Chapter 184 – Invasion after nightfall
Chapter 184 – Invasion After Nightfall
“Teacher just left, huh?” Nina came to the first floor, her eyes widened in surprise after hearing the news that Maurice had already left, then complained a little, “Uncle why don’t you stay a little bit, letting the teacher leave in such bad weather ……”
“Any later and it will be dark,” Duncan said casually as he turned to lock the front door and then walked towards the stairs, “He drove here, a little rain won’t affect him much.”
“But Sensei doesn’t look like he’s feeling well,” Nina followed, muttering as she made her way up the stairs, “He should have rested more ……”
Duncan thought for a moment, thinking that if the old man really rested here for a while then I’m afraid it wouldn’t be a health problem, it would probably be a ten consecutive will check failure, not to mention tomorrow’s sun, tonight’s World Creation can’t even see ……
But he could not explain this to Nina, so he could only casually perfunctory two sentences, and then came to the second floor table.
Nina had already prepared a hot meal-beet soup, toast, vegetable rolls, and sliced ham.
It was clearly an extra person’s portion.
“Save it for the morning if you can’t eat it all,” Nina cooed, then looked up at Duncan with some curiosity, “What did you tell the teacher? I didn’t hear much of it up there just now, but it felt like you guys were having a pretty lively conversation ……”
Duncan watched Nina quietly, he had been watching so much since a while ago, watching the girl as she went about her business.
As usual, she always had a smile on her face, no real look of anger even when she complained, and was always busy with this and that, as if she never ran out of things to do, never ran out of energy, and was always looking forward to tomorrow.
Duncan can only see this kind of Nina, he does not have Morris like “see through the real eyes”, also can not see Nina’s body of the flames.
If he had not just heard it himself, he would never have imagined that the fragment of the sun that touches the nerves of countless people would be so quietly “sleeping” here, under his eyes.
The sun fragment …… in the end is what kind of thing?
Duncan once thought that it was a tangible and qualitative transcendent object, and then through various clues to confirm that it is a stripped down sunrise, but now, he found that this thing is likely to be sleeping in Nina’s body …….
If that thing really came from the “star” he was familiar with, then what kind of changes would have to happen to a star in order to peel off such a weird piece of …… “debris”?
“Uncle Duncan?” Nina noticed the line of sight coming from across the table and she turned a bit awkwardly, “Did I get something stuck to my face?”
“…… No, nothing,” Duncan gently shook his head and asked as if offhandedly while looking down to break the bread apart, “By the way, has there been any physical discomfort lately? Did that strange dream …… still come up before?”
“No,” Nina waved her hand, “The hypnosis that Miss Heidi gave me last time worked quite well, I haven’t had any weird dreams since then, and I’m very refreshed every day as well.”
She paused for a moment, then looked at Duncan with a bit of concern, “What’s wrong with you, Uncle? I thought …… you were a little strange just after you talked to Mr. Morris …… Ah, it couldn’t be my last exam results ……”
“No, don’t think blindly, your teacher is not to come to the door to complain,” Duncan instantly raised one eyebrow, “first eat first eat.”
Nina responded, then lowered her head to eat, but at that moment, Duncan seemed to sense something and looked out the window in a certain direction somewhat suspiciously.
……
Downtown, deep in the dilapidated and dim ugly alley, the hastily lit gas lamps finally dispelled the surrounding darkness before the night completely enveloped the street, under the dim light brought by the gas lamps, Shirley was lying in front of the window sill, looking out at the dark street outside somewhat out of her mind.
The clattering of chains came from behind her, and Dog’s voice followed, “Looking out again? What’s there to see?”
“Can’t sleep, it’s so early and there’s nothing to do,” Sherry muttered, “So boring ……”
“…… Why don’t we go out tomorrow and keep looking for cultists?”
“…… It feels like it’s still going to be nothing,” Shirley thought about it and shook her head, “I don’t know if it’s because those guys from the church have really grown up all of a sudden, lately it’s like the cultists in the city-state have been caught clean, even you can’t can’t smell their stench ……”
“Recently in the city activities of the sun worshippers are indeed gone, may really be caught clean it,” Dog came over, in the Sherry feet lazily plopped down, “but I think you pressure is not because of this matter boring …… “
Shirley rolled her eyes at once, “Then what else could it be because of?” “…… Are you thinking ‘over there’?” Dog lifted his head, shimmering light jumping from his empty bloodshot eyes, “Thinking about that warm house, that brightly lit room, the hot meals, the days when someone would wake you up and rush you to eat, or …… thinking about that subspace dependent named Nina? Or even thinking about that dun ……”
“NMD shut up! It’s annoying!” Shirley Dun made a forceful paddle of the chain in her hand and rudely interrupted Dog, “I’m not a sniveling little brat who’s that weak!”
