Chapter 1468 Great Migration
The air in the study was a little frozen. Gao Wen and Amber faced each other through the window, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.
After a few seconds of stalemate like this, Amber finally stepped in with her other leg, and then sat on the window sill, looking at Gao Wen seriously: "You won't kill me, will you? "
To be honest, Gao Wen felt that this was the most reliable suggestion the other party had ever given him...
But he still kept a straight face and glared at Amber, and while putting away the piece of paper, he gritted his molars: "I am conducting the test out of caution and rigor—and, where am I?" I know where Tyre is, it’s so cold outside, it’s probably hibernating somewhere, go look for it in the pond in the garden or by the Baishui River.”
"Okay!" A happy smile appeared on Amber's face, and then the whole person turned upside down towards the outside of the window, and a swimming light and shadow opened in the air, and in the next second, she jumped directly from the window sill Into the shadow fissure.
Gawain silently watched the direction where the other party disappeared, thought carefully about the feasibility of placing anti-personnel landmines on the windowsill, and then sighed—thanks to his strong self-control, otherwise the floor on the second floor would have been covered by him. I picked it up with my toes...
Then he took another look at the piece of paper he held in his hand, the mysterious and complex pattern on that piece of paper was clearly and sharply reflected in his eyes, and it still seemed that there was no sign of any abnormality.
After hesitating for two or three seconds, Gao Wen raised his hand, and the paper instantly turned into ashes in the air and drifted away in the wind. He laughed at himself and shook his head: "What was I thinking just now..."
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Amber walked through the shadow world composed of black, white and gray, feeling quite happy.
"Emperor Gawain Cecil", who is always majestic and calm in front of outsiders, also has a funny side in private. Ordinary people will never imagine that their emperor is actually a joke-telling and spitting in daily life. All kinds of things, Mensao who will play tricks quietly, but she knows—she knows everything.
She has been by Gao Wen's side for several years, helped this "Pioneering King" deal with countless troubles, and witnessed many interesting things about this "Pioneering King". Gao Wen occasionally made a fuss about unexpected words and deeds or "little fun". In the eyes of outsiders, "Emperor Gao Wen" seemed like a heroic symbol or an imperial symbol made of steel, but in her eyes, he had always been a living, flesh-and-blood man. people.
From a certain point of view, Amber is even better than Rebecca and Hetty in the matter of "treating Gawain Cecil as an ordinary person"-after all, although those two and Gawain are equally intimate,
But there is more or less a sense of bondage on the blood.
But even if he usually has such a cognition, the sight of Gao Wen poking a piece of paper full of strange patterns and trying to contact Ms. Ye today still shocked Amber.
She felt that it required a remarkable creativity-anyway, with her creativity, she couldn't think of doing it like this.
After crossing a crooked and faded street, Amber stopped slowly. She exhaled softly in the silent shadow world, stretched her waist with a happy smile, and walked slowly towards the bank of the Whitewater River. Get up - there's nothing to do at this time anyway.
She raised her head, and what she saw was the scenery she was accustomed to, and only her special "Master of Shadows" could regard it as a daily scenery——
She saw that the sky without stars, sun, and moon presented a hollow gray-white color, covering this silent and empty world like a giant screen. As far as she could see, there were houses and long streets arranged in the form of distorted and stacked projections. The road in front of me stretches towards the sky like a ramp that keeps rising upwards, and it shows a fragmented posture in the distance. The houses on both sides of the road are crooked, buildings are built on top of buildings, and walls are covered vertically and horizontally.
There is a shop not far away from the intersection, but the second floor of the shop is completely horizontal, and a building like a long bridge in the air extends from the outside of the right-angled wall, connecting to the Imperial College in the distance. Next to this severely distorted building projection, you can also see an unusually tall "plant" - it is said to be a plant, but it is probably just a street lamp, its dark silhouette points straight to the sky, and stands at a height of more than ten meters. There are countless shadowy branches, and above them are messy and broken lights and shadows hovering quietly.
This is the projection of Cecil City in the real world in the Shadow Realm. It is bizarre and weird.
