My consciousness is in a dark chaos, I can't see anything, I can't hear anything, I just feel hazy, and there are almost no retrievable fragments in the vague fragmented memory.
who I am?
Carl.
A soul in a broken state.
Gradually, Carl recalled that he seemed to be not named Carl, but "Shen Ling", from another completely different world.
Am I a time traveler?
In the endless darkness, Karl, who was in a state of incomplete soul, gradually recalled himself in his previous life.
Not long after graduating from a key university, I had a business sales job. I ran around for a living every day and talked too much. Finally, I was forcibly escorted away by a drunk client at the end of the night after work.
The memory of the past life was also interrupted here. It seemed that he was indeed sent on the road by his client.
Karl found that his current situation was extremely pessimistic. Only a small part of his memory could be recalled. There were ten completely different and extremely heavy "things" in the deepest part of his soul that suppressed his memory.
The profound understanding in the subconscious is that they should be "seals" from different existences, as if more memories can be restored as long as the seals can be unlocked.
He initially wandered in the darkness for a long time, not knowing how to change the situation, until he inadvertently absorbed a weak spiritual power into his body, and his soul showed signs of recovery.
The least heavy seal among the ten finally showed signs of loosening.
Karl greedily and instinctively absorbed the source of this spiritual power, constantly restoring and strengthening his soul.
As he absorbed strength, his five senses gradually recovered, and he discovered that the source of the spiritual power was a completely transparent glass bottle.
In the subconscious mind, it is an extraordinary "mysterious object", and the spiritual power contained inside can be the nourishment for Karl to restore his soul.
Suddenly, he seemed to have stepped out of a dark and lightless world, and was finally able to "see" the things around him.
An old and dilapidated wooden house, damp, with only two wooden beds on both sides, covered with straw mats, the room was narrow, and all kinds of sundries were still placed neatly and orderly.
The transparent bottle that carries Karl's soul is on a wooden bed. The transparent glass bottle is only larger than a palm and is unremarkable. There are also old clothes with a slight smell, washed dishes, spoons and other sundries next to it.
From the open door of the wooden house, you can see the night sky outside. The stars are thin and the air is very fresh. You can clearly see the two moons hanging high in the night sky.
One is red, the other is bright.
As expected, this place was not the original world, and Karl sighed secretly.
He misses his hometown very much. When he was confused, it was just like a dream. Now that he is conscious and unable to access the Internet, he feels uncomfortable all over.
Bad news, he is so weak that he can be extinguished by the wind. There is no doubt that it will be a hellish start in hard mode.
Karl began to explore what he could do, and soon discovered that his vision was not limited to the periphery, but could raise and zoom out from the center of the bottle, up to and including five kilometers.
To the north outside the wooden house is a large area of subtropical forest, covering an astonishingly large area with no visible boundaries.
To the south is the light brown land that has been reclaimed. At the end of the cracked stone road is a seaside town, full of vicissitudes of white and gray buildings. The sea breeze carries a slightly salty smell.
Through exchanges among residents in the town, Karl soon learned that this was Nasir, a port town on the east coast of the Kingdom of Siat. People in the town mainly made a living by fishing and shipping, and most of them lived a self-sufficient life. Many people I have almost never left here in my life.
As for the occupants of the cabin, they are two young children.
The elder sister Eileen Fisher is about thirteen or fourteen years old. She has a tough character, long black hair, bright eyes, and a healthy skin.
Her younger brother is still an infant and needs goat milk brought from the town by her sister every day to survive, eat and sleep.
Their parents have been away for more than ten days and have not returned yet, making it increasingly difficult for the two siblings living on the edge of town.
Irene is an extremely strong and principled girl. She never takes the initiative to beg for help from the townspeople. Instead, she picks wild fruits from the trees in the forest or helps the townspeople work, exchanging supplies as fairly as possible.
Even if she was too hungry to bear it, she would never let her brother starve at all. At night, she would occasionally hide in a corner and cry silently, and then forcefully smile to coax her brother to sleep.
The swaddled baby is very well-behaved, with light silver hair, eyes, and round cheeks. He never cries or screams, but often stares intently at his sister's face.
Karl gradually realized something. The parents of Fisher's two little guys would not come back again, and were probably dead.
The world outside is definitely not safe and can even be quite cruel and dangerous.
The young siblings are still surviving, but without help from outsiders, they will not be able to survive this winter.
Time passed, and finally he was almost completely absorbing the spiritual power in the transparent vial, and they gradually transformed into a rune deep in his soul.
It was a rune in the shape of green grass with a strong breath of life and an emerald green color. It had a soft and warm feeling like spring.
But the heavy seal on the soul shows no sign of loosening any further.
Karl realized that to completely break through the first seal, the spiritual power contained in the bottle was far from enough.
I need more power!
But being possessed by the small bottle and unable to move, Karl couldn't even speak a word, and there was no way to find a mysterious object with spiritual power.
He silently observed the siblings for more than ten days and kept trying, but was never able to successfully communicate with them.
"What's the point? I can hear sounds without ears and see people without eyes, but why can't I speak without a mouth?"
Karl fell into deep thought. If he could communicate, he could find a way to use the power of others to help him obtain mysterious objects.
