Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 560 Homeless People

For a long time, scholars in this world have had many conjectures about the origin of the deep-sea era and the world before the Great Annihilation. They have also tried to explain the phenomenon of fragmented history, cultural relics, and inheritance contradictions among the city-states of the Boundless Sea, just like Any ethnic group that forms a civilization system will do the same when facing history——

If there is history, someone will study history, and if someone studies history, someone will try to explain those contradictions. There will never be a shortage of conjectures. Most of the things that a layman can think of have already been thought of by professional scholars, and may even have been constructed. A complete theoretical model is now available.

Scholars actually have many theoretical models that can explain the reasons for the formation of today's deep sea age-including the one speculated by Duncan, and each of them makes sense.

The only problem is that there is no "evidence" to support each theoretical model. The Great Annihilation is like a majestic high wall, blocking everything before that time point. No information or relics can be passed down from before that point.

Now, Duncan believes that he has found a key "evidence" and extracted key information that is enough to support one of the conjectures:

The fragments left behind after the destruction of a distant and unfamiliar world - and a "memory" that accurately describes the doomsday scene.

Of course, in the face of a truly rigorous scholar, this isolated evidence may not be enough to completely and irrefutably explain the current situation of the Deep Sea Age.

"World Aggregation Theory..." Ted Lear whispered to himself, "I know, my mentor has always been a supporter of this theory - he believes that today's deep-sea age is composed of a large number of worlds that were originally isolated from each other. , recombination, and this kind of stacking and reorganization may be a catastrophe that befalls several worlds at the same time. The so-called "big annihilation" is not a catastrophe, but a series of catastrophes that occurred at the same time, so the boundless There will be so many contradictions in the historical records of various races on the sea, and some ancient legends will be severely torn...

"This theory also explains why we can't find the 'original appearance' of the world before the Great Annihilation at all, nor can we find 'ancient cultural relics' that can support any kind of historical record - because those original appearances have long been reorganized, from the timeline of To put it in perspective, 'this world' today did not exist at all before the Great Annihilation."

He paused, exhaled slightly, and then continued.

"The entire boundless sea was born at the moment of the great annihilation, and before that moment there was no 'old world' that could be completely and accurately described and understood, only countless fragments of the old world were piled up as 'raw materials' in the time of the great annihilation On the node—the theory of world aggregation, among all origin theories, its 'explanation' is the best, explaining almost all the problems we face.

"But at the same time, it's also considered the most fanciful and the most difficult to prove, because it essentially denies the point of 'history can be traced' and puts everything in 'it's gone anyway,' so despite this The theory is good, but its supporters are few, and my advisor...is one of its few supporters."

After Ted Leal finished with an exclamation, Duncan finally broke his silence: "Now, we have evidence."

Ted Lear's eyes fell on the long sword, and after thinking for a long time with a serious expression, he still shook his head: "One evidence is not evidence-this evidence is indeed very likely to support the 'World Aggregation Theory' , but the single piece of evidence is flawed, unless we can find a second unmistakable 'world fragment', and it comes from a different world from the 'physical evidence' in your hand..."

When he said this, the tone of the secret keeper seemed very difficult and tangled. Obviously, from an emotional point of view, he hoped that an unresolved conjecture could be confirmed more than anyone else, and hoped that he had finally found the "answer", but never From the perspective of a scholar, he must be rigorous, and even show an inhumane "harshness" when he sees the first "evidence".

However, after he finished speaking, Duncan just replied with one word: "Yes."

Ted Lear didn't react for a moment, and even Lucrezia next to him didn't react. After a while, they all said in unison: "Do you have other evidence?!"

Duncan was silent for two or three seconds, turned his head and looked deeply into Lucretia's eyes: "The moon."

"That 'stone ball'..." Lucretia reacted instantly, "You mean, it is..."

"It is another 'fragment'," Duncan nodded slightly. "It comes from another world—another world that is completely different from the homeland of this long sword. Although I don't know what happened to it, so As for what it will look like now, I'm pretty sure it is...

