Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 540 Sailing to the Sun
After listening to Taran Ayer's long explanation, Duncan thought for a long time.

Undoubtedly, these ancient legends of the Elves are special, even unique in this world, for no other reason than their -- completeness.

In the deep-sea era after the Great Annihilation, the old world collapsed and subverted, the new civilization was reshaped, and the communication between the city-states was cut off for a long time, coupled with various impacts during the dark age, this led to the fragmentation of the historical records of almost all city-states in the boundless sea. The race has hardly preserved any intact heritage.

The belief in the Four Gods, which appeared only after the beginning of the Deep Sea Age, developed by leaps and bounds precisely under such circumstances where the inheritance of the city-states was cut off and the myths were blank.

However, here in the elves, the ancient myths have been preserved and inherited, even in today when the belief of the four gods covers the whole world and the old belief system is denounced as heresy, these things are still preserved-limited by the population, the city-states occupied by elves There is only a small part in the entire boundless sea, and the distribution is extremely scattered, but even in this limited and scattered elf city-state, their culture, customs and mythology system are still consistent.

And the reason why they can do this is only by "longevity"?

"Such a complete mythological system...maybe it really revealed some truths before the Great Annihilation." Duncan whispered to himself.

"Many scholars have always believed that the elves are the only race that retains a complete old belief system. Although many of our ancient books have been 'polluted', the myths that we pass on orally... are generally still Keeping the original appearance," Taran El said, spreading his hands helplessly, "But even so, we can only study them as 'stories', and cannot directly regard them as historical materials before the Great Annihilation."

Duncan frowned, and some words Morris said to him a long time ago involuntarily came to mind: "...because of the huge contradiction between history and reality."

"Yes, every scholar who tries to trace back the great annihilation will face the cruel blow of 'contradiction'," Taran Al sighed, "This is what we feel the most. The more complete the elves' mythology system, the more It is impossible to explain what the world looks like today, and the biggest contradiction is that...in the process of Sasloka creating the world, there is no place for humans and Senjin."

Duncan didn't speak, just thinking seriously.

Taran El continued: "It's not just the legend of Sasloka's creation, but in some of our other incomplete legends, when it comes to the description of the world, there is no mention of 'human beings' at all. and 'Senjin' species, you should understand that this is not normal."

Duncan nodded slowly, but for some reason, what appeared in his mind at the moment was another picture he had seen before——

Moon.

He raised his head and looked out the window. The pale golden "sunshine" permeated the sea, and amidst the undulating waves in the distance, he could vaguely see a luminous boundary like a cliff lying across the sea.

That is the fallen object that Lucrezia picked up from the "frontier", and that is where the "mysterious stone ball" is located.

"Are you going to take a look at that thing?" Lucrezia noticed Duncan's gaze for the first time, and immediately asked, "There is a temporary research facility established by Qingfeng Harbor over there. The people who have said hello, they can evacuate the irrelevant personnel in the core area."

Duncan hesitated for a moment, then nodded lightly: "Go and arrange, that's why I'm here."

"Okay, I'll contact the research facility first and ask them to evacuate people."

Lucrezia responded, then got up and left the room.

And not long after she left, Duncan noticed that the Brilliant Star slowly turned its bow, and began to sail towards the huge luminous body in the distance.

For a while, only Duncan and the elf scholar were left in the room. After a moment of silence, Taran Ayer visibly became nervous again.

Fortunately, his embarrassment didn't last long this time—Duncan took the initiative to break the silence before the awkward atmosphere re-brewed: "I heard that you tried to observe the surface of Phenomenon 001 when the sun went out?"

"Yes," Taran Ayr put his hands on the table nervously, twiddling his thumbs, "and Ms. Lucrecia always thinks that my deep sleep is related to observing the sun, although I don't think so. So what happened..."

"What did you see?" Duncan asked again.

"...I recorded the scene at that time. The paper is now in Ms. Lucrezia's hands, but many of its key details have been painted over - I painted it myself, but I don't remember it myself. Are you interested If so, later..."

As soon as Taran Al spoke halfway, the door of the reception room was opened, and Lucrezia, who had just left for a short time, returned to the room: "That piece of paper is in my hand."

