Chapter 809 Invisible City

Fanna has been traveling on this road for a long, long time - so long that she can't even remember when and why she embarked on this seemingly endless journey, so long that she forgot where she started and the destination of her journey.

She only knows that this world is desolate. All she sees on the road seems to be yellow sand all over the sky, the lost city collapsed and collapsed in the Gobi Desert, and the ancient relics buried by the sand. She passes through those ruins filled with a desolate atmosphere, as if she is traveling upstream from the forgotten time. Occasionally, she will stop in those ruins for a while, but soon she will forget them - when the sun rises the next day, she will forget the specific appearance of those ruins, and only vaguely remember that she has passed by them and seen some broken and collapsed walls.

The wind blew from afar, whistling across the desert, the yellow sand flying, and blowing a sharp and terrifying sound like the howling of ghosts between the boulders. In the sharp whistling sound, Vanna heard another sound, a sound she always heard during this journey:

"Ding... Ding... Ding..."

It sounded like the sound of metal hitting stone, and also like the movement in a blacksmith shop.

Vanna stopped in the middle of the sand road, squinting her eyes and looking into the distance. She knew that whenever such a "ding ding ding" sound was heard, it meant that there were new relics or relics nearby.

But she didn't know why this happened and where the sound came from.

A vague silhouette of a building suddenly appeared in the background of yellow sand, just like the scene she had seen countless times during this journey.

Vanna looked at the abruptly appearing building complex for a while, and after a brief trance, she took a step towards that side and walked forward against the increasingly chaotic and disordered wind and sand.

At this moment, a young woman's voice suddenly appeared beside her: "Where are you from?"

Fanna looked in the direction of the voice in astonishment, but could only see yellow sand flying. There was no one in the direction where the voice came from. It seemed to be just an illusion.

She frowned, feeling that the wind and sand seemed to have even blown into her brain, making her thinking more and more unclear. She shook her head and decided to move on.

The voice sounded again beside her: "Why don't you pay attention to me?"

Along with the voice, it seemed that she could faintly hear the footsteps of another person walking in the desert-very close to her.

Fanna suddenly stopped again and stared at the position beside her. She still couldn't see the person who was talking, but she seemed to vaguely feel the presence of someone... "atmosphere".

An invisible traveler was walking with her and trying to talk to her.

Is this normal? Does this phenomenon exist in this world? Is there really an unobservable race living in this world?

Fanna felt her mind was in a trance again, and some absurd and weird associations popped up out of nowhere, but soon these messy thoughts disappeared from her mind. She hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly: "... I don't remember where I came from."

"Forgot where you came from?" The invisible travel companion really spoke again, and the tone sounded a little rising, "Ah, this is not good, it will be difficult to go back if you forget where you came from... But it doesn't matter, anyway, situations like yours are not uncommon here."

"Here? Not uncommon?" Fanna raised her head in surprise, "Are there others here?"

"Yes, there are many," the voice said happily, and from the tone and content of the speech, "she" seemed to be pointing in a certain direction, "It's over there, in that city."

Fanna couldn't see the movements of the invisible travel companion. She instinctively looked up at the silhouette of the building complex that was vaguely emerging in the wind and sand, and said with curiosity: "In that city..."

"Well, in that city," the cheerful voice continued, "Everyone came here from all directions. Some of them still remember where they came from, and some have even forgotten their names, but it doesn't matter. The journey is like this, from a very far place to another very far place. Sometimes you stop for a while in the middle, and sometimes you can't go on anymore after stopping - when you can't go, where you stop is the end... Well, my brother told me so."

Fanna frowned, and after a brief hesitation, she took another step towards the hazy building complex again. She heard another footsteps almost immediately in her ears, and a faint breath followed behind her.

"Brother?" Fanna asked casually, "You have a brother?"

It feels very strange to talk to an invisible travel companion, but for some reason, she gradually felt that this was a matter of course - anyway, it's not a bad thing to have one more person to talk to on this long journey.

"Yes, I have a brother, he is six years older than me," the cheerful voice said immediately, "but I haven't seen him for many years. He went to Veseland to study there, and there has been no news."

