(She wakes up from a chaotic sleep, touching this strange and incomprehensible world like a newborn baby. The broken memories and thoughts are like the foam that rises and falls on the sea, unable to form a complete picture for a long time.
Consciousness and cognition.
The whole world seems to be shrouded in a thick curtain, and my own perception seems to have been shattered and reorganized a thousand times by invisible forces. My mind cannot understand those crazy and confusing sensory signals, rumbling noises, and dark and terrifying lights and shadows.
It is as if it is directly engraved on the nerves, stirring the consciousness and tingling the thinking.
He tried to take steps forward, tried to distinguish the things around him, tried to remember himself, and tried to understand the current situation.
Countless shadowy things surround him. Those things have amorphous outlines, and hollows with psychedelic colors floating on the upright bodies. Weird airflow flows in those hollows, making indescribable whistling and hissing sounds.
It's doubly terrifying.
Then, a warm radiance appears in the perception. Following this warmth, I wake up from the darkness and forget my own existence and start to move forward slowly...)
Nina suddenly put down the cheap jewelry she was selecting, frowned in confusion, turned around and glanced behind her.
Shirley on the side noticed it immediately and turned around curiously: "Ah? Nina, what's wrong with you?"
"I don't know..." Nina still frowned in confusion and glanced around the crowd behind her, "I suddenly felt something moving from behind, as if someone was staring here, but it seemed like...an illusion.
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"It's an illusion..." Shirley frowned after hearing Nina's words, and subconsciously looked around the market, "There are people everywhere here, maybe someone glanced this way?
"
Although she said this, she still cautiously confirmed it with Agou in her heart.
"There's nothing," Agou's feedback quickly echoed in his heart, "It's just that there are too many people."
"Agou said there is nothing wrong with it," Shirley said to Nina in a low voice, "There will definitely be no problem with his perception."
Nina blinked, looked back, and then shook her head: "...it seems to be an illusion."
There are many people in the market, and the bustling crowd makes this originally very spacious market seem a bit crowded. Not only can you see locals around, but you can also see many tourists wearing foreign clothes strolling in the market, and various vendors are selling their goods.
The crowds were rising and falling, sounding almost noisy, but yet full of vitality.
In a place where people come and go like this, it's nothing to feel one or two glances occasionally.
"Girl, do you still want to buy it?"
The stall owner's voice came from the other side, interrupting Nina's distraction.
"Oh, sorry," Nina reacted immediately, smiled apologetically at the stall owner, and then raised the hairpin and brooch she had just selected, "Wrap these two for me. Where's Shirley? Do you like it?
Of?"
"I... didn't pick one," Shirley shook her head, "I'll go check out the next one later."
The stall owner packed his things, Nina paid the bill, and the two girls who went shopping continued to wander in this lively market. It was still very early before sunset, and the sun still hung high over the city. They could play
Quite a long time.
(The mist that filled the surroundings stung the skin and eyes, and the endless roaring and whistling sounds seemed to tear the eardrums. However, fortunately or unfortunately, the broken thinking and chaotic perception weakened it to a certain extent.
In this unbearable pain, he forgot his own existence and staggered forward in this chaotic and indescribable world, continuing to think hard.
What is the skin? What are the eyes? What are the eardrums? How do you walk? How do you get here?
Starting from the most basic question, he started to be confused about everything.
And there are annoying things that are constantly interfering with his thinking and memories, and bringing him more pain and confusion.
He tried to raise his head, looking for the source of the annoying disturbance - something hanging high above, a huge... noise.
He was a little confused, because in his superficial and vague consciousness, "noise" should be an invisible thing, but he felt that... what he saw was noise.
A group of chaotic and twisted ripples, vibrating and squirming endlessly at a high place. The ripples cover the entire chaotic sky, stirring up the dark and floating light and shadow, and blending with countless roaring noises on the ground, which is disgusting.
, scary.
It took a hard step forward, moving amid the noise, and carefully avoiding those indescribable shapes with psychedelic holes in their bodies that kept making various hissing sounds, moving slowly, and continuing to move...
)
Nina stopped again, this time standing in the middle of the road, staring at an empty place with wide eyes.
There was even a faint golden glimmer quietly floating in her eyes.
Shirley immediately stopped and looked at the open space with a confused frown. After a few seconds, she broke the silence with some uncertainty: "I seemed to have felt it just now. There was something watching.