He suddenly stopped, as if there was a force preventing him from saying that conclusion. This blocking force surged in his mind, roaring like a storm, and as a strong emotion, it was with him. The rational part resists.

He instinctively rejected this conclusion.

Lucrezia noticed something, she looked at her father suspiciously and worriedly.

Duncan finally spoke and finished the second half of the sentence: "...It is the remaining part of 'that world'."

In the end, reason triumphed over emotion.

When he came to this conclusion, he even had the illusion of "relief".

In fact, after seeing the "Moon" for the first time and returning to the Lost Lands to talk to Alice, he already had a guess in this regard——

Since the "moon" appeared in this world, it is very likely that this world is his "hometown", the "hometown" after serious mutations and distortions.

However, there are no "Elves" and "Senjin" in his hometown, and there are no humans in the legends of the elves themselves, and the word "earth" has never appeared in the historical records of the city-states of the Boundless Sea. The problem of "tearing" is particularly obvious in Duncan's eyes.

So...how was this boundless sea formed?
The most likely explanation is: here may have its own hometown, but only part of it.

To confirm this speculation, we only need to find a second "moon"-like fragment of another world.

The only thing he didn't expect was that the second evidence would come so quickly and so directly.

Ted Lear and Lucrezia looked at each other, and after a short hesitation, they realized that Duncan had no reason to fool them on this matter.

It turns out that there are already two proofs—no wonder the greatest explorer ever declared so confidently and without hesitation that the world today is piled up with ruins.

Lucretia did not ask Duncan where he got his knowledge of the "moon".

Because she knows that the answers to these questions will eventually point to the subspace - no matter what form it is, her father has completed his own reshaping and transformation in the "deepest and darkest place", and everything he has now Items of knowledge and abilities that I can't understand are part of those brandings.

She shouldn't reveal them repeatedly.

Ted Leal had been thinking silently, but suddenly, he raised his head suddenly, as if he felt something.

The "secret keeper" quickly opened the heavy book in his hand, summoned the "stethoscope" from the pages, and rushed to the "living metal" on the central platform with a single step.

He placed the stethoscope on the surface of the "living metal" and his expression suddenly became very solemn.

An extremely weak and slow heartbeat came from the room, and each heartbeat was slower and weaker than the previous one.

"He's dying."

Ted Leal raised his head and said with complicated eyes.

For the first time in his life, the "Keeper of the Truth" whose duty is to protect the city-state had particularly complicated emotions when faced with a "foreign object" that invaded the real world.

Because he suddenly realized that this group of indescribable "horrible things" that caused panic to many people in the market...in fact, it is very likely that they are the same existence as humans, elves, and Senjin—— A "homeless man" from the great annihilation to the deep sea age.

Unfortunately, his world was destroyed even more thoroughly, and the tiny fragments... were far from enough to support him and his race to survive.

The Deep Sea Age did not leave a place for a homeless person like him. Under the influence of some unexplainable mechanism, he became like this, and he was about to die.

Nina and Shirley subconsciously grabbed each other's hands, not knowing what to do for a moment. Lucretia could only look at this scene with complicated eyes, because she knew that this could no longer be reversed by human power. Something happened.

In the heartbeat that gradually became lower and slower, Duncan finally walked forward slowly. He looked at the "living metal" that now had no human appearance at all, but another picture emerged in his mind -

Stubborn warriors, silent magicians, always energetic hunters and rangers, confident knights, pessimistic psychics, and the confident and proud red-haired Groska woman...

They set off on a sunny afternoon, carrying the best swords and armors, the best scrolls and sigils that the kingdom had made, and with the king's blessing and trust, they went to the distant wilderness together—just like the ancient As described in the poem, a team of brave men go to save their world.

Duncan stretched out his hand and gently pressed it on the cold and hard "steel".

"We're all homeless... Now, you're home."

The low and slow "thumping" sound finally gradually stopped. After an extremely weak and slow beating, there was no more heartbeat in the room.

The last beat of a heartbeat, like a sigh.

Ted Lear turned around, as if announcing to the deep sea age——

"He is dead".

(End of this chapter)