Chapter 617: Unintentional Touch
Chapter 617 – No Intent to Touch
Nina and Maurice walked in the forest path, the sky light through the high lush canopy, in the forest sprinkled with dappled columns of light, the forest did not know when a thin layer of fog, the sunlight dispersed in the fog, it looks more and more dreamy and hazy.
The elf girl who called herself “Shireen” walked not far ahead, stopping every now and then to look back at this side, looking ever patient.
“The forest is foggy,” Nina looked up at the shadows of the trees in the distance, and whispered mentally, “This is the first time I’ve seen fog here. …… Uncle Duncan, how is it on your side? ”
She slowed her pace, an earnest expression of sidelong listening on her face, and Maurice, who was walking beside her, followed suit, listening just as attentively to the voices coming from the depths of his mind.
A moment later, the old scholar’s voice resounded in the spiritual connection: ”You mean the construction records of the …… Lost Country ship? The information from Prand Shipyard back then?”
This old gentleman then listened carefully for a while longer, nodded with a serious expression, and responded in his mind, “I understand …… that this part of the information is definitely all still there, but it is definitely impossible to get it by the usual means, so I’ll discuss this with Vanna later on, and see if I can find an old friend in the city-state, or on the part of the church. ”
The voice from the depths of his mind faded.
Nina blinked and looked curiously at the teacher walking beside her, “Why is Uncle Duncan suddenly looking for the Lost Country’s construction records from back in the day, huh?”
“I don’t know, maybe the Captain found something deep within that ‘Lost Country Ship of Dreams’,” Maurice said casually, “but since he didn’t give specifics, it’s best if we don’t take the initiative to ask. ”
Apparently, after being a part of the Lost Country for so long, the old man had become very adept at the code of safety around the captain.
He then paused and frowned slightly at the white fog that was lingering in the dense forest and seemed to be thickening over time.
“The fog’s gotten bigger ……” he said with a somewhat serious expression, “I don’t know much about ‘forests’, but I’ve always felt that something about this fog is is not quite right.”
Nina thought for a moment and leapt to her feet, “Disperse it with sunlight?”
Morris subconsciously glanced at “Shireen” who was walking in front of him, and hurriedly waved his hand to stop the girl’s enthusiasm: “Don’t be rash, your sunlight seems to be a very strong stimulus to this dream world.”
“Oh ……”
And in the midst of their delay, Shireen, who was walking in front of them, stopped in her tracks.
It was as if she could sense the distance between herself and Maurice and Nina precisely at all times, and whenever this distance was drawn to a certain point, she would stop immediately, sometimes with curious inquiries as well as prodding – as now.
“Did something happen?” The elf-maiden looked quizzically at the duo who were falling behind muttering, “There isn’t much time to lose – we need to get back to the Silent Wall before we encounter the erosion phenomenon.”
“There’s a lot of fog around,” Nina immediately took two steps closer to keep up with Shireen, taking the opportunity to speak directly, “Does it often get this foggy around here?”
“Fog?” Shireen was stunned for a moment, then looked up and around, then it was as if she had just reacted, a dazed expression appearing on her face as she flashed Nina a small smile, “We’re very close to our destination …… We’re almost inside the Wall of Silence.”
“You mean, these fogs are caused by the ‘Wall of Silence’?” Maurice’s voice immediately came from the side, “Or that these ‘fogs’ are part of the Silent Wall?”
“It’s spectacular, isn’t it?” Shireen, however, did not answer the scholar’s question head-on, but instead looked around the dense forest that was gradually being swallowed up by the mists with a strange kind of excited elation, as if she was the one who was seeing the Wall of Silence for the first time, “You can’t even see it in its entirety from here – but Silentis can see it, the From very high up, from the sky, Silantis’s branches could look down on the wall ……
“It closed in before her eyes, cutting off the entire realm from the encroaching outside world …… We’re not there yet, there’s still a little way to go, deeper into the mists, there’s another light-cast barrier, the Wall of Silence itself, but that’s close enough, almost as close as the blink of an eye… …”
Shireen spoke cheerfully, the “mental entity” that had seemed so calm and even a bit reactive all the way there seemed to have gained an extremely animated human quality in just a few seconds, she turned around and walked quickly towards the path deeper into the fog, waving to Nina and Maurice as she did so– –
“Come on, follow me, we’re almost back to safety!”
Nina was still the first time to see the other party act like this, froze for a moment before reacting, but she saw that Shireen’s figure was about to disappear into the depths of that flowing thick fog, she hurriedly chased after it with Maurice at a fast pace, but for some reason, she had a vague feeling ……
couldn’t catch up.
Although before, Shireen always waited for herself and her teacher who were lagging behind, and although the “Shireen” that Shirley and Ms. Lucrecia encountered had the same “behavioral pattern”, this time, Nina felt that the other party wouldn’t stop and wait for her again! –Shireen’s footsteps were without hesitation, and she almost rushed towards the heavily shadowed trees in the fog, like a long time traveler returning home, a drop of water returning to the ocean.
