Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 656
[Chapter 649 Are the gods dead?]
It was very quiet in the captain’s cabin. The faint and soft sound of the waves coming from the window made the tranquility in the room even more accentuated. After a while, the goat head finally sighed: “Ah , sounds very good.”
“I thought you would ask a few more questions,” Duncan raised his eyebrows upon hearing this, “Aren’t you curious about where I took Silendis, and aren’t you curious about my many secrets? “
Curious,” the goat head said bluntly, “but my reason and intuition tell me that it is best not to ask too many things called ‘secrets’, especially not to ask what happened when you left the ship. You are the captain of the Lost Home. That’s enough for me. Other than that… the less you know, the better.”
“…Intuition?” Duncan said thoughtfully, looking at the scene in front of him. The dark wooden goat head suddenly asked, “Did your intuition tell you what would happen if I was no longer the captain of the Lost Home, or if you knew too many of my ‘secrets’?” The goat
head It was quiet for nearly a minute before breaking the silence: “I only know that whenever I have the idea of ‘crossing the line’, I will see an endless starry sky – and under the shining of the stars, Homeless No. It no longer exists.”
Duncan frowned slowly. After a brief thought, he shook his head and put aside the complicated thoughts for the time being: “Silantis… now remains in a special state. A safe place where you don’t have to worry.”
“That’s good.” Goat Head said softly, without asking any more questions.
“Now I still have a question – what should I call you?” Duncan suddenly asked after a few seconds of silence, “Saslokar? Goat head? Or first mate?” “…Stick as before
. Call me,” Goathead thought for a while, his tone seemed a little awkward, “First mate or Goathead will do. The name Sasloka… is really a bit unfamiliar. Now that I think about it, it doesn’t seem like it was so far away. My own name.”
Duncan was a little surprised: “Then you agreed very quickly when I first called you that?”
Goat Head’s tone became more and more weird: “…The atmosphere at that time was such that it would be inappropriate not to agree…”
Duncan: “…”
He looked at the dark wood carving on the table strangely for a moment, and finally couldn’t help but said curiously: “I’m very curious about what state you are in now, or…what is your understanding of yourself? What’s going on? At the moment of ‘World Collision’, you could feel the changes in you. At that time, you seemed to have completely returned to the state of being the ‘King of Dreams’, but that only lasted for a while.” Noticed the captain’s
face With a serious expression on his face, the goat head finally began to think seriously. After a long while, it shook its head uncertainly: “Actually, I’m still a little confused until now. I can feel that it belongs to ‘Sasluo’ That part of Ka’s memory has awakened in my mind, but I can also clearly feel… He is not completely me, and I am not completely Him. “
But as you said, after meeting ‘Little When I was a sapling… I had some changes. Perhaps it was the influence of the mythical form, or maybe the sapling left too deep a trace in my memory. I… ‘returned’ to my memory. In this state, for a brief moment, I even thought… time really went back. “
It stopped, as if quietly recalling the wonderful feeling of that moment, recalling that something gradually revived deep in its memory, and the process of another “personality” awakening in consciousness, but in the end, it was still slow. Slowly shook his head.
“But that only lasted a short time. As the sun rose and the dream ended, I returned to this state. It seems that the symbiosis with the Lost Home has permanently changed some of my essence. ——And to be honest, I prefer it now. “
Is that so? ” “Duncan said thoughtfully, “In other words, you are now Saslokar, but not completely him. This sounds more like a brand new individual reorganized from the fragments of the ancient god… But If you think this is fine, that’s okay. “
There’s nothing wrong with it,” the goat head was very free and easy. “Some things… are really difficult to come back after they have passed. We have to look forward. No matter how many things the Great Annihilation took away, the fact now is that we are… Live in the Age of the Deep – let Sasloka remain in legend. “
…You have changed after all. It was difficult for you to say such reasonable words so simply before.” Duncan glanced at the goat’s head subtly, then touched his chin, “But you remind me I just have a question for you. “
When the goat head heard this, his tone immediately became serious again: “You can ask.
“Saslokar is dead, died a long time ago – do you remember this? ” “
…Remember,” the goat head thought for a while and gave a positive reply, “When several parts of the memory were restored and reorganized, this sentence has been echoing in my consciousness. It seems to be a very strong… …‘self-knowledge’. “
Yes, Saslokar was already ‘dead’ when the Great Annihilation occurred. This is a ‘fact’ that is deeply imprinted in your memory, and even imprinted in the subconscious memory of the elven race,” Duncan clicked He nodded, and then changed the topic, “But according to the records in the “Book of Blasphemy”, during the second long night after the Great Annihilation, the ‘King of Dreams’ tried to create the world again, and was ‘divided’ due to the failure of creation. ——The keel of the Lost Home, the ‘Dream Skull’ in the hands of the Annihilation Cult, and yourself are all evidence of this record.
