Chapter 120: “A Pair of Friends”

Chapter 120 “A Pair of Friends”

From judging that there might be a transcendent power out of control in the museum to completing the self-blessing to lead the team to rush into the fire, these Storm Believers affiliated with the name of the Church of the Deep Sea had only used a total of more than ten seconds.

Duncan watched as these people just rushed into the fire, and immediately after that the firefighters in the plaza began to cooperate in a well-trained manner as they took cover with fire hoses and began to cool down the entrance of the museum and open up the passageway, while another team quickly cleared out of the column, this one with the emblem of the Church of the Deep and what looked like a talisman on top of the regular protective gear, and rushed into the museum with them.

The sheriffs who remained at the edge of the plaza took over the task of reassuring the remaining citizens and began contacting nearby churches to receive those who had been marked as suspected of being mentally contaminated after escaping the fire.

Well-trained and closely coordinated, they had not only practiced countless times, but also seemed to have fought countless times.

This was what a city-state that had survived until now in this bizarre world filled with transcendental phenomena and developed to the point of prosperity presented itself as – quickly distinguishing the shadow of transcendence in a disaster, quickly suppressing the erosion before it erupted to a level that mortals could withstand, transcendentalists and ordinary people alike fully accepting education and training in the relevant fields and training these basic dispositions to the point of near-universality. these basic dispositions trained to near-muscular responses – before the group can be kept alive.

Duncan took it all in, but had little time to sigh – he checked the grizzled escapees at the edge of the plaza, and found no sign of Nina among them.

He raised his head suddenly and looked in the direction of the museum.

From within the blazing museum came a somewhat familiar aura.

He took a step towards the museum, but just after taking two steps, he was stopped by a magistrate, “Sir, it’s dangerous ahead, please leave it to the professionals.”

Duncan glanced at the magistrate, nodded and turned to walk away.

Duncan was a pragmatic person, so he simply abandoned the main entrance of the museum, quickly walked around to the other side of the square and then found a shadow to hide – the next second, a white pigeon flew directly across the square, and dove into a window on the side of the museum that was on fire. The next moment, a white dove flew straight across the square and plunged into a window on the side of the museum, where a fire was coming out.

Some people in the square saw this scene, but only thought that it was a poor pigeon that was stunned by the smoke and the light of the fire, sighed a few times and then stopped paying attention to it.

Inside the museum, however, Duncan stepped out of the swirl of ghostly green flames.

Smoke, fire, and heat instantly hit his face.

Duncan wasn’t afraid of these things, but he could feel that the functioning of his flesh and blood body was being affected by the environment of the fire, and if he just walked in, his soul might be fine, but this body would definitely be unusable.

But he wasn’t acting recklessly, he knew what to do long before he rushed in.

There are flames everywhere, and flames …… are very obedient things.

Duncan held his breath as a little stream of ghostly green flame quietly flowed under his feet and dissipated into nothingness in the blink of an eye, and with that brief contact, he had established an invisible link with the flames around him – as he had done earlier in the Sunist assembly ground in the basement of the abandoned factory, he felt the subjugation of the flames around him.

Even the searing currents in the air began to change, no longer affecting this body’s breathing.

Duncan inhaled softly and walked towards the door that was blocked by the blazing fire.

“Stand down.”

And with that the flames receded and faded out behind him, revealing a corridor of thick smoke and remaining fire.

Duncan looked back and observed the markings on the nearby walls, and determined that he had “landed” in an office located at the edge of the main exhibition area, while the corridor in front of him should be a passageway for museum staff to walk through, at the end of which was the main exhibition area, and on one side of the passageway there were stairs or lifts leading to other floors. elevator.

He stepped into the corridor, and while searching forward, he focused his mind on trying to locate Nina in the museum – but to be honest, he wasn’t sure if he could successfully “locate” her.

Because it was his first time doing this kind of thing …… Although his own perception nowadays is beyond normal people, and Goathead also said that “the captain’s intuition is the most accurate point”, this kind of high-end operation to sense someone’s aura from a long distance away is still quite unfamiliar to him! It was even a skill that he had only read about in stories.

The only reason he was trying this now was because when he was in the plaza earlier, there was a moment where he vaguely sensed a hint of a familiar aura flowing out of the museum, which gave him the idea to give it a try.

Duncan moved forward through the corridors in this manner, the flames around him giving way and dying out, while he still hadn’t been able to sense where Nina was, but suddenly he sensed something else.

“Hmm?”

Duncan muttered suspiciously, his eyes casting in the direction of where his sense was coming from – not far ahead of him, on the floor below the stairs, an ‘imprint’ that was becoming clearer and clearer to his senses was pulsing ever so slightly.

The owner of the mark seemed to be in a lively state.

