Fanna tightened her muscles and nerves at the first moment, and looked at the tall figure gradually emerging from the dust fog with caution - if the situation was wrong, she would prepare to jump over it.

But what came from the wind, sand and dust was just a gentle and rational voice: "Ah... a traveler, I have never seen strangers appear here for many years."

Fanna was slightly stunned for a moment, and then she saw the giant figure walking out of the dust.

He was four or five meters tall, so Fanna could only try her best to raise her head to see the giant's face. It was a dark robe that seemed to be a rag-like robe. The robe used to be an exquisite costume, but now it is only the broken and ragged rags that have been through countless vicissitudes. The giant's body was thin, as if it had been wiped out by a long journey to almost dry bones - but the thin hand held a huge scepter that was a bit exaggerated.

Even in the hands of the giant, the long staff seemed too heavy and huge. Its body was like a straight and trunk with links. The top of the staff was enlarged like a swollen rock with almost uncarved rough outlines. On the surface of the staff, countless dense, complex and mysterious patterns could be seen covering the entire staff.

Vanna's eyes were involuntarily attracted by the cane - it was not like a power tool for travel, but more like an amazing weapon, or some kind of ritual object with heavy symbolism, which made her instinctively... a kind of near-awe pressure.

But soon, her attention was shifted from her cane to the giant.

Because the giant was bent down slightly towards her, the vicissitudes of life were casting gentle gazes at her - the giant's face was not like a human. Although it also had clear facial features, the lines of the facial features seemed too cold, hard and sharp, and even gave people a rock-carved texture. His eyes were chaotic brown-yellow, and flames seemed to be pounding deep in the eyeballs. Every line of sight seemed to bring heavy pressure to people.

"Visitor, where did you come from?" asked the giant.

When he opened his mouth, even the wind and sand around him seemed to be stirred by invisible force. The chaotic air flow circled around Vanna, but no grain of sand fell on her.

Vanna tried hard to control her heartbeat and expression. She quickly reported to the captain the amazing situation on her side in the depths of her consciousness. At the same time, she organized the language and thought for a while before answering the giant: "I came from outside the desert, very far from here, and I don't know why I came to this place. May I ask... who are you?"

"Oh, outside the desert...it's a desert now," the giant nodded slowly, but did not answer Vanna's question, but said with emotion in his tone, "You... are very interesting, traveler, are different from the humans I remember, but I'm not sure if I remember it wrong-after all, I haven't seen strangers for a long time."

But she is no longer the reckless person who dared to jump when he saw Captain Duncan. On the Lost Country, she learned to face those incredible things with a more rational attitude.

"Are you a god?" Vanna said cautiously, "Who are you talking about 'them'? Where is this place?"

"They used to live here," the giant seemed not to realize Vanna's instant vigilance. He just raised his hand and pointed it at the vast sea of ​​sand with his long staff. "But that seemed to be something that happened a long time ago...and maybe it hadn't been long long?"

The giant stopped in confusion. He looked at the long staff in his hand. After a while, he slowly shook his head: "Time... has become what I don't know. In an instant, it was stretched to nearly infinite and then compressed again. I can no longer be sure when that happened. I only remember that this was once the most prosperous hinterland of the kingdom. The yellow sand at your feet was once a forest and fertile soil that stretched thousands of miles. The huge canal crossed the fields and led the rivers on the plateau through the hills. I watched them build a pure white city here, with high walls connecting mountains, towers rising from the ground in the jungle, and bright flames illuminating the night sky... I remember that it was very beautiful."

The giant spoke slowly, as if he hadn't talked to others for too long, and he was no longer used to organizing logic when talking, so that his words seemed somewhat inconsistent, like talking to himself in a dream. Fanna could only try to keep up with the other party's narrative, understand, guess the information conveyed by the other party's words, and imagine what the other party's description had in a long time ago.

Then, the giant suddenly stopped, looked down at Fanna, and asked curiously: "What about you? Traveler, who are you? Do you have a name?"

Fanna subconsciously pursed her lips, and she immediately restrained her urge to answer.

You cannot rashly reveal your name to an unknown existence - especially this existence that calls itself a "god", and is most likely a superior extraordinary person with powerful power.

He may not have malice, but some extraordinary beings that are powerful to a certain extent often do not require any subjective malice to interfere with the fate of mortals. After becoming the captain's follower, Vanna's understanding of this is deeper than ever.

After a moment of hesitation, she spoke cautiously: "My name is Vanessa, and I don't have any extraordinary identity, I am just a person who accidentally lost his way."

"Vanessa..." the giant mumbled softly, then shook his head, "You don't call this name."

Fanna felt her heartbeat accelerate instantly.

However, then the giant waved his hand: "But it doesn't matter. As I said just now, everyone has secrets. If you don't want to reveal your name, then I will continue to call you "Traveler" - there are no other people here anyway, and we will not make mistakes with each other."

Fanna was silent for a moment, and after a brief embarrassment, she nodded.

"Traveler," continued the giant, "where are you going?"

Fanna hesitated for a moment and looked up at the silhouette in the distance that looked like a ruin in the city.

"Let's go together," the giant noticed Fanna's gaze and made a friendly invitation. "Although I don't remember those things that have happened a long time ago, we can walk together and I still have some impression of this world."

Fanna didn't speak for a moment, as if she was waiting for something.

A moment later, the captain's order came from deep in her consciousness-

“Accept this invitation.”
Chapter completed!