Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 29

[Chapter 29 The People Who Protect the City]

Gods with supreme power live in the cornerstone of this world, watching the movement of this world with the eyes that transcend time and space, and devout believers who convert to God with spiritual power will, to a certain extent, learn from themselves In the hidden connection with the gods, you can get a glimpse of the future trend of some reality, or the changes that are happening in an unknown corner of the world at this moment.

This kind of peeping is not bound by time and space, and it implies the risk of being eroded by warp space, but for those devout believers with a strong will, this dangerous and powerful force is what they use to protect the infinity of the endless ocean. The greatest reliance on lighting the fragile lights of civilization.

The devout Inquisitor had been seeing a similar vision for days.

In a half-dream and half-awake state, she saw that the boundless ocean was stained with ink, and then there was a loud thunderous noise from the depths of the sea. A giant ship burning with flames rose from the seabed and slowly floated up in mid-air like an airship, and an invisible giant covered in starlight followed behind the giant ship, step by step towards the direction of the Pradesh city-state.

In Judge Vanna’s life so far, such a large and terrifying “omen” has only appeared twice.

The first happened as a child, when she woke up from a bloody nightmare, lost her parents in a cult attack, and left a lifelong scar on her face.

The second time happened four years ago. In a dream, she saw a dark sun rising from the city-state, and thus wiped out the largest stronghold of the Sun God Sect infiltrating the city-to this day, the ghosts of those cultists The lingering minions are still hiding in the huge, complex and ancient tunnel system underground in Purland, engaging in meaningless entanglements with the guardians of the church.

For the third time, she saw a ship return from the depths and bring into the world a nameless giant.

She lied to the priest in front of her—the omen she saw was actually very clear, so clear that she, the judge, could not sleep for days.

The pastor looked at the calm gray eyes of the lady in front of him, and after a long hesitation, he finally spoke: “But you prayed to God, and it seems that you haven’t received any bad feedback?

” Tribulation is the test of time,” Fan Na said calmly, “Let’s not talk about it, what’s the news from the Explorers’ Association?” The

pastor nodded immediately: “The contact person from the association has just sent a message, and the person who stayed at the association’s headquarters The holy object has sensed that the ship has appeared in the southwestern waters, but there seems to be a problem with the telegraph device on the ship, and it is currently in a state of being unable to communicate. It can only be confirmed that the ship is approaching the offshore waters of Prand at a normal speed and course.”

” …disappeared in the perception of the holy object for a while, and then appeared out of thin air on another sea surface that deviates far from the planned route. The current state cannot be contacted, and it is heading straight to the city-state…and was carrying out the escort of the abnormal object before losing contact Mission,” the judge frowned a little bit, the intuition brought about by dealing with strange things all year round was beating, which made her vigilant, “I remember that ship is called the White Oak?” “

Yes , White Oak, the captain is Lawrence Creed, a member of the Explorers Association, an experienced captain, because of the special cargo transported, the ship reported to the church before sailing from the city-state of Rensa,” the pastor recalled While saying, “By the way, the accompanying priest on that ship is a registered priest of the Deep Sea Church.”

“My fellow churchmen… I hope the situation is not too bad,” Fan Na said in a serious tone, “Anyway, the situation on that ship is not quite right. , the entire route from Lensa to Purland is in the ‘safe area’ controlled by the Explorers’ Association, but that ship has disappeared from the perception of relics… I suspect that the White Oak is very likely to have briefly Leaving the real world, and even… may have been to places that shouldn’t be.

” Inform the guards of the port to keep an eye on the ship immediately after the White Oak enters the port. Before all inspections are completed, no one or anyone Things left the ship—is there any response from the security forces? “

Don’t worry, your uncle… Your Excellency the Consul has ordered the sheriffs to control the surrounding area of the port and raised the alert level of the port. Alternate port calls on the west side. “

“That’s fine—uncle has always been a cautious person.” The tense expression on Fan Na’s face finally relaxed a little, “as long as he doesn’t let ordinary people in the security forces get involved in this matter.” The pastor

looked Looking into Fanna’s pale gray eyes, she carefully selected her words and said, “

Do you think… that ship has been ‘polluted’?” There are very few completely normal ones. It may be that some items on the ship have unknowingly alienated and become ‘abnormal’. It may be the mental illness hidden deep in the hearts of the crew. It may even be the extra sailors and the replaced ones. Captain…it is always right to exercise the utmost vigilance for a sea-going ship that has experienced abnormal phenomena.” “

Alas… I hope that ship and its crew are all well,” the pastor couldn’t help but put his hands across his chest and read Chanting the name of the Goddess of Storms, “May the Goddess of Storms protect those who bravely challenge the sea.” “May they

be well,” Fanna also lowered her eyelids and blessed softly, and then seemed to remind the priest in front of her , “But if unfortunately they fail to ‘well’, we have to be prepared.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Fanna nodded, but just as she was about to refocus her attention on the city outside the window Suddenly, the sound of hurried footsteps came from the direction of the stairs.

The next moment, a guard wearing a uniform with a black background and silver trim, with the emblem of waves and daggers on his chest, ran up the stairs quickly.

“Your Excellency, Judge!” The young guard gasped twice, and immediately said in a hurried tone, “We found a stronghold of a cult worshiping the sun god in the sewer, and captured a group of believers!

” Seriously: “Those cultists who worship the dark sun? Wait, you said that what you found was a sacrificial place… not a hiding place? How dare they hold sacrificial activities again?!”

“Yes, it’s the place where the sacrificial ceremony was held. We found evidence that the sacrificial ceremony was held,” the guard said quickly, “and also found a large number of victims in the crypt not far from the ceremony site—among them Most of them have been sacrificed with their hearts. It’s just…the situation at the sacrifice site is not right.”

Fan Na saw the absurd and confused look on the guard’s face, and she picked up the bearer from the side. The heavy sword blessed by the Goddess of Storms walked quickly towards the stairs while carrying it on his back: “Lead the way, I will go to the scene in person.” “Yes!” The heavy blessing

sword

and the metal shoulder armor made a sound There was a crisp crashing sound, and hurried footsteps passed through the long stairs in the big clock tower. Fan Na came to the small square in front of the big clock tower, and saw that several guards had gathered here to wait for orders, and two steam walkers were on the way. Stopping at the edge of the square, there were continuous rattling sounds from the spider-like mechanical body.

Fan Na didn’t stop, but gave the guards a start signal, and walked straight to one of the walking machines—this huge machine the size of two carriages looked like a mechanical spider lying on the ground, its steel Wheels for easy sliding on flat ground and steel hooks for special environments are installed on the edges of the limbs, while on both sides of the upper shell of the walking machine are shooting cockpits with revolving guns.

It is difficult for pure technological creations to have enough impact on “abnormalities” or “anomalies”, but crushing firepower can kill those heretics who hide behind and manipulate anomalies-of course, this thing is not very effective in the sewer Out of power, it can be used to block doors but it is quite easy to use.

Holy 8 mm bullets poured out, sending hordes of heretics trying to escape in the blink of an eye to serve their lord in the Warp.

The gray-haired and gray-eyed judge jumped directly onto the carapace of the walker, and stood firmly in the night with his long sword on his back. The other two guards climbed into the shooting cockpit on both sides of the carapace, followed by a group of A series of cylinders and compression pipes made the sound of pressurization and decompression, and white steam spewed out from the joints of the walker’s joints. The huge mechanical spider immediately got up, jumped to the nearest main road in one step, and then slid quickly Headed for the nearest sewer entrance.

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