Chapter 606: Dead City [Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription]
As far as the eye can see, everything is in ruins.
Gu Jun looked blankly at the ruined city under the terrace, glanced around, and couldn't see any half-way activities. On the eve of the Sunshine Foundation, the tall figures of the Sun City Foundation stood on the terrace and talked to him on the street...... It's all gone.
The once vigorous vitality has been replaced by a desolate dead air, the dead city.
His heart cracked.
What happened?
The footsteps of the loss of strength slowly lifted, Gu Jun stepped on the stone slab on the terrace that was still intact, and walked to the side of the steps. Before, he couldn't walk down the long stone steps, not even the first step, and the closer he got to the steps, the heavier the mental pressure he felt, as if he was about to wake up from a dream.
This time it was different, he walked through the middle of this huge terrace, a distance of dozens of steps, and the mental pressure he was under did not change.
It's just that the confusion in my heart is just more.
When Gu Jun stood on the edge of the steps, it seemed as if a cold wind was blowing, or maybe he was just shuddering.
The city of sunsets destroyed?
But this place ...... Is it the city of the sunset?
The power of the yellow light seemed to be contaminated by the aura of darkness...... Could it be that because of this, he actually went to another place?
It's just that why the two are so similar, he can see what kind of grand and beautiful buildings those ruined walls originally belonged to...... Mirror image? Inverted image?
Of course, Gu Jun was reluctant to tend that the city of the setting sun was destroyed, but reason was pulling him, and reason was saying, not like there was any chance of luck......
He stood for a while, and then finally took his right foot and landed on the first step of his walk, and his footsteps were solid, and the whole person went down, and the nightmare did not wake up.
2nd step, 3rd step, 4th step...... The nightmare remains.
He didn't know how he was here, and if it was a dream, why the sights were so clear, why the murky air he inhaled into his lungs was so real, and he felt the dead silence here in every pore.
Gu Jun walked down step by step, walking for about an hour, before he came to the end of this stone staircase, and one step further was the street.
He noticed all the way that the stone steps were going down here, the more broken they became, and the last hundred or dozens of steps were full of cracks, and several times he heard the sound of cracks in the depths of his feet, and the whole staircase was crumbling, and it was not long before a strong wind blew one day, adding a pile of broken stones to the ruins.
It was also on the road that he had a new idea.
Time is not a straight line, and the universe is full of dimensions......
Is that what it is? The city of the sunset originally existed in the past? Distant past?
Previous Contacts, Help...... It's all a product of the past that transcends time and space, and now, the city of the sunset is long gone.
Still, the Sunset City is inseparable from the relationship with the Black Goat and the Negative Selection Life Society, and the Earth World has broken off the connection with the latter two, which is also the same as the connection with the Sunset City...... Neither light nor darkness can exist alone......
Will that be the case?
Gu Jun's head was swollen and painful, too many chaotic thoughts were entangled, strangled him like a rope, the air became more and more turbid, and the air below here had a rancid smell.
He took the last step, left the steps, and settled down on the city streets, which had previously been out of reach, but the delicate pebbles and marble were covered with cracks and dust, and the great chunks of broken stone and the collapsed stone pillars cut off the way ahead, and he had to walk around it.
"Anyone? Is there anyone there? ”
Gu Jun asked as he looked around, his voice was not loud, perhaps because he didn't think there would be any response.
The houses on both sides of the street used to be very lively, some were residential houses, some were libraries, some were taverns...... Even if it's not bustling, it's not so bleak and silent. The fountain that once sprayed clear spring water was clogged because no one took care of it, but only a pool of filth; The flowerbed that was once full of flowers has accumulated another pool of filth; The once beautiful creek has accumulated another pool of filth......
"Anyone? Is there a ......?"
Gu Jun walked across the cracked arch bridge to a wide square, and the statues that had originally stood around the square were all turned into piles of fragments.
He looked to the left, to the right, to the front, and then to the back.
It's the same as what you see from the terrace, but it's clearer.
As far as the eye can see, everything is in ruins.
I don't know if the strength of my whole body was taken away by the distance or swallowed up by these loneliness, Gu Jun let out a long sigh and almost couldn't stand steadily.
He tensed his legs and feet, and supported his forehead, but all the old wounds on his body were flaring up, such as a mutilated skull, a scarred face, a mutilated left tail finger, and a newly healed right calf...... He couldn't tell if it was pain, numbness, or both, and he was a little out of breath.
The City of the Sunset...... Has it been destroyed......
Has an organization like Sunset City, such a power, been destroyed......
The heart is bright and never despairs......
Who destroyed Sunset City? By what? What power? When?
Gu Jun clenched his slightly trembling fist and smashed it into his heart, if this is a nightmare, then wake up!
But the thud didn't let him get out of here, and the whirlpool held him firmly.
Just as Gu Jun was about to sit down on a large gravel that had fallen next to him, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a black shadow flashing by the pile of statue rubble in front of him, regardless of whether this was an illusion or not, he mustered up a strength and ran over, "Stand!" Who is it! ”
However, he ran over to see that it was empty.
The black shadow just now may just be the reflection pulled out by some piece of rubble.
It's just that Gu Jun found something else, a dividing cross symbol, which was engraved on the ground here.
Split Cross Symbol...... The long-lost, but never distant, dividing cross symbol......
He seems to have seen this one, in the library of Akamis Catonic University, which ...... the world of "The King in Yellow......
With the help of the three guard dogs, the dividing cross symbol, and the Sunset City, he was able to break free from Dr. Armitage's rituals and the locks of Nyaratotip to reach the terrace of the Sunset City for the first time and return to his home world.
Why, there is a dividing cross symbol on the ground here......
Elsewhere in the square, next to the other statues, there were no symbols carved into them.
The more Gu Jun looked at that symbol, the more thoughts came to him, could it be that it was left for me?
However, how could they leave only a mark on him when the Sunset City was destroyed, and besides, those people didn't know what happened in the end......
The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the symbol had a strange attraction.
"Perhaps, when different people come here, they will see different imprints? The city of the sunset left its mark on itself? ”
Gu Jun thought, "Maybe, I can try to connect with it?" Like opening a letter...... Could it be that there is some information and something buried for me? ”