The night is getting deeper.

According to Selena, the first explorers to enter Sandbox 1 to check on the situation were attacked after dark.

Gawain stood in front of the house, looking up at the clear and translucent night sky in the desert area, calm and calm on the surface, but secretly mobilizing his perception of his surroundings and mobilizing various arrangements.

Until now, nothing out of the ordinary had happened, and no one had been contaminated by the mind, Duvalt and Naretil were resting in the house not far behind, while Selena and the three remained vigilant, taking turns guarding the house.

It seemed like it would be a night to spend peacefully.

The desert was quite cold after dark, but the temperature was not enough to affect Gawain, and he took a deep breath, letting the icy air cool his mind, and at the same time couldn't help but admire the technique of the Eternal Sleeper to create this world-

Such a real wind, such a real cold, such a vast land, twinkling stars, everything is as real as it is, how long did it take them to create such a real world, and the beings living in this world...... How long did it take to realize the existence of the box boundary?

Sensing a movement in his heart, Gawain gathered his divergent thoughts, and turned his head to look in the direction of the door—Naretil, whose long white hair almost fell to her ankles, quietly opened the door and walked out, she stepped on the ground barefoot, and walked almost silently, but she didn't know how to hide her breath.

"Are you awake?" Gawain looked at the quirky girl and asked casually.

Naretil glanced up at Gawain quickly, nodded slightly, and then came to a place not far from the door, and sat down on the floor, with his hands on his knees, looking up at the sky in distraction.

Although he always believed that the other party had a strange personality, suspected that the other party was a minion of an upper-level narrator or a dangerous mind wandering in the No. 1 sandbox, Gawain couldn't help but ask curiously: "What are you doing?" ”

"Look at the stars." The white-haired girl sitting on the ground whispered.

“…… This can be seen," Gawain was a little speechless for a while, and said with a little embarrassment, "You don't sleep at night, just to run out to see the stars?" ”

Naretil was silent for a moment before hesitating to speak again: "Look...... Star. ”

Gawain: "......"

He suspected that there was some kind of communication barrier between himself and the other party, but after a moment's hesitation, he still stood next to Naretil and asked seemingly casually, "How did you and Duvalt meet?" Are you and him just traveling companions? ”

“…… It's a traveling companion," Naretir replied, still very slow and incomprehensible, but in response to Gawain's question, "I don't remember. ”

"I don't remember how I met?" Gawain understood the other party's small and vague answer, and at the same time guided the other party to say something more, "So how long have you been wandering here?" ”

"A lot...... Many years. Naretir said.

"Do you believe in the upper narrators?"

“…… I don't know," Naretir shook her head, "I don't remember. ”

"You've been wandering around here all these years? Did Duvalt tell you what the purpose of wandering was? Is there anything you need to do? ”

Naritir was silent for a moment and shook her head, "Look at the stars." ”

As Gawain guessed what the other party's answer meant, he heard Naretir add, "You've disturbed me looking at the stars." ”

Gawain: "......"

The communication seemed unable to continue, and Gawain could only sigh regretfully, and judged that there should be some problems with Naretir's mind, and his memory and thinking skills were significantly lower than those of ordinary people.

At this moment, a flash of fire suddenly appeared in his sight.

In the distance, in front of the temple, which had been abandoned for an unknown number of years with many pillars and stone statues, a bonfire suddenly appeared on a grand scale, and the flames rose from the temple square, and the buildings that had been immersed in the darkness of the night a moment ago were instantly illuminated by this bright flame, and then more and more fires or lights appeared on the tops of the stone pillars around the temple, on the streets near and far, and in the houses of each house!

The whole city seems to be waking up to the lights!

Gawain's eyes widened as he stared at the lights that were rapidly spreading through the city, and then suddenly turned his head in the direction of Naretir—

Naretil, who had been sitting there gazing up at the starry sky a second ago, had disappeared at some point.

Gawain didn't even manage to lock on to her aura change at all, to detect when and how she left (or disappeared)!

But he was already mentally prepared to face the strange situation, and at this moment, he was not even surprised, he saw the door behind him suddenly pushed open, and the red-haired Archbishop Magnum rushed out of it in one step: "The old man named Duvalt is gone!" ”

"I know," Gawain replied lightly, "it's not just him—Naretir is gone. ”

Magnum glared and noticed the lights that were constantly turning on all over the city, and his loud voice suddenly exploded: "All the ancestors of my family!!" What's going on? ”

Yuri and Selena also walked out of the house, they had already heard Magnum and Gawain talking outside the house, the lights that quickly spread through the city reflected on their faces, Selena only glanced at it and turned to look at Gawain: "Is this what you are waiting for?" ”

"Looks like it's more patient than I thought," Gawain nodded, "Get ready, the upper narrator is coming—"

Almost at the same time as Gawain's words fell, countless creepy shadows suddenly emerged from the air on the distant streets, in the shadows between the houses, and between the boundaries of light and shadow that were intertwined by the flickering lights everywhere!

The shadows, large and small, crept on the ground, moving swiftly along the ground, at first looking like a mist undulating at the edge of the light, until some of the shadows got closer, and Gawain understood what it was—it was a spider, countless spiders crawling on the surface in the form of shadows!

Countless shadows moved under the light of the lamp, and from time to time lengthened or shortened with the change of the angle of the light, as if there were invisible "real" spiders crawling on the surface, which were completely transparent in themselves, but left strange shadows on the ground, and the moment he saw those shadow spiders, Gawain suddenly thought of what Duvalt said to himself:

"There are a lot of spiders here at night, but don't worry, they are all gentle and harmless, and they will actively avoid people ......"

These things don't seem harmless at all now.

