Deep Sea Embers Chapter 48: Alert

In front of the icon of the storm goddess Gormona, the blessed candle burns calmly, and the skylight from the dome shines around the icon, making the city-state bishop in jet-black robes seem to be bathed in the gods. under grace.

Bishop Valentine just raised his head in the light, quietly staring at Fanna's still firm gray eyes, his words seemed to carry some kind of magic, vaguely, Fanna heard a gentle The sound of the ocean waves fluctuated in her mind, and then there was a thunderous sound - with the assistance of external forces, the power of the goddess finally broke through the curtain and exploded in her heart.

Fanna suddenly took a deep breath, as if she had suddenly returned to land from a state of suffocation in deep water. Her chest heaved violently, her heart was pounding, and the gaze of the gods was overwhelmingly suppressed, and in a semi-trance In the state of , she heard Valentine's voice continue to enter her ears:

"The existence of Homeless has been recorded in history, and the omens dream you encountered is an objective fact. With these two points in place, your normal response should be to first assume the existence of a threat, and then seek a solution. Plan - but you just subconsciously questioned whether Homeless really exists, which means that you are subconsciously avoiding the message of the Omen Dream to you.

"Inquisitor, you are subconsciously denying the existence of Homeless. This is the evidence of the real existence of that ship - it seems that it is indeed approaching the borders of the civilized world."

Fanna felt a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, but the "veil" that had always covered herself and the goddess seemed to have disappeared, which made her feel a lot more relaxed, and the words of the city-state bishop made her even more Realize what happened:

Before I knew it, I had been affected by the Lost Homes!

This is exactly the characteristic of many visions or anomalies with terrifying tendencies: it causes cognitive confusion in the contact person, subconscious neglect and denial, so that the influence is getting bigger and bigger without knowing it!

This kind of subconscious ignorance and denial is the instinctive response of intelligent creatures to protect themselves and avoid danger, but when in contact with abnormality, this instinctive response will become the source of paralysis, and eventually lead to Unwittingly become a victim of visions and anomalies!

As a judge who often deals with supernatural powers, Fanna knows all about this knowledge, but she never thought that she would fall into this "psychological trap" - her own That strong willpower had no effect at all?

"I don't know when I was affected," she said frankly. In front of the bishop, who is also a devout believer, she did not shy away from the weakness she exposed this time - being affected by anomalies or visions and falling into psychology Anomaly is a normal situation, shame and concealment are useless, "I came here directly after waking up from the dream of omens, and I never talked to anyone, and I never touched any scrolls or antiquities, I think In this process, I have not been eroded by the outside world.”

"But you did show a deliberate avoidance of the dream of omens just now... so the impact should have occurred earlier," Bishop stared at Fanna's face, as if observing the changes in her eyes at any time And the breath fluctuated, "Have you been in contact with anything abnormal recently? It may be from Homeless... pollution, which left an anchor in your subconscious in advance."

"Recently..." Fanna frowned, and then suddenly recalled the "sacrifice" that fell at the black sun sacrifice site, the green flames flashing in the eyes of the other party, and her severed finger .

She widened her eyes and stared at the bishop: "The day before yesterday, I led a team to clean up the Black Sun Sacrificial Ground in the sewer. After I came back, did I report that there was an unnamed pollution at the site? Did I report that there was a contamination at the site? 'sacrifice'?"

The bishop shook his head: "...No, you sent those cultists to the church and went straight back."

Fana's heart lingered: "The other people who participated in the operation that day, did anyone report this matter?"

"No reports have come in - all the files are recorded only in relation to the Dark Sun Heresy."

Under the icon of the goddess, the bishop looked at Vanna, and Vanna looked at the bishop.

"It seems that we have found the time when the pollution first 'goed ashore'," the bishop sighed softly, his expression still calm, but there was a strong power brewing in his eyes as if a storm was about to come. Mona's holy name, Inquisitor, are your memories of that night still clear and complete?"

Fanna took a deep breath: "In the holy name of my lord, Gormona, I still remember all the details of that night."

