Deep Sea Embers

In the center of the city-state, where the frost is the highest, the Great Sanctuary of Silence stands quietly on the top of the mountain. The gloomy sky makes this majestic and gloomy building seem more depressed in silence. Its spiers stand in the mist Standing like thorns and sharp blades, overlooking the whole city.

A tall figure that stood out among the crowd walked across the square in front of the church, looking around at the scenery around the square like an ordinary tourist.

Not long after, another gentleman in a dark brown coat with a refined and gentle demeanor came out from the crowd and walked straight to the tall figure.

Fan Na saw Morris coming from the crowd, and she calmly came to a relatively secluded place.

"There is nothing abnormal in the church square." Fan Na leaned on a street lamp, looked at the church gate not far away, and said in a low voice.

"The city hall is also there. At least on the surface, the people here have no signs of mental or cognitive pollution." Morris wiped his monocle, "but I found one thing."

"A situation?"

"Someone was discussing the recent authorities' exploration of the sewers near the square. If they are right, they should be talking about the second waterway," Morris said. The gatekeeper is leading the team himself."

"Agatha the gatekeeper?" The expression on Fanna's face suddenly changed slightly, "But the captain said..."

"The real Agatha should be trapped in a mirrored Frost City at this moment," Morris said in a low voice, "The one who is leading the team...is probably a fake."

Fan Na took a light breath, then suddenly raised her head and looked in the direction of the silent Great Church.

The tall and stately building stands against the background of the gloomy sky, and the forest of spiers stands silently in the mist.

Her expression became serious: "...the cathedral doesn't have any abnormalities, so there are only two possibilities, either, the fake has been hidden from the cathedral's eyes, or..."

"Either the Church of Frost is no longer trustworthy, at least there is a big problem in the cathedral," Morris nodded lightly, "In either case, the Church of Frost has clearly lost control of the whole thing —we must get out of here, and this must be told to Mr. Duncan at once."

Fan Na nodded silently, and walked towards the exit on the edge of the square with Morris. Before leaving, she raised her head for the last time and looked at the open space opposite the silent cathedral.

That's where the city hall is, and the queen's palace once known as the "Winter King's Court" stands there—there is fog on the top of the mountain, and in the slightly thicker fog, Fanna sees that the building is also Standing silently under the sky like a silent cathedral, its spiers are soaring and towers are everywhere, and the towers are like thorns and sharp knives in the fog, silently overlooking the city.

Fan Na's footsteps suddenly stopped.

Morris suddenly turned his head: "Fanna? What did you see?"

Fan Na stared at the hazy mist.

In the mist, the city hall was restored to its original form. It was a palace-style building with various curved vaults. Surrounding the majestic gray-white main building, there were long halls extending to both sides like wings and continuous undulating vaults. .

There are neither somber black spires nor forest-like towers.

"Fanna? What's wrong with you?" Morris' voice sounded from the side again.

"I saw another cathedral just now—it's right at the location of the city hall," Fan Na suddenly said in a low voice, with a particularly dignified expression, "Although it's only for a moment, I'm sure I'm not mistaken!"

"Another cathedral?" Morris was taken aback. He instinctively looked across the square, but all he saw was the city hall, which looked nothing different.

But he didn't doubt Fan Na's judgment at all.

"This is not a good omen," the old scholar said in a low voice, and raised his hand to press the top hat on his head. "It seems that you are the only one who saw the scene just now. This may be because your spiritual vision ability as a priest is far superior to that of ordinary people— —that scene of visions appearing directly around the cathedral is evidence of growing erosion."

Fan Na didn't say a word, she just frowned tightly, turned her gaze to the city area at the foot of the mountain, and finally said slowly, "It's foggy, it's everywhere."

It was foggy. At first it was the central area of ​​the Frost City State, and then the fog began to spread to the entire city. From the beginning, there were only wisps of mist, and the fog quickly became thicker. In just a few hours, the entire city It was already shrouded in a haze.

"It's foggy outside!"

Shirley lay on the window of the bedroom on the second floor, stretched her neck and looked at the scene on the street, shouting with a surprised expression on her face.

