Deep Sea Embers

Thick smoke rose, and the smoke was mixed with the faint light of fire. Someone was running on the street and exclaimed, and Duncan's eyes widened slightly the moment he heard the exclamation.

Museum...the Maritime Museum near the Croisette...Nina!

Nina was visiting the Maritime Museum near Cross Street with her classmates this afternoon, in the direction where the smoke rose!

Duncan took a step forward and was about to rush in the direction of the museum, but he soon realized that it was not easy to run from this block to the museum. Even if the smoke was visible to the naked eye, the winding road would waste a lot of time. , it is not practical to take a taxi - not to mention that there are not so convenient and sufficient transportation resources here. Even if he can really stop a car, I am afraid no one will be willing to take him to the dangerous fire scene.

Duncan was thinking quickly in his mind. He was urgent but did not lose his cool. After quickly sorting out the current situation, a bold idea appeared in his mind.

"Aiyi!" He suddenly ordered in his heart, and at the same time, he quickened his pace and quickly dodged into the shadow of a building in a nearby alley.

The green spiritual fire flashed past, and Ai, who was patrolling nearby, appeared out of thin air, flapped his wings and landed on Duncan's shoulder.

Duncan turned his head and glanced at the pigeon, and he had already sorted out his thoughts:

It is known that this bird can carry physical matter through space, and can ensure that the "cargo" is intact during the shuttle process. It is also known that the bird can carry a sufficient amount, and the few tests so far have never reached the bottleneck.

So... can it "take" itself to the museum?

This bold idea was quickly confirmed, and Duncan sighed slightly at the same time - he had never tried to let Ai carry a living person through time. After all, this was a very dangerous attempt, and he had not found a suitable person for research recently. A cultist who devoted himself to his career, he originally planned to wait for Ai's "hunting" to yield results before arranging human experiments. He didn't expect that this would happen... but that's okay.

Since you can't find a tester, let's use your own body and soul that is not afraid of death as the first experimental subject - no matter what, Ai can at least ensure the integrity of the "cargo" itself during the transportation process, that is, At least this body can reach the block where the museum is located intact, and if this body really dies again due to mysterious power during the transmission process... then the worst case scenario is that he will be possessed by the Lost Home again, and he will be treated as a second person. uploaded times.

"I want you to 'deliver a shipment'," Duncan touched Ai's wings, "to the museum in the Cross Street District - near the large white building you flew over in the morning."

Ai tilted his head. As smart as a human being, he understood Duncan's intention as early as when he saw the thick smoke in the sky: "Want to go on a casual trip?"

"Just say it's okay."

"On the hour..."

"all."

Without saying a word, the pigeon flapped its wings vigorously, and a burst of green spiritual fire exploded out of thin air, turning it into a spiritual bone pigeon. Then it soared into the sky and quickly surrounded Duncan - next In a second, the green flames disappeared in a flash, and Duncan had transformed into a stream of light, disappearing into the vortex formed by the flames.

A second later, a snow-white dove soared into the sky from the shadows deep in the alley, and quickly rushed towards the growing black smoke column over the next block.

Near the Maritime Museum in Cross Street District, firefighters who rushed from the fire station have begun to try to fight the sudden fire. Thanks to the relatively good infrastructure of Cross Street District and the special attributes of the museum itself as a public place, not only are there The resident firefighting unit also has sufficient emergency water pumps and evacuation openings. When the firefighters began to try to put out the fire, some people trapped in the museum had already escaped from the evacuation openings on both sides of the main building and panicked. Gathered at the edge of the square.

People discussed in horror the sudden bursts of flames in the corridors and halls, the roaring and strange explosions deep in the museum, and some erratic and strange shapes - some people apparently suffered from auditory hallucinations under severe stress. Vision, constantly describing some too terrible scenes to the people around him, and this only exacerbates the spread of panic.

But the professionals have already taken action. The priests and permanent guards of the Square Church are experienced in dealing with the precursors of pollution caused by the mental pressure of the group. Two priests have already walked into the crowd and lit up the fire beside the most excited people. Incense was used to calm the overly excited mood of the victim, while several other guards began to separate the crowd and take away those who were potentially at risk of contamination, preparing for subsequent mental comfort and will tests.

And in the shadow of a building dozens of meters away from the museum square, a group of green flames suddenly rose.

