Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 828

[Chapter 809 Ashes follow the wind]

In the deserted city, Fanna walked cautiously, her invisible travel companion walking beside her, happily introducing this prosperous, lively and beautiful place to her.

This is the most prosperous city in the entire “continent”. Almost everyone knows it, and most people live here or at least pass through it on their travels. The guards here are dedicated to their duties, and the residents here are friendly and generous. This brings together all the new and interesting products in the world, as well as all the new and interesting ideas and stories in the world.

“Everyone likes this, and you will too,” the cheerful voice said beside Fanna. “As long as you stay here for a few days, you will know its appeal!”

Fanna has everything she wants. While I was listening to the enthusiastic tour guide beside me talking to me, some weird but practical thoughts were running through my mind.

She was thinking that she couldn’t see the “people” in this city at all, but she could occasionally hear the voices of other people nearby. So for the residents here (who might really exist), she Is it equivalent to a blind man carrying a big sword? Such a dangerous armed man walks on the street with his eyes closed, strutting around… Are the invisible residents really not reacting at all?

She also thought about the noisy guide next to her – judging from her voice, she was a young girl – she couldn’t see her or even touch her, so it was naturally difficult to “visit” this place according to the other person’s guidance. place, so Fanna just explored among these ruins based on her own judgment along the way, basically not paying attention to whether the “traveler” beside her was following her or whether the other party could keep up, but the “guide” “Miss” didn’t seem to find anything wrong with this.

She just naturally followed her around. No matter which way Fanna suddenly walked towards, her voice remained at a distance that was neither far nor close, and she communicated with Fanna smoothly and naturally, as if this was what she was doing for “new life”. Visiting route planned by “Friends”.

Fanna stopped near a crossroads and silently sorted out her thoughts.

What kind of existence does I, a “foreigner”, have to the residents of this invisible city and the invisible traveling companion beside me?

The moment this doubt emerged, I felt a trance that was stronger than before but suddenly It hit her heart, and Fanna suddenly felt that her mind went blank for a moment, as if… she had forgotten something very important.

She raised her head in confusion and looked at the strange and desolate ruins. She vaguely remembered that she had noticed something “irrational” before, but now this sense of irrationality had disappeared.

“Would you like some fruit?” A voice suddenly came from the nearby roadside, interrupting Fanna’s thoughts. The voice sounded like a gentle old woman, “They were all delivered to the city this morning. , fresh and thirst-quenching, it seems you have been traveling for a long time, right?”

Fanna looked around and saw a pile of planks and stones half buried by the yellow sand on the side of the road, and a vague black figure was sitting there In the ruins, the black shadow stretched out his hand to himself, like a vendor selling goods – the ball of yellow sand was blown by the wind and slipped from the black shadow’s hand, and there was only sand on the wooden board in front of him.

Fanna blinked, and the black shadow disappeared in an instant.

She stood alone at the crossroads, with only the hollow sound of wind in her ears. After a while, she realized that even the voice of her “invisible traveling companion” had disappeared, and had not sounded for a long time.

Fanna turned her head, looked in the direction where she last felt the other person’s breath, and asked tentatively: “Are you still there?”

She received no response.

Some dust was blown up by the wind and fell from a nearby abandoned wall. A vague and intermittent familiar sound came from the wind and sand – ding, ding ding…

Fanna handed over the giant sword. With her left hand, she used her right hand to draw a familiar symbol on her chest – she couldn’t remember the meaning of this symbol, but her body did this action naturally. This seemed to be a habit she had developed a long time ago, some kind of… . …the act of praying.

Then she cautiously held the giant sword in her hand and walked deeper into the city.

She walked in the ruins for a long time. The wide and complicated roads in the city seemed to never end. There were buildings and paths buried in the yellow sand everywhere. Even if those broken and collapsed buildings were buried in the sand, they could still be vaguely visible. You can see some of the exquisite appearance of the past.

Fanna suddenly thought – this may really be the busiest and most prosperous city in the world. I don’t know how many people live in this huge city, and I don’t know how many busy caravans shuttle through the city, supplying this city with supplies from all over the world. Supplies from various places and stories from far away.

But that was before it was abandoned.

Why was such a prosperous city abandoned? And when was it abandoned? And after all… why did she come here?

