Chapter 1472： messenger (1/2)
Avoid the messenger.
The notch on the street lamppost glowed with a strange pale white, which appeared to be almost dazzling on the black iron lamppost. The surrounding chaotic fog was slowly flowing and surging, and the dead city in this silent fog made Na Jane The simple single line of letters suddenly seemed extremely strange, even so strange that both Sparrow Bee and Ye Xiao felt cold at the same time.
But they did not stop because of this. Instead, they continued to walk quickly towards the southeast urban area. The dim street lamp lights outlined a continuous dim path in the dense fog, and the buildings on both sides of the road were also spilled. There was a faint light, and these lights faintly illuminated the dark road, and this road...the distance seemed to have no end.
The Sparrow lowered her voice and asked that she didn't know why she lowered her voice, as if she didn't want to disturb some existence in the dense fog: "The messenger...You mean the'messenger' who was missing many days ago. NS?"
In Plantall, the "messenger" hasn't appeared for a long time.
He was a person with a very special identity, and was different from the general communication gap on the mainland of Loren. The "messenger" in this country of the wizard was a special person who walked between the inland cities and the border cities, with incredible power and access permissions. character of.
The cities in Violet are isolated from each other, and there are endless dense forests and mazes flooding the wilderness area. With these barriers, outsiders can't even go through the border cities to the inland areas, and even the locals do not need it. In fact, they rarely leave the city where they live, and messengers... are the "bridges" that connect these isolated cities.
They are responsible for passing letters between cities, for transmitting instructions from the city of a thousand towers to every border land, and for opening "channels" in the endless dense forests and locks in the wilderness to allow transportation between cities The caravan of materials passed smoothly.
In Violet, every city has and only one dedicated messenger, but even though there is only one person, they can take on the important task of transmitting information for the entire city, and they travel through this mysterious country in a way that outsiders cannot understand. , It seems that no matter how far they are, they can reach any corner of Violet in an instant. No matter how many letters they have, they can carry them with them and deliver them to the recipient accurately and timely. If the Kingdom of Violet is in the eyes of foreigners like Sparrow It is a country piled up by countless mysteries, so the "messenger" is definitely the most incredible and unreasonable one of these mysteries.
According to Sparrowbee's speculation, the "messenger" should be an unimaginably powerful spellcaster. He is in charge of secret arts that no one knows in the outside world. It is the best manifestation of the powerful magical background of this mage kingdom.
And the messenger responsible for the Prandall area has not appeared for a long time. In fact, in the memory of the Sparrow Bee, the "extraordinary vision" in the Violet Kingdom happened shortly after the messenger disappeared...
Sparrow and her colleagues tried to investigate the messenger’s whereabouts, but nothing has been found so far. The messenger disappeared earlier than everything else, and there was the least trace. The locals in this city seemed to take the messenger’s disappearance as a matter of course. , Even in the end... They simply forgot that there was a "messenger" in their country, just as Torrig had forgotten his uncle who lived in Palan Santo.
A pale nick appeared on a nearby lamppost, with only a few rather short letters on it: "It's him."
"Why avoid the messenger?" Ye Xiao couldn't help but ask, while constantly looking at the shadowy silhouettes in the surrounding dense fog, the warning made by the "store manager" gave him a creepy feeling, even though he was in the dark. There was no visible monster or enemy in the fog, but at this moment he seemed to feel an approaching malice, that malice was lurking in a place close to him, watching him through the flowing gray mist. "Is that messenger chasing'outsiders' like us? Is he related to this thick fog?"
They passed through a magic wand shop on the outer edge of the inner block. The prosperous shop was shrouded in weird silence at the moment, and a very dim dim light permeated from the doors and windows of the shop, like a fluid. Spreading and falling in the fog little by little, the wide shop window seemed to be crowded with some shadowy things. The bee accidentally glanced in the direction of the house, and then involuntarily withdrew its gaze in the next second.
On the lamppost passing by her, a line of clear and sharp pale letters quickly emerged: "The messenger is not chasing you, the messenger is clearing everything here."
For some reason, the letters no longer looked like traces of engraving, but more like sentences that emerged directly from the surface of the black iron, as swift as words.
