Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 541 To the Moon

Lucrezia slid several meters out on the deck—this scene happened so suddenly that Duncan didn't realize what was going on at all.

He didn't let go of the paper in his hand until the "Sea Witch" got up in a panic.

The piece of colored paper flew out with a "whoosh" and quickly sank into Lucrezia's hair, but the latter was still standing there a little dazedly, with no expression on his face.

She may have fallen a little confused.

"Lucy..." With the embarrassment of digging a hole in the deck and a subtle apology, Duncan walked carefully in front of the still dazed Miss Witch, "Are you okay?"

Lucrezia was shocked for a moment, as if she finally woke up from the stunned state, then slowly turned her head, the expression on her face finally changed from bewildered to shocked, she looked at Duncan with an incredible expression, and it took a long time to break the silence : "How did you do it?"

"Ah?" Duncan didn't react immediately, "How did you do it?"

"You caught...'Shadow'..." Lucrezia hesitated to speak, as if she was trying to organize her words to describe this too abstract thing, then she raised her arms again, starting from her fingertips, she Part of her arm quickly disintegrated into flying pieces of colored paper, flying around her, "Can you try again and let me see?"

Duncan reached out his hand in bewilderment, and grabbed a piece of colored paper.

In the next second, those swirling colored papers suddenly "collapsed" and became Lucrezia's arms again, and the expression on the latter's face was shocked again.

"This is unbelievable!" Miss Witch stared at Duncan with wide eyes. "This has never happened before. Can you tell me how it is done?"

Seeing that this cheap "daughter" seems to have aroused his enthusiasm as a researcher, Duncan had no idea what happened. He frowned and glanced at the colored paper in his hand, with a puzzled expression on his face: "It's very difficult." Is it difficult? Just pieces of paper flying in the air..."

"They can't be grasped, Dad," Lucrezia spread her hands, "If the phantom wind can be interrupted just because someone grabs a piece of paper, how can I use it as my most common means of diversion— —These are phantoms, theoretically they can penetrate all obstacles..."

"I don't know about that," Duncan shrugged. "I was just a little curious when I saw these pieces of paper. I wanted to grab them and have a look. I'm sorry... It hurts from the fall? Where did you hit it?"

Lucrezia was slightly taken aback for a moment.

She didn't seem to have heard anyone care about herself in this tone for many, many years.

Not since she became the mighty "Witch of the Sea", a cursed man feared by many, and captain of a ghost ship, had he heard it any more.

It made her feel a little awkward.

"I...it's fine," she shook her head with a weird face, trying to suppress the embarrassment in her heart while trying to divert her attention with thinking, "You can catch the phantom...is this also one of your current strengths? What is its nature? Is it a deep understanding of the world? Or is it due to the influence of the Warp?"

Lucrezia was really lost in thought, and her instinct to explore the unknown made her seem to forget the embarrassment just now. While thinking, she continued to mutter: "...Could it be that in the 'layer' of subspace , There is actually no difference between matter and phantoms in the real world? Everything in the world is the same 'concept' in front of the subspace... Is Claude Divins' theory correct? Everything is a 'concept', and in the subspace Space forms a consistent projection..."

Duncan was listening to the young lady witch muttering, and finally couldn't help but interrupt her: "Lucy...you can study this matter at another time."

The "witch" woke up instantly, but still stared at Duncan with wide eyes.

Duncan lowered his head, looked at the colored paper in his hand, and couldn't help thinking in his mind.

He didn't expect that these gorgeous pieces of paper were such a special "thing", and seeing Lucrezia's reaction, his actions just now were obviously enough to be called "shocking".

I caught the phantom—but Duncan knew that he didn't have the ability to catch the phantom.

He just didn't know that the pieces of paper were phantoms.

The thoughts in his mind fluctuated, some past events and conjectures emerged in his memory, and some "things" appeared in Duncan's mind - it was fish.

After being silent for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly spoke softly as if talking to himself: "Its essence...maybe 'I don't know'..."

Lucrecia heard her father talking to herself, but was confused: "What are you talking about? You mean you don't know the nature of this ability?"

When Duncan came back to his senses, he opened his mouth, as if he wanted to explain something to this "daughter", but after hesitating a few times, he still shook his head.

"It's another meaning, but I don't know how to explain it to you-Lucy, let's talk about it later when we have a chance, we have other things now."

