(He awakened from a chaotic slumber, touching this strange and incomprehensible world like a newborn infant. Fragmented memories and thoughts were like bubbles rising and scattering on the sea, unable to form a complete consciousness and understanding for a long time.

The whole world seemed to be shrouded in a thick curtain, and his own perception seemed to have been shattered and reorganized a thousand times by an invisible force. His mind couldn't understand the crazy and disordered sensory signals. The buzzing and rumbling noises and the dim and terrifying light and shadows seemed to be directly engraved on his nerves, stirring his consciousness and stinging his thoughts.

He tried to take a step forward, tried to distinguish the things around him, tried to recall himself, and tried to understand the current situation.

Countless shadowy things surrounded him. These things had amorphous outlines, and their upright bodies were filled with illusory and colorful hollows. Strange currents flowed in those hollows, making indescribable howls and hissing sounds, which made him feel terrified.

Then, a warm glow appeared in his perception. Following this warmth, he slowly walked forward from the darkness, having awakened and forgotten his own existence...)

Nina suddenly put down the cheap trinkets she was picking out, frowned in confusion, and turned to look behind her.

Shirley noticed immediately and turned her head curiously, "Huh? What's wrong, Nina?"

"I don't know..." Nina still frowned in confusion, scanning the crowd behind her. "I suddenly felt something behind me, like someone was staring over there, but it seems like just... an illusion?"

"It's probably an illusion..." A'gou frowned when she heard Nina's words, and subconsciously looked around the market. "There are people everywhere here, maybe someone just glanced over there?"

Although she said that, she still cautiously confirmed with Shirley in her heart.

The stall owner packed the items, Nina paid the bill, and the two girls who came out shopping continued to wander around the bustling market. It was still early before sunset, and the sun was still high in the sky above the city-state, so they could play for quite a while.

He stopped thinking and subconsciously walked forward.

"That feeling disappeared... The Guardians don't seem to have reacted either, but I still feel like I wasn't having an illusion," Nina muttered to A'gou.

"Ladies, need any help?" a Guardian asked with a smile, impatiently.

The thick "curtain" scattered around, as if deliberately blocking his steps, and the buzzing noises were gathering. The strange forms that kept hissing walked around, as if filled with indescribable malice, exuding an unspeakable terror.

However, after a brief moment of discomfort, she couldn't help but shake her head: "How to report it? Just say we feel like someone is following us? The Guardians will think we're making trouble..."

Nina came to the side of the road.

"Shirley still says she didn't feel anything," Guan Yu cautiously observed his surroundings and replied in a low voice, "But she said that repeatedly having 'illusions' is itself something to be vigilant about. Perhaps something that shouldn't appear in the real world is exerting influence..."

Nina blinked and looked back again before shaking her head, "...it seems it was an illusion."

Following the guidance of the prophet, heading in the direction where the red light fell, to find a way to save the world. Many of them set off together, but the Hunter siblings quickly fell, then the taciturn magician, then several knights...)

He struggled to think, and as he stumbled forward, he recalled a dark red color, as if thick blood had accumulated. This dark red glow floated in the sky in his memory, as if endlessly chasing himself, chasing his... companions.

Companions? What are companions?

Ah, he had companions. He and his companions set off on a long journey, but what were they going to do?

(The mist permeating the surroundings stung his skin and eyes, and the endless roars and howls seemed to tear his eardrums. However, fortunately or unfortunately, the incomplete thinking and chaotic perception weakened the unbearable pain to a certain extent. The one who had forgotten his own existence staggered forward in this chaotic and indescribable world, continuing to struggle to think.

What is skin? What are eyes? What is an eardrum? How did he walk? How did he get here?

He was a little confused, because in his shallow and vague consciousness, "noise" should be an invisible thing, but he felt... that what he saw was noise.

Starting with the most basic questions, he began to be confused about everything.

It seems... to save the world.

Nina nodded slightly, while also using the corner of her eye to confirm the situation in the market.

(In fragmented memories, what can still be combined and linked together?

Nina decided to report to the few Guardians on the scene first.

However, recalling Captain Duncan's several "righteous reports," another strange feeling surfaced in her heart -

New memories suddenly appeared in the depths of his consciousness, and he became a little confused. Then, he finally recalled more.

A scream suddenly came from behind, resounding throughout the market.

