Wasteland Echoer

"Say? Say?"

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"Explorers Association" at No. 02 Zhenxin Street, Sudani Town, Zine Empire.

After feeling the burning message sent by Sai through the "Shadow Time Bracer", Luo Nie quickly surged the magic power in his body to form spirit, and ran through the crowd with the crimson moon above his head and the concrete road under his feet. About four or five minutes later, near the outer corner of the hall, which was filled with bright, incandescent light powered by electricity, I saw Sai, who was rubbing his eyes and struggling to wake up.

"Luonie...brother." Sai murmured slightly weakly. He struggled to support his body with his thin arms and leaned back against the cold decorative marble.

"How are you, Sai? Have you been attacked?" Luo Nie reached out and looked at the surface of Sai's body and clothes, trying to find the wounds left by the attack.

But the strange thing is that although Sai collapsed in a corner near the "Explorers Association" hall due to coma, there were no wounds or damage on his body, not even stained areas.

Could it be that his internal organs were broken and he fainted? Or is it because of some spiritual power?

Thinking of this, Luo Nie surged with the subtle, thread-like power of the grass and trees' magic source, and placed his right hand against Sayi's heart.

"The magic source power is running smoothly and there are no obstacles."

"There is no overflow of life energy."

"Is it a psychic attack?"

Immediately afterwards, Luo Nie held Sayi with one hand and leaned his body near the cold marble. He picked up Sayi with the other hand and let him lean against his body.

At the same time, a faint light green light appeared in his right hand again, and he touched Sai's forehead.

"I don't feel the product of the spirit knot."

"No extra breath exists."

"The spirit seems to be invaded. That power?"

Luo Nie closed his eyes tightly and used the method of spirit formation to pour subtle magic power into Sai's brain, trying to sense the source of the power that had been invaded in Sai's brain.

"Sorrow? Rich sadness." Luo Jie muttered, and a pitch black river appeared in front of him across his field of vision.

It was constantly surging and changing in Luo Nie's spiritual world, forming a thick black liquid.

Immediately afterwards, under the changing surges of thunder, lightning and violent winds in the spiritual world, he seemed to see a twisted black shadow.

"Is he the source of Shang?" Luo Nie guessed: "Twisted tentacles grew out of the huge weird internal organs. The twisted tentacles were filled with bright red fruits. After the fruits were broken, bright red blood dripped out, and gradually condensed in Together. Incandescent light, mixed with steam and burning fluid. Is this the message of the heraldry?"

Luonie suddenly escaped from Sai's spiritual realm, muttering in his mouth.

Immediately afterwards, Sai, who was leaning on Luo Nie's body, finally shook his heavy head vigorously, supported his body and stood up, and said in a child-like voice:

"Brother Luonie, I'm fine, I just met a lost person."

"The Lost One?" Luo Nie turned his light blue eyes and asked.

Then, he patted the dust off Sayi's body and helped Sayi stand up.

"Yes." Sai nodded and said slightly confused:

"I just entered the Explorers Association gate, and when I was about to go in and use my resident certificate level to help us find a team, I saw an uncle wearing a windbreaker, a round hat, and a black cane walking towards me."

"Uncle? Have you talked to him?" Luo Nie asked worriedly.

"He seemed to know me, and he announced Sister Natasha's full name as soon as he came up. But I just said a few words to him, and I felt like he stretched out a hand and patted me on the head. I just I felt very tired and wanted to sleep. But I knew I couldn't fall asleep completely, so I took advantage of the last few seconds of waking up to inject a little magic power into the wrist guard. I think this power is enough to send a message to you, brother." Sai said, rubbing his eyes.

"I just felt that your spirit was invaded. Are you still feeling tired or uncomfortable now? If you feel any discomfort, we will go back to the hotel and rest for a few days before making further preparations." Luo Nie asked with concern.

"No, no need, brother. I'm fine." Sai shook his head vigorously and said:

"Don't delay the performance before the auction, brother. When I entered the gate just now, I heard a few gorgeously dressed ladies inside saying that if you want to participate in the auction, you must watch the performance and get a special number plate. , it seems that the performance is called... called... yes, called 'Raleye's Vespers'."

Having said this, Sai carefully looked around the corner of the street where few pedestrians passed, lowered his voice, and said close to Luo Nie's ear:

"That mask, brother, the other half that you dropped after defeating the 'hair ball' monster may be one of the exhibits in this auction. My noble aunts said that the mask is a highlight, but the nobles don't like it. , they are more concerned about the oil lamp, which seems to be a sequential monster. So, should we buy him?"

"Buy it, it's valuable, I must buy it. It may not only be related to the monster, but also to the god of the Silent Highlands. But in this case, I have to ask the master to borrow some money. I have learned before that the Sogra Industrial Bank only opened a month ago A branch has been set up here. If it is a telegraph remittance, it should not be a problem. Oh, by the way, Sai, besides, uh, inducing you to coma, what else did that uncle do to you?" Luo Nie asked with a look of concern. .

"That's not true. He just said that I looked familiar, and then asked me if I knew Sister Natasha. Then he also said that it seems that there are not many people from the Tenyin sect staying in Sunida, because the city of Sugra After the sect was banned, they basically went to Silent Heights and met with the 'Church of Hope' over there. He also talked about the gods." Sai answered seriously.