An orderly and reasonable material world will form such an abnormal projection in the Shadow Realm, as if observing things on the other side through an uneven layer of crystal, all you can see is this abnormal scene, those who have spent The mages who tried their best to catch a glimpse of the shadowy scenery thought it was quite scary, but Amber had long been used to seeing it.
And if I have to say... Aren't those indescribable shadows floating in the sky in the Shadow Realm, and chaotic giants that violate common sense of geometry, more chaotic than this Shadow Realm? But now when she visits the Shadow Garden, it’s as if she’s going home, and she even steals tomatoes from the God of Nature’s small courtyard every now and then—there may never be a real "unnameable realm" in this world, the problem It's just that the world's cognition is limited.
This chaotic projection in the shadow realm... maybe one day it can be explained clearly.
Amber's mind was full of thoughts, while walking through the crooked and sloping streets, her fingers brushed over the cold and rough wall of a building next to her, and saw that there was still a shop's logo hanging on the wall. The signboard, the handwriting on the signboard is so blurred that it can't be read at all.
At this stage, no one can explain clearly what the projection rules from the real world to the Shadow Realm are, and even Amber himself can’t figure this out. Without human intervention, what is the shape of things in the real world in the Shadow Realm? It is more or less random. Scholars have studied it for so many years, and the only thing that can be determined is that things with powerful magic power can form a more "accurate" projection in the shadow world, and the stronger the magic power response, the accuracy is also the higher.
Perhaps just like the research of Mirmina, the goddess of magic, magic power is the only "standard scale" and "basic framework" that can maintain stability in any realm in this universe.
But the Goddess of Magic can only explain the part related to magic. As for the real operating mechanism behind the Shadow Realm... then only Ms. Ye knows—but where is Ms. Ye at this time?
The "patterns" that I saw in Gao Wen's study today flashed through Amber's mind. She did not have the perverted memory ability of Gao Wen. In fact, the totem patterns engraved in the Voyager space station could not be recalled clearly. But the wonderful sense of "attraction" she felt when she saw those patterns at that time... She still knows that feeling very well.
It seemed to be a call from afar, and it seemed to be her own intimacy and yearning from the heart. It couldn't be explained clearly, but it did exist.
There is a voice in the dark telling her that she should respond to this call. All her intuition and instinct tell her that this call is gentle and harmless. Even deep down in her own heart... she also feels that she should answer this call. No matter what, this call At least it will let her figure out what kind of relationship she has with that "Ms. Ye" and what is the plan of that "Ms. Ye".
And now there is only one reason that prevents her from responding to this calling——
How could she know how to respond to such a nagging thing! This is not the identity verification code on the Monet. You know the number on the other side and call it directly to get in touch...
Amber twitched the corners of her mouth depressedly, and said in her heart that at this time, the difference between the Age of Sorcerers and the Age of Myths can be seen. In the Age of Sorcerers, when someone tells you to "keep in touch for something", they will usually leave you a communication number by the way. If it’s not good, leave a house number or something. Once you feel “a voice is calling me” in the Age of Mythology, basically the clues will end here. If you ask 10,000 divination masters for reference, they will only tell you.” When the opportunity of fate comes, it will be revealed”—the gang of gods didn’t even leave a zip code or address.
But this can’t be helped, Amber sighed in her heart—after all, Ms. Ye was a character from 1.87 million years ago, she should really have no way to leave a magic network number when contacting herself... What does the old zongzi say? Yes, this matter can only rely on "understanding".
But Amber felt that she was born with little savvy, and she suspected that Gao Wen actually didn't have much savvy—otherwise he wouldn't have secretly poked a ghost letter on a piece of paper while there was no one in the study and tried to strike up a conversation with Ms. Ye...
A strange breath suddenly appeared in the perception, and Hu Po instantly restrained the random thoughts in her mind.
She looked up to the direction where the breath came from, and saw a few swaying figures appearing at the end of the street projection with distinct black, white and gray colors.
Those figures had a tall and thin shape, and their bodies were entangled with erratic cloth strips to form a human-shaped torso and limbs. Between the entangled and loose cloth strips, there was no flesh and blood, and some were just like smoke. Slowly undulating, invisible flowing thick shadows, like hollow bodies, wandering in this grotesque world of shadows.