Yuri opened his hands in an instant, countless golden runes swirled and flew to protect everyone, and the soft and warm light also enveloped the audience, Selena Gehr, who was holding a lantern, stepped forward, and under the light of the lantern, all the shadows crawling on the ground were fading rapidly, and then, Magnum opened his hands, and his thunderous voice suddenly exploded:

"Psychic Storm!!"

The powerful magic power instantly converged and took shape, turning into a dull aura that spread in all directions, and where the aura passed, all the spider shadows paused for a moment, and a peaceful atmosphere filled the entire block—

Extremely effective tranquilizer aura, a high-level spiritual spell that can appease all mental units, including friend and foe.

But it couldn't comfort Yuri, who was in a state of great consternation, and the archbishop, who had a gentle temperament and wore a monocle, almost exclaimed: "Where's your psychic storm?!" ”

"Damn! I forgot I had replaced it with a calming aura! Magnum shouted.

For the first time in his life, Archbishop Yuri, who had a temperament, shouted: "You brute! Do you usually rely on your subconscious to cast spells!! ”

"I used to be a god of war priest, and I'm used to relying on my subconscious mind to cast spells, so what can I do?!"

"Don't use this as an excuse - I'm not a normal God of War priest!"

The quarrel between the two archbishops from behind him made Gawain a little stunned for a while, he never expected that there would be such a talent in the dark sect, these two people made him can't help but think of Philip and Byron, and he even felt that if Yuri and Magnum arrived at Cecil, they might be able to become national first-class cross talk actors within a year......

But a warm and clear light interrupted all the chaos, and Selena's hand with a lantern bloomed with an intense brilliance, and her voice sounded as if with some kind of power that could pierce through the endless curtain: "Quiet! Yuri, Magnum, you've been influenced!

"The night here is magnifying your character flaws and negative thoughts, and confusing your judgment!"

Yuri and Magnum, who were about to get more and more into an argument, were affected by Selena's lantern and awakened by her words, and suddenly their eyes widened, and they instantly realized the subtle pollution and erosion.

In the next second, an unusually powerful spiritual energy erupted around Magnum, setting off a real "storm" throughout the building and a considerable area around it.

At the same time, more shadows were still converging in all directions, and more lights were being lit up in the streets of Nim Sandro, as if the light and shadow formed an intertwined grid, centered on the temple district, spreading throughout the city, and even eerily outside the city, spreading to the entire desert......

Viewed from the air, Nim Sandror and a considerable area around him were shrouded in a web of light and shadow, like a spider's web, and Magnum's small psychic storm was at the center of this huge web, like a struggling flying insect, like a prisoner in a spider's web......

In the darkness of Nym Sandró, on a strange mountain that stood abruptly in the desert and seemed to be an inverted arthropod, a worn-out card-shell lantern suddenly pierced the darkness, and the figures of Duvalt and Naretir were reflected in the dim light.

The former, carrying a lantern, was quietly looking in the direction of Nim Sandro, while the city was completely shrouded in a huge spider web, and the shadows of the spiders were slowly roaming the edge of the web, while the latter sat on the ground, his hands on his knees, and continued to look up at the sky with a sand box of stars.

"The last predation has begun, Naretir," Duvald said in a low and soft voice, "why don't you come and see?" ”

Naretil sat unmoved, and said with a stubbornness, as if angry, "I want to look at the stars." ”

Duvalt frowned: "It's all fake, what's so good." ”

"But for me...... It's really......"

Duvalt frowned and glanced at Naretir, then slowly shook his head: "It doesn't matter anymore - after the predation, there is the real starry sky waiting for us." ”

Naretir was silent for a long time under the night sky before she suddenly muttered softly, "The cake is delicious, and the wine is not delicious." ”

Duvalt didn't hear clearly for a while: "What did you say?" ”

Naretir didn't speak again.

Duvalt looked down at Naretir for a long time, and finally shook his head helplessly: "...... It doesn't matter anymore. ”

Then he withdrew his gaze and looked again in the direction of Nim Sandro, at the final predator after the end of the world.

The web woven by the upper narrator will eventually catch the glimmer of light from reality......

The shockwaves of the psychic storm raged through the streets, tearing at the dream-clad world, the shadows of countless spiders were wiped out in the surge of energy, and even the nearby houses and stone floors were reduced to pieces after a few storms.

The shadows were endless, however, and the lights of Nim Sandror lit up a large expanse of the night sky, and in that starry night sky, larger, more abstract shadows converged, approaching the temple area like some kind of predatory beast.

"There's something weird about these things - they can't be killed clean!" Magnum shouted from the center of the storm, "They must have a source, hidden somewhere we can't see!" ”

Yuri, maintaining the protection of the golden runes, raised his voice as well: "We should find a way to get out of this city, I'm afraid the whole city is a trap!" ”

While trying to deal with those spider shadows and the ubiquitous spiritual pollution, Yuri and Magnum also turned their heads and looked in the direction of Gawain-

The upper narrator has already begun to get his hands dirty, the extraterritorial wanderer...... Isn't it time to do something?!

"Isn't it time for you to take action?!" Magnum couldn't hold back and shouted, "We can't hold on for long—"

Gawain stood not far from Magnum and Yuri, standing next to Selena Gerfen, he didn't make any movement from beginning to end, just quietly watched the shadows attack, watched Magnum and the others fight back, as if it was none of his business, quietly observing the chaos.

His quietness made Selena care, and Yuri and Magnum became more and more nervous.

What are the extraterritorial loiters waiting for? Why hasn't He acted?

As the doubt swelled, almost shaking Magnum's confidence, Gawain finally exhaled softly.

"I see......"

(Mom!!! ）