Chapter 723: Under the Dark Starry Sky
Like a meteor, the green flames fell straight down from the solidified starry sky, streaked a bright trail, and then landed on the barren plains full of strange rocks.
Then the flames burst into the air, and in the flames, the figures of Duncan and Alice walked out of it, and finally stepped on this unknown world.
Before the flames dissipated, Duncan noticed the strange, twisted figures in the distance—a dozen ghostly demons clustered on the edge of the landing site, looking a little sluggish for some reason.
He and those demons looked at each other, and the atmosphere of the scene was inexplicably frozen.
It wasn't until Alice, who realized it later, finally burst out that the frozen atmosphere was broken: "Captain! We're surrounded! ”
“…… I see it. Duncan said casually, and at the same time he was ready to "deal with" those demons - the dozen or so monsters in the distance were obviously different from the dark demons he had seen in the real dimension and summoned by the Annihilation Cultists, their limbs were obviously more distorted, and strange dislocations and cracks could be seen on some of their bodies, and the skull demon floating in the air was a terrifying hollow above his head, which looked difficult to deal with.
According to Duncan's understanding, the distorted thing of the ghostly demon, of course, the more distorted and the more wrong it is, the stronger it is - the group of demons in front of him is twisted and about to break, it must be a master in the deep sea, most of them are different from the rookies in the real world who run away as soon as they see him......
But what he didn't expect was that he was just about to say hello to the local natives, when he saw that the group of monsters in the distance seemed to suddenly react, and they instantly let out a series of chaotic and noisy roars and hoarse noises, and then they scattered in all directions, and half of them ran away in the blink of an eye.
The remaining half didn't run, but limped and couldn't run - although the terrifying-looking skull demon could fly, it flew like an old diesel engine with a leaky cylinder, and after two floats, a puff of black smoke came out of the big hole in his head and fell to the ground, and after a few struggles, it floated up again, and the black smoke fell to the ground again......
Optimistic estimates, flying out of half a minute is up to six meters, most of the time in place poof.
Duncan & Alice: "......? ”
The two of them reacted for a moment, and Duncan finally noticed the mess on the ground at the edge of the landing site—many barely visible wreckage was scattered among the potholes and ravines, and the smoke and dust were billowing out as they melted into the surface, and the ground was full of terrifying pits and dents that seemed to have been "chopped" off by some crushing force.
At first, Duncan thought that these traces were nothing more than "natural landscapes" in the deep sea, after all, he had heard that the place was a "fragmented wasteland", but now he finally realized...... It's a battlefield after a fierce battle.
Something came here one step ahead of time, and killed almost all the dark demons in the center of the wasteland, and the dozen or so demons in the distance were just a group of lucky survivors-
Their distorted appearance is really twisted.
And Alice also reacted at this time, she looked around with wide eyes, and noticed the pitch-black bones scattered in a nearby pothole, and immediately grabbed Duncan's arm: "Captain! This place is full of demonic remains! ”
Duncan glanced at the skull demon in the distance who was swaying and flying vigorously, as well as a few dead birds that were bouncing on one leg on the ground, and thoughtfully, "...... It turns out that ...... have already been beaten"
"Who did this?" Alice looked rather uneasy, and the scene around her made her a little nervous, "Is the usual infighting between the ghosts and demons so intense?" ”
Duncan didn't speak for a moment, just bent down to examine a fragment of bone that had been almost charred, and then opened his palm over it.
A faint green spark, barely perceptible to the naked eye, floated out of the charred bones and fluttered into the palm of his hand.
The faint Mars still carries the "memories" left on this battlefield not long ago.
"It's Shirley and Dog," Duncan looked up at the end of the vast wasteland after a moment, "they've been here before...... Theoretically, the traces here are what they left behind. ”
Alice listened, her expression was stunned for a moment, and she didn't react a little: "...... Are Shirley and Dog so powerful? ”
"It looks like there's something going on with them, there's some kind of huge ...... Change," Duncan frowned slightly, his expression solemn, "especially Shirley, she doesn't feel right to me right now. ”
As he spoke, he turned his gaze in the direction of his perception, looking in the direction where the "imprint breath" on Shirley and Ah Dog came from.
