"Soul Mourning Lord..." The commander of the Undead warriors knelt in the dim hall, his forehead almost touching the ground.
"How are the things that should be done going?" On the high platform in the innermost part of the hall, a dark shadow sat on a wide bench, his voice sullen and hoarse.
"They... They can't escape..."
"Can't escape? You mean they can't escape without my Light Knights, right?" Another man on the bench said. There were eight such benches on the high platform, and one person sat on each. But the further inside the hall, it was darkest, and the faces of the people on the high platform could not be seen clearly.
"Tell me, why did you do such a bad job this time?" said the Lord of the Soul, looking rather ugly.
"Out... A little mistake..." The leader of the Undead warriors was thinking about how to say it to gain the trust of the eight men on stage.
"What mistake?" The man in the middle of the bench asked loudly.
The commander gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, the Undead warriors and the Dark Knights have already surrounded those two men. They are already under the control of our weapons. But... But then another person appeared..."
"Who?"
"No... Not human... But... The spirit shadow..."
No one on the stage spoke any more. It seemed as if they were waiting for the team leader to continue.
"Yes, it's the spirit shadow. Our men couldn't see him, but he took control of the weapon in our hands, first disrupting the Dark Knights' team and then absorbing the power of the Undead warriors. Then the shadow disappeared, but our men had no strength left to chase the two fleeing men."
"The spirit shadow, what a joke. It's impossible for a spirit shadow to be in this space." One voice said.
Another voice retorted: "That's not necessarily so. If through some specific medium, the spirit shadow can also exist in the same spatial plane as us."
"But if they say they can't see the shadow, then that means there is no medium. Without a medium, the spirit shadow would not interact with us even if we were in the same space. The spirit shadow is just a myth, just the mad talk of Azur. Do you also read the poems of Azur? Believe me, it's the worst book in the world. A spirit shadow can't exist."
"The spirit shadow did not come into being in the age of Azur. When there is history, there is the legend of the spirit shadow. Only Azel is the one who has written down the tales of the spirits."
The leader of the Undead warriors lay on the cold floor of the hall, listening to the argument of the eight adults on the stage, and felt that things were not as simple as he had imagined. At least for now, it's not even certain who is attacking the Dark Knight and the Necromancer. This is the first tricky thing the commander has encountered since he carried out the hunt for the man with the black Word Stone.
The thing that attacked them was too powerful. Besides, they couldn't see that thing at all, let alone fight back.
"It's definitely not a spirit shadow." The man sitting right in the middle said.
"Or." Another one said, and the others fell silent. If it's not a spirit shadow, then who knows what it is?
The dark figure, whom the commander called Lord Soudai, said: "Commander, are you sure you can't see him?"
The leader bowed his head and said, "Yes, Sir. We can't see him, but he can control the weapons in our hands and attack us with our own weapons."
Lord Soudo was silent for a moment, then tapped the armrest of the chair with his fingertip.
The man sitting in the middle said, "Lord Minyang, I think you'd better remove your Light Knight and stop chasing those two men."
"Remove?" Let them go?"
"Yes, let them go. They aren't important characters, your Light Knights are enough to kill them. But if that thing that helps them shows up again, I'm afraid your knights will suffer a heavy loss."
"But, hasn't that thing already vanished?" "
"Lord Mianyang." The tone became a little heavier, "If we were to kill those two, it would be easy. But now we need to know exactly what is helping them. Let's think of him as a spirit shadow until we find out. And, I think our plan needs to be changed."
"But didn't you just say that it was definitely not a spirit shadow?"
"Yes, that's what I said. I mean, that thing will only be better than the spirit shadow. Spirituals can be killed, destroy their medium, but send them back into their space. But that thing seems to have no medium, at least we haven't found out what his medium is yet."
"Well, our plan..." Another voice asked.
The man sitting in the middle turned his head and said, "Our new plan can be carried out. Commander of the warriors, you can go down first. Remember, your mission is temporarily halted. If there is a new mission, Lord Souado will give you orders."
"Yes, Lord Jingming." The commander bowed his head to the man in the middle, then stood up and left the hall.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = light knight like get any command, suddenly between back the hands of the sword. Then all the white horses ran in one direction within the city.
"What happened? Why are they all gone?" "Asked the remnant soul.
