Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 724

[Chapter 706 The border with a strange atmosphere]

is accompanied by the shadows in the spiritual world that quickly fade away from the surroundings of the Lost Home. The originally dark sea gradually returns to its normal blue color. The skylight in the real world and the thin waves wandering around the ship Fog covered the entire sea.

Nina ran from the room to the deck, and soon discovered the strange ship not far in front of the Lost Home, which was engulfed in green flames and almost torn apart.

The ship that was destroyed by the big explosion and is now driven entirely by spiritual flames is slowly slowing down, but it is still sailing forward. In the direction pointed by its bow, is the road that once appeared in the textbook, but today This is the first time I really saw the “border”.

The magnificent wall of dense fog stretches across the sky and into the sea. Waterfall-like clouds pour down from the top of the giant wall, turning into a thin mist that permeates the entire sea. In front of it, everything seems small – even those who have lost their homeland. The boat had seen many incredible things. Nina still couldn’t help but open her eyes wide at this time, and then let out a long exclamation: “Wow–“

Shirley also ran out at this time, grabbing the clothes on the side of the boat. Guardrail looked into the distance and exclaimed with Nina: “Wow–“

As soon as she finished her words, she heard Agou’s voice coming from the shadows: “So I want you to read more books. As long as you have a better vocabulary, you won’t just say ‘Wow’ after seeing such a majestic curtain at the border…”

When Shirley heard this, her eyes suddenly widened: “Isn’t Nina also saying ‘Wow’? You Why don’t you talk about her?”

Agou jumped out of the shadows, shaking his head and muttering casually: “Nina’s ‘Wow’ is because she thinks the word is appropriate here, and ‘Wow’ is because of you. You two know only this one word, you two are different…”

Listening to Agou’s words, Shirley puffed up her face angrily and said plausibly: “I… I have a large vocabulary, I have so many modal particles, that’s not Didn’t the captain and Mr. Morris let me use it? If you want me to open up, I…”

But Agou no longer paid attention to her. This mysterious hound with a fierce appearance became more and more aggressive after arriving at the border. Becoming cautious, it looked around, as if sensing the aura coming from other dimensions. After a moment, it muttered: “…The environment here is different from the safe sea area… There are unstable auras everywhere, obviously. In the real dimension, I can vaguely smell the scent of the spirit world…” “

This is the border, and it is just the most insignificant part of the countless weird and dangerous characteristics of the border,” accompanied by a swirl of colorful pieces of paper. , Lucretia’s voice came, “Here, the boundaries of ‘reality’ will become blurred, and all those ‘things’ that are suppressed in the safe sea… will become active, and the evil in the machine will The probability will be very high, and the books will attract more and more dangerous snoops. Many things on the ship will become easily activated, and at some point, especially when the ship and some invisible ‘fields’ are accidentally When they overlap, these dangers will multiply.”

She strolled to the edge of the deck, looked at the thick fog in the distance, and continued softly in her thoughts and memories –

“So, there will be few people who are sane. Many explorers come to the border to ‘try their luck’… There is no honor and wealth here, only a cold and strange environment, and a dangerous and terrifying fate. The few ‘lunatics’ who dare to set foot here have summed up some of the unique experiences on the border. There are some ‘codes of action’, such as not carrying any idols or portraits with human characteristics on board, not shouting loudly in the fog, not staying in front of the mirror for too long, etc… “

But these rules and taboos are only The risk can be reduced to a certain extent, but there will still be experienced explorers who disappear into the fog near the border. They will forget where they are when the fog comes, and they will open a door in the cabin that does not exist. They may even think in a daze that they have completed a thrilling and long border exploration and successfully returned to the city-state where they settled. Their tense nerves relax and they finally step onto the solid ground of the dock with a sigh of relief – just like that Walking into the thick fog at the border, only the empty ghost ship was left floating on the sea. “

Shirley’s eyes widened as she listened to the weird and terrifying things described by the “Sea Witch”, and finally she shuddered subconsciously: “I…f*c*k…this sounds a bit scary…” “

Yes. , very scary, so under normal circumstances, people like you who have no experience in border exploration should not approach this sea area at all – but you still don’t have to worry, because this is the Homeless Ship, and you are part of the Homeless Fleet. member. “

Lucretia smiled faintly, looking at the sea, and said slowly.

