Deep Sea Embers

(Ta wakes up from a chaotic sleep, and touches this strange and incomprehensible world like a newborn baby. The broken memories and thoughts are like the undulating bubbles on the sea surface, which cannot be formed into a complete one for a long time. Awareness and cognition.

The whole world seems to be covered with a thick curtain, and one's own perception seems to be smashed and reorganized a thousand times by invisible forces. The mind cannot understand those crazy and chaotic sensory signals, buzzing noises and dark and frightening lights and shadows As if directly engraved on the nerves, it stirs the consciousness and stings the thinking.

Ta tries to take a step forward, tries to distinguish the things around him, tries to recall himself, and tries to understand the current situation.

Countless shadowy things surround him, those things have shapeless outlines, and there are hollows with psychedelic colors floating on the upright body, strange air flow flows in those hollows, making indescribable whistling and hissing sounds, It's terrifying.

Then, a warm radiance appeared in the perception, following this warmth, one wakes up from the darkness and forgets one's own existence, and begins to slowly move forward...)

Nina suddenly put down the cheap accessories she was picking out just now, frowned with some doubts, turned around and glanced behind her.

Shirley at the side noticed it immediately, and turned her head curiously: "Ah? What's wrong with you, Nina?"

"I don't know..." Nina still frowned in confusion, her eyes swept around the crowd behind her, "Just now, I suddenly felt movement from behind, as if someone was staring at this side, but it seemed to be just... an illusion ?”

"It's an illusion..." Shirley frowned when she heard Nina's words, and subconsciously looked around the market, "There are people everywhere, maybe someone just glanced this way? "

Although she said so in her mouth, she cautiously confirmed it to Agou in her heart.

"Nothing," Agou's feedback quickly sounded from the bottom of his heart, "it's just that there are too many people."

"Agou didn't say anything," Shirley said to Nina in a low voice, "There will definitely be no problem with its perception."

Nina blinked her eyes, looked back, and then shook her head: "...it seems to be an illusion."

There are a lot of people in the market, and the bustling crowd makes this originally very spacious market a bit crowded. Not only can you see locals around, but you can also see many tourists wearing foreign costumes strolling in the market, and various vendors hawk One after another among the crowd, it sounds almost noisy, but it seems full of vitality.

In such a place where people come and go, it's nothing to occasionally feel a gaze or two.

"Girl, do you still buy it?"

The stall owner's voice came from the opposite side, interrupting Nina's distraction.

"Oh, sorry," Nina reacted immediately, smiled apologetically at the stall owner, and then raised the hairpin and brooch she just picked out in her hand, "These two, help me wrap them up. Where's Shirley? Do you like it?" Is it?"

"I... didn't pick one," Shirley shook her head, "I'll go to the next one later."

The stall owner packed his things, Nina finished paying, and the two girls who came out to shop continued to hang out in this bustling market. It was still very early before sunset, and the sun was still high above the city-state. They could play quite a long time.

(The mist permeating the surroundings stings the skin and eyes, and the ups and downs of the never-ending howling and whistling sound seem to tear the eardrums, but luckily or unfortunately, the broken thinking and chaotic perception have weakened it to a certain extent In this unbearable pain, he forgot his own existence and staggered forward in this chaotic and indescribable world, continuing to think hard.

What is skin? What are eyes? What is the eardrum? How do you walk yourself? How did I get here?

Starting from the most basic questions, ta began to be confused about everything.

And there are annoying things, constantly interfering with his thinking and memories, and bringing more pain and confusion to him.

Ta tried to raise his head, looking for the source of that annoying disturbance - something hanging high above, a big... noise.

Ta is a little confused, because in his superficial and vague consciousness, "noise" should be an invisible thing, but he feels... what he sees is noise.

A group of chaotic and distorted ripples oscillated endlessly in high places. The ripples covered the entire chaotic sky, stirring up the dark and floating light and shadow, blending with the countless roaring noises on the ground, making people sick , frightening.

He strode forward with difficulty, moved around surrounded by noises, and carefully avoided those indescribable shapes with psychedelic hollows and hissing noises, moved slowly, and continued to move... )

Nina stopped again, this time standing in the middle of the road, staring wide-eyed at an empty space.

In her eyes, there was even a faint golden light floating quietly.

