Section 616 The golden thread of the void
This is a tall and luxuriant silver banyan tree, with branches and leaves like a cover, and it grows more than ten meters away.
Around the tree, several wooden ladders are interlocked, and finally a delicate and widely distributed treehouse is built in the center of the tree, where the branches are branched.
On the side of the treehouse, a fluorite tag hangs on a slanted branch, and the fluorite emits a faint green light. On the surface of the fluorite, there is a row of black flower characters, clearly written the name of this treehouse - Fluorescent Hotel.
This inn, built on a silver banyan tree, was Ingres' first destination.
After the group landed, the Dalmatian dog was still yelling at the inn.
"Will Nausicaa be here?" Shan frowned, looking at the inn, which was obviously exquisite, but for some reason felt rather eerie at this time.
"I don't know, let's go in and see. "Angel doesn't know if Dalmatians is guiding them to find Nausicaa, but he has no other way. The city of Sleepless is hundreds of miles in size, and the buildings are widely distributed, and it is too easy to hide a person, so for now, I can only trust this Dalmatian for the time being.
Following the wooden ladder, Angel and the others walked to the door of the Glowrose Hotel.
Before entering, the wooden door opened without wind, and countless parasites came out of it, and in an instant, the sky was densely covered with light points like fireflies.
Seeing these parasites, both Shan and Hiryu squatted down in fright.
The sound of swishing in my ears passed, and after a while, finally all the parasites in the inn door had left, and had successfully bypassed their position.
To be precise, it bypassed Ingres.
"Why are there so many parasites here?" Shan stood up with a sense of fear.
"Perhaps, the nest is inside. Ingres whispered, and strode forward, straight into the deep darkness.
Shan and Kiryu glanced at each other, and both saw doubt in each other's eyes. Angel only said that if you follow him, you will not be parasitized by parasites, but he does not say why.
There were few parasites before, and they were not yet felt. But after this incident, their hearts are inevitably full of doubts.
How did Ingres get the parasites to avoid him? And it seems that it wasn't Ingres driving away the parasites, but the parasites actively avoiding Ingres.
"It's strange that the gods don't want to say anything. Shan muttered a word, and strode forward with Hiryu, following Angel's footsteps.
As soon as he entered the treehouse, Angel stopped.
Shan was behind him, and in the darkness blinded her, she couldn't see anything, except faintly heard a buzzing sound in her ears, which seemed to be the chirping of insects.
Shan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and after asking for Angel's opinion, she unleashed a light spell that completely illuminated the treehouse.
When the light technique rose, Shan was stunned.
Just in front of Angels, a huge nest was standing, and the buzzing sound they heard was also made by an unknown bug in the nest.
Shan shuddered, and said with some trembling, "Angel, this... What kind of nest is this? Could it be those parasites?"
Angel nodded casually, there was a deeper connection between the parasite and the nest, but there was no need to explain.
He had seen this lair more than once, whether it was Daredevil or Pocrates, so Ingres didn't have much fear in his heart.
Angel: "Shan, move the light up a little bit, above the nest. ”
He came here to find someone, and was not interested in the nest of the colorful dragonfly. After taking a closer look, Angel noticed that there seemed to be some faint movement in the darkness above the lair.
Shan raised the light source in fear.
At this moment, a large number of dragonflies glowing with colorful brilliance suddenly poured out of the nest, and there were at least hundreds of them at a glance, and as soon as they appeared, they surrounded Angel and the others.
The energy fluctuations on the bodies of these dragonflies were all at the level of peak apprentices, so as soon as hundreds appeared, Shan's face instantly turned pale, and her hands and feet stiffened, and she was still manipulating the movement of the light source, but now she also stopped moving.
"What now?" it was Kiryu who spoke, and she was a little better than Shan, but she still spoke with a hint of a trill.
As Ingres was about to answer, the colorful dragonfly suddenly let out strange mood swings.
In Shan and Xiliu's perception, they could only detect that these dragonflies were a little excited.
But in Ingres's perception, he heard the familiar sound of praise, praise for the queen, praise for Sava, praise for the brightness of the moonlight...... Even if there's no moonshine here.
The IQ of the colorful dragonfly is not high, as can be seen from the praise sung in the song.
"Ignore them, as long as you don't attack, they won't attack. Angel explained.
Sure enough, after a long while, those colorful dragonflies just released their excitement to the outside world, but they did not move, but kept circling around them.
"Shan, move the light source upwards. Time waits for no one, Angel reminds again.
At that moment, a scream came from overhead.