He tried to raise his head to find the source of the annoying interference—this thing was suspended high above, a huge... noise. 138 Reading Net

There were many people in the market, and the bustling crowd made this originally narrow market seem a little crowded. Around them, they could see not only locals, but also many tourists wearing foreign clothes strolling through the market. The cries of various vendors rose and fell among the crowd, sounding almost noisy but full of vitality.

However, these "Knowledge Guardians" looked very relaxed, as if they had not noticed anything wrong in the market at all.

And there was an annoying thing constantly interfering with his thinking and memories, and bringing him more pain and confusion.

He struggled to take a step forward, moving in the midst of the noise, and carefully avoiding those indescribable forms with illusory hollows on their bodies, constantly making hissing sounds, moving quickly, continuing to move

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"Shirley didn't feel anything," A'gou said to Nina in a low voice, "Her perception definitely won't have problems."

Among the passing pedestrians, she could see the Church Guardians on the side of the road.

Guan Yu was stunned when she heard this. Her mind, filled with violence and vulgarity, really hadn't left much space for the word "report." She hadn't even thought about it in that direction.

The "Knowledge Guardians" of the Truth Academy watched over this sparsely populated area. They wore Academy-style robes, carried large-caliber revolvers on their waists, and used keen and vigilant eyes to pay attention to the disturbances on the streets and squares—these eyes, blessed by the God of Wisdom, Rahm, could detect evil invading reality at the first moment.

The stall owner's voice came from across the way, interrupting Nina's reverie.

In the depths of her eyes, even a wisp of pale golden light was quietly floating.

Nina stopped again. This time, she stood in the middle of the road, staring wide-eyed at a place where there was nothing.

Although explaining the motive for the report seemed like it would be relatively troublesome, professional matters should ultimately be left to professional people. And as Uncle Duncan said—anyway, as long as you are sincere, no one will be held responsible if the report fails. If the report succeeds, you might even earn a reward.

"Oh, oh, sorry," Nina immediately reacted, smiling apologetically at the stall owner, then raised the hairpin and brooch she had just picked out. "These two, please wrap them up. A'gou, is there anything else you want?"

(He finally came to the vicinity of the radiant glow. When he was still some distance away, he stretched out his "hand," wanting to touch the hazy shadow.

However, he quickened his pace, moving closer to the light, like...

A'gou immediately stopped and also frowned in confusion, looking at the open space. After a few seconds, she broke the silence somewhat uncertainly: "I felt like something was watching over there just now, and it seemed to be following us..."

"I... didn't pick anything," A'gou shook her head, "I'll go to the next one later."

"Girl, are you going to buy anything or not?"

(Ah, that cool feeling appeared again, and in the distance ahead, it even... emitted a hazy light.

In such a crowded place, it wasn't unusual to feel one or two gazes.

A'gou also responded in a low voice: "What do you plan to do?"

"Did Shirley feel anything?" Nina's nerves were unconsciously tense as she asked in a low voice.

As a good kid who was violent, vulgar, and uneducated, was she incompatible with the thinking of this family of evil gods due to insufficient moral standards?

The Knowledge Guardian wearing the Academy robe turned his head and looked curiously at the two girls who suddenly walked over, who looked like they were still in middle school.

"...Should we report it to the Guardians on the side of the road?" Nina thought for a while and said, "Uncle said that if you encounter heretics or anything else, you should report it to the Guardians as soon as possible."

"We think something's a little off..." Nina explained to the Guardians, saying the sentence she had been preparing all the way, "Just now..."

In that instant, all the curtains and mists seemed to turn into invisible boundaries, and the "actual tactile sensation" brought about by penetrating the boundaries was the first sting that the lost and forgotten one felt in this new world.

(Hissing and murmuring noises came from ahead. The ball of light seemed to be approaching an indescribable form, and a violent sense of unease surged into his heart.)

A chaotic and distorted ripple endlessly vibrated and wriggled high above, covering the entire chaotic sky, stirring the floating light and shadows, and merging with the countless roars and noises on the ground, making people sick and terrified.

He leaped forward.)

She pulled the unwilling A'gou and walked towards the Guardians on the side of the road.

(In rushing toward the only thing in memory that was still somewhat familiar, still somewhat comprehensible.)

"Nothing," Shirley's feedback quickly sounded in her heart, "Just a lot of people."