Chapter 58: Smoke and Dust
Mikicharan arrived at the new camp on Raven Island in the middle of the night, but Sverillier had already set out with Ariel with most of his warriors, and they hurried to the Isle of Eternal Night in order to capture the lying fisherman of the Absu Secret Society.
When Mickcharan met the long-awaited Siberis in the camp, Siberis told her that it had happened.
Hearing that Sibeliss recounted the ins and outs of the matter one by one, Miki Charan shook her head regretfully and said, "I should have thought of it a long time ago. I really shouldn't have been like Evenson who believed the fisherman's nonsense so easily. ”
"Virtuous, it's not your fault. Evenson can't be blamed either. "It's all because the man is lying." ”
"Go back and rest, Siberys, and tomorrow we will sail to the Isle of Eternal Night." Mikicharan said.
"Nuxian, aren't you going to rest together?"
"I'm hungry, you go and rest first, I'll go over after I eat something."
When Miki Charan had eaten his food and walked back to the hut that Ariel had arranged for Sibris, Nohibi stood up from the ground and yelled at her twice. As Mikicharan softly called out Nohibi's name, Nohibi curled up and fell to the ground.
When Mickcharan entered the house, she saw Milica asleep on the floor, and Sibris, sleeping on the bed, curled up sideways. Miki Charan understood that she was leaving more space on the bed for her.
In the middle of the night, Miki Charan felt Sibelis, who was in the same bed, get up, and she opened her sleepy eyes to see Sibeliss standing barefoot by the window and looking out.
"Sibelis, what are you doing?" Miki Charan rose from the bed and asked her in a whisper.
"Sage, I seem to hear him." Sibeliss turned to the window and whispered to Miki Charan.
Miki Charan straightened her underwear, put on her robe, and got out of bed.
Mikicharan's movement out of bed woke Milica, and she looked up from the ground to see that Mikicharan had slowly walked to Sibelis's side.
After glancing out of the dark window, Mikicharan said to Sibelis, "Go to sleep, child. I know you miss him a lot. But he couldn't be here. We have to rest well, we have things to do tomorrow. ”
Sibeliss nodded, and she turned around to go back to bed at Mikicharan's persuasion, but she glanced out the window with some nostalgia before she could take a step.
At this moment, Si Bai Li suddenly saw a lightning bolt outside the window, suddenly lighting up the whole world, accompanied by the light of lightning, Xi Bai Li also saw a terrible scene from the window.
The white light flashed into the room through the window, and Mikicharan and Milica were startled by the light, and then they all looked out of the window, but now the window returned to invisible darkness with the flash of lightning.
With the sudden howl of Nohibi outside the house, Sibriss said to Miki Charan in horror, "Sage, I just saw..."
"Boom~"
A loud rumbling thunder suddenly rang out, interrupting Sibris's words.
With a constant rumble, Miki Charan looked at Sibris, and then stepped forward to close the window in case the rain came. But just as Mikicharan removed the wooden stick supporting the window, she heard a thunderous explosion in the midst of the rumbling thunder.
The sound of the explosion was so close that it shook the earth, and the entire wooden house.
Nohibi howled frantically outside the door, and through the continuous loud rumble, Sibriss faintly heard Nohibi's barking, and she felt uneasy like never before.
"This thunder is so scary." Milica looked out the window and said loudly in horror.
Before Milica could finish speaking, Mikicharan also said loudly, "No, it's not like thunder. ”
"Sage! I just saw Talon Mountain smoking! Siberis now pressed into Mikicharan's ear, and she repeated aloud to her what she had not finished before.
Before Mikicharan could react, another violent explosion followed. With this explosion, Xi Baili felt the whole room shake. Mikicharan's face immediately showed a frightened expression at this moment, and she shouted to Sibris, "Run! Come on! ”
After seeing Mikicharan's frightened expression, Siberis was immediately pushed by Mikicharan and ran outside the house. As soon as she pushed open the door, she saw Nohibi, who was barking in front of the door. When Noshibi saw Siberis come out of the house, he immediately pounced on her, and he bit at the corner of Siberis's coat, pulled her back, and motioned for her to run.
Sibriss ran a few steps behind Nohibi, but then she turned back to look for Miki Charan. As she looked back, Siberis saw tiny bolts of lightning flickering on the top of Talon Mountain. And around the lightning, there was billowing thick smoke and dust from Talon Mountain.
