In a glade illuminated by the sun, Nina and Maurice stopped and looked together at the tall figure that seemed to emerge from the air and was standing in front of the fork in the forest with a surprised expression.

"Didn't you receive an order to retreat?" After a moment of astonishment, the elven girl in a light hunting suit and a strange long-handled weapon spoke, her voice as beautiful as a spring in the woods, "Why are you still lingering outside the walls of silence? ”

Nina and Maurice looked at each other quietly, then nodded to each other.

"Uncle Duncan," Nina said in the back of her mind, "we've met a third Shireen here...... Yes, she also mentions the Wall of Silence. ”

Morris quickly sorted out his expression, nodded to the elven girl who suddenly appeared at the edge of the clearing, and said quietly, "We haven't received any news...... What is the situation now? ”

The elven girl frowned, as if she was a little surprised by Maurice's "ignorance", but soon this surprise faded from her face: "The situation is very bad, the erosion is spreading outside the Silent Wall, only the Silent Wall is safe in the realm at the moment - we have not yet found the whereabouts of the Creator, all the elves must now return to the Silent Wall and accept the protection of Silandis." ”

The whereabouts of the Creator have not been found?!

Morris instantly noticed this extremely informative sentence, but he quickly controlled the expression on his face and nodded his head with a serious expression: "Then can you take us to the 'Wall of Silence'?" ”

"Of course, it's lucky to have a 'ranger' like me," the elven girl nodded immediately, "I may be the last ranger to patrol the walls - keep up and see no signs of erosion here." ”

As she spoke, she turned her head and walked into the depths of the forest, but as soon as she took a few steps, she suddenly stopped and turned her head slightly: "By the way, my name is Shireen...... Please remember the name. ”

Maurice and Nina quickly exchanged glances, then nodded in unison.

The elf girl named "Shirin" turned around and continued to lead the two uninvited guests behind her towards the depths of the forest, towards the ...... The "wall of silence" she kept bringing up.

……

After trekking through the forest for an unknown amount of time, Shirley even began to wonder about one thing: did the place, called the "Wall of Silence", really exist?

She couldn't remember how long she had followed the elf in front of her, and she couldn't tell how far she had traveled in the forest—in her eyes, the forest was the same everywhere, except for the trees, and the occasional tree trunk falling between the dead branches and leaves, and the stones and streams blocking the way, which was a rare "sight" on the road.

The scenery was boring, the road was even more difficult, the woodland was soft and rugged with rotten leaves, and the vines, thorns, and roots that bulged out of the ground from time to time could easily trip over people, and she had thought that the narrow, potholed alleys of the slums of the lower city, cut by steam and gas pipes, were already the most difficult roads in the world, but now she realized that even the most dilapidated corners of the town were far friendlier to humans than the purest "nature".

The captain has a saying...... This is called "the transformative power of civilization"?

Shirley had a lot of thoughts in her head, even miraculously remembering what she had learned in class, and then she looked up at the elf who was leading the way.

Shireen was always on her feet, and the rugged forest was like a part of her body to her, and she walked through the annoying trees and vines like the wind blowing through the courtyard.

Shirley finally stopped.

Shireen also stopped in an instant—the elf girl didn't look back at all, but the first time Shirley stopped, she seemed to feel it.

"How far is it from here to the Wall of Silence?" Before the other party could speak, Shirley took the initiative to ask.

"It's still far away, the wall of silence is far away," Shireen replied with a serious face, but her answer was the same as if she hadn't said it, "we can't rest too long, we need to get back to the shelter of Silandis as soon as possible, we have to ...... Before erosion catches up. ”

"What the hell is that 'erosion' going on?" Shirley thought about it for a moment, and finally asked this question that had made her curious all the way.

She didn't ask because she was worried that this too "basic" question would stimulate the elf girl in front of her - according to Miss Lucrecia, "Shireen" is a "primordial mind" that moves in dreams, and Shirley doesn't know much about what a primordial mind is, but she can roughly understand that this is a difficult thing to handle, and accidentally mentioning knowledge beyond the "boundary", mentioning information outside the dream, or even just asking a few more questions, may cause this mind to go wrong.

Shirley is no stranger to this kind of "problem", and when she was making up with Alice, she heard that something beyond her understanding could go wrong - the main symptom was fragmented thinking.

