Due to the delay in the afternoon, it was already approaching dusk when Shirley and Nina returned to 99 Crown Street, and it was time to have dinner.
In this "Elf City", there really isn't much that can be called normal food, but fortunately, normal ingredients can always be purchased, and Lucretia's "servants" prepared a sumptuous meal for the guests. For dinner, Nina and Shirley finally ate "food that humans should eat."
It's just that they didn't feel comfortable eating this meal.
What they heard and saw in that underground holding facility still makes them a little dizzy - there are too many things they don't understand, there are too many things beyond their three perspectives, about the Great Annihilation and about history. "Black Wall", about those doomsdays, about those old worlds that were destroyed, and this "new world" born in the deep sea era...
For two girls who can only be considered "old children" in the strict sense, these things are a bit too complicated and advanced.
After hurriedly finishing dinner, Shirley returned to her room. She sat in front of the table in a daze for a while, then heard the soft sound of chains shaking next to her, and Agou poked his head out of the shadows.
Shirley lowered her head, glanced at this "friend" who had almost eaten her, but had raised her since childhood, and asked seriously: "Did you understand all the things the captain said today? The fragments of several worlds are piled together and then the Deep Sea Age or something..."
"I can understand part of it," Agou lay down and gently rubbed Shirley's knees with his huge head, "but I don't understand the parts that are too common sense."
"I almost didn't understand it," Shirley said honestly. "Of course, I understand those sentences, but it's a bit difficult for my brain to imagine how those things happened - after all, why do we Do you care about how this world was born?"
She said confusedly, even though she knew she was showing a very shallow look, but she never had anything to hide in front of Agou.
"You can still live if you don't know anything, right?" she continued, "Anyway, that's how the two of us survived in the past ten years..."
Agou suddenly raised his head, and his empty eyes filled with blood-colored light stared straight into Shirley's eyes. A low and hoarse voice came from its skeletal body: "You can live without knowing anything, but We also need to know that survival is not a matter of course - this is true for ordinary people, and this is true for the world itself."
Agou's suddenly serious attitude startled Shirley. She was stunned for a moment, then vaguely seemed to understand something and looked thoughtful.
"The world will not 'survive' like this forever," Agou looked at Shirley's reaction, laid his head down again, and said in a low voice, "The Great Annihilation can destroy those 'old worlds', then Today's Deep Sea Age may still be ended by another force. Ordinary people may not know anything about it until the day the end comes. They will usher in the end in the illusion of long-lasting peace, just like that person. In the hometown of the 'warriors', those people who are waiting for the triumph of the brave men in the kingdom, "ignorance" is their greatest blessing... For them, they can live without knowing anything, because they don't know either. How far away is death?
“But Shirley, we’re not the ones left in the Kingdom—we’re on the Lost Home.
"You have also seen those omens, the black sun descending in Plande, the Creator's blueprint that is out of control in the depths of the frost, the boundless sea when Vision 001 is extinguished, and those nagging cultists... .If you are a 'kingdom person,' you don't have access to them."
Agou said nonchalantly. It shook its head, carefully put away its fangs, and rubbed Shirley's knees with the tip of its nose.
"Shirley, it's true that you can live without knowing anything, but you now know that the captain is worried about those ominous omens. In fact, you are too, but you just didn't notice it yourself."
Shirley calmed down. She sat quietly on the chair for a long time, then stretched out her hand and pressed it on Agou's skull. There was a little uneasiness in her voice: "Agou, we are that
Are these people walking in the wilderness...just like that 'soldier', are we also trekking towards the end? "
"We are heading towards the end, and the doomsday is coming towards us. "Knowledge" is a two-way street. When we know its existence, there is no difference. The only question is... in what way it will be. , when will they catch up with us, I think this is also what the captain is worried about." Kanshu La
"...Agou, why do you understand so well? Do you understand...this feeling?"
The blood in Agou's eyes slowly changed in brightness and darkness: "Because I once felt something similar - when you were very, very young."
It raised its head and looked into Shirley's eyes.
Its voice is very soft, just like it did many years ago when it tried to calm the frightened little girl to sleep during a thunderstorm——
"At the beginning, you were a...little creature that I couldn't understand at all. You were so small and weak, and your arms could be broken as easily as thin wooden sticks. Even if you lived in symbiosis with the devil, you could not It's so fragile that it seems like it could die at any time...
"Every day, every second, I worry about the coming of this kind of 'death'. I don't understand your breathing, I don't understand your heartbeat, I don't understand how humans survive, I even waited for several days after you were hungry. Only later did I know that you needed to look for food - as a deep demon, I was not used to 'thinking' at that time, and you... didn't communicate with me very well at that time.
