All you see are ruins.
Gu Jun stared blankly at the ruined city under the terrace, and scanned around, but he couldn't see any moving figures. Those tall figures from the Sunset City Foundation, the figures standing on the street beside the terrace and talking to him... all disappeared.
The once vigorous vitality was replaced by a desolate dead air, a dead city.
His heart ached.
What happened
Slowly lifting his feeble footsteps, Gu Jun stepped on the relatively intact stone slab on the terrace and walked towards the steps. In the past, he couldn't walk down the long stone steps, he couldn't even step down one step, and the closer he got to the steps, the more mental pressure he felt, as if he was about to wake up from a dream.
This time was different. He walked across the huge terrace, and the mental pressure he received remained unchanged for a distance of dozens of steps.
It's just that the bewilderment in my heart is more.
When Gu Jun stood on the edge of the steps, it seemed that there was a gust of cold wind blowing, or maybe it was just him shivering.
The City of the Sunset was destroyed
But this place... is it the sunset city
That group of yellow light power seemed to be polluted by the dark breath... Could it be that because of this, he actually went to another place
It's just why the two are so similar, he can see that those ruined walls originally belonged to some magnificent and beautiful buildings... Mirror image? reflection
Of course, Gu Jun was unwilling to lean towards the destruction of Sunset City, but reason was pulling him, and reason was saying that it didn’t seem like there was any chance of luck...
He stood for a while before he finally stepped out with his right foot and landed on the first step down. With his footsteps firm, he went down without waking up from this nightmare.
The second step, the third step, the fourth... The nightmare is still there.
He doesn't know how he exists here, if this is a dream, why the scenes are so clear, why the stale air sucked into his lungs is so real, making every pore of him feel the dead silence here.
Gu Jun walked down step by step, and walked for about an hour before reaching the end of the stone steps, and the street is one step ahead.
He noticed along the way that the stone steps became more dilapidated as he went down. The last hundred or so steps were full of cracks. Several times he heard the sound of cracking deep under his feet. The steps were crumbling, and any day before long a strong wind would add a pile of broken stones to the ruins.
Also on the way, he had a new idea.
Time is not a straight line, the universe is full of dimensions...
Could it be that this is the case? Did the sunset city exist in the past? the distant past
The previous contact, help... are all products of the past across time and space, but now, the city of sunset has long ceased to exist.
Still, the City of the Sunset is inseparable from the black goat and the life of negative choice. When the earth world cuts off the connection with the latter two, it also cuts off the connection with the City of the Sunset... Neither light nor darkness can stand alone exist…
Will it be so
Gu Jun's head was swollen and painful, too many chaotic thoughts were entangled together, strangling him like a rope, the air became more and more turbid, and the air below had a rancid smell.
He took the last step, left the steps, and landed on the previously unreachable city street, but the delicate cobblestones and marble were covered with cracks and dust, and the large broken stones and collapsed stone pillars blocked the front. The road was cut off and he had to go around it.
"Is anyone there? Is anyone here?"
Gu Jun asked while looking around, his voice was not loud, maybe because he didn't think there would be any response.
The houses on both sides of the street were once very lively, some were residential buildings, some were libraries, some were pubs... Even if they were not bustling, they were not so desolate and quiet. The fountain that once sprayed clear spring water is clogged because no one takes care of it, and only one pool of dirt has accumulated; the flower bed that was once full of flowers has accumulated another pool of dirt; the once beautiful river has accumulated another pool of dirt...
"Anyone? Is there..."
Gu Jun walked across the cracked arch bridge and arrived at a wide square. The statues that originally stood around the square were all reduced to piles of fragments.
He looked to the left, to the right, to the front, and to the back.
It's the same as what I saw standing on the balcony, only more clearly.
All you see are ruins.
I don't know whether the strength in my whole body was taken away by the journey or swallowed up by these loneliness. After Gu Jun sighed for a long time, he almost couldn't stand still.
He stretched his legs and supported his forehead, but all the old wounds on his body were recurring, the incomplete skull, the scarred face, the incomplete left finger, the healed right calf... It is not clear whether it is pain or numbness , or both, he was a little out of breath.
The City of the Sunset... Has it been destroyed...
Have organizations like Sunset City and such power been destroyed...
Heart towards the light, never despair...
Who destroyed the City of the Sunset? By what organization? What power? when
Gu Jun clenched his slightly trembling fist, and punched his heart. If this is a nightmare, then wake up!
But a loud bang didn't let him leave here, the vortex held him firmly.
Just as Gu Jun was about to sit down on a large rubble lying beside him, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see a black shadow flashing past a pile of rubble statues in front of him. He mustered up all his strength and rushed over, "Stand! Who is it!"
However, he ran over and saw that it was empty.
The black shadow just now might just be the reflection pulled out by some gravel.
It's just that Gu Jun found something else, a dividing cross symbol, carved on the ground here.
The Divided Cross... Long lost, but never gone Divided Cross...
He seems to have seen this one, in the Arkham Miskatonic University library in the world of The King in Yellow...
At that time, with the help of the three guard dogs, the dividing cross symbol, and the city of the setting sun, he escaped from Dr. Armitage's ceremony and the shackles of Nyarlathotep, and reached the city of the setting sun for the first time terrace, back to the home world.
Why, there is a split cross symbol on the ground here...
In other places of this square, next to other statues, there are no symbols engraved.
The more Gu Jun looked at the symbol, the more thoughts flooded in. Could it be for me
However, how could they leave a mark on him when the City of the Setting Sun was destroyed, and besides, those people didn't know what happened in the end...
The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the symbol had a strange attraction.
"Perhaps, when different people come here, they will see different imprints? The imprint left by the sunset city?"
Gu Jun thought, "Maybe, I can try to connect it? It's like opening a letter... Will there be some information and things buried for me?".