Mermaid Reef

This is a small town with no name.

It's not that it doesn't really have a name, it's that people forget.

There is an evil god coming.

Fortunately, this evil god is neither Typhon's child nor Typhon's ally, but a new god.

He didn't do anything, he just came out to take a look after being awakened by the blood moon vision, and went back to sleep when he found nothing wrong.

But the disaster He brought was devastating. Half of the town had been turned into ruins, and only one tenth of the people survived.

Their spirits are in a trance, their expressions are blank, and they are chanting the name of God.

Some people are sitting on the ruins, others are wandering in the streets.

They can't remember their names, their relatives and friends, their brains are blank, they only remember some fragments vaguely, and they can only look for familiar people and scenery like ghosts.

But the town has changed beyond recognition.

Jason walked the streets of this forgotten city, his clothes and conspicuous appearance did not attract anyone's attention.

——It’s not ordinary people’s ignorance of the evil god’s incarnation.Everyone here can see Jason, but their brains can't think coherently, they can only "sweep" the scene in front of them dully, and then shift to other places dully, continuing to wander.

Jason walked straight to a hotel.

It was a relatively complete building. There was a person sitting on the steps at the entrance of the hotel, with a large travel bag on his lap, looking down at a book covered in dust.

Probably because Jason stopped in front of him, the man slowly raised his head.

"Hello?"

"..."

Jason looked at Juan, whose face was covered in dust and blood, and couldn't help but wonder what happened to humans?Is it so difficult to recognize him after changing a suit of clothes?

Hans wanted to take off his glasses. Cindy thought about it for a full minute, but Juan completely forgot?

Jason stepped up his steps, and the sound of patent leather shoes came directly to Juan's ears.

"Your face...is very familiar, and this pair of shoes, I seem to have seen them somewhere before." Juan said with a confused expression.

That's right, the incarnation of the evil god in front of you has changed everything except the heel face.

"...The thing is like this, I sat at the door of the hotel and thought about it for a long time, but I didn't even think about where it was."

Juan held his head and said distressedly, "I opened the diary and found that my plan was to go to Italy by train, and then I encountered a blood moon vision on the way, and someone in the car went crazy. I think the place where the crowd gathers is too dangerous. Get out of the car and walk forward.”

Jason nodded. It turned out that it wasn't a disease of not recognizing people after changing clothes.

"and then?"

"I don't remember." Juan stuffed the notebook into his backpack and said with a wry smile, "Including how I got here, what the name of this town is, and what happened here... the people in the city are very Strange, they can't help me, maybe I should go to the police station. By the way, who are you? I should have seen you, do you know me?"

Jason: "..."

It was the first time he encountered the investigator's amnesia.

Generally, after the mysterious incident is over, ordinary people who survived lose their memories, and investigators remember everything.

Otherwise, is such a high willpower just for show?Is such a bright light blind?

The evil god affecting this town is not that strong either... Wait!

Jason remembered, Juan, the investigator, is a bit special.

As a luminous pearl, he flickers on and off, very unstable.

I get it, it's just bad luck, so I lost my memory.

Jason looked at Juan, who was about to embark on an adventure in the ruined town, with complicated emotions.

"Your name is Juan."

"I remember this. I also know that I am a cartographer for geological exploration and field surveys. I was once employed by the Jamaican government, but I may have made a mistake and lost my job three months ago." Juan tentatively Ask Jason, "Where did we meet?"

Looking at Juan's suspicious and vigilant eyes, Jason felt that things became interesting.

That's right, the people in the whole town are unconscious and wandering around in a daze, and the investigators are just different from them.

After Juan passed the initial "surprise" stage, didn't he begin to doubt Jason's identity?

Although I don't know what happened, the tragedy in the town is enough to illustrate the horror of this disaster. Jason is dressed like a fashion magazine model waiting in the studio for a photo shoot. No, no, this temperament is more like money but no virtue The aristocrats, substituting movies and adventure novels for analysis, a proper villain, just short of writing "I am a bad guy" on his face.

Juan is full of doubts about Jason's identity.

Especially when Jason pronounced his name in one gulp.

"We met in the Caribbean," Jason replied.

Jensen deftly avoids time and place.

Because strictly speaking, they met in Port Royal, the capital of pirates in 1692, but this kind of truth sounds like a crazy raving.

"Really?" Juan checked the weapon quietly.

Jason noticed his small movements at a glance, and he didn't care at all. He insisted on following Juan in order to join this adventure of "recovering memories".

——Why don’t you play the detective game delivered to your door?

"You don't have amnesia?"

"I just arrived in this town."

