Amber raised her head and happened to meet Gao Wen's calm and deep vision.

"Another...and what?" she asked curiously.

Gao Wen turned the next page of the travel notes, and among the mottled and ancient notes, the last few paragraphs of this record gradually appeared in front of the person:

"…Brian's answer brought me an inexplicable fear, and I believe that this fear has nothing to do with his words themselves - some kind of super-experience, a "premonition" derived from the intuition of the transcendents brought this fear. I instinctively felt that what Brian mentioned was a rather bad situation, the shadow residents who wandered on the edge of the deep dream, maintaining the boundaries of awakening and dreams, when they woke up collectively... they probably weren't a good thing for the material world.

"The only thing that is thankful is that such things don't seem to happen in the short term - so did Brian answered. He said: We finally wake up, but now it seems that this stage is still far away. The Dream of Deep was on the verge of awakening, but not long ago, it had returned to stability, which might last for a long time.

"I asked him what caused the fluctuations in the Deep Dream, what made it awake, and what made it stabilize it again-but Brian did not answer, and he returned to his dream and wandering state. I tried several more times, including other Shadow Inhabitants, and the results were almost the same. It seemed that as long as this question was involved, they would immediately enter a deeper dream... which further aggravated my anxiety.

“On x-day…the investigation that has been unpredictable for many days has been frustrating, and even more frustrating…I found myself at the time of having to leave.

"Unconsciously, I have been stuck in this world dominated by the power of shadow for too long. Even if I have the opportunity to return to the material world to recuperate, I am still constantly affected by the power of shadow here - without the body as the "foundation", the loss and assimilation speed of the soul are faster than imagined. If I do not return, my soul may be irreversible damage, and even...become a member of this place forever.

"It's time to say goodbye to Brian and to other Shadow Inhabitants. Although we are not the same race, and I even lurked to them in disguise, I did have a fulfilling day with these mysterious creatures... They are disturbing, but they also bring me unimaginable knowledge, which I think I will always remember and these special 'friends'.

"Before leaving, I will fade away my Shadow Soul form and say separate from Brian and the others on the front. This is a bit risky, but it is more in line with my principles. And I think... after many days of getting along, at least something can change. These shadow residents are also rational and memory. Perhaps they will accept me as a special 'friend'...

“I haven’t played on x-month x.

"Forget it, let's do it. Any journey has an end. At least the process of this journey is particularly fulfilling. It's time for me to go back to find Old Malfoy to get my body back - goodbye, Shadow World."

"The main record ends here," Gao Wen raised his head from the travel notes and looked at Amber's eyes. "There are two short sections after that. Modir Wilder mentioned that he had returned to the Shadow Realm again after his body recovered, but he could not find the Shadow Inhabitants - they seemed to have wandered elsewhere. And in the years that followed, he never went back because of his gradual aging and spending most of his energy on sorting out his notes in early years."

Amber opened her mouth, but in the end she didn't say anything. She took a step back, came to the chair next to the desk, sat on it, staring blankly at the travel notes on Gao Wen's desk, looking a little lost.

"The text on this... reveals a lot of things," said Gao Wen. "A lot of information about the Shadow Realm, about the Shadow Inhabitants... and the mysterious shallow and deep realms. But I think the most important thing for you... should be..."

"A member who 'awakened' in advance disappeared from the sight of the tribe...that's probably me," Amber took a breath, as if he had been revived. She pointed to herself, "Just judging by the timeline, I should have been sleeping in the Shadow Fortress in the active era of Modir Wilder... In the form of an artificial human embryo. Scholars of the Gondor Empire captured the souls of the Shadow Inhabitants and successfully injected one of them into the artificial human body. This is where I come from."

"Yes, we all know about this," Gao Wen nodded. "Now it seems that your adoptive father should have learned some of the contents of Modir's travel notes from that time, and he learned that it might mention your life experience, so he took the risk of stealing it."

"But this is not worth it," Amber looked at the travel notes of Modir and whispered in a low voice as if he was talking to himself. "The content on this... isn't it worth him to do this! I don't care how I came from. Isn't it better to live in seclusion in the countryside?"

"But he probably felt it was necessary," Gao Wen shook his head, "and he was probably not sure about the real content of this travelogue, nor did he expect that he would fail. All this was not something he could decide in advance."

Amber couldn't help but mutter: "He is a fool. He has long worn out his skills when he was a secret knight when he was a silencer, but he still felt that he was the elite royal shadow guard back then..."

"...This mentions the 'birth' of the Shadow Inhabitants," Gao Wen glanced at Amber, without saying comfort, but went directly to another topic. "They were born in a dream in the 'deep world', and the persistence of this dream allowed them to maintain their current state. They wandered in the Shadow world, and in fact, were wandering in the dream and awake borders... Can you understand what this means?"

Amber thought for a while and shook her head: "I don't know--though I can communicate with Shadow Residences, they have never told me about this, but I can ask if I have the chance."

She then added: "Of course, I have some of my own guesses... I think the Shadow Residence's description of the 'Deep Realm' and 'Deep Deep Dream' is likely to be related to a place..."

Gao Wen frowned and soon guessed what Amber meant based on the information he had: "Are you talking about...the shadow world?"

"If the present world we live in is a 'shallow realm' for the Shadow Inhabitants, if the Shadow Inhabitants are a 'middle layer' between the deep and shallow realm, then the Shadow Inhabitants... are very likely to be the 'deep realm' in their mouths," Amber nodded, "In terms of spatial relationship, the Shadow Inhabitants are also the deepest part of the several 'boundary layers' we currently know, so this aspect is still very likely."

"What is their so-called 'Dream of Deep Realm'?" Gao Wen said with a frown, "The shadow realm is empty... So far, except for a God of Nature who hides inside and pretends to be dead, we have not found anything there, and there are no dreams."

