Deep Sea Embers Chapter 432: The call of fire
Chapter 433 The Call of Fire
In the port area, Liszt, who was commanding the garrison to resist the attack while maintaining the port as much as possible, suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the city-state in a daze.
In the city-state, mysterious distorted buildings are emerging from the sky above the normal streets, the distant land is warping and turning upside down, faint thorn-like phantoms cover the mountains, and chaotic light and shadows are descending from the illusion ——However, in this terrifying and weird scene, some kind of fine and pale "dust" suddenly fluttered down.
The pale dust floated in the sky out of thin air, they fell one after another, like the first snow in winter, they passed through the overlapping phantoms and distorted blocks, scattered on the streets of Frost little by little—— Weightless, yet seemingly endless.
In the place where the dust was scattered, the city-state that had been blurred and chaotic due to the overlapping of phantoms seemed to suddenly become "distinct". Again there is a line between the phantom and the real street.
But at this moment, he has no time to think about what is going on, or even think about his fate in the next minute.
The roar of steam walker fire and the roar of distant coastal defense guns brought him back to reality.
"Keep those freaks out of the wharf area!" Liszt walked through the walkway between the buildings, passed through the defense line made up of steam walkers and temporary barricades, and shouted to the soldiers and commanders Roared, "Make sure the oil depot and ammunition passage are smooth! The port must not fall!"
Gunpowder smoke filled all directions, and the air was mixed with blood, engine oil, and the pungent smell emitted when the dirty mud dried up. A steam walker was destroyed, and the next spider machine rushed out of the bunker immediately to maintain With a weak line of defense.
And inside this line of defense are the scarred dock facilities, as well as teams running between the port buildings.
Liszt came to a high place and looked towards the direction of the pier.
When those monsters came out of the dense fog in large numbers, the port almost fell. A line of defense was built above, and it has been resisting until now.
According to the last external communication, this is the only port still operating in Frost—the ports in other places are either still in a state of fierce competition, or have fallen, or have been destroyed due to key facilities. Damaged and unable to function.
He must continue to operate here at all costs - because the sea front is already in jeopardy, if the only coastal support is lost, the city-state navy will really be finished.
But... with another terrifying twisted city-state gradually invading reality, can this place really hold?
Liszt turned his head, took a last look at the swollen and abscess-like deformed land that was rising from the city-state, tried his best to ignore the appearance that it was gradually spreading towards the port, turned away from the defense line, and returned Defense Command.
Here is also very busy, the officers and staff are overwhelmed, the intelligence from everywhere is not optimistic, and the calls and beeps of various radio communication equipment are ringing non-stop.
A communications officer was sitting in the corner of the room, repeating hoarsely into the radio: "Notify all offshore ships, this is Donggang, we still exist, repeat, we still exist - this is the only safe supply port , do not approach other ports..."
Liszt went straight to a subordinate: "How is the situation at the supply dock?"
"'Laurel' is replenishing ammunition and repairing the bomb elevator. Its sister ship has lost power and is being towed back by barge. We still have enough ammunition, fuel and fresh water, but the crane at Pier 4 is damaged It's over there, it's paralyzed..."
Liszt listened with a gloomy face, and then there were hurried footsteps coming from the side, and another junior officer came to him with a tense expression: "Sir, there is a situation..."
"The situation is everywhere now," Liszt said loudly, "Report directly!"
"Yes, a ship is applying to enter the port for repairs. It is... a ship of the Sea Fog Fleet," the junior officer said with complicated eyes. "The undead on board said that their transmission mechanism was faulty, and the maintenance equipment on board could not cope."
Liszt was stunned for a moment, and after three seconds, he gritted his teeth: "Let them enter the port, and help them fix it as soon as possible."
"Yes, sir."
The subordinates left, while Liszt walked quickly to the window, observing the situation in the direction of the sea.
A battleship with billowing smoke is slowly approaching the maintenance dock, the Frost Queen's flag is flying on the bow, and on the farther sea, there are floating wreckage everywhere.
"Half a century... the flag finally returned to frost in this way..."
Liszt muttered subconsciously.
But in the next second, a burst of noise suddenly came from the direction of the corridor, interrupting the exclamation of the commander-in-chief of port defense.
"What's the matter again?" He turned his head and asked loudly.
A soldier pushed the door in nervously and hastily, and said to the commander-in-chief with embarrassment: "Sir! There are two... ordinary citizens, two girls. You talk about..."
"Ordinary citizens? Arrange them to avoid..." Liszt subconsciously said, but just in the middle of speaking, a burst of noisy movements quickly approached from the corridor, and then he heard a young girl's voice The voice is bluffing outside——
"All tm give way! Make way! Time is precious! How do you say that word... window, oh, the window period is only tm for a while!"
Liszt raised his head in astonishment, and in the next second, he saw that two young girls had broken through the soldiers' barriers and forced their way into this crucial headquarters.
One was short and thin, wearing a black cotton skirt, but pushed two big-waisted soldiers out of the door at once. The other was slightly taller, wearing a plain brown coat and cotton skirt, and his face seemed a little nervous.
Both of them looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the thin one looked even smaller.
