Deep Sea Embers

A swift white shadow passed through the old and dirty streets of Xiacheng District, passed by the criss-crossing pipelines and pressure relief structures above the factories, passed by the desolate stations and deserted streets, and finally entered a narrow alley. middle.

The green flame suddenly bloomed and spread wantonly in the air like a door. The vortex in the door suddenly expanded and contracted, and Duncan stepped out of the door.

Following closely behind was Shirley who was still a little confused.

Duncan looked back at the girl following him. After looking up and down, he said in a deep voice: "How do you feel? Is there anything uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine," Shirley was still dizzy, but this dizziness was more of a discomfort caused by being suddenly taken flying by the elder than a physical discomfort. She raised her head and recovered. Ai Yin took the form of a white dove and landed on Duncan's shoulder. After a long time, he suddenly used divine contact to communicate with Agou, who was in a hidden state and hidden in his soul, "Agou, can you beat this pigeon?"

"Don't ask, I won't be able to beat you if you ask," Ah Gou's voice sounded muffled, "Not to mention the birds raised by the old man, I can't even beat the fish stewed by the old man.

Shirley was stunned: "Why did you suddenly mention fish?"

"Because I can see that there is probably nothing common sense around this being.

Duncan didn't know that Shirley was talking to Agou Didi Gugu. He just visually confirmed Shirley's situation and felt the feedback from the mark he left on her body, and then he felt completely at ease.

In fact, he was confident about Ai Yin transporting living people, not only because he tested it with his current mortal body last time, but also because after that, he asked Ai Yin to use various birds outside. A large number of "live experiments" were conducted on small animals such as animals. All the tests were perfect, and it was confirmed that the pigeon could transport live targets without damage. But even with so many tests, he still subconsciously confirmed that Shirley Case.

After all, Ai Yin is full of mysteries, and no one knows how many special features it has waiting to be discovered. There is no harm in being more cautious when using the "Bone Pigeon Express".

After confirming Shirley's situation, he also focused on the surrounding environment.

The first sight is a deserted alley. At the end of the alley, you can vaguely see the dilapidated street scene. The pipe facilities in disrepair span over the houses on both sides. There is still a slight steam in the joints of some of the pipes. Hiss leaked.

This is a common sight in many places in Xiacheng District.

But Shirley still discovered what this place was for the first time.

"This is Block 6?" She widened her eyes in surprise, "Mr. Duncan, do you sense that mark appearing here?"

"Yes, Block 6, we are back here again, but" Duncan exhaled, then frowned slightly, "but the feeling of the mark faded a minute ago."

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"It faded? Did it go out?"

Shirley asked with a surprised look on her face, but Duncan didn't answer anything and just looked thoughtfully in a certain direction.

In Shirley's "dream", he implanted a flame into the fragment that remained after the attacker split. At that time, he gave the order to the fragment to return to its "body", and after that Soon, he lost his sense of the flames as Shirley's dream ended. Until just now, the mark suddenly appeared in his perception again, but it guided him here.

Located in Block 6 in the real world.

The spiritual fire that was supposed to spread in the dream suddenly sent a signal back in the real world. The edge of Shirley's dream was connected to the scene in Nina's dream, and the umbrella monster who attacked Shirley in the nightmare. , appeared at the scene of a real-world museum fire.

Unconsciously, many contradictory but vaguely connected clues connected in Duncan's heart, and he felt as if he was about to touch the invisible curtain.

In other words, although this grand curtain enveloped the entire city, there was still a "gap" left. This gap was in the Sixth Block - somewhere that he and Shirley ignored last time.

He was looking at the direction where the last signal from the imprint in his perception was "

The breath of the mark only appeared for a short time, and quickly faded a minute ago, but Duncan did not think that the flame he left had been extinguished - although he could not pinpoint its location accurately, he could still sense the cluster. The flame is still burning, and it has even become much stronger than before.

Since the flame is still burning and growing, it means that its "mission" is not over yet - it is still chasing, devouring, and assimilating the attacker, and may even have spread into a large fire. It briefly appeared in the Sixth Street and then quickly It faded away, possibly because the "curtain" here was not stable, and a gap briefly opened and closed, causing the worlds in the two dimensions to be intertwined and connected.

