Everyone was talking about wizards, mysterious realms, magic, and ghosts. No one noticed what Lily was doing. It was normal for the husky maiden to run around out of curiosity. Even if she suddenly squatted down and dug a hole to bury herself, no one would give her a second look. So Lily stood by the table, her eyes wide open as she listened to the voices coming from an unknown space. It was not until the voices slowly became noisy, like the static of a radio that she woke up from a dream.
Lily flicked her ears. The voices of the ghosts could no longer be heard, and the faint shadows in her eyes gradually faded like water ripples. She raised her Frostfire Claws and scratched the air, and finally confirmed that they were all phantoms.
Hao Ren finally noticed the maiden's movement. "Lily, what are you doing?" he asked from afar.
"I heard someone talking just now!" Lily immediately ran to Hao Ren and told everyone what she had just heard.
Nangong Sanba frowned. "Is it a message left by the ghosts?"
"Didn't you say that the spirits here are very weak, and they are mixed together and indistinguishable?" Hao Ren glanced at Sanba. "What's going on?"
Nangong Sanba looked at Lily curiously and sprinkled some powder into the air. "The spirits here are indeed very weak. See for yourselves —"
As soon as he finished speaking, the powder that was scattered in the air was suspended in mid-air under the guidance of magic. It dispersed around everyone like a mist, and then emitted a faint fluorescent light. This weak light slightly illuminated the dark space around them. In the fluorescent powder, some chaotic light and shadow gradually appeared, but after a few seconds, it gradually disappeared, and no clear image could be seen in the light and shadow.
"Those are the spirits entrenched in this town." Nangong Sanba raised the corner of his mouth. "You have seen the resolution yourself."
"I don't know if your eyesight is bad or something …" Lily's ears twitched. "Anyway, I can see it quite clearly."
Hao Ren was surprised. He looked at the husky maiden in surprise. He did not expect the husky maiden to have such an unexpected ability. Even the demon hunters could not tell the ghosts apart, but she had caught them. Nangong Wuyue was also amazed. She asked Vivian, "Do werewolves have the talent to sense the undead?"
"Werewolves don't have this talent …" Vivian thought about it seriously, and her expression suddenly became strange. "But it's true that dogs can ward off evil spirits. Besides, according to the Chinese legend, cats and dogs have psychic eyes and can see unclean things, right?"
Everyone: "…"
When Vivian said this, her face was so serious that even Lily did not know how to refute. Turcan wanted to say "this is not scientific" but he swallowed his words. At the critical moment, he remembered that he was a fantasy creature that was even more unscientific.
Hao Ren waved his hand and changed the topic. He looked thoughtfully at the seemingly empty square around him. "It seems that there are many spirits entrenched in this town. In fact, when I first arrived here, I heard some sounds, but obviously not as clear as Lily's. How about this, Lily, you are responsible for the movement of the spirits. No matter what you hear or see, just tell me. Maybe these spirits can tell us something about this town. "
"Oh, oh, no problem!" Lily said confidently. "They seemed to be talking about the feudal lord. This town used to be a noble fief. Is this information useful?"
"Noble fief?" Vivian frowned. "It's useless. In that era, almost all the land belonged to the nobles."
"Oh," Lily said regretfully. She stared at them and led the way in front of them. Her eyes glowed with a faint golden light, and the invisible things that were entrenched in the Lost Town kept appearing and disappearing in her vision. In front of others, there was only a layer of gray mist on the town's path. But in Lily's eyes, there were translucent shadows flashing in the mist from time to time.
Unfortunately, most of the shadows were very, very thin. They couldn't even be considered as undead. They were just a little echo left behind when a soul dissipated. They just floated in the air blankly, but the real soul had already left.
Hao Ren took out the MDT. He also saw the readings of the spirits. But this thing was not designed to detect the undead. Radar alone could not communicate with ghosts, so he put the MDT away.
As they passed by an abandoned house, Nangong Sanba checked the road sign in front of the house. "Domir … Is there any record of this town in history?"
"No," Duncan replied. "We've checked. There's no record of the name 'Domir' or any human town in this area. This place has been completely erased from history. I'm not sure if it's because of the power of magic or simply the passage of time. "
Vivian thought for a moment and said, "It's probably just a matter of time. Only Odin and Zeus could do phenomenal curses that could tamper with history on a large scale in the Mythological Era. I don't think a human wizard could have such a talent. Hundreds of years ago, Europe was very chaotic. It's not unusual for a remote town like this to be buried in history. Not to mention, it has completely disappeared from the map. There's no way for future generations to find it. "
Nangong Wuyue was crawling at the back of the group. She felt something strange as her snake tail crawled on the ground. She curled up her tail and looked around. Suddenly, she found something. "Have you guys noticed? There's dust everywhere in this town."
"Dust?" Hao Ren looked at his feet and found that he was stepping on a layer of grayish-black powder. He had not noticed it before. "This is …"
"It looks like the ashes from burning wood." Wuyue used her finger to pinch the ashes on the ground. "It's everywhere from the entrance of the town to here."
Hao Ren looked around thoughtfully. He did not see any obvious signs of a fire. Ashes were everywhere in the town, but he did not know where they came from.
There was no record of this town "Domir" in history. No one knew when and how it disappeared. No one knew what the scene was like when the town was destroyed. Based on the closed condition of the town and the spirit that occupied the place, Hao Ren guessed that the place was intact before it was pulled into the alternate dimension. The "ashes" in the town should have appeared after the arcane realm was sealed.
Unless, of course, the town had a tradition of scattering ashes on the ground. Hao Ren thought about it for a moment, but he did not think it was possible.
Lily held her Flamejoy as a torch and walked in front. After focusing, she saw more spirits in the air. The number of these spirits was abnormal. They were almost densely packed on the street, even overlapping each other, pushing and shoving each other. The scale was not something that a small town like this could accommodate. Lily was a little puzzled. After careful observation, she finally found the secret of these spirits: more than half of the "ghosts" were actually duplicates.
Although she could not see clearly, from the general outline and shape, she could still tell that some of the wandering ghosts were actually the same. They walked along a roughly fixed path on the street, and the only difference was the time. The duplicates always walked into the same door, and it was this that made Lily discover the secret of these spirits.
She told her discovery to Nangong Sanba, who discussed it with the others. Suddenly, a thought came to Vivian. "Maybe these spirits are not the remnants of humans."
Hao Ren did not quite understand. "That is …"
"Perhaps it's the town's memory, or perhaps it's a resonance phenomenon produced by a more powerful soul. In short, they are not ghosts, but something projected by another force. That's why the phenomenon repeats and follows a fixed trajectory," Vivian said as a faint blood-red mist surrounded her. "I've suspected it just now. If all the residents of the town have become ghosts, there should be a strong accumulation of undead energy here. But apart from a little change in temperature and wandering spirits, I don't sense any similar 'environment' here."
Hao Ren did not know much about this. He asked Kassandra and found out that when a large number of ghosts (or similar spirits) gathered together, they would produce a kind of "aura" superposition. The more the number, the stronger the superposition. More than a hundred ghosts were enough to produce an energy field that ordinary people could perceive in an area. This energy field could cause hallucinations and even brain death.
At least, the spirits produced by humans had this property.
The MDT also confirmed Kassandra's statement, but its explanation was easier to understand: the superposition of electromagnetic fields.
Hao Ren deduced a little deeper into the phenomenon and suddenly felt a little creeped out.
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