Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 589 Giants
Fanna immediately tensed up her muscles and nerves, watching with full vigilance the tall figure that was gradually emerging from the dust and mist - if the situation went slightly wrong, she would be ready to jump over it.

But what came from the wind and dust was only a gentle and rational voice: "Ah... a traveler. It seems that I haven't seen a stranger here for many years."

Fanna was stunned for a moment, and then she saw the giant-like figure walking out of the dust and mist.

He was four to five meters tall, so Vanna could only try her best to raise her head to see the giant's face clearly. His body was wrapped in a dark, rag-like robe. The robe once seemed It was an exquisite piece of Chinese clothing, but now only the tatters and tatters of countless vicissitudes of life were left. The giant's body was skinny, as if it had been worn down by the long journey to the point where it was almost a bone - but the skinny hand was holding a hand tightly. An exaggeratedly huge scepter.

Even in the hands of a giant, the long staff seemed too heavy and huge. Its body was like a straight tree trunk with links, and the top of the staff was as enlarged as a swollen rock, with an almost uncarved roughness. outline, and on the surface of the long staff, you can see countless dense, complex and mysterious lines, covering the entire cane.

Vanna's eyes were involuntarily attracted to the cane - it really didn't look like a tool for traveling, but more like an amazing weapon or some kind of ritual object with heavy symbolic meaning, which made her Instinctively, there was...a kind of pressure that was almost awe.

But soon, her attention shifted from the cane to the giant.

Because the giant was bending slightly towards her, and his weather-beaten face was casting a gentle gaze at her - the giant's face did not look like a human being. Although it also had clear facial features, the lines of the facial features seemed too cold and sharp, It even gave people a rock-carved texture, and his eyes glowed with a chaotic brownish-yellow color, and flames seemed to be beating deep in the eyeballs. Every line of sight seemed to bring heavy pressure to people.

"Traveler, where do you come from?" asked the giant.

When he spoke, even the surrounding wind and sand seemed to be stirred by invisible forces. The chaotic air flow circled around Vanna, but not a single particle of sand fell on her.

Fanna tried hard to control her heartbeat and expression. She quickly reported the shocking situation on her side to the captain deep in her consciousness. At the same time, she organized her words and thought carefully before answering the giant: "I came from outside the desert. Come on, it’s far away from here, and I don’t know why I came to this place. May I ask... who are you? "

"Oh, outside the desert... this is a desert now," the giant nodded slowly, but did not answer Fanna's question, but said with emotion in his tone, "You... are very interesting, traveler, 豼It's not the same as the humans I remember, but I'm not sure if I'm remembering it wrong - after all, I haven't seen a stranger in a long, long time."

Not the same as the human beings in your memory?
Fanna's heart suddenly moved after hearing what the other party said, and then she thought of what was "different" between herself and ordinary people.

This mysterious giant... saw that he had been blessed and "resurrected" by the subspace?

But before she could think about it further, the giant spoke again: "Traveler, you said you came from a very far away place. How far was that? Did you cross space or time?"

Fanna was stunned for a moment.

What does this question...mean? !

She raised her head in astonishment and looked into the giant's cloudy and burning eyes: "I... don't quite understand the meaning of this question."

"...Then just pretend you didn't hear it, traveler. Maybe the starting point of the journey is no longer meaningful, and the end point is the same." The giant shook his head, but then he seemed to suddenly discover something, and looked at the mortal curiously. Na, "Are you talking to someone else?"

Vanna, who was reporting the situation to the captain deep in her consciousness, stopped momentarily. Although she controlled the expression on her face immediately, she knew that the subconscious changes in her eyes probably did not hide from the giant's eyes.

However, the giant seemed to just ask casually and didn't really seem to care about the question. He shook his head: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it. Everyone has their own secrets."

Fanna calmed down, controlled the expression changes on her face, and observed every move of this mysterious giant. At the same time, she cautiously asked again: "Who are you?"

"Are you asking for my name? Let me think about it..." This time, the giant finally responded to her question. However, after a moment of thinking, the giant shook his head, "It's been too long, I can't remember... indeed too long."

He lowered his gaze and looked at Fanna. On his thin face, wrinkles like carvings gradually accumulated: "You know, traveler, when there is no other voice in the world, the 'name' will become a meaningless one." The concept, no one else needs to remember you, and you don’t need to introduce yourself to others, you will slowly forget it, just like the world slowly forgets..."

