Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 149 Superposition
A swift white shadow passed over the old and dirty streets and alleys of the lower city, passed over the criss-crossing pipes and pressure relief structures above the factories, passed over the desolate stations and deserted streets, and finally entered a narrow back alley.

The dark green flames suddenly bloomed, spreading wantonly in the air like a door, the vortex in the door suddenly expanded and contracted, and Duncan stepped out from the door.

Followed by Shirley, who is still a bit in the dark.

Duncan glanced back at the girl who was following behind him, looked him up and down before saying in a deep voice, "How do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable?"

"I'm... not bad," Shirley was still dizzy, but this dizziness was more a kind of discomfort caused by being suddenly taken away by the boss, rather than physical discomfort. She looked up and had recovered. Ai Yi, who was in the form of a white dove and landed on Duncan's shoulder, suddenly used a spiritual connection to communicate with Agou who was in a hidden state and hiding in his soul after a long time, "Agou, can you beat this pigeon?"

"...Don't ask, I can't beat you if you ask," Agou's voice sounded muffled, "Let's not talk about the birds raised by the boss, I can't even beat the fish stewed by the boss..."

Shirley was taken aback: "Why did you mention fish all of a sudden?"

"Because I can see that there is probably no common sense around this existence..."

Duncan didn't know that Shirley was whispering to Agou, he just visually confirmed Shirley's situation again, and felt the feedback from the imprint he left on the other party's body, and then he was completely at ease.

In fact, he is sure about Ai transporting living people, not only because he used his current mortal body to test last time, but also because after that he let Ai use various birds outside Small animals such as beasts have conducted a large number of "in vivo experiments", and all the tests are perfect. It can be confirmed that this pigeon can transport live targets without damage - but even with so many tests, he subconsciously confirmed that Xue Li's situation.

After all, there are many mysteries about Aiyi, and no one knows how many special features it has waiting to be discovered. It is naturally not harmful to be more cautious when using "Bone Pigeon Express".

After confirming Shirley's situation, he also focused on the surrounding environment.

At the end of the street, you can vaguely see the dilapidated streetscape. The plumbing facilities that have been in disrepair cross the houses on both sides, and some of the pipes have tiny steam at their connections. Hiss leaked.

This is a common sight in many parts of downtown.

But Shirley still found out what this place was in the first place.

"This is... the sixth block?" She widened her eyes in surprise, "Mr. Duncan, did you perceive that mark appearing here?"

"That's right, Block Six, we're back here again, but..." Duncan exhaled, then frowned slightly, "But the sense of the imprint has faded a minute ago."

"... Faded? Is it extinguished?"

Shirley asked in surprise, but Duncan didn't answer anything, just looked in a certain direction thoughtfully.

In Shirley's "dream", he implanted a cluster of flames into the remaining fragments after the attacker's split. At that time, he gave the order to the fragments to let it return to its "body", and after that Soon after Xue Li's dream ended, he lost his sense of the cluster of flames. Until just now, the imprint suddenly appeared in his perception again, but it guided him here.

Located on the sixth block of the real world.

The fire of the spiritual body that was supposed to spread in the dream suddenly sent back a signal in the real world. The edge of Shirley's own dream is connected to the scene in Nina's dream, and the umbrella monster who attacked Shirley in the nightmare , once appeared at the scene of a museum fire in the real world...

Unknowingly, many contradictory but faintly connected clues were connected in Duncan's heart, and he felt as if he was about to touch the invisible curtain.

In other words, even though the grand curtain enveloped the entire city, there was still a "gap" left, and this gap was in the sixth block—a place that he and Shirley had overlooked last time.

What he looked at was the direction where the imprint in his perception sent the last "signal".

The breath of the imprint only appeared for a short time, and it disappeared quickly 1 minute ago, but Duncan didn't think the flame he left behind had been extinguished—even though he couldn't pinpoint its position accurately, he could still feel the flame The flame is still burning, and it has even grown a lot stronger than before.

Since the flame is still burning and growing, it means that its "mission" is not over yet - it is still chasing, devouring, and assimilating the attacker, and may even have spread into a conflagration. Fading, it may be because the "curtain" here is not stable, and there is a gap opening and closing for a short time, resulting in the cross-connection of the two dimensional worlds.

