Chapter 575.
Chapter 575 – Awakening Dreams
The black wooden sculpture suddenly issued a sound let Duncan instantly stunned – he did not think in this is like a mysterious illusion like the wrong Lost Country ship, in front of this bizarre goat head will suddenly “live” over, his eyes subconsciously stared at the slow “wooden sculpture”, and his heart could not help but be on guard. Activities of the “wooden sculpture”, the heart can not help but be alert, and immediately after, he realized something:
Immediately afterward, he realized one thing: the other party seemed to be unable to “see” himself.
Because he was only “peeping” into the depths of that huge vine with the help of the connection established by the spiritual flame, and only his own thoughts were transmitted here, he did not really map his own power here, and naturally he did not condense a form here.
So the “goat’s head” on the table should have only sensed the scent – and now it began to search for the location of this scent.
The disturbing black wooden sculpture slowly rotating, the wooden base came from a burst of light creaking sound, in the dead silence of the Lost Country, in the dead silence of the captain’s room, this creaking sound seems more and more strange, that pair of obsidian carved into the dark eyeballs from Duncan’s perspective from the direction of the several sweeps, for a long time, it finally stopped, let out a puzzled voice: “There are …… who is ……”
Its voice was sluggish and low, like a dream.
Duncan immediately from the other party’s reaction to perceive the wrong place – this “goat head” looks like it is indeed perceived what, but it did not recognize this is the “captain” of the breath?
After a moment of concentration and thought, Duncan had a plan.
The connection established by the flames was instantly strengthened, and the power was transferred here by the flames. Duncan began to “tilt” his will towards this strange space filled with darkness and fog, and quickly gathered his own form here.
He wanted to understand what was going on with the Lost Country ship sailing in the mist, and the strange goat head in front of him.
On the Lost Country ship sailing in the darkness and fog, wisps of green flames appeared everywhere on the deck, and in the dimly-lit captain’s room, a spirit fire suddenly appeared in mid-air, and rapidly expanded with a crackling sound, and then swiftly sketched out a tall figure.
Almost instantly, Duncan’s connection with this strange dark space was strengthened, but in the same instant, he felt that this fog filled space and the “Lost Country” under his feet seemed to be stimulated by a …… certain kind of stimulation, and everything around him suddenly became illusory. Blurred, a belated sense of rejection from all sides, it seems to be this dark fog against his flame, or …… is this strange place itself is rapidly disintegrating.
This sudden sense of repulsion came as a surprise to Duncan – this was the first time he had ever felt this kind of active repulsion while using Spirit Flame to probe something unfamiliar!
In the past he had probed many things with Spiritfire, including Alice’s casket, including the brass clockwork key, and various transcendent objects seized from the cultists, but those things had never shown this kind of reaction.
Could it be that this strange space, as well as the huge “vine” that appeared in the city-state, were still alive, and that there was a powerful “consciousness” behind them?
Amazing speculations surged in his mind, but now was obviously not the time to get to the bottom of it. Duncan didn’t know how long he could be “connected” to this place, so he could only try to maintain his own stability while walking towards the goat’s head beside the navigational table.
The black wooden statue also seemed to wake up from a dream, it suddenly raised its head, and its eyes fell on Duncan – in its eyes, the green flame and the tall figure appeared suddenly, like a strong light suddenly broke into a peaceful and dark dream, in the awakened dream, it looked at the uninvited guest in front of its eyes, and let out a confused voice: “Who are you? voice: “Who are you?”
“It seems you don’t recognize me,” because he had already noticed some clues just now, Duncan was not surprised, he just tried his best to maintain his connection with this place, and at the same time, he quickly sensed the information of this “Lost Country” ship and this “goat head” in front of him. “I am Duncan Abnormale – what is your name?”
“Duncan …… ah, always feel some familiar ……” that goat head’s state but seems to be not completely awake, its voice from time to time as if falling into a sleepy sleep, and did not positively answer Duncan’s question, “But I don’t remember …… why you are here …… why we are here ……”
Duncan frowned.
He has felt that this dark space filled with mist gradually has signs of disintegration, a strong sense of rejection in an attempt to expel his flame from here, and the “goat head” in front of him seems to always be in a half-dreaming half-awake state, can not answer his question.
After a moment’s thought, he stepped forward again, and reached out to point to the chart next to the goat’s head.
“Where is the Lost Country sailing?”
