Chapter 784 Gray

Everyone else was discussing things about wizards, secrets, magic and ghosts, and no one noticed what Lily was doing: it was natural for the husky girl to be overly curious and run around, even if she suddenly squatted down and dug a hole in the ground. If you bury yourself, no one will take a second look. So Lily stood blankly next to the stage, staring wide-eyed and listening to the sounds coming from nowhere in time and space. It wasn't until these sounds slowly turned into noisy noises, like the noise when the radio encountered interference, that she had a big dream. I suddenly woke up as if I were just waking up.

Lily shook her ears. The ghost's voice could no longer be heard, and the faint shadows in her eyes gradually faded like water ripples. She raised her ice and fire claws and scratched in the air, finally confirming that they were all phantoms. .

Hao Ren finally noticed the girl's movements and asked from a distance: "Lily, what are you doing?"

"I just heard someone talking!" Lily immediately ran to Hao Ren and told everyone what she had just seen and heard.

Nangong Sanba frowned: "Is it a message left by a ghost?"

"Didn't you say that the spirits here are all weak, and they are so mixed that they can no longer distinguish each other?" Hao Ren glanced at Sanba, "What's going on?"

Nangong Sanba glanced at Lily curiously and sprinkled some powder into the air: "The spirits here are indeed very weak. See for yourselves-"

After the words fell, the powders that had been sprinkled into the air were already suspended in the air under the pull of magic power. They spread around everyone like mist, and then emitted a faint fluorescent light. This weak light slightly illuminated the dim space around them. , in the fluorescence of the powder, some chaotic light and shadow gradually emerged, but gradually disappeared after a few seconds, and no clear image could be seen in the light and shadow.

"Those are the spirits entrenched in this town," Nangong Sanba raised the corner of his mouth, "You have seen the resolution yourself."

"I don't know if it's because of your poor eyesight or something else..." Lily's ears twitched, "Anyway, I can see quite clearly."

Hao Ren was immediately surprised. He looked at the husky girl unexpectedly. He didn't expect that this girl had such an unexpected ability: she could capture faint ghosts that even the demon hunters couldn't distinguish. Nangong Wuyue was also amazed, and asked Vivian: "Do werewolves have the talent to sense the undead?"

"Werewolves don't have this talent..." Vivian thought about it seriously, her expression suddenly became weird, "But it is true that dogs can ward off evil spirits, and it is said in China that cats and dogs have psychic eyes and can see dirty things. ?”

Everyone: "..."

The expression on Vivian's face when she said this was so serious that even Lily didn't know how to refute it. Duncan, who was next to him, wanted to shout "This is unscientific" but swallowed it back: The key point At this moment, he still remembered that he was a more unscientific fantasy creature.

Hao Ren waved his hand and dismissed the topic. He looked thoughtfully at the seemingly empty small square around him: "It seems that there are many ghosts lingering in this town - in fact, I seemed to have heard some sounds when I first arrived in this place. , but obviously not as clear as Lily perceives it. Well, Lily, you are responsible for paying attention to the movements of the spirits, and tell me whatever you hear and see. Maybe these spirits can tell us something about the town."

"Oh, sure!" Lily puffed up her chest confidently, "Speaking of which, they seemed to be discussing the lord's affairs just now. This town should have been a noble fiefdom before. Is this information useful?"

"Noble land?" Vivian frowned, "It's useless. In that era, almost all the land belonged to the nobility."

Lily said "Oh" regretfully and began to lead the way in front of the crowd with wide eyes. There was a slight golden light in her eyes, and the invisible things entrenched in this lost town constantly appeared in her field of vision and then slowly disappeared. In front of others, there was only a layer of gray mist on the town's paths, but in Lily's eyes, there were some translucent shadows flashing through the mist from time to time.

It's a pity that most of the shadows are very, very thin. Those are not even undead, but just a little echo left when the soul dissipates. They are just floating in the air blankly, but the real soul has long since left.