As she spoke, she stepped back to the table, and while taking out the crumpled draft paper from her bosom, she said to Duncan, "I've temporarily handed over the ship to the rabbi—it's another member of my 'crew'. .This is the sketch drawn by Master Al at that time, you can take a look."

Duncan immediately took the draft paper handed over by the other party with a serious expression, flattened it on the table, and glanced at the rough patterns drawn on it.

However, at the first glance, he only felt that it was just a bunch of meaningless random lines—except for the circular outline on the edge showing that this was indeed the pattern of Anomaly 001, the serious smearing inside the circle was almost complete Destroyed its original real structure.

But after distinguishing carefully for a while, he vaguely felt a sense of familiarity behind those messy scribbled lines.

It was as if in the depths of those smear marks, there was something he had seen before, even impressive.

Duncan frowned, and after looking carefully for a long time, he raised his head and looked at Taran Ayer: "You can't remember at all?"

"I can't remember it at all," Taran El said awkwardly. "My mind automatically erased that part of the memory. I think...that must be very dangerous information."

"This piece of paper itself does not carry any pollution, but reverting to its 'true version' may be dangerous," Lucrecia added beside, "I originally planned to give it to Qingfeng Harbor Scholars, but after realizing the risks involved, I think it is more appropriate to leave it to you."

"Very good," Duncan exhaled softly, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, "Have you started to rebuild your trust in me?"

Lucrezia was a little nervous: "...I just think...you are more suitable...Of course, I trust you, my brother said, you now..."

"No need to say more, Lucy," Duncan shook his head with a smile, and then solemnly put away the piece of paper, "I'll take it back first, and then I'll find a way to reveal its secret— —If there is any progress, I will inform you as soon as possible.”

Lucrezia seemed relieved, even... looked a little happy.

Duncan didn't say anything more. After putting away the draft paper, he got up and went to the window, quietly looking at the undulating sea outside and the "sunshine" approaching from the corner of the porthole.

……

After a not too long voyage, the Brilliant Star gradually approached the "luminous falling object" floating on the sea near Qingfeng Harbor.

Now the ship is sailing past that makeshift port.

Duncan came to the bow deck, watching that magnificent piece of golden radiance, like a cliff reaching the sky, continuously enlarged in his vision.

This is the first time he saw this "falling object" that only existed in Tirian's description before, and it was at such a close distance-brought by the oppressive feeling of the giant approaching and the indistinguishable light curtain. The sense of mystery that came was intertwined, and even made him feel suffocated for a moment.

He could fully imagine how much impact Lucrezia had on the elves here when she dragged this thing to the vicinity of Qingfeng Harbor.

But by now, the elves have clearly adapted to this "neighborhood".

"Is this port the 'research facility' you mentioned earlier?" Duncan raised his arm, pointed at the temporary floating port on the nearby sea, and asked Lucrecia beside him.

"Yes," Lucrecia nodded, "Because we were worried that something in the 'fallen object' might be dangerous, we put all our research work on the sea, and Master Taran Ayr is the port One of the main responsible persons. In addition, there is also a small permanent station in the central area of ​​the falling objects, but the people there have all withdrawn now.”

"It's understandable—after all, not everyone can adapt to being in close contact with a 'subspace shadow'," Duncan laughed. "That Mister Taran Ayer has already performed very well."

When Lucrezia heard this, she hurriedly explained: "Actually, it's not all like this. You look like you now... I mean, after the fire is restrained, you are actually not much different from ordinary people. Most people don't recognize your face. ...I'm mainly worried that irrelevant people will disturb you..."

"It's okay, don't be so nervous all the time," Duncan smiled and waved his hands, "It's normal for some people to be afraid, I'm used to it."

Lucrezia nodded quickly, and then raised her eyes to glance at the huge wall of light that was approaching, "We are about to enter the interior of the light body. Next, we must sail carefully. I have to steer the helm myself."

"Well, let's go."

Lucrezia nodded, and then suddenly turned into countless flying colored papers, flying towards the bridge in a circle.

Duncan looked at this scene in amazement. It was the first time he had seen Lucrezia's wonderful power—seeing the pieces of paper flying in front of his eyes, he reached out and grabbed a piece of paper, and looked at it curiously.

In the next second, he heard an exclamation in the air, and then the flying pieces of paper slammed back into Lucrezia's appearance.

Miss Witch landed on the deck in a panic.

And it slipped far away.

(End of this chapter)