Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 670

[Chapter 663 Border Intelligence]

Duncan stared at the sea in the distance and fell into deep thought. Lucretia, who was standing behind him, kept quiet. This silence lasted for who knows how long. Duncan finally took the initiative to break the calm: “Tell me Let’s talk about the border.”

Lucretia took a step forward, with some hesitation in her tone: “You…”

“I can’t remember what happened back then,” Duncan said softly, “So I want to hear your thoughts on the border. Opinion – You have been operating in the border area over the years, and as far as I know, you have even ventured into that thick fog a few times… If we are destined to deal with that thick fog again, then I at least want to know What do you know about it?”

Lucretia’s eyes were a little hesitant and complicated. She looked at Duncan’s back steadily, as if she was afraid that this figure would suddenly disappear into the wind again – before today, Her father had also brought up the topic of the border with her, but their discussions in this area had never been in-depth. She would consciously avoid this aspect, but today… the situation seemed different.

After a few seconds, the “Sea Witch” finally spoke: “…I did enter that thick fog, but I only acted at a very ‘shallow’ level, six sea miles. This is what I did in the fog. The limit – in theory, it should also be the monitoring limit of the Four Gods Church’s ship in that area.” “

What’s there?” Duncan asked curiously.

Lucretia thought for a while: “The sea surface in most areas is calm, even calmer than other normal sea areas in the Infinite Sea. The water surface is like a mirror, which can clearly reflect the flag on the mast without any waves. , the ripples caused by the ship sailing through the sea will also calm down in a very short period of time. The texture of the entire sea surface is like some kind of… heavy and viscous substance that cannot cause ripples, but in fact it is indeed sea water. The sailing of the ship It itself will not be affected…

“But this is only the situation in the calm zone. Between these calm sea areas, there are also weird and irregular turbulence zones – they will appear suddenly, without warning, even in the turbulence It is difficult to detect visually when it has appeared. The rapidly flowing sea water still maintains a calm state, passing nearby like some kind of ‘cutting line’. After accidentally approaching, the ship will lose control, or even spin rapidly and spin. If it is carried along the wrong route by the turbulence, it may even capsize directly.

“And these can only be said to be ‘mild situations’ in the fog. When it is not so mild… something weird will appear. “Sometimes, incomprehensible things will suddenly appear in the fog, such as

huge blocks floating on the sea, or ‘mountains’ piercing out of the sea like blades, but it is difficult for you to get directly close to these entities emerging from the fog, because these things are often accompanied by very large objects. Large-scale…abnormal celestial phenomena, sometimes storms, sometimes huge ring-shaped turbulence, sometimes even a whole piece of sea water disappears out of thin air, forming an abyss-like fault, with no bottom below, extremely terrifying…”

Dew Crecia stopped here, seeming to be recalling some experiences that would frighten even her, the “sea witch”. After sorting out her thoughts for a moment, she continued: “Among these chaotic phenomena,

occasionally There are gains, such as ‘materials’ and ‘items’ of unknown nature, which appear along with turbulence or storms. They are entities that can be touched, captured, stored, and even taken outside the fog. Some of these things are very useful. For example, grease that burns forever, or crystals that can expel mental pollution. The Explorers Association and the Academy of Truth will pay a lot of money to exchange for these items in order to study their uses, but basically these things collected from the border phenomena are It is random and unique, with no possibility of stable output…

“And in rarer cases, these chaotic and dangerous phenomena will appear…”

She stopped suddenly, as if he was hesitant to continue.

Duncan couldn’t help but frowned: “Lucy, what did you see?”

“Only once. I’m still not sure whether it was real or a hallucination I had after being extremely tired.” Lucretia hesitated for a long time and finally He hesitated and said, “It was a huge column that suddenly rose from the sea. The column was dark and surrounded by a huge ring. It was also dark and no details could be seen. This is the only entity in the fog that I have ever successfully approached. ——There were only less strong winds and waves around it, and the Brilliant Star could barely fight against it. I came to the foot of the cylinder, even moved the ship closer, and touched its surface with my hands… Then, I heard It spoke to me.”

Lucretia raised her hand and pointed to her head: “That voice roared in my brain. It was a language I didn’t recognize, but I could directly understand its meaning. Repeatedly saying one sentence: ‘The warp engine is activated… we are out of danger, the warp engine is activated… we are out of danger…'”

She raised her head and saw the subtle change in the expression on Duncan’s face, and couldn’t help but Asked: “Do you know what this sentence means?”

