September 23, 557, New Yuan calendar.
Cruzde Federation, Extreme Cold Special Zone, Q District (Old Cold Extreme Cold Area), "Peslunne" area, settlements outside the wind wall.
"Wolfya, I heard the call of the 'Echoerer' again." Dark, who woke up again from the dark, fear, deep, depression and cold nightmare, wiped away the sweat from his forehead and leaned weakly on the seat filled with dust, blood and indescribable, thick fog, which belonged to the "sorrow" breath left by the residual fog.
"What? Is he here to find you again?" Wolfya glanced at Dak in the rearview mirror in the car, leisurely clamped the already lit "Anshen Inner Rolling Flowers" with two fingers, and then took a deep breath of satisfaction, spit out a "second-hand smoke" with a scent of peace, and asked.
"I...I'm not sure." Dark shook his head, trying to struggle to sit up, but the deep hangover left in the dream made him feel dizzy and felt extremely weak for a moment. He simply stopped trying to get up, continued to maintain a lazy half-lying posture, and replied in a slightly weak voice:
"Since the time when he showed me his 'Detective Touch' in the Snow's 'Grey Dream', the 'Echoer' has never revealed His true appearance. In the next few dreams, I could only see the empty altar and the gradually disappearing tree in the center."
"Trees?" Wolfya said curiously, holding the cigarette in his mouth, grabbing it with both hands on the steering wheel, and continuing to smoothly control the mechanical chariot transformed by his hands, driving in a small-scale ice field that was also empty, covered with a layer of snow that was not shallow or deep.
That's right, this place should be the deepest part of the entire Extreme Cold Special Zone, and it can be called the most desolate and lonely area in the Cruzde region.
The "Wentinos" River, which originated from the depths of the wasteland, belonged to a barbaric nation whose historical traces were erased and belonged to the ocean before Ivan I arrived here. This river belongs to a seasonal river. Due to extreme ice, there is a period of several months of flow failure. These did not smoothly merge into the water sources of the North Endless Ice Ocean, did not flow into other locations, but penetrated into the underground, and perhaps entered the realm of the underworld.
Since defeating the monster incarnation of the "Lord of the Dark Night", Dak and Wolfya took the badge that Darnell valued the most and Talia, together with "The Future", passed through the jungle and valley, walked north along the Winternos River, and paid attention to the old imperial ruins that had been plundered by the "Site Hunter", and came to this section of the present, on a very desolate old road not far from the settlement outside the Wind Wall.
Because he had sucked too much "sorrow" after coming out of the dense forest, the consciousness of "future" was always in a state of good and bad times. Talia simply stole a "Sword and Shield" brand mechanical chariot that originally belonged to the Federal Vasirisk Legion, and removed the flags belonging to the Federation and the city. After all the patterns were broken, he drove the chariot and pulled the "future" that was sleeping all day long, following the chariots that Wolfya and Dak were riding and heading north.
Through the car window, looking at the bright and clear sky above, Dark replied:
"That's right. Yesterday's terrible... In the dream, I saw the towering tree with my own eyes... collapsed with a bang. Everything in the dream... is a white existence, the Khitan Ris landform, the path and the altar, which is very quiet. Apart from the subtle sound of the wind, I could hardly hear any sound.
"But just as I focused on the towering tree, his dark, thick branches quickly withered, and black, brown and red juices were discharged outwards, which combined with the snow and evaporated. And the tree turned into a pile of fragments...it was like...well...a pile of broken cardboard was piled there."
"Is it the 'Echoer' sending you any message?" Wolfya asked with a frown.
"Maybe, maybe not, I'm not sure. But this dream made me feel even more tired and uneasy. In fact, this time, I felt more difficult to wake up. When I realized that I was dreaming, I tried my best to wake up, but whether it was to gather my spirit, activate the energy of the 'Silent Wolf Tooth', or stab my heart with sharp objects, I couldn't wake up." Dark's face was covered with cold sweat, and he looked ahead with a loss of focus and replied:
"It's like the dream of gray is reality, and the world I've always wanted to return to is illusory. I even suspected that I was a general from the old empire. When I went to Gubin City, Khitan Ris to perform a mission, I was invaded by miasma, which led to my hallucination and entered a wasteland nightmare that lasted twenty years.