He turned his head and looked at the magnificent "Light Wall" that had arrived at the bow of the Brilliant Star, exuding a sense of oppression in a majestic posture.

"Take me to see that stone ball first."

Lucrezia nodded, but did not leave, but still stood where she was, looking at her father with tangled and complicated eyes.

Duncan frowned suspiciously: "Is there anything else?"

Lucrezia hesitated for a moment, then raised her finger cautiously: "Can you... can you give me that one back first?"

Duncan looked down, and found that he was still holding the colored paper that the other party split when he "did the experiment" just now.

His face froze immediately, and he let go of his hand while apologizing: "Uh, cough cough, I'm sorry."

The piece of paper floated up and quickly burrowed into Lucrezia's arm, refilling an otherwise dull place with color.

The "Sea Witch" looked at this scene with a subtle expression, then nodded to Duncan, turned around and turned into a large swirling piece of colored paper, and was about to fly to the bridge—but she stopped again just after flying less than half a meter away, The figure condensed again, and turned to look at Duncan worriedly: "Don't catch me this time..."

Duncan looked embarrassed: "...Of course."

Lucrezia nodded again, turned around, but turned around worryingly: "If you are curious, we will discuss it next time before doing the experiment, really don't catch it."

Duncan spread his hands dumbfounded: "I definitely won't catch it, I'm not a child."

Lucrezia snorted, but hesitated for a long time when she turned around, and finally sighed: "I'd better walk..."

Then the lady witch walked all the way to the bridge in the distance.

Duncan watched the other party drifting away with a strange expression, and finally couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

Fortunately, the master Taran Ayer didn't dare to come to the deck with him because he was nervous, and he was still lying in the room to recuperate at this time, otherwise the scene at this time would not be as simple as fatherly filial piety and embarrassment.

I'm afraid it wasn't for the "Sea Witch" who would choose to blatantly silence her—Talan El would really die on this boat by then.

The messy thoughts in his mind turned around, Duncan exhaled softly, and his mood finally gradually calmed down. At the same time, under the captain's personal control, the Brilliant Star adjusted its angle slightly, and then sailed straight into that magnificent piece of land. "Light Curtain".

Like some kind of crystal with substance, the light golden "sunshine" without any sense of obstruction filled the field of vision, gradually engulfing the Brilliant Star.

Duncan stood at the end of the front deck, looking calmly at the "sunshine" rushing towards his face and completely immersing himself in it.

He guessed the nature of the sunlight, and raised his hands slightly, as if to feel the "touch" of the sunlight.

On the way here, he has heard Lucrecia tell a lot of information about this "luminous falling object", and he also learned that during the time when the sun was extinguished, this piece of luminous geometry was continuously sent out. There are regular "light signals", which are a lot of information-yet none of them can explain to him the "moon" in the center of the luminous geometry.

Duncan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Small shadows appeared in his field of vision.

That's what Lucrezia mentioned before, the research site that the elves set up in the center of the glowing geometry, and the... mysterious stone ball next to the site.

The research station is a two-story building built on a floating platform, and the stone ball is less than a few meters away from the floating platform. There are temporary bridges and many steel cables connecting the two to ensure the stability of the platform.

As the distance gradually shortened, more and more details on the "stone ball" came into Duncan's eyes.

Now, he's finally confirmed in the real world.

Those familiar lines, those light and dark plains, depressions, and crater structures frequently appeared in his recent memories, and he had seen it more than once in books and on the Internet-the moon.

"It's really it..."

An inexplicable complex emotion filled his heart—it wasn't surprise, because Duncan had already been surprised, and it wasn't daze, because he had been thinking in confusion for a long time before today.

At this moment, he was just confirming and witnessing something that had haunted him for a long time, a strange fact that he could not understand nor admit, came to him in an undeniable way.

The Brilliant Star slowly slowed down, and under Lucrezia's control, this "alive" ghost ship like the Lost Land finally stopped at a place only a few meters away from the stone ball with incredible accuracy.

Duncan came to the edge of the deck, where he could even see any subtle lines on the surface of the stone ball.

He is also more and more sure that this sphere with a diameter of only about ten meters has an astonishing "reduction degree". It is so delicate and conforms to the details of the surface of the "moon" that...it is not at all what he imagined at the beginning "Miniatures".

It seems that it is exactly the real "moon", which has been "compressed" to such a size.

(End of this chapter)