Chapter 1471 In the Fog

Outside the window, there is only thick fog rolling in. In the thick fog, there are dim yellow street lamps arranged along the road and extending into the distance, as well as the faint silhouettes of buildings in the dim light.

There was not a single person to be seen on the wide street, as if this was an empty city, and the bustling appearance of people coming and going a few minutes ago was just an illusion left in Quefeng's mind.

"...The situation is very wrong," Sparrowbee stared at the faintly surging gray-white mist on the road outside, and said to his companion in a low voice while observing and comparing all the details, "Ye Xiao, go and check the communication station. "

There is a dark room in the basement of the store that serves as a contact point, and a high-power magic network communication device is placed inside. This communication device is connected to a "merchant ship" that has been traveling on the strait for a long time, and is forwarded through the equipment on the merchant ship. Connected to the Military Intelligence Bureau branch in Beigang, in this coastal city of Prandell, this secret communication station is the most important way for Military Intelligence Bureau operatives to contact the local area.

The young man called "Night Owl" nodded silently, quickly and quietly left the window and walked into a hidden door behind the counter, but turned back after a while, with a serious look on his face: "Strong interference, the relay station and the main station have no signal."

"...The extraordinary vision has strengthened again, this time it is no longer the 'contradiction' and 'violation' hidden under the surface, but directly affects the real world," Quesbee calmly analyzed in a low voice, even though she was Before becoming an officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau, she was just a low-level mage apprentice, but with the teaching of Director Amber and the support of the technology and knowledge of the new era, a low-level mage apprentice like her can also have a certain understanding of extraordinary visions of this scale. Analysis and understanding, "We are afraid that we have fallen into some kind of 'crack' between the real world and the distorted world, and the interference of communication equipment is the evidence."

Ye Xiao frowned, first he quickly checked the things in the shop, and after confirming that the weird fog had not invaded the room, he was slightly relieved, and then he seemed to think of something suddenly: "Wait, you said... ...Did the same situation happen in City of Thousand Towers, Palansanto and Lenghai City!?"

The bee suddenly turned around: "What do you mean?"

"Since this period of time, the information about the 'inland' has been disappearing. First, the city of a thousand towers, the 'capital of the kingdom', was naturally hidden in people's daily conversations, and then the local products from Palansanto changed It became a locally produced product, and then the news of Lenghai City was completely cut off. This is obviously not just a 'communication interruption', but more like the existence of these inland cities, and even the evidence of their existence is constantly being 'cleared up' '," Ye Xiao analyzed, "Think carefully...these cities are spread out from the center of Violet Island..."

"Do you think...it is this kind of gray-white thick fog that is constantly devouring the entire Violet Kingdom from the center of the island?!" Sparrow Bee instantly understood what his colleague said, and speculated, "And the devoured area... its 'existence' itself is also Will it be deleted?"

Ye Xiao shook his head: "I'm just guessing,

And this guess can't explain why "outsiders" like you and I still remember the city of a thousand towers and Palansanto. It stands to reason that if the area engulfed by dense fog will be completely deleted, you and I will also They probably don't remember these inland cities, but now it seems that the vision affects only the Violet people's own cognition.

"However, one thing is certain - this large-scale extraordinary phenomenon probably started to erupt from the City of Thousand Towers, and it is constantly spreading and strengthening towards the border area of ​​the Violet Kingdom!"

Biting her lips subconsciously, the anxiety in her heart grew stronger. She had to admit that Ye Xiao's guess was very possible, and at the same time she had to start worrying about one thing: Will this vision continue to spread? Will this gray-white thick fog spread beyond the Violet Kingdom? If this thing is uncontrollable and has no limit... Could it swallow the whole world! ?

She had to forcefully suppress the uneasiness in her heart, and let the teachings of Director Amber and the mission of being an officer of the Military Intelligence Bureau fill her mind: "I'm afraid it's useless to analyze these now, the more important question is how we can get out of the predicament , and find a way to report what happened here to the bureau... This thick fog doesn't look like something harmless to humans and animals."

