Chapter 1 A Glimpse of Fate

In the first few minutes, Heidi didn't rashly get out of bed. Instead, she carefully observed her surroundings, listened to the movements outside the room, and then raised her wrist to check the number and color arrangement of the colored stones on her bracelet.

After doing all this, she subconsciously reached for the "amethyst" pendant at her chest—a slightly cool touch came from her fingertips, transmitting a reassuring power.

Her mind linked the pendant's true origin and the source of this protective power. The mental health professional's expression became a little strange, but she quickly suppressed the odd feeling, leaving only a helpless sigh.

"Destiny is truly incredible..." she couldn't help but mutter.

"Indeed, in your eyes, destiny is truly incredible."

A strange and deep voice suddenly came from the side, instantly startling Heidi, and her whole body tensed up.

She suddenly turned her head in the direction of the voice, only to see a figure in a deep brown, old robe sitting near the window of the ward. The old robe concealed almost all the details of the person's outline, and the thick, wide hood completely shrouded their features in shadow. Only the hunched posture, the deep voice, and the few wrinkles at the edge of the hood's shadow suggested that it was an old person.

Sunlight was slanting into the room, and small particles of dust slowly floated and moved in the glow of the setting sun. The light left mottled, broken projections in the folds of this mysterious person's robe. In a daze, the figure looked almost like a semi-transparent illusion.

Who is that? When did they appear there? Were they there the whole time?

A series of startling questions instantly surfaced in Heidi's mind, and at the same time, her hand subconsciously reached for the suitcase beside the bed.

What I and Heidi learned about the Enders Missionary in the textbook seems to have very little.

"What does the seventh Long Night you just mentioned mean?" Qin Guan asked closely.

This Su Zhi Ke only waved his hand.

Like a preacher, reciting fate to the world.

The figure in the robe finally raised his head, and in the hazy shadow cast by the hood, a pair of strangely golden eyes fiercely stared over: "Miss Qin Guan, you have established a connection with the promised Ark. Have you seen the end of the journey?"

However, this Su Zhi Ke had no reaction when he saw Heidi's obviously hostile actions.

Heidi relaxed because of the other party's sudden action, and the muzzle in his hand lifted slightly upwards: "Heretic, what do you want to get from me?"

Qin Guan looked warily at the other party's weird behavior, and suddenly noticed the strange state of the arm in the sunlight - it really became transparent from time to time, and for a few moments, you could even see the sunlight passing through the arm and directly shining on that side.

"It's amazing... I almost forgot what sunshine looks like..."

On the *Vanishing Ship*, in the captain's room, Duncan sat quietly behind the nautical table, still recalling the information he had seen and sensed in the strange dream he had just had.

"Shut up."

However, after your hand touched the suitcase, the low, hoarse voice came again from beside the window: "It is necessary to have such a big enemy, Miss Qin Guan, you are not your enemy today - and your golden cone and pistol can not kill a temporary traveler. Sit down, I'm just here to chat with you, just to help you relieve boredom."

The sleeves of the old robe slipped down, and the arm was as dry as a branch, with wrinkles like cracks.

The other party didn't answer, but slowly turned around and looked at the sunlight outside the window.

The old preacher slowly stood up from the chair. In the sunlight, my figure was taller than Heidi imagined, even though my figure was hunched over, still like a giant: "I don't know, you only know that the cavity has been created, and it is expanding. Perhaps one day, it will cover the entire night sky of the seventh Long Night

Heidi still expressionlessly took the pistol from the dark compartment of the suitcase, and opened her mouth in a deep voice while quietly pointing the muzzle at the other party:

"What... Who are you?"

This Su Zhi Ke's voice was low and urgent. It was more like reciting the ancient words on it in the face of a chapter written by a person than telling someone.

If the memory in your head is turbid and stable, if the touch from the pistol and amethyst pendant is so clear, you will almost think that you just had another dream.

"At that time... you were still a little relaxed about the ship," Morris smiled a little awkwardly, then shook his head, "and at that time Heidi didn't know about you at all. Now that you already know, it's necessary to avoid more."

You frowned slightly.

