Chapter 594 – Residue Gathering
Chapter 594 – Residue Gathering
In a forest clearing illuminated by the sunlight, Nina and Maurice stopped their steps and looked together at the tall figure that seemed to have suddenly emerged from the air and was currently standing in front of the forest fork with a surprised expression.
“Did you not receive the order to retreat?” After a moment’s surprise, the elf maiden wearing light hunting clothes and carrying a strange long-handled weapon spoke, her voice as melodious as a clear spring in the forest, “Why are you still wandering outside the Silent Wall?”
Nina and Maurice looked at each other silently and nodded to each other immediately afterward.
“Uncle Duncan,” Nina said in the depths of her mind, “we’ve encountered a third ‘Shireen’ here …… Yes, she mentioned the Silent Wall as well. ”
For his part, Maurice quickly straightened his expression, nodded to the elfin maiden who had suddenly appeared at the edge of the clearing, and said without moving, “We have received no word …… May I ask what the situation is now?”
The elf maiden frowned, as if she was a bit surprised by Maurice’s “ignorance”, but the surprise soon faded from her face: “The situation is bad, the erosion phenomenon is spreading outside the wall of silence, and only inside the wall of silence in the kingdom is safe at the moment…”. -We still have not found the whereabouts of the Creator, and all elves must now return to the Silent Walls at once and take refuge in Silantis.”
Still haven’t found the whereabouts of the Creator?
Maurice instantly noticed this informative statement, but he quickly controlled the expression on his face and nodded his head with a serious face, “Then can you lead us to the ‘Silent Wall’?”
“Of course you can, it’s your good fortune to meet a ‘forest ranger’ like me,” the elf maiden immediately nodded, “I’m perhaps the last of the forest rangers patrolling outside the wall- -follow up, before there are signs of erosion here.”
She said, turning her head towards the depths of the forest, but stopped abruptly just a few steps out and turned back slightly, “By the way, my name is Shireen …… Please remember that name.”
Maurice and Nina exchanged quick glances and then nodded in unison.
The elf girl named “Shireen” turned around and continued to lead the two uninvited guests behind her towards the depths of the forest, towards the “wall of silence” that …… she kept mentioning.
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After trekking in the forest for an unknown period of time, Shirley even began to doubt one thing: the place called “Silent Wall”, really exists?
She could not remember how long she had followed the elf in front of her, nor could she tell how far she had moved in this sea of forests – in her eyes, the forests were all the same, except for the trees, which were all the same, and the occasional tree trunks that could be seen falling among the withered branches and fallen leaves, and the rocks and streams that blocked the way, were considered to be rare “landscapes” on the road. “The occasional fallen tree trunk and rock or stream in the way was a rare sight on the road.
The scenery was boring, and the road was even more difficult to walk on. The forest floor covered with rotting leaves was soft and rugged, and the vines, thorns, and roots that rose out of the ground from time to time could easily trip a person up. She used to think that the narrow, potholed alleys in the slums of the lower city, which were cut by the steam and gas pipelines, were already the most difficult roads in the world, but now she realized that, for human beings, even the most dilapidated corners of towns were far more difficult than the purest of the roads. But now she realized that for humans, even the shabbiest corners of towns were far friendlier than the purest “nature”.
What was the captain’s saying …… about the “transformative power of civilization”?
Shirley’s mind wandered, even miraculously recalling what she had learned in class, and then she raised her head to look at the elf who was leading the way.
Shireen, on the other hand, was always on her feet, and this rugged sea of forest was as much a part of her as she was a part of her own body, walking through the annoying trees and vines as freely as the wind blew through the courtyard.
Shirley finally stopped.
Shireen also stopped instantly – the elf maiden didn’t even turn around, but it was as if she felt it the first time Shirley stopped.
“How far is it from here to the ‘Wall of Silence’?” Shirley took the initiative to ask before the other party opened her mouth.
“It’s still a long way, the Silent Wall is a long way away,” Shirin replied with a serious look on her face, but her answer said as much as it didn’t, “We can’t rest for too long, we need to get back to Silentis’s sanctuary as soon as possible, and we need to …… catch up to the before the erosion phenomenon catches up with us.”
“What’s that ‘erosion phenomenon’ all about?” Shirley thought for a moment before finally asking the question that had intrigued her all the way through.
She hadn’t asked it because she was worried that this overly “basic” question would irritate the elf girl in front of her-according to Ms. Lucrecia, “Shireen” was a “Primordial” who operated in the dream world. According to Ms. Lucrecia, “Shireen” was a “native mind” that operated in the dream world. Shirley didn’t really know what a native mind was, but she could roughly understand that it was a kind of difficult thing to deal with, and that accidentally mentioning knowledge that went beyond the “boundaries”, or information that was outside the dream world, or even asking a few more questions, could cause this mind to go out of order. could cause the mind to go haywire.