"Fortunately, I woke up in a daze. Wolfya, do you think... Did I dream of the 'Echoerer' in the gray dream, or did the 'Echoerer' dream that He became me?"
"'Zhuang Zhou's dream of butterflies'?" Wolfya laughed:
"This is just an interesting philosophical topic proposed by the Khitan Ris. If the Lord created all things according to the bishops who were not doing serious things, He would also create dreams. Reality is one world, dreams are just a world of another plane, but dreams are half a dimension than reality.
"However, from my point of view, your dream this time is not good, nor is it bad. The collapse of the towering tree symbolizes the destruction of the old [order] and the arrival of the new [order]. If I remember correctly, the document mastered by the Federal Council mentioned that the profession of the 'Echoerer' is the upper-level [order]. This dream may indicate that He no longer needs the 'gray dream' for the time being, His flesh may be slowly recovering, and His spirit may have long been revived. However, He does not have enough strength to escape from the bondage for the time being, and He is waiting for our rescue."
"Maybe." Dark replied perfunctorily, continuing to sit back and starting to close his eyes and rest.
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We continued to move forward for about an hour, and as the surrounding bare and straight poplar trees began to "grow", the blurred outlines of the houses belonging to human settlements finally appeared in the distance, and the dark phantoms shining and wriggling under the sun.
The water vapor in the air began to gradually increase. The originally bright blue sky began to be covered with a deep gray, like an old man next to the dim, dirty fireplace that emitted the choking smell of burning dust. He opened a dim purple book to tell a horror story that tortured the human spirit.
Soon, the sky with black as the tone passed through an unusually bright white, as if it were all gray and black videotapes were mistakenly followed by a wrongly bright white as heaven.
About half a minute later, a huge roar rang throughout the desolate area of ​​the Cruzdians.
"Boom!"
The sound of thunder seemed to penetrate the mechanical chariot with powerful armor and penetrated into Dak's heart. Although his heartbeat stopped for a second, it seemed to shatter the shackles called "tired" lingering in his spiritual realm.
He finally got rid of his hangover-like state, temporarily putting the horror, resentment, and sad dreams behind him, and sat up from his half-lying state.
"Where have you been? Wolfya." Dak asked, pointing to a row of messy buildings not far ahead.
“Well, it seems to be a settlement in the ‘Pslunai’ area.” Wolfya analyzed:
"We just walked along the most desolate old road, not far away there should be a piece of the middle of the Winternos River that has been cut off. Now it should be some distance from 'Ice Creek No. 1'. As far as I know, there should be some settlements here. If I had been here half a year earlier, I would have told you without hesitation that those settlements belong to our Federation. But now, I am not very easy to say."
"Why?" Dark wondered.
"Before the time when the Chief Executive Viking ruled Cruzde, he had plans to run the Extreme Cold Special Zone and repaired a small section of the northbound highway. He attached great importance to the "Peslune" area with miracles and tried every means to establish a number of official settlements. This is why Chief Vasily was able to get the "red storm" in this area from the federal army and from the "Order Society" at all times." Wolfya explained:
"It was only three months ago that in order to completely win the battle of "Sad Sorrow", the Federation was forced to draw all the elite [Warriors] here to go south, resulting in many independent armed forces and lost people entering it. You may know that if you want to establish long-term and effective connections with it outside the core area of ​​the federal control, they must be allowed to escape from the full control of the Federation in part of the actions.
"To put it bluntly, the institutions that operate these settlements, such as the "Peslunai Regional Development Committee" and the "Extreme Cold Special Zone Development Committee" may be directly controlled by Chief Vasily at the beginning, but in the end, they often evolve into semi-independent "liberalization" organizations. They will not only accept the entry of [warriors] according to the federal orders, but also allow independent armed "site hunters" to rest here because of money and resources.
Chapter completed!