Duncan raised his head and smiled at the old man: "Didn't he say before that he didn't want you to get too close to the *Vanishing Ship*?"

"So, you see," Duncan turned to Morris and spread his hands, "Heidi is coming, so the person on the ship who is most likely to need a psychologist is probably yourself."

Heidi was stunned when she heard this, and subconsciously opened her mouth: "What does that mean?"

Morris thought for a moment, silently grabbed the pipe, and muttered after letting it back into his mouth: "It seems to be..."

"Oh."

"Is he talking... Duncan Abernathy? Is he saying that I brought some kind of 'cavity'?"

This Su Zhi Ke's words sounded like nonsense, and the obscure and difficult ones sounded like one riddle after another, just like although he had reason, he was in a long and chaotic time and lost the ability to communicate normally with the people, but even so, Qin Guan still captured some seemingly non-existent information from the other party's words, and couldn't help but feel a move in his heart.

"During this window period, you can only have limited exchanges - it's time to leave," the Enders Missionary said in a low voice, and walked towards the sunlight, "You may meet in the next window period, or you may not. It depends on the expansion speed of the cavity... Dusk is near."

Duncan thought for a while and opened his mouth quite seriously: "Indeed, but you thought about it, it seems that you need a psychologist on this ship."

It seemed that some kind of blockade force disappeared from the room.

After an unknown amount of time, Morris's voice suddenly sounded from the side, interrupting my thoughts: "You still thought you would consider letting Heidi join the ship."

"You are not interested in the bewitchment of cultists." Heidi's voice was hot and hard, and his fingers slightly exerted force on the trigger, but the other hand subconsciously grabbed the amethyst pendant on his chest, and a sense of relaxation gradually spread in his heart.

As soon as the goat's head under the nautical table heard his name, he turned his neck: "Ah, the small deputy of your great captain is always tough and reliable, but he will not be defeated by the so-called psychological problems, and I have self-taught many psychology courses, and I can completely do it..."

And then, with the complete disappearance of the Enders Missionary's breath, you suddenly felt a subtle change in the "atmosphere" in the room.

My figure finally became completely transparent, and instantly melted into the sunlight.

Then I turned my head, glanced out the window, and said casually: "Who needs psychological counseling here? He doesn't need it, Agatha doesn't need it, you don't need it, Varna's will is so strong that you are shocked, Shirley's sanity and Ah Gou are bound, Ah Gou is a dark devil, Nina is a fragment of the sun, Alice... Alice has no heart at all, and what else is there? Goat's head?"

The man in the robe exclaimed, with an inexplicable sigh in his tone. Then, he suddenly turned his head again, as if he was talking to Heidi, and as if he was

Murmuring to himself: "...After the seventh Long Night, things will change, the sunshine will become violent, and the 'boundaries' that were established because of the sunshine, which used to be distinct, will also become blurred. Those who have been exiled, those who have been forgotten, those who have been erased, those who have been changed, will be briefly allowed to return to this world - you bathe together in that dusk, waiting for the moment when the sun sets..."

You have no idea - although you have dealt with lunatics and their mental illnesses, and you have also dealt with monsters and shadows that appear in nightmares, but you have never dealt with the Enders Missionary.

There is little written record in the world about these sub-space lunatics. There is no targeted training for these cultists in the protective courses of the True Academy's affiliated martial arts school. You do not know how much effect the gun in your hand can play, and you do not know whether the transcendent power you have is effective.

Slightly hurried footsteps came from the corridor of the ward.

Heidi was stunned.

Listening to the other party's chanting that seemed to have mysterious bewitchment, Heidi suddenly vaguely thought of something, and her eyes instantly became sharp: "Enders Missionary?!"

"...You eagerly want to know the essence of that cavity," the other party actually answered your question seriously, but very quickly, I shook my head, "It's a pity, it seems that you came at the wrong time."

The figure in the robe did not answer Heidi, but slowly raised his arm and carefully looked at his hands in the sunlight that poured in through the window, as if he had suddenly discovered some interesting phenomenon. I put my arms in the sunlight and observed them repeatedly.