Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 777

[Chapter 759 Information brought by “Sailor”]

Chapter 759: Information brought by the “Sailor”

Those “sun fragments” that briefly illuminated the night sky broke the tense calm surface of the long night – in front of the whole world on a quarter of the “Sun Ring” After the sky disintegrated and fell, at least seven city-states sent fleets to find those luminous geometric objects that fell on the boundless sea.

In the first forty-eight hours of the long night, the Infinite Sea, which had been at peace for more than ten centuries, came so close to war for the first time.

Fortunately, the huge fleet led by the Academy of Truth’s heavy flagship “The Balance of All Things” arrived near the largest “fall point” in the central sea before all the city-states, and controlled several of the largest sun fragments one step ahead. The authority of the church was again It worked for once and continued the shaky balance between city-states – several city-state fleets did not break out into conflicts over snatching the sun fragments, but agreed to the church’s distribution plan, put aside the dispute for the time being, and sent the sun fragments to the current situation. The worst cities that are most in need of sunshine.

But during the four-hour confrontation, a crack, a bad omen, had begun to quietly spread among the many city-states in the Infinite Sea – in the

days to come, sunlight would become a scarce life-sustaining resource.

But for Duncan, who is still staying in Breezeport, these things are still far away.

An unexpected piece of information was sent to Duncan from Faelon – the source of the information was Lawrence, the captain of the White Oak, and the content of the information was related to the mysterious anomaly 077 “Sailor”.

On the first floor of the witch’s mansion, Lawrence’s figure appeared in the oval mirror on the wall, and his voice came from the mirror: “… He said that he was once the first mate of the Sea Song, and they crossed the border six nautical miles. The critical line, that was what happened on January 21, 1902…”

Duncan stood next to the oval mirror. After hearing Captain Lawrence’s story, he immediately frowned: “It is now January 22, 1902 in the new city-state calendar. No., you mean…the mummy named “Anomaly 077-Sailor” was still a priest of the Deep Sea Church at this time yesterday, and was on a mission to cross the border?!” “That’s what he said,

” Lawrence said with a serious face. He was obviously not kidding, “He said his captain’s name was Kalani, and he also described the details of the ship’s sailing. He said he knew that it was actually only the Sea Song that crossed the border six years ago. It was the second day at sea, but he told me that Captain Kalani and her sailors lingered for half a century after crossing the border…”

Duncan frowned and said nothing, but Lucretia next to him heard it. The movement here made his eyes widen in surprise: “Half a century?!”

“Maybe… longer, madam,” Lawrence in the mirror frowned and said cautiously, “If we follow what the ‘Sailor’ said, They could only rely on their clear sense to record the days in the first half century, and then they lost the concept of time – they drifted in the boundless fog, neither alive nor dead, just like the spirit The doctors unfortunately fell into the “Void Fault” at the edge of dreams while treating people, and the Sea Song also fell into the gap at the edge of the world, so…” Lawrence

stopped, seemingly disturbed by the movement next to him. , and then a hoarse, vague voice came from the edge of the mirror. It was the broken voice of “Sailor”: “So we were ‘forgotten’, Mr. Captain, aha… We were forgotten by death, and we were forgotten by the sea.” , in the end even time and reason forgot about us, so we became immortal, immortal, almost floating at the end of the world forever… But in the end… Hiccup, the goddess has mercy, and the goddess has mercy, we suddenly He remembered it… so we drifted to the right route again… Hiccup!”

Duncan frowned. He quickly understood the meaning of “sailor” and said, “The correct route refers to…”

“We found Him! A huge…” The sailor suddenly raised his voice, but then stopped suddenly as if he was being strangled by someone. He let out a series of vague grunts before continuing, “I can’t remember, I We can’t remember what He looked like, but we did find it… We found the source of the call, and that was our task – the Pope asked us to find Him, because He conveyed the revelation to the Pope…

“The greatest among us Some of them are left there, they don’t want to go back, they don’t want to go back and face the world that is no longer saved. They have been wandering for too long, and all their glory and firm belief have been wiped away by the boundless fog, and we still have Encountered…encountered…

“What did we encounter? I can’t remember clearly, Captain, I can’t remember clearly…I just remember that Captain Kalani and I returned from the fog, and we were the only two left. , Strictly speaking, I was the only one left – Captain Kalani was only a wrinkled shadow at that time, and she could no longer remember what she looked like, so I had to do even the steering work…”

When the sailor said this, his voice turned into a series of vague mumblings. It seemed that his thinking was not clear, and the chaotic memories that had just appeared were like broken puzzle pieces hovering in his withered brain, making him feel confused from time to time. Sober and confused at times.