Vanna crossed a fork in the road, taking her with her Questions popped up from time to time as she continued walking forward, but when she passed a building, she suddenly stopped.

There was a strange sound of Kerala in the wind, and then a piece of paper flew out from the wind and sand, swirling and drifting past her eyes. There were faintly visible words on the paper.

Paper? Can any paper be preserved in this wind and sand?

Fanna’s heart moved, and her body had already reacted first – she grabbed the piece of paper that flew past her eyes, and then looked at the words on it with surprise. content.

It turned out to be a broken newspaper. The words related to the masthead of the newspaper could still be seen in the incomplete upper part, and in the lower part of the paper were many badly worn and worn handwritings. Fanna carefully identified it for a long time. , and then I found a relatively complete sentence from it:

“…A fire broke out in Puland. The fire spread from the upper city to the lower city. Many factories and blocks were damaged in the fire. The number of casualties among residents… ..Fana

stared blankly at the words on the paper that seemed to have been baptized by time, and her mind was filled with confusion. After a long time, she came up with a question:

Where is Purand?

The next second, she looked The newspaper fragments in her hands turned into yellow sand silently, and scattered in the air.

Fanna stood there for a moment, then shook off the remaining dust in her hands, and then walked forward slowly

. After walking forward for a long time, she suddenly stopped in front of a building.

In the floating dust and mist, the building appeared very abruptly, as if it suddenly emerged from the wind and sand, somewhat uncoordinated. Standing among the surrounding piles of broken and collapsed building debris, it looked like a giant beast, silently watching Vanna.

It was a small church with multiple spiers. For a church, it was not grand in scale, but it still looked extraordinarily large. Solemn.

It has obviously been abandoned. Its outer walls are mottled and cracked, the doors and windows are broken and scattered, and the roof tiles have fallen off. It looks abandoned for a long time, but compared with the ruins around it that have completely collapsed into broken bricks and tiles and were buried in the sand. Up, it at least maintained the integrity of its main structure – and what worried Vanna was that there was a small flower bed in front of the church.

The flower bed had also been damaged, with only some dead plants on it, but it was incredible. Yes, there is not a grain of sand on the flower bed. Even in this place where the yellow sand is everywhere and the wind never stops, the flower bed still looks clean,

as if someone is still taking care of the broken flower bed .

Fanna stopped in front of the flower bed for a while, looked up at the dilapidated chapel, and after a brief hesitation, she stepped forward

and

felt something change .

– The everlasting heat in the desert seemed to be instantly isolated to another world, and the next second, she saw bright lights in front of her.

On the outside, the church looks abandoned for an unknown number of years, but inside it is actually clean and tidy. The doors, windows and roof are intact, and bright lights illuminate the entire main hall. Rows of empty wooden benches are neatly arranged. The floors were arranged in the hall, and at the end of the bench was a high pulpit. A lamp shone from above the wooden pulpit, bathing it in soft light.

Fan Bo frowned, vaguely feeling that this place was familiar.

She had seen this, or at least heard it mentioned.

But she couldn’t remember it. She couldn’t even remember what kind of life she had experienced before she stepped into this boundless desert.

She held the sword tightly and walked down the aisle in the middle of the hall. After checking her surroundings, she finally stopped in front of a bench.

She had been trudging for so long that she felt she needed to sit down and rest, if only for a few minutes.

She sat down on the bench. The old chair made a slight creaking sound. She took a long breath and felt that her joints, like the old chair, were overwhelmed by the thick sand. Crunch.

Then, she suddenly heard a slight breathing sound.

There was a man sitting next to her.

Fanran looks back.

It was a young nun wearing a black church robe, who looked to be about the same age as Vanna – she sat quietly next to her, her head lowered, as if she was praying devoutly.

A person! A visible, real person?!

Fanna has almost forgotten the last time she saw “another person”. In all her memories, she seems to have been in this scene. Trekking on the never-ending journey, accompanied only by sand and strange sounds, she even began to feel that the world was originally like this, and that she was the only “human being” in the world, but now…she I saw someone!

I couldn’t suppress my excitement, and at the same time, there was an imperceptible feeling of confusion and familiarity in my heart. Fanna subconsciously said: “You are…

” You have stayed here for too long, sister. ,” the young nun who was praying suddenly raised her head, interrupting Vanna’s words. She stared at the latter calmly, “Ashes are easily assimilated by ashes. “