Because of the delay in the afternoon, when Shirley and Nina returned to 99 Crown Street, it was nearly dusk, and it was time for dinner.

In this "city of elves", there is really not much normal food, but fortunately, normal ingredients can always be bought, Lucrecia's "servants" prepare a sumptuous dinner for the guests, and Nina and Shirley finally eat "food that humans should eat".

It's just that they didn't eat very well at this meal.

What they had heard and seen in that underground containment facility made them still a little dizzy - there were so many things they didn't understand, too many things beyond the three views, about the Great Annihilation, about the "black wall" of history, about the end of the world, about the destroyed old world, and about the "new world" that was born in the Deep Sea Age.....

For two girls who can only be considered "big children" in the strict sense of the word, these things are a bit too complicated and ahead of their time.

After a hurried dinner, Shirley returned to her room, and she sat at the table for a moment, when she heard the soft sound of chains swaying beside her, and the dog poked her head out of the shadows.

Shirley lowered her head, glanced at this "friend" who had almost eaten herself, but raised herself from childhood to adulthood, and asked very seriously, "Do you understand all the things that the captain said today?" What are the fragments of several worlds piled up together and then the deep sea age or something.....

"I understand some of it," Dog leaned down and rubbed Shirley's knee lightly with his huge head, "but I didn't understand the parts that were too much of common sense."

"I barely understood," Shirley said honestly, "Sure, I understand those sentences, but it's a bit hard for me to imagine how those things happened — why should we care about how the world came to be?"

She said in confusion, even though she knew that she was showing a very shallow appearance, she had never had anything to hide in front of the dog.

"You don't know anything, you can still live, can't you," she continued, "Anyway, the two of us have been alive for more than ten years.....

Ah Dog suddenly raised his head, and his hollow eyes filled with blood-colored light stared straight into Shirley's eyes, and a low hoarse voice came from its skeletal body: "You don't know anything, you can live, but we also need to know that survival is not a matter of course - this is true for ordinary people, and it is also true for the world itself."

Gou's sudden serious attitude startled Shirley, she was stunned for a moment, and then vaguely seemed to understand something, revealing a thoughtful look.

"The world doesn't always 'survive' like this," Ah Dog looked at Shirley's reaction, and then lay his head down again, and said in a sullen voice, "The Great Annihilation can destroy those 'old worlds', then the current deep sea era may still be ended by another force, ordinary people may not know anything about it until the day the end comes, and they will usher in the end in the illusion of long-term peace, just like the hometown of that 'warrior', those people who are waiting for the brave to triumph in the kingdom," 'ignorance' is their greatest blessing..... For them, they know nothing and can live, because they don't know how far away death is.

"But Shirley, we're not the ones who stay in the kingdom—we're on the Lost Land.

"You've seen the signs, too, the dark sun that descended on Purander, the blueprint of the Creator that spiraled out of control in the depths of frost, the endless sea when Vision 001 went out, and the cultists who were chattering with gods...... If you are a 'kingdom dweller,' you will not be able to reach them."

The dog babbled, shaking its head, carefully retracting its fangs, and rubbing the tip of its nose against Shirley's knee.

"Shirley, it's true that you can live without knowing anything, but you now know that Captain Yiyi is worried about those ominous signs, and you are the same, but you don't notice it yourself."

Shirley quieted down, and she sat quietly in her chair for a long time before reaching out and pressing her hand on Gou's skull, her voice a little uneasy: "Dog, we are that

Some of them who walk in the wilderness...... Like that 'warrior', are we also trudging towards the end of the world?"

"We go to the end and the end comes to us, 'cognition' is a two-way street, and when we know that it exists, there is no difference between them, the only question is ...... How and when it will catch up with us, I think that's what the captain is worried about." Look at the book

「..... Dog, why do you understand so much? Got it..... How does it feel?"

The blood light in Ah Dog's eyes slowly changed brightly and darkly, "Because I have felt something like this before—when you were very young."

It looked up and looked into Shirley's eyes.

Its voice was soft, as it had been many years ago when it was trying to soothe a frightened little girl to sleep during a thunderstorm—

"In the beginning, you were a ...... I couldn't understand at all Little creature, you are so small, so weak, your arms can be easily broken like a thin stick, even if you live in symbiosis with demons, you are fragile as if you can die at any time....

"Every day, every second, I was worried about this 'death', I didn't understand your breathing, I didn't understand your heartbeat, I didn't understand how humans survived, I didn't even know until you were hungry for days that you needed to find food as a ghostly demon, I wasn't used to 'thinking' at the time, and you were ...... Don't communicate with me very much.