He wants to find that gap, the gap that seems to connect dream and reality.

A few days later, Duncan took Shirley through the deserted and dilapidated streets of the sixth block again. This time, they didn't waste any time asking the locals about anything, but went straight to the deepest part of the block.

"The abandoned factory is in the other direction..." Halfway through, Shirley raised her arm and pointed to a large building in the distance.

"We're not going to that factory," said Duncan quickly. "We're going this way."

"Oh……"

Shirley responded, and followed Duncan's footsteps with her short legs.

The withered and yellow leaves drifted with the wind and fell at Shirley's feet. As she stepped on the fallen leaves, she heard a slight cracking sound coming from her feet. The crackle.

She looked up and looked around, but all she saw were ordinary streets, with old houses lined up along the street, standing against the wind among the fallen leaves, and facing the uninvited guests who broke into this place indifferently.

Shirley suddenly noticed something was wrong.

I don't know when it started, she has been invisible to a passerby.

The sixth block is indeed very deserted, most of the places are sparsely populated, and the only residents seem listless and indifferent, but it is by no means so deserted that no one can see it!
A very uncomfortable feeling permeated from the bottom of her heart. This feeling made her vaguely think of the dream she was trapped in. She subconsciously moved closer to Duncan, but she didn't expect Duncan to stop suddenly— — With a bang, she bumped her head on the latter's waist.

In the next second, Shirley drew up the full text of the last words, and conceived three styles of tombstones, but soon she realized that people who were crushed by the shadow of the subspace would probably not be able to leave a corpse...

Duncan's calm voice interrupted the girl's momentary wild thoughts: "It seems that we have arrived."

"I'm very, very sorry, I really didn't mean to ask you...huh?"

Xue Li subconsciously popped up a series of begging for mercy, and then realized that the boss in front of her didn't seem to be angry. Then, she noticed that she had stopped in front of a building that looked deserted for an unknown amount of time.

is a church.

A communal church, one of the ubiquitous ones in the city-state of Plante, stands at the end of the path.

It has the iconic slender spire of the Deep Sea Church, black roof tiles and white stone walls, but dead vines and rotten and dirty attachments can be seen everywhere. The door depicting complex sacred runes is slightly opened, and the stained glass on the side The windows are also dilapidated, almost only the curved and deformed wrought iron outlines are left. From the cracks in the door and the holes in the windows, a dim scene inside can be vaguely seen.

It was once a sacred building, but now the smell of decay and oblivion fills every crack in its brickwork.

"...Is this the 'church' mentioned by the old man near the intersection last time?" Shirley recalled the last time she came to the sixth street to investigate the situation, "I remember he said that there was a nun living here, but the nun Often out of church..."

"The dilapidated condition can't be explained by 'frequent absence'," Duncan said casually, and walked towards the door of the church. "It's not so much that the nun often goes out, it's better to say that this place seems to have been forgotten. for 11 years."

Shirley watched the other party walk towards the church, and was instinctively nervous about the building, but after a moment's hesitation, she followed Duncan's footsteps.

The next moment, Duncan pushed open the half-hidden church door, and the scene inside the chapel clearly appeared in her and Shirley's eyes.

The warm and bright candlelight fell into Shirley's eyes. The clean and tidy chapel was brightly lit, and at the end of the neatly arranged benches, the icon of the storm goddess Gamona stood quietly in the light.

A nun who was praying devoutly in front of the icon stood up and turned her head when she heard the door open.

She saw the visitor standing at the door, with a gentle smile on her face: "It's been a long time since anyone visited this church."

"Oh...it seems that this is indeed here," Duncan looked at the smiling nun in front of him, and said calmly, "the gap in the curtain."

He blinked. In his eyes, the smiling nun maintained a living appearance in one moment, but turned into a pile of humanoid wriggling ashes in the next moment, and the church behind her showed a strange appearance. Extremely superimposed state - the flames are burning on the intact benches, ashes and sparks are falling from the roof, the scene after the fire and the intact church are superimposed at the same time, presenting a strange but torn scene.

It was as if two completely different facts were forcibly blended in this church.

(End of this chapter)