Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 136 The End of the Dreamland

The fire of the spirit body gathered up and submerged into the flesh and blood fragments.

The wreckage contaminated by the fire climbed up tremblingly, then climbed faster and faster, and quickly disappeared at the end of the street.

This group of flesh and blood that no longer thinks about it is on its way home - but can it really return to a certain "body", or will it run out of life halfway and dissipate on its own, or will it be intercepted and killed by something? Purification, then even Duncan is not sure.

He just tried to avoid all hidden dangers within the scope of his ability.

After Shirley fought the weird black shadow, he quickly analyzed the origin of the "assailant" who appeared in the nightmare, and at the same time guessed the opponent's ability. After Huo's reaction, he further determined that the attacker who appeared out of nowhere was probably just a split "Pathfinder".

The attacker had no will to fight after encountering the fire of the spirit body. The first reaction was to break up and break out in all directions. This may be interpreted as fleeing in a hurry, but it can be explained as a "pathfinder" trying to send the information away ——If this huge dream was really woven by someone behind the scenes, then the appearance of himself as an "intruder" is undoubtedly important information.

Duncan looked thoughtfully at the direction in which the clump of fragments disappeared, and after climbing a certain distance, the other party disappeared into a cloud of rising smoke and dust out of thin air, which further confirmed his conjecture:
The attacker who appeared suddenly was more familiar with this dream than himself and Shirley. The other party had a more convenient method of movement here, and also knew some invisible "passages", so the figure holding the umbrella just now was unaware of him. Cases suddenly appeared nearby.

In contrast, "explorers" like Shirley and Agou who visited for the first time are like headless chickens in the dream, and it is not easy to find those hidden guys.

But it doesn't matter, the fire has been spread out, and a vague connection is still looming in his perception. Duncan believes that the flames he spread out will have some gains. As long as the fire of the spirit starts to spread, there will be With a clearer perception established, sooner or later he would find someone hiding in the spreading fire - and then Nina and Shirley would have no more nightmares.

"Mr. Duncan..." Shirley looked at Duncan who was suddenly silent with a little fear, and hesitated for a long time before speaking boldly, "Do you know what that... just now is?"

She was referring to the attacker with the black umbrella.

"...I can't say it," Duncan thought for a moment and shook his head, but then he looked at the burned streets around him and said thoughtfully, "But you still remember the way back from the museum? , the figure I mentioned standing on the edge of the square?"

"The one that only you can see?" Shirley immediately recalled, "ah, the one that attacked us just now is the one you saw..."

"I can't be sure it's the same one," Duncan shook his head, "but it's definitely the same 'species', and I suspect it's related to the group of cultists who believe in the Sun God—both times they appeared in scenes related to 'fire', It's suspicious."

"It's related to those cultists..." Shirley blinked and quickly realized, "Could it be the 'children of the sun' that those cultists talked about?!"

"Let's be suspicious first, although there is no evidence," Duncan exhaled softly, "But compared to the identity of the attacker, I am more concerned about why this thing appeared in the 'dream' between you and Nina... Museum scene What is the connection between this and your dreams?"

While speaking, he raised his head and glanced across the tall tower.

At the top of the tower, Nina still couldn't be seen—but Duncan was almost sure that this was the place Nina had seen in her dream.

"This is really Nina's dream?" Shirley also looked around curiously, her face full of disbelief, "How do you know?"

"She mentioned this dream to me, and in the dream, she was standing on the tallest distillation tower, overlooking the burnt city-state," Duncan said while pointing to the nearby tower, "this location It's about two blocks away from the hut in your nightmare, and although I don't know the reason, your dreams are obviously connected to each other on a deeper level."

Shirley was very surprised. She seemed to want to ask something, but suddenly, Agou next to her seemed to find something: "Hey Shirley, look, the umbrella that guy was holding just now seems to be still there!"

Shirley and Duncan looked at the direction A Gou pointed at at the same time, and they saw a big black umbrella lying quietly on the side of the street!
Just now, their attention was all on the attacker. After the latter's body split, the umbrella was left on the side of the road, and no one noticed its existence for a while.