"Leave immediately," Liszt said immediately, his irritability made his tone unfriendly, "This is not a place for you to mess around, if you get separated from the asylum crowd, then..."
"Are you the boss here? We have something important to do," the thin girl bluffed without waiting for anyone to finish her sentence. "Is there any place around here that is temporarily unused? We need to set a fire ..."
"Set it on fire?" Liszt couldn't help being taken aback, and then realized that it was a bad joke-he couldn't understand why two inexplicable civilians would come here to make trouble at this time, but they couldn't help it. Then, the sense of vigilance brought by his profession woke him up, and he immediately ordered loudly, "Soldier, control them!"
Several soldiers rushed in immediately, trying to catch the two strange girls, the short girl jumped up and down immediately: "We really have something important! The angle of your place is too suitable, just an open space! You..."
She stopped suddenly and stared out of the window, as if she had discovered something.
"Hey! That's fine over there! The entire avenue is deserted, and it leads directly to the coastline!" The girl jumped up high, and two or three soldiers couldn't hold her down. The companion greeted, "Nina, you go over there, and then add the two arson spots just discovered in the south, the city-state side will definitely be enough!"
"Ah... good!" The young girl called Nina responded immediately, and then she turned her head and bowed slightly to Liszt with embarrassment and apology, "Yes... I'm sorry, sir, I Friends are not very good at dealing with people, let's go now..."
Liszt stared, the outrageous situation in front of him made him a little confused, but he still took a step forward subconsciously: "Stop, you..."
He didn't finish his sentence.
Because even more outrageous things happened.
The young girl in front of him suddenly had a surge of heat, and then she turned into a jumping and dazzling arc-shaped flame in the blink of an eye. It can make people's souls burn up - the next second, the flames flew towards the open window next to them, like a meteor flying upside down, straight towards a high platform near the port area.
Liszt looked at this scene in astonishment, but before he could turn his head around, the flame suddenly rushed back into the room.
The flame bent down towards him, outlining the outline of the girl, and a polite voice accompanied by crackling and crackling came out: "Thank you for protecting the city, I'm leaving! Goodbye!"
The arc of flame burst out of the room again.
"Bye bye!"
In the room, the short girl also yelled again and again, and then, a dark crack suddenly appeared around her, and shadows surged in the crack, dragging her out of thin air and disappearing before everyone's eyes.
"This...this tm..."
Liszt looked at this scene in astonishment and blankly, and subconsciously rushed to the open window, but only had time to see an arc of flames rushing straight into the sky from a distance.
And under this flame, the coast illuminated by the glaring light... suddenly burst into flames!
"The Frost Coast is lit!"
On the watchtower of the Sea Mist, an undead sailor picked up the horn and shouted loudly.
The waves were heaving and the cold wind was blowing back. Tirian stood on the edge of the bow deck like a standing rock, and in his one eye, reflected the Frost Coast where several fires were burning.
A bright flame jumped over the city-state, constantly igniting the no-man's-land on the edge of the city-high cliffs, reefs protruding from the water, lost towers, damaged forts, the fire points are gradually connecting, Like... continuous candlesticks.
Around the Sea Mist, the vast and endless sea was burning in large areas.
The wreckage of the fake fleet is burning, the ships of the Fog Fleet or the city-state navy are burning, the spilled oil is burning.
The entire sea is being ignited by the flames of war.
And in this burning sea, the twisted and strange light and shadow of the mirror world are reflected--the ghost fleet that keeps floating up, the grotesque and terrifying mirror frost in the distance, and the boundless and boundless surrounding these twisted things. Endless darkness.
"Captain!" Aiden, the first mate, ran over and shouted beside Tirian, "The last barrel of fuel has been poured down, and the surrounding fire is about to engulf the ship!"
"I know," Tirian said calmly, a smile gradually appeared on his face, "What's the reaction from the Frost Navy?"
"They also set fire to the excess whale oil as we ordered, but they still couldn't figure out what we were going to do, and did it in complete confusion-they wanted an explanation from us."
"Explain..."
Tirion grunted softly, slowly raised his hand, and pointed around the Seamist, pointing at the sea that was constantly being covered by thicker darkness and becoming more and more strange.
"Aiden, what do you think the sea looks like?"
Aiden froze for a moment ~IndoMTL.com~ looked up and looked around.
In the next second, his expression gradually froze, and even a trace of panic emerged.
On the surface of the sea, the wind and waves have subsided quickly at some point, and the boundless darkness makes the entire sea area gradually present a mirror-like texture.
The flames are burning in front of the mirror. From the Frost Coast to the sea area where the fleet is fighting, the continuous flames of war... are like ritual candlesticks in front of the mirror.
The sound of the wind, waves and artillery on the sea suddenly weakened, and everything seemed far away as if it came from another world. In this strange and short silence, Aiden heard his captain speak softly.
"Father said that if you want to find him, you should find a mirror and light a fire in front of the mirror."
Tirian slowly opened his hands, facing the sea that was gradually turning into a black mirror.
"The fire is lit, are you there?"
Therefore, Frost Sea Territory opened its eyes.
"I am here."
(End of this chapter)