"You said, will the deer Amoen know something?" Amber said as he thought, "He seems to have been in the shadow world for a long time, and as a god, He should know more than us."

"If possible, I want to avoid getting 'knowledge' from Amoen as much as possible," Gao Wen thought for a while and said seriously. "Intuition tells me that there is a great risk here - the risk does not come from Amoen's 'malice', but some kind of 'rule' that even Amoen himself cannot control. Since ancient times, countless mortals have encountered terrible fate after over-involving the knowledge of the gods. Asking questions to the gods is a difficult solution.

"Of course, if there is no way in the end and we urgently need to dig deep into the secrets of the Shadow World, then asking Amoen for questions is also an option, but before that... we'd better tell the scholars of the Empire first and let them find a way to solve this problem with the 'mortal wisdom'."

"Okay, that's what you said," Amber waved his hand, and then seemed to remember something again, "By the way, I just thought of one thing... Do you say this 'deep world' have any connection with the 'deep sea' mentioned by Amoen before?"

"Actually, I doubted it at the beginning," Gao Wen frowned, "but I always feel that the 'deep sea' that Amoen takes so seriously shouldn't be such a simple thing. If the shadow world is the deep sea or the entrance to the deep sea... Why should Amoen say that no mortal has ever been able to touch the deep sea since ancient times, and even the gods are just a ripples in the deep sea?"

Amber thought seriously and felt that Gao Wen’s statement made sense. She thought about it seriously for a long time, and finally sighed like giving up, stretched her limbs and paralyzed on the chair without any image: "Oh... I feel my head hurts... What a mess. I tell you, I am not suitable to think about this kind of problem..."

Gao Wen couldn't help but smile and glance at the empire's shame - it seemed that this guy had recovered.

Then he put his eyes back on the Modir travel notes. After two seconds of thinking, he looked at Amber and broke his silence: "Next, we will study how to deal with this travel notes..."

Amber subconsciously followed Gao Wen's gaze and glanced at the old and old book with mottled cover. For a moment, she seemed to want to reach out her hand, but before taking action, she laughed and shook her head: "What else are you talking about - of course, it's time to return the item to the original owner. According to the regulations, after making the copy, just give the ice Duke the Duke. Anyway, most of the pages in this book are Modir's travel notes... At worst, you can remove the unrelated content and return it to her."

Gao Wen looked at the empire with some surprise: "I thought you would want to keep it."

"... Actually, I really thought about it for a moment," Amber curled her lips and slumped on the chair with a lazy look on her face. "After all, my adoptive father lost his life for such a broken book, but after thinking about it carefully... what does this book have to do with me? It is just a note left by an adventurer who has nothing to do with me after an adventure with me. It happened to write about my original race... I have no reason to invade other people's things for this."

Gao Wen was even more surprised: "This is not what a person who once vowed to be the number one thief in the South - you didn't do that when you dug my grave."

As soon as Amber heard this, she waved her hands: "Don't mention it, I was caught by the stolen goods when I dug a grave. My last career was over at that time..."

Gao Wen: "…"

After two seconds of calm thinking, he glanced at the Guardian Shield and the Trailblazer Sword not far away: "Have you considered the possibility of being beaten by the stolen goods?"

The next second, Amber's figure disappeared into the study instantly.

Outdoor, sunny.

Autumn is approaching, and there is less heat in the bright sunshine, and the air seems more comfortable than before.

Amber walked on the street leading to the bustling area, gradually freeing from the shadow invisibility effect. The hazy curtain like a black veil faded from all directions, and she let the brilliant sunshine pour on her face.

It feels good to walk in the sun.

She raised her head and watched the brilliant sun wheel hanging high in the sky, and a smile slowly appeared on her face.

Gao Wen withdrew his gaze from the window and left the large floor-to-ceiling window towards the eastern block.

After thinking quietly for a while, he shook his head and returned to his desk. He first took out paper and pen and wrote a letter to be transmitted to Winter Fort in the North, and then his eyes fell on the book "Modir Travels".

Modir Wilder, perhaps Ansu's greatest adventurer ever, traveled through the world known to mankind and even entered the unknown fields of mankind. He left countless precious intellectual wealth during his lifetime, but the turbulent situation caused many of the things he left to disappear into the long river of history.

For example, few people know that Modir Wilder has also challenged the sea...

Gao Wen picked up the travel notes, opened them again, and found the part he was reading before Amber came and had not finished reading.

In addition to the adventures about the Shadow World, there is also part of this travelogue that he is extremely concerned about - the "cold disaster talisman" passed down from generation to generation in the Wilder family.

Those ancient and neat handwritten words came into view by Gao Wen:

"On x-day, when sorting out some folk legends in the East Region, I found some interesting clues, which may be the beginning of my next adventure...

“There is evidence that about a hundred years ago, the great pioneering hero, Grand Duke Gauvin Cecil, left his territory and conducted an "adventure" that even adventurers like me were amazed by - challenging the ocean.

"Not many people know about this secret voyage, and most of them are plausible and weird stories, but I still find clues that can be confirmed from many trivial materials. With the intuition and experience of an adventurer, I think this is not a simple heroic story compiled by the bards. It should be an adventure that has actually happened.

“This excited me!

"Think about it, a hero a hundred years ago, a man who is not a professional adventurer, bravely challenged the sea and came back alive. I call myself the greatest adventurer of this era, but I have been wandering around on the safe land for half my life... What a irony and what a great motivation!

"I should really start a new adventure - collect more information, find more clues, and be well prepared. Modir Wilder will take the most thrilling challenge since his adventure career...

"Go to find Gauvin Cecil's 'Heroic Way'!"
Chapter completed!