Deep Sea Embers

After rushing to the window, Zhou Ming finally confirmed that what he saw was not an illusion - there were really words on the window! And it was written in the lingua franca of the city-state from outside!

The words were blurry, shaking slightly on the glass in a strange state, as if they were not written on a hard and stable glass surface, but reflected in the illusory mist. Zhou Ming stared at the letters. It took a long time to finally see the content from those blurry and mirrored words——

"I'm on the outside, you're on the inside."

Zhou Ming was stunned for a moment - he felt as if he had seen a piece of nonsense.

A certain being went to the trouble of leaving a message outside his "protective cocoon" just for such nonsense?

He instinctively felt dumbfounded, but then he frowned and vaguely thought of something.

Zhou Ming slowly straightened up from the window, looking at the gray mist outside the window, frowning and thinking.

He has already had a vague guess about what is outside his "apartment". Even if the details are still uncertain, he has roughly grasped a certain pattern of this place, or... this A certain law in the world's lowest logic.

The constraints of "information" are of great significance. The expression of "information" is the cornerstone of order, and on this basis, "symbolism" is given a real and effective... "role" in this world.

As if he had some realization, when he raised his head again and looked at the line of text, his eyes changed slightly. He vaguely guessed that it was not a language used to "communicate" with himself.

That is an "anchor". There is something...some existence that grasps and knows how to use "truth", which "anchors" itself outside this room.

Zhou Ming suddenly frowned, and he suddenly recalled one thing: the last time he returned here, there was a knock on the door from the black mist!

The next second, it was as if the thoughts in his heart really stirred up reality. At the moment when this memory just emerged, a sound suddenly appeared next to his ear - bang bang bang.

Zhou Ming suddenly looked at the door of the apartment, but then he realized that the sound was not coming from the direction of the door this time, but from the side: someone was knocking on the window.

He looked in the direction where the sound came from and saw that there was still gray-white mist outside the window. Through the transparent glass, there seemed to be nothing in the mist. Only the sound of constant tapping echoed on the surface of the glass, as if there was an invisible person. The visitor is standing outside the window, waiting...

Waiting for the owner of this "hut" to recognize him.

Inexplicably, Zhou Ming thought of those "fish".

He leaned to the window again and put his hand on the piece of glass where the knocking sound was coming from. He tried to sense and listen - the knocking sound was still ringing, and gradually, he felt that there was really something in the palm of his hand. There was a shock.

He raised his head and stared at the flowing dense fog, as if he was looking at the "visitor" in the fog quietly through the transparent glass. He imagined a guest, a "visitor" in all possibilities and reasonable branches. Guests who might show up here.

At the end of this order, this place that has been separated from everything in the world and is almost the cornerstone of the world, who will knock on his window?

A hazy shadow appeared in the mist, and almost at the moment when the shadow appeared, Zhou Ming finally sensed a familiar breath through the thick curtain - that breath came from his flame, a cluster of flames that existed long ago. Then he released the flames that he thought had dissipated.

This flame made his understanding instantly established, and the "Visitor in the Mist" finally collapsed into an entity.

The hazy gray-white fog outside the window suddenly collapsed, and the seemingly eternal "landscape" turned into a brightly lit and gorgeously styled "room" in one Planck time, which seemed incompatible with the scene of the apartment on this side of the window. ", and opposite the window, a beautiful lady was opening her eyes wide in surprise, and seemed to be stunned by the amazing changes in front of her.

"Love..." Zhou Ming blurted out subconsciously the moment he saw the silver-haired figure with a shawl, but he immediately reacted, "No, Ley Nora - it's really you?!"

The final fact was that the directional collapse was completed, and the scene outside the window finally stabilized completely.

Outside the window is Frost Queen Leigh Nora, she is the "visitor in the fog". Now she is still staring at Zhou Ming - strictly speaking, staring at a person entrenched in some huge and incomprehensible place. An indescribable existence in chaotic space.

Her eyes reflected endless distant starlight, which had shone through the "glass" into her room, giving the bedroom that was once part of the "Alice Mansion" a faint starlight, as if Will fall into the stars at any time.

But suddenly, Le Nora's eyes became lively again. She seemed to finally break free from the influence of the starlight, and "recovered" her sanity under Zhou Ming's gaze. She opened her mouth, as if she was saying something, but through the gap Through the window, only vague syllables came -

"...I saw...there was light..."

