Deep Sea Embers Chapter 29: The people who protect the city

The gods with supreme power live in the cornerstone of the world, watching the world's operation with a vision beyond time and space, and the devout believers whose spiritual power converts to the gods will, to a certain extent, learn from the secrets of themselves and the gods. In the connection, you can get a glimpse of the future direction of some reality, or the changes that are taking place in an unknown corner of the world at this moment.

This kind of peeping is not bound by time and space, and there is an implied risk of being eroded by the warp, but for those determined and devout believers, this dangerous and powerful force is exactly what they use to protect this endless The weakest point of civilization in the ocean is the biggest reliance.

The devout Inquisitor has seen a similar vision for several days.

During half-dreaming and half-awake, she saw that the boundless ocean was dyed with a layer of ink, and then there was a thunderous noise from the depths of the sea, the ocean was divided into two, and there was a terrifying trench that reached the seabed. And a flaming gigantic ship rose from the seabed and slowly floated up in mid-air like an airship. Another invisible giant covered in starlight followed behind the gigantic ship, walking towards the city-state of Perand step by step. direction.

In Inquisitor Vanna's life so far, there have been only two "omens" of such magnitude and magnitude.

The first time was in childhood, when she woke up from a blood-filled nightmare, then lost her parents to a cult attack, and was left with the scar that lasted her life.

The second time happened four years ago. In her dream, she saw a dark sun rising under the city-state, which wiped out the largest stronghold of the Sun God sect infiltrating the city-state. The cultist's lingering minions are still hiding in the vast complex and ancient tunnel system beneath the Plant, engaging in meaningless entanglements with the church's guardians.

For the third time, she saw a ship return from the deep sea and bring an indescribable giant into the world.

She lied to the priest in front of her—the omens she saw were actually very clear, so clear that she, the judge, could lose sleep for days.

The pastor looked at the quiet gray-white eyes of the lady in front of him, and after hesitating for a long time, he said, "But you prayed to God, and it seems that you didn't receive any bad feedback?"

"...The goddess doesn't necessarily remind you of all the risks. Sometimes hardships are just trials," Fanna said calmly. "Stop talking about this. What news is there from the Explorers' Association?"

The priest nodded immediately: "The association's contact person has just contacted, and the relic left at the association's headquarters has sensed that the ship appears in the southwest waters, but there seems to be a problem with the telegraph device on the ship, and it is currently unable to contact. It can only be determined that the ship is approaching the coast of Prand at normal speed and course."

"...disappeared in the perception of the sacred object for a time, and then appeared out of thin air on another sea surface that was far from the scheduled route. The current state was unable to contact, and it drove straight to the city-state...and was executing before the loss of contact. The task of escorting abnormal objects," the judge's brows furrowed a little, the intuition brought by dealing with strange things all year round was beating, making her vigilant, "I remember that the ship is called the White Oak, right? "

"Yes, the White Oak, the captain is Lawrence Creed, a member of the Society of Explorers, an experienced captain. Due to the special cargo, the ship reported to the church before sailing from the city-state of Renza. Prepare," the pastor said while recalling, "by the way, the accompanying pastor on that ship is a registered priest of the Deep Sea Church."

"Fellow of the church... I hope the situation is not too bad," Vanna said solemnly, "Anyway, the situation of that ship is not quite right, the whole route from Rensa to Prand is in the explorer's way. The 'stable area' under the control of the Association, but the ship disappeared from the perception of the relic... I suspect that the White Oak may have briefly left the real world, and even... may have gone to places it shouldn't.

"Inform the port guards to keep an eye on the White Oak immediately after entering the port, and no one or anything can leave the ship until all inspections are completed - is there any response from the security forces? ?"

"Please rest assured, your uncle... Your Excellency the Consul has ordered the sheriffs to control the perimeter of the port and raised the alert level of the port. From now until the alert is lifted, all ships entering and leaving Prand will be Temporarily docked at an alternate port on the west side."