Ye Xiao frowned tightly, looking at the misty world outside the window, his hand was on the weapon at his waist, but this weapon that can be used to fight against the enemy could not bring him any benefit in such an occasion A sense of peace of mind: "If the situation is as I guessed, we must find a way to leave the city. We can go to the pier from the southwest of the city, where there are boats to return to Beigang..."

"But first, we need to get out the door and through that thick fog." Finchbee's voice was low and serious.

A difficult problem was posed in front of the two senior officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau: Should we stay in this small shelter, or risk opening the door and stepping into the thick fog?

Finchbee looked up and looked around the shop. She saw that the doors and windows were still closed. Although these ordinary doors and windows could not be completely sealed, it was clear that the gray mist outside had not seeped into the room through the gaps, and the window was filled with thick fog. The dark and weird streets and the bright and warm indoor scenery in the window seem to be two worlds, and the latter... has an indescribable attraction at the moment.

But she knew that this seemingly warm and safe hut might not be as "stable" as imagined. If the City of Thousand Towers, Palansanto, and Lenghai City had been engulfed by thick fog, then this small hut might not be as stable as expected. The store can't be a safe shelter, and staying in it is mostly just waiting to die - but is it really feasible to go through the thick fog outside?

Finchbee even suspected that the port in the southwest of the city had been engulfed in thick fog at this moment.

"It's not long before the night falls, and there is still a whole night before the sun rises," Ye Xiao's voice came from the side, "but if all this is really caused by extraordinary visions, then the rising sun may not be able to dispel the obvious Abnormal dense fog."

Quefeng didn't speak, she was still hesitating, but she also knew that she couldn't hesitate any longer.

At this moment, her eyes suddenly fell on the next window.

The mist outside the window was billowing, and under the continuous licking of the thick fog, some small scratches appeared on the surface of the cold silhouette of the crystal glass. Those scratches were slowly extending in front of her eyes, as if there was a bird Invisible hands are holding sharp objects to carve on the crystal, and they slowly form a line of letters: "Do not stay indoors!!"

Quebee held her breath for a moment, and Ye Xiao who was beside her suddenly widened her eyes. They stared at the scratches on the glass, and then Quebee suddenly got up and walked towards the gate: "Get out of here quickly!"

"Wait, don't you want to confirm?" Ye Xiao subconsciously shouted as he got up, "This may be a trap..."

"Didn't you recognize it?" Quefeng turned to look at Ye Xiao, "Although it was written backwards, it was the handwriting of the 'store manager'."

Ye Xiao's eyebrows jumped suddenly, and he quickly followed in the footsteps of Bird Bee. Two senior operators came to the door of the store, and Bird Bee had already put his hand on the brass doorknob—through the small inlay on the door, Through a piece of crystal glass, one can clearly see that the gray-white thick fog is undulating and flowing on the street outside, like a cold and silent pale fire.

Finchbee took a deep breath, and slowly pushed the door open a crack—the mist hovered outside the crack of the door, showing no sign of flowing into the room.

She suddenly pushed the door open completely, and walked into the foggy street. Ye Xiao followed closely behind her. The two kept a close pace, and they left the shop and came to the avenue while covering each other.

Finchbee activated the Breeze Shield as soon as he went out, wanting to see if the protective barrier that can block most harmful gases can block the weird thick fog, but he saw the gray-white fog as if it was not affected at all Appearing inside the barrier - it's like a flowing phantom rather than a real thing, not blocked by the shield at all.

The two operators could only turn off the useless breeze shield, and proceeded cautiously towards the street.

During the whole process, Ye Xiao kept holding his breath subconsciously. The ubiquitous gray-white thick fog made him extremely disturbed. He didn't even dare to inhale it at will, until he walked a certain distance outside and confirmed that his body was fine. Affected by erosion, and the protective equipment such as the amulet on his body did not issue a warning, he slowly began to breathe under great restraint, and adjusted his heartbeat and breathing rate little by little.

"Breathing is normal... I don't feel the slightest moisture on the skin," Finchbee looked down at her hands, watching the mist flow away from her fingers. Breathing also didn't feel like inhaling dense fog, "these fog... have no 'feeling' at all."