“My father and this ship… are no longer what I remember. If it were the current Lost Home, I would I believe that even if something really got on board and opened your door, you would politely apologize and close the door before leaving…” As soon as

she finished speaking, a voice suddenly came from the side. Lai: “Generally speaking, they don’t have the opportunity to close their doors and apologize. “

Lucrecia turned around and saw that Duncan had arrived on the deck at some point.

“Vanna received a psychic communication just now. The Deep Sea Church’s ‘Tide’ has arrived in the nearby waters and will appear soon. The two capital ships of the Death Church are also nearby. They are sending out small reconnaissance boats to confirm the situation in the surrounding waters first.

Lucretia nodded: “That’s fine. We need to figure out the situation around here – the church fleet that patrols the border all year round is more professional than us in this regard. ” “

Duncan said “Yeah” and didn’t say anything else. He just controlled the Lost Home to gradually move closer to the big ship that was “leading the way” in front of him. Next to the Lost Home, the Brilliant Star had also left the spiritual world. , accompanying the sailing unhurriedly.

Ten minutes later, the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star arrived near the broken ship, cruising slowly and at a constant speed.

Perhaps because it was closer to the “curtain”, the fog on the sea seemed a little thicker than before. The layers of fog were floating in all directions like flowing gauze, even the faint green escaping from the surroundings of the Lost Home. Even the flames cannot completely dispel the mist.

On Duncan’s orders, the three ships stopped before the fog became thicker.

“Let’s wait until we meet up before continuing forward.” On the bow deck of the Lost Home, Duncan glanced at the foggy sea in the distance. “Let’s light the lights first.” As he

said this, he raised his hand and pointed. The “guide ship” at the front.

With a snap of the fingers, the green flames burning on the big ship suddenly intensified, and the blazing spiritual fire exploded and rose up, releasing a brilliance that was enough to penetrate the fog!

A “lighthouse” made entirely of spiritual fire rose up in the foggy border waters. The light from the flames violently illuminated the entire sea area, and where the light was shrouded, near the three ships On the sea, the fog finally showed signs of dissipating slightly, and the visibility recovered a little.

Vanna and Morris also came to the deck. The latter was curiously observing the sea near the side of the ship. He saw that the color of the sea seemed to be a little richer than outside the thick fog. The dark blue water looked quite dark. Calm, with only a few fluctuations due to the breeze – and the fluctuations looked quite weird, it seemed slow and sticky, as if… the entire sea was a layer of thick and smooth oil that lacked surface details. .

Fanna frowned and stared at the sea, which gave people a strong sense of weirdness and suspicion. After a moment of hesitation, she took out a small wooden carved amulet from her body – it was a wave amulet carved from sea breath wood – — and threw it into the sea.

The amulet that symbolized the faith and protective power of the Storm Goddess fell on the sticky and sluggish sea surface. It bounced as if it had landed on solid ground, without causing any ripples or sinking in the sea water.

It just stayed quietly on the thick and sluggish “water surface”. After several seconds, it was suddenly dyed a layer of dark blue by the surrounding seawater, and quietly “melted” into the water.

Fanna looked at this scene with some astonishment that was inconsistent with her experience.

But in her ears, the gentle sound of the waves still surfaced as always.

Although the process seemed strange, the power of the goddess Gemona still came as usual – in this abnormal sea area, the blessing of the storm goddess could still take effect.

Even…it seems to take effect a little faster?

At this moment, Fanna seemed to suddenly feel something again and looked up at the misty sea in the distance.

And almost at the same time she raised her head, a melodious and loud whistle suddenly broke the calm of the border waters, and then, a hazy light appeared in the depths of the thick fog – behind the light, a huge The shadow of the ship gradually emerged from the fog.

The soft sound of the waves sounded, and in the psychic resonance, she confirmed the news from her fellow church members. At the same time, the huge ship silhouette in the distance began to slow down at a certain distance, and several smaller ships Escorts appeared one after another around the outline.

Through the drifting fog, the ships coming to join and the Lost Home and Brilliant Star, which arrived here first, were confirming each other’s identities – in the border waters, this is a very important link.

Moreover, this kind of “confirmation” of identity will be accompanied by the entire action process in the future, and it will be done again every once in a while.

After all, in the thick fog on the border, you can’t always confirm that the figure next to you this second is still the person you were familiar with the previous second.

“It’s the Deep Sea Church’s ‘Tide’ and its escort formation,” Vanna quickly came to Duncan’s side and lowered her head to report, “It has been confirmed through psychic resonance.”

Duncan nodded: “Okay, allow them to approach and let them Enter the area illuminated by spiritual fire.”

(End of chapter)