Duncan only hesitated for a moment, and then quickly ran towards the direction in his perception, he ran through the flames that were constantly giving way and extinguishing, and ran down the stairs that had already begun to be fragile and loose, at the same time extending his control over the flames as much as he could, and suppressing the fire of the entire building under the limit of what his body could withstand, while the “mark” became more and more distinct in his mind, and the “mark” became more and more distinct in his mind. In his mind, the “mark” became more and more distinct, and in the end, he even began to faintly hear the “voice” coming from that mark— ” hand?

“…… hands? Hey, this is a minor injury on my hand, it will be fine in three or two days ……

“That is, I have always been very strong …… “Don’t worry, the doorway is blocked, the smoke can’t get in for the time being …… You’re so smart to know that there’s a water closet here …… Er, you read the road map in advance? Teachers have spoken in class? Safety education …… er …… I may not have listened carefully, ahaha ……

“You said you just saw a dog? You look at the wrong right, this place where the dog, ahaha ……”

“…… What about this fainting one over here? You also do not know? Well …… at least it is still alive …… all right, we will definitely be saved ……”

One heard correctly, that was Shirley’s voice.

Duncan recognized the mark, it is his own not long ago left a little “flame” in Sherry body, and the other side of the voice is through the mark into his mind.

The familiar aura he had felt for a moment in the square seemed to have been brought about by this mark – he had not actively contacted it, but had passively sensed its presence due to its proximity.

This was the first time Duncan had released this “mark” on his own initiative, so there were still a lot of characteristics that he was not familiar with, but now it seemed that the connection between the Spirit Body’s fire was even more useful than he had imagined.

In his heart, he was slightly impressed, but at the same time, he also had a trace of doubt:
Sherry was talking to another person, and it sounded as if it was her friend …… Who was she with?
……

The closed water room became a temporary shelter, the narrow, claustrophobic space blocking out the ever looming calamity outside, not far away from the sink there was still the sound of rushing water, the electric lights had been extinguished, and the wavering firelight that shone through the window became the only source of light in the place, and Nina huddled carefully next to the sink, almost counting the sound of her own heartbeat.

It was unusually rapid.

Her new friend, the girl named Shelly, was checking the barricades of the doors and windows, the other girl’s hands burned by the flames but still going about her business as if nothing had happened, while not far away from her on the ground next to her lay another lady – a lady Nina didn’t know, having only seen her on the way to sparsely escaping into this place when she had been knocked unconscious by a dislodged brick that had knocked her unconscious, and dragged the lady into the place with Shirley.

Judging from her dress, the lady was obviously not a poor person in the lower city like herself, but a decent lady living in the upper city …… Unfortunately, in the face of calamity, there was not much difference between a decent person and a poor person in the lower city.

The sound of water in the sink suddenly diminished and gradually stopped.

“The …… main pump is down,” said Nina, who had been listening to the sounds around her, and at that moment suddenly said, “There’s a big fire.”

Her new friend, who was a head shorter than her, came over to her and crouched down in front of her, her eyes level in the darkness.

“Are you scared?” Sherry asked in a small voice.

“I’m scared of fire ……” Nina clutched her legs so hard she felt her voice shaking a little, “Especially, especially scared of fire.”

“…… Actually, I’m kinda scared too,” Shirley was silent for a couple seconds, “Well, the most scared – I’m most scared of fire ……”

“Can’t see that at all,” Nina shook her head, “You just went sideways.”

“Because I’m afraid, I’m rushing,” Shirley sat down with a big grin, “because I’m so afraid, I’m sure I won’t dare to rush up again once I’ve stopped. …… But now it’s okay, we’re both fucking trapped here, and there’s no place to run to. here, and there’s no place to run, so we’ll just have to wait like two stupid X’s.”

Nina touched Sherry’s arm in the darkness and suddenly realized that the other party was also shivering.

The other party was really scared too.

“You swear,” Nina whispered, “I thought …… you were a good, educated student.”

“It’s time to stop fucking pretending, I was,” Sherry said, a wide smile on her smoky black face, “And …… forget it.”

She seemed about to say something to Nina, but swallowed at the end, then she glanced back at the door and asked, “Hurry up and analyze it with that good brain of yours, how much longer can we survive here?”

Nina looked up, “I …… don’t know, but as long as we can keep the smoke out, we’re safe for the time being, and this room is sturdy, and it’s around the corner from the stairs, so it shouldn’t collapse for a while.”

Shirley gave a careless oh, followed by a moment of hesitation before she slowly spoke again, “Right, I said …… what if ah, I said what if, I’m going to have a way to get us out of here, but the way might be a little more intimidating, you . . want to try it?”

“Way?” Nina looked at the other confused, “What way?”

“It’s ……” Sherry stood up, but suddenly sat back down, “Ah, never mind, let’s wait, it’s not time yet, it’s not time yet …… “

Nina: “……?”

(end of chapter)