Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 680

[Chapter 673 Tedril’s Visit]

brought the scary and weird rabbit doll to Duncan. She sat down on the sofa next to Duncan, and the rabbi carefully walked to the sofa, ” Sitting on the ground with a thud.

“I have sent that ‘Saint’ to the containment room of the Brilliant Star. There are sealing facilities specially designed to deal with various border and spiritual world contaminants. He will slowly recover there until he can satisfy your needs. ‘Ritual’ needs.

“The surviving ‘sacrifice’ have now been placed in the city-state’s rescue center. I said hello to Sarah Mel. Qingfeng Port will take good care of those people and send them back as much as possible. At home…some of them have lost their sanity and memory and cannot tell where their home is. Psychiatrists will step in to help later.

“According to your instructions, I left the ‘artificial beacon’ on the ship. You should be able to sense the status of the ship through the beacon now… “

Besides, I left the ship still useful. The supplies were inventoried, and there were a lot of them. If there was a chance, they could all be shipped back – it would be a rich booty for the time being. Anyway, a self-propelled ghost ship will definitely not need much fuel and mechanical spare parts…”

Lucretia reported the situation to Duncan one by one, in a clear and well-organized manner.

Obviously, she was concerned about these “aftermaths” The work is indeed a familiar one.

“Well,” Duncan nodded with satisfaction and did not hesitate to praise him, “Well done. “

Lucrecia opened her mouth, suddenly looking a little hesitant.

Duncan noticed this: “Is there anything else? “

…I told my brother what happened here, and he asked us if we needed a fleet,” Lucretia said, “Considering that the ‘nest’ of the Annihilation Cult may have been operated for centuries or even The longer sea fortress was located in the border fog, and a real ‘attack’ might be needed next. He said that he could send the sea fog fleet over if necessary. “

That’s not necessary,” Duncan thought seriously and shook his head, “At least not now.” We still don’t know what that lair looks like. Expanding the scale of the operation rashly may not be worth the gain… Let’s explore the situation in the fog first. “

“good. Lucretia nodded.

At this moment, a breath suddenly appeared outside the house, interrupting the conversation in the living room.

Lucretia frowned, looked up towards the entrance, and was almost there. Within a second, the doorbell rang from that direction.

Luni, who was standing in the corner of the living room waiting, immediately got up and walked to the door, while Lucretia quickly ordered: “No newspapers, no insurance, no raffle tickets, no community survey forms.” If someone claims to be a community fundraiser, just drive them away. There was an announcement last month. They are a bunch of liars – I really don’t understand how anyone dares to come here now…” “

Mistress,” Lucretia said without waiting. After saying that, Lu Ni’s figure returned to the living room again, “It’s Your Excellency the Keeper of the Truth.

Lucretia: “…Uh? ” “

While she was stunned, a helpless voice came from the door: “I know that Miss Witch never likes people to visit her, but this time it is indeed a special situation – there is a letter from the Four Gods Church. Invitation, to convey to your father. “

Accompanied by this tired and helpless voice, Ted Leal has already stepped into the living room. The “Secretkeeper of the Truth” looks as good as ever, and is surrounded by the kind of person who can’t take a break after working overtime for a month. Aura.

“Normally, others don’t dare to approach your ‘Witch Mansion’. Taran El has a lumbar problem today and can’t get up, so I have to come in person.” “

After the words fell, Ted Leal had noticed Duncan sitting on the sofa, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: “Good day, Captain. “

Talan El can finally lie down for a few days,” Lucretia said casually after hearing the news brought by Ted, “I even think this is a good thing.” “

Not to me, I paid three Solas for this,” Ted Leal said with regret in his tone, “I made a bet with several colleagues in the college about which part of Taran’s body will go wrong next time, and I’ll lose.” It’s miserable… By the way, I’m betting on hemorrhoids. Lucretia

‘s expression was a little subtle: “You are so boring…”

Ted Leal shrugged: “But I guessed it accurately several times before.” Morris

, who was sitting on the sofa, stood up and greeted the “Secretkeeper of Truth”: “Ted, are you recovered?” “

It’s just a slight gastrointestinal disorder – it doesn’t have as much of an impact on me as the papers those brats rushed out overnight,” Ted Leal waved his hand, and then his eyes involuntarily fell on Morris. He was confused. He looked at the latter in astonishment for several seconds, and then finally spoke with a subtle expression, “I was in such a hurry that I didn’t have time to observe, Maurice, you damn…”

He suddenly stopped, and after a moment of hesitation, he seemed to understand something. , exhaled softly.

