The night was getting darker.
According to Selina, the first batch of explorers who entered Sandbox 1 to check out the situation was attacked at night.
Gwen stood in front of the house and looked up at the clear night sky of the desert. He looked calm on the surface, but he was secretly adjusting his perception of his surroundings and adjusting various arrangements.
Until now, there was still no strange phenomenon, and no one was mentally corrupted. Duwalter and Naretil were resting in the house not far behind, while Selena and the other two were alert and took turns keeping watch in the house.
It seemed to be a night that could be spent peacefully.
The desert was quite cold at night, but this temperature was not enough to affect Gwen. He took a deep breath and let the cold air cool his mind. At the same time, he could not help but admire the technology of the Eternal Sleeper in creating this world.
The wind was so real, the chill was so real, the vast land, the twinkling stars, everything was so real. How long did it take them to create such a realistic world, and how long did it take for the beings living in this world to realize the existence of the box?
Feeling something in his heart, Gawain gathered his scattered thoughts and turned to look in the direction of the door. Nareltyr, whose long white hair almost reached her ankles, quietly opened the door and walked out. She walked barefoot on the ground, making almost no sound when she walked, but she did not know how to hide her aura.
"You're awake?" Gwen looked at the strange girl and asked casually.
Naretil quickly looked up at Gwen and nodded slightly. Then, she came to a place not far from the door and sat on the ground. She hugged her knees and looked up at the sky in a daze.
Although Gawain had always thought that there was something strange about the other party, suspecting that the other party was either a pawn of the higher-ups or a dangerous mind wandering in Sandbox No. 1, he could not help but ask curiously, "What are you doing?"
"Looking at the stars," the white-haired girl sitting on the ground said softly.
"… I can see that," Gwen was a little speechless for a moment. He said awkwardly, "You don't sleep at night just to look at the stars?"
Naretil was silent for a moment before she hesitantly said, "Looking … at the stars."
Gwen was speechless.
He suspected that there was some kind of communication barrier between them, but after hesitating for a moment, he stood next to Naretil and asked casually, "How did you and Duwalter meet? Are you and him just traveling companions? "
"… Traveling companions," Naretil's answer was still very slow and short, but at least she was answering Gwen's question. "I don't remember."
"You don't remember how you know each other?" Gawain tried to decipher the other party's vague answer as he tried to guide the other party to reveal more information. "How long have you been wandering around here?"
"Many … many years," Neritir said.
"Do you also believe in the Narrator?"
"… I don't know." Neritil shook her head. "I don't remember."
"You have been wandering here all these years? Did Duvall ever tell you what the object of your wanderings was? Do you have anything you want to do? "
Naretil was silent for a moment again before she shook her head. "Looking at the stars."
Just as Gwen was wondering what the other party's answer meant, he heard Naretil add, "You are disturbing me from looking at the stars."
Gwen was speechless.
The communication seemed to be unable to continue. Gwen could only sigh regretfully and judge that there was something wrong with Naretil's mind. Her memory and thinking ability were obviously lower than an ordinary person's.
At this moment, a flame suddenly appeared in his line of sight.
In the distance, in front of the temple that had been abandoned for many years, which was surrounded by many pillars and stone statues, a large bonfire suddenly appeared. The burning flames rose from the square of the temple, and the buildings that were immersed in the darkness a moment ago were instantly illuminated by the bright flames. Then, more and more flames or lights appeared on the top of the stone pillars around the temple, on the streets far and near, and in the houses of every household!
The whole city seemed to be waking up quickly in the light!
Gwen's eyes widened as he looked at the rapidly spreading lights in the city. Then, he suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of Naretil.
Nareltyr, who had been staring at the starry sky in a trance just a second ago, had disappeared without a trace.
Gwen could not even lock on to the change in her breath. He could not detect when and how she left (or disappeared)!
However, he was already mentally prepared to face a strange situation. At this moment, he was not surprised at all. He saw the door behind him suddenly being pushed open, and the red-haired Archbishop Magnum rushed out. "That old man named Duarte is gone!"
"I know," Gwen replied faintly. "It's not just him. Naretil is gone too."
Magnum's eyes widened, and he noticed the lights that were lit up all over the city. His loud voice suddenly exploded. "All the ancestors of my family! What's going on? "
Yuri and Selena also came out of the house. They had heard the conversation between Magnum and Gwen outside the house. The rapidly spreading lights in the city shone on their faces. Selena only took a glance before she turned to Gwen. "Is this what you are waiting for?"
"It seems that its patience is worse than I thought." Gwen nodded. "Get ready. The narrator from above is coming."
Almost at the same time as Gawain's voice trailed off, in the distant streets, in the shadows between the houses, and in the boundaries of light and shadow created by the flickering lights everywhere, countless hair-raising shadows suddenly appeared out of thin air!
The large and small shadows crawled on the ground and moved quickly along the ground. At first, it looked like the undulating fog at the boundary of the lights. It was not until some of the shadows got closer that Gwen realized what they were — spiders, countless spiders crawling on the ground in the form of shadows!
Countless shadows moved under the illumination of the lights, elongating and shortening from time to time according to the angle of the light. It was as though there were invisible "real" spiders crawling on the ground. They were completely transparent, but they left behind strange shadows on the ground. The moment Gawain saw the shadow spiders, he suddenly thought of what Duart had said to him: "Don't worry about the spiders.
"There are a lot of spiders here at night, but don't worry. They are gentle and harmless, and will actively avoid people …"
These things did not look harmless at all.
