[comprehensive] red tide

There is no light in the dusty sky, and the wind blowing through the hair is icy and lifeless, like a breathless nightmare that was pressed in a corner of my heart a long time ago.

On the way back with all my strength, I was ready to accept the looted and devastated town with broken walls and tiles, but I never expected that what would be left to me would be such a scene.

There is nothing, no rubble, no blood, no forest, no living beings, overwhelming darkness, even the rocky peaks in the distance exude a strong dead air, the entire island seems to be swallowed, and released through gastric juice erosion, turning into Sticky filth.

The air was damp, filled with a strange and pungent smell, like the smell of flesh, food, and mold mixed in a humid and airtight environment for a long time.

It is also revealed that it is rotting.

Looking around blankly, my empty stomach twitched a few times, and I felt like throwing up.

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The backflow of blood caused the temples to pulsate, and something in his mind was about to break through the ground, and the humming in the ears was faintly mixed with successive abnormal noises.

A moving object broke into the dim field of vision, and squinting my eyes, I could barely make out the figures of people around me. I couldn't see them clearly against the light. They were all dressed in the same outfit and held weapons in their hands.

"Who are you?" The leader's voice was flat.

"Nicole Robin, the people who live on the island." I replied, shaking my head, gradually seeing the blurred and overlapping images.

The top is white and the bottom is blue, and the military uniform is so neat that it is dazzling. The man in charge looks quite young, with his hand on the handle of a long knife at his waist, and his eyes looking straight at people are calm and sharp.

"Oh? The port didn't receive a signal of ships appearing in the nearby waters. How did you get in here?"

My eyes drooped, the soles of my feet rubbed against the soft stains on the ground, I raised my eyes, and I pursed my lips, "You don't even know the day Yishenlu was attacked."

The man looked at me quietly for a long time, then nodded slightly, "I'm sorry." He let go of his fingers, signaling the surrounding soldiers to put away their weapons, and then walked over slowly.

Platinum short hair, cornflower blue eyes, British-style suits, and a standard overcoat with military ranks embroidered on the epaulettes arc up with the action, and the gestures are full of military-standard self-discipline.

"Meta Kenro, [Onora. Goddess of Dawn] Commander." Standing a few steps away, his tone was slightly apologetic, "It's a pity that this happened."

"Just, miss... please don't stay on the island for a long time."

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Why?I raise my eyebrows silently.

After hesitating for a moment, he took another two steps forward, with a sincere sense of guilt in his eyes, "The entire island is polluted by abilities, and the toxin is still spreading outward. This morning, the headquarters has decided to burn and sink this place."

In my suddenly widened eyes, the gloomy naval commander said in a professional and mechanized tone without any emotion, "The shelling time is set at midnight, [Onora. away from port, meanwhile, the explosives buried on the island will detonate."

"Until then, please evacuate to a safe place."

After finishing these words in a low voice, the man turned around and took away the soldiers surrounding him at the same time.

I stood there blankly, not knowing what to do for a while, 'burn and sink this place', the decision sounded cruel, but compared with the outside that was still alive, it seemed natural.

This place can't even be called a wreck, it's not Yishenlu; it's nothing, so it doesn't matter if it's destroyed.

Countless pieces of auspicious light flashed through my chaotic mind, and disappeared without a trace in an instant. I blinked my dry eyes, and I slowly squatted down/body, gasping for breath, trying to calm down the feeling of suffocation like drowning.

It took a long time to suppress the overwhelming nausea, let out a long breath, raised my hand to wipe my face, and when I got up, my elbow seemed to rub against something in my pocket.

Reaching into his pocket, his fingertips touched the thin, rustling paper.

It is a souvenir brought back from Tahiti on Evernight Island, a relic of Belomonte Norn... But now, there is no one to send this gift to...

Mary...I can't find her.

Stepping on the well-positioned node, the courtyard where the coins are buried, at this moment, even the wall covered with brocade is assimilated into mud, how can I deliver the gift to the hands of people who have been looking forward to 50 years from the darkness? ?

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By the way, there is another place... I can see it in all directions, and finally it is marked by the towering rocky peaks in the distance. I followed my thin impression to find it.

If you want to choose a commemorative place, it should be there, right?

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The town disappeared as if it had never existed before. With no support, I could only wander around, occasionally bumping into patrolling soldiers head-on, or breaking into fortifications where explosives were being buried.

They looked at me with secretive and pitying eyes, but they never made a move to stop or advise me, they just passed by, and even signaled me to leave from a distance.

The sky was gradually darkening. I stepped on the mud with one foot deep and the other shallow, and slowly climbed a steep slope. Behind me, soldiers passed by in neat steps. The night wind blew away the sweat from my temples. ask.

"Where is Miss?"

Glancing at the corner of the snow-white coat that was catching up quickly, I tapped the top of the slope without answering.

"It's already evening, we will leave soon." The man grabbed my elbow, "Miss, you..."

The loss of several jumps in a short period of time has already exceeded the load, coupled with the intense emotional ups and downs, I have no strength to break free from the opponent's imprisonment, so I can only stare at him, "Mary, maybe there."