“And we can basically be sure that the ‘King of Dreams’ recorded in the Book of Blasphemy is Sasloka who died during the Great Annihilation.
“How did an ancient god who died when the Great Annihilation occurred come to be in the first place? Did you go to Genesis during the second long night?
“Another similarly contradictory record is the ‘Eternal Burning Fire’ Tarijn worshiped by the fire bearers.”
Duncan paused at this point, picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip, and then adjusted himself on the chair. He continued with a more serious expression:
“Tarijin is another ‘god’ who died when the Great Annihilation occurred. He is the protector of the Senjin people. According to Vanna’s report and that root’ According to the records on the Chronicle Pillar, His death or ‘fall’ is also an unquestionable fact, but if He had really died when the Great Annihilation occurred… then the Fire Bearers on the Infinite Sea now worship him What happened to the ‘Tarikin’? Who is the ‘Eternal Burning Fire’, one of the Four Gods?”
There was a slight creaking sound between the goat’s neck and the base. It shook its head from side to side. It took a long time before it sighed: “This sounds a bit scary.”
Duncan looked at the guy silently: “Don’t say that. It’s none of your business, you are one of the ‘gods’ in question.”
“I don’t remember,” the goat head said very frankly, “I told you, I just remembered some general memory fragments That’s all, and they were all concentrated before the Great Annihilation. As for what happened after that… I really don’t know.”
Duncan frowned deeply: “About the second long night and the experience of creation in the long night. , you have no impression at all?”
The goat head thought hard and shook his head helplessly: “As long as I can remember a little bit, it’s not like I don’t remember anything at all…”
Duncan didn’t care about the other party’s nonsense, he just frowned Mei continued to think, and after a long time he slowly said: “If so, I have some guesses.” “Do you have any guesses
?”
“I think… we shouldn’t apply the simple life and death status of ‘mortals’ to gods. “Duncan thought for a while and said seriously, “Let’s use you as an example – do you think you are alive now?”
The goat head was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while he said hesitantly: “I think… you can be considered alive. , am I not alive and well?”
“What you mean by ‘living well’ is that your spine is soaked in the subspace, one head fell into the hands of the Annihilation Cult, and there are more heads that may still be floating around. In the cracks of the world?”
The goat-headed neck made a “crack” sound, and then shouted: “Don’t say it so scary! Why does it sound a little hairy to me…” “
But this is what you are now. Status – Not only are you dead, you can even say… your death is not peaceful.” Duncan also felt that this topic seemed a bit strange, but it had already been said here, so he could only try to continue with a straight face and a serious attitude. He continued, “And I guess that the conditions of the other ‘gods’… are probably not much different from yours.” The
goat head remained silent, as if he was in shock.
Duncan continued after organizing his words slightly: “The Creeping King, the Holy Lord of the Deep, according to the records in the Book of Blasphemy, is the creator of the third long night. His current state is that he has lost his mind. Stuck in the rift between the deep sea and the subspace, he continued to create countless deep demons in a state of being unable to move, and continued to devour the deep demons. “In the Firebringer’s Holy Code,
Tarrikin Described as a giant guarding the original flame, the giant himself is also burning with eternal flames, permanently burning his body.
“Black Sun, I have seen him before. He was burned by his own corona, and his spirit has already collapsed. Now he just wants to be extinguished…
“The Goddess of Storm and the God of Wisdom… I don’t know their specific status, but I guess the situation is also the same. almost.
“Striping away all the mythical halo, based on my personal ‘common sense’ and ‘subjective impression’, none of these situations are normal.”
Duncan said this, spread his hands, and made the final conclusion.
“The gods are dead – but their ‘death’ may be very long or very unique. They will not ‘run’ according to the ‘life and death’ that mortals understand. They will be in a certain state after death. ‘, or ‘residues’, can still affect this world, or…affect this ’embers’ burned out after the Great Annihilation. “
This is what the Deep Sea Age really looked like. “
Duncan’s voice fell, and the captain’s cabin became quiet.
After an unknown amount of time, the goat-headed voice finally broke the silence: “…The way you describe it…is disturbing. I really feel a little bit this time. Getting hairy. “
Duncan thought for a while and sighed softly: “…I probably should use a gentler way of describing it. It sounds a bit weird to say it this way.
“No, I mean, the back of my neck is really itchy right now…please scratch it for me. ” “
Duncan: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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