Duncan frowned immediately after hearing Lucretia’s words. The word “warp engine” set off a huge wave in his heart. , what he instantly thought of was the spaceship that crashed in the Deep Sea Age, the “New Hope”!

Lucretia found the wreckage of the ship? ! It falls in the eternal veil?

“Can you still find it? Have you seen it again since?” he asked quickly.

“I’m afraid not,” Lucretia noticed the importance of this matter from her father’s attitude, but could only shake her head apologetically, “Things that appear in the border fog are random and short-lived, like touchable illusions. , will dissipate without a trace after the time is up. So far, I have not encountered the same entity twice in a row in that fog.”

Duncan felt a burst of disappointment in his heart, but he did not express it too much: ” …Besides that sentence, what else did you discover?”

Lucretia recalled it carefully and said uncertainly: “In addition, when I touched it, there was an extremely weird… ‘touch’, which gave me the feeling of ’emptiness’ and no temperature. There is no hardness, I know it’s weird to say this, but at that time my fingers were completely unable to judge what material they were touching, or even whether they were touching anything. At that moment, my fingers were The ‘tactile’ function seems to have disappeared, or that thing… only a part of its ‘properties’ remain in the real dimension, so that I cannot fully perceive the missing parts…” She looked increasingly more and more like that at the end

. Hesitating, it seemed difficult to accurately express his feelings and conjectures at the moment. In the end, he could only helplessly spread his hands: “Can you understand what I said?” Duncan

showed a thoughtful expression, and after hearing Luke After Lecia described these bizarre and even unbelievable situations, what suddenly came to his mind was the “cognitive change” he had in the brief few seconds after witnessing the truth of the Great Annihilation, or Talk about an “epiphany” about the world.

He still clearly remembers the “real” side of the world he saw at that last moment.

Fragmented information has converged into today’s deep-sea era. Incompatible fragments of the old world have merged and distorted in the collision, turning into things beyond recognition, or blending into the pot of “information soup” at the bottom of the world.

So… what about those things that failed to integrate in the end, or could not be completely annihilated or contaminated by other things because of some of their own “special properties”?

Such a thing must exist. When a big collision at the cosmic level occurs, the probability of all events will be superimposed from infinity to infinitesimal. Anything may happen, and anything may never happen. Then those in infinitesimal The “lucky ones” or “unlucky ones” who are inevitably left behind after a certain probability must have a place to go…

Duncan guessed that most of them should be in the subspace – in that dark and chaotic space , there are many things that are suspected to be the remains of the old world, such as the torn land, the pale Cyclops, and the specious shadows floating in the void. They should all be fragments that have not been completely annihilated.

But now it seems that some of them fall outside the subspace.

Those “entities” the “Sea Witch” saw in the fog of the frontier… were just that.

Lucretia felt a little uneasy. She saw the expression on Duncan’s face changing continuously. It seemed that some kind of logic and cognition that she didn’t understand was gradually taking shape in her father’s mind. This gave her the same feeling as she had witnessed before. Premonition of “starry sky”.

But this time, she didn’t actually see the starlight emerging behind her father’s body.

“I’m very interested in those ‘entities’ you saw in the border fog,” Duncan said suddenly, interrupting Lucretia’s random thoughts, “What about deeper? You just said that you can only go as far as What will happen within six nautical miles of the fog and go deeper?”

“You will completely lose your sense of direction to the civilized world.” Lucretia suddenly woke up and hurriedly replied, “In fact, after entering the eternal curtain, All conventional navigation methods have become ineffective. Even if you look down at the deep starry sky from the stargazing room, you can only see a hazy shadow. However, within a range of six nautical miles, the radio can still barely function. Temporarily set up at the edge of the fog Lighthouses or ceremonial positioning braziers can also guide ships back home, but once they cross the critical point of six nautical miles, contact with the civilized world will be completely cut off. “

I once went too deep and crossed this critical point, although it was just beyond it. A little bit, and almost permanently lost in that thick fog – it makes no sense to return the same way, because once the ship crosses the boundary, the surrounding space-time continuity seems to be out of order, and your ship takes one step forward and then goes back. One step will never return to the original position…”

Duncan couldn’t help but frowned as he listened: “Then how did you return? “

I…” Lucretia opened her mouth, hesitated for a while, and then said softly with a strange expression, “I saw the shadow of the Lost Home.” ”

(End of chapter)