Nina and Morris walked on the forest path, and the sky light shone through the dense canopy of the trees, casting dappled pillars of light in the forest, and a thin layer of fog rose in the forest at some point, and the sunlight diffused in the fog, which looked more and more dreamy and hazy.

The elven girl who called herself "Shirin" walked a short distance ahead, stopping from time to time to look back, looking always patient.

"It's foggy in the forest," Nina whispered to herself, looking up at the shadowy trees in the distance, "it's the first time I've seen fog here...... Uncle Duncan, how are you doing over there? ”

She slowed her pace, a serious expression on her face, and Morris, who was walking next to her, followed suit, listening intently to the voice coming from the depths of her thoughts.

After a moment, the old scholar's voice sounded in the spiritual connection: "You mean...... What is the construction record of the Lost Country? What is the information of the Puland shipyard in that year? ”

Then the old gentleman listened carefully for a while, nodded with a serious expression, and responded in his heart: "I understand...... This part of the information must still be there, but usually the means are definitely not available, I will discuss with Vana to see if I can find an old friend in the city-state, or the church. ”

The voice in the back of my head faded away.

Nina blinked and looked curiously at the teacher walking beside her, "Why did Uncle Duncan suddenly look for the construction records of the Lost Country?" ”

"I don't know, maybe the captain found something in the depths of that 'Dream Lost Land'," Morris said casually, "but since he didn't say anything about it, we had better not ask about it." ”

Obviously, after joining the Lost Country for so long, the old man has mastered the safety rules by the captain's side very well.

Then he paused, frowned slightly, and looked at the white mist that was lingering in the dense forest, which seemed to be getting thicker and thicker with time.

"The fog is getting bigger...... he said with a serious expression, "I don't know much about the 'forest', but I always feel that the fog is not right. ”

Nina thought for a moment and was eager to try: "Dispel it with sunlight?" ”

Morris subconsciously glanced at "Shirin" who was walking in front, and quickly waved his hand to stop the girl's enthusiasm: "Don't be presumptuous, your sunshine seems to be a very strong stimulus for this dream." ”

"Oh......"

And in the midst of their delay, Shireen, who was walking in front, stopped.

It was as if she could sense the distance between herself and Maurice and Nina at all times, and whenever the distance reached a certain point, she would immediately stop, sometimes asking and urging curiously—just like now.

"Did something happen?" The elven girl looked at the two who were lagging behind and muttered, "There's not much time to delay - we need to return to the Wall of Silence before we encounter the erosion." ”

"There's a lot of fog around," Nina immediately took two steps to catch up with Shirin, and took the opportunity to ask directly, "Is it often foggy here?" ”

"Fog?" Shireen was stunned for a moment, then looked up, and then as if she had just reacted, a sudden expression appeared on her face, and a smile appeared to Nina, "We are very close to our destination...... We're almost inside the Wall of Silence. ”

"You mean, the fog is caused by the 'Wall of Silence'?" Morris's voice immediately came from the side, "Or is this 'fog' part of the Wall of Silence?" ”

"It's spectacular, isn't it?" Shireen did not answer the scholar's question directly, but looked around the dense forest that was gradually being swallowed up by the fog with a strange excitement, as if she were the one who had seen the wall of silence for the first time, "You can't even see it in its whole form here—but Sirantis can see it, from a high vantage point, from the sky, the branches of Sirantis can look down on it......

It closed before her eyes, cutting off the whole kingdom from the erosion of the outside world...... We're not there yet, there's still a little distance, in the depths of the mist, there's a barrier of light, it's the body of the Wall of Silence, but it's close, almost in the blink of an eye......"

Shireen said happily, this "mental entity" that had been extraordinarily calm and even somewhat reactive along the way seemed to have acquired extremely agile human qualities in just a few seconds, and she turned around and walked quickly towards the path deep in the fog, beckoning to Nina and Maurice as she went—

"Hurry up, follow me, we're going back to safety!"

It was the first time for Nina to see the other party behave like this, and she was stunned for a moment before reacting, but seeing that Shireen's figure was about to disappear into the depths of the flowing fog, she hurriedly chased after Morris, but for some reason, she had a faint feeling......

Can't catch up.

Although Shireen would always wait for herself and her teacher who were left behind before this, and although Shirley and Miss Lucrecia met "Shireen" had the same "behavior pattern", this time, Nina felt that the other party would not stop and wait for her - Shireen's footsteps were so unhesitating, she almost rushed to the shadowy trees in the fog, like a long-lost wanderer returning home, a drop of water back to the ocean.

The elf eventually disappeared into the endless fog and never looked back.