"Gods? What information about gods...?" Luo Nie stretched out his palm and waved it, indicating to Sayi to recall it carefully.

"It seems that when Sister Natasha was helping Mr. George perform the ceremony, she said that she originally wanted to summon the apostle of the god named... called, yes, the 'Daughter of the Mechanical Element', but after she sacrificed the sacrifice, it ended up being weird. He summoned the [Order] from another world, and then he told me that if you want to find other people from the Tenyin sect, you can come here or at the edge camp of Silent Highlands. Someone is waiting for me." Sai subconsciously He touched his slightly hot chest and said.

"Daughter of Tool Yuan? Daughter of Tool Yuan?" Luo Jie repeated, all the information about the gods collected during this period flashed through his mind.

Immediately afterwards, a clear clue of information, plus a few important key words, emerged in his mind.

"The daughter of the Mechanical Element, the Crusted Empire, the product of the Machine Lord, the emblem of steam, the ruins of the highlands, the mechanical body, the girl, the singing voice, the singing voice that fell into madness."

These words were like flying bats one after another, inciting high-frequency wings and dizzying sound waves, making him aware of the mystery and horror of this world for the first time in his nearly one hundred years of "life".

Luo Nie's mechanical brain, which already has complete human thinking functions, is also running crazily at this time, trying to combine and manage a series of information, and finally extend it to form an iron chain that runs through all the clues.

However, when these seemingly related but not so logical words were arranged and combined, Luo Nie's brain flashed in Luo Nie's mind like a man's cry from a hundred years ago, as if he was struggling before his death:

"Don't...try...to...discover...the gods!"

"Hoo, ho, ho."

"Brother Luonie, are you feeling uncomfortable?" Sai saw Luo Nie breathing heavily and his eyes wide open. The eyeballs inside were like balloons that were constantly being inflated, protruding ferociously outwards, as if they would burst and gush out at any time. Like blood.

"No, no. I just remembered an, uh, old friend I met before. By the way, Sai, have you ever had any friends?" Luo Nie wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up and changed the topic.

"Friends? No." Sai shook his head, his eyes dimmed a little, and said:

"It seems that there were a few orphanages in Socra City before they were cancelled. At that time, sister Natasha was still helping out as a volunteer there, and some nuns came to take care of us from time to time. But since they knew that my father was a lost person, , and after I had the blood of the Lost, they kicked me out. But it was only in those two years that the city seemed to have passed some kind of bill. In short, all the orphanages were cancelled."

"The "City Happiness Act", haha, the gentlemen on those committees are all talented. The Zine Empire Parliament would pass such an outrageous thing. But, Say, I seem to have met an old friend. In addition to talking about Regarding the information about the gods of the Silent Highlands, he also told me a key thing." Luo Nie forced a smile and said.

"What? Is it related to sister Natasha?" Luo Nie raised his head and asked.

"It's the [Order] that your sister Natasha was talking about in the past few days. I heard the information from someone, probably an old friend. He may be a person named Wright Sugra. If possible, After the auction ends, I will buy some materials here to make the crest that the false god taught me. Now I seem to have remembered the function of that crest." Luo Nie replied.

"What's the purpose?" Sai looked at Luo Nie with brown eyes and put on a cute look.

"Enter the realm called 'Gray Dream' and play a certain role in the dream in order to get in touch with someone. However, if the parties joining the dream are not of upper-level professions, or none of them have the pain level of Sequence 5, If you go to the dream world, you will quickly forget a lot of unimportant information after the dream. However, there will be a small problem in this kind of field, that is, the appearance of the person who enters will not be remembered. I think, if the [Orderer] ] If he truly has the strength of an upper-level profession, I should have a chance to get in touch with him in the 'Grey Dream'." Luo Nie said, looking up at the crimson moon hanging above his head.

"Then, try it?" Sai said in a childish voice.

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Zine Empire, Sunida Town, No. 01 Zhenxin Street, underground auction venue.

The noisy venue was borrowed from the underground theater built in Sunida Town more than 200 years ago. After half a month of careful decoration, the night of the perfect crimson moon finally officially opened the venue for the lost and alien. A carnival moment for all races including capable men, military men, adventurers and humans.

Although the huge venue was dark, pure black and red, the several large gas lamps hanging overhead only cast a dim red light.

However, the hall is divided into three distinct areas. The upper circular area is filled with spectators of all races who cannot buy tickets, while the viewing area with comfortable seats below is arranged in a mechanical and neat manner.

Most of them are wearing tuxedos, suits, windbreakers, or even luxurious dresses.

In a dark and noisy environment, in addition to staring at the auction items covered with crimson cloth, there are also actors on the stage wearing various monster holsters, as well as hanging high on the top of the stage to ring the "Raleye Night" The huge clock that opens the show "Prayer".

As for the actors who are waiting, in addition to their black, blood red and dark purple style costumes, they are even "thoughtfully" equipped with special performance equipment such as tentacles, bones, black feathers, bright red long tails and other special performance equipment.