Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 550 "Testimony of the Four Gods"

Encountered a church patrol fleet at the border?
Lucrezia froze for a moment after hearing this question, and then quickly frowned and recalled: "It should be last month, I met the fire spreader's ship in the border waters... after that I have never seen the patrol formation of the church. But this may also have something to do with my not approaching the border frequently recently."

"That's not true, Ms. Lucrecia." Sarah Meyer shook her head, "It's not because you haven't been to the border recently, but because the Church of the Four Gods has indeed allocated a large number of people who were originally responsible for patrolling the border to do other things." things — reduced by about half.”

"Reduced border patrol?" Lucrezia was surprised, "What are they doing?"

"I don't know, the Ark Tour has its own secrets, just like every city-state, they will not report to me the whereabouts of those ships and personnel," Sarah Meyer said, "But as far as I have information, those who were transferred away The strength of the corps has not been replenished into the 'internal airway', but still stays at certain points on the border, you know what I mean? They just no longer perform patrol duties, but gather at some special points near the Eternal Veil Get up, as if awaiting further orders, or...preparing for some bigger trouble."

The city-state consul paused when he said this, and then looked into Lucrecia's eyes with a very solemn tone: "This kind of thing has never happened before."

"...When an elf says something has 'never happened before', it often means that something is very serious," Lucretia couldn't help but talk about this old saying that is well known among explorers, "I think I see what you mean."

"Yes, madam - there is something wrong with our world. The Homeless Ship has issued a warning to the whole world. An 'ordinary person' like me can also detect the 'atmosphere' where the crisis is gradual and things are gradually starting to go wrong. Then It is impossible for the Church of the Four Gods, who has been observing and protecting the entire world for thousands of years, to notice something, and of course they have already begun to act."

As Sarah Meyer said, she raised her finger and pointed to the letter with the logo of the Church of the Four Gods.

"This letter links their recent unusual 'mobilization' with the warning from the Lost Home. I think... the leaders of the Pilgrimage Ark should have discovered or confirmed what your father mentioned in the warning. The 'root' of something, and they discovered that the problem was bigger, bigger than anyone imagined.

"In the face of this 'big problem', it is no longer important to be vigilant against the Lost Homeland. Even if that ship is still connected to the subspace, and even has the possibility of falling into the subspace again, they don't care about it—— As long as your father remains on the side of 'mortals' for now."

After the consul finished speaking, Lucrezia didn't speak for a long time. She looked down at the letter again, still seemingly lost in thought.

After some time, Sarah Meyer broke the silence: "So can I ask now? Ms. Lucrecia, your father, the legendary Captain Duncan... what is he doing now? Next What do you want to do again?"

He is taking care of the children, and then he is going to take the two girls to the city to find something that normal humans can eat...

Some unreliable associations appeared in Lucrezia's mind for a moment, but she quickly put these thoughts aside and made her expression serious again: "He is very interested in the 'falling object' I found. I'm interested, although I don't know why, but he seems to know the origin of the 'stone ball' in the center of the falling object, and he mainly came for it this time."

"He knows the origin of that 'stone ball'?" Sarah Melton was surprised.

"Yes, he called that sphere the 'moon', and according to him, the original...or 'normal' volume of that sphere should be very, very large," Lucrezia nodded. "And he also curiously asked about the physical properties of the 'moon' and the composition of the surface samples."

"Moon..." Sarah Meier frowned a little bit, but after a long time of thinking, he still shook his head, "I've never heard of this name."

"Me neither, my father said, no one in this world should know this name," Lucrecia said, "When he said this, he seemed...in a bad mood."

Sarah Meier didn't speak for a moment, and after a moment of thought, he broke the silence: "The outpost research team has recently collected some samples from the surface of that 'stone ball' and is currently analyzing them. Since your father is very interested in this matter, If you are interested, I will let them share information with you at any time, and I will explain the situation to the person in charge of each facility in advance, if your father wants to 'see with his own eyes' some research results, that is also fine."

Lucretia raised her eyebrows: "Aren't you worried about causing panic?"