Shirley was not unfamiliar with this kind of “disorder”, she had heard knowledge that was beyond her understanding during her tutorials with Alice, and then she would have a disorder – the main symptom was a fragmented mind.
She understood the concept that Lucrecia had explained to her in her own way, and thought that if she mentioned something she shouldn’t have, it would also cause the elf girl named “Shireen” to go off the rails.
She had been trying to avoid this as much as possible. However, after contacting her for a while, Shirley realized that this “Shireen” was not as “unstable” as she had initially thought.
Or to put it another way – the elf was a bit too stable.
Even if she mentioned some strange problems, Shireen would simply ignore them, and apart from the matter of “bringing lost people to the Silent Wall”, this elf seemed to be unaffected by anything else at all.
So after a period of time, Shirley began to boldly ask the elf a variety of questions, most of which could not get any nutritious answers, but sometimes …… the casual questions will be rewarded with surprises.
“The erosion …… happened after the Creator disappeared,” Shireen paused, and unlike her previous ignorance in most cases, she answered Shirley’s questions seriously this time, “We don’t know exactly what it is, but it will devour and twist things in the forest, turning them into …… something incomprehensible and dangerous.”
“After the Creator disappeared? The Creator is missing?!” Shirley instantly widened her eyes, although she didn’t pay much attention in class, she usually listened carefully when the Captain talked to the others, and of course she knew what the legend of the elves was all about, “Is that Creator you’re talking about …… Sasloca?”
Just as the words came out of her mouth, Shirley felt a little bad, it seemed that she shouldn’t call out the name of the “Great Demon God” so bluntly, which would probably irritate the elf in front of her – but she soon realized that she was overthinking it.
Shireen didn’t even seem to notice that Shirley was calling the Lord God by his name, she was just immersed in some kind of inexplicable sadness, her eyes lowered: “The Creator will return, he is just patrolling the borders, only this time he has gone a little farther …… Before he returns, Silantis will use the Wall of Silence to shelter all the elves! of the elves…… Silantis will wait until He returns.”
For some reason, Shirley always felt that Shireen’s last sentence had a self-hypnotizing tone to it.
But before she had time to ask anything else, she saw that Shireen, who had been immersed in a sentimental and somewhat trance-like state a second ago, suddenly raised her head, and the elf girl’s eyes suddenly became sharp at an unknown time, as she gripped the long-handled battle axe in her hand tightly, while looking up in a certain direction deep in the forest.
Sherry instantly followed suit and tensed up, “Huh? What happened?”
“Shhh!” Shireen lowered her voice, “Something foul has entered the forest ……”
Filth?
Shirley was stunned for a moment, and the next thing she knew, she heard that rustling coming from the nearby bushes, deep in the earth, deep in the shadows of the trees, and even from the air.
It was as if a number of treacherous and malevolent creatures creeping in the shadows were converging, and as if malice of substance and skin-numbing voyeurism had suddenly appeared in the dense forest, Shirley felt Dog instantly send herself a massive sharing of her perceptions – and in the powerful senses provided by the Hound of the Deep, she saw that those creatures were continually “seeping” into the dense forest. “seeping” into the forest.
Tentacles of pure shadow were gathering in all directions!
It is the remnants of the Children of the Sun …… not the Annihilationists!
Shirley was stunned for a moment, she still clearly remembered that when she had just entered the forest this time, Dog had clearly said that he had sensed the remnants of the Annihilationists, but why was it that she had first encountered these monsters that followed the Black Sun?
However, this dismay only surfaced in the bottom of her heart for a moment, Shirley immediately reacted, and at the same time entered the combat state, she tensed her whole body’s muscles to pay attention to the direction where those dark tentacles were converging, and at the same time, she reminded Shirin who was beside her in a low voice: “Be careful, these guys will move with the help of shadows, and they are very resistant to fighting, especially not easy to finish off! ”
Before her words fell, she saw layers and layers of ripples begin to float under the shade of a tree not far away, and those tentacles hidden in the shadows began to rapidly coalesce into tall and thin humanoid figures, and one by one, they appeared as entities.
However, what Sherry was waiting for was the moment they coalesced into a humanoid form.
In the next second, the chains tightened, the sound of the wind whistled, Sherry took a few steps towards the nearest figure, and used her full strength to swing her arm round to deliver a meteor dog!
Dog flew out like a meteor hammer of enormous size, unreservedly smashing into that first solar residue that appeared, accompanied by a muffled sound as if it was hammered to pieces, that tall and thin figure, before it had time to observe the environment in the dream world, was directly smashed into a large area of bursting and flying corrupted flesh and blood.
And almost at the same time, in the surroundings of Shirley and Shirin, in the dense forests and bushes where the shadows were intertwined, one after another tall and thin figure began to emerge continuously ……
(End of chapter)