The green flames swirled and condensed, like a door opening out of thin air. Duncan stepped out of it, and the flames wrapped around his body disappeared with the wind. He walked out of the shadows, and the pigeon Ai flapped its wings and landed steadily on his shoulders.

Duncan glanced back at Ai, mentally recording the new experience and the feeling of "living teleportation".

As he expected, Ai came to the museum by "flying" instead of "arriving instantly" like usually teleporting between the antique shop and the Lost Home.

This shows that Ai's "teleportation" must be based on the anchor point - when teleporting between the antique shop and the Lost Home, the anchor points are "Antique Shop Manager" and "Captain" respectively, but when it carries one of them When you are at the anchor point, you can only fly in the real space and go on your way.

As for the feeling of being "carried" by Ai during the flight...it's amazing.

He did not lose consciousness during this process, but he could not observe his surroundings smoothly. Through the connection of the spiritual fire, he could vaguely share Ai's perception, and even vaguely see some scenes and feelings of looking down from the sky. I can feel the air blowing through my body, but all these "sympathy" seem to be separated by a layer of curtain, and they are not as clear and intuitive as my own body.

Perhaps... this is because Ai's body structure is very different from that of humans, or it may be because Ai has a will of his own and therefore cannot be completely taken over and controlled.

But these are all small problems, and Duncan doesn't care about it now - he unlocked Ai's "new function" in a hurry today, which is already a huge gain. If there are any details, he can discuss them later. The most important thing at the moment is to confirm Nina's Condition.

Of course, flying was not as fast as teleportation. It took him a few minutes to "fly" from a nearby neighborhood, but compared to running or taking ordinary transportation, the speed was already amazing - he didn't delay for too long on the way.

Duncan had already seen the large building on fire. He saw that the main building of the white museum was divided into three floors. The fire was the most fierce on the first and second floors. Thick smoke billowed out from several windows on the second floor. Outside, there were bursts of flames spitting and undulating outside several of the windows, and a plume of smoke could also be seen on the roof of the building, with faint flames coming out of it.

The distributed fire looked as if a huge pillar of fire broke out on the first floor of the museum and penetrated several floors and roofs along the way.

Firefighters have activated several fire hydrants on the edge of the square and are spraying huge high-pressure water jets on the main building of the museum in an attempt to suppress the temperature of the building's exterior walls and prevent a more fatal collapse of this century-old building. Some survivors were gathering on the edge of the square, receiving comfort from priests or answering questions from officials.

Duncan walked straight towards the survivors, checking to see if Nina was among them.

Halfway through, he heard some of the survivors tremblingly describing what they saw——

"...The fire suddenly appeared out of the air! It really appeared out of thin air! It was like it had been burning for a long time, but no one saw it, and then it suddenly appeared!"

"There was a whistling sound, a sharp whistling sound, like the devil was mocking!"

"...A man with a burnt body crawled out of the room, Goddess! It was a man wearing old clothes from decades ago... He crawled out of the room, but the room was not on fire at all before! The fire just started after the man climbed out!"

The survivors on the edge of the square were extremely panicked, and many of them were describing the horrifying scenes in confusion. Duncan came next to them and saw a Deep Sea Church priest with a short black beard and a priest's robe, who was deeply wrinkled. He frowned.

"The panic ratio is too high. One-third of the people are mentally unstable. These people have signs of being contaminated by extraordinary power..." The deep-sea priest frowned and spoke quickly to the guardian warrior next to him, " There may be something unclean in the museum... When will the cathedral’s support arrive?”

"At least half an hour."

"...No, it's too late. If there is really something unclean, looking at the scale, I'm afraid it will get out of control within ten minutes..." The black-robed priest turned his head and glanced at the museum, then suddenly turned to an attendant beside him, " Sheriffs please take over here."

Then he pulled off the priest's robe, revealing the black shorts and trousers underneath. Then he raised the "Book of Storms" in his hand and prayed loudly and briefly——

"Please bear witness! We will move forward courageously!"

The remaining guards also shouted in unison: "Please witness!"

After the prayers, a layer of light mist floated around the storm believers, surrounding their bodies like waves, and the next second, they strode towards the burning building.

(To recommend a book, it’s from "Carrying a Door with You" by Yao Monk Hua Wuque, so I just copied the introduction:

Cao Xin, a young man from Earth, dies in a car accident and travels to a troubled world where supplies are scarce, and obtains a "Bronze Immortal Gate"...)