Everyone else was discussing about wizards, secret realms, magic, and ghosts. No one noticed what Lily was doing: it was natural for a husky girl to run around with too much curiosity, even if she suddenly squatted on the ground and dug a hole If you bury yourself, no one will take a second look. So Lily just stood beside the table in a daze, her eyes wide open listening to the voices coming from an unknown time and space, until the voices gradually became noisy, like the noise when the radio encountered interference, she had a big dream Waking up like Ji Ling suddenly woke up.
Lily shook her ears, the ghost's voice could no longer be heard, and the faint shadows in her eyes gradually faded like water ripples. She raised her ice and fire claws to scratch in the air, and finally confirmed that they were all phantoms .
Hao Ren finally noticed the girl's movement, and asked from a distance, "Lily, what are you doing?"
"I heard someone talking just now!" Lily immediately ran to Hao Ren's side and told everyone what she saw and heard just now.
Nangong Sanba frowned: "Is it the message left by the ghost?"
"Didn't you say that the spirit bodies here are all weak, and they can't be distinguished from each other when they're mixed together?" Hao Ren glanced at Sanba, "What's going on?"
Nangong Sanba glanced at Lily curiously, then casually sprinkled some powder into the air: "The spirit body here is really weak, see for yourself—"
As the voice fell, the powder that had been sprinkled into the air was already suspended in mid-air under the traction of magic power. They spread around everyone like mist, and then emitted a faint fluorescent light, which slightly illuminated the surrounding dark space , in the fluorescent light of the powder, some chaotic light and shadows gradually emerged, but gradually disappeared after a few seconds, and no clear image could be seen in the light and shadow.
"Those are the spirit bodies entrenched in this town," Nangong Sanba raised the corner of his mouth, "I'm sure you have seen it yourself."
"I don't know if it's because of your poor eyesight or what..." Lily's ears twitched, "Anyway, I can see it quite clearly."
Hao Ren was immediately surprised. He looked at the husky girl in surprise, he didn't expect this girl to have such an unexpected ability: even the faint ghosts that the witcher couldn't distinguish were captured by her. Nangong Wuyue was also amazed. He also asked Vivian: "Do werewolves have the talent to perceive the undead?"
"Werewolves don't have this talent..." Vivienne thought about it seriously, and her expression suddenly became weird, "But it is true that dogs can ward off evil spirits, and it is said in Chinese that cats and dogs have psychic eyes and can see dirty things? "
Everyone: "..."
When Vivienne said this, the expression on her face was so serious that even Lily didn't know how to refute it immediately, so Duncan who was next to him wanted to say "this is unscientific" but he swallowed it back: the key For a moment he remembered that he was an even more unscientific fantasy creature.
Hao Ren waved his hand to dismiss this topic. He looked thoughtfully at the seemingly empty small square around him: "It seems that there are many ghosts entrenched in this town—in fact, I seemed to hear a little sound when I first arrived here, but it was obviously not as clear as Lily's perception How about this, Lily, you are responsible for paying attention to the movements of the spirits, and tell me what you hear and see. Maybe these spirits can tell us something about the town."
"Oh, sure!" Lily puffed her chest out confidently, "It seems that they were discussing the lord just now. This town should have been a noble fiefdom before. Is this information useful?"
"A noble fief?" Vivian frowned. "It's useless. At that time, almost all the land belonged to the nobles."
Lily let out a regretful "Oh" and began to lead the way with her eyes wide open. There was a faint golden light in her eyes. The things that are entrenched in this lost town and invisible to the naked eye keep appearing and fading slowly in her vision. Before the others, there was only a gray mist over the town's lanes. But in Lily's eyes, some translucent shadows flashed away in the mist from time to time.
It's a pity that most of the shadows are very, very thin. Those are not even undead. They are just a little echo left when the soul dissipates. They just float in the air blankly, but the real soul has long since left.
