Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 835: 832: Returning Home, From Afar

Chapter 835: Chapter 832: Returning Home, From Afar

Lucresia and Fenna walked on the mechanical platform beneath the lighthouse facility, passing through the dense fog in the night, walking along those familiar paths and corridors. The dim yellow lights in the mist seemed like obscure stars, and within those dim and indistinct shadows, someone was moving around near them.

A pale-faced harbor guard walked past Fenna, donned in a crisp uniform, holding a lantern that was still bright in his hand. His expression was meticulous, but when two uninvited guests appeared before him, he simply ignored them as if they were invisible.

With a complex gaze, Fenna watched the guard recede into the fog. After his silhouette gradually vanished, she whispered to Lucresia, “…he wasn’t breathing.”

“Yes, the person before him wasn’t either; most people here no longer breathe,” Lucresia replied softly, her face shrouded in shadows, “Even the few who still breathe don’t react to our arrival.”

“Everyone seems to be in a state of…” Fenna began, but then stumbled over her words, finding it hard to come up with the right term to describe her feelings. After a long pause, she continued, “A state of confusion and ‘ignorance’, they still maintain their daily routines, even performing thorough handovers at each post, but they simply don’t react to us.”

Lucresia hummed softly but said nothing more. Instead, she estimated the distribution of the facilities in the fog and started walking towards the church at the base of the lighthouse.

The situation inside the church was not much different from the outside, only with fewer people. Aside from a few figures resting and praying, there was only a priestess in a black nun’s robe cleaning the main hall. She seemed to have a slight reaction to the appearance of Fenna and Lucresia—a brief pause and gaze—but when Fenna was just about to speak to the nun, the latter casually walked away.

Lucresia and Fenna went straight through the main hall of the church and entered the tower connected to the lighthouse from a side door, then ascended the misty spiral staircase, searching several empty rest and storage rooms until they found a slightly ajar door.

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