Chapter 3 Gray Fog Can, Chaos Puddle

The ball of light seemed to be undergoing a rapid journey, and everything was moving backwards at a high speed.

In its ears rang whispers that were sometimes soft, sometimes sharp, sometimes unreal, sometimes alluring, sometimes manic, and sometimes crazy.

Everything in front of its eyes became blurry. The red became redder, the blue became bluer, the black became blacker. The colors were rich and randomly pieced together, like an oil painting splashed by an Impressionist master.

Around it, there appeared indescribable shapes, some so transparent that they seemed non-existent. Deep inside, there were bright lights of different colors.

What followed was endless, hazy and blurry gray fog.

It roared loudly, trying to resist the amazing scenery before its eyes and in its ears, but to little avail.

Suddenly, the whispers fell silent and the gray fog was behind them.

The ball of light dragged Old Blue's soul and flesh and appeared on a dark "sea", causing ripples.

Calling it the "sea" is a bit of an exaggeration. The word "puddle" is correct. This puddle, along with the sky, is surrounded by endless gray fog. The dome is also covered with silently rolling and diffuse gray fog, forming a sealed "can" as a whole, with a space only the size of an ordinary room.

Most of Old Blue's spirit had dissipated, and the remaining part combined with some extraordinary things, condensed into a deep blue gem, which merged into the sea water and disappeared; his body, with a calm and stiff face, seemed to have lost all vitality, floating on the sea.

"Fuck, this..." The light ball was stunned. Everything that happened before its eyes was too fast and weird. Its ears were still filled with frantic echoes, and the afterglow of the oil painting was still in front of its eyes. The gray fog, puddles, and tranquility that followed, and the quickly dissipating old Blue's spirit... All of this overwhelmed it, and it only had time to utter a swear word.

Before the light ball could move, fragments of memories suddenly popped out and appeared in its mind!

Blue, no surname, from Tingen City, Ahowa County, Loen Kingdom, Northern Continent, former Punisher, Sailor Path Sequence 8 "Raging People", after retirement, he and Swain managed the underground trading market under the official instruction...

His wife was a follower of the Goddess of Night. She passed away last year, in 1348...

His son also became a Mandated Punisher and followed Swain for twenty to thirty years, but three days ago he lost control at the dock and turned into a fish monster. He was killed on the spot by Swain, the Mandated Punishers and two Night Watchers.

Seeing this, the light ball finally understood that Old Blue didn't die from overeating... He died of suicide from the bottle of hemlock juice he bought from the Dragon Bar in the afternoon.

As a senior punisher, Old Blue is strong-willed and knowledgeable.

He had cleared out water ghosts that came ashore to kill people, captured evil Beyonders who tried to escape by diving from the Tussock River... and of course, he had personally executed teammates who had lost control of their Made Punishers.

Among the cases handled by the "Made-in-China Punisher", "Machine Heart", "Nightwatch", and other similar judicial bodies every year, a quarter of them are Beyonders losing control.

Among this quarter, a large part are their teammates, and more likely themselves.

Old Blue had already made up his mind, and Swain showed no mercy, even though that was the son of his old friend.

But when Old Blue arrived at the scene, his brain was still buzzing and his heart was filled with sadness when he first saw the fish monster Little Blue with a smashed head, dark green scales all over its body, and webbed feet growing out of the gaps between its hands and feet.

He turned his head, as if nothing had happened if he couldn't see it, and happened to see two figures leaving, one was an old man in a dark classical robe, and the other was a young man in a knee-length black thin windbreaker.

The young man in the windbreaker revealed his black hair which could not be covered by a half-high silk hat. He was a little thin, and from the side of his face one could tell that he had a strong scholarly air. [“Where is this place? Have I traveled through time?”]

The clear and melodious mumbling began to ring in old Bruce's ears.

……

"Hiss, why does it look like I killed the old man... Was he afraid of losing control and chose to commit suicide... That young man must be me, Klein? Old Blue saw him, so I traveled through time? There's no causal relationship here—"

The ball of light continued to digest the memory fragments. As a senior punisher, Old Blue learned and mastered the Hermetic language and part of the ancient Hermetic language. Most of them were prayers to the Lord of Storms, but he was not proficient in them. What he was really proficient in was... "Elf Language".

Ironically, because the Storm Church has been hunting down the elves for many years, it requires the Punishers to learn the Elvish language in order to identify the enemy... As a result, almost every Punisher can speak fluent "Elvish".
He knew nothing about other languages ​​such as Giant, Old Feysac, and Dragon...

One reason for this is that the learning ability of the "sailors" and "angry people" has not improved, and old Blue has only received enlightenment education in the church Sunday school, so it is very difficult for him to learn. Learning "Hermes" and "Elf" is already his limit.

On the other hand, the "sailors" hardly need the help of rituals or spells when fighting, and their style is to roll up their sleeves and rush forward.

……

After digesting it, the light ball sighed. The extraordinary road is extremely difficult and dangerous, and it has to be accompanied by madness at all times...

But after achieving extraordinary success, Old Bruce changed his poor fate, received a salary shared by the church and the police, supported his family, and was able to help his former comrades...

For this reason alone, Old Blue, who was born in Lower Iron Cross Street, never regretted anything - he just regretted not discovering his son's out-of-control symptoms in time and not saving him in time...

As a true time traveler, the light ball understood that the punishment man's loss of control was not due to his own fault... There was a big pit inside, basically whoever went there would die...

Sigh, he sighed again. The light ball finally had enough energy to observe the surrounding environment. "Puddle" "Can"——

Suddenly, the ball of light felt some details that it had not noticed just now. It seemed to have a wonderful connection with the body of old Blue soaking in the "puddle" - this connection was becoming stronger as the latter soaked in the "puddle" for longer!
"No way? Could it be that I..."

Before he finished speaking, the light ball was sucked into Old Blue's body by a suction force. The numbness faded away, and the stiffness was gone. Old Blue, who was lying on his back in the "puddle", suddenly opened his eyes. He only saw the familiar gray fog dome...

"Depend on!"

After cursing, Old Bruce tried to sit up and supported himself with his hands, but he found nothing. He was so flustered that he lost his balance and his whole body seemed to sink into the depths of the "puddle".

The light ball then remembered that it didn't know how to swim - believing the saying "Those who drown are those who can swim", it skipped all swimming lessons.

"Gululu," Old Blue was drowned in the "puddle" and was at a loss...

“It’s okay to travel to the world of the Lord of Mysteries, and it’s okay to travel to an old man; it’s okay, but I can only watch! It’s okay, we can’t communicate in the same language, and he ignores me! It’s okay, but now I’m going to drown! The Sailor Beyonder is going to drown! No, the Beyonder characteristics have been analyzed, and I’m no longer a ‘sailor’ - what the hell! Where is the mastermind behind the scenes! Where is the Celestial Lord? Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Celestial Lord! Come out and save me!” The light ball complained crazily in Chinese in his mind...

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