Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 178
After a loud bang, the whole world fell silent.

Morris felt that his consciousness was floating, as if he had completely escaped from his body. He didn't know where he was, what year he was in at this moment, and there was even a moment—or it might be a long period of time— He completely forgot his own name, and he just floated mindlessly in the chaos and nothingness, surrounded by turbulent lights and shadows and deathly silence that cannot be understood by human intelligence.

It took Morris a long, long time to reassemble the fragmented thinking and repair the incomplete humanity——

He remembered that his name was Morris, he lived in the city-state of Pland, and he was a historian. Today he was going to visit an antique shop in the lower city to find out what it was, and almost took his daughter's life.

He found out.

It is a warm subspace family.

Countless roars and piercing noises that seemed to tear the earth finally exploded, and there was something he could perceive in this empty and silent chaos again, and his newly condensed humanity was almost shattered by the noise again, but Just a split second before the complete annihilation, he "saw" a piece of chaotic and empty smoke suddenly gathered from all directions, enveloping all his senses in it.

This layer of "smoke" protected his mind, and isolated him from the noise and the turbulent flow of light and shadow around him with the shelter called "ignorance and stupidity". Morris once again had the ability to think, and he looked at the Surrounding him, he found that he could no longer see the crazy knowledge and truth clearly, and in the depths of the endless fog, only a flickering light attracted his attention.

It was a glimmer of light formed by many large and small light sources. In the center was a red light, which was the size of a human head, surrounded by dozens of small blue, green and red light spots, like some kind of matrix. Flashing rapidly, it seems to be irregular, and it seems to contain some kind of... "reason".

Among the countless turbulent flows of light and shadow, these regularly flickering gleams became the anchor point for Morris to completely stabilize his mind, and he also realized what these flickering gleams were after a moment of astonishment——

He confronted Rahmu, the god of wisdom.

In every university and laboratory of the Academy of Truth, there is an image of Rahmu, and there are corresponding words in the "Rahem Holy Book"-this god who holds wisdom and stupid authority at the same time has no human image , He has been hidden in the fog for a long time, and the outline that occasionally appears is a plane full of shimmering light, with dozens of light spots orbiting a circular light.

"Lord!" Morris was excited for a moment, and quickly saluted the light matrix that protected him, "Are you trying to guide me?"

Those flickering "lights" did not respond to the old scholar, but there was a vague and low tremor. It was not until a while later that Maurice heard Raheem's "voice" in the back of his mind——

"Return, contact, understand, pass on..."

"you……"

Morris looked at the light in astonishment. He couldn't understand Lahemu's will, but this elusive god of wisdom didn't give him a chance to continue asking questions—the next second, a strong sense of rejection came quickly. In just an instant, Morris was "bounced" out of this chaotic and terrifying place.

His body shook, his brain seemed to be boiling, and information from the world flooded his senses—the sound of traffic on the street, the distant bell, the cold wind, and the crisp sound of bicycle bells.

Then came the sound of footsteps approaching quickly, and the girl's concerned voice - that voice was very familiar, it was his "student".

"Mr. Morris?! Why are you here... Are you all right?"

Maurice raised his head in a daze, and saw Nina standing in front of him, but in the next second, the girl in front of him turned into a cluster of burning arc-shaped flames, surrounded by ashes that seemed to cover the entire city—— —and then turned into a human form again.

He looked to the side with a stiff gaze, and saw a giant full of starlight looking down on him. There was a crazy light and shadow inside the giant, but the giant suddenly turned into a middle-aged man with a friendly face. He looked at it with concern. Looking at himself, eyes filled with shadows from the warp.

The streets in the distance are also trembling, the ground under their feet is wriggling, the doors and windows of the storefront are sometimes normal, and sometimes they turn into empty black holes, the sky hangs crookedly, and the flowing flames and shapeless limbs are faintly visible between the clouds , a passerby on a bicycle passed by quickly, his body suddenly turned into fragmented cement, but returned to its original state in the next second.

Morris lowered his head with difficulty and looked at his wrist.

He wears a bracelet of four colored stones.

But the stone didn't continue to shatter, and his sanity didn't continue to slide towards madness. The world in his eyes was seriously distorted, but his thinking and judgment ability had recovered... at least a part of it.

The old scholar quickly judged his current state - under the protection of Lahemu, he obtained a short-lived "critical state of madness".

He's crazy—but the gods made him look sane.

Maybe he can recover, but he must find a way to recover before Laheem's protection ends, before all the stones are shattered, otherwise the short-term madness may collapse at any time, and no one will be able to bring his sanity back from the frenzy. rescued.

While Morris was thinking hard and slowly, Nina and Duncan were also looking at the old man who was obviously not in the right state with concern.

When they were practicing bicycles, they suddenly saw Morris standing in the open space next to him. Originally, Nina wanted to run to say hello, but halfway through the run, she noticed that the expression on the old man's face was wrong.

Sluggish, in a trance, without responding to the outside world, as if falling asleep while standing with eyes open.

"Could it be a sudden dementia?" Duncan muttered suddenly, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Morris, then turned to look at Nina, "Has your teacher been in a daze at school for the past two days?"

"No," Nina shook her head, and said as she stepped forward to support the old man's arm, "Teacher has always been in good health, why did he suddenly become demented!"

"Old people can't tell for sure," Duncan held Morris' other arm, and then looked up at the sky, "Stop talking here, it's going to rain, help the old man in first In the house."

Nina snorted, and together with Duncan helped Morris, who was in a daze, into the store, then trotted to the open space outside, and moved the bicycle into the house.

Duncan pushed Morris to the chair next to the counter. The old man seemed to have regained a little ability to think at this moment. He sat down with a stiff expression, slowly turning his head from side to side, and his eyes finally focused on Duncan.

"Return, contact, understand, pass on..."

Raheem's voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

Morris's remaining sanity seemed to understand these few words a little bit.

Is this the will of God of Wisdom?Let him continue to contact this... "existence" in front of him?
In Morris's eyes, Duncan has temporarily stabilized to a human appearance again. Although the surrounding scene has been trembling and creeping, at least he can't see the main body of the starlight giant for the time being, and reason has gained the upper hand a little bit.

Morris has realized that this seemingly ordinary "antique store manager" is by no means what should appear in the real world.

Even my "student", the girl who always smiles gently and is always sunny and optimistic, is not a normal human being.

If he continued to stay here and continue to communicate with this "family", he might cross the critical balance point of madness in a short time, slipping from temporary madness to the abyss of permanent madness.

But the voice of the God of Wisdom seemed to take root in his mind, making him sit there involuntarily. At the same time, another more daring idea gradually filled his heart.

In the "critical state of madness" protected by the gods, even if his reason tends to be frantic, he will not completely lose control. As long as he does not cross that critical point, he can even face the subspace directly in this short balance time and maintain himself. human nature……

It is said that the greatest but craziest knowledge seekers in the Kingdom of Crete will even actively take advantage of this. After a lifetime of preparation, they will actively embrace the "critical point of madness" with potions and rituals, and once in a lifetime The opportunity to pry into the truth in the subspace, bring the precious knowledge to the world, and then go to die.

Now, he seems to be standing on the "battlefield" where the sages of the Crete era once stood.

Slowly, the old gentleman's dazed and dull face changed. He gradually showed a smile, looked at Duncan with cloudy eyes, and said slowly: "Hello, Mr. Duncan."

Duncan looked at the change in the expression of the old man in front of him, and suddenly felt a little panicked.

This old man... why is his smile so scary all of a sudden?

(End of this chapter)