He paused, as if he suddenly fell into some distant memories. After a long time, he woke up with a start and said in a low voice: "But besides the name, I remember some other things. If you think this If it makes sense... a long, long time ago, they said that I was a god in this world, and that was not the case here at that time."

The chaotic wind gradually subsided, and the turbulent and floating dust around them slowly stopped. In this boundless sea of ​​sand, the giant and the lost traveler looked at each other.

He said he had been a god.Vanna's eyes widened. All her guesses about this mysterious giant did not include this "answer". She didn't know how to react for a moment, and then she felt an absurd contradiction - —

As a follower of the storm goddess Gemona, and as a saint of the Deep Sea Church, one of the four righteous churches, in the depths of this mysterious dream of the Nameless One, she unexpectedly encountered a giant who claimed to be a god. Theoretically... ...She should rise up and fight at this time to eradicate this existence that claims to be a god in order to fulfill the mission of the judge.

But she is no longer the reckless person who dared to jump when she saw Captain Duncan. On the Lost Home, she learned to face those unbelievable things with a more rational attitude.

"Are you a god?" Fanna said cautiously while tensing up, "Who are you talking about 'them'? And what exactly is this place?"

"They once lived here," the giant seemed unaware of Vanna's momentary vigilance. He just raised his hand and pointed at the boundless sea of ​​sand with his long staff, "but that seemed to be a long, long time ago... …Maybe it hasn’t been that long?”

The giant stopped in confusion. He looked at the long staff in his hand. After a while, he slowly shook his head: "Time... once turned into something I didn't recognize. It was stretched to almost [-] meters in an instant. Infinite, and then compressed again. I can no longer determine when that happened. I only remember that this was once the most prosperous hinterland of the kingdom. The yellow sand under your feet was once a forest and fertile soil that stretched for thousands of miles. It was huge. The canals spanned the wilderness and led the rivers on the plateau through the hills. I watched them build a pure white city here. High walls connected the mountains. Towers rose from the jungle, illuminated by bright flames. The night sky...I remember, it was beautiful.”

The giant spoke slowly, as if he hadn't talked to anyone for a long time and was no longer used to organizing logic when speaking, so that his words seemed a little confusing, like talking to himself in a dream - Vanna could only Try your best to keep up with what the other person is saying, to understand and guess the information conveyed in the other person's words, and to imagine what the other person described as what this desert looked like in a long time ago.

Then, the giant suddenly stopped, lowered his head and looked at Vanna, and asked curiously: "What about you? Traveler, who are you? Do you have a name?"

Fanna pursed her lips subconsciously, and she immediately resisted the urge to answer.

You cannot rashly reveal your name to an unknown being - especially since this being calls itself "god" and is most likely a superior being with powerful power.

He may not have any malicious intentions, but some extraordinary beings who are powerful enough to interfere with the fate of mortals often do not need any subjective malice at all. After becoming the captain's follower, Vanna understands this better than ever before. profound.

After a moment of hesitation, she spoke cautiously: "My name is Vanessa. I don't have any great identity. I'm just a person who accidentally got lost here."

"Vanessa..." The giant muttered softly, then shook his head, "You don't have that name."

Fanna felt her heartbeat speed up instantly.

But then the giant waved his hand: "But it doesn't matter. As I said just now, everyone has secrets. If you don't want to reveal your name, then I will continue to call you 'Traveler' - anyway, here is the place." There’s no one else and we can’t mistake each other.”

Fanna was silent for a moment, and after a brief moment of embarrassment, she nodded.

"Traveler," continued the giant, "where are you going?"

Fanna hesitated for a moment, then looked up at the silhouette in the distance that looked like a ruined city.

"Let's go together," the giant noticed Vanna's gaze and made a friendly invitation. "Although I can't remember those long-ago things, we can go together. I still have some knowledge about this world... impression."

Fanna didn't speak for a while, as if she was waiting for something.

After a moment, the captain's order came from the depths of her consciousness——

"Accept this invitation."

"Okay," Vanna nodded, looking up at the giant who claimed to be a god, "It's an honor to embark on the journey with you."

(End of this chapter)