half a block away."

"Xue Li, the situation is not right," Agou also suddenly realized at this time, it nervously looked at the surrounding fog, with a low voice, "Let's stop for a while."

Shirley didn't react yet, she looked confused: "What's wrong?"

"Dreams are centered on the cognitive basis of the dreamer's subconscious mind. Your cognitive basis in this dream is that room, and all your memories and emotions are also in that room," Agou quickly explained. He said, "The areas outside the room are all 'deduction supplements' of the dream. In theory, the farther you leave the room, the more the scenes derived from these deduction will deviate from reason and common sense, and the edge of the dream will become more and more absurd, dangerous, and even There will be cliffs that disappear out of thin air, but we have come so far... This dream is still going on!"

Duncan nodded slightly while listening - he did not have such a clear and perfect theoretical understanding as Agou, but his guess was almost the same.

Xue Li finally woke up, and she took a light breath: "So... I should have walked out of my dream realm long ago. Theoretically, this place has either been distorted beyond recognition, or it should be nothingness... Then we Where are you now? Is this still my dream~?!"

No one could answer Shirley's question, and Duncan could only look around with a thoughtful expression.

Everywhere he could see, there were burnt and scorched streets. The urban area after the fire was like an ugly scar, deeply chopped on the body of the city-state, and this burnt scar extended all the way to the end of his line of sight. How many blocks did it run through.

He looked in another direction and saw some tall buildings near the block. The distillation tower of one of the factories pierced straight into the sky amidst the smoke and dust. The tower had coiled pipes and a skeleton like a strange mountain. .

Duncan involuntarily stared at the tall distillation tower, thinking that if he stood on that distillation tower, he might be able to overlook the entire fire scene.

Suddenly, his eyes froze.

The scene that Nina had described to herself came to mind:
From a very high place, overlooking the burned city, the streets are like a scar running through the entire city-state...

This is what Nina saw in her dream—just from a different perspective!
An astonishing guess suddenly appeared in Duncan's mind. He turned his head and looked at Shirley: "We...may have entered another dream."

"Another dream?" Shirley was taken aback, "Whose dream?"

"Nina's—come with me." Duncan said briefly, and then walked towards the direction of the distillation tower.

He didn't summon Ai to "travel" in the dream, because first of all, he didn't know whether the pigeon could enter the dream through the way of walking in the spirit world like himself, and secondly, he needed Ai to help him "stand guard" outside. , to monitor whether there are other supernatural forces interfering with his actions.

Fortunately, the distillation tower was not far from this block. It was a factory next door, and there was a straight alley connecting the two blocks.

Shirley followed up confusedly, and she still didn't understand why Mr. Duncan said that he had walked into Nina's dream, while Duncan looked up at the high tower from time to time as he walked forward quickly.

He was trying to find Nina.

If this is really Nina's dream, then the figure of the other party should be standing on the distillation tower - it is already the tallest building as far as the eye can see here, and its position perfectly meets the conditions for overlooking the entire fire scene .

But until the two of them and the dog were about to arrive at the factory, Duncan didn't see any figure on the distillation tower.

He had some doubts in his heart, but before he could think more, a strange feeling of being watched suddenly came from not far away, which made him stop suddenly.

Duncan raised his head and looked towards the direction he felt. In his vision, a tall and thin figure wearing a strange long black coat and holding a big black umbrella appeared at the corner of the street at some time!
In this dream world full of fire traces and embers on the street, such a strange man with an umbrella suddenly appeared, not to mention how weird this scene was, and this time not only Duncan saw that figure, but also Shirley next to him. Suddenly stopped.

"There's someone over there!" Shirley exclaimed in surprise.

"You saw it too?" Duncan asked subconsciously, and the moment his voice fell, a vague and strange grunt suddenly came from the direction of the figure not far away.

It wasn't any language that Duncan knew, and even the overly complicated and distorted vibrato and overlapping echoes in his voice made him suspect that it wasn't any "language" at all, but he still heard it from the voice. A hint of astonishment—

The "weird" holding the umbrella seemed very surprised, as if he never expected to see a few "uninvited guests" wandering around here.

And at the moment when the grunt fell, the weird figure holding the umbrella suddenly moved!
Duncan couldn't see what the other party did, but he noticed several black shadows suddenly jumping out from the hem of the other party's long coat from the corner of his eyes. Those were pure "shadows" running along the nearby wall. He Jiejie rushed to this side quickly, and then the figure with the umbrella in the distance disappeared out of thin air, and the next second, his body reappeared with the help of one of the shadows that jumped up quickly, and rushed directly in front of Xueli as if teleporting !
But Shirley had already reacted at this time, and she, who was connected with the Youshen Hound, also had the same fast reaction speed as the Youshen Hound. At the moment when the figure had just condensed and before she had time to make a move, she had already raised her right hand suddenly——

"Anyway, it's definitely right to fight the fucking first!"

The girl yelled, with a strange excitement, the black chain in her hand creaked, swung Agou round and smashed it to the opposite side!

(End of this chapter)