Chapter 256 When the sun rises and sets
Being noticed by a mysterious being can be a big deal or a small deal.
Some mysterious beings just glance at you occasionally and then look away. They won't just stare at you.
Some mysterious beings are more terrifying. The moment they notice you, they already regard you as prey or as a sacrifice.
Many ordinary people who come into contact with mysterious events have these experiences, and their end is often miserable.
"No way." Leonard interrupted the thoughts that kept surging in his mind.
"We should be careful. The church attaches great importance to this matter. There must be something we don't know."
"You mean, the church knows who the mysterious being behind the nursing home is?" Leonard asked in a low voice.
"Hush, let's not talk about these things, so as not to attract the attention of that mysterious being again."
Klein's cautious attitude made Leonard nervous.
It was not until dawn the next day that the fire in the nursing home was completely extinguished. After a half-day statistics in the morning, the death toll was 8, 17 people were severely burned, 26 people escaped from the nursing home in time, and 2 people were missing.
Both Klein and Leonard focused their attention on the two missing persons, Sheriff Reed and his lover.
They were also the focus of observation in this nursing home.
This was definitely not a coincidental accident, but a deliberate act, with the purpose of helping Sheriff Reed and his wife escape from the nursing home.
Leonard sighed and said, "It seems that we will be busy again."
"I hope everything goes well."
Klein was not optimistic about this incident, so he could only ask the police to continue to find the real cause of the fire in the nursing home. He and Leonard went to ask the survivors of the fire last night to see if they could get some useful information.
After another busy day, Klein and Leonard summarized an analysis of the nursing home accident report.
There were indeed survivors who saw Sheriff Reed and his wife last night, and they said that the two of them could do magic and just passed through a mirror made of fire and light to leave the place.
Mirror? !
Leonard was very familiar with this thing. The last time he entered Sheriff Reed's dream, he saw countless mirrors. Crossing the mirrors seemed to cross different worlds.
If what the witnesses said was true, then there was an extraordinary factor behind Sheriff Reed and his wife leaving the nursing home, and it was most likely that mysterious person.
Another witness said that the fire in the nursing home last night was not caused by a ruptured gas pipeline, but a large fireball suddenly exploded in the small yard near Sheriff Reed and his wife.
The ignited fire spread to the gas pipeline, causing the entire nursing home to be engulfed in fire.
Based on these two points, Klein and Leonard began to reason and analyze, and believed that this was most likely what happened.
The large fireball that appeared out of thin air turned into a mirror surrounded by fire, leading Sheriff Reed and his wife to leave the nursing home, and then detonated, destroying the entire nursing home.
Klein carefully read the confessions of the two witnesses and asked uncertainly: "Do you feel that there is something wrong?"
"Well, if that's the case, how did these two witnesses survive? They should have died in the fire."
"I think so too, but they don't look like they are lying."
Leonard was silent for a while and said: "Could it be that part of the scene those two people saw was an illusion, and Sheriff Reed and his wife did not actually leave through the mirror surrounded by fire, but hid in the chaotic crowd last night to escape from the nursing home?"
"Are you saying that Sheriff Reed and his wife are still in Backlund?"
"I just made a reasonable guess, and I'm not completely sure."
"The more I think about it, the more possible it seems. This can also explain why these two witnesses were able to survive."
Klein's eyes lit up, and he began to mobilize police officers to conduct a detailed investigation of all nearby areas.
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On the sea, the Black Emperor.
Hastur was lying on a lounge chair, with a parasol on his left to block the gradually falling sunlight, and a small square table on his right, with a few bottles of fine wine and roasted dried fish on it.
Azshara also followed him to enjoy the delicious dried fish, and occasionally made a few happy meows.
Since chatting with Nast yesterday, Hastur has enjoyed special treatment on the Black Emperor. As long as the request is not too rude, the crew on the Black Emperor will try their best to satisfy him.
Hastur really understood how famous the High Dimension Overlooker was in this sea during his conversation with them.
Originally, there were four pirate kings in this sea.
The one at the front was Nast, the King of the Five Seas, followed by the Mysterious Queen, the Undead King, and the King of the Black Seat.
At present, the Undead King has become a subordinate of the High Dimension Overlooker, and Nast has also met the High Dimension Overlooker and publicly admitted that he is not his opponent.
