Deep Sea Embers

With an inexplicable sense of concern, Duncan led Alice quickly to the huge "vine" quietly dormant in the shadow of the building.

It's bigger than Duncan imagined.

Even at its spreading end part, the diameter of this "vine" exceeds the height of a person, and its thicker "source" extends from a slope deep in the street, as if it melts directly into the night. In the dark depths, only shadowy and huge structures could be seen bulging and entangled among the shadows of the buildings, as if there was some larger and more complete "body" there.

However, the "body" of astonishing scale is shrouded in a hazy feeling. No matter how you look at it, you can't see it clearly. Even the "sunlight" shining through the gaps in the high-altitude tree canopy seems to be unable to penetrate it. Piece hazy texture.

Alice was dumbfounded by something she had never seen before. Holding the puppet maid's head, she opened her eyes wide and tried to see clearly the "source" of the vines spreading on the street. After a long time, she was stunned. Opening: "Captain...is this also a 'plant'?"

Duncan didn't answer her. He was still observing the giant vine that almost blocked the street in front of him. After a long time, he stepped to the end of the giant vine, leaned down at its "tail end", and cautiously He stretched out his fingers and touched its rough and hard surface.

Lucretia's voice came from the puppet head held in Alice's arms: "Dad, have you found anything? Have you found the 'dreamer'?"

"We didn't find the dreamer, but we found an amazingly large... vine," Duncan said without raising his head. "It looks different from other plants in the street. It's very huge, but it seems to be just a bigger... Part of a huge 'plant'. For some reason, I always feel like this vine is...alive, or in other words, active."

He raised his head and glanced at the towering trees surrounding the street.

Lush plants filled the entire block, but these plants gave him a feeling of lifelessness, as if they were mere phantoms that lacked life. Only the huge vines in the center of the street gave him a sense of living things.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Duncan took a breath and decided to try to establish contact with this unique "vine".

A trace of green flame wrapped around his fingertips like running water, and then quietly seeped into the vine, and the firelight flashed away in the darkness.

Familiarly controlling the spread of this wisp of flame in the "foreign object", and telling Alice to pay attention to the surrounding movements, Duncan closed his eyes slightly and began to sense the information conveyed to him by the flame, and tried to communicate , understand this "vine" that seems to spread out from a huge dream...

In the darkness, something seemed to be rising and falling, condensing and dissipating.

Duncan "opened" his eyes in the darkness. In this weak and fuzzy connection, he tried his best to see clearly the outlines that condensed and dissipated in the darkness——

There was mist rising from the darkness, and something was emerging from the depths of the mist.

There is indeed something here!

Duncan's heart moved, and he immediately moved closer to the vaguely outline thing. He felt that he turned into a swift wind or shadow, flying quickly through the dark fog, and as he approached, the hazy The hazy shadow quickly expanded in the field of vision, and gradually began to show more details.

Duncan couldn't help but speed up his "traveling" speed, and those fuzzy details quickly became clear in his eyes. Gradually, he began to distinguish some things——

The towering and majestic bow, the dark-colored hull, the gunport covers arranged below the ship's side, the masts and cables with complex structures, and the sails with a translucent texture at high places...

Duncan stopped in astonishment.

He raised his head in the darkness, staring dumbly at the familiar sight that appeared at the end of the fog, looking at his... Homeless Ship.

…

Nina, who was cautiously moving forward on the rugged forest path, suddenly stopped, frowning and listening to the noise coming from the depths of the forest.

After a moment, she turned her head: "Mr. Morris, did you hear anything?"

"It's the wind. The wind suddenly picked up, and the direction of the wind was chaotic... not normal." Morris's face gradually became serious. He glanced at Nina who was following him, "Go up and take a look at the distance." situation, don’t stay in the sky for too long and pay attention to safety.”

"good!"

Nina immediately agreed, and then suddenly turned into a jumping arc of flames, rushing straight into the sky - the bright flame arc quickly circled over the forest, and almost at the same time, this piece of land condensed by dreams The mature forest reacted to this. The trees illuminated by the flame arc began to grow wildly, making creaking sounds and extending towards the sky. The high-altitude clouds also began to gather in the direction of Nina, gradually forming an enveloping ring. …

But Nina only hovered in the sky for a few seconds. Before the forest's reaction became more violent and dangerous, she quickly fell back to Morris.