"Run! Go to the boat, quick! Mikicharan grabbed Sibris, who was staring at Talon Mountain in a daze, and she pulled her to the shore with all her might.
Another powerful flash of lightning suddenly brightened up from the top of the mountain, illuminating the earth, and Sibriss saw that the entire camp had fled from their houses in terror. Some of them let out cries of fear, others knelt down against Talon Mountain, and many more chose to flee.
The swarm of panicked people ran towards the shore away from Talon Mountain. Mikicharan and Sibris, old and young, were clearly lacking in foot strength, and even with the help of Milika, the three of them were soon chased by the panicked fleeing people. Fortunately, Mikicharan knew exactly where Svelier's ship was moored.
The three of them walked in the dark under the guidance of Mikicharan, and walked quickly to the beach. On the beach, Mikicharan was glad to see that Svelier's ship was still in place. The trio waded across the water and ran to the side of the ship, where they struggled aboard Sverillier's ship with the help of the defenders. At the same time, Nohibi was pulled out of the sea by the warriors and dragged into the boat.
"Get out of here." That's what Mikicharan said as the first thing he said when he boarded the cabin.
"Some of the fighters who live in the camp haven't come back yet, and we're going to wait for them." Said one of the fighters.
"It's too late, we'll all die here if we don't leave!" Miki Charan shouted anxiously to the warriors.
"Nuxian, this is just a volcanic eruption, I have seen a volcanic eruption in the West Sea, and the magma will not flow down the mountain so quickly." Another fighter shouted at Mikicharan.
"Nope! Come on! Listen to me, kid. Mikicharan said in a panic, "Talon Mountain made a cracking sound, it's not the kind of ..... you've ever seen" Before Mikicharan could finish speaking, a small rain of rubble fell from the sky, crackling into the ship, smashing into the deck, and making a dense splash in the sea near the ship.
"It's not the kind of eruption you've ever seen, it's too intense." Mikicharan continued to shout at the warrior urgently, "Trust me, run away!" Otherwise we will all die. ”
The soldiers also panicked when they saw another slightly larger gravel flying down. After a little hesitation, they finally decided to sail the ship to the shore first to prevent the flying rocks from damaging the ship.
Shortly after the ship had lowered anchor and left the shore, Mikchicharan saw what appeared to be a thick cloud of smoke sweeping in the darkness from the direction of Talon Mountain.
"Quick!" Mikicharan shouted at the sailor with all his might.
As the sailors panicked and unfolded their oars, a thick cloud of smoke swept across the shore. Smoke billowed in, and it flew from the surface of the sea, quickly swallowing Sverillier's ship.
As soon as the smoke swept past the ship, Siberis immediately smelled a strong, pungent smell that made her cough. After coughing for a while, Si Baili looked up and found that not only her, but the entire ship was also choking on the smoke and dust, unable to stand and coughing bitterly.
As Siberis coughed dryly, she saw Mickcharan reach out and lift her freshly soaked dress. As he lifted Sibris's wet dress to her nose and mouth, Miki Charan said to her at the same time, "Cover it with it, ahem, your mouth and nose." ”
At Mikkicharan's reminder, Sibriss immediately hugged her wet dress and covered her mouth and nose with it.
"Get down." As Miki Charan spoke, he pushed Sibriss to the deck.
Lying on the deck, Si Bai Lisi, breathing through her wet clothes, felt the pungent smell fade a little. But as time passed, the dense ash dust still made Siberys dizzy, chest tightness and shortness of breath. After a while in the increasingly suffocating smoke, Sibriss gradually began to become delirious and weak. In a trance, Sibriss struggled to crawl to the side a few times, and she stretched out her hand with all her might, hugging Nohibi, who had already collapsed to the ground. While hugging Noshitby, Sibris's eyes closed and she passed out.
When Silberis woke up again, it was already early the next morning.
Sibeliss lay on the deck and coughed a few times, and she only felt as if her throat had been cut by a knife. She got up and rubbed her dry eyes, then opened them and looked around. However, she shuddered at the sight of the entire cabin, the volcanic ash covering the deck, the people lying motionless on the deck, and even a few warriors lying on top of each other.
Stunned by the scene in front of her, Xi Baili suddenly felt her ankles wet and hot twice, and she immediately looked back to see that Noshibi was licking her ankles with her tongue weakly at the moment.
"Sage." At the same time as seeing Nohibi, Sibriss also saw Mikicharan, and she immediately shouted in a hoarse voice to Mikicharan, who was on the ground.
