Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 517

[Chapter 515 Light up]

After the sun goes out, the remaining faint light hangs high in the sky. The faint light cannot illuminate the sea, but instead makes the whole world look darker and more terrifying.

The White Oak sailed in this dark depth.

The lights on the boat have been turned on, and the combined brilliance of oil lamps and electric lighting diffuses out, illuminating a small piece of sea surface nearby. The fine waves undulate between the weak lights, which seem to have a viscous and ominous texture.   Then he glanced down at the instrument panel next to the steering wheel, quickly confirming various parameters.   ”We are sailing towards Purdue at full speed. This is a very busy shipping route. In theory, we should see a transit port in the near future—that is a subsidiary island of the city-state of Lunsa. We will confirm the situation there and report to you as soon as possible…”

Lawrence was speaking so quickly in his mind, but before he finished speaking, a sudden sound of hurried footsteps interrupted what he wanted to say later.

A crew member ran into the bridge in a panic: “Captain! Captain! Come and take a look! That ‘sailor’ discovered something terrible!” “Anomaly 077?” Lawrence’s expression changed instantly, and then he turned to look at the first officer aside, “Gus, you take the helm, I’ll go over to check on the situation!” First officer Gus immediately took a step forward: “Yes, captain!” The corridor came to the aft deck of the

White Oak, and as soon as he came here, he saw the skinny figure busy on the edge of the aft

deck

.

Anomaly 077, this weird living mummy was busy doing something next to a huge iron bucket. While he was busy, he muttered non-stop. It was only when Lawrence stepped forward that he heard what the mummy was talking about: “It’s over, it’s over, it’s over, we’re over this time, no one can leave, no one can go back, the whole world is over, I might as well sleep to death…” This guy, as always, is bursting with negative energy

.

Lawrence didn’t want to listen to Anomaly 077’s babbling, so he immediately walked forward in two steps and interrupted this guy loudly: “What are you doing?” The mummy was startled suddenly, as if awakened from a dream, and quickly nodded and bowed: “Captain! Captain, you’re here… Oh, okay, it’s safe when the captain comes…” “Enough is enough,” Lawrence waved his hand, and asked again, “What are you doing?” “You have to look at this, look at this …” The mummy said in a hurry, then ran to the side of the iron

bucket, and stirred it twice with a big iron tongs – there was a sound of sticky grease coming from

inside

.

It was only then that Lawrence realized that the iron drum was full of oil, and Anomaly 077 was stirring a piece of rag in the oil bucket with iron tongs, and then the mummy took out the oil-soaked rag, took out a lighter from an unknown crew member, and lit the cloth.

Under Lawrence’s frowning gaze, Anomaly 077 threw the burning rag into the sea forcefully—the fireball fell on the sea surface, and quickly drifted to the rear of the White Oak along with the waves.

Anomaly 077 babbled: “This is the way sailors used to roughly estimate the speed of the ship before your fancy machines were invented. It’s not accurate, but it’s useful…” “I know, I’ve learned about this,” Lawrence interrupted, “but what do you want me to see?” Si frowned, and turned his head to stare at the flame floating on the sea—it was rapidly drifting to the rear of the White Oak, which was a matter of course, because the White Oak was sailing forward at full speed, so there was nothing strange about

this

phenomenon

.

Until the flame suddenly stopped in the distance.

Lawrence’s eyes froze for a moment.

Theoretically, the ball of fire should keep drifting far away until it was finally swallowed by the waves or exceeded the limit of the naked eye, and stopped in the distance.

Roughly estimated, that location is only a few hundred meters away from the White Oak.

Lawrence stared at that direction, looking at the group of flames that stopped hundreds of meters behind the White Oak. In this scene, it seemed that the flames were sailing at a constant speed with the White Oak.

The “sailor” picked up a piece of rag with iron tongs, ignited it and threw it into the water after it was covered with grease.

The second fire ball entered the water, drifted backwards quickly, and then stopped at the same distance.

Anomaly 077 finally threw away the iron tongs in his hand. He turned his head to look at Lawrence, a frowning expression seemed to appear on his skinny and terrifying face: “Captain, look…how can we explain this matter with science?”

This time, Lawrence didn’t tease this “anomaly” for being obsessed with explaining things scientifically as in the past. He just stood quietly on the edge of the deck. After an unknown period of time, he said as if talking to himself: “Did you see it?” The anomaly 077 next to him was taken aback when he heard this: “Ah? Who are you talking to?” Lawrence didn’t answer, and Duncan’s deep and majestic voice came from his mind: “I saw it. By sharing your vision, I can see it very clearly.” “You…how? What about this phenomenon?” Lawrence

asked

cautiously

.

“The laws of physics are becoming unfamiliar. It is most likely the ‘chaos’ in the space domain, or it may be a deeper reason. In short, after the sun goes out, the Infinity Sea is changing rapidly—while the White Oak and a small area around it are still normal.” Lawrence thought for a while, and said hesitantly: “This is your power at work…” “Perhaps, but I also need some time to understand the reason.” Listening to the voice in my head, I looked at the dark and chaotic sea in the distance, Lawrence was lost

in

thought

.

However, at this moment, a strange low-pitched sound that seemed to come from the sky and seemed to reverberate in the whole world suddenly interrupted his thinking.

It was a weird, sluggish buzzing sound, like a gigantic beast panting hard, or some kind of unimaginably huge device slowly starting, it sounded faint and distant, but it seemed to fill the whole world, echoing in everyone’s ears.

Lawrence raised his head in astonishment, and looked at the extinguished sun.

The double rune rings around the sun are flickering brightly and darkly, and with the flickering of the rune rings, the dark sphere at the center of the anomaly 001 is gradually showing wisps of glow.

The strands of light were faintly red at first, like bloodshot eyes, but then they began to spread to the entire sphere, and quickly became brighter

…

The huge luminous geometry floats on the sea surface, and its evenly released “sunlight” shines on the Qingfeng Harbor not far away, as well as the Brilliant Star, which is docked near the floating pier.

On the scientific research platform at the highest point of the Brilliant Star, Lucrezia was staring closely at the large round crystal lens in front of her.

There is a light blue shimmer floating around the crystal lens, while the center of the lens presents groups of undulating, alternating light and dark colors.   It’s a large installation she’s built to study that “luminous geometry”—and now, it’s working.   Lucrecia withdrew her gaze, and glanced at the recording instrument on the table next to it that was constantly spewing out paper tapes—the long paper tape recorded the spectral changes captured by the lens system, and the jumping black lines showed a clear and clear periodicity.   ”These ‘light signals’ are regular…” she said softly.   ”Yes,” the puppet Luni nodded, “Each group of signals is sent in a period of twelve seconds, repeated three times and then reappeared at an interval of thirty seconds.” “Is it sent   from the ‘stone ball’?” ”   I can’t be sure—there are people from the Institute of Truth monitoring near the stone ball, but they haven’t noticed any changes in the sphere itself.

The puppet Luni stopped suddenly in the middle of her speech.

“Mistress, the light signal has stopped.”

Lucrecia looked at the crystal lens in front of her in astonishment.

Gone are the bright and dark, undulating colors.

She froze for a while, then seemed to suddenly think of something, the figure suddenly disintegrated, turned into colorful pieces of paper flying in all directions and rushed out of the window in a circle.

The colorful pieces of paper were flying over the deck, quickly re-condensing into shape, Lucrezia stood on the upper deck of the Bright Star, squinted her eyes, and looked up at the sky.

Through the pale golden “sunlight” that diffused over the sea, she saw an extraordinarily bright luminous body hanging high in the sky.

The sun was relit.

(end of this chapter)