Deep Sea Embers

Frankly speaking, Lucrezia's mind was blank at this moment—it was blank for nearly two or three seconds before she regained her thinking ability and realized what was going on in front of her.

What is more terrifying than falling into a nightmare of being polluted and eroded by the children of the sun is seeing his father who has returned from the subspace in the depths of this nightmare, and what is more terrifying than this is that the scythe in his hand is cutting towards his father's body. neck.

Now, this scythe is out of control, faint green fire is burning on its pitch-black blade and long handle, it seems that it has entered another dimension and can no longer be controlled by herself, Lucrezia is stiff and in vain to hold on. As if holding the sickle, he held back for a long time before saying: "You...the sickle in your hand is really unique..."

"Do you always feel like this when you are nervous?" Duncan finally let go of his hand, and the dark green flame dissipated. "What's going on here?"

As the flame subsided, Lucrezia finally felt that the scythe condensed by the power of dreams and curses was back in her hands again. She hurriedly grabbed it and took half a step back to answer her father's question, but just below In a second, a sense of crisis suddenly hit from nearby!

The "bad organisms" of the sun's descendants finally reacted, and they obviously would not give their enemies a chance to talk about family affairs at ease. With the continuous flickering and jumping lights and shadows in the sun, several shadows rushed towards Lucrezia's back !

With almost no chance to think, Lucrezia turned around abruptly, and the sickle in her hand turned into a long whip wrapped in thorns. However, the shadows suddenly paused in mid-air and appeared, falling to the ground as if they had lost their source of power, struggling violently!

At the same time, Heidi, who was controlling several avatars to barely support her, suddenly felt the pressure around her lighten.

She transferred her "self" from one dying persona to another still in good condition, and then watched in amazement the black-clothed figures around her fell down one by one, like fish being roasted by the scorching sun, Difficultly struggling to die on the ground.

The depths of their black coats of unknown material are constantly bulging and wriggling, and those horrible limbs also begin to rot and decompose rapidly. With the disgusting sound, the terrible stench and dirty pus and blood gradually spread from under their bodies Come.

Even as a professionally trained psychiatrist, Heidi couldn't help taking two steps back when facing this scene, and then she seemed to notice something, and subconsciously raised her head to look at the sky—but when she raised her head For an instant, she abruptly controlled her impulse again.

The horror experience when she looked up and witnessed the "child of the sun" was still deeply imprinted in her mind, making her afraid to verify her guess.

At this moment, she heard the stranger who suddenly appeared in front of Lucrezia say to herself: "It's okay, the sky is already safe."

For some reason, this sentence seemed to carry some kind of powerful force. Although there was no reason, a strong impression suddenly appeared in Heidi's heart: the sky is safe.

She slowly raised her head and looked at the glowing "sun" hanging high in the sky.

That "thing" was still quietly floating above the forest, countless twisted and tangled tentacles and pale eyes piled up like random growths of meat, and the light was like a flame, rising and burning on the surface of this deformed and terrifying "meat" ——However, in the depths of the flame, a faint green was spreading, and quickly covered the entire surface of the entity.

The moment Heidi saw those distorted tentacles and pale eyes, a touch of fear emerged in Heidi's heart, but soon, she realized that her mind had not been damaged by this "witness". erosion.

The pollution of the "children of the sun" seemed to be blocked by the ever-spreading dark green fire, or... eroded and assimilated by the latter, so it was harmless.

The struggles and screams of the "bad organisms" tormented Lucrezia's eardrums when they were dying, those humanoid and inhuman things in black were dying quickly under the alienated sunlight, as if they were being dissolved in strong acid, she was puzzled Looking at this scene, he turned to look at Duncan: "What's going on?"

"I polluted their temporary sun, which is now 'poisonous' to them.

"This is a lesson I learned during Prand's 'black sun event' - these 'debris' can only survive in certain 'sunlight'."

Duncan said calmly, then raised his head, staring at the distorted existence still quietly floating above the forest.

He thought of the "black sun" he had peeped through the "golden mask" before, and the pale ancient god who was dying under the scorching of the corona. The things above this dream world are obviously smaller by more than one size, and their power is also much weaker.

So... It seems that this is the "child of the sun" that those crazy believers call.

