Chapter 1568 Zero Years Under the Night

Gao Wen curiously looked at the "pale" silver-haired girl in front of him. Although he had heard the description of the other party in the report before, he didn't really realize the other person's inhumanity until he saw it with his own eyes. What is the "heterogeneous texture" of this girl: what constitutes this girl is the purest black and white, and there is no other color, this extreme pure color even makes the outline of her face look a little bit Blurred, and being stared at by those colorless eyes, I am afraid that most people will feel creepy.

This kind of creepy strangeness can even make people subconsciously ignore the girl's pretty face and the friendly and gentle smile on her mouth.

But Gao Wen is well-informed after all. After being surprised and curious at the beginning, his attitude immediately calmed down. He knew that the other party's appearance should be influenced by Ms. Ye, the "Master of Light and Shadow", and the other party's appearance Identity...obvious.

"Hello," he smiled, and stretched out his hand, "You should be the 'Morning Star' lady mentioned in the report?"

The silver-haired girl seemed taken aback by Gawain's proactive hand. She probably didn't expect the "Legendary Emperor Gawain Cecil the Great" to be so approachable, so she hesitated before reaching out cautiously. Came from Gao Wen's fingertips: "Hello."

Amber finally came to her senses at this time. She first looked at the girl in front of her in surprise, and then the corresponding memories appeared in her mind, and she couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's you! I remembered! I was here before I've been dealing with you as I wandered about the city—and many others like you!"

"Yes, that was us, but what you were wandering in the city at that time was just a projection between reality and illusion," the girl Chenxing said with a smile, "the 'anchor' hadn't fully functioned at that time, and you had already arrived The border of the Kingdom of God is at a critical stage of disintegrating from the real world at any time, so the lady took action to temporarily block part of your self-cognition and memory, allowing you to live in the city for a while. Sorry, in order to ensure a smooth anchoring process, We have been hiding the truth from you."

"It's not a problem, it's not a problem," Amber immediately waved her hands indifferently, with a happy look on her face, "It's quite interesting to recall that experience, and you also took good care of me, with food, drink and shelter place……"

While speaking, her gaze swept across the chest of Chen Xing's black cloak, and her gaze stayed on the silver-white emblem. After a moment of silence, she said softly: "The emblem of the Military Intelligence Bureau... Although I probably I can guess what happened, but I still want to hear you tell me personally—Silver-eyed Cloade, who is yours?"

"He is my great-grandfather," Chen Xing smiled lightly, "and the founder of the Shadow Affairs Section of the Military Intelligence Bureau - he passed away more than ten years ago, and my father and grandfather took over from him in the early years 'Inheritance'... By now, most of the officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau in Nightfall City are the 'fourth generation' like me or the earlier 'third generation', you may think my appearance is a bit strange... This is the proof that Generations 3 and 4 have completely completed 'Shadow Affinity'.

"

Amber opened her mouth and scratched her hair in embarrassment: "It's actually not that strange...although I was really surprised when I saw it for the first time."

Chen Xing just smiled indifferently, and then took half a step back slightly, pointing to the entrance of the city of night: "Please follow me, I will take you through this city on the border between the kingdom of God and the present world, Director Amber, after this you are the real hostess of this city. In addition, I will also introduce the situation here to you on the way. The lost and their descendants have survived in this world for a hundred years. Here are Lots of stuff...worth seeing."

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City of Night, as its name suggests, the city seems to be covered with a layer of dark and chaotic sky forever, maintaining a contradictory state that seems to have entered the night, but there is still a glimmer of light illuminating the streets.

This is very different from the desert that is always illuminated by pale daylight around the Queen of the Night Throne.

But even if it is always shrouded in such a dark sky, even if the whole city seems to be just a strange and gloomy silhouette from a distance, the streets of this "City of Night" are actually far bigger than Gawain imagined... "Prosperous and lively".

Because there are residents in this city, and there are countless residents.

In the mist, row upon row of houses are lined up along the street. From a distance, many houses seem to be piled up in violation of geometric principles. Their upside-down and chaotic exterior walls make it difficult to accurately judge the orientation of doors and windows. On both sides of the road, There are also simple and elegant street lamps extending into the distance, and the pale and dim light flickers in the crystal lampshade at the top of the street lamps. This light does not seem to be for lighting, but purely as an embellishment in the city.

