Everyone else was talking about wizards, secrets, magic, and ghosts, and no one noticed what Lily was doing: it was natural for a husky girl to run around with too much curiosity, and even if she suddenly crouched down and dug a hole to bury herself, no one would look at her twice.So Lily stood beside the stage in a daze, staring wide-eyed at the sounds coming from an unknown time and space, until the sounds slowly turned into a noisy, as if the radio was disturbing, and she suddenly woke up like a dream.Lily shook her ears, the ghost's voice could no longer be heard, and the faint shadows in her eyes faded like ripples of water, and she raised her claws of ice and fire to scratch at the air, finally confirming that they were phantoms.Hao Ren finally noticed the girl's movements, and asked from afar, "Lily, what are you doing?"
”"I just heard someone talk!"
Lily immediately ran to Hao Ren's side and told everyone what she had just seen and heard.Nangong Sanba frowned: "Is it the message left by the ghost?"
”"Didn't you say that the spirits here are all weak, and they can't tell each other apart when they are mixed together," Hao Ren glanced at Sanba, "What's going on?"
”Nangong Sanba glanced at Lily curiously, and casually sprinkled some powder into the air: "The spirit body here is indeed very weak, you can see for yourself-" The voice fell, and the powder that was sprinkled into the air was already suspended in mid-air under the traction of magic power, and they spread around everyone like mist, and then emitted a faint fluorescence, this faint light slightly illuminated the dim space around, in the fluorescence of the powder, some chaotic light and shadow gradually emerged, but gradually disappeared after a few seconds, There was no vivid image in the light."
Those are the spirits entrenched in this town," Nangong Sanba raised the corners of his mouth, "You can see it yourself." ”"I don't know if it's because you guys have bad eyes or what......"
Lily's ears twitched, "I can see it pretty clearly anyway." ”Hao Ren was immediately surprised, he looked at the husky girl in surprise, he didn't expect this girl to have such an unexpected ability: a faint ghost that even a witcher couldn't distinguish was actually captured by her.Nangong May was also amazed, and asked Vivian: "Do werewolves have the talent to perceive the undead?"
”"Werewolves don't have this talent......
"Vivien thought about it seriously, and her expression suddenly became strange, "but it's true that dogs ward off evil spirits, and Chinese legend says that cats and dogs don't have psychic eyes and can see things that are not clean?"
”Everyone: "......"
Vivien's face was serious when she said this, and even Lily didn't know how to refute it for a while, so Duncan next to him wanted to shout "This is not scientific" but still swallowed it back: at the critical moment, he still remembered that he was a more unscientific fantasy creature.Hao Ren waved his hand to remove the topic, and he looked thoughtfully at the seemingly empty small square around him: "It seems that there are a lot of ghosts hovering in this town—in fact, I seemed to hear a little sound when I first arrived in this place, but it was obviously not as clear as Lily's perception.Well, Lily, you're responsible for keeping an eye on the spirits, and tell me whatever you hear or see.Perhaps these beings can tell us something about the town. ”"Oh, that's right!"
Lily puffed up her chest confidently, "Anyway, they seem to be discussing the lord's affairs just now, this town should have been a noble fief before, is this information useful?"
”"A noble fief?"
Vivien frowned, "It's useless, in those days, almost all the land was noble. ”Lily let out a regretful "oh" and began to lead the way in front of the crowd with her eyes widened.Her eyes glowed with gold, and the invisible, invisible things in the lost town continued to emerge and fade in her vision.In front of the others, there was only a gray mist on the town's paths, but in Lily's eyes, there were translucent shadows that flickered from time to time.Unfortunately, most of the shadows are very, very thin, those are not even the undead, just a little reverberation of the soul when it dissipates, they just drift in the air blankly, but the real soul is long gone.Hao Ren took out the data terminal from his arms, and he also saw the readings of the spirits, but this thing was not specifically used to detect undead creatures, and the radar alone could not communicate with ghosts, so he put the terminal away again.While passing by an abandoned house, Nangong Sanba checked the street sign in front of the house: "Domir......