“It’s nothing, he looks quite energetic. “

“Really? I also feel that I am in a good state now – my daughter is a psychiatrist, and she also thinks that my mentality is very healthy.” Morris smiled, his eyes behind the monocle as bright as ever, his smile With a gentle and elegant temperature.

Only saints and scholars with extremely high spiritual gifts can perceive from his smile, eyes and voice the extremely difficult to detect madness and noise that has long deviated from human reason.

Ted Leal’s eyes left Morris and fell on Duncan.

Many, many years ago, he had been friends with history’s greatest explorer.

For an elf, establishing friendship with humans is something that requires great caution and sufficient psychological construction.

But Ted Leal could never have imagined that his psychological construction was completely in the wrong direction – what he should worry about was not saying goodbye to short-lived humans, but reuniting with an eternal subspace shadow.

Fortunately, the brilliance of humanity still shines in this shadow – although that brilliance is filled with many truths that he dare not pry into, and echoes with many noises that he dare not listen to.

“I was just discussing the Four Gods Church with Maurice,” Duncan said proactively. “I knew there was going to be a gathering, but I didn’t expect the official news to come so quickly.” Ted Leal was silent for a moment, and from his

arms He took out a letter that was sealed with a fine lacquer seal, placed it on the coffee table, and pushed it towards Duncan.

“I’m not sure if you care about the ‘invitation letter’. Anyway, Academy Ark asked me to give this to you,” he said. “It already has the signatures of the Four God Popes on it. You can regard this as The Four Gods Church’s first official and formal show of goodwill to the Homeless Fleet.”

Duncan’s eyes fell on the beautifully sealed letter, he reached out to open it and took out the special “invitation letter”.

On the hard cardboard, it was written in beautiful handwriting that the Four Gods Church would hold a “special closed-door meeting”, as well as an invitation to the “Lord of the Lost Fleet” and “The Great Explorer Captain Duncan”. There was nothing special about it, only the four shining signatures at the end of the invitation strongly attracted Duncan’s attention.

They were as dazzling as arcs burning in the darkness—

Rachem, Tarezin, Gmorna, Bartok.

Duncan looked at these names calmly and felt that he was not surprised at all.

“It says the meeting will be held tomorrow – so soon?” he said casually while putting away the invitation.

“Yes, at least judging from His Majesty Luen’s attitude, the sooner this gathering is held, the better.” Ted Leal nodded, “Before noon tomorrow, the fleets of the Four Gods Church will arrive at Qingfeng Port one after another. All the pilgrim arks will appear nearby – it will be a grand event.”

Duncan was startled when he heard this, and Morris next to him subconsciously exclaimed: “Huh? You mean, the rally will be held in the real world, Four popes are going to gather here?”

“Yes, I thought at first that this would be a ‘meeting’ held through spiritual resonance, just like the gatherings held by popes and saints in the past, but I didn’t expect a meeting. To be held in the real world, let alone… tomorrow.”

“For such an important ‘closed-door meeting’, this is almost equivalent to no preparation process, and the voyage of the Pilgrimage Ark itself also takes time… …” Duncan was thoughtful and seemed to have thought of something, “So, the most reasonable answer is that the four patrol arks have been mobilized near the southern border as early as today – even before the Qingfeng Port incident, the Four Gods The church may have already had a gathering plan, and the situation in Qingfeng Port was just an unexpected opportunity, allowing them to arrange the gathering here and tomorrow?” “It seems so.” “… something happened

recently

. What is it? Is it related to the recent frequent activities of the church in the border waters and the fleets that have been gathered near the ‘Eternal Veil’?” “I know

the circumstances you mentioned, but I don’t know the specific details. “

Duncan was a little surprised: “Even you, the Keeper of the Truth, don’t know these things?” “

I really don’t know,” Ted Leal shook his head, “The Keeper of the Truth and the Inquisitor, the Gatekeeper, and the Fire Keeper Similarly, although we are the highest church representative of the city-state, we only control the affairs of the city-state, and the four pilgrim arks actually operate independently of the entire church system. The four popes directly command those arks. The ‘secrets’ will be sealed within the Ark Fleet and will not interact with the city-states and the church operations between city-states, especially…the more dangerous secrets.” He raised his head and looked into Duncan’s eyes seriously

.

“This is a necessary safety measure.”

(End of chapter)