However, there was no reaction from Miki Charan.
"Virtuous woman. Virtuous. Sibriss shouted twice more and reached out and nudged her.
Mikicharan still didn't respond.
After hesitating in horror, Celestia crawled up to her side and pushed her hard with both hands. Nohibi whimpered hoarsely as Siberis's actions followed.
"The Virtuous Woman. Wake up, wake up, wake up," Sibriss cried to Miki Charan, suffering a sharp pain in her throat. She kept pushing Mikicharan, but Mikicharan didn't react, as usual.
When Siberis trembled and put her hand under Mikicharan's nose to test her breathing, her mind went blank.
Didn't breathe. Siberlisy jerked her hand back, and she realized to her horror that Miki Charan might be dead.
Siberis shuddered and reached out to grab Miki Charan's hand, which she felt cold. After holding Mikicharan's hand and staring at Mikicharan for a long time, Siberis unconsciously shed tears.
Tears flowed from her eyes, and she looked helplessly around the cabin, and she saw that all the others, including Milika, were already like Mikicharan.
After crying for a while, Siberis raised her hand to wipe her tears, and then she got up and pushed Milica and called her name. But no miracle happened, and Milika, like Mikicharan, died.
Siberis walked in the cabin blankly, and she pushed a few more fallen warriors, who still didn't wake up. Si Baili looked at the motionless people and realized that she was the only one alive in the suffocating smoke. And the people who were on the boat with her before have all become dead bodies, dead bodies in this boat.
Sibriss stared blankly at the dead men, and it was a long time before she hugged Nohibi beside her again and began to whimper again. Nohibi whimpered a few times, and he looked at the weeping Sibris, and shed tears with her.
After weeping sadly, Sibriss returned to Mikkicharan's side. She lifted Mikicharan's upper body from the boat with all her might, and dragged her to the side of the boat. She placed Mikicharan's upper body upright against the side of the boat, and then she straightened her head and limbs. After placing Mikicharan to look less like a dead man, Sibriss slowly sat down beside her.
"Sage."
"Nusage, you're on board the Ancestors' Ship, aren't you?" Siberis whispered mournfully beside Mikkicharan's corpse.
After a moment of dead silence, Si Bailis said again in a hoarse voice, "Nusage, I know you must have gone to take the ship of the ancestors. But you left in such a hurry that you didn't even say goodbye. ”
Xi Baili choked up and whispered, "Thank you, thank you, thank you for taking care of me and educating me for more than a year. I vividly remember every story you have told me, and your story has given me joy and hope. I really feel lucky and happy to know you. ”
Nohibi walked slowly over to Siberis as she whispered, and it crouched silently beside her. Sibriss reached out and gently stroked Nohibi's head, then pressed her cheek to its forehead.
Siberys tilted her head against Nosibi and said, "Nosibi, the whole ship has survived the two of us. Why do you say that? ”
"Woohhhh
"You're saying that the Ancestor didn't allow us to board his ship, did you?" Si Baili tilted her head to look at the corpses all over the ground and said, "I'm not from Phetton, maybe the ancestors don't want me." But you..."
Nohibi whimpered for a while, then screamed hoarsely.
Sibriss stroked Nooxyppi before letting it go of her hand.
Siburis leaned her head slightly against the side of the boat. She stared blankly at the clear blue sky, and fell into a long sorrow.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and the sails swelled. Sibriss looked sideways, and a white seabird was now falling from the sky and onto the mast. The white seabird stopped at the mast for a short time, and then flew away quickly.
It was only then that Sibriss suddenly got up, her eyes following the seabirds that had flown away, looking at the sea in the distance.
She saw a huge column of smoke rising from the distant sea, reaching into the sky.
Sibeliss held the gangway with both hands and looked at the pillar of smoke. She knew that the smoke that was spewing straight to the sky was none other than Talon Mountain on Snowcrow Island. Looking at the smoke billowing from Talon Mountain in the distance, Si Baili also understood that the warship had left Snow Raven Island far away after a night of ownerless sailing under the influence of the wind.
Looking around at the sea, Siberis found that there was nothing on the surface of the sea except for the smoke of Talon Mountain in the distance, and a few icebergs floating in the sky on the other side. She looked at the sails, then at the cables and oars, and knew that she could not control such a ship by her own strength. What's more, she doesn't know anything about sailing technology.
Xi Baili sat back beside Miki Charan in a daze. As Sibriss sat down, she was suddenly startled by something in Mikicharan's burqa.