And in the streets and alleys of this somewhat absurd and weird city that looks like a dream, there are the residents of the city of night-they are black shadows that suddenly flash across the walls, they are misty clouds that are bustling through the streets, and they are The shadow dwellers entwined with rune cloth belts and moving surreptitiously, and there are even many without any visible form at all, but only the whisper-like conversation sounding in the air, only from the perception of breath, Gawain In order to judge "there is someone there".

This is the city created by the master of light and shadow, the "gate" at the border of night, from the painting style to the atmosphere, from the buildings in the city to the residents living here, everything here presents a kind of dream and reality. Staggered strange state, it can even be called a "lucid dream", and even for a well-informed person like Gao Wen, walking on the streets of such a city is a bit creepy, which even reminds him of some Description from horror stories:

When you opened your eyes and saw this place, you felt that there was no one there, and you rubbed your eyes hard again, only to find that there were people everywhere—and only people "shadows"...

"The painting style of this place is finally beginning to conform to the impression left by the ancient god 'Ms. Ye' to the world." Even Amber, who has been "living" in this city for a while, seems a little uncomfortable. Walking past a low wall, a "shadow" as flat as a piece of paper was printed on the low wall. As Hu Po's voice fell, this shadow suddenly "floated" out of the wall, and then seemed to be with Gao Wen and others. The person said hello, and then turned into an invisible cloud and gradually drifted away, "I didn't feel that something was wrong when I was wandering around here..."

"Your self-awareness was not complete at the time, so of course you wouldn't feel anything inconsistent," Chen Xing said with a smile on his face, "But you don't have to be nervous, the residents living in this city are all the children of Ms. Ye." The people are the shadow dwellers who have completed their return journey and regained their sanity from the state of blind wandering, maybe their shape is a bit weird...but everyone is very friendly, and they will treat you as VIPs."

"They are all shadow dwellers?" Gawain opened his eyes in surprise, "Including the shadow that emerged from the wall just now, and those...'voices' that can only hear voices?"

"Yes, they are all shadow dwellers. There are only two types of residents here, either 'descendants of the lost' like me, or shadow dwellers." The population is very small."

"...I thought all the shadow dwellers had the appearance of a runecloth belt wrapped around their bodies, with a cloud of mist floating inside," Gawain said in surprise, "So they have... other forms."

"Shadow residents also have emotions, so they naturally have different aesthetics. They were all the same when they wandered unconsciously before, but now that they have regained their reason, they will naturally... dress up," Chen Xing said, with tone and expression They all seem a bit weird, "Of course, their dressing style may be different from the 'outside' aesthetics. For example, in the past two years, many shadow residents seem to use '32% translucent black matte fog feeling with horizontal stripes. Gradients' as a pop aesthetic...well, honestly, I don't really understand either."

Gao Wen thought for a while, and finally he could only let out a long sigh: "What was Ms. Ye thinking when she created this race..."

"Ma'am, He...will act rashly a lot of times," Chen Xing's lips curled up slightly, "When I was very young, my great-grandfather once told me about his youth, he said that the lost people just came here I was not used to it at the time, and living next to an unpredictable ancient god brought a lot of pressure to everyone, but later everyone discovered that the lady's seemingly "unpredictable and weird temper" was actually I just think it's okay to say it, and ignore him...it doesn't seem to have any effect."

Gao Wen subconsciously glanced at Amber next to him, and then immediately looked away before the shadow assault goose noticed.

Chen Xing continued to lead the way forward, and stopped suddenly in front of an intersection, then she raised her hand and pointed forward.

Gao Wen looked in the direction of her finger, his eyes suddenly froze in mid-air.

He saw a banner depicting the banner of sword and plow, flying high on a steeple in the city of night, although the color of the banner faded, leaving only the same monotonous black and white as the surrounding buildings, but the pattern of sword and plow On the contrary, it becomes more and more obvious.

He heard the voice of the morning star sounding beside him: "Most of the people living in this block are descendants of the Cecils, and the Shadow Affairs Division uses this as a stronghold. We maintain the laws of the empire here, deal with other The relationship between the cities, and dealing with the shadow dwellers on behalf of the descendants of the lost.

