Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 134

[Chapter 134 The Strange Shadow]

To be fair, Duncan is not an expert in the supernatural field, and he also lacks understanding of subjects related to dreams and spiritual fields, but he still vaguely judged that the scenery presented on this street should be more than just snow Li “seen in a dream”.

Because those ashes whispering for help really gave him a wonderful sense of déjà vu—

he thought of that factory, and the people in that factory who were hidden by the curtain and burned to ashes in the fire.

Of course, the ashes in the factory did not ask him for help—the ashes gave him a more intuitive and strong signal: let him directly see the “echo” of the fire eleven years ago.

Subconsciously, Duncan thought there was some connection between the ashes on this street and the ashes in that factory that appeared in Shirley’s dream.

He raised his head and looked around the surrounding scenery. In the dim red light, the whole street showed the tragic appearance after the fire. Among the falling sparks and dust, there were countless piles of ashes, as well as imprinted on the nearby walls. Suspicious shadow.

“You were only six years old back then, no matter how many things you subconsciously observed, it probably wasn’t enough to support such a huge dream—and you had to create these embers calling for help in the dream, as well as phantoms of such a large area in the distance.”

Duncan said softly, and his voice made Shirley, who was a little nervous, suddenly feel at ease.

Shirley raised her head and looked at Duncan who was standing next to her—the current “Mr. Duncan” was different from what she had seen in ordinary times. He was a gloomy and majestic captain, to be honest , This looks quite scary, even without the “real vision” like Agou, she can still feel a deep pressure from the other party.

But in this nightmare that made her more and more strange, such a powerful existence can still give her some sense of security: at least for now, this existence is on her side.

“Let’s go forward and see where the scope of the dream can extend.”

Duncan’s voice suddenly came from the side, Shirley was stunned for a moment, and quickly pulled Agou to follow the other’s footsteps.

Amidst the murmuring cries for help from countless piles of ashes, the two and a dog walked through the streets covered in embers and sparks, and gradually walked towards the distorted and shaking shadowy buildings.

They walked on the street for an unknown amount of time, and Duncan had been carefully observing the changes in the surrounding scenery along the road, but what surprised him was that the scenery on this street remained the same as before.

There were no more distorted phantasms, nor did they become more vague, eerie, or “dangerous dream-creatures” as Gou described them.

Duncan stopped suddenly, frowning slightly.

“Mr. Duncan?” Shirley cast a curious look, “Did you find anything else?” “

…How far have we been away from the ‘origin’?” Duncan raised his head, looking back at the scene when he and Shirley came. The direction, the house at the time of departure has disappeared in the hazy red mist.

“‘Origin’?” Shirley was stunned for a moment, “Oh, the room where I was dreaming? It should be… It’s quite far away, I think it’s at least half a block away.” “Shirley, the situation is not quite

right , “At this time Agou also suddenly reacted, it looked nervously at the surrounding fog, and said in a low voice, “Let’s stop for a moment.”

Shirley hadn’t reacted yet, she looked confused: “What’s wrong?”

“Dream It takes the cognitive base of the dreamer’s subconscious as the ‘center’, your cognitive base in this dream is that room, and all your memories and emotions are also in that room,” Agou quickly explained, “The areas outside the room are all ‘supplementary deduction’ of the dream. In theory, the farther you leave the room, the more the scene supplemented by these deduction will deviate from reason and common sense, and the edge of the dream will become more and more absurd, dangerous, and even appear The cliff area that disappeared out of thin air, but we have come so far… This dream is still going on!”

Duncan nodded slightly while listening – he did not have such a clear and perfect theoretical cognition as Agou, but he The conjecture is about the same.

Xue Li finally woke up, and she took a light breath: “So… I should have walked out of my dream realm long ago. Theoretically, this place has either been distorted beyond recognition, or it should be nothingness… Then we Where is it now? Is this still my dream~?!”

No one could answer Shirley’s question, and Duncan could only look around with a thoughtful expression.

