Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 770

[Chapter 752: In the night]

Chapter 752: We live

in a future where the night is full of fire, and the world is burned to the ground.

The flame is not eternal, and the firewood in the shelter also has its limit. Beyond the reshaped earth and ocean, the eternal curtain still binds the entire world—and when everything within the curtain is turned to ashes in the flames, The world ended in a long cooling down.

It is said that this “cooling” lasted for four hundred years. Finally, the age of embers came – cold ashes covered the entire world, no new flames rose, and no living creatures cried or breathed. The world was here It stagnated in a pile of cold ashes. Nothing new was born, and nothing old died.

In a sense, this sanctuary that has experienced the Great Annihilation has finally ushered in eternal peace, and embers will eventually become embers – the doomsday is permanently solidified at this moment, and no new suffering will come to this land. .

Duncan came to a big rock and sat down without any hesitation. He didn’t care at all about the ashes everywhere. He looked at the ruins of the city on the plain that were still weathering and crumbling and turning into ashes. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly He said, “In other words, there is no turning back from this option.”

“You can reshape everything.” Crete came to Duncan’s side, his thin and skinny body standing like a bent branch in the cold wind. “But there is only one exception.”

“Myself,” Duncan came to his senses and said softly, “I can’t redefine myself…”

Crete remained silent, and after a long time he spoke: “If there is really no way, The future of the flame is at least a continuation – but I hope you can be cautious and cautious. Time is like a river, and many of its tributaries can be rewritten, but only the main trunk that crosses the end point, and there is no turning back when it flows past. Opportunity.”

“Don’t worry about this. The moment I rejected Pilot One’s plan, I had already figured out these things – what you showed me only further improved my original speculation,” Duncan He shook his head slightly, “Compared with these, my real gain is that I finally confirmed one thing…”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and slowly held it in the air – the green spirit body. Fire immediately burned from between his fingers, expanding and jumping in the air like a phantom.

The world of ashes seemed to be touched by this wisp of flame. The wind on the top of the mountain suddenly became a little restless, and even the nearby ashes undulated abnormally – but this was only a momentary illusion. The next second, the wind and ashes returned to their original state.

There is nothing left to move forward in this ended branch of history.

Duncan stared at the flame in his hand quietly, then turned his palm over.

The spiritual fire was extinguished in an instant, and the silent and broken flames turned into many fine sparks, briefly flickering on his fingertips. For a moment, they looked like the phantom of distant starlight.

Duncan looked at this scene with a solemn expression, thoughtfully: “These ‘fires’ are indeed just appearances.”

Then he turned his head and looked at Crete, who was still standing quietly beside him: “Can you see this branch of history, can you see my other choices?”

“I’m sorry, I can’t.” Critter met Duncan’s gaze calmly, “We are ghosts trapped in the time loop inside the sanctuary, we can only Seeing everything within the confines of this time loop, with all your other options outside it – to us, it’s like a huge hole in the night, and I can’t see beyond that vast darkness.”

” Outside the loop…that is to say, outside the “known world” of Sanctuary?” Duncan reacted immediately, “Sure enough, we still need to find a way to break through the eternal curtain?” “…Sorry,

I don’t know.”

“Really,” Duncan nodded slowly, suddenly feeling a little emotional, “At this time, I am a little envious of Duncan Abnomar a century ago. You revealed the future to him. Although this was an accident, at least He knows where he should go.”

“Fumbling in the dark is suffering, knowing destiny is also suffering. At the end of time, there is no happiness – I’m sorry, we have no good news, not from the day we set out.”

” The problem is not big, and I don’t expect good news. It’s enough to get some enlightenment this time.” Duncan stood up from the big stone without any ashes on his body. “It’s time to leave here.” His eyes looked at him for the last time. The sky and the earth here

, his eyes swept across the faint sunlight behind the clouds and the towering cathedral in the ruins of the city. He did not ask Crete about the future of the others or their whereabouts at this moment, but turned around without any regrets. .

This branch of history collapsed behind him, like the fire at Pland.

Light and shadow were chaotically reorganized, things returned to their original positions, and the dim and closed cabin appeared in Duncan’s field of vision again. The door to the subspace still stood quietly at the bottom of the cabin – it was as if nothing had happened here.

Crete was still standing next to the door, still reaching out and slapping the door frame.