"I don't know. I'm going to play something new with them." "Lian Wu said, brandishing his sword.
The candle said, "Let's go out of the city first and see if sister is safe."
"Excuse me, who are you..." The remnant seemed a little uneasy. The sudden retreat of the Light Knight made him feel as if there was a shadow in his heart that never dissipated.
Candle smiled at the Remnant, "Remnant, I already know your name." Saying that, Shi Zhu took out his black word hiding stone and waved it over the remnant's eyes.
"What?" The remnant heard the candle hand swing past its face.
"You don't recognize this?" The candle was somewhat surprised.
Lienwu said: "Yuzu, the eye of a remnant soul... Not good."
Shi Zhu carefully examined the eyes of the remnant soul. The spirit smiled and said, "Yes, my eyes, I've been blind since childhood."
"Sorry." "Said the candle, and indeed, there was no glimmer of light in the eyes of the remnant soul. He handed the stone to the remnant and said, "I've finally found my companion."
The moment the remnant touched the black word stone, his hand trembled slightly. He carefully stroked the stone and the words on it. A familiar feeling welled up in him, as if some warm air was flowing into his body.
"Candle burn." The remnant passed the stone back. "It's not very convenient to talk here."
Shi Zhu looked at Lian Wu and said to the remnant soul, "Remnant Soul, although Lian Wu is not our companion, he knows all our secrets. I think either we kill to silence him now, or we don't treat him as an outsider and drag him along with the corrupt."
The three of them laughed loudly, their laughter rippling like water waves in the dead city gate.
The remnant said, "But my stone is lost and has never been found."
"Lost? Ha ha, at Gu You's." "Lian Wu said with a smile.
"Has Gu You been dragged along?" "Asked the remnant soul.
Lian Wu shook his head. "It was Gu You who brought me along. He already had a stone like that."
"He did? Why don't I know?" The remnant was a little agitated.
Lianwu continued, "In the past, you kept your secret from us, and Gu You and I also kept his secret." Once, we wanted to enter the city of Wangshen and changed our original clothes in the forest first. While changing clothes, your black hidden word stone fell off, and Gu You was so nervous that he thought it was his own, fearing that you would find out, he didn't even look at the words on the stone and just stuffed it into his pocket. It was only after you died that he suddenly discovered that the stone was yours." Lian Wu said, looking unnaturally at the remnant, and asked, "Yes, aren't you dead? Did you come back to life like Gu You?"
"What? Gu You? What's wrong with Gu You? Is he dead?" The remnant was a little nervous. No wonder I was just wondering why it wasn't Gu You who was with Lian Wu.
The candle patted the remnant soul on the shoulder and said, "Let's go out of the city first and then talk slowly. I don't know what the Light Knight is up to, everyone be careful."
Three horses moved slowly towards the city gate. There was no one left under the city tower. The yellow sand was lifted by the wind, leaped over the city wall and swept across the earth. A few crows perched on the top of the city tower, neighing restlessly as they watched the people and horses approaching. At this time, the city of Wangshen was like a dead city.
The closer they got to the city gate, the more nervous the three of them became.
The remnant stretched out his hand, and Duoduo emerged from his sleeve. As before, it dared to come out of its body only when it saw clearly that there were no dangerous people around. The remnant spirit whispered in its ear, "Go and see if there's an ambush ahead. Be careful."
Dodo flapped his little wings and flew towards the top of the city tower.
The candle watched the little monster land on the top of the city tower, startling the crows. "What is this?" he asked.
The remnant smiled and said, "Its mother is the product of human experimentation. In the beginning, humans wanted to create a group of people with more than 40 percent brain development through extreme scientific methods to serve the Earth's technology. Before the actual production, they secretly conducted experiments on various animals. And Dodo's mother, an ordinary duck, was able to recognize language after the experiment was successful. Unfortunately, the excessive brain stimulation caused mutations in its genes. It died, and the only child, Dodo, became what it is now. Dodo has inherited the special abilities of his mother, but his body has never grown."
"Are you talking about the movement that humans who believe in technology call god creation? I've heard about it and haven't forgotten. But later, I thought it would be another great technological revolution, but unfortunately, the creation of gods became a threat to the Earth." "Shi Zhu said.