In the cool twilight with no temperature, the young commander looked at the direction I was pointing, with a serious and even sharp feeling on the side face, "It used to be a cliff and a forest above, but it has been destroyed by the ability of poison ivy. .” The strength in the hand increased slightly, as if to turn around and return, “There is nothing left of it now.”

"Just take a look, I'll just take a look." The struggle made the sweat seep into my back, and I was so weak that I was almost weak. I tried to grab his cuff with my backhand, gave up the last insistence, and pleaded, "She must be here."

There are 50 years of her thoughts there, so even if she dies, she must be there.

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The other party was silent, and I saw my pale and distorted face from the Shen Shen eyes that were close at hand.

After a long time, until I started to despair, the man suddenly sighed and let go of the restraint between his fingers. Just when I was overjoyed and about to run up, my waist tightened suddenly...

When the sky was spinning, my field of vision was tilted, and I stared at the black that was swiftly sweeping back. In the buzzing ears, I heard the voice of a young man, still somewhat angry and helpless.

"I'll take you up. You must leave here with the Onora before midnight."

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The cliff bank shrouded in night is as barren as a tomb.

After staggering and standing still, I rushed towards the edge of the forest, where the kapok that only takes root near the coastal rocks grows, and blooms every year on the night when the moon is at its peak...

The meager light of the sky shines through the gaps in the flowing clouds. Under the flickering light and shadow, the plants that look like wild thorns stand quietly in the wilderness.

Plants like black silhouettes, dotted among the bony branches, densely packed, small flower buds...still alive...

The great surprise mixed with unspeakable sadness poured down like a tide, choking the corners of my eyes sore, I limped to stand in front of it, swallowed, stretched out my hand and then paused again.

Mary... I look around nervously.

"Moonlight kapok~ It's really rare." The naval commander who carried me up like a sack of rice and put it down casually, walked to the vicinity slowly, "When I first searched, I thought it was a dead thorn."

"It's miraculously alive~" He stretched out his hand towards the nearest branch, his dull tone finally brought some joy, "It looks like it will bloom tonight."

"Are you here for the annual date with Moonlight?" While speaking, the fingertips carefully touched the bulging flower buds that absorbed the light and appeared crystal clear.

I slightly bent the corner of my mouth, but saw that the moment his fingertips touched, the beautiful scenery was instantly shattered, the light dimmed, and the whole plant turned into ashes like fine sand, shattering silently in the passing wind.

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"Ah?" The man's slender fingers froze in the air, and after a while, he looked at me apologetically, "Sorry."

My wandering eyes lingered between him and the remaining plants for a long time, and finally, my attention was fixed on the position where the dissipated plant grew.

Squinting my eyes for a long time, I stepped forward and pushed the person away, squatted down, inserted/inserted my fingers into the dirty surface, and began to feel it. Maybe it was an illusion. At the moment when the night light moved, there was a faint blue glow under the surface. flickering...

After a while, the stirring sticky middle fingertips touched the hard metal, hooked it with knuckles and pulled it out slowly.

The colorless chain, with the pendant still dripping with mud... After I lifted the corner of my clothes and wiped it carefully, I could clearly see that the necklace buried in the root system of the plant was the necklace that Mary never left.

A chain made of mithril, and a pendant with complicated olive-shaped patterns, inlaid with deep-sea-like dark blue gemstones.

After being dazed for a long time, I refocused my eyes on the square inch in front of me in a daze.

Or, instead of being buried in the roots of the plant, it's...it's Mary at all...

"The tears of the sea fairy." The naval commander who had been quiet for a long time took the thing in my hand, looked at it for a while and returned it, and said indifferently, "The wife of the sea emperor Poseidon, Amphitrite, legend In the movie, when the Emperor of the Sea pursued her, he once praised her eyes as the only ocean."

"It's just that it should be an imitation. The real one was taken out of the Great Channel 400 years ago, and it is said that it was lost in the North Sea."

My heart skipped a beat, and I glanced at him lightly—the North Sea, the only ocean...something in a trance made me always feel that something was wrong.

But when I think about it, I can't catch the flash of thought. I close my eyes, shake off the chaotic trivialities, stuff the chain into my pocket, take out the present, dig up the surface and bury it in the necklace I found s position.

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After all this was done, I stood up, wiped my hands casually, and was about to say something thank you, when something strangely sounded from the naval commander.

Pulu Pulu~ Pulu Pulu——

He took out a snail with weird patterns from his coat pocket, pressed it somewhere, and the thing showed a human/sexual/humanized expression with a chirping sound.

"Your Excellency Brigadier General Metakinro, the scheduled time has arrived."

"Everything is ready, just waiting for your order, please come back as soon as possible."

After speaking, the snail shrugged and lowered its head.

Embarrassed for a moment, I stared at the snail being put back into my pocket with a full face of wonder. The "Brigadier General MacTackenroe" immediately stepped forward and grabbed my wrist, raised his eyebrows, and said in a commanding tone, "It's time to go miss, you wasted a lot of my time."