Curious, Siberice removed Mikicharan's robe, and then she was surprised to find that the hard object in Mikicharan's robe was the "True Eye".
Sibriss took the "True Eye" in her hand, and she stared at the object for a long time and hesitated for a long time before she said slowly to Miki Charan's corpse, "Virtuous, this is, this is what Evenson gave you, right?" ”
"I don't know why you didn't give it to me, but I think you'll give me this, right?" Sibelis muttered to herself.
After a moment of silence, Sibriss hesitated for a moment, and then she said again, "Virtuous, if you weren't going to give me this, then forgive me for my presumptuousness, Virtuous. I took it from you. ”
After touching Mikicharan's cold hand, Siberis stood up with the "True Eye".
Holding her hands up, she slowly pulled the barrel of the True Eye open, then pointed it at Raven Island. Siberis narrowed one eye and looked through the barrel of the other towards Snowcrow Island.
The inverted view of the lens barrel was blurry at first, but after Siberlis's slight adjustment of the focal length of the "True Eye" tube, the image began to become clear. Through the "True Eye", Siburis can even clearly see the magma spewing out of the mountain pass, and the trees that have been smashed by the rubble.
But that's not what Cyberys really wants to see. Because Sibriss clearly knows that the "True Eye" is an artifact with extraordinary and wonderful abilities.
Siberis looked at Snowcrow Island and fell into memory, she remembered that in the basement library of the Emerald Inner City, she had stumbled upon a dilapidated and inconspicuous ancient book in sheepskin. The parchment cover was smooth and devoid of any text, and the whole book was just a strange symbol on the title page.
When I opened the inside of the book, there was not a single word, or even a symbol, from beginning to end. The whole book is painted in a strange style, with different scenes. The scenes are drawn one at a time, no more, no less, and they don't seem to be related to each other. The only thing that all the drawings have in common, in Ciperys's opinion, is that each scene is painted with a uniquely shaped object.
Although Si Bai Li did not know what the intention of the pictures was, these exquisite paintings left a deep impression on Xi Bai Lisi, and she remembered them vividly.
Sibriel asked the monk who often lit candles for her not many questions, and although she preferred to find the answers in the book herself, this book was an exception. Sibriel asked the monk some questions about the wordless book, and the monk took care to answer them.
Sibeliss remembered that the monk had told herself that this picture book had been drawn by a well-traveled missionary monk who had consulted a large number of ancient texts with the help of research and some imagination. All the objects drawn in that book are artifacts, and they all have wonderful and extraordinary abilities. As to why they had extraordinary abilities, Siberis asked the monk, but the monk's answer was to let Siberice find out for herself.
Si Bai Li remembered that the monk had picked up the book and opened it to a page of the book, which showed a vague swirl, and at the edge of the swirl stood several vague figures, and on top of the figures were the objects in Si Bai Lisi's hand at the moment.
The monk pointed to the page with the drawing of the "True Eye" and said to Sibelis, "In the inner city of the Emerald City, there is an artifact, and that is this one." This is an artifact that enables people to see the truth, and even the gods.
Siberis held the "True Eye" in her hands, and she looked towards Raven Island as she thought back to the monk's words.
She had been staring at Snowcrow Island through the "True Eye", she had been looking at it for a long time, but she had not seen what she had imagined, and she had always believed that this "True Eye" should be able to see the gods, as the monk said. She wanted to see the gods of Snowcrow Island through it, but until Sibriss raised her arm a little numb, she could only see the distant scene more clearly.
Siberis felt a little disappointed, and she unconsciously slowly adjusted the lens tube, which gradually blurred the otherwise clear vision. As her vision gradually blurred, Xi Baili suddenly realized that the billowing smoke in the sky, along with the Talon Mountains of Snow Raven Island and their reflections in the sea, had turned into the image of a white crow with wings outstretched. Before Siberis could be surprised by this scene, she immediately saw that the originally calm sea water suddenly rose and surged, and the huge waves swept through the snow crow, and immediately drowned the newly formed white crow in the waves.
Sibriss took a step back in shock at this sight, and she immediately lowered the "True Eye" in her hand.
However, after leaving the perspective of the "True Eye", Si Baili found that nothing had happened on the sea, everything was the same as before, Snow Raven Island was still quietly releasing billowing smoke in the distance, and the sea was still so calm.
Determined, Cybeliss raised the "Eye of Truth" again. However, she couldn't see the scene just now.