She understood the concept that Lucrecia explained to her in her own way, believing that if she mentioned a question that she shouldn't ask, it would also cause the elf girl named "Shireen" to be broken.

She's been trying to avoid it.

But after contacting her for a while, Shirley found that this "Shireen" did not seem to be as "unstable" as she thought at first.

Or to put it another way - this elf is a little too stable.

Even if she mentioned some weird questions, Shireen would simply ignore them, and the elf didn't seem to be affected by anything else except the one thing about "taking the lost to the Wall of Silence".

So after a long journey, Shirley began to ask the elf all sorts of questions, most of which were not answered in a nutshell, but sometimes...... Casual questions will surprise you.

"Erosion...... Happened after the disappearance of the Creator," Shireen paused, and unlike most of her previous indifference, she answered Shirley's question seriously this time, "We don't know what it is, but it will devour and twist the things in the forest, turning them into ...... It's incomprehensible, it's dangerous. ”

"After the disappearance of the Creator? The Creator is missing?! Shirley's eyes widened instantly, although she didn't listen very carefully in class, she usually listened carefully when the captain chatted with others, and of course she knew what the legend of the elves was about, "Is the creator you are talking about...... Saskocca? ”

As soon as the words came out, Shirley felt a little inappropriate, it seemed that she shouldn't have called the name of the "Great Demon God" so directly, which was likely to irritate the elf in front of her - but she soon found that she was thinking too much.

Shireen didn't seem to notice that Shirley was calling the name of the Lord God at all, she was just immersed in some kind of inexplicable sentimentality, her eyes lowered: "The Creator will come back, he is just patrolling the border, only this time he has gone a little farther...... Before He returns, Sirantis will shelter all the elves with a wall of silence...... Silandis will wait until He returns. ”

For some reason, Shirley always felt that Shirin's last sentence was a kind of self-hypnosis.

But before she could ask anything more, she saw Shireen, who was still immersed in sentimentality and in a trance a second ago, suddenly raise her head, and the elf girl's eyes suddenly became sharp at some point, she held the long-handled battle axe in her hand tightly, and at the same time looked up in a certain direction deep in the forest.

Shirley instantly became nervous: "Huh? What happened? ”

"Shh Shireen lowered her voice, "There's something filthy coming into the forest......"

Dirty?

Shirley was stunned for a moment, and then she heard the rustling sound from the nearby bushes, from the depths of the earth, from the shadows of the trees, and even from the air.

It was as if a lot of treacherous and vicious things creeping in the shadows were gradually converging, such as the real malice and skin-numbing peeping sensation suddenly appeared in the dense forest, and Shirley felt that the dog was instantly sending a huge amount of perceptual sharing information to herself—and in the powerful perception provided by the ghostly hound, she saw that those things were constantly "seeping" into the forest.

The tentacles condensed from pure shadows are gathering in all directions!

It is the dregs of the children of the sun...... Not annihilation!?

Shirley was stunned for a moment, she still clearly remembered that when she just entered the forest this time, Ah Dog clearly said that it felt the residual breath of the Annihilation Cultists, but why did she first encounter this group of monsters following the Black Sun?

However, this stunned only appeared in the bottom of her heart for a moment, Shirley immediately reacted, and at the same time entered the battle state, she tensed the muscles of her whole body to pay attention to the direction where those dark tentacles converged, and whispered to Shilin on the side: "Be careful, these guys will move with the help of shadows, and they are very resistant to fighting, especially not easy to kill!" ”

Before she could finish speaking, she saw cascading ripples begin to float under the shade of a tree not far away, and the tentacles hidden in the shadows began to quickly condense into tall and thin human figures, and one by one they appeared as entities.

However, what Shirley was waiting for was the moment when they condensed into human form.

In the next second, the chains were tightened, the wind was howling, and Shirley suddenly took a few steps towards the nearest figure to her, and rounded her arm with all her strength It was a meteor dog!

The dog flew out like a huge meteor hammer, smashing unreservedly on the body of the first to appear on the sun's debris, with a muffled sound like a hammer breaking flesh, and the tall and thin figure was directly smashed into a large exploding piece of corrupt flesh before he could observe the environment in the dream world.

And almost at the same time, around Shirley and Shirin, in the shadowy dense forest and bushes, one after another tall and thin figures began to emerge......

(End of chapter)