Strange Voyage: Summoning the Fourth Disaster.

Chapter 707 The Blazing Heat, Ava and Dolan
Other than that.

The two also saw many skeletons next to the stone slab, of various sizes and shapes, some of which were only skin and traces.

Clearly, these are all trial participants who have already died.

"There are signs of a battle..."

Li Miao's gaze fell on some broken stones and scratches left by weapons.

They began searching for any possible clues or remaining artifacts.

However, these trial participants seemed to have been dead for a long time; their weapons were rusted and broken, and their personal belongings had long since turned to dust or decayed.

Of course, they didn't come away empty-handed.

[Acquired: Letter Cloth - Ancestral Blood Uprising]

【Letter of Faith: Ancestral Blood Uprising】

[Type: Skill Book]

[Quality: Dust Flame]

[Effect: Through devout prayer, welcome the primordial blood within your body to surge forth, gaining a powerful, short-term buff.]

[Note: Although it was a powerful prayer, it may not have any effect on the candle spirit...]

The prefix for the skill book on prayer by the Spirit Candle can be either "letter" or "prayer".

The former is usually carried by devout believers using specially made cloth, and is likely to be part of a system. As for the latter, it is not necessarily the case; tree bark, paper, or even stone tablets can all be used.

From this perspective, the remains likely came from a group or church that skillfully used the power of faith.

"Ancestral Blood Rage? This skill's power probably requires someone with a certain ancestry to unleash its full potential, right?"

"No wonder they said the Candle Spirit might not be useful..."

Li Miao couldn't help but chuckle. What kind of ancestors did these players have? Candlekeepers?

[Acquired: Fragment of "The Blazing Time"]

[Fragment of "The Blazing Time"]

[Type: Book]

[Content: "...Everyone once thought that dusk would be the gentle afterglow of a torch...until that terrifying heat swept across the land, causing it to swell and thaw in the heat...Fear gripped everyone's heart. Run, escape, get as far away as possible, hide deep within the earth and in the still-unboiling ocean...Perhaps He has gone mad..."]

[Note: These appear to be fragments of writing left by survivors of the disaster; much of the page is charred and blackened.]

At the height of the blaze... at dusk...

It seems to be information about the Twilight Age?
Judging from its contents, this twilight era doesn't seem to be peaceful either...

Li Miao pondered for a moment, then put it away, intending to give it to the storyteller when he got back.

Then he began searching through the other corpses.

It must be said that the design of the spirit candle is quite ingenious.

Looting corpses in blind boxes is quite fun, huh?

But his luck seemed to have run out; the skeletons he searched for next were either empty or had been worn away by time.

"Hey."

"Miaozi, look this way."

He went ashore, squatted on the edge of the cliff, and shouted, seemingly having made a discovery.

Li Miao walked over quickly, suppressing the urge to kick him in the butt, and squatted down as well, whereupon he saw what he had discovered.

This is also the skeleton of a dead body.

However, the posture of this skeleton is a bit strange.

He lay on the ground, his right hand outstretched, only his index finger sticking out, as if trying to remind someone of something before he died.

The finger bone was pointing towards that deep, dark crack.

Of course, it can also be interpreted as the forest on the other side.

"He seems to be pointing in the direction of the forest or the crack..."

"Is it a coincidence?"

Li Miao muttered to himself, his intuition telling him that the skeleton couldn't have died in that position for no reason. "What do we do next?" someone asked, looking at Li Miao after coming ashore.

"Let's go find the ugly elder in the forest first."

"I always felt that there were some things he hadn't told us."

"It's convenient to get there from here."

Li Miao said.

There was no objection to going ashore.

Using the Night Stone, the two didn't even need the Wings of Radiance to cross the rift and return to the forest territory.

To save time, the two did not choose to go along the original path, but decided to go straight through the forest.

However, to their surprise, they soon came across a strange little house in the forest, made of dead wood and leaves.

Outside the little house, there was a chair covered in moss and vines.

"Hmm? A hidden location!"

Once ashore, his eyes lit up, and he looked around with some curiosity.

Li Miao also stopped and walked towards the withered wooden hut.

After getting ashore, he looked around outside, then plopped down on the mossy chair.

Crunch!

"what……"

Along with the grating sound of the wood twisting, a painful cry rang out.

He jumped up as soon as he got ashore, and Li Miao, who was standing next to him, also turned his gaze towards him.

"It hurts..."

To the astonishment of the two, the chair covered in moss and vines suddenly stood up and rubbed its lower back.

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief as he got ashore.

Is this chair an NPC?

Li Miao quickly realized what was happening, her eyes lit up, and she went up to the other person, asking, "May I ask who you are...?"

but.

The chair seemed unresponsive to his question, which suggests that it lacked a strong sense of self.

However, its murmured words were quite profound.

“Master…you don’t have to do this…”

Li Miao and Shang An looked at each other in bewilderment.

They felt there must be a story behind this place.

However, the chair didn't seem to offer them any information, so the two turned their attention to the withered wooden hut next to them.

Upon entering, Li Miao quickly found an opened suicide note on a wooden table covered with fallen leaves.

["To My Wife Dolan"]

[Type: Letter]

[Content: "Dolan, my beautiful wife, please forgive me. There are so many things I want to say to you, but my time is truly running out... Thank you for being with me for so long, and thank you for the fire of the night that gave us a new life... I can hardly believe that I could survive such a tragedy amidst the turmoil, and that the long night is not as cold as people imagine... I am content, but at the same time, I am greedy. I long to continue living with you, even for a minute, even for a second..."]

[Note: This is a suicide note left by a husband named Ava to his wife, Dolan.]

The content of the letter is not limited to the brief information displayed in the message box.

Ava and Dolan were a married couple. Ava was attacked and killed during the Meteor Shower. Dolan, in her grief, fought back but also nearly died.

They thought they would never see each other again in this life, but unexpectedly, the long night fire in the altar descended at this moment.

After suppressing the Meteor Shower, He offered Dolan a condition that he could not refuse, in exchange for becoming part of the trial.

Ava and Dolan spent a long yet short period of happiness here.

Until Ava died of old age, leaving behind this will...

(End of this chapter)