He's coming here, and he seems to be following him..."
"Does Agou feel it?" Nina asked in a low voice, her nerves tense unconsciously.
"Agou still said that he didn't feel anything," Shirley carefully observed the surroundings and replied in a low voice, "but he said that the repeated occurrence of 'illusions' is a cause for alarm. Maybe there is something that shouldn't appear in reality.
The things of the world are exerting influence..."
Nina nodded slightly, and at the same time confirmed the situation in the market with the corner of her eyes.
Among the pedestrians passing by, she could see the church guards on the roadside.
The "Knowledge Guards" of the Academy of Truth guard this crowded place. They wear academic-style burqas and carry large-caliber revolvers at their waists. They pay attention to the disturbances in the streets and squares with alert and calm eyes -
The eyes blessed by Lachem, the god of wisdom, can detect the evil invading reality at the first time.
However, these "knowledge guards" seemed very relaxed and did not seem to notice anything amiss in the market.
"That feeling disappeared...the guards didn't seem to have any reaction, but I always felt that I was not delusional just now." Nina whispered to Shirley.
Shirley also responded in a low voice: "What are you going to do?"
"...Do you want to report it to the guards on the roadside?" Nina thought for a while and said, "Uncle said that if you encounter dangerous beings such as heretics, you should report it to the guards as soon as possible."
Shirley was stunned for a moment when she heard this. Her head, which was full of violence and foul language, really didn't leave much space for the word "report", and she had never thought about it in this direction.
However, recalling Captain Duncan's several "just reports" actions, another strange feeling came to her mind again——
As a violent, vulgar, uneducated and bad child, she is actually incompatible with the thoughts of this evil god's family due to her lack of moral standards?
However, after a brief sense of disobedience, she couldn't help but shook her head: "How to report it? Just say that we always feel that someone is following us? The guards will think that we are causing trouble..."
(Among the fragmented memories, what else can be combined and connected in series?
He thought hard, and as he staggered forward, he recalled a dark red color, as if thick blood had accumulated. The dark red glow floated in the sky in his memory, as if it would never end.
Chase yourself, chase your...companions.
Companion? What is a companion?
New memories suddenly appeared in the depths of his consciousness, and he became a little confused. Then, he finally recalled more.
Ah, he has companions. He and his companions set out on a long journey, but what are they going to do?
It seems... to save the world.
Following the guidance of the prophet, they went to the direction where the red light fell to find a way to save the world. Many of them set out together, but the hunter sister and brother soon fell, and then the gloomy and taciturn magician, and then the
A few knights...)
Nina decided to report it to several guards at the scene first.
Although it may seem troublesome to explain the motivation for reporting, professional matters must be done by professionals after all, and as Uncle Duncan said - anyway, as long as the attitude is sincere, no one will be held accountable if the report fails.
If you report it successfully, you might even make a fortune.
She pulled the reluctant Shirley and walked towards the guards on the roadside.
(Ah, that warm feeling appears again, not far ahead, even... emitting a hazy light.
She stopped thinking and walked forward subconsciously.
Thick "curtains" gathered around, as if they were deliberately blocking his footsteps. The buzzing and rumbling noises were also gathering, and strange shapes that kept hissing were walking around, as if they were filled with indescribable sounds.
The malice exudes unspeakable terror.
However, he quickened his pace and moved closer to the light, just like...
The only thing that is still familiar and understandable in the memory.)
Nina came to the roadside.
The knowledge guard wearing a college robe turned his head and looked curiously at the two girls who suddenly walked over and looked like they were still in middle school.
"You two ladies, do you need help?" the guard smiled and asked gently.
(Hissing and murmuring noises came from the front, and the ball of light seemed to be approaching an indescribable shape, and a strong sense of uneasiness came over my heart.)
"We feel something is wrong..." Nina explained to the guards, saying the sentence she had been thinking about all the way, "Just now..."
(She finally came near the warm light. When she was still some distance away, she stretched out her "hand", wanting to touch the hazy shadow.
At this moment, all the curtains and fog seem to have turned into invisible borders, and the "actual touch" brought by penetrating the border is the first sting that the lost and forgotten people feel in this new world.
She leaps forward.)
A scream suddenly came from behind, resounding throughout the market.