The ramp leading to the outer city appeared in the thick fog ahead, and this long, seemingly endless block finally came to an end. Amidst the fog, the bird bee saw a black carriage quietly parked. Of course, there was no one on the carriage by the side of the road, but there was a cloud of undulating black smoke floating in front of the carriage in the shape of a horse. The loose harness was wrapped on the cloud of smoke, and the reins were floating in the air, as if still invisible. Holding by hand.
When Sparrowbee and Yexiao passed by the carriage, they involuntarily glanced at the silent carriage. In the next second, a little light suddenly appeared in the originally black carriage, and immediately afterward. Groups of shadowy objects emerged from the dim light, covering the rough glass on the side of the carriage like silt.
The two military intelligence bureau officers felt tight, and immediately turned their eyes away. In the next second, Sparrow Bee suddenly saw a line of pale letters appearing quickly on a nearby wall: "Hide!"
Without hesitation, Sparrowbee and Ye Xiao found the nearest and most suitable place to hide in an instant. Like two swift shadows, they penetrated into the gap between two nearby houses, blocking their shadows with the help of protruding corners. .
Sparrow felt her heart beating. She wanted to ask her superior who could only use words to talk to her what happened, but she forced her mouth to restrain the urge to speak, and the next second, She saw a tall and thin shadow suddenly appeared in the alley on the other side of the ramp.
In this silent thick fog, in this empty dead city, there appeared a figure other than her and Ye Xiao!
The shadow walked out of the thick fog, and gradually revealed a few details. Sparrowbee saw a gloomy classical long windbreaker and a black top hat popular among the burghers of the Violet Kingdom. She saw the figure. Holding a lantern in her hand that emits the same dim light as a nearby street lamp, and leaning on a long cane in the other hand, she recognized it. It was Prandall's messenger.
Before the vision, the messenger was called "Mr. Christo" by the citizens of Plantall. As a "messenger" who appeared to be particularly mysterious in the mysterious violet kingdom, this Mr. Christo was actually pretty good. He even accepted the invitation of the night owl to introduce the scenery of the city of a thousand towers and his busy but interesting life as a "messenger" to the night owl during a private drinking.
He is a friendly and polite person, and even used to be the only window of intelligence for "outside merchants" like Sparrowbee and Ye Xiao to understand the Violet Inland customs. But now, Sparrowbee has no joy in his heart when he sees this "acquaintance".
Because the "shop manager" told them to avoid the messenger.
She and Ye Xiao involuntarily held their breath and watched the tall and thin figure emerging from the thick fog walking out of the alley little by little. Then they saw the "messenger" stopping at the intersection. , As if recognizing the surrounding house numbers, he immediately turned to a nearby house, came to the door unhurriedly, hung the lantern in his hand on the cane, and then reached out and knocked on the door that was faintly revealing Light door.
The door opened silently, and the dim light leaked from it, and the dim light was flowing slowly on the stone slab at the door, but no one came out from the door, it was just an empty house.
The messenger "Christo" didn't respond to this, he just took out a letter-like thing from his arms and handed it to the hollow house.
The bird bee saw that the letter disappeared into the fog as soon as it left the messenger’s finger. In the next second, a nearly pure black "flame" burst out of the wall of the house, and it was swallowed almost instantly. The whole house and a series of connected houses nearby. In the dark and silent flames, the houses dissipated like morning dew, and one by one nearly transparent figures came out of them and slowly sank into the ground in the flames.
Those figures have no face, like a cloud of indefinite human-shaped smoke, wrapped in a bandage-like curtain, and the sparrow bee and the night owl have seen similar illustrations in some encyclopedia books of the transcendent published by the empire.
All this lasted less than ten seconds, the dark flames faded as quickly as they appeared, and when they saw the scenery after the flames faded, the sparrow bee instantly widened its eyes.
The row of houses that used to be there has disappeared. It is not just as simple as being burned, but not even a bit of debris or ashes. After the flames disappeared, what was left on the spot was a piece of bare stone and mud.
She suddenly remembered the words left by the store manager: The messenger is clearing everything here.
Now she knew what this sentence meant.