"So I've always felt that you could die anytime and anywhere because of something I don't yet understand, your breathing, your heartbeat, your blood flow, these strange 'phenomena' are all extremely fragile 'temporary balances' in my eyes, and the termination of any one of them will make you leave me, so when you wake up as a child, you always see me groping and observing beside you, because I want to check your breathing and heartbeat, to check if you are dead.

"This worry is very similar to the captain's worry now."

The dog paused, looking up at the second floor, but quickly withdrew his gaze.

"I can't compare myself to the captain, and I shouldn't speculate on his thoughts, but today, in his gaze, I feel that familiar.... Lose sleep over something. This seemingly vast expanse of the sea is probably to him the equivalent of you in my eyes many years ago - a small, weak 'strange thing', I don't know how he survived, only that he would die at any moment."

The dog babbled a lot, and now it finally quieted down, but Shirley still stared at it blankly, and didn't make a sound for a long time.

"Why don't you speak?" Ah Gou asked suspiciously.

"You used to ...... Sherley said a little stunned, "I was ..... when I was younger."

"It's all over," Dog whispered, "You've survived, so all your worries and difficulties are 'in the past.'"

Shirley pursed her lips, suddenly raised her head with some worry, and looked in the direction of the second floor: "Dog, you say...... Will we be the warrior and his companions in the story?"

"If I could, I wouldn't want to be like them," Dog shook his head, "Warriors can't stop the end of the world with a steel sword, and their journey to the end is hard and doomed to be in vain - but since the captain is leading us, it is clear that we have more than just a steel sword, so I'm willing to be optimistic."

"Captain..." Shirley sighed, "I don't know what the captain is doing now..... He didn't even come down for dinner."

"You're going to go up and deliver food in a moment, and take a look?"

"Well, still no—Alice will definitely go anyway." "That's right."

Looking out the window at the wonderful sky where the day faded and the sky dimmed, but there was always a layer of faint golden "sunlight" between the cracks of the high-rise buildings, Duncan exhaled slightly, turned around and turned on the electric light in the room.

Although the "sunlight" that permeates the streets brings eternal "illumination" to Breeze, after the fall of Vision 001, it spreads from the nearby sea and is covered with buildings

In the depths of the city-state, the night can still be seen in the places where the "sunlight" is blocked by the buildings, and here people still need the comfort of the lights.

The bright light dispelled the darkness that was spreading from all around, making the room seem a little warmer.

Outside the window, as the power of Vision 001 faded, the pale rift in the creation of the world was gradually emerging in the starless and moonless sky.

The cold and pale light permeates the night, but it is cut into fragments by the "sunlight" that permeates the high-rise buildings, presenting a strange scene that cannot be seen in other city-states, and the creation of the world and the sunlight appear at the same time and intertwine with each other.

Duncan looked at the "trauma" that split in the sky, but his mind was still recalling the "memory illusions" he saw today.

He thought of the crimson that stretched across the sky, like a huge scar.

What is the "red light" that lies across the universe and the laws of propagation seem to be out of line with the common sense of physics?

Whether it is in the vision of the crash of the New Hope, or in the oil painting of Alice's Mansion, or in the hometown of the "Warrior" on the verge of destruction, there is that red light.

There is no doubt that the red light is the "culprit" that led to the "Great Annihilation" event that scholars have been searching for, or at least the "first symbol" of the Great Annihilation.

Looking at the "Creation of the World" that also crossed the sky, Duncan couldn't help but have a series of unfounded "associations" in his heart-

The destruction of every "old world" was accompanied by the appearance of that great red light, and in the "Deep Sea Age" of the new world, the creation of the pale world hung high in the sky...... Is there any connection between the two?

The "Creation of the World" that illuminates the night sky in the boundless sea is the aftermath of the old world? Or is it a remnant of the destructive force of the Great Annihilation?

Duncan even came up with an even more disturbing conjecture -

Has that destructive force never dissipated at all, and now it has only turned into a state of some kind of slumber, night after night, and the so-called "creation of the world...... It's just the form of the "red light" during its slumber.

Could the effect of Vision 001 be to periodically "hypnotize" the "doomsday crimson"?

In this series of speculations, Duncan's gaze gradually became serious, and another question that he had not thought about before suddenly appeared in his mind.

In his homeland, at least in his hometown..... He had never seen the "red light".