Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 827

[Chapter 808 The Invisible City]

Vanna has been trekking on this road for a long, long time – so long that she can’t even remember when she was, because she embarked on this seemingly endless long journey, so long that she forgot 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 collapsed and lost cities on the Gobi Desert and ancient relics buried in the dust. She walked through the ruins that were filled with desolation. , 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 would forget the specific appearance of those ruins, and would only vaguely remember that she had passed through them and seen some broken and collapsed walls.

The wind blew from afar, whistling across the desert. The yellow sand was flying, and it blew a sharp and terrifying sound like a ghost’s roar among the boulders. And in the sharp whistling sound, Vanna heard another voice, one she The sound you will always hear during this journey:

“ding…ding…ding…”

It sounds like the sound of metal hitting stone, and also like the sound of metal hitting stone. It was the movement in the blacksmith shop.

Fanna stopped in the middle of the sand road, squinting her eyes and looking into the distance. She knew that every time such a “ding-ding-ding” sound sounded, it meant that there were new ruins or relics nearby.

But she didn’t know exactly why this happened and where the sound came from.

A blurry silhouette of a building suddenly appeared in the background of the yellow sand sky, just like a scene I had seen countless times during this journey.

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 of the voice. It seemed like it was just an illusion.

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

The voice sounded from beside me again: “Why are you ignoring me?”

Along with the voice, it seemed that you could vaguely hear the footsteps of another person walking in the desert – very close to him. place.

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 emerged out of thin air. , but these messy thoughts soon faded from her heart. She hesitated and said hesitantly: “…I don’t remember where I came from.”

“Forgot where I came from?” Sure enough, the invisible traveling companion 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. Anyway, people like you are here. “It’s

not uncommon

?” Fanna raised her head in surprise, “Is there anyone else?”

“There are a lot of noises,” the voice said cheerfully, judging from the tone and content of the words, ” “She” seemed to be pointing in a certain direction, “It’s over there, that city is there.”

Fanna couldn’t see the movements of her invisible traveling companion, but she instinctively looked up at the patch of land that was vaguely emerging in the wind and sand. Silhouette of the building complex, with curiosity in his tone: “That city…

“Well, that city,” the cheerful voice continued, “Everyone comes here from all directions, and some of them may still remember themselves. Where do they come from? Some even forget their names, but that’s not important. That’s what journeys are like. From one far away place to another far away place, sometimes they stop for a while, and sometimes they stop for a while. Once you get down, you can’t walk anymore – when you can’t walk, wherever you stop is the end point… Well, my brother told me this. “

Fanna frowned, and after a brief hesitation, she took another step towards 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 this was a matter of course—— In any case, it’s not a bad thing to have someone to talk to during this long journey.

“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. After passing him, he went to Wesselan to study there, but there has been no news. “

Fanna frowned slightly, feeling as if she heard a familiar word… Wesselan? Where is Wesselan? Is it 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 news from the outside for a long time, and we haven’t sent any news to the outside, which is not a bad thing…

The voice that came suddenly had some distortion, 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 there was silence around her.

She stood there for a few seconds and never heard her invisible traveling companion speak again. She looked around hesitantly and broke the silence: “Is Xu still there?”

The only response to her was the sharp and weird whistling sound in the desert. And the occasional “ding-ding-ding” sound.

The traveling companion seemed to disappear in the wind.

After a while, Fanna shook her head and continued to take steps towards the distant city.

She trudged for a long time, and finally completed this particularly torturous journey before the sky darkened again. She saw the travel companion mentioned As expected, there were no prosperous cities or residents in this well. All she could see were ruins in the yellow sand, buildings that had been abandoned 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 when she was about to pass through the “door”, a serious and powerful voice suddenly came from the air: “Stop, stranger – where are you from?”

Vanna was stunned.

Is there an invisible guard… guarding the door here?

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

She stopped and looked at the empty direction with some confusion. After thinking for a while, she decided to communicate with the other party in the “everything is normal” way: “I am… traveling, but I remember She didn’t know where she came 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, so her answer must also be here. Wouldn’t it look too suspicious?

The “guard” didn’t speak, and seemed to be judging something carefully. He might have disappeared into the wind and sand at that moment. Vanna waited patiently for a while, and just when she was about to give up While waiting to walk in, a familiar and cheerful voice suddenly came from the side – “Hang, you are here!”

It was the “invisible traveling companion” who suddenly disappeared.

“I thought you were lost,” the voice said happily to Fanna, “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, then It might take a whole day to get out…

Woods? Trails? Berry bushes on the roadside?

Listening to the chattering sounds coming from beside her, Fanna looked up in surprise and looked at where she came from. The road – of course there is nothing, except sand and stones, where are the woods and berry bushes?

And just as she was stunned, the guard’s voice appeared again. He was talking to the “invisible traveling companion” Conversation: “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 it. I took her into the city. visit. “

…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 Fanna: “We can go in. “

Fanna immediately withdrew her gaze 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 avenue facing the city gate – the yellow sand buried the ruins on both sides of the road, and the broken stone slabs were spread on the ground in disorder, and occasionally , she will hear some vague sounds, which really seem to be vendors hawking, passers-by talking, and the sound of wheels rolling over the road, but those vague sounds will disappear in the wind almost immediately, and it is not even late. He could hear nothing clearly.

“How is it? This is very prosperous, 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. This city is the most prosperous place on the entire continent!”

…Continent? 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 consciousness.

Knowing

, she wanted to get into her mind.

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