Hao Ren took out the data terminal from his pocket, and he also saw the readings of the spirit body, but this thing is not specially used to detect undead creatures, and the radar alone cannot communicate with ghosts. So he put the terminal away again.
When passing by an abandoned house, Nangong Sanba checked the street sign in front of the house: "Domir... is there any record of this town in history?"
"No." Duncan replied, "We have checked the information, whether it is the place name 'Domir' or the records of human towns that once existed in this area are blank. This place has been completely erased from history. Not sure if it was the power of magic or simply age."
Vivienne thought for a while: "It should be just a matter of age. Phenomenon-level spells that can tamper with history on a large scale can only be done by guys like Odin and Zeus in the age of mythology. I don't think a wizard promoted by humans Can have this kind of talent. Europe was very chaotic hundreds of years ago. It is not uncommon for such a small town in a remote area to be submerged in history. What's more, it has completely disappeared from the map, and there is no place for future generations to search it. .”
Nangong Wuyue meandered and crawled at the end of the line, and her snake tail felt something strange while crawling on the ground. She curled up her tail and looked, and suddenly found something: "Have you noticed, this town is full of dust."
"Ash?" Hao Ren looked at his feet and found that he was stepping on a layer of gray-black powder. He really didn't pay attention to these things that could be seen everywhere before. "This is..."
"Like the ashes left by burning wood," Wuyue rubbed a little of the ashes on the ground with his fingers, "from the entrance of the town to here, it's everywhere."
Hao Ren looked around thoughtfully. He didn't see any obvious signs of a fire. The ashes that could be seen everywhere in the town didn't know where they came from.
There is no record of this "Dormir" town in history, and no one can tell when and how it disappeared, and no one knows what the scene of the town was when it was destroyed. Based on the fact that the town was closed and the spirits entrenched here, Hao Ren judged that this place should be intact until it was pulled into a different dimension, so the "ash" in the town should have appeared after the secret realm was sealed off.
Unless this town had the custom of throwing plant ash all over the ground before——Hao Ren thought about it, and he felt that this possibility was not high.
Lily was very happy to act as a torch and walked in front holding the torch. After concentrating, she saw more spirits appeared in the air. The number of these spirits was already abnormally large, and they were almost densely walking on the street. Walking, even overlapping each other, pushing and shoving into a group, this scale is not at all what such a small town can accommodate. Lily was a little puzzled. After careful observation, she finally discovered the secret of these spirit bodies: more than half of those "ghosts" were actually repeated.
Although I can't see clearly, it can still be judged from the general outline and shape that some ghosts wandering around are actually the same. They walk around the street along a roughly fixed trajectory, just in chronological order There is only a difference: such repeated ghosts will always go through the same door, and it is this that allows Lily to discover the secret of these spirits.
She was puzzled and told Nangong Sanba about her discovery, and the latter discussed it with others. Vivienne suddenly had an idea: "Perhaps these spirit bodies are not the remains of human beings."
Hao Ren didn't quite understand: "That's..."
"Maybe it is the memory of this town, or it may be the resonance phenomenon produced by a stronger soul. In short, they are not ghosts, but things projected by another force, so there will be repetitions and follow a fixed trajectory Take action," Vivienne said, while a faint blood-red mist surrounded her, "I was wondering just now, if all the residents in the entire town turned into ghosts, there should be a strong accumulation of undead power here That's right, but apart from a little temperature change and those ghosts wandering around, there is no similar 'environment' here."
Hao Ren didn't know much about this matter. He asked Cassandra and found out that when a large number of ghosts (or similar undead) gather together, they will produce an "aura". The greater the number, the deeper the superposition. More than a hundred ghosts are enough to generate an energy field that can be perceived by ordinary people in an area. This energy field can cause hallucinations and even lead to serious consequences of brain death. .
At least the undead produced by humans have this property.
The data terminal also affirmed Cassandra's statement, but its explanation was easier to understand: the superposition of electromagnetic fields.
Hao Ren reasoned a little deeper about the current situation, and suddenly felt a little hairy. (to be continued~^~)