Zhou Ming frowned, and then subconsciously pushed the window, trying to hear what the other party was saying.

The window is open.

Zhou Ming stood there blankly, looking at the window with a dull expression. It wasn't until a while later that he realized what had happened - the window was open!

After such a long day, after the thick fog blocked the room for such a long time, this window... was opened so easily? !

He was stunned for a long time and finally came to his senses. His eyes fell on the "Frost Queen" opposite.

Leigh Nora saw the curtain filled with flowing light suddenly open in front of her eyes - during this "rafting trip", the most amazing and incredible thing happened.

At the end of time and space, an individual with "intelligence" and possibly even "humanity" appears in her field of vision.

Although she could not see any definite form from the huge and chaotic starlight, nor could she see anything that could be understood rationally in that maddening lair, she realized almost instantly that the "entity" "It is intellectual - he responded to his call and opened a corner of the nest. Now, a "limb" is extending from the starlight, slowly hanging down towards him, with millions of eyes on that limb. The end flickered and made a hoarse and harsh noise——

"It's really you," Zhou Ming looked at "Her Majesty the Queen" in disbelief. "I'll be a little confused later. I have to sort it out... Why are you here? You broke away from Alice at that time. Mansion, and then you have been drifting on the border... Was it you who knocked on the door last time? "

The tremors among the stars were maddening, and the harsh noises reshaped Le Nora's sanity over and over again. She frowned, watching the "limbs" swaying in front of her eyes, and the countless mouthpieces at the ends of the limbs roared at herself, But gradually...she found herself starting to understand.

She was beginning to understand the whispers of the stars—the stars were asking her why she had come.

"I'm traveling," she said subconsciously, "I'm floating in the spiritual world, and then I fall into the ripples of subspace... At the end of all things, I am trapped in this fog, but there is a beam of light that guides my direction. I followed the light and saw this magnificent 'palace'..."

She raised her head, took two steps back, and looked at the huge structure that seemed to stand in eternity - it was like an awe-inspiring "cocoon", floating in this place that seemed to be the end of the world, and she didn't know it was already floating. How many years have passed, and now a gap has opened on the surface of the "cocoon", and an ancient and astonishing existence speaks to itself from this gap. Every syllable and every tremor of his words seems to contain enough to drive people crazy a thousand times. truth.

But she felt that she had gradually stabilized and was even able to withstand the impact of this truth, and her thinking was quickly becoming stable.

Leigh Nora was surprised by the changes that had taken place in her body - she didn't expect that she could regain her "sanity" after such a reckless "contact".

She also didn't realize that her voice was also mixed with layers of tremors, and the bright starlight was already imprinted on her vision.

"Did you fall into subspace?" Zhou Ming frowned in surprise. Although he felt that Lei Nora was in a weird state when she answered him, he didn't think much about it. He just subconsciously looked at the other party to confirm whether There are signs of subspace pollution, "...Why are everyone doing subspace butterfly swimming these days..."

Le Nora felt a little dazed, and the stars trembled in her soul again. This time, she could not understand the meaning of these tremors, but she found that... she was gradually changing from the swelling and shrinking starlight and the " A stable "entity" is seen in "limbs".

There seems to be a person standing in the magnificent "nest".

She frowned and tilted her head slightly: "Are you inviting me in?"

Zhou Ming was startled when he heard this - when did he invite him?

But he soon put this doubt aside.

Of course he doesn't mind someone coming in as a guest - rather, he has been looking forward to this for a long time. After all, he has always been alone in this closed "cage". Wouldn't it be a good thing to have a guest now?

He was just a little embarrassed.

Glancing down at the window sill, he smiled awkwardly: "You'd have to climb through the window to get in... I don't know how to get you into the house from the door..."

The ancient and astonishing presence confirmed the invitation - now she stepped aside, the gap in the lair opened to herself, and the light containing truth and knowledge was opened to her.

Leigh Nora walked toward that light without hesitation.

Zhou Ming watched the other party climb over the window without any concern, and was greatly touched by the resolute and resolute style of this "Her Majesty the Queen" - it can only be said that she dared to engage in "deep diving" decades ago. "Plan" characters have better execution ability than ordinary people.

But he couldn't help but remind him: "Hey, be careful, don't fall..."

Leigh Nora passed through the window.

The reality in her eyes collapsed and was reshaped.

Her Majesty the Queen fell solidly to the floor——

"oops!"