Duncan walked over, and he finally had the opportunity to observe the big black umbrella up close, but after seeing the inner layer of the umbrella, he couldn't help but let out a "huh".

He had imagined what the umbrella would look like that was always held by the attackers—it might be an extraordinary item inscribed with runes, or it might look ordinary on the outside, but actually possess many characteristics However, in any case, considering the strange and terrifying ability and form of the attacker itself, the painting style of this umbrella should definitely develop in the direction of evil.

However, the underside of the umbrella was completely different from what he had imagined——

He saw an extremely complex man-made structure. The delicate hexagonal lattices were densely arranged on the skeleton, forming some kind of... solar panel-like form, and between the gaps in the deep purple lattices, he saw subtle At the center of the umbrella, there is an exquisite device like some kind of control center that connects the umbrella handle and the surrounding grid array, and its precision and complexity far exceed those in the Praland city-state. Any kind of steam engine.

Duncan stared at the thing dumbfounded.

A sense of technology, his first reaction is a sense of technology!
This thing is by no means a supernatural item, and its style of painting is completely different from some "abnormalities". It is not a device manufactured by the current city-state civilization. This umbrella is an extremely delicate and complex technological creation.

It... comes from a civilization beyond the comprehension of modern city-states!

"What is this?" Shirley looked at the inner structure of the umbrella in astonishment and confusion. She couldn't understand what it was at all, and she lacked Duncan's cognition from another world. She only felt that this thing It was a hundred times more complicated than she imagined, and even looked a little dazzled, she subconsciously stretched out her hand, "It looks like..."

"Don't touch it!" Agou suddenly interrupted Shirley, "This looks like some kind of profane prototype."

Shirley was taken aback: "Desecrate the prototype? What the hell?"

"Creations from some taboo history, things that shouldn't appear in the real world, but are forced to stay in the real world," Agou said seriously in a low voice, "I don't know how to explain it to you... because I I don’t know what the reason behind this is, anyway, you just remember that in the long history of this world, some histories are “locked”, and the things that were born in these taboo histories are profane prototypes, usually , Their existence itself is harmful to the creatures in the real world... Don't touch it if you see it!"

Shirley immediately put away her hands nervously, while Duncan glanced at Agou thoughtfully: "Is this also the innate 'knowledge' of the deep demon?"

"That's right," Agou shook his head, "Not all the deep demons know this, but I was born closer to the head of the deep master, so I have more knowledge in my head."

Duncan gave a noncommittal hum, and his eyes stayed on the weird black umbrella. At this moment, it seemed that because of the loss of some kind of "support", the umbrella suddenly began to disintegrate and collapse before his eyes. .

The exquisite lattice structure gradually became transparent, the skeleton and wiring harness faded and turned into gray-white debris and drifted away with the wind, and the complex device as the core also melted and flowed down like heated wax, and before this thing completely melted, the corners of Duncan's eyes Out of the corner of the eye, I suddenly noticed tiny words printed on a certain part of the device.

It wasn't the lingua franca used by the city-state today, nor was it any other language he was familiar with—but the meaning of the words still came to his mind:

"K-22 spectral filter crystal nucleus."

In the next second, including the last part, the entire umbrella was blown away by the wind.

Duncan stood up slowly, and at this moment, Shirley standing beside him suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Ah! Why is my hand..."

Duncan looked at Shirley's arm, and found that not only the arm, but also the whole body of Shirley was gradually becoming transparent and blurred.

Shirley suddenly turned pale with shock: "Help, save, save..."

"Save me!" Agou directly interrupted Shirley, "You are about to wake up! This is the first time you wake up normally from this dream—thank you, Mr. Duncan?"

Only then did Shirley come to her senses, and quickly looked at Duncan, only to see that his figure was also gradually dissipating in the dream.

Duncan smiled and waved to the girl in front of him: "Good night, and good morning—don't forget to wake Nina up for breakfast later."

(End of this chapter)