Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 219 People Who Survived

The icon of the storm goddess Gamona stands quietly in the Great Cathedral, as in the past, majestic, mysterious, and silent.

That veil seemed to not only cover the face of the goddess, but also a certain connection between the world and the gods. For the first time, Fan Na realized that she didn't understand at all, or even what kind of god she worshiped. The presence.

All along, she just believed in everything about storms and the deep sea for granted. She never thought about these issues like today, never considered analyzing the relationship between gods and herself from a questioning perspective.

Shocked all of a sudden, Fan Na woke up from her brief contemplation, feeling her heart pounding, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her back.

Thinking breeds heresy, but God cannot pry into it.

She couldn't believe that those almost deviant thoughts just now came from her own head-began to question the "behavior" of the gods, which was almost tantamount to heresy.

However, in the next second, she felt the gentle sound of sea waves ringing in her ears, and the gaze and comfort from the goddess emerged as usual, further relieving the accumulated pain in this body and soothing her spirit.

Even in this great hall, even if such wavering thoughts appear in her thoughts, the goddess remains the same... Is it because God is ignorant, or is it because the Lord doesn't care?
"...Don't you really need to rest?" Valentine's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Fanna's distraction again. The old man looked at the young judge beside him with some worry, he remembered Zhong Fanna has never been in such a continuous state of blankness in front of the goddess before, "You look in a trance... Physical injuries are easy to heal, but mental fatigue can be troublesome."

"I..." Fan Na hesitated, "Maybe I'm really tired."

"Then go to rest, and I will take care of the follow-up matters," Valentine said immediately, and then hurriedly added before the other party wanted to say anything, "I just received the news that Mr. Dante is safe. Returning to the mansion, I think... your family should need you very much at this time, and you need your family too."

"Uncle..." Fan Na was stunned for a moment, and the scene when she said goodbye to her uncle before emerged in her heart. A strange feeling touched her heart, and finally made her give up her last insistence, "Okay, then I will leave first. I leave it to you."

"Go at ease," Valentine nodded lightly, "may the storm protect you."

"...May the storm protect you." Fan Na said softly.

A dark gray steam car drove out of the church square, and after passing through the intersection in the central area that had been blocked, it first drove towards the direction of the governor's mansion.

Fan Na was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, and the driver was Heidi who had just finished being questioned in the church.

"Thank you, I have to trouble you to give me a ride." Seeing the scenery outside the car window receding, Fan Na thanked her friend softly, "You could have left earlier."

"You don't have to be so polite with me," Heidi said casually while holding the steering wheel while observing the road conditions, "and I'm not early, the young monk asked me a lot of questions, and finally let me smoke for a long time Incense is a necessary 'safety measure' - after all the tossing, it will be evening."

Fan Na looked out of the window and saw the city guards and guards patrolling the road. Some citizens who were still in shock quickly walked through the street, and some people who seemed to have just come out of the refuge facility were looking for passers-by to ask about the situation. It can be seen that the sheriff holding a megaphone is standing at the intersection, informing the nearby people of the latest situation - the content is nothing more than that the city-state is infested by visions, the danger has been eliminated, and the third-level martial law has entered tonight.

Purand seemed to be recovering from a serious illness, and the order in the city-state was still chaotic, but even in such a chaotic and tense scene, Fanna still felt a kind of indescribable gratitude and...warmth.

Fear and tension are living proofs, and only those who have survived the disaster are qualified to be anxious at this moment-and the rising sun the next day will be the best relief for Prand.

"Are you okay? You look so low-spirited," Heidi noticed Fan Na's exhaustion and trance even while driving, "It's the first time I've seen you so low-spirited since I was a child—I thought you were It was forged from a single steel plate."

"...If I tell you that when the fire rain fell, I alone killed the entire city-state, would you believe me?" Fan Na glanced at her friend. In fact, after leaving with Heidi, her spirit was broken. Has gradually relaxed, "I'm almost exhausted."

"I believe it, of course I believe it. After all, it's you. I believe you even when you say you came back from subspace," Heidi didn't even change her expression after hearing what the other party said. He looked Fan Na up and down, "No wonder you're acting like this..."

Fan Na was embarrassed by the other party's looking up and down: "You... have weird eyes."

"I just came up with an idea," Heidi said with a serious face, "Do you want to go to the Marriage Help Center now?"

"……why?"