"It's scary... I'm really not welcome in this place..." She patted her chest with some fear.

"Perhaps your brilliance is too strong for this 'foreign land'. Most foreign lands will instinctively reject those 'invading forces' that are enough to pose a threat to themselves," Morris said, "What's going on in the distance? ?"

"There is an area deep in the forest. I don't know what happened. It looks pitch black. The trees and the ground seem to be rotten. But it is far away from us. In the other direction, we can see tall, continuous mountains. The shadow looks translucent, like a light curtain, but nothing else is found..."

Nina quickly talked about what she saw in the few seconds she was hovering in the sky. At the same time, she raised her hand to indicate the general direction of the scene she saw. But just in the middle of her words, something happened again. A howling wind suddenly sounded from deep in the forest, followed by the chaotic wind penetrating the forest and the sudden creaking noise of the surrounding trees, interrupting her movements.

The chaotic whistling wind seemed to be mixed with countless vague roaring noises, and a strange sense of tension and rejection instantly surged into Nina and Morris' bodies and minds.

It was as if this dream-shaped forest was suffering some great external shock, as if everything here suddenly began to falter.

The two glanced at each other subconsciously, and then they saw the towering trees in the distance begin to shake and collapse like phantoms. The sky was quickly filled with fine cracks, and the light and shadow of the real world seemed to be passing through the cracks. When the light came in, a feeling of about to wake up from the dream came to my heart.

At the same time, in another corner deep in the forest, Shirley also heard the whistling noises that were rapidly approaching from a distance, and then, the Annihilation cultist walking in front suddenly stopped.

Shirley panicked immediately, but she quickly controlled the expression on her face: "Ah? What happened?"

"The stability of the dream has decreased, the operation is over, and everyone is leaving the Dream of the Nameless One," Richard turned around and said, with a look of doubt finally showing on his face, "You didn't receive the message?"

Xue Li was stunned for a moment, and quickly adjusted her expression, with an innocent look on her face: "I don't know—maybe it was a careless omission..."

"Careless?" The Annihilation cultist who called himself Richard immediately stared at Shirley's eyes. He seemed to have finally noticed the sense of disobedience brought to him by the "young compatriot" across from him along the way. Every trace of vigilance and doubt appeared in his mind. Eyes, "Compatriots, I seem to have forgotten to ask... Which city-state are you active in in the real world?"

Shirley immediately noticed the subtle changes in the other person's eyes - she was extremely sensitive to the slightest malice shown by strangers, but she still maintained a harmless expression on her face: "I'm in Moko City State. , there are many elves here..."

"'Fellow'," Richard suddenly interrupted Shirley. His voice changed, as if some other obscure syllables were suddenly mixed in his voice. He stared at Shirley's eyes and opened and closed his mouth. It seems that there is some kind of bewitching power spreading, "We are prohibited from revealing our true position in the real world during our actions, even if we meet 'one of our own'. It's a pity..."

The vicious magic power quietly gathered in his mouth, and the power of the death bird was transferred to the cultist's body along the symbiotic chain. He felt that the spell had locked onto the mental entity of the girl in front of him, but the other party seemed to have not reacted at all yet. , still just standing on the opposite side blankly.

Seeing this scene, he was finally more sure of his judgment——

Knowing nothing about the power of the spell, this cannot be the real subject of the Youshen Lord.

Although I don’t know where she came from, or how she came up with such a fake disguise, or what happened to the seemingly flawless “Deep Hound”, there is no doubt that this “comatriot” is False—fortunately, I discovered it in time, and the opponent seemed to have no combat experience.

The time has come to say goodbye, no one can be under the curse of the death bird...

Everything happened in an instant—the instant judgment and emotion in Richard's heart, and Shirley's happy and bright smiling face that suddenly appeared.

Richard was astonished to see the girl opposite suddenly smiling brightly at him, and he only had time to be so stunned for a moment - no time to react, no time to see clearly what was going on, when he saw the person who called herself "Sarah" "The girl suddenly raised her arms towards herself, and immediately after that, a ferocious black shadow hit her face!

Shirley raised the dog with her hands, and as the chain whistled, a dog hit the head of the cultist on the opposite side——

"See you fucking later!"