Night World Players

Chapter 73 Become... a shore guard?
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It was the sound of something breaking, echoing throughout the silent Frozen Water Town.

Gray, who was struggling to fight against the crazy whispers in her mind and maintain her self-will from being eroded, opened her eyes blankly.

Then, he saw a tiny crack suddenly appear in the center of the night sky, the source of countless threads - the twisting and wriggling flesh and blood moon.

At first, the crack was so slight that it could not be noticed without careful observation.

But after a few breaths, the crack quickly expanded and soon covered the entire Yue Pan's body.

boom--

The moment the crack appeared, the illusory blood moon dimmed a little.

Half of the silk threads hanging from the sky also broke.

At the same time, the blood mist that enveloped the two of them began to violently run wild as if stimulated by something.

Gray, who had originally focused on corruption, had completely abandoned it, and the blood mist that had previously enveloped the entire Frozen Water Town area was gradually fading away.

Just like the ebbing tide in the evening, the houses and streets that were originally covered by the blood mist soon appeared.

The seemingly endless crazy mumbling and corruption in Gray's ears also disappeared at this moment.

But corresponding to it——

In the distance, next to the young man who was silently holding the sniper rifle.

The blood mist was constantly condensing and gathering, almost solidifying into substance.

Then, it turned into black flames and just started burning.

The source of the pollution is afraid——

Because it was contaminated with a trace of evil spirit, it was transformed from a dead object into a pollutant. After it was fully activated, it was also given the concept of life.

Just like living things, they have the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm, and to be afraid of death.

All along, the source of pollution has been lurking in Dongshui Town without haste, using silk threads to corrupt and erode the spirit, turning each invader into its own puppet, because no one among them can really harm its body.

As for the puppets being killed and consumed by invaders, that is just a trivial matter... Anyway, as long as the invaders are corrupted, new puppets will be replenished.

But at this moment——

In front of Last's sniper rifle, in front of the bullet that was as dazzling as a lighthouse, piercing through the night sky and blood mist, and could not be escaped no matter how he changed direction.

At the source of pollution in Dongshui Town, people heard the whispers of death for the first time and felt the crisis of life.

Although he couldn't understand why this young man who had injured his own eyes and could only sense the aura of the second level... and was much weaker than any previous invader, could launch such a terrifying attack that left no escape.

However, the instinct for survival after being activated made the source of pollution even give up coveting the power of destiny that had been eroded by more than half of Gray's body and was within reach.

To survive.

Using whatever means necessary, he poured all the remaining blood mist onto Last's body.

At all costs, it must kill this young man whom it had previously ignored and neglected.

Under unlimited concentration and unlimited squeezing.

The blood mist, which was originally like gas and had no substance, had now condensed into pitch-black flames.

Like a cancer attached to his bones, the black flames madly entangled Rast.

Under the influence of the black flame, Last's hair and the blood in his eyes were quickly annihilated by the extreme heat and curse.

Even his body was burning rapidly, his skin was burned away, and his flesh and blood were also burned together.

……

Freed from the crazy mumbling and blood mist, Gray was finally freed.

The moment she regained the ability to move, she ran like mad towards the center of the black flames in the distance.

However, he had only taken two steps.

The black flames suddenly gathered again and converged like a whirlpool.

Then, in the next moment, it exploded like a gushing corona.

Gray's thin body had no time to resist and was knocked over by the high-temperature fire wind that erupted from the source of pollution.

The high temperature in the fire scene had already caused a terrible storm due to the temperature difference. The wind pressure pressed Gray tightly to the ground, and she couldn't even move.

The only thing she could do was to forcefully open her eyes under the wind pressure and watch everything that happened in the black flames.

It was a dark tide of fire.

In the center of the fire tide, part of Rast's body had been burned off.

First the skin, then the relatively soft belly.

Until the end, one could even see the bronze-colored bones from the charred flesh.

But Rast's movements remained steady, without even the slightest wavering.

It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine how much pain it would be to be burned by flames. Even the most well-trained special forces would not be able to perform complete actions under such circumstances.

This is a human's conditioned reflex, just like when you touch something hot you will subconsciously pull your hand back.

But for Last, this feeling of being burned by high temperature was something he had already gotten used to.

In the cycle of Deep Blue Harbor, during that stage of emptiness, numbness, pursuit of excitement and self-destruction... he had let himself fall into the molten steel of the ironworks countless times, carefully feeling the whole process of his limbs and torso being burned by the molten iron.

But at this moment, it was just a replica of the past, and even his physiological instincts had been overcome by him.