Duncan didn’t pay attention to the sailor’s subsequent grunts. He pondered for a moment and then said, “But you are now Anomaly 077 – an ‘abnormal object’ that was taken into custody by the city-state many years ago. You have already appeared in this world.” It has been hundreds of years, and the first time you appeared was on an exploration ship that had been missing for three years.” The

sailor fell silent and did not speak for a long time. After an unknown amount of time, Lawrence suddenly broke the silence: ” He said he didn’t know what happened – he didn’t remember how he finally returned to this world, nor where the Sea Song went, nor why he ended up like this. He turned into an “abnormal object” that caused a storm everywhere. He said that the world in his eyes was dislocated. The world he saw now was very different from what he remembered… but he couldn’t explain it to me.” Duncan was silent. After a moment

, he breathed out softly.

“I understand, take care of Anomaly 077 first – I will contact you if anything happens.”

“Okay, Captain.”

The flames in the mirror gradually faded and turned into a plain glass again.

Lawrence retracted his gaze from the mirror and turned to look at the mummy sitting in the corner of the room – Anomaly 077 was sitting there in a daze. The large wine bottle in his hand had been emptied, but he still picked up the glass bottle from time to time and put it in his hands. Two pointless pours above the mouth.

“Alcohol actually has no effect on you at all,” Lawrence finally frowned, stood up and came to the mummy, “Whether you are drunk or not, you can’t fall asleep with this thing – alcohol doesn’t work, poison doesn’t work, not even a revolver Even bullets won’t work – this guy finally tried it.”

The mummy was stunned for a moment, threw the bottle aside, and looked up at the old captain in front of him sluggishly. He was stunned for two seconds before muttering: “The twelve pounds “Where’s the cannon…”

“If you’re still awake until the end of the world, then I don’t mind you trying it – you can even try the sixty-four-pound cannon on the dock, if you’re interested.”

Lawrence said casually, came to the chair next to the mummy and sat down.

“But since the world is about to end, you don’t have to try those things – we will all sleep sooner or later, although you have taken more detours than us.” ”

Sailor” turned his head and looked at Lawrence blankly.

His withered and shriveled eyeballs rolled around, and the intoxication caused by self-hypnosis could not last long. After a moment of sluggishness, the mummy that had lost its peace finally slowly lowered its head and held its head with skeletal hands. .

“I lost my diary…”

The mummy muttered vaguely and desperately.

“What?”

“The log, Captain Kalani’s log. She wrote a lot before she disappeared. She asked me to take that log back. That is our task…” The mummy muttered, and he seemed to want to have a game. He cried bitterly, but he seemed to have forgotten how to express this kind of emotion that belongs only to a living person, “I lost it, I lost the captain’s log… I remember that I stuffed it into my body at the sea. When the song passed through the thick fog again, it was on my body, but I don’t know where it is now… It’s different, I can’t remember…”

Lawrence listened to the mummy’s confession in a daze, and in his In the mirror beside them, Martha’s figure with a complicated expression quietly emerged – they were quiet, watching the “sailor” quietly, and only the latter’s vague and low mumbling was left in the room… That voice was Like a corpse that has forgotten how to shed tears and is trying to learn how to mourn.

…

Duncan turned his head and saw that everyone had come behind him. Many pairs of eyes were looking at him or at the mirror behind him that had returned to its original state.

“…That mummy actually has such a big origin?” Shirley whispered.

Fanna thought thoughtfully: “The Sea Song just crossed the six-mile critical line yesterday… I remember Her Majesty Helena mentioned this matter before. She mentioned that major churches have begun to send advance ships to attack the six-mile boundary.

“But why did an exploration ship that just crossed the border yesterday become an “abnormality” that appeared in the world more than two hundred years ago ? 077′?” Nina was confused, “And there is also the ‘half century’…” ”

…Perhaps, this is because the concept of ‘time’ has begun to fail,” Duncan said softly, “Or maybe, this is the reason. It is the characteristic of the sea outside the border – all members of the Sea Song have verified the first characteristic beyond the border with their lives.”

Morris frowned when he heard this, and seemed to think of something immediately.

But before the old scholar could speak, a sudden knock on the door from the entrance interrupted his thoughts.

A guest is coming.

(End of chapter)

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