After a second or two, the goat’s head slowly reacted, it slowly turned its neck, its eyes fell on the “sailing” chart that was showing the forest scenery, and it took a long time before it let out a slurred voice: “…… Oh, great, so they’re still here ……”
“They?” Duncan asked immediately, “They are ……”
However a sudden violent shaking and a low whistling sound that seemed to suddenly roll through the entire space interrupted the latter part of his sentence.
The rejection of him here was at its peak, every inch of space and time seemed to be resisting the spread of the spiritual fire, the air was crackling and popping with minor bursts, the flames seemed to be searing invisible barriers, and the various perceptions that passed through the flames suddenly appeared to be blurred and slowed down.
Duncan lowered his head and saw that the projected avatar he had coalesced was becoming increasingly blurry, and his connection to this place seemed to be about to be severed.
He knew that he could still force himself to gather more power and use the fire of his spirit body to maintain the connection – but after realizing that the giant vine was most likely “alive” and even conscious, he didn’t know if he should do that.
At that moment, the goathead on the navigation table seemed to have finally noticed something strange about Duncan.
Its gaze fell on the bright flickering fires, and only after a moment’s delay did it let out a muffled grunt, “Ah, you’re scaring her ……”
Duncan froze at the words and looked up instantly, “Scared who?”
“Silantis ……” the goathead seemed to be slipping back into that dreamy state, its voice growing slower, “Silantis doesn’t recognize you, your presence . . frightens her.” Silentis …… elf old legend of the “tree of the world”?
Duncan’s mind instantly surfaced corresponding information and a large number of conjectures, but just when he wanted to ask more questions, a kind of trance that perception quickly peeled off, the whole world quickly far away interrupted him, and immediately after, everything in front of his eyes quickly turned into a darkness, the captain’s room, the nautical table, the charts all disappeared in the darkness, and only the goat’s head indistinctly as if he were muttering to himself, the voice of a vague darkness. came:
“Ah, it’s time-she’s waking up.”
In the next instant, the sensation of being on solid ground again jolted Duncan awake, and he subconsciously drew in his breath, then opened his eyes.
Alice’s face was pinned just ten centimeters away from him.
Duncan was startled by this naive mannequin and hurriedly stepped back, while Alice instantly broke into a wide smile and followed him up while staggering, “Captain! Captain! It’s almost dawn! It seems to be back to normal outside!”
Duncan just wanted to read Alice two sentences, after hearing the other party’s words but could not help but freeze, immediately after, he noticed the changes around him.
The dense forest that had filled the entire neighborhood was gone, the huge flora that had once merged with the surrounding high-rise buildings had now faded away without a trace, and the street facilities that had once been twisted and mutated into a part of the forest had really returned to their original appearance.
On both sides of the road, the soft light from the gas street lamps was illuminating the surroundings, and in the sky above the neighborhoods, the “sunlight” from the distant coast was diffusing like a curtain over the city-state, and in the gaps of the sunlight, the outline of the World’s Creation had already gradually taken on a darker appearance, and at the end of the sky, the little bit of the morning glory before the rise of Vision 001 seemed to be diffusing in the clouds. diffuse through the clouds.
Duncan blinked and subconsciously looked to the ramp deeper down the block.
He remembered that there had been a huge vine spreading down the ramp, and that his own flames had seeped deep into that vine.
There was nothing there.
Just as the whole neighborhood had presented itself – everything was back to business as usual.
With the gradually rising sunrise, with the end of night and the descent of day, the bizarre phenomenon …… on a massive scale dissipated into the morning light like a waking dream.
Duncan felt as if he was standing on the border of a light and strange phantom dream, and the dislocated reality and the residual memories in his mind gave everything in front of his eyes an unreal quality.
But the trance lasted only a moment, and he soon came to his senses and took the first opportunity to look back in the direction of Crown Street.
His senses spread towards that direction, and those familiar “marks” appeared in his “vision”.
Nina, Shirley, Morris ……
Their scent returned to the real world.
The puppet head in Alice’s arms suddenly moved, and the maid puppet’s mouth opened and closed, emitting Lucrecia’s voice: “Daddy, it seems like we ……”
“I know, you’re all back and the neighborhood has returned to normal.”
Duncan said quickly, and out of the corner of his eye, he could already see sparse figures appearing in the streets – the locals who were out and about after dawn.
They were sprinkling the streets, chatting in front of their doors, hurrying to work, talking about yesterday’s news and today’s weather.
No one seems to know what happened last night – even though just a few hours ago, all of these people moving through the neighborhood literally disappeared into the night.
And now, they’re back, too.
The street scene, which was gradually reviving and coming to life before his eyes, seemed to be gradually floating with an unspeakably grotesque and treacherous feeling.
(End of Chapter)