Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 691

[Chapter 679 The road in the fog]

The four major churches have assembled huge fleets at the borders of the civilized world – and they have been doing this for some time.

The reduction of regular patrol fleets and the accumulation of a large number of ships, personnel, and materials near the Eternal Curtain. Such a large-scale mobilization cannot be hidden from the border city-states. Before today, Lucretia had already transferred from Sarah Mel They learned about these unusual actions of the church from their mouths, but neither Duncan nor she could figure out the purpose of the church’s doing so – until now.

The truth about the death of the gods, the true role of the Pilgrimage Ark, and the fact that the gods entered the “corruption stage” early made Duncan finally guess the purpose of those fleets.

“…We are looking for ‘them’,” Helena finally spoke after a moment of silence, “This is one of the purposes and the most initial purpose.” “You mean, the gods are on the veil of eternity

. In that ‘dense fog’!?” Lucretia instantly stood up and looked at the four popes opposite with disbelief, “Just outside the ‘border’?!” “We’re not sure,” she

answered It was Banster, the old man in black robe slowly shook his head, “But we are sure that the original ‘rotten breath’ penetrated from the eternal curtain on the border – so our plan at this stage is just to find the source of those breaths.” The source, but what exactly you will see at that source… no one knows.”

Lu En took over the topic: “That may be the ‘kingdom’ of the gods, or it may be just some kind of connection between them and the earthly world. Connecting points’, or maybe…”

He stopped here and didn’t say any more.

Duncan suddenly asked after a moment of silence: “You just said that this is only one of the purposes, what about the other purposes? Besides looking for ‘them’, what else do you want to do?” “The other purpose

is “I want to understand what is happening in this world,” Helena replied. At this frank “gathering”, all the secrets finally had the opportunity to be revealed. “Reports about border collapse are increasing day by day, and with the The sun’s recent ‘glitches’, and various anomalies related to the Eternal Veil are becoming more frequent – an obvious fact is that there may be something hidden in that thick fog related to the ‘current situation’ of our world and The secret closely related to the ‘foundation’.”

“… Figure out what happened in the world, and then what?” Duncan couldn’t help but ask, and he instinctively felt that Helena had not finished speaking.

“…If possible, try to find a ‘new route’ that can completely pass through the curtain, and then take as many people out before the worst happens,” Helena said, “If The ‘collapse’ within the curtain is a foregone conclusion, then our only way out is to ‘go out’. There may be other worlds outside the curtain – a wider world. “Maybe

it is not so livable, maybe the curtain The outside is more dangerous than the boundless sea, but as long as you can still survive, no matter how harsh the environment is, it can become a new habitat for civilization… As long as you survive, life will find a way out, even if it requires a long and painful adaptation… …even the process of mutation. “

Helena’s words fell, and the hall fell into silence for a while. Duncan could feel that Vanna, Morris and others around him subconsciously held their breath. It took several seconds before he heard Vanna. Breaking the silence: “Is it already that bad? “

The worst thing is, we don’t even know how bad the situation will be – without the ‘warning’ of the Lost Home, we don’t even know that the sun was completely out for twelve hours last time,” Luen shook his head. , “During those twelve hours, the four Arks also disappeared into this world together with other city-states, which further convinced us… that we must face what may happen next according to the worst expectations. “

But the ‘world outside the curtain’ is just a conjecture, a baseless conjecture,” Duncan suddenly said lightly, his voice was not loud, but it seemed to fall coldly on everyone’s heart, “It’s very possible that this is just nonsense.” Their wishful ‘efforts’. “

“It’s better than doing nothing,” Helena’s expression did not change at all. She just faced Duncan’s gaze calmly and calmly. “We don’t start acting because we are convinced that something will succeed, but because there is no other way. We have to do this because of choice – there may be nothing outside the eternal curtain, and it is even possible that the eternal curtain has no end at all. We will never find the so-called new route, but we have to do something…” She stopped

, Frame, who had not spoken much since just now, broke the silence with a low voice: “In a worse scenario, we are even considering how to survive in the eternal veil. “

“Survive in the eternal veil! ? “Nina exclaimed in shock – she never spoke, just sat quietly next to Uncle Duncan, because she felt that this kind of occasion was not the place for her to interrupt casually, but this time she really couldn’t bear it. I asked, “Can anyone live in that place?” Can humans thrive in that dense fog? “

