In front of the dilapidated and abandoned factory, the mysterious hound "Agou" "watched" the collapsed and collapsed land with his empty eyes.
Factory building, as if trying to observe this ruin in the real world from another dimension. Shirley stood next to Agou, looking around nervously at the situation, and after confirming Duncan's face
Then he whispered: "Agou, is there really no 'residual pollution' here?"
"If you are referring to the chemical leakage among ordinary people, then don't worry, the pollution here may have dissipated a few years ago..." A hoarse and low voice came from Agou's throat.
The voice said, "But if it's pollution from some extraordinary realm, I can't tell."
"Did you find anything?" Duncan asked from the side.
"...No, really not," Agou lowered his head slightly, "I just saw a moment of...'fire', but now there is nothing. It might just be someone."
This kind of 'reverberation' is the memory left and solidified in this ruin... Many extraordinary powers will leave similar traces in the real world, but we need to understand what kind of extraordinary power it is...
...I'm afraid we have to go in and take a look.
"Then go in," Duncan nodded and walked towards a gap in the abandoned factory, "You guys also
Keep up."
Shirley hesitated for a moment, but still stepped forward to follow. Agou shook his head from side to side, and the dark chain made a rattling sound. The deep hound looked at Duncan who was walking in front curiously and carefully: "You.
.....Why are you also interested in things that happened eleven years ago? Of course, I just asked casually, with a little curiosity. Of course, a big shot like you has his own way of doing things..."
"Just think it's out of interest," Duncan interrupted the Deep Hound, "Don't be so nervous in front of me, it makes me feel uncomfortable."
"Hey, okay, okay, we are not nervous, we are not nervous...
Listening to the other party's obviously nervous answer, Duncan just shook his head helplessly, and then glanced at Shirley beside him curiously: "There is a fire in your memory, but except you, no one else
Remember the existence of this fire, right?"
...Well," Shirley nodded, she had already realized something at this time, "It depends on your attitude... You also know about the fire, right? That fire really existed, right?
"...Yes, I know, so now I am more curious about who erased the traces of the fire. Duncan nodded slightly and said lightly. Traces.
At the same time, his mind was also filled with thoughts - he never thought that things would develop so coincidentally, nor did he expect that there would be a third person in the city-state of Purland who knew about the "fire" besides himself and Nina.
", his chance encounter with Shirley, the joint investigation by both parties, the fire that erased traces, Agou's hallucination just now... these things are happening in the dark.
Love seems to be pulled together by invisible forces, like planets surrounding the sun.
This feeling of everything being pulled together by invisible forces has made him wary.
Nina's textbook has briefly described some "common sense" in the extraordinary field, and mentioned powerful anomalies or abnormalities.
Symbols often have the power to interfere with the development of reality, and can even guide certain events to occur like weaving a script.
In many cases, dense coincidences or continuous clues are "omens" worthy of vigilance. This often means that the people involved have been affected by an abnormality or vision, and are unconsciously participating in or even promoting the phenomenon. incident. But in the face of this invisible and harmless push and influence, his "spiritual fire" was of no use. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Shirley secretly.
The girl and "Agou" were carefully watching the movements in the ruins of the factory. She seemed to have no unnecessary complicated thoughts at all. Maybe it was because her "big terror" was so close that she had no unnecessary thoughts and random thoughts?
"...This looks like an ordinary ruin..." Agou's low voice came, interrupting Duncan's thinking, "I didn't sense any breath of extraordinary power.
Shirley raised her head and looked at the criss-crossing pipes and twisted ceiling beams above.
This is the first "factory building" after entering the factory. It has been severely damaged in the accident eleven years ago. Some kind of powerful explosion penetrated its roof, causing high-altitude pipes to break, building materials to collapse, and sunlight to escape. Sprinkling into the ruins through the large hole above, the scene inside is like the jagged skeleton of a giant beast after its death.
However, apart from these explosions and collapses, there were no traces of "fire" in the factory. "It doesn't look like there was a fire..." Shirley murmured thoughtfully.
"There are no traces of fire, that's the biggest problem," Duncan's deep voice suddenly came from the side. He was also looking up at the broken pipes and roof structures, and frowned slightly, "This level of damage An accident, and there was obviously an explosion, so there will inevitably be an associated fire. Regardless of the scale, it should at least leave some traces of burning in the factory...but there is not even a trace of a flame here. nothing.
After Duncan finished speaking, Agou then said in a deep voice: "Yes, the way it looks here now is as if... all the elements related to 'fire' have been deliberately erased, but because the erasure was too It’s clean, but leaves a more eye-catching blank space.”
"Erase it..." Duncan muttered softly and slowly walked deeper into the factory. When he passed by a field of abandoned and twisted machines, he stopped and looked casually at a hole in the wall not far away. One glance.
He suddenly stopped and his eyes widened slightly.
He saw a blazing sea of fire rising from the opposite side of the hole, and saw the entire wasteland outside the factory rolling with flames. The flames were like a raging ocean, rising into the sky and rushing to the earth, flowing turbulently to the nearby streets. , houses, thick smoke billowing up, and countless frantic people running in the sea of fire, like a mirage of hell!
This terrifying and fiery scene suddenly broke into Duncan's field of vision, but the next second, he turned his head
When he wanted to call Shirley over, the sight of the blazing sea of fire suddenly dissipated. Duncan blinked hard, came to the hole and looked out, and all he saw was a wasteland, and
There are several dilapidated houses that are no longer inhabited on the edge of the wasteland.
Agou noticed Duncan's unusual behavior and immediately asked: "What did you find?" "I saw it just now, fire," Duncan replied in a deep voice, "but it disappeared when I turned around."
"Then it seems that the 'reverberation' left here is very strong," Agou immediately analyzed. "It reappeared twice in a short period of time. It is not a trace left by ordinary extraordinary power. It seems that the group of cultists have
The 'sun fragments' we are looking for have indeed appeared here... I just don't know what the rules are that trigger the 'reverberation'..."
Duncan didn't say anything. He just slowly returned to the position where he first saw the "reverberation" and looked thoughtfully at the place where he had just stood.
There seems to be nothing here.
After thinking for a moment, Duncan suddenly raised his hand and gently rubbed his fingertips.
A small green flame jumped out of his hand silently.
The moment he saw the green flames, Agou suddenly shrank his neck, and then took three or four steps back. With the sound of the dark chains shaking, Shirley also took half a step back.
step, with a frightened look on his face
Looking at Duncan: "You.........you really plan to eat cooked food?!
"What are you afraid of?" Duncan glanced at the pair expressionlessly, "This is not here to roast you." As soon as he finished speaking, he pointed his fingertips to the ground.
The small green flame seemed to be like a stream of water, falling silently to the ground. The next second, the translucent spiritual fire rippled on the surface, spread, and instantly swept across a few meters below Duncan's feet!
Shirley looked at this scene in surprise, and suddenly her eyes widened: "...Ah!?"
Wherever the flames swept, something suddenly appeared on the previously empty ground. Suddenly, Shirley thought of something. She raised her head and looked around the empty factory. Under Duncan's conscious control
, the green spiritual fire swept across the entire factory like a breeze. As a result, the traces that had been erased finally briefly reappeared in the eyes of the visitors.
It was a piece of ashes, a piece of curled-up ashes with a vaguely human shape!
It was a human being who had been burned to ashes, and before dying, he was looking in the direction that Duncan had just looked at.