Boundless chaos filled this infinite dimension, the frozen ancient starry sky was high above the dome of the deep sea, and the dim starlight shone on the fragmented floating islands in this chaotic space—as far as he could see, he could see many large and small shadows floating in the dim starlight, those were all floating land out of thin air, including the "wasteland" where he and Alice were standing at the moment, which seemed to be only a part of many broken floating islands.
The entire "deep sea" is composed of countless broken floating islands, which float in a chaotic space-time covered by the frozen ancient starry sky, and the whole space is filled with a kind of ...... Bleak and deadly atmosphere.
Duncan withdrew his gaze and looked at the puppet next to him, "Do you have any special feelings now?" Can you see or hear anything out of the ordinary? ”
Alice carefully distinguished, and shook her head: "Not for the time being." ”
"Hmm," Duncan nodded slightly, then raised his hand to the distance, "Shirley and Dog's mark is still moving in this direction, and we chase after it." ”
"Good!" Alice nodded immediately, muttering to her mind as she followed Duncan's footsteps, "Shirley must have been terrified...... She's actually very timid...... Ah Dog is not very bold......"
The two terrifying figures finally departed into the distance—they didn't seem to be looking for trouble.
The skull demon floating crookedly in the air trembled slightly, the red light in its eye sockets flickered on and off, and it looked in the direction of the two uninvited guests, and the concept of "rejoicing" appeared for the first time in the chaotic mind.
A dead bird with only one leg and half a wing left jumped through the rubble not far away, two clumps of nearly crushed dreads squirmed slowly through cracks in the ground, and a few nearly torn backhounds struggled to crawl into the distance.
It was a great day.
A slender arthrop strewn from the sky like a sword, nailing a monstrous demon that was roaring and breathing with its mouth open to the ground, and the thrust continued to stride forward to the end of the wilderness.
The twelve symmetrical arthropods pierced countless large and small, strange and terrifying demonic creatures, some of which were still struggling and roaring, but many of them were no longer active, but emitted billowing smoke and dust, gradually transforming into mud.
The owner of the arthropod cared no longer about this—after a long journey, she finally reached the end of the land.
Floating in the chaos and darkness of the earth is an island with nothing but nothingness at its end, and at the edge of this wilderness, rocks and dirt come to an abrupt halt, and a thin layer of smoke escapes from the edge of the broken earth, which surrounds the island like a low, flowing cloud.
Shirley stopped cautiously at the end of the earth, stuck her barbed arthrop into the crevice of the rock, cautiously peered down at the edge of the floating island, and then quickly withdrew her gaze.
There is no way.
What's next?
She pondered, as if she were a sculpture at the end of the wilderness, as if she were dead.
But the demons who wandered around knew that this powerful and terrifying "outsider" was still alive—two dark red hearts and a cluster of flames still beating slowly and unquenched in her skeletal chest.
After a while, Shirley finally woke up from her thoughts, and she took two steps back with her arthrops, trying to lower her height - she was tired, and she wanted to sit down and rest for a few minutes.
After a few attempts, she sat down abruptly and slowly, carefully tucking the bony structure behind her behind her like a giant wing of a skeleton.
She sat down on a large rock, looked up, and looked with some distraction at the stagnant, ancient starry sky in the sky.
The starry sky was cold, with a dead and desolate atmosphere, like a huge, magnificent but lifeless corpse, looking down on everything with billions of eyes.
It was beautiful, but it was also really scary, and she felt as if she was about to fall into the dense stars, to become a part of them, and she felt as if she was overwhelmed by them, crushed on this broken and desolate land.
What words should be used to describe such a scene and such a feeling?
Shirley thought seriously and hard, she suddenly regretted that she didn't listen to the captain and didn't read more books, so that she would have a lot of words, instead of thinking about it for a long time like now, she could only hold back one sentence-
“…… It's so good-looking......"
Then, a footstep suddenly appeared nearby, interrupting Shirley's emotion, and causing the surrounding demons who were hiding in the shadows, ready to move, but also frightened, to finally retreat.
Shirley slowly turned her head and saw a ghostly hound, taller than all the Phantom Hounds, floating in black smoke with broken bones, coming out of the shadows.
It cautiously approached, its hollow eye sockets burning with a faint green fire, it seemed to hesitate, it looked nervous and hesitant, it lingered for a long time more than ten meters away, before slowly moving a few steps closer and putting the mass in its mouth on the ground.
“…… Shirley, I found something to eat......"
This sentence is familiar.
(End of chapter)