Not now,” Frame shook his head calmly, “At least with the current life forms of mortals and our current understanding of the laws of the eternal curtain, human society is still unable to thrive in that thick fog – here ‘Human society’ also includes elves and Sen’jin. “

Nina opened her mouth: “Then…”

“This is what I just mentioned,” Helena said softly, “We may need a long and painful adaptation or even mutation process – we may need to become different. Only ‘we’ can survive in the world after that, maybe like those mysterious shadows appearing in the fog, maybe like those noises whispering in the wind…” “What if this is still not enough

? “Duncan asked again, “The chaos of the Eternal Veil may not be ‘adaptable’ at all. If both the new route plan and the adaptation plan fail…”

“Then we will go to the spirit world. If the spirit world still doesn’t work, then we will launch a general attack on the deep sea,” Banster said calmly, “Since there is a group of people in this world who can summon demons to the real dimension, then we will also We can go to the world of those demons, they can survive in the deep sea, and we can too – if this still doesn’t work, then we still have subspace.” This time, even

Shirley couldn’t help but speak: “Ya…Ya Space?”

Banst nodded slightly: “No one can survive from the subspace. All mortals who witness it will be dissolved in eternal madness and distortion, but if it really comes to the last moment, the subspace can also be a Choice – any choice, even the worst choice, is better than walking toward that doomsday calmly and meekly.”

Shirley and Nina stopped talking, and a look of shock appeared on their faces.

Duncan showed a thoughtful expression. He stared at the four figures across the table for a long time. After a long time, he spoke softly: “Is this the ‘revelation’ you got?” “This is not a revelation, it was just once

. In this chaotic and weak exchange, we received the ‘instructions’,” Helena said slowly. She raised her hand and drew the emblem of the storm and the deep sea on her chest, “They let us live at all costs, Survive by any means necessary.”

Duncan didn’t speak for a while.

He fell into deep thought and was a little shocked.

He admitted that these people, who seemed late in every “incident” and even seemed a little slow and weak, actually did more than he imagined.

Compared to the Ancient Gods, and compared to the Lost Homes, they really don’t have much power – but they are trying to do something that neither the Lost Homes nor the Ancient Gods can do.

After such silence lasted for an unknown amount of time, he finally broke the silence: “I want to know the progress you have made so far.”

Helena hesitated for a few seconds and sighed softly: “…Unfortunately, the progress is still Limited – we have set up several forward bases at the critical point of six nautical miles within the Eternal Veil. We can temporarily gain a foothold at that location, but that’s all… So far, no one has been able to break the legacy left by the Lost Home. ‘Record’.”

“The Lost Home had an ‘accident’ after it returned from six nautical miles away from the Curtain.” Duncan shook his head, his attitude was very calm, “Strictly speaking, it was not a success.’ Adventure Records’.”

The expressions on the four popes’ faces were a bit strange, and they were obviously not comfortable continuing on this topic.

Duncan didn’t care about this. He just adjusted his sitting posture, and after briefly sorting out his thoughts, he changed the topic: “So since your progress in this area has been hindered, I have some things here that may come in handy. ‘Intelligence’, you might be interested.”

Helena subconsciously asked: “Intelligence?”

“Two days ago, my daughter and I ‘captured’ a ship,” Duncan nodded and said unhurriedly , “It was a large ship built by the Annihilation Cult. It was the ‘base’ they used to invade Dreamland during the previous Breeze Harbor incident. It was full of traces of bloody rituals and blasphemous creations… But this is not the point.

” The point is, it is obviously impossible for such a ship to dock and supply supplies in a normal city-state – guess where its home port is? Helena

, Lu En and others looked at each other, but they reacted almost immediately – Lu En was the first to speak: “Wait, is it… the border?” ! “

Yes, they are hiding in that thick fog,” Duncan did not continue to tell the truth, but nodded seriously, “That is a lair of the Annihilation Cult, and it may even be their largest lair and ‘headquarters’. They called it the ‘Holy Land’. Now I’m not sure what the status of this so-called ‘Holy Land’ is, and I’m not sure whether it’s ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ the six-nautical-mile limit, but even on the relatively stable inside, there’s a place that’s been hidden in the eternal curtain for a long time. , and even a ‘veil colony’ that can be used as a large supply port to operate stably, must be something of great research value to us. “

(There are some things at home, so I can only do one update for the time being… I will recover as soon as possible after they are dealt with. Cover your face manually.)

(End of this chapter)