Deep Sea Embers

Seeing the quill and parchment handed to her by the cemetery keeper, Fan Na took a light breath to quickly calm down her emotions.

"How long can I go in?" She raised her head and stared at the nameless gravekeeper.

The tomb keeper lowered his head slightly. This existence with both life and death seems to have carefully judged the strength of the soul in front of him, and gave a cold answer: "In an instant, or forever."

This answer means that the message to be conveyed from the tomb is short and single, but it may point to a very, very dangerous "source", and the listener may die.

Fan Na nodded lightly, and looked away from the gravekeeper.

She walked towards the huge mausoleum not far away, and the gravekeeper followed behind her. The rotten and dark iron chains dragged on the ground, making harsh and sharp noises, and those gathered in the square The black shadow just watched quietly, watching a chosen saint go to the mausoleum.

Before the gate of the mausoleum, Fan Na stopped, she looked up at the towering pale stone gate, the simple and desolate atmosphere conveyed by the latter slightly touched her heart.

It wasn't the first time she saw this mausoleum in a psychic gathering, but it was the first time she was selected to enter the mausoleum as a "listener".

Vision 004, "Tomb of the Unknown King" - this ancient tomb located in a strange space-time gap is not a vision controlled by the Deep Sea Church, but an ancient thing that is guarded and shared by various Orthodox Churches in turn. From the appearance In fact, it is a mausoleum with a strong style of the ancient kingdom of Crete, and the existing evidence also shows that this mausoleum is indeed a legacy left by that ancient kingdom-but no one knows who built it , and no one knows why this ancient tomb turned into a "vision".

People only know that the owner of this mausoleum will send some information to the outside world from time to time. The pollution carried in this information is enough to kill mortals in most cases, but on the other hand, this information is reliable enough. Accurate, and can even directly reveal the "true information" of some powerful anomalies and anomalies.

Whenever the owner of the tomb conveys a message, a "gravekeeper" will come out of the tomb and call listeners to enter the tomb—the tombkeeper himself is part of vision 004, he has no name and no surname, Loyal to his duties and keeping secrets, he will give priority to those souls who are close to the assembly square, and if there are no souls around the square, he will randomly take away the chosen ones all over the world.

In the age when people have not yet summed up the laws of vision 004, this kind of "random selection" has taken hundreds of thousands of lives-it was not broken for the first time until the appearance of a natural saint thousands of years ago This horrible cycle.

The saint returned alive from the Tomb of the Unknown King and announced to the world the first gift from the "Unknown King": the original list of anomalies and visions.

Everyone knows that the classification method and list of anomalies and visions is a gift from the ancient kingdom of Crete, but few people know that this gift actually flowed into the world in this way—the ancient kingdom left vision 004, Vision 004 successfully announced the initial list after thousands of failed calls.

After that, the major churches gradually mastered the method of proactively approaching the mausoleum through psionic gatherings and sending saints to become "listeners", so that this ancient vision can gradually be used relatively safely by people.

"Enter the mausoleum and prepare to listen." The gravekeeper's deep and hoarse voice came from behind, and Fan Na stepped forward accordingly.

The sound of the stone door gradually closing came from behind, and the aura of the tomb keeper dissipated in the air at the same time—the ancient keeper had become part of the tomb again, and now he was monitoring the souls entering the tomb through invisible perception. Every move.

Pale flames burned on both sides of the corridor leading to the tomb. Fanna walked towards the depths of the tomb along the path illuminated by the flames. Her gaze swept across the walls on both sides. It was cut out with nails... "textures".

"Go straight ahead, don't look back."

"Do not ask the tomb guard about the identity and name of the owner of the tomb."

"Do not run, do not shout, do not pray to any god."

"Remain humble and reverent, but do not bow down."

"After entering the tomb, do not speak."

That is the record left by countless "listeners" in the past countless years - in ancient times, most of the listeners died in this tomb passage, and one percent or even a thousand percent of them died One of them may be strong enough to leave these "exhortations" to warn future generations before death.