Now, this son of the sun is being quickly swallowed by the polluted flames, and the light and heat it emits are being transformed into something that can incinerate itself, but this weird and terrifying "creature" does not respond to the slightest pain, it is still It just hangs high in the sky quietly and silently, as if there is no pain or fear at all.

Simply glowing and heating, like... a real sun.

However, looking at its pale eyes, Duncan always felt that this thing was actually thinking—it was thinking, it was observing, it had a purpose and reason, it was not like the dying black sun that only wanted to extinguish itself , nor like those crazy cultists who only want to destroy the whole world.

This "creature"... what is it thinking at this moment?

"What are you thinking?" Duncan couldn't help asking in his heart.

"Can I go back?" In the depths of the vague message sent back by the ghost flame, he heard a voice, which sounded calm and gentle, "There is nothing I am looking for here."

Duncan's eyes widened slightly for a moment.

However, in the next moment, just when he wanted to establish more communication with this "son of the sun", an illusory roar suddenly came from the sky, and then the burning flame shrank suddenly as if it collapsed inward. It became a small dot, and the next moment, the ghost flames that had lost their target exploded in all directions.

The "false sun" overlooking the forest disappeared.

A dim and slightly reddish sky replaced the "sunny" sky at the previous moment, and the entire forest fell into a dusk-like atmosphere.

Lucrezia's surprised voice came from the side: "You wiped it out?"

"No," Duncan shook his head lightly, talking about the information he had sensed just now, "it left, it wasn't its body, but just a projection formed by a child of the sun in a dream, like a The tentacle of perception—now it has withdrawn that tentacle from the dream."

Lucrezia nodded thoughtfully, but soon she suddenly discovered another thing: "Wait, where's that Annihilation cultist just now?!"

"He ran away," Duncan said casually. "When those 'bad organisms' died, he kept reducing his sense of existence. Then, when the false sun in the sky collapsed and receded, he took advantage of the chaos and fled."

Lucrezia frowned immediately when she heard it, and subconsciously looked around the forest that had already fallen into the dusk-like darkness: "Damn... I was actually distracted... I should have left a curse on him... "

"It's okay," Duncan just waved his hand, "Let him run for a while first."

Lucrezia was slightly taken aback when she heard the words, and raised her head to look at Duncan: "You...you let him go on purpose?"

Duncan didn't answer her directly, but narrowed his eyes slightly, as if sensing something, then shook his head with a smile: "Anyway, he has already seen me."

Afterwards, he didn't care about Lucrezia's sudden change of expression, but turned to look at Heidi who was standing anxiously a dozen meters away, trying to reduce her sense of existence.

He came to this lady psychiatrist—strictly speaking, in front of a large group of Heidi—and first confirmed the other party's status.

There are about seven or eight Heidi with injuries of various sizes, three of them are extremely seriously injured, and are lying on the ground like dying fish, their personality parts have obviously been withdrawn, and only some conditioned reflexes are left. Dying convulsions, and two Heidi seemed to be in good condition, one of them stood there with a dull expression, and the other nervously avoided Duncan's gaze.

Duncan glanced at the "a large group of Heidi" in front of him blankly, and sighed in his heart that the path of a psychiatrist in this world is really wild, and schizophrenia is even more schizophrenic than schizophrenia. "Heidi" with a tense face and dodgy eyes came to the lady psychiatrist with a dull expression.

"Are you okay?"

The "persona" with a sluggish expression was startled, and a vivid expression suddenly appeared on his face: "How do you know..."

Of course, she has already guessed who the tall and majestic person in front of her who brings endless pressure is, her heart is already very nervous, and she originally wanted to use the avatar to cover it up a little, so as to avoid confronting this terrifying "subspace shadow" head-on They communicated, but they didn't expect that they didn't even hide it for a second.

"You will use your avatar to protect yourself when you are nervous," Duncan said with a friendly smile on his face, "Of course, I didn't expect that your 'avatar' would be so...powerful, and now I am deeply impressed .”

"Sometimes... people with schizophrenia are more difficult to deal with, and they can't beat them if they have less points..." Heidi explained subconsciously, but then she reacted, "Wait, how did you know..."

Duncan smiled and raised his finger to the amethyst pendant on Heidi's chest.

"Strictly speaking, this pendant is given to you by me."