Soul echo

Chapter 102 Fortune (VIII)

At this time when the moon is fading and the sun has not yet risen, it is the darkest and most silent moment of the day, even the sea is snoring, and the stars are falling asleep.

Shadows hung over every corner of Aspalatos, the streets and alleys.

In the silence, Zhong Ye suddenly opened his eyes and sat up from the bed.

He inexplicably felt a little uneasy, so he woke up from the dream.

what happened?

Zhong Ye let out a foul breath, glanced at the several guards lying on the ground, turned out the window, and landed in the yard.

Standing in the courtyard, looking up at the dark sky, feeling the oppression in his chest, Zhong Ye began to think and observe his surroundings.

——What exactly caused the uneasiness in his heart?
There was a smell of the sea in the oncoming breeze, but otherwise, everything remained silent, and there was no biological activity around.

Zhong Ye reckoned that if he wanted to deceive his perception, he would at least have to be a 'Legend' of advanced rogues. Even when the spider was about to attack them, he was aware of its whereabouts.

But if it is really the legend of the rogue's advancement, then no matter how hard he tries, it is impossible to defeat it, or even survive from its hands.

The sense of crisis is not urgent, which means that danger will not happen to him, but it will affect him...

After becoming a transcendent, Zhong Ye went through various experiments to test the limit and scope of his own perception.

He can now judge how far the danger is from him, whether it will affect him, and the degree of danger based on his feeling.

Now he is just restless, and his mood has become a little irritable. Judging from the previous test results, the imminent danger may affect him, but to him, it is not very dangerous, or it has not come so soon.

The feeling of irritability has been pressing on my heart, and I am afraid that I will not be able to fall asleep.

Zhong Ye thought for a while, then kicked off the wall and jumped onto the roof, standing on the roof and looking around.

Sweeping across the dark urban area, although he saw a few sneaky figures, they all looked like thieves, not the people or things he was looking for.

When Zhong Ye couldn't detect any information with his eyes, he closed his eyes and used his unskilled perception ability to sense the energy flowing around him.

Air, infrasound, ultrasound, electromagnetic waves, elements...

Zhong Ye felt it silently, and gradually, his heart calmed down.

Now he can actively perform 'sensory compensation', close his eyes, he can amplify his sense of hearing and smell, and now he amplifies his sense of hearing and energy sensing.

Putting most of his attention on his hearing, he seemed to be able to monitor the sound of a small half of the city.

Snoring, rubbing, whispering... All kinds of sounds poured into his ears, but they could still be clearly distinguished by his brain.

Normally, he would only use his extraordinary perception ability to fight. This is the first time he has used it like this, and it feels quite novel.

At this moment, he could even hear the sound of mice crawling underground!

Of all these sounds, the sound of the tide is the loudest and most powerful.

Listen to the ebb and flow of the tide, feel the water hit the shore, seep into the gaps in the stone bricks of the pier, and slowly erode it.

This is the harmonious sound of nature, even if he just listened quietly, Zhong Ye felt that he had a better understanding of some moves - it turns out that the "epiphany" written in martial arts novels is true, watching the sea and listening to the waves Can you really improve your martial arts?

Suddenly, Zhong Ye frowned.

In the harmonious movement, an outrageous note suddenly appeared.

"What is that..." Zhong Ye murmured in a low voice.

After hearing this disharmonious thing hidden in the waves, a sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart.

"...something is approaching Asparatus?"

Zhong Ye immediately opened his eyes and turned his gaze to the port.

He didn't know what was approaching the port, but among the waves, there was indeed something weird mixed in, and that thing could make him feel a sense of crisis.

But why such a coincidence?

When passing through Laurel City, I encountered the conspiracy of the King of Conspiracy. When passing through Belgrade, I happened to break through another conspiracy. In addition to the "plague" of Resta, Skupi and Serdika went underground. He felt as if he had been arranged.

...Maybe this is not an illusion, he was really arranged?

Thinking like this, Zhong Ye turned into the room, picked up Moonlight and Blue Bird, inserted the throwing knives into his belt one by one, put on his gloves, tied his shoelaces tightly, and was fully armed.

In order to avoid the embarrassing situation when dealing with the big spider, Zhong Ye also brought blazing glue and a musket this time.

After equipping himself, Zhong Ye knocked on the door of the guard leader's room and stood outside the door to wait.

After a while, the door was opened, and the leader of the guard poked his head out, staring at a pair of bloodshot eyes.

Originally, he was a little drowsy, but when he saw Zhong Ye in full armor, his brain immediately woke up.

He widened his eyes and asked in a daze, "Your Excellency, what are you..."

"I feel some danger, and I'm going to check the situation."

Zhong Ye checked the musket in his hand. It was a breech-loading gun, but it still needed to be filled with gunpowder and bullets separately. The only difference from the front-loading gun was that it was easier to clean and load.

Even he couldn't take a bullet, and with his shooting skills, a musket was enough to deal with a lot of trouble.

In addition to being used to deal with the enemy, the musket can also be used as an 'alarm clock' to wake up others. When the gun sounds, many people will definitely be woken up.

"Danger, danger?" The guard leader felt his voice was about to distort.

"No, you should stay and protect..."

"The danger I feel comes from the sea! From the port!" Zhong Ye interrupted the guard leader, "I haven't approached the coast yet, I just feel it!"

The rest of the guard leader's words were blocked in his throat, and he looked at Zhong Ye dully, as if he was looking at a monster.

The house is far away from the port, at least you need to cross a few long streets to reach the port, and the coast is even further.

But Zhong Ye said that he felt danger from the sea here?
If it was someone else who said such words, the leader of the guards would definitely not believe them, and would even mock them. However, now that the person who said these words was Zhong Ye...he was a little uncertain.

"Then... you go!" The guard leader took a light breath.

He knew very well that Zhong Ye didn't come to ask him, but to inform him.

Zhong Ye might have sensed something, and he had to go to the coast to check, otherwise he wouldn't be carrying so much equipment.

Thinking of what those weirdos said today, a ridiculous idea suddenly popped up in the head of the guard——

Zhong Ye, is it time to save the city again?

Of course, this idea was still too absurd, and it only existed in the head of the guard for less than three seconds.

Zhong Ye nodded slightly to the leader of the guards, put the musket on his shoulder, walked downstairs, opened the door and left.

The cool wind blowing against the door at night made Zhong Ye's mind calmer.

Stepping on layers of shadows, slowly walked towards the port.

Zhong Ye left other thoughts behind, leaving only one thread, trying his best to think about where the sense of crisis came from.

'Danger comes from the sea', this is what his intuition tells him, and he is willing to trust his intuition.

Perhaps because of his ignorance, he has never heard of any monsters that can land in the Mediterranean Sea, but if the monsters cannot land, what can threaten him?
Waves... tsunamis?
But until just now, the sea was still calm. If there was a tsunami, there must be other signs. Before the tsunami happened, he could notice those signs and avoid them early.

Thinking about it this way, it might really be some kind of monster—it can't be a pirate!
The Adriatic Sea is the 'bathtub' of the Kingdom of Etruul. As a large city, Aspalatos has at least two supernatural beings. What kind of pirates can plunder here and threaten his kingdom? life safety?
Breathing in silence, the smell of the sea in his nostrils gradually became stronger, Zhong Ye also restrained his divergent thoughts, and looked up to the front.

Port, here we come!
(End of this chapter)