Everywhere he could see, there were burnt and scorched streets. The urban area after the fire was like an ugly scar, deeply chopped on the body of the city-state, and this burnt scar extended all the way to the end of his line of sight. How many blocks did it run through.

He looked in another direction and saw some tall buildings near the block. The distillation tower of one of the factories pierced straight into the sky amidst the smoke and dust. The tower had coiled pipes and a skeleton like a strange mountain. .

Duncan involuntarily stared at the tall distillation tower, thinking that if he stood on that distillation tower, he might be able to overlook the entire fire scene.

Suddenly, his eyes froze.

The scene that Nina had described to herself came to mind:

a very high place, overlooking the burned city, the streets were like a scar, running through the entire city-state…

This is what Nina saw in her dream—except Just a change of perspective!

An astonishing conjecture popped up in Duncan’s mind. He turned his head and looked at Shirley: “We…may have entered another dream.” “

Another dream?” Shirley was taken aback, “Whose dream?”

“Nina’s—come with me.” Duncan said briefly, and then walked towards the direction of the distillation tower.

He didn’t summon Ai to “travel” in the dream, because first of all, he didn’t know whether the pigeon could enter the dream through the way of walking in the spirit world like himself, and secondly, he needed Ai to help him “stand guard” outside. , to monitor whether there are other supernatural forces interfering with his actions.

Fortunately, the distillation tower was not far from this block. It was a factory next door, and there was a straight alley connecting the two blocks.

Shirley followed up confusedly, and she still didn’t understand why Mr. Duncan said that he had walked into Nina’s dream, while Duncan looked up at the high tower from time to time as he walked forward quickly.

He was trying to find Nina.

If this is really Nina’s dream, then the figure of the other party should be standing on the distillation tower – it is already the tallest building as far as the eye can see here, and its position perfectly meets the conditions for overlooking the entire fire scene .

But until the two of them and the dog were about to arrive at the factory, Duncan didn’t see any figure on the distillation tower.

He had some doubts in his heart, but before he could think more, a strange feeling of being watched suddenly came from not far away, which made him stop suddenly.

Duncan raised his head and looked towards the direction he felt. In his vision, a tall and thin figure wearing a strange long black coat and holding a big black umbrella appeared at the corner of the street at some time!

In this dream world full of fire traces and embers on the street, such a strange man with an umbrella suddenly appeared, not to mention how weird this scene was, and this time not only Duncan saw that figure, but also Shirley next to him. Suddenly stopped.

“There’s someone over there!” Shirley exclaimed in surprise.

“You saw it too?” Duncan asked subconsciously, and the moment his voice fell, a vague and strange grunt suddenly came from the direction of the figure not far away.

It wasn’t any language that Duncan knew, and even the overly complicated and distorted vibrato and overlapping echoes in his voice made him suspect that it wasn’t any “language” at all, but he still heard it from the voice. There was a hint of consternation—

the “weird man” holding the umbrella seemed very surprised, as if he never expected to see a few “uninvited guests” wandering around here.

And at the moment when the grunt fell, the weird figure holding the umbrella suddenly moved!

Duncan couldn’t see what the other party did, but he noticed several black shadows suddenly jumping out from the hem of the other party’s long coat from the corner of his eyes. Those were pure “shadows” running along the nearby wall. He Jiejie rushed to this side quickly, and then the figure with the umbrella in the distance disappeared out of thin air, and the next second, his body reappeared with the help of one of the shadows that jumped up quickly, and rushed directly in front of Xueli as if teleporting !

But Shirley has already reacted at this time, and she has the same speed of reaction as the Youshen Hound, who has a heart-to-heart connection with the Youshen Hound. At the moment when the figure just condensed and before she had time to make a move, she had already raised her right hand—”

Anyway It must be a f*c*king fight first!”

The girl yelled, with a strange excitement, the black chain in her hand creaked, swung Agou round and smashed it to the opposite side!

(end of this chapter)