Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 768

[Chapter 750 Walking with Backlight]

Chapter 750: Walking in the Backlight

The captain has arrived.

Almost as soon as the uninvited guest in a white robe finished speaking, a swirling green flame rose up in the room, and a figure stepped out of the flames.

Shirley jumped up as soon as she saw Duncan: “Captain, Captain! A preacher of the End of the World suddenly ran over here just now! This one seems to be not crazy. He said he wanted to talk to you…” “I know.

,” Duncan raised his hand to interrupt Shirley’s blathering, and at the same time his eyes were fixed on the uninvited guest, “I was still thinking about how long it would take for you to show up in front of me – I didn’t expect this. Coming.”

“You knew I was coming?” the old man in white robe asked casually. Although he used questions and unexpected words, his expression remained very calm.

“You will come sooner or later, because the ‘dusk’ has already begun. The members of the Endgame survey team who are still sane at this moment should be willing to meet me, and it just so happens that I also want to talk to you,” Duncan said , while looking around, “…This is not a good place to talk. We can talk somewhere else.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Shirley, Agou and Morris, who were giving various blessings to themselves, suddenly They nodded in agreement…

The uninvited guest didn’t seem to notice the three people’s reactions. He just looked at Duncan: “That’s fine, let’s go to a place closer to the subspace. I will feel more comfortable there.”

Go somewhere closer to the subspace? Duncan frowned slightly when he heard this, but after a moment of silence, he nodded slowly: “Okay.” Upon

hearing this, Morris subconsciously opened his eyes slightly: “Captain, are you sure you want to take him with you?” …”

“It doesn’t matter,” Duncan waved his hand, “I have my own sense of discretion. Shirley, go to the captain’s cabin and bring me my brass lantern.” Not long after

, Duncan held the brass lantern in his hand and spoke with The uninvited guest in a white shabby robe walked quietly through the cabin on the bottom of the Lost Home – they had passed the cargo hold with reversed lights, and were now walking in the last corridor, where the stairs to the bilge were. The end.

The brass lantern released a faint green firelight, and the light disc player dispersed the surrounding darkness. Only the footsteps could be heard echoing in the empty bilge corridor. Most of the time it was two people’s, but occasionally Duncan found that only his own footsteps were heard. The sound sounded – the “Evangelist of the End” seemed not to be completely located in the current real world. Sometimes he was like a weightless spirit body, walking on the old wooden corridor without making any sound. Sometimes his aura would even be close to dissipating, as if he suddenly went to an extremely distant place…

This was very curious, but he remained polite and did not ask.

When approaching the last door, the “Preacher of the End” took the initiative to break the silence: “You don’t actually need this lamp – this lamp is for a mortal.”

Duncan’s footsteps suddenly stopped. , he was quiet for a moment, and then continued to move forward: “But the ship needs it.” ”

…You are so full of good intentions.” The final preacher whispered, with a tone that seemed to contain sincere praise.

“If it was not long ago, I would never have imagined that one day I would bring a final preacher here – still in such a calm state,” Duncan said casually, “My first contact with you was not pleasant.”

“Is it possible that I was the one who came into contact with you for the first time?” The white-robed Evangelist Zhongyan showed an inexplicable smile on his face and said calmly, “At least one of them.” Duncan turned around and looked carefully through the light. Study

the other person’s face.

An old traveler wearing a white robe, his body hunched, the lines on his face seem to have been carved by time, his sunken eyes glowed with a light golden, metallic color, his expression was peaceful, The smile is indifferent, and only the years are flowing quietly in the depths of his eyes.

Duncan withdrew his gaze, turned his head and continued to walk forward: “I don’t know, I have no impression of your face – anyway, it doesn’t matter whether you were among the people I captured on the boat, what’s important is At this moment, you are here talking to me.”

“It seems that you already know us very well.”

Duncan was noncommittal. He had reached the last door and reached for the doorknob.

“We are here, the closest point to the subspace on this ship.”

As he finished speaking, he pushed open the dark wooden door – and the bilge structure behind the door came into view.

The ever-extinguishing light illuminated the cabin. The once fragmented bilge structure had been repaired during the previous Qingfeng Harbor incident, and now it has become complete again. The strong hull growing from the spine of the ancient god closed up around it, blocking the way. Watching the chaotic light flow and whispers projected from the subspace – the strange wooden door that leads directly to the subspace is still standing deep in the cabin, the door is closed, standing silently.