"It's hard for you to be so weak, maybe there are people you can't beat now, and this doesn't violate your second oath back then - you will do your best in any battle," Heidi's train of thought seemed to have completely Fang Fei didn't even care about Fan Na's increasingly distorted expression, "Otherwise, after you go home and sleep, you will be invincible again, and the Marriage Help Center will have to send people to the hospital every now and then..."

Fan Na squeezed her fist slightly.

The sound of air bursting made Heidi instantly quiet.

After being quiet for two seconds, Heidi muttered again: "If you don't like it, you won't like it. You have threatened me since I was a child, and you ate my lunch..."

After a few seconds of silence, Fan Na suddenly said softly, "Thank you, I feel much calmer."

"That is, after all, I am the best psychiatrist in Prand—and you really need to be in a good state to face Mr. Dante," Heidi smiled as if the plan was successful, and then the car drove by her Stopped smoothly under the control of her, "You're home, my invincible lady knight—get up, all of us have saved our lives today."

I took my life...

Heidi just said something casually, but for some reason, Fan Na thought of a sentence often said by the followers of the Death Sect——

Survival is not a birthright, but an item with a price paid in advance.

Fan Na lowered her eyelids, took a light breath, thanked and said goodbye to her friend, got out of the car, and walked towards the door not far away.

Heidi quietly watched Fan Na's leaving back in the car. After a while, she started the car, turned around, and drove towards her home.

Is dad all right now?If he is also safe, then... what is he doing now?
……

Lightning and thunder rumbled outside the cabin, and the storm suddenly blew up. The gusts of wind blew huge waves and slapped the towering sides of the Lost Homeland. Under the deep and dark sea, it seemed that some unspeakable monsters had been enraged and released to the world. With monstrous malice.

Through the porthole, you can see the giant surrounded by raging flames standing on the bow, the burning chains extending into the sea, and a huge monster with a large number of tentacles, almost the same size as the Lost Homeland, is going crazy under the water Rolling over, the tentacles with countless fangs and eyes kept protruding out of the sea, and climbed onto the ship's side, as if trying to break free from the shackles of the chains, or drive the Lost Homeland out of this sea area.

In the cabin, the lights that use whale oil as the main fuel are bright, but they can’t dispel the tension and fear. Shirley has hugged Agou and shivered into a ball, listening to the movement outside with a face of horror, while Agou stretched his neck vigorously to avoid As he was strangled to death, he confirmed with Alice: "You, you...you confirm that the boat...the captain is fishing?!"

"That's right," Alice nodded her head calmly and resolutely, with a hint of "you city-state people are making a fuss" in her expression, "Fishing is the captain's greatest hobby!"

"I finally know why you have that reaction every time you talk about Mr. Duncan's fish..." Shirley finally realized what happened, and said to Agou with a sad face, "I... If I had known earlier when I was eating ..."

Before she finished speaking, Morris, who was closing his eyes on the other side of the table, suddenly opened his eyes. The old gentleman looked at the girl opposite him in horror: "You... have eaten Mr. Duncan's catch... Uh, 'fish '?"

"I don't know!" Shirley was about to cry, she turned her head to look at Nina as she spoke, "You...you never told me that's how your uncle's fish was brought back..."

"I don't know either." Nina shook her head, but the expression on her face was not as exaggerated as the others, but a little...excited. The sight, and those tentacles rushing out of the water didn't make her feel scared, but just made her feel more novel, "You said...how did those things turn into fish in the end?"

In all fairness, Nina's performance now is actually the same as when she was in the city-state. She is as cheerful, lively and sunny as ever, but this kind of behavior is normal in a peaceful city-state. It would be a bit scary if it was still the case, but it was under such circumstances that Shirley seemed to have finally discovered Nina's incredible side: "...you two nephews are too scary, really... "

Nina scratched her hair with a puzzled expression: "Really? I think it's okay..."

While speaking, Alice suddenly stood up and walked out.

Shirley was a little nervous immediately: "Ah, what are you going to do?"

"Go get ready for dinner," Alice said with a look of reason, "The captain is about to finish that big fish."

Alice left, leaving a few "visitors" who got on the ship by accident looking at each other in the cabin.

"I...I want to go home..." Shirley hugged Agou hard, with an expression on her face that was about to cry.

The red light in Ah Gou's bloody eyes flickered on and off: "You're going to strangle me..."

Morris suddenly sighed.

Seeing this, Nina hurriedly asked, "Teacher, why are you sighing?"

"I think I can write a book after I go back," Morris thought for a while, and spread his hands, "I'm just worried that my daughter will think that I have a mental problem..."

Nina: "...?"

(End of this chapter)