It is impossible for such a thick fog not to bring a "feeling". Although it is an intangible and invisible thing, breathing and walking in the dense fog will inevitably be different from ordinary times. Whether it is water vapor or particles in the fog, it will It irritates people's nasal cavity-but these "feelings" that should exist do not appear, which brings a great sense of disobedience to the bee and the night owl.

It's as if this thick fog just appeared in their "vision", a pure illusion.

But they dare not really regard this thick fog as an illusion that can only affect vision—in the extraordinary vision, the more unreasonable something is, no matter how harmless it is currently, it is absolutely great source of crisis.

What's more, the vision here is not only a dense fog, but also passers-by who suddenly disappeared, empty streets, and a whole silent empty city!

"It was indeed the store manager's handwriting just now," Ye Xiao said in a low voice while looking at the situation on the street, "but why did the store manager's words suddenly appear on the window glass?"

Quebee didn't answer immediately, she just subconsciously turned her head to look in the direction she came from, but saw that the surface of the shop window glass had been restored to cleanliness, and the letters clearly engraved on it had been erased at some point .

"...I don't know, but he must want us to avoid some kind of deadly danger," Sparrow Bee felt uneasy for some reason, and she could only suppress the uneasiness while whispering, "Now we should think Way out of town—the way to the docks is in this direction."

She stepped towards the direction leading to the southwestern city gate in her memory, but just two steps away, she felt an invisible airflow blowing towards her face. As if she continued to move forward, Ye Xiao also stopped - he seemed to feel the same thing.

"The store manager?" Ye Xiao frowned slightly, calling in a low voice to the team leader who had gone to investigate the information but hadn't returned in the empty street. In the past year or two, he and Sparrow Bee have become accustomed to using The "store manager" came to address the superior, "Is that you here? Are you in trouble?"

As a senior operator who has dealt with many troublesome incidents and accidentally dealt with other extraordinary visions, he has guessed something from these subtle clues.

He guessed that the "store manager" might be trapped by extraordinary visions.

"What can we do for you?" the bee next to him also asked.

The empty street was silent, and there were no figures other than the two of them in the turbulent fog, but suddenly, Bird Bee saw a small, pale figure suddenly appearing on the lamppost closest to them. nick.

Those notches extended and connected, gradually forming a line of letters: "I am safe now, but I cannot meet with you. You should complete the task first."

Immediately below this line of letters, a new notch appeared: "Don't go to the port. The port has disappeared. It is safe to leave the city from the southeast and reach the coast."

Finchbee looked at the letters on the lamppost in astonishment: "The port has disappeared? What does this mean?"

The letters on the lamppost did not answer her question, but a few very deep and sharp scratches suddenly appeared. These scratches seemed to remind them to get nervous, followed by a line of people who were obviously in a hurry. Handwriting: "No time, get out of here as soon as possible, pay attention to the handwriting on the lampposts along the way!"

Finch Bee's heart tightened, and she subconsciously looked around.

She didn't see any enemies, nothing unusual.

But she still left immediately, heading towards the southeast city, and Ye Xiao followed closely behind her.

Something dangerous is approaching them, the letters on the lampposts obviously mean that, but they can't see, hear or sense what that dangerous thing is, but even so, they choose to believe and obey The order of the superior in this case.

This is what Director Amber taught them in the first training session.

In the quiet and empty city, bees and night owls quickly passed through the streets and intersections. The places that were usually full of traffic and people are now all empty, as if they have become strange and detailed empty sets. The house and the dark walls even gave the bee an illusion, making her feel that those things seem to be just empty shells. Under the delicate and real appearance, they are actually just painted cardboard, which will fall down when the wind blows. Down, revealing the desolate truth below.

"Shop Manager," Ye Xiao's voice came from the side, "what's going on here? What are we avoiding?"

"The city is disappearing in the thick fog," scratches quickly appeared on the nearby lampposts, "The northern city has disappeared a few hours ago..."

Bird Bee and Night Owl quickly passed by the lampposts, and on the surface of the next lamppost, they saw the engraving of the second half of the sentence:

"...dodge the messenger."