"Shadow dwellers?" Amber looked at the "natives" who were wandering over here in surprise, "Why are there shadow dwellers here? This shouldn't be their range of activities..."
The shadow dwellers wander around in the shadow world, appearing elusive and extremely dangerous to ordinary people, but Amber has dealt with these "relatives" a lot, and she knows that these seemingly "randomly refreshed" shadow dwellers actually have a certain range of activities. And usually wandering along a fixed route, these mysterious and chaotic creatures rarely appear outside these fixed areas, unless they are provoked by external factors—for example, some giants who come to their colony to harass them every now and then. adventurer……
In the projection area of the Shadow Realm near the Baishui River, these "natives" had never appeared before. Seeing these swaying figures at this moment, Amber was very surprised, and her expression suddenly became quite cautious.
But she didn't dodge, but watched the figures standing calmly on the side of the road slowly approaching her.
Her long black hair floated in the air behind her like smoke, her pointed ears trembled slightly in the air, and her amber eyes with slightly golden light stared at these taciturn and weird "citizens".
The shadow dwellers are extremely dangerous and violent to the inhabitants of the material world who broke into this place, but Amber need not worry about this-these chaotic and mysterious creatures still treat her "artificial human" as a fellow human being, at least they will not attack.
Those figures finally approached. According to their experience, even if they didn't attack, they would not take the initiative to pay attention to Hu Po, who they perceived as a "weird fellow". However, to Hu Po's surprise, one of the figures suddenly stopped Coming down, the hollow face wrapped with strips of rune cloth slowly turned to this side.
A low and muffled grunt came to her ears, and Amber was slightly startled.
She could understand the mumbling of the other party, and the shadow dweller said something inexplicable: "You are about to wake up, why are you still here?"
"What do you mean? What are you waking up?" Amber stared wide-eyed, and couldn't help asking loudly, "Where should I be if I'm not here?"
The shadow dweller who took the initiative to speak out just stared at Amber silently with his hollow and scary face, until the latter started to feel hairy, then turned around and muttered in a low voice: "Ta will come to you , the dream has an end."
After saying this, the creature walked straight towards the twisted and broken road in the distance, not paying any attention to Amber's continued inquiries and calls from behind.
Amber just stared blankly at the creature walking away, she instinctively wanted to catch up and ask for clarification, but just as she was about to take a step, she abruptly stopped her steps.
She felt the breath approaching, and a strange sense of tension surfaced in her heart.
She looked towards the direction of the breath according to her feeling, and slowly opened her eyes wide in the next second, and blurted out "Damn".
One after another, figures appeared in her line of sight, in the direction where the shadow dwellers came from just now. They were just a few small groups at the end of the street at first, but they turned into a dense black shadow almost in the blink of an eye. In Hu Po's perception... a bigger aura is still approaching!
"I'm going, this..." she muttered in amazement, and then suddenly ran towards the nearby buildings, her figure leaping and moving between those skewed outer walls and towering stacked stairs, without passing After a while, she climbed to the height of the projection city, and here, she could overlook almost the entire city of Cecil.
In the south of the city, in the direction where those figures appeared, she saw countless shadow dwellers!
They wandered from all directions, and gathered into an invisible tide in this city of projections. They moved silently, and their incorporeal bodies floated across the streets of the city like ghosts—just now when Amber touched The few figures that arrived were just a few "vanguards" in this huge team. The real big team... is constantly moving towards the north!
Amber was standing on the top of a "tall building" made up of several stacked buildings. After seeing the huge team that was approaching, she immediately hid her body behind a decoration that protruded from the building, feeling a huge sense of tension. And the sense of oppression gripped her heart—although she didn't feel any hostility or threat from that team, even if she just looked at this "army" composed entirely of shadow residents, her this "Shadow Master" can hardly control his heartbeat!
"This...what is this..." Huber muttered in a low voice, as if she was using this method to relieve the tension in her heart, "The Great Migration of the Shadow Residents is impossible...they won't notice this, right? "
In the next second, 126,000 lines of sight fell on her hiding place at the same time.