Hao Ren took out the data terminal from his pocket. He also saw the readings of the spirit body. However, this thing was not specially used to detect undead creatures. Radar alone could not communicate with ghosts, so he put away the terminal again. got up.

When passing an abandoned house, Nangong Sanba checked the street sign in front of the house: "Domir...is there any record of this town in history?"

"No," Duncan replied, "We have checked the information, and both the place name 'Domir' and the records of human towns that once existed in this area are blank. This place has been completely erased from history. It fell off, I’m not sure if it’s due to the power of magic or simply due to the age.”

Vivian thought for a moment: "It should just be a matter of time. Phenomenal spells that can tamper with history on a large scale were only possible by guys like Odin and Zeus in the mythical age. I don't think a wizard who was promoted from a human being could do it. To have such a talent. Europe was in chaos hundreds of years ago. It is not unusual for a small town in such a remote area to be lost in history. What's more, it has completely disappeared from the map, and future generations have no place to look it up. .”

Nangong Wuyue was crawling at the back of the team. She felt something strange as her snake tail crawled on the ground. She curled up her tail and looked around, and suddenly discovered something: "Have you noticed, there is ashes everywhere in this town."

"Gray?" Hao Ren looked at his feet and found that he was stepping on a layer of gray-black powder. He had never noticed these things that could be seen everywhere before, "This is..."

"It's like the ashes left by burning wood," May said, twisting a bit of ashes on the ground with her fingers. "It's everywhere from the entrance of the town to here."

Hao Ren looked around thoughtfully. He saw no obvious signs of fire. The ashes that could be seen everywhere in the town didn't know where they came from.

There is no record of this "Domir" town at all in history. No one can tell when and how it disappeared, and no one knows what the scene was like when the town was destroyed. Based only on the closed situation of the town and the spirits entrenched here, Hao Ren judged that this place should be intact until it was pulled into the alien space, so the "grey" in the town should have appeared after the secret realm was sealed.

Unless this town had the custom of spreading plant ash all over the ground before - Hao Ren thought about it and felt that this possibility was not high.

Lily held the fire torch and walked in front. After concentrating her energy, she saw more spirits appearing in the air. The number of these spirits was abnormal. They were almost densely packed on the streets. Walking around, they even overlapped and pushed each other into a group. The scale was completely beyond what such a small town could accommodate. Lily was a little confused. After careful observation, she finally discovered the secret of these spirits: most of those "ghosts" were actually duplicates.

Although it can't be seen clearly, it can still be judged from the rough outline and shape that some of the ghosts wandering around are actually the same one. They keep walking up and down the street along a roughly fixed trajectory, just in time order. There is just a difference: such repeated ghosts always walk into the same door, and it is this that makes Lily discover the secret of these spirits.

Confused, she told Nangong Sanba about her findings, and the latter discussed it with others. Vivian suddenly had an idea: "Maybe these spirits are not the remnants of human beings."

Hao Ren didn't quite understand: "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. That's why there are repeated phenomena and they follow a fixed trajectory. Action," Vivian said as a faint blood-red mist surrounded her. "I was wondering just now. If all the residents in the entire town turned into ghosts, there should be a strong undead power accumulated here. That's right, but apart from a slight change in temperature and those spirits wandering around, there's no similar 'environment' here."

Hao Ren didn't know much about this matter. After asking Cassandra, he found out that when a large number of ghosts (or similar undead) gather together, they will produce an "aura" "The greater the number, the deeper the degree of superposition. More than a hundred ghosts are enough to generate an energy field in an area that can be perceived by ordinary people. This energy field can cause hallucinations and even produce serious consequences of brain death. .

At least the undead produced by humans have this property.

The data terminal also confirmed Cassandra's statement, but its explanation was easier to understand: the superposition of electromagnetic fields.

Hao Ren reasoned a little deeper about the current phenomenon, and suddenly felt a little confused.