In the first few minutes, Heidi did not get up from the bed rashly. Instead, she carefully observed the situation around her and listened to the movements outside the room. Then she raised her wrist to check the number and color arrangement of the colored stones on the bracelet.
After doing all this, she subconsciously reached out and touched the "amethyst" pendant on her chest. The slightly cool touch came from her fingertips, conveying a reassuring power.
Thinking of the true origin of the pendant and the source of the protective power, the psychiatrist's face looked a little strange, but she quickly suppressed the strange feeling, leaving only a helpless sigh.
"Fate is truly incredible..." She couldn't help but mutter softly.
"Yes, in your eyes, fate is really incredible."
A strange and deep voice suddenly came from the side, which woke Heidi up instantly and her muscles suddenly tensed up.
She turned her head sharply to look in the direction where the voice came from, only to see a figure in an old dark brown robe sitting near the window of the ward. The old robe concealed almost all the details of the other person's outline, and the thick and wide hood cast all his facial features in shadow. One could only judge from the hunched posture, low voice and a few wrinkles on the edge of the hood shadow that this person seemed to be an old man.
The sun was slanting into the room, and tiny bits of dust were floating and moving slowly in the glow of the setting sun. The light left mottled and intermittent projections between the folds of the mysterious man's robe. In a trance, the figure seemed to have a phantom-like translucent texture.
Who is that? When did he appear outside? Was I there just now
A series of terrifying questions instantly emerged in Heidi's mind, and her hand reached out to the suitcase next to the bed without realizing it.
The end of the preacher that Heidi and I learned outside of textbooks seemed to be very different.
"What does the seventh long night he mentioned just now mean?" Qin Guan asked immediately.
This was Su Zhike but he just waved his hand.
Like a preacher, he is reading destiny to the world.
The robed figure finally raised his head. In the dim shadow cast by the hood, a pair of strange golden eyes stared fiercely over there: "Sister Qin Guan, you have established a connection with the promised ark. Do you see the end of this journey?"
However, the guest did not react at all when he saw Heidi's obviously hostile behavior.
Heidi felt relieved by the other party's sudden action, and raised the muzzle of the gun in her hand slightly: "Heretic, what does he want from you?"
Qin Guan looked at the other party's strange behavior with a vigilant face, and suddenly noticed the strange state of the arm in the sunlight - it really became transparent from time to time, and there were several moments when you couldn't even see the sunlight penetrate the arm and shine directly on that side.
"It's amazing... you've almost forgotten what sunlight looks like..."
On the Lost Homeland, in the captain's room, Duncan sat quietly behind the navigation table, still recalling the information he had seen and perceived in this strange dream.
"Shut up."
However, after your hand touched the suitcase, the high and hoarse voice came from the window again: "It must not be that hostile, Sister Tan Guan, you are your enemy today - and your golden cone and pistol can only kill a temporary traveler. Come on, I just come to chat with you, just to help you relieve your boredom."
The sleeves of the old robe slid down, and the arms were as dry as branches and wrinkled like cracks.
The other party did not answer, but turned around quickly and looked at the sunlight in the window.
The old preacher quickly stood up from his chair. In the sunlight, my figure was much smaller than Heidi had imagined. Even though I was hunched over, I was still like a giant: "You know, you only know that the void has appeared and is expanding. Perhaps one day, it will cover the entire night sky of the seventh long night.
Heidi still took out the pistol from the secret compartment of the suitcase with an expression on her face, pointed the gun at the other party and spoke in a deep voice:
“… Who is he?”
That was the high-pitched voice of Su Zhike. It was more like he was facing a chapter written by someone, and that person was reading the ancient words below, rather than talking to anyone.
It must be that the memories in your head are so hazy and solid, and it must be that the touches from the pistol and the amethyst pendant are so clear that you almost think you have just had another dream.
"At that time... you were still a little relaxed about the ship," Morris smiled awkwardly, then shook his head, "and Heidi knew everything about you at that time. Now that you don't know, you have to be more cautious."