Nina and Maurice were left to look at each other in the mist-shrouded forest.

After a moment, Morris looked thoughtfully at the direction in which Shireen had finally disappeared: "Her mental reaction was to disappear directly at the end of the road—within seconds of her figure being out of our sight. ”

Nina thought for a moment and said a little uneasily, "Then are we already lost...... There was fog and trees everywhere, and it looked the same everywhere. ”

"We don't know the way in the first place," Morris said, "and we don't have to worry about 'getting lost' in dreams—because theoretically, you will always get lost when you move around in dreams." ”

Nina listened to the teacher's teachings in a daze, and felt that it made sense: "That's also true." ”

Then she asked, "What then?" Do you need me to 'fly' up to it and see what's going on? I can converge on the point. ”

"As a last resort, try not to stimulate this dream," Morris waved his hand, then roughly confirmed the direction in which Shireen's mental reaction had disappeared in the thick fog, and raised his hand to the end of the trail in the distance, "Let's go in this direction, following the path that Shireen pointed out to us at the end." ”

"Good!"

In this way, the two people, an old man and a young man, began to trek through this fog and dense forest that seemed to have no end.

They have only one general direction.

But Nina remembered that Shireen had said before she left that it was only one step away from the Wall of Silence—some distant past where the shelter that Sirantis had built for the elves was at the end of the fog.

It's here in the blink of an eye.

The light that shone through the cracks in the canopy had dimmed at some point, the dappled pillars of light had become vague and suspicious shadows in the thick fog, and the trees were rugged, and the trails that the beasts tread when they drank were not "roads" at all, and even if they did, there were not always such "paths"—in more places, the ground covered with dead branches and leaves was softer and more difficult to navigate than the rough paths.

And I don't know if it's an illusion, Nina always feels that the ground here is getting more and more difficult to walk the way forward, and the plants are becoming dense and chaotic, and the vines and bushes are intertwined as if they are consciously blocked, and there is an icy atmosphere in the fog, as if ...... It is not the "final refuge" at all, but the greatest shadow in this vast dream.

She stopped suddenly.

In the thick fog, she seemed to see something flashing.

Nina almost slapped her 6000°C.

But she restrained her overly sunny impulse in time.

"Something seems to have run through the fog just now," Nina said to Maurice a little nervously, "I'm shocked!" ”

Maurice glanced at Nina and saw two clusters of golden flames dancing in the depths of the girl's eyes, and the air around her was gradually calming from the distortion.

The old man also looked a little nervous suddenly—he wasn't afraid that something dangerous would appear in the fog, he was afraid that Nina would slap the forest.

After all, this kid is a little shocked.

"Do you see what it is?"

"No," Nina shook her head, "I just feel like a very tall 'person' who ran over in the blink of an eye, but maybe it's not a person?" I feel like a weird silhouette...... It's as if it's deformed. ”

“…… I can't tell what it is for a moment," Morris said with a frown, "but I didn't feel mental activity just now, so it's most likely just an apparition created in the fog...... We don't yet know how this so-called 'Wall of Silence' works, so it's possible to see anything in it. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and couldn't help but add: "The key is that you have to be calm...... Resist the urge to do things yourself. ”

Nina nodded nervously and took a few more steps forward as she continued to pay attention to the movement in the fog around her.

And at this moment, a disorderly wind seemed to suddenly blow through the dense forest.

She felt the fog in front of her suddenly dissipate a lot, and then a vague "light curtain" like a distorted mirror appeared at the end of the fog that gradually dissipated.

The glimmer of light fluttered in the fog, reflecting the distorted light of the forest, and there seemed to be something behind the light curtain, but it was dimly visible.

Nina paused for a moment, then realized that they had arrived.

That's the "light-forged barrier" at the end of the Wall of Silence that Shireen mentioned!

In the next second, Nina and Maurice walked quickly to the light curtain.

A barrier made of light, majestic and majestic, stands on the edge of the mist, like the end of the entire forest world, extending upwards to the endless sky, extending to both sides to the endless distance, and there is a flowing brilliance slowly swimming on the surface of the barrier, as if isolating the world on both sides of the glimmer, quietly guarding the infinite secrets on the other side.

"Really...... It's beautiful. Nina looked up blankly and subconsciously admired.

Maurice stepped forward, told Nina to back off slightly, and then cautiously reached out and touched the seemingly unthick layer of light.

And so, the wall of silence collapsed silently.

This wall of light, which seems to connect heaven and earth, seems to be infinitely vast, and is extremely magnificent and majestic, like a soap bubble that shatters silently.

(End of chapter)