"In the past century, we have formed a very good 'neighborhood relationship' with the aborigines here, and learned a lot about the Shadow Realm, about ancient civilizations, and even about the conflict between Lady Night and Against the Tide from the shadow dwellers. History - Although the shadow dwellers have been wandering blindly for hundreds of thousands of years, most of them still remember what happened during their wandering, and some were originally residents of the Violet Kingdom, and they know many things that are not known History."

Then she paused, then raised her finger to point in another direction: "Turn left at the crossroad ahead, and after two blocks, you will find the place where the descendants of the Typhon people live."

"Typhon?!" Gawain stopped in surprise, but then he realized - yes, of course there will be descendants of Typhon here!

When the dream of the Violet Kingdom suddenly dissipated, the "foreigners" engulfed by the mist were not only the operatives and multinational businessmen sent by Cecil, but also a large number of Typhon businessmen and their own intelligence personnel who were stranded on Violet Island during the same period. It wasn't even just Typhon. At that time, there were gray elf traders from the Moss Forest, apprentices sent by the Northern City-State Federation to study, and travelers who crossed the strait in their own names!

Back then, the Violet Kingdom was a hermit country, but only its core areas were strictly sealed off. The border cities were still open to the Loren Continent. Under such limited opening, those who were stranded in the Violet Mist A lot of people!

For Ms. Ye, there is no difference between the Cecils, the Typhons, and the Ogures. Since he left Silver-eyed Cloade and his party behind, then for other "lost people" who also entered the Kingdom of Shadow God... …He certainly does not discriminate.

"That's right...of course there will be people from Typhon," Gawain exhaled lightly, with a curious expression on his face, "Then what's going on with them now?"

"Their leader is Viscount Herbona Raven, a very capable leader. As far as I know, the grandfather of this Viscount Herbona Raven is Dante Raven. A soldier," Chen Xing nodded, "We don't know much about the 'outside world', and all the information comes from our grandparents and fathers, but considering that the 'outside world' has not experienced a century like Night City Time has changed, the information we know should not be outdated, right?"

Gao Wen looked thoughtfully at Amber next to him, and the latter nodded after a little thought: "Dante Revan, Typhon soldier, he has a cousin named Marianne Revan, this Marianne Miss Nu was one of the first Typhoon scholars who studied in Cecil."

"Marianne Raven..." Gawain thought for a while, then recalled, "Oh, I personally signed the completion certificates of those special Typhon students back then. I remember that name."

"It seems that Miss Marianne's cousin is also one of the people who disappeared in the Violet Mist incident, and his descendants have now become the leaders of the Typhons in this city of night..." Gawain couldn't help but Sighing heartily, "To outsiders, the disappearance of relatives only happened not long ago, but in this city of night, everything is a history of a century ago."

"It seems that we have to do some handover work in the future," Amber said thoughtfully, "There are not only our people in this city, but also the descendants of the lost from various countries. For those who lost their loved ones in the Violet Mist incident For those who have received the information, the information we bring out is ... invaluable."

Gawain nodded.

Compared with the coming tide of magic and the Ragnarok project, this is not a big deal, but for those who are closely related, these things must be cared about.

Morning Star turned his head and pointed to the other side of the block.

"The other side is a block jointly established by the descendants of the lost people of the Ogulei tribal country and the descendants of the northern city-state. Most of the outstanding craftsmen and brewers are concentrated there. They have a wide network of connections, and they also have good popularity among the shadow dwellers...

"Four blocks away from here, there is a large residential area called the 'Grand Bazaar'. Most of the people living there are descendants of adventurers and independent businessmen, and some ancestors are scholars or free mercenaries. Yes. The atmosphere of the Grand Bazaar is relaxed, and there are many entertainment venues, even the shadow dwellers often go there to spend time.

"In addition, there are some sporadic settlements between these blocks, most of which have gradually appeared in the past hundred years... After such a long time, in fact, the descendants of the original group of lost people have all died. Great changes have taken place, some people no longer care much about the 'inheritance' and 'teaching' left by their ancestors, but generally speaking, everyone gets along pretty well now..."

Listening to Chen Xing's narration, Gao Wen suddenly sighed softly: "A hundred years of vicissitudes..."

"Yes, Your Majesty," Chen Xing was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "One hundred years of vicissitudes."