The elf finally disappeared into the boundless fog, never looking back.
Leaving Nina and Maurice staring at each other in the foggy dense forest.
Only after a short while did Maurice look thoughtfully in the direction of Shireen’s final disappearance, “Her mind reacted by disappearing directly at the end of this path – within a few seconds after her figure was out of our sight.”
Nina thought for a moment and spoke a little uneasily, “So have we gotten lost …… There’s fog and trees everywhere, and it looks the same everywhere.”
“We didn’t know the way to begin with,” Maurice was quite open-minded, “You don’t have to worry about ‘getting lost’ in the dream world – because theoretically, you’ll always be lost when you’re moving around in the dream world will always be lost.”
Nina listened to her teacher’s teachings with a blank stare, thinking it made sense, “That’s true.”
Then she asked again, “So what’s next? Do you need me to ‘fly’ up there and see what’s going on? I can tighten up a bit.” “Try to avoid stimulating this dream as a last resort,” Maurice waved his hand, then confirmed roughly where Shireen’s mind reaction was when it disappeared again in the fog, and lifted his hand to point to the end of the trail in the distance, “Let’s head in that direction, following the last thing Shireen pointed out to us on that path.”
“Good!”
Just like that, one old and one young began to trek through this misty and dense forest that seemed to never end.
They only had a general direction.
But Nina remembered that Shireen had said before she left that this place was already only a step away from the Silent Wall – in some distant past, the shelter Silantis had constructed for the elves was at the end of this thick fog.
A blink of an eye.
The light from the sky that poured through the gaps in the canopy had faded at some point, and the dappled columns of light became blurry, suspicious shadows in the fog, and the ruggedness of the forest, the paths that the beasts trod when they drank, were not roads at all, and even those paths weren’t always –In many places, the ground covered with dead branches and leaves was even more difficult to navigate than the rugged paths.
And I don’t know if it’s an illusion, Nina always felt that the ground here is more difficult to walk, the plants are also becoming dense, chaotic, vines and bushes as if there is a sense of blocking the general interlacing horizontal, the fog is permeated with a kind of cold atmosphere, as if …… the front is not a “final refuge”, but this is the “final sanctuary”, and it’s the “final sanctuary”. The front is not a “final refuge”, but the biggest shadow in this vast dream world.
She suddenly stopped.
In the fog, she seemed to see something flashing.
Nina almost slapped 6000°C.
But she restrained herself from this overly sunny impulse just in time.
“It looked like something ran past inside the fog just now,” Nina said to Maurice a little nervously, “I was startled!”
Maurice glanced at Nina and saw two golden flames leaping from the depths of the girl’s eyes, while the air around her was gradually calming down from its distortion.
The old man also looked suddenly a bit nervous – he wasn’t afraid of any dangerous contraptions actually appearing in the fog, he was afraid that Nina would light up this forest with a slap.
After all, the kid was a bit of a shocker.
“See what it is?”
“No,” Nina shook her head, “it just felt like a particularly tall ‘person’ that ran past in the blink of an eye, but maybe it wasn’t a person? It felt like the silhouette was weird …… like it was deformed.”
“…… can’t tell what it was for now,” Morris said, frowning, “but I didn’t feel any mental activity just now, so it’s highly likely that it was just a phantom created in the mist… …We don’t know what this so-called ‘wall of silence’ is about yet, so it’s possible to see anything in here.”
Saying this he paused and couldn’t help but add, “The key is that you have to be calm …… and control your impulse to do something rash.”
Nina nodded nervously and took a few more steps forward while continuing to pay attention to the movements in the surrounding mists.
And just then, a disorderly wind seemed to suddenly blow through the dense forest.
She felt that the mist in front of her eyes suddenly dissipated, and immediately afterward, a blurry, distorted mirror-like “curtain of light” appeared at the end of the dissipating mist.
The layer of shimmering light in the fog trembling, the surface reflects the distorted light in the forest, behind the curtain of light seems to have something, but can not see clearly.
Nina froze briefly, and realized immediately after – they had arrived.
It was the “light-cast barrier” at the end of the Wall of Silence that Shireen had mentioned!
In the next second, Nina and Maurice quickly stepped in front of the curtain of light.
A barrier made of light, magnificent and full of majesty stood at the border of the fog, like the end of the whole forest world, extending upwards into the endless sky, extending to the sides into the endless distance, and there was a flow of light on the surface of the barrier slowly swimming, as if the world on both sides of the shimmering light was cut off, quietly guarding the infinite secrets on the other side.
“Really …… beautiful ah.” Nina looked up dully and subconsciously marveled.
Morris stepped forward, he motioned for Nina to step back slightly, then cautiously reached out his hand and touched the layer of light that seemed to have no thickness at all.
With that, the wall of silence collapsed silently.
The light-cast wall that seemed to connect heaven and earth, that seemed to be endlessly wide and extremely grand and majestic, shattered silently like a soap bubble.
(End of chapter)