Chapter 117.
Chapter 117 Everything is normal
Shirley flew off with Dog, while Duncan’s gaze retracted from the distant intersection and fell once more upon the ruined factory.
After the fire of the spirit body faded, the invisible curtain closed again, and the factory returned to its previous “normal” appearance – the traces of the fire were completely erased, and the omnipresent ashes were hidden in nothingness.
Duncan’s eyes slowly moved upwards, above the factory, into the sky.
He imagined a gauzy curtain, a veil that quietly covered the perimeter, obscuring the truth of what lay beneath the reality that the Sixth Borough had a small but constant population of a few thousand people, and that under the noses of those few thousand, the invisible curtain had been shrouding the truth for eleven years.
The residents have forgotten the fire from memory – they only think it was “chemical contamination” from the factory that caused the neighborhood to fall into such a state of disrepair.
Duncan suddenly frowned at the thought.
The truth in the factory is a fire, Dog also confirmed that there is no chemical pollution residue around the factory, since there is no so-called “pollution” exists …… then the entire sixth neighborhood lasted eleven years without a newborn baby born and why?
If it’s not chemical pollution that’s causing the newborns to die off,……, could it be some kind of power in the transcendent realm that’s preventing newborns from appearing in the Sixth Street District?
Duncan looked thoughtfully at the sky.
It looked like …… the invisible curtain was bigger than he thought.
……
“We ran out …… really ran out?”
Some distance from the sixth block in a certain ugly alley, Shirley poked her head out in the shadows, cautiously observing whether there were any sheriff’s patrols on the nearby roadway, while lowering her voice and saying to the wall beside her.
There was a dark shadow coiled in the corner, as if the formless darkness had taken on a viscous quality, and Dog hid in this shadow, uttering a low, muffled voice: “It’s not that we ran out, it’s that one of the big guys let us go.”
“All TM a meaning,” Shirley waved her hand, not caring about the image directly sat on the ground, “X’s, scared me to death …… Atmosphere do not dare to breathe, the whole time also do not dare to swear, but also have to pretend to be well-behaved …… A dog you are not know ……”
“I know, I can see more than you, you forget?” The voice in the shadows spoke quietly, “How does it feel, is it more tiring to walk with a smiling subspace shadow than to deal with a gang of vicious sheriffs and guardsmen?”
“…… you stop, I’m cold,” Shirley rolled her eyes, “It’s all because you told me it was so scary last time, I’m going to know nothing, and I’m sure I won’t know to be afraid today… …Why do you think such a big shot has to pretend to be an ‘ordinary person’? Even squeezing the bus like an ordinary person, even getting on and buying a ticket! This who would have thought to bump into him in such a way!”
Dog was silent for two seconds, “…… Maybe it’s just a matter of interest, maybe it’s just staring at you, and that’s what I’m most afraid of …… We’ve already dealt with this kind of existence, and I’m afraid that our fate will already be entangled ……”
Shirley shivered slightly and asked cautiously, “You mean …… we’ll really meet him again afterward? Give me a break ……”
“Have you forgotten what he said when we were saying goodbye?” Dog sighed, “He’ll find us.”
Shirley didn’t say anything for a while, just lowered her head in silence, and only after a moment did Dog suddenly say, “What? Scared? Regretting it? Then now may be a little late …… before I reminded you, stepping into the transcendent realm should be prepared to deal with all kinds of superior power, most of those things are beyond human imagination – a few months ago if you listen to my advice, don’t start investigating the old things, you can still live now! old affairs, you could still be living your own peaceful days now ……”
“Regret X!”Shirley lowered her head and viciously interrupted Dog’s voice, “I’ve never regretted it from the very beginning, and I won’t in the future! Don’t you ever say such demoralizing X words to me again!”
“Okay, okay, I’ll stop – have you rested enough? It’s almost time for us to get going, didn’t that ‘new friend’ of yours make an appointment with you?”
“I …… I’ll wait two more minutes,” Shirley scratched her hair, her voice a little muffled, “my legs are a little weak, so I’ll wait a little longer …… “
Dog didn’t say another word, just let out a hoarse purr, and then the writhing mass of shadows it was hiding in shrank a little, fading into Shirley’s shadow.