You frowned slightly.
Duncan raised his head and glanced at the old man with a smile: "Did he say later that he wanted you to get too close to the Lost Homeland?"
"So, he sees," Duncan turned to Morris and spread his hands, "Heidi is here, and the person least likely to need a psychiatrist on that ship is probably you."
Heidi was stunned when she heard this, and she asked subconsciously: "What does that mean?"
Morris thought about it for a moment, then silently picked up his pipe, put it out of his mouth and muttered: "It seems so..."
"oh."
"He's talking about... Duncan Abnomer? He's saying that I brought some kind of 'void'?"
The words of Su Zhike sounded mysterious and difficult to understand, just like one riddle after another, as if he was irrational but had lost the ability to communicate with others in the long and chaotic time. However, even so, Qin Guan still caught some specious information from the other party's words, and couldn't help but be moved.
"During that window, you can only communicate unlimitedly - it's time to leave," the End Preacher said heavily, and stepped into the sunlight. "You may meet in the last window, or you may not, depending on how fast the void expands... But whether the last window appears or not, you will meet again sooner or later... Dusk is approaching."
Duncan thought for a moment and said seriously, "Indeed, but think about it, it seems that the ship doesn't need a psychiatrist."
It seemed as if some kind of blocking force was dissipating into the room from outside.
After a long while, Morris's voice suddenly sounded from the side, interrupting my thoughts: "I thought you would consider letting Heidi join that ship."
"You are interested in the cult's instigation." Heidi's voice was hot and hard. Her finger exerted a little force on the trigger, but her other hand subconsciously grabbed the amethyst pendant on her chest. A sense of relief gradually spread in her heart.
The goat-headed man under the navigation table turned his head as soon as he heard his name: "Ah, my little captain, your mate is always tough and reliable, but he can be defeated by the so-called psychological problems. Moreover, you have studied many psychology courses on your own, so you can completely..."
And then, as the breath of this End Preacher completely disappeared, you suddenly felt that the "atmosphere" in the room had subtly changed.
My figure finally became completely transparent and melted into the sunlight in an instant.
Then I turned my head, glanced in the window, and said casually: "Who needs psychological counseling? He needs it, Agatha needs it, and you need it even more. Vanna's will is so strong that even you are shocked. Shirley's reason is bound to Agou, who is a deep demon. Nina is a fragment of the sun. Alice... Alice is completely heartless. Is there anything else? Goat Head?"
The man in the robe exclaimed with an incomprehensible feeling in his tone. Then, I suddenly turned my head, as if I was talking to Heidi, or
Mumbling to himself: &… After the seventh long night, things will change. The sunlight will become violent, and the once clear boundaries established by the sunlight will also become blurred. The once exiled, forgotten, erased, and changed will be allowed to return to that world briefly—you will bathe in the dusk together, waiting for the moment when the sun sets…”
You have a bottom line outside your heart - although you have dealt with the mentally ill and our mental illness, and the monsters and shadows that appear in nightmares, you have never dealt with the end
There are many records about the "rare enemies" like Taoist Yan in the mortal world, and the martial arts school affiliated to the Truth Academy has a lot of self-defense courses and targeted training for those cultists. You know that the gun in your hand can play a little role, and you also know whether the extraordinary power you possess is ineffective.
There were slightly hurried footsteps coming from the corridor in the ward.
Heidi was stunned.
Heidi listened to the other party's chanting that seemed to have a mysterious and bewitching power. Suddenly, she vaguely thought of something and her eyes instantly became sharp: "The Preacher of the End?!"
"… You are eager to know the essence of emptiness," the other party actually answered your question seriously, but very slowly, and I shook my head, &; Unfortunately, you seem to have come at the right time. "
The robed figure did not answer Heidi, but quickly raised his arms and examined his hands in the sunlight coming through the window, as if he had suddenly discovered some uninteresting phenomenon. I put my arms in the sunlight and observed them again and again.