He wanted to find that gap, the gap that seemed to connect dreams and reality.

A few days later, Duncan once again took Shirley through the deserted and dilapidated streets of the Sixth District. This time they did not waste time asking the locals about anything, but went straight to the deepest part of the block.

"The abandoned factory is in the other direction." Halfway through, Shirley raised her arm and pointed at a large building in the distance.

"We're not going to that factory," Duncan said quickly. "We're going this way."

Shirley responded and followed Duncan's footsteps with her short legs.

The withered yellow leaves drifted in the wind and fell at Shirley's feet. As she stepped on the fallen leaves, she heard a slight crackling sound coming from her feet. It sounded like she was stepping on burnt wood chips, and it also seemed like a tiny flame. crackling sound.

She looked up and looked around, but all she saw was an ordinary street. Old houses lined up along the street, standing in the wind among the fallen leaves, indifferently facing the uninvited guests who broke into the place.

Shirley suddenly realized something was wrong.

I don’t know since when, she can no longer be seen by passers-by.

The Sixth Street Block is indeed deserted, with few pedestrians in most places, and the only residents seem listless, indifferent and lonely, but it is by no means so deserted that no one can be seen!

A very uncomfortable feeling spread from the bottom of her heart. This feeling made her vaguely think of the dream she was trapped in. She subconsciously moved closer to Duncan, but she didn't expect that Duncan suddenly stopped. With a bang, she hit the latter's waist.

In the next second, Shirley drafted the full text of her last words and conceived three styles of tombstones, but soon she thought that people crushed by the shadow of subspace would probably not leave a body.

Duncan's calm voice interrupted the girl's random thoughts: "It seems we have arrived.

"I'm very, very sorry. I really didn't mean to invite you?"

Shirley subconsciously asked for mercy. Then she realized that the boss in front of her didn't seem angry. Then, she noticed that she had stopped in front of a building that looked deserted for an unknown period of time.

It's a church.

A community church, which is common in the city-state of Pland, stands at the end of this path.

It has the iconic slender spire of the Deep Sea Church, but the black roof tiles and white stone walls can be seen with hanging dead vines and decaying and dirty objects everywhere. The door depicting complex sacred runes is slightly open, and the stained glass next to it is slightly open. The windows were also in dilapidated condition, with almost only the curved and deformed outline of the ironwork remaining. Through the cracks in the door and the holes in the windows, a dim scene inside could be vaguely seen.

This was once a sacred building, but now a dilapidated and forgotten atmosphere has filled every brick crevice in it.

"This is the 'church' that the old man near the intersection mentioned last time?" Shirley recalled the last time she came to the Sixth Street to investigate the situation, "I remember he said that there was a nun living here, but the nun was often not around. in church

"The dilapidation cannot be explained by 'frequent absence'," Duncan said casually, walking towards the door of the church. "It's not so much that the nun often goes out, but it seems that this place has been forgotten." for eleven years. "

Shirley watched the other person walk towards the church, instinctively feeling a little nervous about the building, but after a moment of hesitation, she still followed Duncan's footsteps.

The next moment, Duncan pushed open the ajar church door, and the scene inside the chapel clearly appeared in her and Shirley's eyes.

Warm and bright candlelight fell into Shirley's eyes. The clean and tidy chapel was brightly lit. At the end of the neatly arranged benches, the icon of the storm goddess Gemona stood quietly in the light.

A nun who was kneeling in front of the icon and praying devoutly heard the sound of the door opening and stood up and turned around.

She saw the visitor standing at the door, with a gentle smile on her face: "No one has visited this church for a long time."

"It looks like it is indeed here," Duncan looked at the smiling nun in front of him and said softly with a calm expression, "the gap in the curtain.

He blinked. In his eyes, the smiling nun maintained the appearance of a living person at one moment, but then turned into a pile of humanoid squirming ashes the next moment, while the church behind her showed a An extremely weird superposition state - flames are burning on the intact benches, ashes and sparks are drifting from the roof, the scene after the fire burned and the intact scene of the church are overlapped at the same time, presenting a strange but torn scene. \u003c

It was as if two completely different facts were forcibly blended in this church.