Deep Sea Embers

In front of the dilapidated and abandoned factory, the mysterious hound "Agou" "watched" the collapsed and collapsed land with his empty eyes.

The factory building seems to be trying to observe this ruin in the real world from another dimension. Shirley stood next to Agou, looking around nervously at the situation. After confirming Duncan's face

Then he whispered: "Agou, is there really no 'residual pollution' here?"

"If you are referring to the leakage of chemical substances in ordinary people, then don't worry, the pollution here may have dissipated a few years ago." A hoarse and low voice came from Agou's throat, "But if it is There is no guarantee of contamination in certain extraordinary realms.”

"Did you find anything?" Duncan asked from the side.

"No, really not," Agou lowered his head slightly, "I saw a moment of 'fire' just now, but now there is nothing. It might just be some kind of 'reverberation', left behind by this ruin. Solidified memories... Many extraordinary powers will leave similar traces in the real world, but to find out what kind of extraordinary powers they are... we probably have to go in and take a look.

"Then go in," Duncan nodded and walked towards a gap in the abandoned factory, "You guys also

Keep up. "

Shirley hesitated for a moment, but still took steps to follow. Agou shook his head from side to side, and the dark chain made a rattling sound. The dark hound looked at Duncan who was walking in front curiously and carefully: "Why are you doing this?" Are you also interested in what happened eleven years ago? Of course, I just asked casually, with a little curiosity. Of course, a big shot like you has his own way of doing things."

"Just think it's because of my interest," Duncan interrupted the Deep Hound, "Don't be so nervous in front of me, it makes me feel uncomfortable."

"Hey, okay, okay, we are not nervous, we are not nervous...

Listening to the other party's obviously nervous answer, Duncan just shook his head helplessly, and then glanced at Shirley beside him curiously: "There is a fire in your memory, but except for you, no one else Remember the existence of this fire, right?"

Well," Shirley nodded, she had already realized something at this time, "It depends on your attitude... You also know about the fire, right? That fire really existed, right?

"...Yes, I know, so now I am more curious about who erased the traces of the fire. Duncan nodded slightly and said lightly. Traces.

At the same time, his mind was also filled with thoughts - he never thought that things would develop so coincidentally, nor did he expect that there would be a third person in the city-state of Purland who knew about the "fire" besides himself and Nina. ", the chance encounter between himself and Shirley, the joint investigation by both parties, the fire that erased traces, Agou's hallucination just now... these things are happening in the dark.

Love seems to be pulled together by invisible forces, like planets surrounding the sun.

This feeling of everything being pulled together by invisible forces has made him wary.

Nina's textbook has briefly described some "common sense" in the extraordinary field, and mentioned powerful anomalies or abnormalities.

Symbols often have the power to interfere with the development of reality, and can even guide certain events to occur like weaving a script.

In many cases, dense coincidences or continuous clues are "omens" worthy of vigilance. This often means that the people involved have been affected by an abnormality or vision, and are unconsciously participating in or even promoting the phenomenon. event. But in the face of this invisible and harmless push and influence, his "spiritual fire" was of no use. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Shirley secretly.

The girl and "Agou" were carefully watching the movements in the ruins of the factory. She seemed to have no unnecessary complicated thoughts at all. Maybe it was because her "big terror" was so close that she had no unnecessary thoughts and random thoughts?

"This looks like an ordinary ruin..." Agou's low voice came, interrupting Duncan's thinking, "I didn't sense any breath of extraordinary power.

Shirley raised her head and looked at the criss-crossing pipes and twisted ceiling beams above.

This is the first "factory building" after entering the factory. It has been severely damaged in the accident eleven years ago. Some kind of powerful explosion penetrated its roof, causing high-altitude pipes to break, building materials to collapse, and sunlight to escape. Sprinkling into the ruins through the large hole above, the scene inside is like the jagged skeleton of a giant beast after its death.

However, apart from these explosions and collapses, there were no traces of "fire" in the factory. "It doesn't look like there was a fire..." Shirley muttered thoughtfully.

"There are no traces of fire, that's the biggest problem," Duncan's deep voice suddenly came from the side. He was also looking up at the broken pipes and roof structures, and frowned slightly, "This level of In a damage accident, and there was obviously an explosion, there will inevitably be an associated fire. Regardless of the scale, it should at least leave some traces of burning in the factory... But there was not even a cluster of flames here. There are no traces.

After Duncan finished speaking, Agou said in a deep voice: "Yes, the way it looks here now is as if...all the elements related to 'fire' have been deliberately erased, but because the erasure was too Clean, but leaving a more eye-catching blank space.”

"Erase it..." Duncan muttered softly and slowly walked deeper into the factory. When he passed by a field of abandoned and twisted machines, he stopped and looked casually at a hole in the wall not far away. One glance.

He suddenly stopped and his eyes widened slightly.

He saw a blazing sea of ​​fire rising from the opposite side of the hole, and saw the entire wasteland outside the factory rolling with flames. The flames were like a raging ocean, rising into the sky and rushing to the earth, flowing turbulently to the nearby streets. , houses, thick smoke billowing up, and countless frantic people running in the sea of ​​​​fire, like a mirage of hell!

This terrifying and fiery scene suddenly broke into Duncan's field of vision, but the next second, he turned his head

When he wanted to call Shirley over, the scene of the blazing sea of ​​fire suddenly dissipated. Duncan blinked hard, came to the hole and looked out, all he saw was a wasteland and

There are several dilapidated houses on the edge of the wasteland that are no longer occupied.

Agou noticed Duncan's unusual behavior and immediately asked: "What did you find?" "I saw it just now, fire," Duncan replied in a deep voice, "but it disappeared when he turned around."

"It seems that the 'reverberation' left here is very strong," Agou immediately analyzed. "It reappeared twice in a short period of time. It is not a trace that ordinary extraordinary powers can leave. It seems that the cultists The 'solar fragments' we are looking for have indeed appeared here, but we don't know what the rules are that trigger the 'reverberation'..."

Duncan didn't say anything. He just slowly returned to the position where he first saw the "reverberation" and looked thoughtfully at the place where he had just stood.

There seems to be nothing here.

After thinking for a moment, Duncan suddenly raised his hand and gently rubbed his fingertips.

A small green flame jumped out of his hand silently.

The moment he saw the green flames, Agou suddenly shrank his neck, and then took three or four steps back. With the sound of the dark chains shaking, Shirley also took half a step back. step, with a frightened look on his face

Looking at Duncan: "You.........you really plan to eat cooked food?!

"What are you afraid of?" Duncan glanced at the pair expressionlessly, "This is not here to roast you." After saying this, he pointed his fingertips to the ground.

The small green flame seemed to be like a stream of water, falling silently to the ground. The next second, the translucent spiritual fire rippled and spread on the surface, and instantly swept across a few meters below Duncan's feet!

Shirley looked at this scene in surprise, and suddenly her eyes widened: "...Ah!?"

Wherever the flames swept, something suddenly appeared on the originally empty ground. Suddenly, Shirley thought of something. She raised her head and looked around the empty factory. Under Duncan's conscious control, the green spiritual fire swept through the entire factory like a breeze. As a result, the traces that had been erased finally briefly reappeared in the eyes of the visitor.

It was a piece of ashes, a piece of curled-up ashes with a vaguely human shape!

It was a human being who had been burned to ashes, and before dying, he was looking in the direction that Duncan had just looked at.