Fanna frowned slightly, feeling as if she heard a familiar word... Veseland? Where is Veseland? A city?

"Are you worried about him?" she asked subconsciously.

"No worries," the voice beside her answered, "Many of us haven't received any news from the outside world for a long time, nor have we sent any news to the outside world, which is not a bad thing..."

The sound coming from the wind suddenly became a little distorted, as if the distance suddenly widened, and then there was a chaotic noise. Fanna did not hear clearly what the last few words of the other party said, and then there was a chaos around her. Quiet.

She stood there for a few seconds and never heard her invisible traveling companion speak again. She looked around hesitantly and broke the silence: "Are you still there?"

The only thing that responded to her was the sharp and weird whistling sound in the desert, and the occasional "ding-ding-ding" knocking sound.

The traveling companion seemed to disappear in the wind.

After a while, Fanna shook her head and continued walking towards the distant city.

She trekked for a long time, and finally completed this particularly torturous journey before the sky darkened again. She saw the "city" mentioned by her travel companion. No surprise - there were no prosperous cities and residents here. What caught her eyes were only ruins in the yellow sand, buildings that had been destroyed for who knows how many years.

Fanna found a gap in the fragmented city wall that seemed to be the remains of a gate. She checked the situation in the ruins of the city through the gap, and then walked towards the "city".

However, just as she was about to pass through the "door", a serious and powerful voice suddenly came from the air: "Stop, stranger - where are you from?"

Fanna was stunned for a moment.

There is an invisible guard... guarding the gate here?

She had dealt with cultists in the sewers and monsters growing in the darkness, but she had never dealt with this situation.

She stopped and looked at the empty direction with some confusion. After thinking for a while, she decided to communicate with the other party in the "everything is normal" way: "I am...traveling, but I can't remember where I started. Where did it come from?”

She still remembered that the invisible traveling companion told her that there were many "residents" in this "city" who had forgotten where they came from like herself, so surely her answer wouldn't seem too suspicious here, right?

The "guard" didn't speak. He seemed to be judging something carefully. He might have disappeared into the wind and sand at that moment. Fanna waited patiently for a while, and just when she was about to give up waiting and walk in directly, A familiar and cheerful voice suddenly came from the side——

"Ah, there you are!"

It was the "invisible traveling companion" who suddenly disappeared.

"I thought you were lost," the voice said happily to Fanna, "There are many forks in the road, especially the paths in the woods. If you are attracted by the berry bushes on the roadside and enter the path, It might take a whole day to get out..."

In the woods? Trail? A berry bush by the roadside?

Listening to the chattering sounds coming from beside her, Vanna looked up in surprise and looked at the way she came - of course there was nothing there, except for sand and stones. Where did the woods and berry bushes come from?

And just when she was stunned, the guard's voice appeared again. He was talking to the "invisible traveling companion": "Is this your friend?"

"Well, we met on the road," the young woman's voice said immediately. "She comes from a far away place. She is new here and is not familiar with it. I took her into the city for a walk."

"...Then you go in, but don't run around. It's getting dark, and the woods outside the city are not peaceful."

"Hey! Thank you!"

The cheerful voice thanked the guard, then turned to Vanna: "We can go in."

Vanna immediately looked away from the desert outside the city and nodded in the direction of the sound: "Okay."

She walked into this "bustling city" and walked on a wide and desolate road facing the city gate - the yellow sand buried the ruins on both sides of the road, and the broken stone slabs were spread on the ground in disorder. Occasionally, She would hear some vague sounds, which seemed to be vendors hawking, passers-by talking, and the sound of wheels rolling over the road, but those vague sounds would disappear in the wind almost immediately, and she would not even have time to hear them. clear any content.

"How is it? It's very prosperous here, isn't it?" The young and lively voice said beside Fanna, as if pointing to the shops on the roadside and the busy traffic on the road, "I have lived here for many years, and this city is full of The most prosperous place on the continent!”

……mainland? What is that?

Vanna felt in a trance, as if some kind of knowledge that did not belong to "common sense" suddenly broke into her cognition and wanted to get into her mind.

But the next second, her firm will dispelled this trance.

The knowledge has not penetrated.