"Really, what's the situation outside? The communication here is broken." Juan picked up the phone at the front desk of the hotel, but there was no sound from inside.

Maybe the phone line went down, and Juan turned on the radio again, and there was only noise.

He tried to turn it a few more times, and suddenly received a channel with a muffled sound.

It's a pity that it was Italian, and Juan could barely distinguish the meaning.

"Moon, disaster... riot..."

Jason listened for a few seconds, and then slowly said: "It said that the riot is over, the sky and communication have returned to normal, and the thugs with weapons are urged to return home, otherwise they will be shot dead on the spot."

"Do you understand Italian?"

"My friend likes opera."

"I guess this friend must not be me, wait, are we friends?"

"No."

"..."

Juan blinked, and Jason answered so quickly that he didn't even know what expression to put on.

"Then we are strangers? Enemies?"

"No, I hired you, and you helped me solve a problem."

Jason didn't know whether Juan's amnesia was temporary or permanent. Anyway, he thought it was very interesting. He decided that he couldn't tell the truth and let Juan investigate by himself.

The blood moon vision is resolved, the ant civilization on the earth is not in danger of being destroyed, and the game field is preserved!

The Forgotten City in front of him is a novel place for exploration in Jason's eyes, and even investigators are ready-made.

Juan's intuition kept clamoring. He felt the dangerous aura on Jason, but his subconscious told him that the other party could be trusted, but he couldn't get too close.

——This subconscious mind is full of contradictions and illogical.

So Juan chose to keep his mouth shut and not ask, just being vigilant in secret.

He found the police station in the ruins, but it was a pity that the damage was so serious that even a complete piece of ground could not be cleared, and there were still piles of corpses under the ruins.

Juan can only retreat to the second choice, looking for a newspaper.

Newspaper offices store old newspapers that have expired, and not only can you learn the name of the town, but also its geographical location and the way to reach nearby cities.Sometimes you can find out the reasons for the disasters here, after all, many disasters have omens before they happen.

"I think you should go to the train station," Jason suggested.

It's normal to have disagreements when playing detective games!

"There is no train in this town. I came here on foot. The station may be in the last town." Juan looked at Jason's expression even more strangely, "How did you get here?"

Jason: "..."

The evil gods don't use transportation, and the ships are toys, so they don't use them when they are on the road.

"When you put it this way, I realize... ah, I don't remember." Jason suddenly realized that amnesia was the perfect excuse.

It's a pity that Jason's expression was not in place, he couldn't even simulate a panicked look.

Juan's eyes and expression were full of disbelief.

Then they went round the street and saw a man standing on the ruins of the church.

Dressed more exaggeratedly than Jason, like an actor from a theater stage or a movie screen, and wearing an expensive and gorgeous Venetian mask.

What's even more strange is that he was standing on a cross, which looked like it was temporarily picked up from the ruins and inserted in the rubble...

Juan was full of doubts, not understanding why this person would do this.

Jason also saw Gemil, he felt a little strange, but his thoughts were still stuck on the doubts about why Gemil was late.

The last stop was England, he went to rescue Cindy, and Gemil went to John.

But Jason even ended his journey in England and rushed to Juan in Italy, where he spent half a day searching for ruined towns. How did Gemil arrive?

Is John in trouble?The hard one?

Jensen was still thinking, but Gemil ignored the investigator who was carrying a travel bag, walked down the cross slowly, walked around behind Juan, and stretched out his hand to Jensen: "Sir, You look familiar, do I know you?"

Jason: "..."

what happened?

Don't make trouble, just separated two hours ago, he was wearing this dress at that time!

Besides, evil gods do not rely on clothes to identify with humans.

"As soon as I see you, there is a secret joy, just like the sunshine shining on us at this moment."

"..."

Jason and Juan looked up at the same time, and glanced at the light shining through the gap in the clouds.

To be honest, even with a human perspective, the sunbeams that are divided into strips are extraordinarily beautiful on top of the dusty ruins. (Note)

Even if a homeless man in rags is standing below, as long as his eyes are a little vicissitudes and his expression is a little empty, he can become very divine.

Let alone Jason.

After a period of silence, Jason asked blankly, "What did John say to you?"

"Who is John?"

Gemil put his hands on the mask and said seriously, "Isn't this a forgotten city? We all forget the past, and we can only feel the familiarity of each other."

He smiled lowly, and there was a strange charm in his voice.

Juan's expression was blank.

He stood blankly on the street, and when he came back to his senses, he found that the sun was almost setting.

The masked man and Jason didn't know where they went.

"..."

Juan took out a notebook from his pocket and angrily wrote down the record of this day. He still has to continue to search for clues and investigate what happened here.