These precious "exhortations" have now been written in the classics of the major churches on cultivating saints. Fan Na is very familiar with them, and dare not forget a single word.

But at this moment, Fan Na was suddenly a little curious—she had heard that there were exhortations left by her ancestors in this tomb passage, but she did not expect that there were only these exhortations here, those who were hysterical, those who fell into madness, and those who lost hope in desperate situations and suffered. What about those who are begging or even crazily destroying? Haven't they left traces in this tomb passage?

Human nature is complicated. Before the major churches successfully controlled Vision 004, the gravekeepers brought hundreds of people here. Among those people, there must be some who have mental breakdowns and complainers. Crazy words and even swearing and cursing were left on her face...but along the way, all Fanna saw was the encouragement and exhortations left by her predecessors, just like...

It seems that only those resolute and noble souls are allowed to leave traces here.

Fan Na was a little confused, but in the end she didn't call the gravekeeper to ask her doubts.

Theoretically, she can talk to the tomb keeper during the tomb passage stage, which does not violate the "rules" of the tomb, and the tomb keeper does have a record of responding to visitors and actively answering questions, but this is the first time Fanna Entering here as a listener, she is very cautious and dare not do unnecessary things.

In this way, with her nerves tense, the young judge finally reached the end of the tomb passage - in the flickering light ahead, she could already see the deepest "Tomb of the Unknown King".

She stepped across the stone door at the end of the corridor.

A wide and simple tomb appeared in her eyes.

In the huge pyramid-shaped room, the sloping pale stone walls on all sides are covered with indistinct lines, and there are two rows of dark brown metal braziers distributed on both sides of the entrance. Pale flames are burning in the braziers, and hazy smoke rises However, there was nothing like a coffin in the center of the tomb—there was only a stone seat, and the owner of the tomb was on the seat.

It was a headless body that appeared to be that of a tall male—his limbs were firmly bound by chains, his arms and chest were covered with thick black hair like an animal, and his bipeds were deformed and distorted. , like a deformed animal limb, and as if it had been burned by flames, showing a scorched and festered appearance.

The body just sat quietly on the throne like this, and seemed to have no reaction to Fan Na's visit.

But Fanna kept in mind what she had learned. The moment she saw the "Unknown King", she took out the parchment and quill. While concentrating on preparing for the coming spiritual pollution, she prepared to record herself heard...

Fanna opened her eyes.

She saw that she was lying flat on the ground of the assembly square, those distant and towering broken pillars connected the chaotic sky and the broken ground, and groups of black shadows gathered in the distance.

Several dark figures were walking towards him, one of them seemed to be Bishop Valentine.

"You wake up, go away."

The hoarse and deep voice of the gravekeeper suddenly came from the side. Fanna raised her head in shock and difficulty, and suddenly found herself lying on the doorway of Vision 004. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the tall gravekeeper turning around and walking away. Entering the stone gate of the mausoleum, there was a loud shock - the huge mausoleum building sank rapidly beside her, and disappeared into the ground of the square.

Before Fanna realized what happened, several black shadows had already arrived beside her, and one of the shadows uttered Bishop Valentine's voice: "Fanna, are you okay? I saw you walking from the mausoleum After coming out, I fainted at the door..."

"I..." Fan Na slowly supported her body, feeling as if all the strength in her body had been drained, but now her physical strength was gradually returning, which gradually cleared her mind up, "How long will I be in?"

"In a split second," the phantom of another saint next to him said in a deep voice, "You entered the gate, and then the gate closed for a moment, and then you walked out from inside."

Fan Na was startled, and then she heard Bishop Valentine say: "Where's the parchment? See what you wrote down?"

"Oh, oh yes, the parchment!" Fan Na finally came to her senses, and immediately felt that she was holding something in her hand. She raised her hand quickly, and her vision froze in the next second.

For some reason, the intact parchment in her hand was left with only a few torn pieces of paper. On the small piece of paper that was only a few centimeters long, there were only a few numbers and letters scrawled on it:

"Anomaly 099-Doll."