"You swaggered into the city with him," Sarah Meyer spread her hands helplessly, "Do you know how many people in this city know his face?"

"But as long as there is no publicity, it is estimated that many people would rather believe that it is just a face that looks alike-a person who looks exactly like Captain Duncan, it is more reasonable than the shadow of space to go sightseeing in the city."

"It's scary enough to look exactly the same, ma'am," Sarah Meyer smiled wryly. "Did you know that captains of the Great Sea haven't even grown whiskers much since your father... since then?"

"Then it's none of my business, and it's not my father who shaved them."

Sarah Melton was choked for a moment, staring for a long time before waving her hands: "Okay, let's not talk about this—ma'am, I want to know the most real situation, your father...what is his state now ?”

It can be seen that this Mr. Consul tried his best to make his question less rude, but he also knew that it would be a bit offensive to ask such a question in front of this "Sea Witch"—he I can only bite the bullet and ask this.

Fortunately, Lucrezia did not show any dissatisfaction.

"As I learned before, he did lose a lot of memory, and the subspace once destroyed his sanity and personality. The current Duncan Abu Normar...in fact, strictly speaking, it is already a complete 'reorganization' I'm so old," the "witch" had a complicated expression, but she still didn't hide what she knew, "I can still find some shadows of the past from him, as well as a familiar atmosphere and majesty, and he also left me A vague impression, but that's all."

She paused, pondered her words for a while, and continued: "If you ask me how I feel, I feel that there is actually something else hidden in him-don't be too busy and nervous, Sarah Meyer, I mean Not the warp, but something... not dangerous, but something I have never seen before. It seems to be another personality, and it seems that many personalities and information are superimposed..."

"I don't understand the meaning of this sentence," Sarah Meyer frowned, "Can you say it more plainly?"

Lucrezia thought for a while, and explained with great patience: "This time, when I saw him just now, I heard countless noises for a short while, and saw the undulating and wriggling lights and shadows, it should be Mild symptoms of mental pollution, but this pollution subsided quickly, and did not leave any impact on me, and in this pollution, I caught a glimpse of countless dots of light escaping from behind him. ...It looks like the 'starry sky' floating between the deep sea and the spirit world.

"At the beginning, when I hadn't seen those 'starlights', my feeling towards my father was a huge 'nothingness'. I looked at his body standing there, but I couldn't find the feeling of the other party's actual existence, but as With the appearance of those noises and lights and shadows, my perception of him stabilized, and I was finally able to communicate with him...or strictly speaking, with that body."

Sarah Meyer's expression became extremely serious: "How long has this process lasted?"

"In a split second," Lucrezia said seriously, "and it happened at the edge of reason and perception—I suspect that most people would not be able to perceive this process, and those who can perceive it due to their high spiritual vision may not be able to detect it." You will be so absorbed in those starlights that you won't be aware of the momentary sense of 'nothingness' in that body."

Sarah Meyer was silent for half a minute, then said thoughtfully: "It sounds like you are only aware of this short 'process' because your attention is always on your 'father'... Lucret Ms. Thea, these descriptions make me a little uneasy, it makes me feel as if..."

"I know what you want to say - you may think that the short-lived 'starlight' is the 'real' of Duncan Abu Normar, and the 'captain returning from the subspace' is just a part of this starlight imitation, Like the tentacle of a sea monster that sticks out of the sea to lure sailors."

Sarah Meyer frowned: "Isn't that so?"

Lucrecia just shook her head slightly.

"I have my own judgment, Mr. Consul, I know it is him, although now he has shown some disturbing 'nature', and even the way of existence has become incomprehensible and indescribable, but the starlight It was him, at least in part."

Sarah Meyer listened quietly, and it took a long time before she spoke solemnly: "This sounds emotional, ma'am, but I know you are not an emotional person—so I can only hope that your judgment is correct, At least I hope it's out of your always accurate 'gut feeling' rather than nostalgia."

"You can trust my judgment," Lucrezia said solemnly, pointing to the letter on the table, "or at least believe in the 'Four Gods Witness'."

(End of this chapter)