Uncle brought a soothing herbal wine, and the power of the medicine and alcohol finally calmed down Vanna's slightly irritable mood, and she opened the door to the balcony, and stood on the balcony blowing the wind, looking in the direction of the cathedral in the distance.

Dante Wayne's voice came from behind her: "You have nightmares every time you come back to live, and you always dream about things from your childhood. ”

“…… As an Inquisitor, this is an undeserved sign of weakness," Vana said in a deep voice, she was more than a head taller than her uncle, but she didn't mind showing her true side in front of the elder who had raised her for her life, "I was distressed. ”

“…… Have you talked to Heidi? ”

"She recommended four brain surgeries and two neuropuncture therapies to me," Vanna sighed, "and I didn't do it given my years of friendship." ”

“…… It's her style, she doesn't deal with normal people very much," Dante Wayne shook his head, "Actually, I didn't expect that after all these years, you are still trapped by the nightmare of that night. ”

"I always thought I was out of it," Vanna rubbed her eyebrows, "maybe it really has something to do with this big house, as long as I come back here, I will dream about it...... Maybe I should consider another exorcism ritual for this house, or I feel like the building has the shadow of that catastrophe sealed in it......"

Uncle Dante thought for a moment, but did not raise any objections, but asked thoughtfully, "Is there still that fire in your nightmare this time?" ”

Vanna nodded: "Yes, there are fires everywhere, you escaped from the fire with me on your back, I even vividly remember that we fled from the city from the factory pipes, and there was a burning building nearby that was gradually collapsing in the fire......"

Speaking of this, she stopped, and her eyes fell on her uncle: "...... You don't remember the fire, do you? ”

"It's not just that I don't remember, everyone doesn't," the city-state archon grim-faced slowly shook his head, "I only remember the pipes where the gas leaked and the cultists who went berserk...... There were many parties that night, but it seemed that you were the only one who saw the raging fire. ”

Fanna didn't speak for a while, but she was silent and thought for a long time before she suddenly spoke softly: "Except for the 'fire' incident, my memories and you are consistent...... I didn't understand anything at the time, but now I know that it must be some supernatural force exerting its influence, and that after all these years, I have been promoted to a saint and the influence has not dissipated. ”

"This suggests that either the influence is so high that it has left an imprint on your soul for life, or the source of the influence has not disappeared with the subsidence of the incident, but has been hidden somewhere in the city-state - I've been investigating this matter all these years, but unfortunately there has been little progress so far."

Dante Wayne's tone ended with a hint of apology, not only for not being able to solve his niece's troubles, but also for regretting that he, as a city-state archon, could not investigate an old case.

The scars left by the "Great Chaos" eleven years ago are too long-lasting.

Fanna knew that this matter was not only her own knot, but also her uncle's heart disease, but she was not good at comforting others, and after thinking about it for a long time, she could only divert the topic: "I remember that a lot of cultists were arrested at that time, and judging from the subsequent liquidation, that incident was even larger than the 'Black Sun' incident four years ago. ”

"Yes, thousands of people have been arrested, so much so that I wonder how so many cultists can hide in the city-state of Purland," Dante Wayne sighed, "and there is more than one sect...... There are solar heretics who follow the Black Sun, there are annihilation cultists who worship the Dark Lord, and even the Last Preachers who worship the subspace itself...... The maggots in the gutter all popped up that night, deranged and wreaking havoc. ”

Vanna looked at Dante: "But according to the results of the later interrogation, none of the thousands of saboteurs arrested by the authorities can be called 'mastermind', and none of them even know why they caused chaos that night, not so much that those cultists were organizing to wreak havoc, but that they were just detonated at the same time into a deep spiritual madness and fell into a state of collective loss of control." ”

Dante didn't speak for a while, he thought quietly, and then suddenly looked into Vanna's eyes: "The reason for your irritability is not just because of that nightmare - the sudden mention of these things has something to do with the recent unstable situation in the city-state?" ”

Vanna didn't shy away from the question: "There is indeed a connection—the solar heretics are converging on the city-state, looking for an 'anomaly' called a solar fragment, and the Lost Land has reappeared in the real world at about the same time, its 'course' vaguely pointing to Purland, and although the two things are not yet related, this turbulent aura ...... I can't help but think of that mess eleven years ago. ”

“…… I have ordered all ports to be strictly monitored for the movement of people, and have communicated with the consuls of the other city-states that a number of solar heretics have been uncovered on the ships, and their passage into the city-states has been largely cut off, as for those that have already flowed into Purand...... It mainly depends on the actions of the church, and the guardians are professionals who find and target transcendent crimes. ”

Speaking of this, the middle-aged archon suddenly stopped, as if he was carefully considering whether some things should be brought up now, but after a moment of hesitation, he still made up his mind: "As for the matter of the Lost Country, I can't help much in the transcendent realm, but in the worldly aspect, I have an idea. ”

"The secular aspect?" Vana frowned, and just as she was about to say that the ghost ship of the Lost Land could have something to do with the "world", she then remembered a certain statement, "Wait, you mean ......"

"The captain of the Pioneer Exploration Ship Bright Star, Lucretia Abnomar, and the pirate leader of the Northern Seas, Captain Tirien Abnomar of the Sea Mist," Dante said unhurriedly, "It is true that the Lost Country is a ghost ship beyond the comprehension of reality, but as long as it has been a member of the real world, the real world has its 'anchors' that have existed...... I don't know how Captain Duncan's sons and daughters will react to their 'father' reappearing. ”

Vanna's eyes widened slowly, she was used to dealing with the enemy directly in simple and crude ways, but she had never considered anything related to the Lost Country from this perspective, but she soon frowned: "But I heard that those two people barely deal with the city-state forces...... They have formed their own power in the Infinite Sea, and have maintained cold and even tense relations with all the city-states. ”

"That's normal, after all, they're the children of the ghost captain, and the Bright Star and Sea Mist are the two escort ships of the Lost Land - even though they parted ways a hundred years ago, in the eyes of most city-states, as long as they have been involved with that ghost captain, it means curse and danger, not so much that they have alienated the city-state, but that the city-state is actively avoiding them."

Vanna frowned and looked at her uncle, "Then do you expect them to come and help Poland against their father?" ”

"It's just an idea, but it's worth a try," Dent said seriously, "after all, we all know that the Bright Star and Sea Mist parted ways with the Lost Land more than a century ago, that Lucrecia and Tirien broke with their father before the events of the Thirteen Isles of Witherland, and that some ocean captains had seen the Sea Mist engage the Phantom of the Lost in the Northern Seas more than half a century ago, which may indicate that the two captains were confronting themselves. Father's attitude. ”

"More than half a century ago...... At the time, the Sea Mist was still the Frost Queen's flagship and that Captain Tirion might have been tasked with protecting the city-state," Vanna said slowly as she pondered, "but you're right, at least that's enough to prove that the Sea Mist does have a record of fighting the Lost Land." ”

But she still had some doubts, and after thinking for a few seconds, she voiced the doubts in her heart: "What if the Bright Star and the Sea Mist ignore Prand?" ”

"So it's just an attempt," Dante said quietly, "I'll get the word out and find a way to get the Lost on the table of the two captains of the Lost and sailing to Plain—I'll do so much, and it's up to them how they react." ”