Agou also lay down next to the window, and his ugly bone head was crowded side by side with Shirley. After staring outside for a long time, a series of words suddenly popped up: "The reason for the fog in urban areas is usually the large temperature difference between day and night, and human activities. As a result, water vapor rises, dust in the air increases, and the water-containing air between buildings will suddenly drop in temperature to form..."

Shirley was stunned: "What are you talking about, Agou?"

"Agou is talking about the second chapter of "The Logic Behind Nature". It has been reading this book for the past two days." Nina, who was doing her homework at the desk next to her, turned her head and said casually, "Occasionally you It’s time to try to read simple reading materials by yourself, which is very useful for mastering words—if you can’t, you can start with picture books.”

Shirley thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "Are you mocking me for being too illiterate, and I can only read picture books now?"

Nina's attention has turned back to her homework: "No, because you really can only read picture books, describing the facts is not considered ridicule..."

Shirley immediately widened her eyes, as if she wanted to get angry, but then she was attracted by the thicker fog outside the window, and waved her hands again and again: "Hey, I won't tell you this anymore—come and take a look! Outside It's really thick fog! I've never seen such a thick fog in Prand..."

"The temperature difference between day and night is small in Purland, and it's windy in the morning and evening, so it's not easy to get foggy." Nina didn't look up. The papers are really difficult, and the multiple-choice questions are too confusing, I always feel that I chose the wrong one..."

"Hey, if you encounter any options that you can't figure out, you can choose C," Shirley said nonsense, and then rolled her eyes again, as if she had a new idea, "Nina, do you want to go out to play? It's nearby , don't go far - there is a dim sum shop across the street, there must be no customers in this weather, maybe you can buy very cheap cakes..."

"I won't go," Nina said casually, "you have to go by yourself, if Uncle Duncan is back, I won't complain..."

Just when she was halfway through her words, a strange, rustling sound suddenly sounded in the room, interrupting the conversation between the two girls.

"Did you...did you hear anything just now?" Shirley quickly jumped back from the window sill, looking around vigilantly.

Nina also became nervous, and just when she subconsciously wanted to look around, she suddenly saw something strange on the surface of the test papers and books spread out in front of her from the corner of her eye.

The text is moving, the symbols are rotating, and the black and white ink marks vibrate as if they are alive, and at the edge of those shaking pen marks, the black shadows spread rapidly like smeared ink, and quickly fill the whole paper noodle.

Almost in an instant, all the books and scrolls Nina had read just now began to tremble violently, and repeated whispers mixed with rustling sounds echoed throughout the room!

"Ah! The book you read is evil!" Shirley exclaimed suddenly, and at the same time subconsciously raised the chain linking Agou and Agou. The evil things that came from the smell and floated up towards the real world also entered the room!

The black smoke whirled crazily, the entity emerged from the smoke, and the bone fragments scattered on the floor clattering, and turned into ugly and frightening demons in the blink of an eye—three deep hounds landed on the floor, making frightening noises Roaring, its chaotic scarlet eyes are filled with madness and chaos!

Then, they saw Agou lying on the open space next to the window, who seemed a little dazed.

The deep hound and the deep hound looked at each other—Xue Li even felt that she saw a moment of bewilderment from the gestures of those chaotic and ignorant "original demons".

But that didn't affect her reaction in the slightest.

The pitch-black chains rattled in an instant, and Shirley raised her arms high, swung Agou in a full circle like a meteor hammer with great force, and smashed towards the demon closest to the window with a roar in the next second!

"I'll smack you to death!"

With a loud bang, the heads of the two dogs collided earth-shatteringly, and the demon who just ran out of the deep sea was obviously no match for the dog who had practiced with Shirley for many years—whether it was the hardness of the skull or the reaction. above.

The first deep demon was smashed into pieces as soon as it met.

But the second deep demon only had time to open its mouth, and before it could make a roar, it suddenly felt a rush of high temperature.

A flame came from the side, and when Nina raised her leg, it was a flying kick at 6000°C.