Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 108 Super Contagious

The gentle waves are slowly undulating, and the Lost Homeland is sailing smoothly on the boundless sea. After sailing for many days, this ancient ghost ship still hasn't found any islands or buoys that can be used as route marks.

There seems to be no end to the long rafting trip, but its captain still has a lot to do.

Duncan returned to the captain's bedroom again, the golden sun mask was still quietly lying on the table, but before that, he still had some other things to think about.

Alice's matter can be arranged later, and the follow-up test and research on "Anomaly 099" is not in a hurry. The Frost Rebellion half a century ago is not something to be investigated now, but apart from these things, there is another Things are closely related to themselves.

Duncan looked up at the mirror hanging on the wall.

The green flame that once floated on the mirror has long since dissipated, and the distant scene that once appeared in the mirror has also disappeared without a trace, but Duncan can still vaguely feel that the weak and vague "connection" has not disappeared. Disappeared with the reflection in the mirror - it still exists, and it is pointing far away to the magnificent cathedral in the center of the city-state of Proland.

This connection gave him a feeling similar to the "connection" between himself and the "Antique Store Manager" and the "White Oak", but it was weaker and more ethereal, if I had to say it... like some kind of derivative , are "secondary channels" extending from a clear and well-defined connection.

Duncan slightly closed his eyes, and on the table next to him, the brass compass on Ayie's chest quietly opened a gap, and a faint green flame burned quietly in it.

Duncan once again returned to the dark space filled with countless stars and streams of light.

But this time, he did not perform the "spiritual world walk", but maintained the critical state of entering the spiritual world, carefully observing the flow of shimmering light in this dark space and the dots of light.

He first saw the brightest "star", which pointed to the antique shop, representing his other body, which was cleaning the warehouse and counting the goods in the inventory by the way;

He saw another hazy and invisible fog, much larger than ordinary stars, which represented the "White Oak", a ship that once collided head-on with the Lost Country and was completely burned by his spirit body fire A steamship that has passed through;
In the end, he finally discerned the "star" that was vaguely related to himself in the hazy starlight that seemed almost indistinguishable.

Duncan leaned over curiously, wanting to observe this cluster of starlight carefully.

But as soon as he approached, he felt a subtle repulsion spreading out from the cluster of starlight.

This repelling force is not very strong, it seems to be a pure will to protect himself, Duncan felt that if he forcibly extended the fire of the spirit body, he should be able to burn this subconscious protection—but he still Immediately stopped, keeping a distance from the starlight.

The owner behind this starlight should be the judge named "Fanna", a storm saint, a powerful transcendent—too reckless contact may first alarm the owner of the starlight, and in worse cases, even It may alarm the "god" standing behind the saint.

In the case of not knowing much about the gods of this world, Duncan did not intend to take this risk.

And on the other hand, this vague sense of repulsion may also be reminding him that these starlights are different from each other——

He didn't feel repelled when he occupied the body of the "sacrifice" at first, and he didn't feel repulsed when he occupied the body of the cultist "Ron" who had just died. Now why is there such repulsion around Fanna's starlight?

Is it because she is still "alive"?Is it because the mental powers of living people spontaneously resist indescribable erosion?Or is it because of... the so-called protection of faith and divine grace?
Duncan stepped back a little, while thinking about the meaning of the starlight in this dark space, while trying to slowly reach out to another cluster of starlight closest to him.

He stopped at the last moment before touching the cluster of stars.

No sense of exclusion.

Then he tried many times in the surrounding area, and none of the stars rejected his approach—and in some of the stars, he also vaguely felt some new..."elements".

He felt a vivid sense of life, and even felt the instinctive trembling and shrinking of those stars—it was the instinctive retreat of life in the face of the irresistible shadow of death.

Duncan returned to the dark area where the starlight could not shine, looking down at his hands.

Some green flames wandered in the darkness, outlining light and shadows that seemed real and unreal between his fingers.

It seems that as the number of times he walked in the spirit world increased, his control and perception of flames became more precise and sharp. Now he can actually perceive the existence of vitality from those stars!
Duncan frowned slightly, and looked towards the endless dark distance, the dots of brilliance stretched out densely in the darkness and chaos, and it even felt a little spectacular.

Out of caution, he never explored the distance of this dark space, but just looking at the scale of the starlight, he can imagine how many light spots there are.

At the beginning, he thought that the starlights here represented qualified "corpses" that had just died, because the first two "attachments" he was attached to the corpses, but now he felt from some starlights. The existence of vitality shows that his initial guess was wrong.

There are not only the dead, but also the living in these stars, and it was only a coincidence that he occupied the two corpses at the beginning.

The "judge" named Fanna is also in these starlights, she is of course a living person without a doubt.

Then... do the countless star lights here represent all the living and dead in the world?
Duncan frowned slightly in the dark, this conjecture came to mind so naturally, it seemed reasonable, but he soon shook his head, thinking that he could not come to a conclusion so quickly.

Although there are a lot of starlight here, and although the population of this world is much smaller than that of the earth, those starlights should not be equal to the population of the whole world as far as the eye can see, and the living people are okay, but what about the number of the dead? define?

Do all the dead throughout the ages count?Or does it only count if there are corpses left?Does it count as long as there are corpses left, or does it count if the time of death cannot exceed a certain level?
What's more, there is also a glorious gathering like the "White Oak" here... A ship can show a corresponding projection here, how can this be explained?

So it's too early to rashly identify the starlight here as "the dead and the living in the world" - at least he needs to have enough evidence to make a conclusion.

But no matter how the starlight here is connected with the real world, one thing is obvious: most of the starlight will not show any repulsion to Duncan's approach, only the light of Vanna, the "saint" has produced such A self-protective response.

This may be the god she believes in at work.

Duncan became a little curious about the power of "faith" in this world.

But no matter how strong the protective barrier Fana built through her beliefs, there are obviously loopholes—this barrier has not prevented the establishment of a deep "secret connection" between the captain of the Lost Homeland and her.

Then there is only one question left: when and how was this connection established?
Duncan was thinking seriously in the dark, thinking about the intersection between himself and the judge he had never met, and why such a connection appeared out of thin air. After ruling out conjectures one after another, a very bold idea suddenly came to his mind--

Could it be the "sacrifice" that he possessed in the first place! ?

Duncan recalled the first time he set foot on the land of the Puland city-state, and recalled the sun sacrifice-he made a big fuss at the venue as a sacrifice, and then left his possessed "body" behind Shortly after that, Inquisitor Fanna led a team to raid the cultist stronghold, captured the cultists who remained at the scene, and must have participated in the aftermath of the "remnants" at the scene.

If I had to say it, the only "intersection" between him and the lady judge could only have happened at that time.

Just a possessed body, just a place where they once appeared together.

"So... we got in touch?!" The more Duncan thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible, and he couldn't help but look down at his hands in astonishment. After a long while, his astonished expression turned into an extremely weird and helpless smile, "What is this?" What kind of time-space companion infection route is it..."

(End of this chapter)