Duncan led the “guest” into the cabin, and the preacher followed closely behind him. He raised his head again and looked at the surrounding bulkheads and roofs, and sighed: “Ah… you have repaired this place…”

“You know a lot,” Duncan casually hung the lantern on a nearby pillar and looked back. “In some timeline I don’t know, have any of you been here?” ”

I have seen it before. To its wreckage – it may be the past, or it may be the future,” the old man in white robe seemed to be recalling, frowning slightly, “…it disintegrated in the flames and fell in the darkness, that real and spectacular appearance Breathtaking.”

Duncan did not respond to this topic. He had been thinking about various things along the way. At this time, he organized his words a little, and then asked: “A member of the final survey team who remains rational like you , how many more are there?”

Then he paused and added: “I mean at this time point.”

The old man in white robe was silent for a while, but his expression remained calm: “I am the only one left.”

Duncan felt that his Breathing and heartbeat seemed to pause for half a beat.

Then, he heard the voice of the old man in white robes coming again: “Captain, do you know what it feels like to be groping in the dark?”

The last Cretan who remained awake and rational spoke calmly, slowly Opening his hands, it was as if the eternal darkness was still entrenched in front of him –

“The Final Survey Team… I haven’t heard this name for a long time. The first moment after we set off, this name had already turned into history. The dust in the world.

“The ‘time’ of this world is limited. This is something we have known from the beginning. The entire Infinite Sea and the entire Deep Sea Age are like a delicate clock that has been set in advance to run time. We know It can only run for a period of time, and our only hope is to find a chance to “wind up” the world again before the hands stop…

“Your wise follower has almost built the entire ‘world’ For the first time, he added the coordinate axis “time” to the world model, and in our eyes, this coordinate axis appears more…real, hard, and cold.

“Our mission is to move along the time axis . , and at the same time observe and guide every divergence point on the timeline that may produce historical branches, do everything possible to extend the life of the shelter, and at the same time find ways to continue moving forward at the end of time.

“From our own experience, this The process is a bit like… walking with the backlight.

“The day Vision 001 first lit up in the experimental field was the starting point of light. It was the most stable moment in the entire shelter. Everything was just born, resources were plentiful, the timeline was stable, and everything was beautiful. It even seems like it can last forever – starting from that sunny morning, we left the light behind and walked all the way to the darkness at the end.

“As we move away from the “starting point”, we see the world gradually declining, and everything in The small and inevitable hidden dangers left at the beginning of creation are gradually expanding and turning into all kinds of fatal dangers. The light fades and the darkness grows. We turn our backs to the sun and walk towards the night, and the further we go, the darker – —We tried our best to adjust, observing the possibilities in the timeline in the increasingly dim light, hoping to delay the onset of darkness… To a certain extent, we succeeded.

“The original purpose of this shelter The “design life” is eight thousand years – and by avoiding losses, reducing chaos, and reducing the load on the “sun”, it has now exceeded its scheduled operation for two thousand years. “But in the face of the

never-ending river of time, our success It is insignificant and destined to be completely obliterated.

“At the end of the timeline, there will always be only darkness, no matter how much we try to extend the light of the “starting point” into the future, or pick up the pieces on this increasingly dark road. Some sporadic firelight cannot illuminate the end of time that is like an endless black wall… We ran headlong into that endless darkness, groped around, and returned without success. Then we recalibrated the entire timeline and re-verified everything. Possibilities, do everything possible to let the future extend forward, and then crash into the darkness again, again and again…countless times.” The

old man in white robe raised his head and stared at a dark corner somewhere in the dim cabin. After a long time Huicai continued to speak: “There is no road ahead – these were the last words left by the first member of us who lost his mind before leaving. As a forward member, he stayed longer than all of us at the end of time. For a long time, he went through all the possibilities, and finally chose to give up, and even chose to… go back to the past to “correct” those days of futility.

“That is the first “Evangelist of the End” that the world calls… He just lost control not long ago, and I haven’t seen him for so long that I can’t remember his name.”

Duncan listened quietly, and was silent for a long time before slowly speaking: “And you, stay rational until the end , and even came to me soberly.”

“Yes,” the old man in white robe turned his head and his eyes fell on Duncan, “Because at the current time point, I entered your sight-when the order of the world is crumbling, the reason is It can be done after the results.”

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