Mermaid Reef

Juan had been trapped in the still city for three days.

At first he insisted on drinking the water he brought and eating dry bread.

Then he couldn't take it anymore.

The emergency food in the backpack was quickly exhausted, and Juan could only try to "take" the food here.

Juan has no idea what effect eating food belonging to the past will have on his body, but if he doesn't eat it, he will starve to death.

Juan gave priority to fruit.

After spending eight uneasy hours, he was sure that his body was normal and able to digest the food and replenish the lost water and energy.

There was nothing special about Kingston in 1882. Juan still dutifully drew a simple city map in his notebook, trying to explore the city and looking for "gaps".

Juan relished the adventure, if worries about his own fate aside.

Any door is undefended for him. He can observe every corner of the city to his heart's content, know the price of the day, check the smuggling ships in the port, and so on.

If he is tired, he can just find a place to rest, and no one will drive him away.

Juan seldom changes the position of things here, he is in awe of this static city, not for the people here, but for the history itself.

When Juan saw the calendar, he knew that the burning of the city was about to happen.

He deliberately checked the oil depot in the city and the port warehouse, but found no source of the fire.

It was evening, and the wind was not strong. You can tell by looking at the flags and trees high up.

Although it is strange, the causes of the fire are various, and it is difficult to say clearly.

It is said that the Great Fire that engulfed London in 1666 was caused by a baker who forgot to turn off his oven.

In 1665, the plague caused tens of thousands of deaths in London. The black cloak of death had completely enveloped the city, but a fire solved all the problems.Because they could not escape in time, the number of people killed in the fire was only single digits. Most of them lost their houses and escaped the scythe of death.

The newly promoted mystery investigator Juan believes that behind the famous fire in history, there are some truths that human beings should not know, involving evil gods and evil forces.

It may be that one or some unnamed investigators risked their lives to solve the crisis.

But how do they do it?

Juan, who once firmly believed in science, was very distressed.

He tried to sleep, but neither in 1882 nor in 1959 did he see Hans and Johann again.

The connection of the dream was inexplicably interrupted like this.

It's like going to a country where you don't understand the language, but forgetting to bring a common language translation dictionary, you have no idea.Even with a weapon in his hand, he was still very uneasy.

Disasters can happen at any time.

——The city in the past is hopeless, but Juan wants to keep everything in that time and space in 1959.

The tremendous pressure kept him from falling asleep, and he woke up almost every hour.

Juan adjusted his watch to the chronograph mode, drew out the calendar on his notebook, and prepared for being trapped for a long time.

As a result, while he was nibbling on a banana and drawing, a gust of scorching air rolled past the window.

With a "huh", the curtain caught fire.

Juan was so startled that he jumped up and beat the flames.

Then he felt the ground shake suddenly, and there was a loud noise that shook the sky.

Juan was almost hit by a cabinet in the hotel room, he climbed out with difficulty, pulled down the curtains, and saw a doomsday-like scene.

The crimson flames floated like clouds, drawing a bright oil painting in the sky.

It is also like a bucket of red paint that has been splashed out, and it will stay in the air before falling to the ground. The clusters of flames are water droplets, forming an arc-shaped curve.

The flagpole in the distance is already on fire.

The fire spread along the wood all the way to the ground.

Juan gasped. He finally understood what happened to the Great Kingston Fire in 1882.

No one can save a natural disaster of this level!

Juan hurriedly stuffed his belongings into the backpack, and ran towards the harbor without hesitation, not daring to delay for a minute.

——He was afraid that if he ran too slowly, he would burn to death in this city.

As a result, while running, the compass vibrated wildly in his pocket.

Juan took it out and saw that the cover on the outside of the compass popped open automatically, and the crystal ball shone brightly, as if to guide the way.

Juan originally wanted to avoid the smoky neighborhood, but when he changed direction, the compass hopped around until he readjusted his course.

Five minutes later, Juan successfully "connected and met" with Jason.

The investigator who saw the evil god's employer was relieved, at least he didn't have to worry about being trapped here forever.

"These flames are..."

"The aftermath of a certain ancient god's power, don't get close."

Jason reminds him that he doesn't want to see Juan burned.

However, Juan thought of the situation when he was forced to return to 1959 last time, his body trembled, and he asked vigilantly, "Is it the evil god who created many illusions and planned to kill me?"

"...not that one."

"Grey butterfly?" Juan recalled the information Hans told him.

Jason's expression was a little awkward and a bit complicated: "Neither, there was an accident. This is the third evil god...You humans call him Tonatiu, the God of Burning Sun."

Juan opened his eyes wide, and instinctively took a few steps back, his face full of disbelief: "Why is there another one?"

The dangerous scene of four evil gods fighting in a melee has actually increased the difficulty, and the number has increased to five?