Yuri instantly opened his hands. Countless golden runes hovered and danced around them to protect them. The soft and warm light enveloped the whole place. Selena Geer, holding a lantern, stepped forward. Under the light of the lantern, all the shadows on the ground quickly faded. Then, Magnum opened his hands and suddenly burst out with a thunderous voice.
"Psionic Storm!"
A powerful magic instantly gathered and formed into a dim halo that spread in all directions. Wherever the halo passed, all the shadows of spiders paused for a moment, and a tranquil and peaceful atmosphere filled the whole street.
Highly effective Calming Halo, a high-grade mental spell, could calm all mental units, including friends and foes.
But it could not calm Yuri who was in a state of great shock. The gentle archbishop with a monocle almost lost his voice. "Where's your Psionic Storm?!"
"Damn it! I forgot that I had replaced it with Calming Halo! "Magnum shouted.
The gentle archbishop Yuri lost his composure for the first time in his life. "You barbarian! Don't tell me you usually cast spells subconsciously?! "
"I used to be a war priest. I'm used to casting spells subconsciously. What can I do?!"
"Don't use this as an excuse. It's not like I don't know normal war priests!"
Gwen was a little stunned when he heard the argument between the two archbishops. He never thought that there would be such talents in the dark cult. These two people reminded him of Philip and Byron. He even thought that if Yuri and Magnum went to Cecil, they would become national level crosstalk actors within a year.
But a warm and clear light interrupted all the chaos. Selena's lantern bloomed with strong brilliance. Her voice seemed to carry some kind of power that could penetrate the endless curtain. "Quiet! Yuri, Magnum, you have been affected!
"The night here is magnifying your character flaws and negative thoughts, clouding your judgment!"
Yuri and Magnum, who were about to fall into a quarrel, were affected by Selena's lantern. They were also awakened by her words. Suddenly, they opened their eyes wide and instantly realized the subtle pollution and erosion.
The next second, an unusually powerful mental energy burst out with Magnum as the center, setting off a real "storm" in the whole building and a considerable area around it.
At the same time, more shadows were still gathering in all directions. More lights were being lit in the streets and alleys of Nim Sanjo. The light and shadow seemed to form an intertwined grid line, with the temple area as the center, spreading throughout the city, and even strangely spreading outside the city, spreading to the entire desert.
Looking down from the sky, Nim Sanjo and a considerable area around it was shrouded in this net of light and shadow, like a spider web. And the small psychic storm that Magnum set off was in the center of this huge spider web, like a struggling fly, like a prisoner in the spider web.
In the darkness, who knows how far away from Nim Sanjo, on a strange mountain that stood abruptly in the desert like an inverted limb, a worn-out paper lantern suddenly cut through the darkness. In the dim light, the figures of Duwalter and Naretil were reflected.
The former was holding a lantern and quietly looking in the direction of Nim Sanjo. The city was completely enveloped by a huge spider web, and the shadow of a huge spider was slowly patrolling the edge of the web. The latter was sitting on the ground, hugging his knees with both hands, and continued to look at the sky in a daze, staring at the stars in the sky simulated by the sandbox.
"The last hunt has begun, Naretil," Duwalter said in a low and gentle voice. "Don't you want to come and take a look?"
Naretil sat unmoved and said stubbornly, "I want to see the stars."
Duwalter frowned. "It's all fake. What's there to see?"
"But to me … it's real …"
Duwalter frowned as he looked at Naretil and slowly shook his head. "It doesn't matter — after the hunt, the real stars will be waiting for us."
Naretil was silent for a long time under the night sky before she suddenly whispered, "The cake is delicious, but the wine is not good."
Duwalter did not hear her clearly. "What did you say?"
Naretil did not speak again.
Duwalter looked down at Naretil for a long time, and finally shook his head helplessly. "… It doesn't matter."
Then he retracted his gaze and looked in the direction of Nim Sanjo again, at the final hunting ground after the end of the world.
The net woven by the narrators above had finally caught the glimmer of light from reality …
The shockwaves of the psionic storm raged in the streets, tearing the world supported by dreams. Countless shadows of spiders were turned into ashes in the energy wave. Even the nearby houses and stone floors were turned into fragments and dissipated after a few storms.
However, the shadows were endless, and the lights in the city of Nim Sanjo lit up a large area of the night sky. In the dim night sky, there were larger and more abstract shadows gathering, like some kind of giant beast on the hunt, approaching the temple area.
"These things are weird — we can't kill them all!" Magnum shouted in the center of the storm. "They must have a source, hidden in a place we can't see!"
Yuri maintained the protection of the golden runes and also raised his voice. "We should find a way to leave this city. I'm afraid the whole city is a trap!"
While trying to deal with the shadows of spiders and the pervasive spiritual pollution, Yuri and Magnum also turned their heads at the same time and looked in the direction of Gwen.
The higher-ups had already started to make their move. Shouldn't the extraterrestrial wanderers … do something about it?!
"Isn't it time for you to take action?!" Magnum couldn't help but shout. "We can't hold on for long —"
Gwen stood not far from Magnum and Yuri, standing next to Selena Geerfen. He did not move from beginning to end. He just quietly watched the shadows attack, watched Magnum and others launch a counterattack, and quietly observed the chaos as if it had nothing to do with him.
His silence made Selena concerned, and it also made Yuri and Magnum more nervous.
What are the wanderers waiting for? Why haven't they acted yet?
As such doubts grew and almost shook Magnum's confidence, Gwen finally sighed softly.
"I see …"
Oh my god!!!!
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