…… At lunchtime, Vanna shoved jam-smeared bread into her mouth, swallowing heavily as she looked at the briefing materials at hand, and feeling a little choked up, she casually reached for another glass off to the side and filled it with several large gulps of ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton.
Uncle Dante’s voice came from across the table with a note of bemusement, “Vanna, eat in a civilized manner – and don’t drink wine like it’s water.”
“Heretics don’t wait, and keeping meals as short as possible will send those heretics to their Lord as soon as possible,” Vanna looked up at her uncle, struggling to swallow the food in her mouth as she did so, “And it’s not like this is a banquet out in the open… …”
“Family dinners have manners too – you’re not going to get married off sooner or later like this,” Dante looked rather headily at his niece, who was already of marriageable age but had never even brought home a boyfriend, “Alas, it would be better to say that you’re already unmarriageable ……”
Vanna’s eating movements finally slowed down, and the young Inquisitor’s face seemed slightly embarrassed, “My …… Inquisitor’s duties are more ……”
“It’s not like the Church of the Deep prohibits clerics from marrying, and Inquisitors all have normal families, and I’ve recited the Storm Primordial Code,” Dante shook his head, “Seriously, there really isn’t a suitable one?”
Vanna bowed her head and poked at the bread on her plate with her dinner knife, “Mainly because there’s no one who can fight ……”
“…… Turn around and ask if the oath can be retracted,” Dante sighed, looking worried, “You shouldn’t have just made the oath when you were baptized back then, especially the first one, that you had to be some kind of strong person to be able to travel with your own companion, Bishop Valentine should have stopped you then ……”
Vanna head a little lower, the taller her at the moment but full of embarrassment, was taught by the uncle is still like a child, even the voice is a little muffled: “The oath which can be casually retracted, that is in front of the goddess made a sacred agreement, and …… I that is not casually make a vow, almost all of the female guardsmen will have that one when they make an oath, that is the symbol of bravery given to us by the storm, but also to prove to the goddess ……”
Dante silently looked at his niece, who was a head and a half taller than himself, “So have you ever thought you’d work yourself up to invincibility someday?”
Vanna: “…… It’s not for the second and third clauses of the oath ……”
Dante: “…… Ugh.”
This was sort of a topic that uncle and nephew had been bringing up every other day for the last year or two, and every time the topic ended in embarrassment, and this time was no exception.
However, Vanna quickly adjusted herself, and she settled the battle on her dinner plate with amazing speed, and then once she put away the information in her hand, she got up and prepared to leave, “I’m done eating, uncle, you …… hmm?”
Vanna suddenly stopped, she looked at Dante Wayne’s face in surprise and raised her hand to point at that ruby prosthetic eye of the other party, “Uncle, the wound near your eye is oozing blood …… Is it alright?”
“Huh?” Dante froze for a moment, hurriedly reached out and touched it, and after seeing the blood on his hand he quickly got up and fetched a mirror, checking out the condition of his prosthetic eye – he suddenly saw that the edge of his eyeball made of ruby was oozing blood a little bit, and the blood was flowing down the folded scars around the wound, the amount wasn’t too much but it was scary.
“You hold still for a moment,” Vanna darted over and pressed her hand near Dante’s eye while whispering words from the Storm Primordial, “May the sea breeze moisturize the limb and heal this flesh and blood as it was meant to be healed.”
Under the effect of the sacred prayer, Dante felt a slight itch near his wound, and the small bleeding soon stopped, he was a bit helpless, “There’s no need to make such a fuss, it’s not like it’s the first time over the years – after all, it’s cold ores and metals, and they occasionally have a bit of a ‘skirmishes’ is also normal.”
The expression on Vanna’s face, however, did not relax at all; she remained glued to Dante’s ruby eye, and after a long moment asked, “Do you feel anything else? A burning tingle? Or seeing certain visions through this ruby eye?”
Dante blinked as he looked at Vanna, the ruby eye that had been blessed with a clear reflection of things as far as the eye could see – the
Flames blazed behind Vanna, ash and scorch marks littered the dining room, and charred and molten piles that had lost their form dangled from the roof like an inverted omen.
The ruby eyeballs were glowing slightly, then fading back to cold.
Dante smiled, “Of course not, everything’s fine.”
(End of chapter)