Deep Sea Embers

Thick smoke rose up, and the smoke was mixed with faint flames. Someone was running on the street and screaming, and Duncan opened his eyes slightly the moment he heard the scream.

Museums...Maritime Museum near the cross block...Nina!

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

Duncan started to rush towards the museum, but soon he 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's not realistic to take a taxi there - not to mention that there are not so convenient and sufficient transportation resources here, even if he can really stop a car, no one is willing to drive him to the dangerous fire scene.

Duncan quickly calculated in his mind. He was very urgent, but he did not lose his composure. 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 quickened his pace, and quickly dodged into the shadow of a building in a nearby alley.

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

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

It is known that this bird can carry physical objects through the space, and the "cargo" can be guaranteed to be intact during the shuttle process. It is also known that the carrying capacity of this bird is sufficient. The current several tests have never reached the bottleneck.

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

This bold idea was quickly determined, and Duncan sighed slightly in his heart at the same time—he had never tried to let Ai carry a living person on a shuttle. A cultist who has devoted himself to his career, he originally planned to wait for Ai's "hunting" to be fruitful before arranging human experiments, but he did not expect this to happen... But it is good.

Since no tester can be found, let's use my own body and soul, which is not afraid of death, as the subject of the first experiment—in any case, Ai can at least ensure that the "goods" themselves are intact during transportation, that is, At least this body can arrive at the block where the museum is intact, and if this body really dies again due to a mysterious force during the transmission...then the big deal is that I can project possession again from the Lost Home, and I will be the second uploaded.

"I want you to 'send a delivery'," Duncan touched Ai's wings, "to the museum in the cross street—it's near the large white building you flew over this morning."

Ai tilted his head, as smart as a human being, he understood Duncan's intentions as early as he saw the thick smoke in the sky: "Come on a quick trip?"

"Just say yes or no."

"The whole point..."

"all."

The pigeon flapped its wings vigorously without saying a word, and a burst of green spirit fire exploded out of thin air, turning it into a spirit bone pigeon, and then it soared into the air, quickly circling around Duncan—— In a second, the dark green flames disappeared in a flash, and Duncan had turned into a stream of light, disappearing in the vortex formed by the flames.

A second later, a snow-white pigeon soared into the sky from the shadows deep in the alley, and quickly rushed to the black smoke column that was intensifying over the next block.

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

There were horrified discussions of flames bursting out of corridors and halls, of eerie howling explosions in the depths of the museum, and of certain deranged, grotesque figures—some apparently hallucinating under severe stress. Watching, constantly describing some too scary scenes to the people around, and this exacerbated the spread of panic.

But professionals have already taken action. The priests and resident guards of the square church have rich experience in dealing with the precursors of pollution caused by this kind of group mental pressure. Incense, to calm down the victim's over-excited mood, and several other guards began to divide the crowd, and took away those with potential pollution risks separately, preparing for the follow-up mental comfort and will check.

And in the shadow of a building tens of meters away from the Museum Square, a group of green flames suddenly rose.

The dark green flames circled and condensed, like a door opened out of thin air. Duncan stepped out of it, and the stream of flames wrapped around his body disappeared with the wind. He walked out of the shadows, and the pigeon Ay flapped his wings and landed firmly on his shoulder.

Duncan glanced back at Ai, and recorded the new experience in his mind, as well as the feeling of "living teleportation".

As he expected, Ai came to the museum by "flying" instead of "instantly arriving" like the usual teleportation 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 anchoring, you can only fly in the real space honestly.

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

He didn't lose consciousness during this process, but he couldn't observe his surroundings smoothly. Through the connection of the fire of the spirit body, he could vaguely share Ai's perception, and even vaguely saw some pictures and feelings of looking down from the sky. I can feel the feeling of air blowing through the body, but all these "sympathetic feelings" seem to be separated by a curtain, which cannot be as clear and intuitive as my own body.

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

But these are all minor issues, and Duncan doesn't care about them now—unlocking Ai's "new function" in a hurry today is already a huge gain. He can deliberate on any details later. The most important thing at present is to confirm Nina's Condition.

Of course, flying is not as fast as teleportation. It took him a few minutes to "fly" over from the nearby block, but compared to running or taking ordinary transportation, this speed is already amazing-I didn't delay too long on the road.

Duncan had already seen the large building that was on fire. He saw that the main building of the white museum was divided into three floors. There were also bursting flames spouting and undulating from several of the windows, and a column of smoke could also be seen on the roof of the building, with faint flames emerging from it.

These distributed fires looked as if a huge pillar of fire erupted on the first floor of the museum, penetrating several floors and roofs along the way.

Firefighters have activated several fire hydrants on the edge of the square, and huge high-pressure water jets are spraying on the main building of the museum in an attempt to suppress the temperature of the outer walls of the building and prevent a more deadly collapse of this century-old ancient building. Some survivors are gathering at the edge of the square to be appeased by priests or to answer inquiries from officials.

Duncan walked straight towards the survivors, checking whether Nina was among them.

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

"...The fire burst out of the air! It really appeared out of nowhere! It seemed that it had been burning for a long time, but no one saw it, and then suddenly popped out!"

"There is a whistling sound, a sharp whistling sound, like a devil mocking!"

"...a scorched man crawled out of a room, Goddess! It was a man wearing old clothes from decades ago...he crawled out of a room, but that room hadn't been on fire 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 horrific scene upside down. When Duncan came to them, he saw a deeply wrinkled priest of the Deep Sea Church with a short black beard and a priest's robe. I frowned.

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

"At least half an hour."

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

Then he tore off the priest's robe, revealing the black short shirt and trousers underneath, then raised the "Storm Codex" in his hand, and prayed loudly and briefly——

"Please witness! We will go forward indomitable!"

The rest of the guards also shouted together: "Please witness!"

After the sound of blessing, a thin layer of water mist floated around several storm believers, surrounding their bodies like a shelter from waves. The next second, they strode towards the building that was still burning.

(Tui Shu Tui Shu, from "Bringing a Door with You" by the demon monk Hua Wuque, I just copied the introduction directly:

Cao Xin, a young man on earth, died in a car accident, traveled to a troubled world where supplies were scarce, and obtained a "Bronze Immortal Gate"...)