Shan hurriedly raised the light source, and as the light shone, she saw a woman with long green hair above the lair, her whole body was interspersed with golden threads, which connected the void behind her.
The scream was made by the woman, and after the scream, the woman's face showed a desperate expression, the green tendons on her face faded, and her eyes were pure white. A mysterious energy was transmitted from the void to the woman's body with the golden silk thread.
And then ...... A wonderful mezzanine space, with women as the center, began to spread rapidly.
With the emergence of the mezzanine space, the woman's complete loss of will, when the mezzanine space covered the surrounding dozens of miles, began to slowly shrink, and finally all melted into the woman's body.
When all this was done, the woman was dragged into the void by the golden thread and disappeared.
At the same time, Angels felt that the mezzanine space in the center of Sleepless City was gradually merging with a new mezzanine space and slowly expanding......
"Go, Nausicaa isn't here. Angels said coldly.
A puppet prototype was born right under his nose, and he witnessed the process of the prototype losing its will and becoming a container, which made him feel a sense of urgency even more, for fear that Nausicaa would not be able to hold on in the next second.
They immediately turned around and prepared to move on to the next location.
As Ingres turned, the dragonflies around him immediately gave way to what looked like they were sending Ingres off.
Both Shan and Hiryu noticed this, but now was not the time to explore, and hurried to follow Angel. They knew very well that being able to dodge the attacks of parasites and dragonflies was definitely a blessing to Angel, so they didn't dare to stay away from Angel's side.
Immediately after leaving the Glowing Inn, Toby transforms into a griffin and leads them to the next location.
The Dalmatian also seemed to understand what Ingres meant, and began to bark in a new direction.
In less than two minutes, Toby had flown more than ten miles, and finally they stopped at a cemetery in the western part of Sleepless City. This is a suburban cemetery, still shrouded in the realm of darkness.
The cemetery is surrounded by black iron railings, and at first glance it looks a bit like the cemetery that Ingres saw at Castle Black. But if you look closely, you will find that the interior of the cemetery is very clean and tidy, there are no mass graves, and no coffins have been turned out. The location of each tomb is well planned, and even the inscriptions have a strong craftsman style.
"This is the Rose Cemetery in the rich area, and those who can be buried here are not poor, at least there are transcendent people in the family. Shan said.
The group landed behind the cemetery, and as Shan said, the iron fence at the edge of the cemetery was crawling with thorns with gorgeous roses. There was no smell of rot in the air, but a rich, dark fragrance.
But this dark fragrance made the faces of everyone present a little bad. Because of this kind of fragrance that absorbs the rotting corpses in the ground and blooms into gorgeous flowers, there is also a general name in the Southern Regions: the fragrance of the dead.
There are some wizards with special hobbies who are very fond of the fragrance made with this dead man's incense, which is not only more intense, but also has a stronger effect on promoting sullomon than similar flowers.
"Go in and have a look. Ingres took the lead and walked into the cemetery.
Shan stepped forward with a look of confusion: "Angel, what happened to the woman who was tied up with the golden thread just now, will Nausicaa be treated like this?"
"Yes, so find Nausicaa and save her before she breaks down completely. Angel seemed to have a problem with Shan, "Time is running out, don't waste any more." ”
Soon, they locked on to their target in the cemetery.
In the center of the cemetery, there is still a nest of colorful dragonflies, and the people who have been taken away by Yorkshire are hung above the nest just like in the Glowrose Hotel.
However, this time it was still not Nausicaa.
But it was a person they all knew very well - Gank.
Gank was bound and pierced by the golden threads in the void, hanging in the air, his mouth kept screaming, his mask had been opened, and blood and tears flowed from his eyes.
"For some special reasons, Gank not only has no desire, but also has a very low degree of reactivity to emotions. But now he's in tears, which means he's reached his limit!" said Shan, with a look of horror on her face.
Gank also seemed to sense his master's voice, and he struggled to turn his head to look at Shan, whispering Shan's name.
"It's not parasitic!" Shan turned to Angel and said, "It remembers me!How can we save it, it looks like it's on the verge of collapse now!"
Ingres knew from the beginning that the captives would not be parasitized. Because once the parasitism is over, it is a difficult process to collapse the parasite's psychological defense line by virtue of the characteristics of the parasite.
Humans' psychological defenses are much weaker than parasites, so it is impossible for Yorkshire to let them be parasitized.
Because of this, whether they can survive or not depends on how strong their psychological defense line is and how long they can hold on in the process of becoming a primordial body.