Shirley stopped immediately, and frowned suspiciously as she looked at the open space. After several seconds, she broke the silence uncertainly: "I seemed to feel it just now, something was looking at it. Looking here, and it seems to be following..."

"Does Agou feel it?" Nina asked in a low voice as her nerves tensed unconsciously.

"Agou still said it didn't feel anything," Shirley carefully observed the surroundings, and replied in a low voice, "but it said repeatedly that it had an 'illusion' itself, which is worthy of vigilance, maybe there is something that shouldn't appear in reality The things of the world are exerting influence..."

Nina nodded lightly, and at the same time confirmed the situation in the market from the corner of her eyes.

Among the passers-by, she could see the church guards on the side of the road.

The "knowledge guards" of the Academy of Truth guard this crowded place. They wear college-style burqas and carry large-caliber revolvers at their waists. They watch the wind and grass in the streets and squares with alert and calm eyes—— The eyes blessed by the God of Wisdom Rahmu can immediately detect the evil that invades reality.

However, these "knowledge guards" seemed to be very relaxed, as if they didn't notice anything wrong in the market at all.

"That feeling disappeared... The guards didn't seem to respond, but I always feel that I was not an illusion just now." Nina whispered to Shirley.

Shirley also responded in a low voice: "What are you going to do?"

"...Do you want to report it to the guards on the side of the road?" Nina thought for a while and said, "Uncle said that if you encounter dangers like heretics, you should report to the guards as soon as possible."

Xue Li was stunned for a moment when she heard the words. Her head full of violence and foul language really didn't leave much space for the word "report", and she never thought about it in this direction at all.

However, recalling Captain Duncan's actions of "just reporting" several times, another strange feeling came to her heart——

As a violent, vulgar, ignorant and bad child, she is incompatible with the thinking of this family of evil gods because of her lack of morality?

But after a brief sense of disobedience, she couldn't help shaking her head: "How do you report it? Just say we always feel that someone is following behind? The guards will think we are making trouble..."

(Among the fragmented memories, what else can be combined and connected?

He was thinking hard, and as he staggered forward, he recalled a dark red color, as if thick blood had accumulated. The dark red glow floated in the sky in his memory, as if endlessly Chasing myself, chasing my... companions.

companion? What is a companion?

A new memory suddenly appeared in the depths of his consciousness, and he became a little confused, and then, he finally recalled more.

Ah, he has companions, he and his companions set off on a long journey, but what are they going to do?

It seems... to save the world.

Following the guidance of the prophet, they went to the direction where the red light fell to find a way to save the world. Many of them set off together, but the hunter siblings soon fell down, followed by the gloomy and taciturn magician, and then A few knights...)

Nina still decided to report to several guards at the scene first.

Although it seems to be troublesome to explain the motive of reporting, professional things should be done by professional people after all, and just like Uncle Duncan said—anyway, as long as the attitude is sincere, no one will be held accountable if the report fails. Maybe you can make a fortune if you report it.

She pulled Shirley, who was reluctant, and walked towards the guards on the side of the road.

(Ah, that warm feeling reappeared, not far ahead, even... a hazy light.

He stopped thinking and walked forward subconsciously.

Thick "curtains" gathered around, as if deliberately blocking his footsteps, those buzzing and rumbling noises were also gathering, and the weird hissing figures were walking around, as if full of indescribable The malice exudes an indescribable terror.

However, he quickened his pace and moved closer to that ray of light, just like...

The only thing that is still familiar and understandable in the memory. )

Nina came to the side of the road.

The knowledge guard in the academic burqa turned his head and looked curiously at the two girls who seemed to be still in middle school who came over suddenly.

"Miss, do you need help?" the guard smiled and asked gently.

(Hissing and whispering noises came from the front, the ray of light seemed to be approaching an indescribable shape, and a strong sense of unease came over my heart.)

"We feel something is wrong..." Nina explained to the guards, saying the sentence she had been brewing all the way, "Just now..."

(Ta finally came near the warm light, and when there was still a distance, he stretched out his "hand", wanting to touch the hazy shadow.

At this moment, all the curtains and fog seemed to turn into an invisible boundary, and the "actual touch" brought by penetrating the boundary was the first tingle felt by the lost and forgotten in this new world.

He leaps forward. )

A scream suddenly came from behind, resounding throughout the market.