Chapter 562: The Man Who Walks in the Wilderness

Chapter 562 – The Man Who Walks in the Wilderness

Because of the delay in the afternoon, it was nearing dusk when Shirley and Nina returned to 99 Crown Street, and it was time for dinner.

There wasn’t much in the way of normal food in this “elf city”, but luckily normal ingredients were always available, and Lucrecia’s “servants” prepared a nice meal for the guests, and Nina and Shirley finally got to eat some “human food”. “Nina and Shirley finally ate the food that humans are supposed to eat.

However, they didn’t have a very solid meal.

What they had heard and seen in that underground shelter facility still made them a little dizzy – there were too many things they didn’t understand, too many things that were beyond their viewpoints, about the Great Annihilation, about the “black wall” at the beginning of history, about the end of the world, about the old world that was destroyed, and about the world that had been destroyed in the past. About the Great Annihilation, about the “black wall” at the beginning of history, about the Armageddon, about the old world that was destroyed, and about the “new world” that was born in the age of the deep sea. ……

For the two girls, who are still strictly “big kids”, these things are a bit too complicated and ahead of their time.

After a quick dinner, Shirley returned to her room and sat at the table for a while, when she heard the soft sound of chains rattling beside her, and Dog poked his head out of the shadows.

Shirley lowered her head, looked at this “friend” who had almost eaten her, but who had raised her since she was a child, and asked seriously, “Did you understand everything the captain said today? Something about the fragments of several worlds piling up together and then the Age of the Deep or something like that …….”

“Could understand some of it,” Dog plopped down and gently rubbed his massive head against Sherry’s knee, “but the parts that were too far out of the realm of common sense, I didn’t get.”

“I didn’t understand almost any of it,” Shirley said honestly, “Sure, I understood the sentences, but it’s a little hard on this brain of mine to visualize exactly how those things happened – after all, why do we Why should we care how the world came to be, after all?”

She said confusedly, even though she knew she was coming across as very shallow, but she never had much to hide in front of Dog.

“It’s still possible to live without knowing anything isn’t it,” she continued, “That’s how the two of us survived the last ten years or so anyway ……”

Dog suddenly raised his head, his hollow eyes filled with blood-colored light staring straight into Shirley’s eyes, and a low, raspy voice came from his skeletal body, “It’s possible to live without knowing anything, but we also need to know that this survival is not something to be taken for granted – for ordinary people, yes, and for the world itself, yes. so, and for the world itself.”

This sudden seriousness of Dog’s attitude startled Sherry, who froze for a moment, then vaguely seemed to understand something, revealing a thoughtful look.

“The world isn’t always going to ‘survive’ like this,” Dog watched Sherry’s reaction and plopped his head back down again, speaking in a muffled voice, “The Great Annihilation can destroy those of the “The Great Annihilation can destroy the ‘old worlds’, so it’s just as likely that the present Age of the Deep will be ended by another force, and the common people may remain ignorant of it until the day the end comes, and they’ll come to the end of their lives in a vision of long peace, just as the ‘warrior’ of the Ignorance’ is the greatest blessing for the people in their homeland who are waiting in their kingdoms for the triumph of the brave ones……. For them, they can live without knowing anything, because they don’t know how far away death is either.

“But Shirley, we’re not the ones who stayed in the Kingdom – we’re on the Lost Country.

“You’ve seen the omens, the black sun that descended on Prand, the Creator’s blueprints that spiraled out of control in the depths of the Frost, the Boundless Sea when Vision 001 went out, and the godly cultists …… If you’re one of those ‘living in the Kingdom ‘, you can’t reach them.”

Dog rambled on as it shook its head, carefully retracted its fangs, and rubbed the tip of its nose against Shirley’s knee.

“Shirley, it’s true that you can live without knowing anything, but you know that now – the Captain was worried about the unsettling omens, and so were you, really, only you didn’t notice it yourself.”

Shirley quieted down, and she sat still in her chair for a long time before she reached out and pressed her hand to Dog’s skull, a slight uneasiness in her voice: “Dog, are we those who walk in the wilderness …… just like that ‘warrior’ , are we also trekking toward doom?”

“We are walking towards doom, doom is walking towards us, ‘cognizance’ works both ways, when we know it exists there is no difference between the two, the only question is …… how and when it will catch up to us, I think that’s where the catching up with us, and I think that’s what the Captain is worried about.”

“…… Dog, why do you understand so well? Understand …… this feeling?”

The bloodlight in Dog’s eyes slowly shifted brightly and darkly, “Because I have felt something similar – when you were very, very small.”

It lifted its head and looked into Sherry’s eyes.

Its voice was soft, as it had been so many years ago, when it had tried to soothe a frightened little girl to sleep during a thunderstorm –

“In the beginning, you were a …… tiny creature that I couldn’t understand at all, you were so small and weak, your arms could be broken as easily as thin wooden sticks, and even in symbiosis with a demon, you were fragile as if you could die at any moment… …

“Every day, every second, I feared this ‘death’ would come, I didn’t understand your breathing, I didn’t understand your heartbeat, I didn’t understand how humans survived, I didn’t even realize that you needed to go looking for food until after you had been starving for days – -As a Spectral Demon, I wasn’t comfortable with the whole ‘thinking’ thing at that point, and you weren’t …… very communicative with me at that point.

