Deep Sea Embers

How do ordinary people survive in a world where extraordinary visions exist, where the land is blocked by the endless ocean, and where the defenders of the city-state and the anomalies are engaged in endless battles?

Duncan still lacks understanding of this city-state, but at least in the places he has seen, ordinary people in this world still live in an orderly and stable environment——

They work, study, rest, they run shops, they communicate with each other, they go out on their days off, go to theaters and restaurants, parks and harbors, they visit museums, and gossip with neighbors after dinner—they used to Not very exciting, but usually very stable life.

The bus driven by the steam engine stops and goes, sometimes stops at the platform, sometimes stops on the side of the road, passengers come up and leave at any time, the silent driver will occasionally say a few words to the conductor , but most of the time she was concentrating on driving, and the young conductor looked up at the roof of the car from time to time—she still seemed to be thinking about the pigeon.

Duncan sat in his seat, observing everything around him with curiosity, watching the lives of these ordinary people.

It seems that apart from the need to understand the anomalies and visions that exist in the world and follow this knowledge as a "safety rule", the lives of these ordinary people are not much different from what he saw on Earth.

When approaching the cross street, the bus stopped again, this time at the platform, where many passengers boarded.

Duncan looked curiously at the scenery on the platform, at the chimneys standing in the distance and the steam pipes criss-crossing over the buildings, but suddenly, he vaguely felt an unusual heat rising near his chest.

The heat came from the sun badge that he hid next to his body!

Duncan, who was admiring the scenery, was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously touched the place where the badge was hidden. The next second, he felt that the badge was not only heating up, but also trembling slightly.

He didn't know what happened, but it was obvious that the badge was resonating with something nearby—through the connection he had established with the badge, he felt the source of this resonance strangely, and in the next second, his His eyes locked on a figure who was walking quickly through the crowd outside the car window.

The figure was wearing a black coat and looked like an ordinary passerby, but the "sense of direction" from the sun badge pointed to that figure without a doubt!

Duncan immediately stood up from his seat and walked towards the car door quickly. With a thought in his mind, Ai the pigeon also received instructions, flapped its wings and flew down from the roof of the car, landing on him. shoulders.

The conductor standing near the car door watched this scene in surprise, and only after Duncan got off the car did he whisper: "How did this pigeon train..."

But then this small episode in daily life receded from the attention of the conductor lady, she turned her head to look at the passengers who just got on the bus: "Come here to buy tickets... children have to buy tickets too, this time No matter how you look at it, it’s more than 1.1 meters... 4 years old? No matter how you look at it, it’s impossible to be 4 years old. If you pass the line, you will get a full ticket!"

At this moment, Duncan had already walked into the crowd. He quickly walked through the crowded platform and intersection, and followed the figure in the black coat.

The man in black walked very fast, and the dense traffic on the side of the road in the afternoon allowed him to easily evade his sight and search. In fact, after only a few minutes, the figure had already left Duncan's sight.

However, the resonance of the sun emblem is still there, and the "pointing sense" from the depths of the emblem has always pointed Duncan in the right direction.

Duncan continued to follow the guidance of the sun emblem while thinking quickly.

There is no doubt that the man in black is very suspicious. The badge must have sensed something to react suddenly... Perhaps, it sensed the same power from the "true sun god".

He already knew from the goat's head that this badge has the functions of identifying compatriots and guiding the "blessing of the sun", but under normal circumstances only believers of the sun god can use these functions or perceive the guiding effect of the badge.

Duncan once usurped the control of the badge with the fire of the spirit body, but at that time he thought that his own flame also destroyed most of the badge's ability, but now it seems... the recognition ability of the badge is still there!

It's just that this recognition ability is now used by me...

Under the guidance of the badge, he gradually left the main road with dense passers-by, and after three detours, he gradually walked into the deserted path.

He saw a suspicious figure again—that figure was quickly passing the intersection in front of him, and he didn't seem to notice that there was a follower behind him at all.

Vaguely, Duncan felt that the badge on his chest became hotter than before, and the resonance from it became clearer and stronger.

Duncan quietly activated the fire of the spirit body, read the information from the sun emblem, and a large number of directional "perceptions" immediately passed into his mind.

This feeling is very subtle—even though the sun emblem does not have the characteristics of thinking, Duncan seems to be able to feel that this emblem is conveying a message to himself excitedly, telling himself that this person who does not believe in the sun god, where are the other believers .

He even wanted to remind this badge to be more reserved—at least not long ago, it was a sacred object of the Sun God, and at this time, being a leader would not be as excited as a hand warmer.

At the same time, he became more and more sure that he was approaching a secret meeting place where many Sun God believers gathered.

As he expected, more "sun heretics" gathered in the dark corners of this city-state, and the group of people who were wiped out in the sewers before was just a part of these cockroach-like cultists.

He didn't know what these cultists wanted to do, but he knew that these cultists must know more about ancient history, sun belief, and the era of order than Nina's teachers.

If you want to understand the deeper secrets of this world, you need to get in touch with the forces in the supernatural realm. It is difficult for churches and city-state authorities to approach through normal means, but cultists are much easier-just get along with them.

Or just mix them together.

Duncan was thinking so, and suddenly stopped.

He had already come to the end of a small road, and the sneaky man in black just got into a nearby intersection. The signal from the sun emblem was clear and strong, and there were no passers-by in the vicinity.

Through the sun emblem, he sensed that there were more "sibling signals" approaching his position.

Duncan silently pulled up the lapel of his coat, covering half of his face in the collar—and almost a second after this action was completed, he heard many footsteps appearing in the shadows of nearby buildings.

One figure after another appeared.

There were more than a dozen people, and they were dressed no differently from ordinary citizens—after all, no cultist would walk around in a robe in broad daylight, just like normal assassins shouldn't wear the conspicuous white hood The blouse went to work on the streets of the downtown.

Only the constant heat and directional signals from the sun emblem convinced him that all of these guys who came out of the surroundings counted as one, and they were all followers of the real sun god.

Duncan raised his head, looked towards the intersection at the end, and saw that the man in black who he had been following before was also among them. He was looking at him with vigilance, and beside him, a tall and thin young man The man whispered something to his companion before looking up.

"This is a private domain, why are you sneaking in here?" The tall and thin man said, he seemed to be trying to create a sense of "there are ordinary citizens here, so you act suspiciously because you are sneaky." Because he didn't know the details of Duncan's tracker, he neither acted rashly nor let down his vigilance.

Duncan thought to himself that he, as a layman, is really not suitable for such a professional job of tracking. At the same time, he was also curious about how these cultists planned to deal with his tracker if he pretended to be stupid-they were going to pretend to be a group of dedicated and dedicated people. Did the evil forces scare him away, or did he plan to develop the cult business diligently, and tied himself up to feed their sun god?

"Didn't you hear?" The tall and thin man frowned, and said impatiently. At the same time as his words fell, the surrounding figures took half a step forward calmly, forming a faint encirclement. "I'm asking you something..."

Duncan shrugged, casually took out the sun talisman from his pocket, and said sincerely, "My own."

Let's get together first, maybe there are too many tricks.

If they don't believe it, mingle.