Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 505

[Chapter 503 Going South]

A strange word that had never been heard came to the ear, and its mysterious and blunt pronunciation didn’t even look like any language Tirian knew.

He looked down at the document in astonishment, looked at the picture of the “stone ball” drawn with precise strokes on it, and raised his head after a long time: “Father? What did you just say? The ‘moon’… is from this thing.” Name? Do you know this mysterious sphere?!”

Duncan didn’t seem to hear it, still staring at the very familiar image of the moon on the paper, until Tirian asked twice in a row, he seemed to wake up suddenly , Watching Tirian speak quickly: “You mentioned Lucrecia just now, what’s going on?

” The strange reaction made him feel uneasy, but under the stressful gaze, he still told all he knew, “Some time ago, a mysterious luminous object fell from the border area, and it happened to be discovered by Lucy , she has been studying that thing for a while, and this weird sphere is the ‘core’ of the falling object…”

Tirian explained the ins and outs of the whole thing, including the current Qingfeng Harbor scholars’ understanding of the “falling object” The judgment from “Anomaly 001” and all their research progress on “Stone Ball” at this stage—as well as all the difficulties they encountered, are all spoken out.

And during his narration, Duncan didn’t interrupt once, the latter just listened quietly with a kind of silence that made Tirian feel very serious, as if to engrave every sentence deeply in In my mind, I disassembled, crushed, and dissected every word a thousand times.

After ten minutes, the dome office became quiet again.

Duncan was silent for a long time, and finally exhaled softly before the air gradually became frozen: “Why didn’t you mention this to me before?” “…

Lucy hopes to contact you after the research has made some progress , and more importantly…it was in the period of frost crisis.”

After a while, Duncan felt his beating heart slowly calm down. He finally nodded lightly after hearing what Tirian said: “This thing is in Qingfeng Harbor now, isn’t it?” “Uh…

yes Yes,” Tirian nodded quickly. He felt his lips dry, and at the same time he paid more and more attention to the changes in his father’s expression. After hesitating several times, he couldn’t help asking again, “Do you know this mysterious sphere? “

…It’s called the moon, at least it looks like it, but the moon I know is not ten meters in diameter, and it is even more impossible to float on the sea and be dragged back to the city by a ship with steel cables,” Duncan said slowly, “maybe It’s just some kind of man-made object imitating its shape, maybe it’s just the ancient kingdom of Crete…”

He stopped in the middle of speaking, the huge sense of contradiction and the conflict of thoughts in his mind made him unable to use any kind of conjecture To explain this matter-in any case, there is no doubt that the file picture in Tirian’s hand is indeed the “moon”, regardless of the “rock ball” Lucrezia picked up at sea “Whether it is the real “moon” or an “artificial flying object” made by the ancient kingdom of Crete imitating the moon, there is always a question: why does the

image of the “moon” that I am familiar with appear here? Why did it appear in this weird and twisted “different world”?

In the midst of his thoughts, he frowned and looked at Tirian: “You just said that the scholars of Qingfeng Harbor have confirmed that the mysterious luminous body came off the rune ring of vision 001?

” I confirmed the shape of the gap on the sun rune ring,” said Tirian, and then asked again, “You said it is called ‘the moon’…then what is the moon?” “The moon…” Duncan hesitated

, Suddenly, he realized that he didn’t have the right vocabulary to explain such a simple name to Tirian. After thinking for a long time, he could only say, “…it’s a planet.” When Tirian heard it, the confusion on his face became more and more serious

. Faming: “What is the planet?”

Duncan fell silent.

After a long time, he heard Tirian’s voice again: “Is this a taboo question? Am I asking too much?” “No,

it’s not a taboo, it… should be the simplest question , but I can’t explain it to you,” Duncan shook his head lightly, and looked across the mirror with a complicated expression, “Sorry, Tirian, the answer to this question is very simple, but making you understand it is the biggest difficulty .”

Tirian was a little dazed.

He looked at his father with a complex and apologetic look in the mirror, and felt in a daze… This scene seemed to have happened a long, long time ago, in the depths of that long and hazy memory, in a faded afternoon… …

On that day, he and Lucrezia stood on the deck of the Lost Country for the last time, and asked his father who was determined to cross the border—what was beyond the border.

Back then, my father’s reaction was exactly the same as now.

That is the appearance of knowing some extremely simple truth, but not knowing how to explain it to others.

At this moment, Duncan’s voice suddenly came from the mirror, interrupting Tirian’s sinking memories: “I have changed my plan. Next, the Lost Home will go to Lightwind Harbor.” As

expected—— Tirian had known it would be this way when his father had reacted that way to the sphere called the Moon.

