Deep Sea Embers

Vanna has been trekking on this road for a long, long time - so long that she can't even remember when or why she embarked on this seemingly endless journey, so long that she has forgotten where she started. , and forgot the goal of the trip.

She only knew that this world was desolate, and all she saw on the road seemed to be the sky filled with yellow sand, as well as the crumbling lost cities on the Gobi Desert and ancient relics buried in the sand. She walked through the ruins that were filled with desolation. Passing by, as if traveling back through the forgotten time, occasionally, she would stop for a while among the ruins, but she would soon leave them behind - when the sun rose the next day. , she will forget the specific appearance of those ruins, and only vaguely remember that she has passed them and seen some broken and collapsed walls.

The wind blew from afar, roaring across the desert. The yellow sand was flying, and it blew a sharp and terrifying sound among the boulders, like a ghost's howling. And in the sharp whistling sound, Vanna heard another voice, a The sounds she would always hear during this journey:

"MachiJJ

It sounded like the sound of metal hitting stone, or the movement in a blacksmith shop. Vanna stopped in the middle of the sand road, squinting her eyes and looking into the distance. She knew that every time there was such a "ding, ding, ding" sound, When it rings, it means there are new ruins or relics nearby.

But specifically why this happened and where the sound came from, she didn't know that a vague silhouette of a building suddenly appeared in the background of the yellow sand sky, just like the one she had seen countless times during this journey. The scene is the same.

Fanna looked at the group of buildings that suddenly appeared for a while, and after a brief trance, she took steps towards that direction, facing the increasingly chaotic and disorderly wind and sand.

At this moment, a young female voice suddenly appeared next to her: "Where are you from?"

Fanna looked around in shock, but could only see yellow sand flying, and there was no one in the direction where the sound came from. It seemed like it was just an illusion.

She frowned, feeling as if the wind and sand had even blown into her head, making her thinking more and more unclear. She shook her head and decided to move on.

The voice came from beside me again: "Why are you ignoring me?"

Along with the sound of talking, it seems that you can vaguely hear the footsteps of another person walking in the desert - very close to him.

Vanna suddenly stopped again and stared at the position beside her. She still couldn't see the person speaking, but she seemed to vaguely feel the "atmosphere" of someone's presence.

There was an invisible traveler walking with him, trying to talk to him.

is this normal? Does this phenomenon exist in this world? Is there really an unobservable race living in this world?

Fanna felt that her mind was in a trance again, and some absurd and weird associations popped up out of thin air. However, these messy thoughts soon disappeared from her heart. She hesitated for a moment, and then hesitantly said: "I don't remember where I came from. ""

"Have you forgotten where you came from?" The invisible traveling companion indeed spoke again, with a slightly raised tone, "Ah,

This is not good. If you forget where you came from, it will be difficult to go back, but it doesn't matter. Situations like yours are not uncommon here anyway. "

"Here? Not uncommon?" Fanna raised her head in surprise, "Is there anyone else here?"

"Yes, there are many," the voice said cheerfully. From the tone and content of her words, "she" seemed to be pointing in a certain direction, "It's right over there, in that city."

Fanna couldn't see the movements of her invisible traveling companion, but she instinctively looked up at the silhouette of the buildings vaguely emerging in the wind and sand, and said with curiosity in her tone: "That city."

"Well, in that city," the cheerful voice continued, "everyone comes here from all directions, some still remember where they come from, and some even forget their names, but that's not important. That's what a journey is like. From one far away place to another far away place, sometimes you'll stop for a while in the middle, and sometimes you can't walk anymore after you stop - where do you stop when you can't walk anymore? It's the end, my brother told me."

Vanna frowned, and after a brief hesitation, she took another step toward the hazy building complex. She heard another footsteps ringing in her ears almost immediately, and a vague breath followed behind her.

Your brother? "Fanna asked casually, "Do you have a brother? ‘

It felt very strange to talk to an invisible traveling companion, but for some reason, she gradually felt that it was a natural thing - no matter what, it was not like having one more person to talk to during this long journey. bad thing.

"Yes, I have a brother who is six years older than me," the cheerful voice said immediately, "but I haven't seen him in many years. He went to Wesselan to study there, but there has been no news."