Juan was simply panicked, but Jason felt a constant embarrassment, because Juan's words seemed to be questioning him and Gemil, why did they provoke another enemy?Human investigators are already very difficult, and there is really no way out if they continue.

"Cough, the God of Burning Sun was called by the magic carpet." Jason couldn't directly pronounce Gu Keluo's real name.

"Call your friends for help if you can't beat it?" Juan couldn't help but look at Gemil next to him, and then at Jason.

The meaning is obvious, where are your two friends?

Jason: "..."

Gemil: "..."

What's wrong with the evil god having no friends?Do you still want to be laughed at by a small human being?

Before Gemil got angry, Jason explained: "Tonatiu, the sun god, is not a friend of the magic carpet. Tonatiu's situation is very special, and he is very cruel."

Juan immediately remembered the archaeological pictures and books about the ruins of America, and had a cold war.

Native Americans who worshiped the sun god would cut open the chests of prisoners of war and sacrifice their hearts to Tonatiu, just because they believed that blood was what supported the sun’s eternal burning, and the slaughtered corpses covered the bottom of the sacrificial altar.Even so, followers of the Burning Sun God still worry about "not enough fuel".

Looking at the crimson flames in the sky now, Juan felt even more frightening.

"Shall we go right away?"

Juan actively suggested, "I have already found five time rifts in the city. As long as we move fast enough, we should be able to avoid confrontation with the Burning Sun God, Magic Carpet, and Gray Butterfly?"

Jason looked at him silently.

"What? Am I wrong?" Juan asked nervously.

Gemil touched the mask on his face and said in a cold tone, "You said before that there have been many disasters in this city."

"Yes, there are four large fires alone."

Juan's voice stopped abruptly, and his expression was first confused, then slowly stunned, and finally panicked, "You mean, those evil gods were at the scene of the fire in other eras?"

The 1882 fire was the worst and was where Jansen and Gemmel fell.

Tonatiu's flame spread to several time and space along the time rift.

"The cracks you found, including the cracks you didn't find, are now filled with these flames." Gemil explained with a frown.

Juan was dumbfounded.

The entrusted work that has been busy for three days has been done in vain, the key point is——

"What should I do now?"

"Take this first."

Jason threw a pearl.

Juan took the life-saving talisman and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, he can return to 1959 in case of danger.

Wait, he seemed to be thinking the same thing a few days ago, and then he arrived in 1882?

Juan squeezed the pearl and squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying.

The flame is getting lower and lower, and the burning area is also expanding.

Gemil checked again and found that there were really only them and the investigators here.

"This is not normal. Since Tonatiu responded to Gu Keluo, and the flame of power is still burning through the crack of time, why can't he see his shadow..."

Gemil met Jason's eyes tacitly, and thought of a question at the same time.

The Liege God can indeed respond upstream in time, that is, in ancient times, to respond to the call from the sewers, after all, the sewers are outside the order of time.

But what does it mean that these forces flowed freely in 1882 and in three different eras?

It shows that during the four fires from 1703 to 1882, Tonatiu, the sun god, was not on the earth at all!Otherwise, the timeline will suppress Tonatiu, just like it did to Gu Keluo and Gemil, can the flame still jump like this?

Jason looked at Gemil silently, so the current situation is: the evil gods thought that the sun god who was sleeping on the earth had actually run away a long time ago; Gu Keluo, who thought he was going to the depths of the universe, came back silently.

Can’t one piece of news that you ancient gods have been accurate?

Gemil is not ashamed at all, what does the news deviation have anything to do with him, the sea god who is immobile for ten thousand years?

"Tonatiu's real body will not appear in a short time, because he is not on the earth, but these flames are very troublesome..."

Gemil frowned slightly, his strength was suppressed, and Jason was the one restrained by the flames, what if he forcibly used frost to drive away the flames with the help of time stagnation?

"Wait, this is 1882, and I've already been born." Jason reminded Gemil helplessly that he could only watch this time, otherwise it wouldn't be so hard to climb out of the pit just now.

Gemil asked subconsciously: "Then what are you doing?"

Jason also replied instinctively: "According to the calculation of human time, my body appeared around 1800. In 1882, I already had the ability to think, and I was floating on the sea looking for Pastor Conor...to take him back from the past. The power I stole from here."

Gemil sighed regretfully: "Why didn't you come to Black Lagoon earlier?"

Jason: "..."

After possessing the ability of thinking for more than 40 years, he failed to withstand the spiritual attack of the sea god, and was lured by the mermaid so that his mind went blank, and he ran away when he was frightened.

If it's Jason who has no experience, and his age (the existence time of sober self-knowledge) is in the single digits... then he can't run away crying?

With a dark face, Jason pushed Gemil away.