"So I always feel that you may die anytime, anywhere due to something that I can't understand yet. Your breathing, heartbeat, blood flow, these strange 'phenomena' are all extremely fragile 'temporary balance' in my eyes. The termination of any link will make you leave me, so when you woke up as a child, you would always see me groping and observing beside you, because I wanted to check your breathing and heartbeat, and to check whether you were dead. .
"This worry is very similar to the captain's worry now."
Agou paused for a moment, raised his head and looked towards the second floor, but quickly looked away again.
"The captain and I can't be compared, and I shouldn't speculate on his thoughts. But today, in his eyes, I felt that familiar... worry. This seemingly vast expanse of sea, for To him, you are probably the same as you were to me many years ago - a small and weak "weird thing". I don't know how he survives, I just know that he will die at any time."
Agou talked a lot, and now it finally calmed down, but Shirley still looked at it blankly and made no sound for a long time.
"Why don't you speak?" Agou asked doubtfully.
"You...never told me this before," Shirley said in a daze, "It turns out that when I was young..."
"It's all in the past," Ah Gou whispered. "If you survived, then all the worries and difficulties you had at the beginning are things in the past."
Shirley pursed her lips and suddenly raised her head with some worry, looking in the direction of the second floor: "Agou, do you think...will we be the warriors and his companions in the story?"
"If possible, I don't want to be like them." Agou shook his head. "Soldiers cannot prevent the end of the world with a steel sword. Their journey to the end is arduous but destined to be in vain - but since they are the captain To lead us, we obviously have more than just a steel sword, so I would like to be optimistic."
"Captain..." Shirley sighed, "I don't know what the captain is doing now...he hasn't even come down to have dinner."
"Are you going to go up and deliver food later and take a look?"
"Well, it's still not possible - Alice will definitely go anyway." "That's true."
Looking at the wonderful sky outside the window where the daylight faded and the sky dimmed, but a layer of golden "sunlight" was always filled in the gaps between high-rise buildings, Duncan exhaled slightly, turned around and turned on the light in the room.
Although the "sunshine" that filled the streets brought eternal "illumination" to Qingfeng Port, after Vision 001 fell, those who spread from the nearby sea and were covered by buildings layer by layer
After all, blocked sunlight cannot illuminate the entire city. Deep in the city-state, the night is still visible in places where the "sunlight" is blocked by buildings, and here, people still need the comfort of lights.
The bright lights dispersed the darkness that was spreading from all around, making the room seem a little warmer.
Outside the window, as the power of Vision 001 faded, in the starless and moonless sky, the pale crack at the creation of the world was gradually emerging.
The cold and pale light filled the night, but was cut into pieces by the "sunlight" that diffused between the high-rise buildings, showing a strange phenomenon that could not be seen in other city-states, where the creation of the world and the sunlight appeared at the same time and intertwined with each other. Scenes.
Duncan looked at the splitting "trauma" in the sky, but his mind was still recalling the "memory illusions" he saw today.
He thought of the "deep red" that stretched across the sky like a huge scar.
What is that "red light" that stretches across the universe and whose propagation laws seem to no longer conform to common sense in physics?
Whether it was in the vision when the New Hope crashed, or in the oil painting at Alice's Mansion, or in the hometown of the "Soldier" on the verge of destruction, there was that red light.
There is no doubt that that red light is the "culprit" that scholars have been searching for, leading to the "Great Annihilation" event, or at least the "first symbol" of the Great Annihilation.
Staring at the "Creation of the World" that also stretched across the sky, Duncan couldn't help but have a series of unfounded "associations" in his mind——
The destruction of every "old world" is accompanied by the appearance of that huge red light, and in the "Deep Sea Age" of the new world, the creation of the pale world hangs high in the sky... Between the two Will there be any connection between them?
The "creation of the world" that shines in the night sky in the boundless sea is the reverberation of the old apocalypse? Or is it the remnant of the destructive power during the Great Annihilation?
Duncan even had a more disturbing suspicion——
Has that destructive power never dissipated at all? It has just entered a certain state of slumber, rising in the sky every night, and the so-called "creation of the world"... is just the result of that "red light" during its slumber. form.
Could the function of Vision 001 be to periodically "hypnotize" the "Crimson Doomsday"?
During this series of speculations, Duncan's eyes gradually became serious, and another question that he had not thought about before suddenly appeared in his mind.
In his hometown, at least in the hometown he remembered...he had never seen that "red light".
