Chapter 115 Traces Erased

Chapter 115: Traces Erased
In front of the dilapidated and abandoned factory, “Dog”, a profound hound, gazed at the collapsed and tumbled factory building with its empty eyes, as if trying to observe the ruins in the real world from another dimension.

Shirley stood next to Dog and looked around nervously, checking Duncan’s face before whispering, “Dog, is there really no ‘residual contamination’ here?”

“If you’re referring to the ‘chemical leaks’ in common parlance, then feel free to rest assured that the contamination here has already dissipated a few years ago ……,” Dog’s throat came in a a hoarse, low voice, “But if it’s ‘pollution’ from some transcendent realm there’s no telling.”

“Did you find anything?” Duncan asked from the sidelines.

“…… No, really,” Dog bowed his head slightly, “I just saw a moment of …… ‘fire’, but now there is nothing, that may just be some kind of ‘residual sound’, a memory left behind and solidified by this ruin …… Many transcendent powers leave behind in the real world Similar traces, but to figure out exactly what kind of transcendent power …… we are afraid that we have to go in and look.”

“Inside then,” Duncan nodded, and with a step he headed for a gaping hole in the abandoned factory, “You guys follow.”

Shirley hesitated but took a step to follow, while Dog shook his head from side to side, his pitch black chains clattering as the spectral hound looked curiously and cautiously at Duncan walking ahead of him, “Why are you …… also interested in what happened eleven years ago? Ah of course I’m just asking casually, a bit of trivial curiosity, a great man like you certainly has his own …… way of doing things”

“Consider me interested,” Duncan interrupted the Phantom Hound, “You should not be so overly nervous in front of me, it makes me feel uncomfortable.”

“Hey well well, we are not nervous, we are not nervous ……”

Listening to the other party’s reply, which was obviously just as nervous, Duncan just shook his head helplessly, and then somewhat curiously glanced at Shirley beside him, “There was a big fire in your memories, but except for you, everyone doesn’t remember the existence of this fire, that’s right, isn’t it?”

“…… Well,” Shirley nodded, she had realized something by this time, “Looking at your attitude …… you know about that fire too don’t you? That fire really did exist, didn’t it?”

“…… Yes, I know, which is why I’m even more curious now as to who erased the traces that this fire ever existed.” Duncan nodded slightly and said faintly.

At the same time, his mind also fluctuates – he did not expect things to develop so coincidentally, nor did he expect that there would be a third person in the city-state of Prand besides himself and Nina who knew about the “fire”, the chance encounter between himself and Shirley, the joint investigation, the fire that was erased from the traces. The investigation, was erased traces of the fire, the dog just hallucinated …… in the netherworld these things as if by the invisible force pulling together, as if the planets around the sun.

This kind of things are invisible power traction polymerization of the feeling has let him be vigilant.

Nina’s textbook had roughly described some “common sense” in the transcendental realm, and mentioned that powerful anomalies or visions often have the power to interfere with the development of reality, and can even be like weaving a script to guide the occurrence of certain events, and that overly dense coincidences or consecutively appearing clues are often a cause for alarm! “Omen”, which often means that the people involved have been affected by an anomaly or vision, and are unconsciously participating in or even driving the event.

In the face of such invisible and harmless promotion and influence, his “spiritual fire” is not useful.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but sneak a glance at Sherry.

The girl and “Dog” is carefully guarded against the movement in the ruins of the factory, she looks as if there is no extra complex thoughts, or perhaps it is his “big terror” close at hand so that she has no extra mind to think nonsense?
“…… This looks like an ordinary ruin ……” Dog’s voice came low, interrupting Duncan’s thoughts, “I don’t sense any aura of transcendent power. any aura of transcendent power.”

Shirley, for her part, raised her head and surveyed the crisscrossing pipes and already twisted and deformed roof beams above her.

This is the first “factory” after entering the factory, it has been severely damaged in the accident eleven years ago, some kind of powerful explosion pierced through its roof, causing the overhead pipes to break, the building materials collapsed, the sunlight poured into the ruins through the big hole above, making the scene inside look like the jagged skeleton of a giant beast after its death.