Is there a record of this town in history?
”"No," Duncan replied, "we've checked the information, and there is a blank record of both the name 'Domir' and the human towns that ever existed in the area.The place has been completely erased from history, not sure if it's the power of magic or simply because it's old. ”Vivien thought for a moment: "It should just be a matter of age.Phenomenal spells that can tamper with history on a massive scale are only possible in the age of mythology with the likes of Odin and Zeus, and I don't think a wizard promoted from a human can have that talent.Hundreds of years ago Europe was chaotic, and it is not uncommon for such remote towns to be submerged in history, not to mention that it has completely disappeared from the map, and future generations have nowhere to look it up. ”Nangong May crawled at the back of the line as she meandered, her snake tail feeling something strange as it crawled on the ground.She curled her tail and looked at it, and suddenly realized, "Have you noticed, this town is full of dust." ”"Ash?"
Hao Ren looked at his feet and found himself stepping on a layer of gray-black powder, he really hadn't paid attention to these things everywhere before, "It's ......"
"It's like ashes left by burning wood," May twisted a little ash from the ground with her fingers, "From the entrance of the town all the way to here, everywhere." ”Hao Ren looked around thoughtfully, he didn't see any obvious signs of a fire, and the ashes that could be seen everywhere in the town came from nowhere.There is no record of the town of Domir in history, and no one knows exactly when and by what process it disappeared, let alone what it was like when it was destroyed.Based only on the closure of the town and the spirits entrenched here, Hao Ren judged that this place should be intact until it was pulled into another dimension, so the "ash" in the town should have appeared after the blockade of the secret realm.Unless this town used to have the custom of sprinkling grass and wood ash all over the ground - Hao Ren thought about it, he didn't think it was very likely.Lily was very happy to walk in front of the torch with the fire, and after concentrating, she saw more spirits appear in the air, and the number of these spirits was already abnormally large, they walked up and down the street almost densely, and even overlapped each other, pushing and shoving, and huddled together, which was not at all the scale that such a small town could contain.Lily was a little puzzled, but after careful observation she finally discovered the secret of these spirits: most of the "ghosts" were duplicates.Although it is not clear to see, it can still be judged from the general outline and shape that some of the ghosts wandering around are in fact the same, and they keep walking up and down the street in a roughly fixed trajectory, but there is only a difference in the chronological order: the repeated ghosts always enter the same door, and it is this that allows Lily to discover the secrets of these spirits.Confused, she told Nangong Sanba about her discovery, and the latter discussed it with the others, and Vivien suddenly had an idea: "Maybe these spirits are not human remnants." ”Hao Ren didn't understand too much: "That's ......"
"Maybe it's the memory of this town, or maybe it's the resonance phenomenon of a more powerful soul, in short, they are not ghosts, but things projected by another force, so there will be repetition and move along a fixed trajectory," Vivien said, a faint blood-red mist surrounded her at the same time, "I was suspicious just now, if all the inhabitants of the entire town have become ghosts, there should be a strong undead power here, right, But apart from the slight change in temperature and the wandering spirits, there is no such 'environment' to be felt. ”Hao Ren didn't know much about this matter, he asked Kassandra and found out that when a large number of ghosts (or similar undead) gather together, they will produce a superposition on the "aura", the more the number of ghosts, the deeper the degree of superposition, more than a hundred ghosts are enough to make an area produce an energy field that can be perceived by ordinary people, this energy field can cause hallucinations and even produce serious consequences of brain death.At least human-generated spirits possess this quality.The data terminal also confirmed Kassandra's claim, but its explanation was much easier to understand: the superposition of electromagnetic fields.Hao Ren reasoned a little deeper about the current phenomenon, and suddenly felt a little hairy.
(To be continued.) )