He ejected the old shell from the magazine of the "Seventh Field of View" and reloaded the ammunition, using his sixth sense to calibrate the direction.

Finally, Rast used the body that had been burned away with most of its skin and flesh.

Only the last few nerves, tendons and bones of the index finger are left to pull the trigger.

boom.

The muzzle of the sniper rifle was raised again, emitting a bright flame.

The barrel of the gun had been burned red by the high temperature. If it were not for the "Emblematic Dress" that had been sublimated by the night world, it would have exploded due to the overheating of the barrel.

But the pointed bullet that was transformed from the eyes was finally fired.

The light like a beacon shines again.

It pierced through the blood mist, the dark sky at night, and even the light of the blood moon was temporarily obscured. However, this time, the light of the bullet trajectory was no longer pure white, but the same blood color as the mist, as if carrying the weight of hatred and fate.

Carrying the last remaining warmth of the souls of countless deceased people, he ignored the constantly changing direction and surging blood mist.

Accurately, it penetrated the core of the blood mist, the source of all pollution.

……

After a breath of silence.

Above the sky, the blood moon covered with cracks shattered.

It turned into countless scattered light spots with a vermilion luster.

Followed by.

The world also disintegrated -

Light is distorted, time and space are reversed.

The whole world, whether it is houses, towns or the night sky, is shattered.

Gray tried to open her eyes wide in the fire wind.

But the last scene she saw was a young man whose flesh and blood were almost burned to ashes, leaving only bronze bones, standing with the huge sniper rifle in his hand.

He stood in the tide of black flames, in the firelight that was like a sunrise.

Gray wanted to run forward like crazy.

The dark curtain of fire parted under her feet like the sea, as if it was a coincidence created by fate.

Unconsciously, Gray finally mastered the power called destiny that was hidden in her body but she could never fully control.

However, when she stepped on the black flames and finally got closer, she found that the boy's broken figure had turned into thousands of scattered points of light, shattered in the night that came from nowhere.

The next moment, time distorted.

Then he took everything to another place.

……

When Grey opened her eyes again, she found herself under a bright and clear sky.

What comes into view is not the endless darkness and fog, but the blue sky.

She was in the wilderness, in the ruins of a huge town.

The collapsed bell tower, the dilapidated houses, the damaged walls, the wooden floor with a rotten smell, the tavern sign with words corroded and difficult to distinguish, the streets and alleys covered with a layer of dust...

Gray could vaguely make out the outline of the former Dongshui Town from the ruins before her.

However, when she subconsciously reached out and wanted to touch a book on the bookshelf in front of her.

The moment Gray's fingers touched it, the book turned into dust and collapsed.

This is the effect of weathering. Over a long period of time, everything here has been corroded, leaving only a broken appearance.

This is the real Dongshui Town.

In the ever-distorted time, everything in Dongshui Town has gone through decades of time, and the once prosperous town has long been weathered into dilapidated ruins.

The small town that was full of people and laughter... was just a dream from the past that kept reappearing, created by Gray's distortion of time.

And now, the dream is over.

Everything returns to reality.

Gray stood on the dilapidated ruins in the wilderness, lost in thought for a long time.

pat.

Something fell from her arms and landed on the ground with a dull sound.

Gray came to her senses and picked up the fallen object.

The lines of the waves were engraved on the silver badge with rough strokes.

Not far from the line, there is a pair of simple silver wings that surround the coastline.

This is the wing emblem of the shore watcher, and it is covered with scratches and charred marks left by the flames in the fire.

It was also the last gift that Rast left for Grey during their late-night conversation.

Gray carefully held the rather worn-looking shore guardian wing emblem in her palm.

There was still a faint warmth on the badge, as if it was the remaining warmth left by the boy.

She closed her eyes.

The beam of light that pierced through the blood mist and the figure in the last scene appeared in my mind again.

The boy's broken figure stood in the firelight, and the remains of his body in the black flames glowed with bronze.

……

"So, Gray... you still don't understand the "Shore Watcher" very well."

"They are actually just a bunch of lunatics who are desperately trying to make big statements and look good."

……

"It is a pair of shackles, a yoke, and even more so, a curse."

"Before you make up your mind to bear this curse, don't talk about becoming a shore keeper."

……

Brother Rast’s words seemed to still ring in my ears.

After a long time, Gray opened her eyes again.

She stared at the damaged wing emblem of the Shore Watcher in her hand, and a faint light flickered in her emerald green eyes.

"become……"

"The shore keeper?"

(End of this chapter)