“So I always felt that you could die at any moment from something I couldn’t yet understand, that your breathing, your heartbeat, your blood flow, all these strange ‘phenomena’ were extraordinarily fragile ‘temporary equilibriums’ in my eyes ‘, any termination of any of them would take you away from me, so when you were a child you would always wake up from sleep to see me groping and observing beside you, because I had to check your breathing and heartbeat, to check that you weren’t already dead.

“That worry is much like the Captain’s worry today.”

Dog paused for a moment as he raised his head to look up to the second floor, but quickly retracted his gaze.

“I can’t compare myself to the Captain, and I shouldn’t just speculate on his thoughts, but on this day, in his gaze, I felt that familiar …… worry. This seemingly vast, infinite sea is probably the equivalent to you to him as it was to me many years ago – a small, weak ‘strange thing’ that didn’t know how TA survived, only that TA could die at any moment.” Dog rambled on and on, and now that he had finally quieted down, Shirley remained dumbfounded and didn’t make a sound for a long time.

“Why don’t you say anything?” Dog asked suspiciously.

“You’ve …… never told me this before,” Shirley said a little frostily, “So when I was little …… “

“It’s all in the past,” Dog whispered, “You survived, so all the worries and difficulties you had in the beginning are ‘in the past’.”

Shirley pursed her lips and suddenly raised her head a little worriedly, looking in the direction of the second floor, “Dog, do you think …… we’ll be the warrior and his companions in the story?”

“I don’t want to be like them if I can help it,” Dog shook his head, “There’s no way a warrior can stop the end of the world with a sword of steel, their trek toward the end is arduous but doomed to be futile – but Since it’s the Captain who’s leading us, it’s clear that we have more than just a steel sword, so I’m willing to be optimistic.”

“The Captain ……” Shirley lamented, “I wonder what the Captain is doing now …… he hasn’t even come down for dinner. ”

“Are you going up to serve dinner later to stop by?”

“Eh, or no – Alice will certainly be there anyway.”

“Rather.”

……

Looking out of the window at the wondrous sky where the day was fading, the sky was dark, and a light golden “sunlight” always hung between the gaps in the high-rise buildings, Duncan exhaled slightly and turned to turn on the room’s electric light.

Although the sunlight that permeated the streets brought eternal illumination to Lightwind Harbor, after the fall of Vision 001, the sunlight that spread from the nearby sea and was blocked by the buildings could not light up the whole city, and in the depths of the city-state, the sunlight was blocked by the buildings. In the depths of the city-state, where the “sunlight” is blocked by the buildings, the night is still visible, and here, people still need the comfort of light.

The bright light disperses the darkness that is spreading from all around, and makes the room seem a little warmer.

Outside the window, as the power of Vision 001 receded, the starless and moonless sky, the pale crack of the World’s Creation was gradually emerging.

The cold, pale light filled the night, but was fragmented by the “sunlight” that filled the sky between the high-rise buildings, presenting a bizarre scene that could not be seen in other city-states, in which the World’s Creation and the sunlight appeared at the same time and intertwined with each other.

Duncan looked at the sky that split “trauma”, but in his mind is still recalling those “memory visions” that he saw today.

He thought of the “crimson” that ran across the sky as if it were a huge scar.

What was that “red light” that stretched across the cosmic space and whose propagation pattern no longer seemed to conform to common sense physics?
Whether in the visions of the crash of the New Hope, or in the paintings of Alice’s mansion, or in the home of the “warrior” on the verge of destruction, there is that red light.

There is no doubt that the red light is the “culprit” or at least the “first symbol” of the “great annihilation” that scholars have been searching for, and which led to the occurrence of the “great annihilation”.

Gazing at the same across the sky of the “world’s creation”, Duncan’s mind can not help but produce a series of unfounded “association” –

The destruction of every “old world” is accompanied by the appearance of that huge red light, while in the “deep sea era” of the new world, the pale world’s creation hangs high in the sky …… What is the connection between the two? Is there any connection between the two?

Is the “world’s creation” that shines in the night sky of the infinite sea a remnant of the old world’s apocalypse? Or is it a remnant of the destructive power of the Great Annihilation?

Duncan had an even more disturbing suspicion.

That destructive force has never dissipated, it is now just turned into a kind of sleep, night and night in the sky, and the so-called “creation of the world”…… is just that “red light” in the sleep The so-called “creation of the world” is just the form of the “red light” during its slumber.

The role of vision 001, could it be that periodically “hypnotize” that “doomsday crimson”?
In this series of guesses, Duncan’s gaze gradually heavy, and another question he had not thought of before suddenly surfaced in his mind.

In his hometown, at least in his memory of his hometown …… he has not seen that “red light”.

(End of chapter)