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At night, there was a smell of earth wafting from the air, and thunder flashed in the dark sky, and heavy rain was about to pour.
The sky covered with dark clouds was gloomy and gray, and lightning and thunder performed a breathtaking symphony between heaven and earth, like a terrifying picture, as if even the gods of nature were roaring angrily at this moment.
"boom!"
It suddenly started pouring rain outside!
Erin knelt down in the room, lowered her head and kept mumbling to herself.
"Master Poseidon and the gods in the sky, I pray to you, please let my parents come back."
Her prayers received no answer at all.
Erin shed tears. There were not many things that could be exchanged at home, and there was no way she could bring her brother up smoothly.
Why?
What if the great gods of the world cannot save us?
Could it be,
The gods don't care about the world at all?
Erin has always had a lot of longings for the future. She wants to watch her brother grow up, she also wants to leave the town to see the outside world, and she also wants to experience everything she has never experienced before.
Even though her parents were missing, she still took care of her younger brother tenaciously on her own and continued to overcome difficulties and obstacles to live until today, just because of this small expectation for the future.
"Why don't gods protect us at all..."
At this moment, the girl was suddenly startled and realized that there seemed to be danger approaching the wooden house.
There were figures swaying in the dark jungle outside, looking malicious. The danger contained in the pouring rain almost suffocated the girl.
Erin was extremely surprised and subconsciously muttered to herself.
"who is it?"
In the violent storm, five men wearing animal skins, holding sharp knives, and with black facial patterns on their faces gradually walked out of the woods outside.
With undisguised hunger on their faces, they swarmed closer to the wooden house where Erin's sister and brother lived.
"Don't resist needlessly!"
The men with black facial patterns and animal skins forced their way in, raising their weapons maliciously and ordering the astonished Irene not to think about escaping.
"Who are you?"
Irene was horrified. The man with black face and pattern wearing animal skin suddenly grabbed her arm and violently dragged her outside.
She was quickly dragged out of the house by five men and pushed down into the wet mud.
My younger brother who was less than one year old was also taken out during the rainstorm. They stared at the baby like an animal.
The swaddled baby burst into tears.
Erin was trembling all over in the mud and could only cry out and beg them to let her brother go.
"Please let my brother go, no matter what you do to me!"
The pleadings of the weak were ignored at all, leaving Eileen with only despair.
The old man, the leader of the five men, was wearing a high-grade animal skin and a strange black elk headdress, as if he were a priest of a primitive tribe.
He calmly drew a large circle with the blade of his knife around the two siblings, and muttered, "I worship you, bloody demon", "We will offer you pure sacrifices", "Please give us your protection." ".
The other four men also had a look of awe on their faces and knelt down around them.
Erin, lying on the ground struggling to struggle, was filled with fear and despair.
In addition, there is strong unwillingness and anger!
Why?
I have been working hard and relying on my hands to safeguard the future of myself and my brother, but I have not received any hope or response at all.
Obviously, I haven't given up hope yet, working hard, and even looking forward to a future that I don't know will come.
But at this moment, all my expectations for the future and beauty were easily trampled by the sudden malice.
All persistence seemed extremely ridiculous during this period.
Karl had already noticed the sudden appearance of outsiders and observed secretly that they were obviously not Nasir people in the town.
He zoomed in. Could these people be bandits nearby?
No, they don't look like bandits at all, more like... cultists.
He has heard various mysterious things from Erin and the townspeople, and it is not uncommon to know that extraordinary power in this world is not uncommon.
After more than ten days of silent observation, Karl developed a little affinity for the two siblings he met for the first time in the world, but he didn't want them to die around him.
It's just that now he can't do anything except watch.
Erin lay on the ground, covered in mud, mumbling to herself.
"Why, why is this happening...Who can save us?"
"No matter who you are, please save us!"
Her eyes were red, her glaring pupils filled with despair and anger.
"Take whatever is mine, save my family!"
The next moment, something extremely magical happened!
When she said from the bottom of her heart, "You can take anything from me," Karl suddenly noticed that a light blue light lit up on the girl's chest, and a light blue sphere emerged.
That seems to be the soul.
It's loose!
It seems that he can really take the opportunity to take away the girl's soul like the devil in mythology.
In addition, other colors of light appear around the soul, such as pure white, pink, cyan blue, crimson, and orange, which represent lifespan, emotion, memory, senses, and wisdom.
For some reason, Carl instinctively can extract all kinds of light from Erin's body as a "weapon".
But if you do this, what will happen to the girl herself? If you lose your life span, will you die on the spot?
They were already dead.
Karl knew very well that if he didn't try to do something, the outcome would be tragic. He would rather make a mistake than do nothing. Even if the two of them died because of this, it would not be his own sin.
And in order to change his prison-like status quo, he wanted to try anything he could, so he tentatively concentrated on trying to draw out part of the white light.
The white light was pulled out by the invisible hand of the mind in imagination and suspended high in the air. It was like a white torch that cut through all the darkness in the night!
The cultists completely failed to notice the white light flickering in the night, turning a blind eye to it and unable to see it.
Only Irene looked up at this scene blankly.
She looked at the white light in the sky in disbelief. It was full of great power and beauty, like a blade that judged the world. It was full of awe and it was completely difficult to look away.
"What exactly is that?"