“I understand. I will explain the situation to Lucy.”

Nina

looked worriedly at Duncan who was standing on the edge of the deck overlooking the sea in the distance. Alice passed by her and was stopped by her.

“What’s wrong with Uncle Duncan?” Nina lowered her voice, “He’s been looking into the distance since just now, and he seems to have a lot of thoughts on his mind…” “

I don’t know,” Alice looked up. Shaking her head blankly, “The captain just came out of the captain’s cabin like this, he said to think about something…”

“Think about something?” Nina blinked in confusion, “Did something happen?”

Alice recalled it carefully, then nodded: “He has been in contact with Tirian, but I don’t know what they said.”

“Mr. Tirian?” The expression on her face gradually became strange, “Is it because Mr. Tirian never gets married?”

Alice looked blankly: “Ah? What does this mean?”

Nina thought for a while, and began to analyze seriously: “I don’t know As Mr. Reese said, he is often worried about Miss Heidi’s marriage, and Mr. Tirian is older than Miss Heidi, so the captain must be more worried about this…”

Alice was stunned for a while, Nodding in confusion: “So that’s the case!”

As soon as her voice fell, Duncan’s voice suddenly came from the side of the two of them: “You are almost done—Nina, you can’t tease Alice like this, she will take it seriously “

“Wow!” Nina was taken aback immediately, and then she noticed that Uncle Duncan had come to her side at some point, she quickly shrank her neck and stood obediently.

Alice scratched her hair in confusion, and looked at Nina suspiciously, “Did you play tricks on me just now?” “

…Anyway, don’t take what she just said seriously,” Duncan said helplessly, and then looked at Nina. It landed on Nina, “Don’t worry, nothing happened.”

Nina stuck out her tongue, but she still showed a worried look: “Uncle Duncan, what happened? You are rarely so preoccupied.” It’s…”

Duncan didn’t know how to answer the girl’s question for a while, what came to his mind was still the picture he saw in Tirian’s office before, and Lucrecia at sea” Pick up that weird thing.

The moon…

He raised his hand and squeezed the swollen eyebrows, but the next second, his movements suddenly stopped, and he turned to stare at the girl in front of him.

Nina stood there obediently, with a slightly worried expression on her face.

Duncan looked at her, looked at this stagnant, gentle, and well-behaved little prominence, under the body of that pair of human girls, he seemed to be able to directly see the bright arc light left after the broken star, looked at To the dazzling plasma hot stream that once gushed out in the cosmic space…

The little prominence tilted its head, stretched out its hand, and stroked Duncan’s frowning brows, as if wanting to heal those deep gullies: “Uncle Duncan, Are you really alright?”

Duncan didn’t speak, but gently grabbed Nina’s hand, pressed it to his forehead, and then exhaled slowly.

He understood something again. Behind the heavy curtain, the world once again revealed a corner of the “truth” to him, but he had no one to share this corner of truth with.

“Don’t worry, Nina, everything is fine,” he said slowly, gradually returning to his usual appearance, “I have encountered some problems, but it is difficult to explain to you at the moment, when I solve the problems Alright, let me tell you well.”

Nina listened blankly, then nodded vigorously: “Yes.”

“Very well, let’s go back to the cabin first, we should set off—but we have to take a detour before we set off. A trip to the station of the Sea Mist Fleet, we have to bring something for Tirian…”

…

Frost City-State, the archon’s dome office.

Accompanied by a slight buzzing sound, the crystal ball gradually lit up, and the figure of the “Sea Witch” gradually became clear in the dim light.

“Brother?” Lucrezia looked at this side curiously, “Have you finished your work there? Is it going well?” “

If you’re talking about the inauguration ceremony, it’s over in the morning, and everything went well,” said Tirian “But I’m looking for you for something else.”

Lucrezia frowned, “Anything else?”

“Two things,” Tirian hesitated, and spoke while deliberating. , “The first one, I have prepared the spirit world lens you want for you. Through the legal channels of the city-state, I got you the lens device with the best quality and highest precision.”

In the crystal ball, Lucrezia’s face instantly revealed a look of joy: “Ah, that’s great! Brother, you are quite reliable! What about the second thing?” “…The second

thing , who do you think is going to deliver the lens to you?”

“It’s your transport ship?”

Tirian said nothing.

Lucrezia’s expression finally gradually changed: “…Is it your transport ship?”

Tirian still didn’t say anything.

Lucrezia reacted.

“…Dad?”

“Yes.”

(End of this chapter)