"That's good—uncle has always been a cautious person," Fanna's tense expression finally relaxed a little, "as long as he doesn't let the ordinary people in the security forces get involved in this matter. "

The priest looked at Fanna's pale gray eyes, carefully selected the words, and said, "Do you think... that ship has been 'contaminated'?"

"It's not certain yet, but even if a ship that briefly leaves the real world eventually returns, it is rarely completely normal. It may be that some items on the ship have been unknowingly alienated into 'abnormalities', which may be hidden Mental illness deep inside the crew, maybe even the extra sailor and the replaced captain...it is always right to be on the highest alert for ships that have experienced anomalies."

"Alas... I hope that the ship and its crew are all well," the priest couldn't help but put his hands across his chest, chanting the name of the Storm Goddess, "May the Storm Goddess protect those who bravely challenge the sea. ."

"May they all be well," Fanna lowered her eyelids and whispered a blessing, and then seemed to remind the priest in front of her, "But if they are unfortunately not 'well,' we have to do something. Prepare."

"Yes, I understand."

Fanna nodded, but just as she was about to refocus on the city outside the window, a rush of footsteps suddenly came from the direction of the stairs.

The next moment, a guardian wearing a black-bottomed silver-bordered uniform with a wave and a dagger emblem on his chest quickly ran up the stairs.

"Your Excellency Judge!" The young guard took a deep breath and said in a hurried tone, "We found a cult sacrificial base for worshipping the sun **** in the sewers, and we even caught a group of believers!"

Fanna's expression suddenly became more serious: "Those cultists who worship the dark sun? Wait, you said that what you found was a sacrificial site...not a hiding place? They dare to hold sacrificial activities again?!"

"Yes, it's the site of the sacrificial ceremony, and we have found evidence of sacrificial ceremonies," the guard said quickly, "and also found a large number of victims in the crypt not far from the ceremony site. ——Most of them have had their hearts sacrificed. It’s just that… the situation at the sacrifice site is not right.”

Fanna saw the absurd and confused look on the guardian's face. She picked up the heavy sword that received the blessing of the Storm Goddess from the side, and carried it on her back as she swiftly walked up the stairs. Walking in the direction: "Lead the way, I will go to the scene in person."

"Yes!"

The heavy blessing sword and the metal shoulder armor made a crisp crashing sound~IndoMTL.com~ The hurried footsteps passed through the long stairs in the big clock tower. Fanna came to the small square in front of the big clock tower and saw Several guardian team members have gathered here to stand by, and two steam walking machines are parked on the edge of the square, and the spider-like mechanical body is constantly making clicking sounds.

Fanna didn't stop, just gave the guards a sign to start, and went straight to one of the walking machines - this huge machine the size of two two-wheeled carriages looked like a mechanical spider lying on the ground , its steel limbs are equipped with wheels for sliding on flat ground and steel hooks for dealing with special environments, and on both sides of the upper shell of the walker are the firing cockpits with rotary muskets.

It is difficult for pure technological creations to have enough influence on "abnormalities" or "visions", but the crushing firepower can kill the heretics who hide behind and control the abnormality - of course, this thing is not in the sewers. It can exert its power too much, but it can be used to block the door, but it is quite useful.

Holy 8mm bullets are spilled out, and in the blink of an eye, a horde of heretics trying to escape can be sent to serve their Lord in the Warp.

The gray-haired and gray-eyed Inquisitor jumped directly into the carapace of the walker, and stood firmly in the dark with a long sword on his back. The other two guards climbed into the firing cockpits on both sides of the carapace, and then Accompanied by the sound of a series of cylinders and compression pipes pressurizing and depressurizing, white steam spewed out from the joints of the walking machines, and the huge mechanical spider got up immediately, jumped to the nearest main road, and slid again. The pattern quickly rushed to the nearest sewer entrance.

(It's time to push the book again, the title of the book is "Into Unscientific", a scholar of black science and technology, I've been alive and kicking after milking several times, and now it's almost 1.4 million words to order, if you are interested, you can go and see)