Then he took back his hand and bent slightly towards Duncan: “I hope this didn’t cause you any trouble.” “It’s not a

big problem. I’ve been troubled by enough things, that’s all,” Duncan said casually, “At least now. We have confirmed that one road is in bad shape.”

“The shelter is in dilapidated condition, and there is no need to repair it, although I shouldn’t say this,” Crete sighed, “but its destruction is already doomed—— The Doomsday has been chasing the world in the long river of time from the moment of the Great Annihilation, and now it is really catching up.” “…

Doomsday theory, this is the theory that the preachers of the end have been promoting. People have always thought that this is just Your crazy words after madness.”

“There is only a thin line between madness and reason, and ‘truth’ never cares about the difference between the two,” Crete said with an indifferent expression, “Perhaps from another angle , My companions have never been truly crazy, they are just… a little tired, so they choose to embrace all the truth and become crazy in the eyes of everyone.” ”

Will you become like that?” Duncan suddenly felt a little bit confused. Curious, “In a certain time branch, or in the near future…” ”

…I don’t know,” Crete hesitated, then slowly shook his head, “Dusk has arrived, but this world is not will suddenly go out. There is still a short period of my journey, and in order to communicate with you during this window period, I can only intercept the most stable “part” of myself and come here, so now I don’t know what I will see at the end of the journey. What happened, maybe…”

He paused briefly and continued: “Maybe one day in the future, we will meet again, and what appears in front of you at that time may be a crazy lunatic, or a twisted and invisible monster. That means I have reached the end and have been wandering in the darkness for too long, or maybe…”

Crete suddenly stopped here, and then, his eyes changed slightly, as if he suddenly looked in the dark for a long time. When he reached a certain direction, he suddenly thought of something. The deep wrinkles and ravines on his face stretched out, and he looked at Duncan: “By the way… I will try my best to see you again. No matter I am sober or crazy, I will definitely Will appear in front of you – I’m afraid there is no suitable window period at that time, so I will most likely not be able to talk to you directly like I am now, and you may not even be able to see me…but I will definitely find a way to leave something behind. , you can…”

The old man’s voice stopped abruptly.

In the dark and empty cabin, only Duncan’s figure stood quietly in front of the subspace door.

After standing like a sculpture for a long time, he finally turned around, picked up the brass lantern hanging not far away, and slowly walked towards the exit of the bottom cabin.

…

It is now twelve hours after nightfall.

Just as scholars warned – the sun did not rise and the morning glow did not appear on the sea level.

If there were still some people who had illusions before and were still hoping that the dusk that lasted for seventy-two hours was just an “isolated incident” and that the sun would still rise the next day, then now this fluke Has been completely extinguished.

The long night has become a fact.

Near Qingfeng Port, four giant ark ships were still docked near the coastline, and the “luminous geometry” located on the east coast continued to release soft, pale golden “sunlight”, preventing the entire city-state from completely falling into darkness.

The Academy Ark is brightly lit.

The short and fat Rune stood in the “Temple of Knowledge” on the top floor of the Ark, praying devoutly in front of the icon of Lachem, the God of Wisdom.

The prayer composed of “0” and “1” with a very strange rhythm and pronunciation is gradually coming to an end.

The smoke of incense rose in the temple, and the icon of Rahm stood silently in the smoke. The icon did not have a human form, but was a dark rectangular stone tablet – the word “Eye of Wisdom” was inscribed on the top of the stone tablet. There are runes, dense symbols and fine lines all over the entire monument.

In the sound of Rune’s blessing, those symbols and lines faintly and slowly changed in brightness and extinction, as if they were injected with life for a while.

But as the blessing ended, the short-lived “vitality” of the stone tablet also dissipated.

Lu En turned his head and looked at the priest of truth who had been waiting for him since just now: “How is the situation now?”

“The bad news is that the sun has not risen yet, and the night seems to be going to last for a long time. Okay. The news is that according to monitoring data from various city-states, the temperature drop is gradually slowing down. According to the current cooling curve, it seems that the extreme low temperature in each city-state during this night will not be lower than the lowest value in historical records. The world It will not be completely frozen in the long night as you feared… the “cold disaster” will not happen.”

Listening to the priest’s report, Rune finally relaxed slightly, but soon frowned: ” …Is this really good news?”

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