Lian Wu opened his eyes wide, looking at the remnant soul now and then at Shi Zhu, "Creating a spirit? Degree of brain development? Experiment? Language recognition ability? What on earth are you talking about? Why can't I understand a word?"
"This is a painful history of the earth." Shi Zhu didn't know how to explain to Lian Wu either.
"Earth? What is the Earth? I played with a ball when I was a kid."
The candle scratched its head and then randomly pointed to a spot in the sky and said, "The Earth is right there, far from this star of Hynon. We came from there, but we don't know why we came, nor how we can get back."
Lianwu looked at the place where the candle was pointing and fell completely silent. After a long time, when Duoduo fell back into the arms of the remnant soul, Lianwu came to his senses. He looked at the candle, opened his mouth, but made no sound.
"What?" Ask the candle.
Lian Wu looked at the Remnant Soul and Shi Zhu several times with a very strange gaze. Finally, he spat out a few words: "You are..." Aliens?"
The remnant laughed and said, "Let's not discuss this for now. Dodo says there's no danger. Let's go quickly."
Three horses rushed out of the city.
Bypading the ruins of the Dyra Dynasty, the hanging bell had been anxiously waiting there for a long time. Seeing the bloodstain on his brother, the horse pounced on him before it had stopped. "Brother, are you okay? I thought... I thought..."
"Silly girl." The candle touched the top of the hanging bell's head and slid down from the horse with some difficulty. The wound on the waist was still aching. Pointing at the spirit that was jumping off the horse, he said, "This is a new friend. He saved us. By the way, his name is the Remnant Soul. I don't need to say more about that."
"So you are a Remnant?" Xuanling seemed to remember something, "Remnant Soul, you're not dead?"
Lienwu also said, "Yes, alien, aren't you dead? Why did you pop up again?" Judging from his tone, it seemed that he was eager for his soul to die.
The spirit said, "I remember that when I was on Earth, I learned the spirit of the immortal bird. It's very vague in my memory. The teacher told me that the immortal bird would never die and could come back to life as long as the mental power was still there. After I 'died,' I could sense where those people had hung me up, in short, in the air. Later, in the evening, I slowly regained consciousness and killed the Knight of Light who was guarding me. But my body did not recover, and my mental energy was somewhat dispersed. I left the city and fled to the forest, where no one was around, and slept for many days."
"Well, could Gu sleep for a few days and then come back to life?" "Asked Lian Wu.
"What's wrong with Gu You?" The remnant asked him.
The candle sitting aside said, "Gu You has lost all his blood, leaving only a body that still retains his mental power." Living beings cannot survive without blood."
"Gu You... What on earth is wrong with him... The remnant soul grabbed Lienwu by the shoulder.
"He... He was killed by the Undead Warrior... Killed..." Lian Wu dared not think of Gu You's death, and every time she thought of it, she would shed a tear.
"No, he isn't dead yet." "His mental power is still there, and as long as it doesn't disappear, he will never die," said Xuanling.
"That's right." "Did you not see that Gu You 's mental power appeared to you and saved us," said Shi Zhu as he dealt with his wounds. Although Gu You is not the mental power of the immortal bird, I still believe that he will not die like this. While we were besieged in the city by the Souls of the Dead and the Dark Knights, I had already witnessed the power of his mind. I have never seen before that a person's mental power can be detached from his body and can cause harm to humans without any medium."
Lian Wu looked at Shi Zhu, not quite understanding what he meant.
The candle eater said, "In fact, what matters most to each of us is not our physical body, but our spirit." And the body is just a medium, just the abode of the spirit. I say Gu You's mental power is strong because not only is he detached from his body, but he can fight without the need for a medium. But there's one thing I don't quite understand. Why can only Lian Wu see Gu You's mental power? I can only see it when I use the Fire and Dark Eye that can traverse the spirit world. And I can't hear what Gu You says, let alone communicate with him."
The remnant smiled and said, "Perhaps I understand. Gu You's mental power is detached from the body, but not without medium."
"What does he use as a medium?" Lianwu finally got a vague understanding of something.
The remnant patted Lian Wu on the shoulder and said, "Isn't Gu You the medium?"
"Me?" "Lian Wu asked.
"How come I didn't think of it? Yes, it was you."