Vanna frowned slightly, feeling as if she heard a familiar word Wesselan? Where is Wesselan? A city?

"Are you worried about him?" she asked subconsciously.

'Don't worry,' the voice next to me replied,

“Many of us haven’t received or sent messages from the outside for a long time, and there’s nothing wrong with that—

The sound coming from the wind suddenly became distorted, as if the distance suddenly widened, and then there was a chaotic noise. Fanna did not hear the last few words of the other party clearly, and then she fell into a chaos around her. Quiet.

She stood there for a few seconds and never heard her invisible traveling companion speak again. She looked around hesitantly and broke the silence: "Are you still there?"

The only thing that responded to her was the sharp and weird whistling sound in the desert, and the occasional "ding-ding-ding" knocking sound.

The traveling companion seemed to disappear in the wind.

After a while, Fanna shook her head and continued walking towards the distant city.

She trekked for a long time, and finally completed this particularly torturous journey before the sky darkened again. She saw the "city" mentioned by her travel companion. Not surprisingly, there were no prosperous cities and residents here. What caught her eyes were only ruins in the yellow sand, buildings that had been destroyed for who knows how many years.

Fanna found a gap in the fragmented city wall that seemed to be the remains of a gate. She checked the situation in the ruins of the city through the gap, and then walked towards the "city".

However, just as she was about to pass through the "door", a serious and powerful voice suddenly came from the air: "Stop, stranger—where are you from?"

Fanna was stunned for a moment.

Is there an invisible guard here guarding the gate?

She had dealt with cultists in the sewers and monsters growing in the darkness, but she had never dealt with this situation.

She stopped and looked at the empty direction with some confusion. After thinking for a moment, she decided to communicate with the other party in the "everything is normal" way: "I am traveling, but I can't remember where I come from." ""

She still remembered that the invisible traveling companion told her that there were many "residents" in this "city" who had forgotten where they came from like herself, so surely her answer wouldn't seem too suspicious here, right?

The 'guard' didn't speak, and seemed to be judging something carefully, or he might have disappeared into the wind and sand at that moment. Fanna waited patiently for a while, and just when she was about to give up waiting and walk in directly, A familiar and cheerful voice suddenly came from the side: "Ah, you are here!" "

It was the "invisible traveling companion" who suddenly disappeared.

'I thought you were lost,' the voice said happily to Vanna, 'there are many forks in the road, especially the paths in the woods. If you are attracted by the berry bushes on the roadside and enter the path, It might take a whole day to get out.

In the woods? Trail? A berry bush by the roadside?

Listening to the chattering voice coming from beside her, Fanna mistakenly looked up at the way she came - of course there was nothing there, except for sand and stones, where were the woods and berry bushes?

And while she was stunned, the guard's voice appeared again. He was talking to the "invisible traveling companion": "Is this your friend?"

"Well, we met on the road," the young woman's voice said immediately. "She comes from a far away place. She is new here and is not familiar with this place. I took her into the city for a walk.

"Then you go in, but don't run around. It's getting dark and the woods outside the city are not peaceful."

"Hey! Thank you!"

The cheerful voice thanked the guard, then turned to Vanna: "We can go in."

Fanna immediately looked away from the desert outside the city and nodded in the direction of the sound: "Okay."

She walked into this "bustling city" and walked on a wide and desolate road facing the city gate - yellow sand buried the ruins on both sides of the road, and broken stone slabs were spread on the ground in disorder. Occasionally, She would hear some vague sounds, which seemed to be vendors hawking, passers-by talking, and the sound of wheels rolling over the road, but those vague sounds would disappear in the wind almost immediately, and she would not even have time to hear them. clear any content.

"How is it? It's very prosperous here, isn't it?" The young and lively voice said beside Fanna, as if pointing to the shops on the roadside and the busy traffic on the road, "I have lived here for many years, and this city is full of The most prosperous place on the continent! "

mainland? What is that?

Vanna felt in a trance, as if some kind of knowledge that did not belong to "common sense" suddenly broke into her cognition and wanted to get into her mind.

But the next second, her firm will dispelled this trance.

The knowledge has not penetrated.

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