Dog was unconcerned by Shirley’s rough reaction, “…… It’s not weak to yearn for light and warmth, it only proves that you’re still a human.”
“Yelp ……” Shirley, however, suddenly winced, followed by a look of disgust, “Why the hell are you suddenly so carnal? You’re talking like a human now? Also prove that I am still a human …… Are you praising me or saying that I have not grown much over the years?”
“…… Don’t think that after eleven years of fusing with me, a profound demon, you’ve really turned into a demon as well, there’s nothing wrong with admitting your human side openly,” Dog shook his big ugly head, “Not to mention you Don’t forget that this chain isn’t the only thing that connects me to you – can I still not understand what’s going on with your emotions?”
“…… Shut up,” Shirley turned her face away and looked out with some annoyance, “If you keep pushing, I’ll really take you to play with Nina tomorrow, and then I’ll stay with Nina and you’ll stay with Mr. Duncan, and we’ll both have bright future – it won’t scare you!”
Dog finally didn’t say anything.
Shirley, however, couldn’t help but kick the Profound Hound beside her with her toes after a moment of silence, and took the initiative to break the silence, “Don’t worry about it, don’t I still have you with me.”
“You’re better at being carnal than I am,” Dog motioned, his chains clattering, “Stop it, I’m going to throw up if I say anything else – there’s going to be a new pit in the floor by then.”
The Hound chattered, but through the interconnecting spirits, Sherry could sense that the Dog who had nearly eaten her alive and raised her was suddenly in a better mood.
In the dim light of twilight and street lamps, the thin girl bristled and hid a small smile.
This is good, everything is back on track, familiar days are back, just continue to live on – do not think about those who do not belong to their own peace and warmth, especially that peace and warmth of the place is still coiled a shadow from the subspace.
That warmth was just too dangerous.
Sherry exhaled softly.
The next second, however, she frowned slightly, as if she felt something unsavory approaching, and felt the sweaty hairs on her back stand up slightly.
Dog, too, suddenly stood up from his slumped position, black soot and flames snapping out of the massive spectral hound, red light blazing from his blood-colored hollow eyes as he scanned the room with vigilance and hostility.
The room was dark and dreary; to save money, Shirley had extinguished the oil lamp on the table the moment the streetlight had come on, and now only the glow of the streetlight spilling in through the window illuminated the room, and the not-so-bright light filled the room, and the simple furnishings of the home cast mottled and odd shadows on the floor and walls.
Everything in the humble home was instantly recognizable, familiar and intuitive.
However, for some reason, Shirley suddenly felt that these furnishings in her home were somewhat unfamiliar – between the light and dark staggered light and shadow, between the corners of the table and chairs and the crevices at the end of the bed, an unfamiliar and incongruous aura was constantly seeping out!
Shirley subconsciously tightened the chain in her hand, “Dog!”
“I know,” Dog let out a low growl at the same time, “I’m watching! Something’s coming in here …… is surrounding us …… fuck! What the fuck, my eyes are blurry!”
No sooner had the Phantom Hound’s words left her mouth than Shirley suddenly noticed that the glow of the street lamps spilling into the room from the window was beginning to become distorted and dim!
It was as if a heavy black mantle had suddenly enveloped the entire house, and the street scene, which had been clearly visible in her vision a second before, suddenly turned into a blur, the light of the street lamps was cut into pieces, and turned into pale shimmering light that fell into the room, and immediately after that, those pale shimmering light and the ubiquitous black shadows wriggled in unison, and accompanied by a series of sickeningly low and murmuring noises, a few figures emerged abruptly from the between the light and the shadows –
They were clad in tattered black robes, the arms exposed underneath the robes were as thin as firewood, they had black books hanging from their waists, which seemed to be drenched in ink-like filth, with dark suspicious liquid constantly seeping through and dripping down from the books, and each of them had an iron emblem that seemed to be encircled with thorns hanging on their chests, and in the center of the emblem, there was a pale and turbid flame jumping around.
This the leader of a black-robed man raised his hand and pointed at Shirley, humans can not make a muffled hoarse syllables from under the hood of the robe, “Thou shalt be defeated ……”
Dog’s exclamation of surprise finally reached Sherry’s ears at this point: “CNM’s are the Final Preachers!!!”
(End of chapter)