However, apart from these explosions and collapses, there was no trace of “fire” in the plant.

“It doesn’t look like there was a fire ……” Shirley murmured thoughtfully.

“There’s no sign of a fire, that’s the biggest problem,” Duncan’s low voice suddenly came from the side, he was also looking up at the broken pipes and roof structure, and slightly frowned, “this level of damage, and obviously there was an explosion, there must be a fire, no matter how big or small, there will be a fire associated with it. fire, regardless of the size, should at least leave some burning traces in the plant is right …… but here not even a trace of the existence of a cluster of embers.”

As Duncan’s words fell, Dog spoke in a deep voice immediately afterwards, “Yes, the way this place looks now, it’s as if …… all elements related to ‘fire’ were deliberately erased, but because the erasure was too clean, it instead left a an even more striking void.” “Erased? ……” Duncan muttered softly as he slowly made his way deeper into the plant, stopping as he walked past a patch of discarded and twisted machinery and casually glancing toward a broken hole in the wall not far away.

He jerked to a halt, his eyes widening slightly.

Fire! A monstrous fire!
He saw a sea of blazing fire rising up from the opposite side of that ragged hole, and saw that the entire wasteland outside the factory was tumbling with flames, which were like a raging ocean, rising up into the air and swooping down to the earth, raging down to the nearby streets and houses, with smoke rolling and rising up, and countless frantic crowds of people running around in the sea of flames, like a mirage of hell!
This horrible and blazing scene just suddenly broke into Duncan’s field of vision, but the next second, just when he turned his head to greet Sherry over, this sea of fire blazing scene suddenly dissipated.

Duncan blinked hard and came to the broken hole to look out, and all he saw was a wasteland and a few dilapidated houses on the edge of the wasteland that were no longer inhabited.

Dog noticed Duncan’s unusual behavior and immediately asked, “What have you found?”

“I just saw it too, the fire,” Duncan replied in a hushed voice, “but it was gone in the turn of an eye.”

“Then it seems that the ‘residual sound’ left here is very strong,” Dog immediately analyzed, “Reappearing twice in a short period of time is not a trace that can be left by ordinary transcendent powers, it seems that the gang of cultists are looking for the ‘Sun Fragment’ had indeed appeared in this place …… I just don’t know what the pattern of triggering the ‘residual ring’ is… …”

Duncan didn’t say anything, he just slowly returned to the position where he saw the “ringing” at the beginning, and thoughtfully looked at the place where he had just stood.

There seemed to be nothing here.

After a few moments of contemplation, Duncan suddenly raised his hand and gently rubbed his fingertips together.

A small cluster of ghostly green embers quietly and silently leapt to the surface from his hand.

At the instant of seeing that ghostly green flame, Dog violently shrunk his neck for a moment, and immediately afterward, he took a full three or four steps backward, and along with the clattering and shaking sound of the pitch-black chains, Shirley also took a half-step backward right after him, and looked at Duncan with a face of horror, “Do you …… you really intend to eat the cooked ones? ”

“Fear not,” Duncan gave the pair an expressionless look, “This is not for roasting you.”

As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, he pointed his fingertips remotely at the ground.

As if or as a stream of water, the small green fire fell soundlessly to the ground, and in the next second, the translucent spirit fire rippled and spread across the surface of the ground, and instantly swept across the several meters below Duncan’s feet!
Shirley looked at this scene in disbelief and suddenly widened her eyes, “…… Ah!?”

Where the flames swept through, something suddenly surfaced on the originally empty ground.

It was a piece of ash, a piece of curled up, vaguely visible humanoid ash!

It was a human being burned to ashes, on his deathbed, gazing in the direction Duncan had just gazed.

Suddenly, something occurred to Sherry, and she looked up and around the empty factory.

And with Duncan’s conscious control, the ethereal green fire of the spirit body swept across the factory like a breeze.

And so, traces of what had once been erased finally briefly reappeared in the eyes of the visitor.

(End of chapter)