The King of the Black Seat was hiding and dared not show up, and most of his crew members were recruited by the High Dimension Overlooker.
Only the mysterious Queen Bernadette is currently in the southern continent, just avoiding the edge of the high-dimensional overlord.
Not only did the pirates suffer a great loss, but even the regular navy of the Kingdom of Loen was beaten several times by the high-dimensional overlord, contributing two ironclad ships to him.
The Storm Church, which has always been rampant in the sea, has also been targeted by the high-dimensional overlords one after another, and is currently basically blocked in the Storm Abyss and dares not come out.
The most legend about this uncrowned king is his speed of appearing and disappearing.
Maybe he was still in the Disi Bay in the morning, and suddenly appeared outside the Storm Abyss in the afternoon.
Some people speculated that this was a master of some extraordinary item that could cross space.
There were also speculations that the uncrowned king had the power to travel through time and space.
There was also news from the Storm Church that the concept of space had no meaning in front of the uncrowned king.
Hastur showed great interest in this. The actions of the High-Dimensional Overlooker had always puzzled him. Hearing more about His deeds would help him understand His true character better.
The only thing that worried him was that if the High-Dimensional Overlooker appeared in front of him at this moment, would he be able to see through his true identity?
Hastur thought about it again and again, and felt that with the strength of an incarnation of the High-Dimensional Overlooker, he could not see through his identity under the double disguise of the secrets of the night and the cover of fate.
As long as he did not enter the Hall of Stars in front of Him, He would not be able to discover him.
"Who would have thought that I would spend such a leisurely life on the Black Emperor."
Hastur drank another glass of wine and watched the sunset being swallowed by the sea.
The sun always rises and falls like this, constantly repeating.
Maybe one day, the sun sets today, and the sun that rises tomorrow will not be the same sun.
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Prin Port, formerly known as Delink Port, was named in memory of the former Grand Duke of Southwell.
Not long after the current Grand Duke of Southwell took office, he renamed the port to Prin Port.
Currently, it is one of the three important ports in Southwell. To its south is the Port of Berens in the southern continent.
Today, a medium-sized fishing boat sailed from the sea and arrived at Prin Port.
As soon as the fishing boat docked, there were bursts of excited and happy cheers from the cabin, but no one dared to come out of the cabin until the captain of the captain's room personally invited a young man out of the VIP room and respectfully sent him ashore.
"Finally arrived in Southwell. It's really a bit hard along the way."
"Azshara, you must be tired of eating dried fish on the boat. Next, you can eat some vegetarian food."
"Meow?!"
The young man was holding a small black cat with dark blue pupils in his arms.
When the young man walked away, the other passengers rushed out of the cabin, like a group of prisoners just released from a cage.
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In the southern continent, the war that had been brewing for more than half a year finally began to burn.
West Balam and East Balam, who had always been at odds with each other, joined forces and launched a crackdown on the Seven Gods Church members and related forces from the northern continent under the slogan of restoring freedom and peace in the southern continent.
The war burned mercilessly and soon spread to the entire southern continent.
The cause of the war was that the Eternal Sun Church discovered the Rose School's residence on an island.
As soon as the clergy of the Eternal Sun Church, who had been searching for a long time, found this place, they began to unite the forces of other churches and launched a fierce attack.
At first, the Rose School retreated step by step and retreated to the deepest part of the island. Just when the members of the Seven Gods Church were about to flatten the island in one go, the center of the entire island cracked and a sun rose.
When the sun floated into the sky, the dazzling light shone all over the island, and the members of the Seven Gods Church suffered heavy losses.
At the critical moment, the archbishops of the Eternal Sun Church actually summoned the gods!
An equally dazzling sun descended from the sky, and the two suns competed with each other, causing the nearby seawater to boil.
The aftermath of the confrontation turned into rounds of sky fire, sweeping across the entire coastline.
The fishing villages and ports along the coast suffered heavy losses from the disaster of sky fire.
In addition, the two suns competed for glory, and the rapidly rising temperature turned into gusts of burning wind, burning from the coastline to the inland. The fire continued to spread, forming a terrifying mountain fire disaster.
The grain and cotton plantations were even more burned by the high temperature and spontaneously combusted.
The losses and impacts caused were too great.
It was under such circumstances that East Balam and West Balam announced their cooperation to expel the Seven Gods Church together and return a peaceful land to the southern continent.
The war began to spread.