Chapter 242 The second "Fire Bearer"!
"However, this feeling of not being able to go forward and just watching from the sidelines is sometimes more disgusting than a direct conflict."
Colin took a deep breath. The uncomfortable feeling of being peeped into the sea would disappear briefly every time the lighthouse flickered, and then reappear not long after. It was disturbing and extremely irritating...
Without thinking too much, Colin calmed down his anger and arranged for everyone to go upstairs.
After reaching the top through the quaint spiral stone steps, they unexpectedly discovered that the space on top of the lighthouse was much larger than they had imagined, almost close to three hundred square meters.
Xia Liufang couldn't help but exclaimed: "Is this some special method of compressing space?"
If you look up from the bottom of the lighthouse, this place is at most about 30 to 50 square meters, it can't be that big.
Apparently...
The space inside and outside is not the same as what they observe with their naked eyes.
"Don't worry about what means he uses, just call all the people up first." Qin Chuan reminded.
Since the space upstairs was so spacious, there was no need for people to continue to squeeze in the narrow corridor. While they were calling people up, Colin walked to the middle of the lighthouse.
There is also a staircase of only about two meters , and on the stairs is a small platform, on which there seem to be glowing objects.
Somehow, after walking into this spacious hall, Colin felt that the attraction was getting stronger and stronger.
Soon, when Colin walked up the stairs and saw the items displayed on the platform, he couldn't help but gasp.
It turned out to be a person!
No, to be more precise, it was a corpse.
A mummy that is almost indistinguishable from a skeleton. Its clothes and skin seem to have weathered away long ago, leaving only the mottled bones.
"Looking at the shape of the bones, it looks like the body of a woman..."
Although he had no medical training, he had a lot of practical experience and was able to quickly determine the gender of the skeleton by its appearance.
But then, while Colin was surprised, he couldn't help but feel puzzled.
Since there is a corpse here, what is that glowing thing?
thump……
The sound of heartbeat suddenly rang in my ears.
Colin was startled and subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound. Only then did he notice that on the chest , there was a dark red, cracked object that looked like a heart.
At this moment, it really swelled like a heart, and beneath its old bark-like surface, a bright flame burst out.
The flames spread outward through Colin...
For a moment, from the perspective of a lighthouse.
The bright and clear flames almost lit up the entire area inside and outside the lighthouse.
All the indescribable and irritating feeling of being watched retreated as if a stream had been cut off.
At the same time, when Colin knew the source of the light, he also understood why the flickering light in the lighthouse gave him an inexplicable attraction...
Because, the mummy lying in it was actually a "Fire Bearer"!
The characteristics contained in that heart did not disappear with her passing, but continued to shine like a lighthouse on the dark seashore, guiding those who were lost.
"Hiss, the quality contained in that flame just now seems to be more than one level stronger than the flame on my body, right?"
Colin thought back to the flames that had passed by his face, and knew that if they had been directed at him, he would probably be dead.
But compared to this, he suddenly remembered that when the fire flickered, he seemed to have noticed that there was a line of text on the side of the platform. It seemed that a line of arrogant and confident words were casually carved on it with a knife -
"I will stay here for mankind forever, lighting myself up, overlooking the lightless sea, preventing them from landing, even if my soul is annihilated and my body is dead."
"Is this the reason why those things in the sea didn't come up? Is this... so powerful?"
Colin was shocked and curious about who this person was. If she was an employee of the company, then she must have been at least C level when she was alive. She could be said to be a real senior employee, not a fake like Luo Yiming.
But in the end, perhaps in order to prevent the disaster, he sacrificed his life here.
Then, Colin saw a line of small font next to Zhang Kuang's handwriting : "Before the end of 2044, this will always apply. Those who stray into this place don't need to worry. You can jump off the lighthouse and leave after 'dawn'..."
"It's 2044 again..."
Colin whispered to himself, feeling as if the whole world knew that the end of the world was coming that year, but they were the only ones who didn't know.
But he was already used to it, and planned to ask Miss Rabbit about it when the time came, so he didn't think much about it...
Later, Colin saw a familiar octagonal star-shaped bronze badge next to the corpse.
After hesitating for a moment, he leaned forward, reached out and took the copper badge that was stained with some weathered ashes and took a closer look at it.
It seems that due to the battle, the badge is badly damaged, but if you pay attention you can still vaguely see that on it is a pattern of a right hand holding a burning heart and holding it high up, like a torch, lighting up the darkness.
Turning the badge over, Colin saw a few unclear words on the back of the incomplete copper badge.
Even though these words were missing and could not actually be pronounced, Colin still recited them silently in his heart -
“When the night comes, someone should light a fire to illuminate all directions.”
Holding the badge, he slowly raised his head to glance at the corpse of the Fire Bearer lying above, and his heart was touched, and a rare feeling of admiration arose in him.
With respect, Colin paid tribute to the corpse and put the badge back in its place.
He didn't dare to think about the things above...
It would be troublesome if we took something away and a disaster broke out here, causing the end of the world to come ahead of time.
"Are there any special discoveries upstairs?" Qin Chuan's voice came from downstairs.
All the people have been brought up, but I don’t know what Colin has been doing up there.
"fine."
Colin shook his head, took back his hand that had placed the badge, turned around and glanced at the lightless sea. He was keenly aware of the inexplicable sense of being watched coming to him intermittently, but this time he felt much more at ease.
Protected by the embers of this respectable "Fire Bearer", the creatures in the sea could only watch and did not dare to come ashore.
"So domineering..."
Colin walked down the stairs while sighing inwardly.
He felt that if a disaster struck in the future, it was hard to say whether he would survive, but if not, he hoped that he could end his life in such a domineering way like this predecessor.
He was extremely powerful when alive, and he could suppress others even when he died...
"Speaking of which, if the world really ends, it's hard to say what will happen to the others, but the old director and the people in the welfare home will have to find a way to make arrangements..."
Colin doesn't care much about many things, but he can never let go of the old dean and others who raised him.
After returning to the normal world this time, in addition to financial matters, he has to leave something for the welfare home.
But, at this time...
“Hmph~Hmph~Hmph~”
Colin's thoughts were interrupted by a soft humming sound, as if a child was humming a little tune.
The children were humming on the train, so he was not very surprised and even thought it sounded quite nice.
However, the next moment, Colin was startled to wake up when he noticed that the sound came from downstairs, not upstairs.
“Who’s singing?”