The bishop nodded, turned around and lit the special incense, then placed the copper incense burner at the foot of the icon and said in a calm voice: "What happened at that time?"

So, Fanna revealed everything that happened in the sewer sacrifice ground in her memory - she did not let go of any details, and with the help of the sacred incense, her memory and thinking became more sober than ever , the experience of that night is as clear as a reappearance...

She still remembers the sacrifice that suddenly opened her eyes, and the green flames jumping in the sacrifice's eye sockets, and she still remembers that the flames fell on her fingers, but she was purified by herself, and she was returning to the church. On the way, she silently told herself that the pollution has been completely purified, the pollution has been completely purified, the pollution has been completely purified...

She muttered these words to herself all the way, and all the guardians who walked with her were also muttering these words to themselves!

No one thought there was anything wrong with this!

Now that I recall, what a terrifying and eerie scene it was—under the bleak night, the church’s team of guardians passed through the silent streets, and everyone kept whispering the same sentence to themselves. , until returning to the church.

In the process, they still think they are doing things normally: take care of the heretics they just caught, clean up the dirty sacrifice scene, and **** the cultists back...

"...Astral flames fall on the soul, and the physical purification by amputation is ineffective, all you get is a deceitful consolation - the right thing to do is to burn the spices immediately, use holy oil Sprinkle on the ground to set up a temporary sanctuary, and then invoke the power of the goddess in a prayer ritual to perform 'spiritual' purification."

"...It's my fault," Fanna said solemnly, "I should have been more vigilant and alert."

"It's a mistake, but it's not a mistake," the old man shook his head. "You have great power, but as an inquisitor, you're a little less experienced. Fortunately, you are now free of the influence, which means that you were left in that time. The 'pollution' on the sacrifice is not too strong, it only interferes with you at the psychological level... Through the incense ritual just now, I can roughly judge its strength."

Speaking of this, he paused, as if he was considering and judging something: "The guards who were acting with you at that time should have been less affected, they were just standing around you, and the impact should have changed with you. quickly faded away with prayers in church.

"In general, although the pollution you suffered at that time was dangerous and strange, since the source has been cut off, the subsequent impact is not terrible. According to your performance and incense feedback just now, even if you did not come today, you will be in a few days. You will also notice that something is wrong.

"More than this, we need to worry about the future."

"In the future..." Fanna repeated the bishop's last words, her expression slowly becoming serious.

Yes ~IndoMTL.com~ In the future, this is not over.

The picture shown by the dream of omens is a warning from the goddess - what I have been exposed to so far is probably just the prelude to a storm.

"Homeless has been out of sight of civilization for many years. Many people think that it has returned to the warp and has become one of the many shadows in the deepest part of the world, but now it seems that the Captain Duncan's obsession with the real world remains."

Bishop Valentine spoke slowly, turning around and staring at the icon of the Storm Goddess.

"A century ago, the Homeless crashed into the depths of the warp. Although there is no clear evidence, many eyewitness reports have mentioned that there was a large storm lingering in the nearby waters at that time. The crash of the ship was due to certain factors. It was affected by the storm...

"The storm is the authority of my Lord."

Fanna frowned: "You think that Captain Duncan is going to... revenge on God?"

"It's hard to say—even a ghost returning from the warp would seek revenge from the gods. It's unimaginable. The gods live in the kingdom of gods, and the kingdom of gods is hidden above reality. I have never heard of anyone who can go backwards to the 'God's Kingdom' higher than reality...

"But if that Captain Duncan is going to seek revenge for our Lord's agents on earth...the possibility is very high.

"The Holy Storm Cathedral patrols the world on behalf of the lord of the boundless sea, and spends most of the time sailing in the hidden route, no one can find it, and by contrast... the city-state of Perland is nothing but the storm. Outside of the church, the Goddess of Storms is the world's largest anchor of faith...and one that everyone can visit.

"From this point of view, it is logical that the vengeful ghost chooses to land in Prand."