Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 688 Settlement and Communication

Will the extinguishing of the sun cause the teleportation spell to go out of control and make people disappear from the real world?
After hearing Lucretia's analysis, Duncan felt doubtful for a moment. However, considering that there are already so many weird and bizarre things in this world, and the extinction of the sun is the weirdest of all bizarre events, Nothing seems to be surprising at this time - the most important thing now is to figure out where the "keeper of the truth" has gone.

At this moment, Duncan suddenly frowned, and then he seemed to have heard some news from the distance, and his expression suddenly became strange.

Alice, who was closest to him, noticed it immediately: "Hey? Captain, what's wrong with you?"

Duncan raised his head and glanced with a subtle expression at Lucretia and Maurice, who were discussing how to launch a search to find Ted's whereabouts: "...Ahem, no need to search."

Lucretia & Morris: "Huh?"

"He's fine," Duncan waved his hand, "Ted Leal is on the White Oak now."

Everyone in the living room looked at each other for a moment. After a few seconds of silence, Vanna broke the silence: "...White Oak? Lawrence's ship? How did he get there?!"

"It's not clear yet, it seems that even Ted Leal himself can't explain it," Duncan exhaled and said casually while keeping in touch with Lawrence in his mind, "It's just like the last time, when the sun goes out The White Oak was sailing at sea - the sailors on the ship discovered Ted Leal drifting in the "Dark Border" on the sea, and then Anomaly 077 fished him out... Lawrence said that Ted's mental state was very chaotic at one time. He couldn't even talk to people, and he has only recovered now. He seems to have gone to a place far, far away, judging from the intermittent descriptions..."

Duncan paused when he said this, and his expression became slightly solemn.

"It seems to be subspace."

……

Ted Leal was wrapped in a thick blanket and sitting in the brightly lit cabin. Someone handed him a cup of hot tea that was still hot to the touch. He held the tea cup and raised his head to say thanks: "Thank you."

The shriveled and terrifying mummy stood in front of him, waving his hands: "Just don't knock me out next time - once my bones are broken, I don't know if they can grow back again."

Ted Leal's expression was a little wonderful for a moment, as if he was recalling something not so wonderful. He was embarrassed by this situation, which was obviously out of control, but he was moving around and working diligently on the White Oak like an ordinary crew member. The "abnormal" twitched the corner of his mouth, and finally couldn't help but said: "Are you Anomaly 077-Sailor?"

"Hey, do you know me?" When the mummy heard this, he seemed a little happy. He came over and said, "Other ordinary people's first reaction when they see me is just fear, but you still know my name and serial number? "

"...I am the Keeper of the Truth in Breeze Port," Ted Leal looked at the mummy sitting next to him with a nonchalant look, "I personally signed your transfer document a few years ago."

As soon as the mummy sat down halfway, it jumped up, pointed at Ted Leal with wide eyes, and trembled with excitement: "You... you... you... you are from the church?! You..."

"Calm down, Mr. Mummy," Ted Leal seemed to have anticipated the other party's reaction, and said helplessly, "I know you are in a special situation of 'out of control anomaly', don't worry, I won't I will force you to be blocked..."

As a result, before he could finish his words, the mummy threw himself on the ground with a "thud", stretched out his skinny hands to grab the corners of the blanket, and howled in a heart-breaking manner: "I'm just waiting for someone from the church to come. Ah! Please seal me! Just give me a rope that works! If it doesn’t work, I can roll it myself with a shroud... How about you give me something even harder than before..."

Ted could not have imagined that there would be such a scene. The sound of the mummy crying and howling made him panic. He quickly pulled the blanket and retreated: "Stop, stop, stop... calm down... don't pull... I didn't mean that... It’s all easy to say, but you should calm down first, you can’t re-seal it just by saying so..."

But the mummy obviously didn't listen to what he said at all, but continued to wail and howl. The movement of a "person" was as lively as the steam core machine room, crackling and muttering about "re-seal", "give a rope", "hang" On the mast” and other messy stuff, highlighting a sanity-ripping emotional contamination.

To be honest, after half a minute Ted Leal even began to miss the "cute" students he taught - although they often gave him clear and stupid looks, at least they were there The worst thing you can do in class is sleep.

It was much quieter than now.

Fortunately, the commotion of the noisy mummies did not last long - before Ted Leal really began to consider whether to accept Anomaly 077's suggestion and beat him to half death, the cabin door was pushed open.

Lawrence, still burning with faint green flames, opened the door and walked in.

Anomaly 077, who was howling a second ago, suddenly fell silent, greeted the captain with a playful smile, and then disappeared from the room almost in the blink of an eye.

Ted stared dumbfoundedly at the direction in which the "sailor" disappeared.After a long time, he turned his head and looked at Lawrence: "I never thought that the 'sailor' who terrified countless navigators would look like this after losing control..."

Lawrence looked surprised: "Have you never seen Miss Alice?"

"...Okay, Mr. Captain, what you said makes sense," Ted thought for a moment and waved his hand, "It seems that as long as anything has anything to do with the Homeless Ship, it will become...unbelievable."

"Yes, it's weird, but at least it's not bad," Lawrence laughed and walked over and said, "Don't pay attention to that nervous mummy, and don't take his request for re-sealing seriously - he was just playing tricks. Although at the beginning The guy is indeed escaping reality a bit, but now he is actually quite comfortable on this ship, but he is not willing to admit it.”

"It sounds like you already know a lot about Anomaly 077?"

"The responsibilities and basic qualities of a captain are that I must know everyone on my ship, including that guy," Lawrence said, sitting down next to Ted, and at the same time turning his head to observe his "temporary passenger" "How do you feel, Lord Keeper of Secrets?"

"I can still hear slight noises in my head occasionally, but it's much better than before," Ted exhaled. "The biggest problem now is that there are a lot of messy memories drilling through my head. There are all kinds of scenes - real, fake, distorted by the self-protection effect. It's hard for me to tell which of them is credible... I feel as if I have been traveling in that dark place for a century. ...But you told me, I actually only left Qingfeng Port for ten minutes?"

"Yes, ten minutes, Lord Keeper," Lawrence nodded, "When we picked you up, you just disappeared from the portal for a short time - so, we really want to know about you now. A concrete experience in that 'little while' of time."

"'We'?" Ted Leal keenly noticed a word mentioned by the captain.

"I just talked to my 'boss', and he already knows what happened here - the 'disappearance' of the Keeper of Truth caused some chaos in Breezeport, but fortunately, the White Oak delivered you before the chaos fermented. Found it," Lawrence said. "Don't worry too much about the city-state. The Lost Home is near that city. Then there is no safer place on the boundless sea than Qingfeng Port. As for you..."

The old captain paused for a moment and then continued after thinking for a moment: "Now we are not sure how much change the sun's extinction has brought to the world. Trying to open the space channel again may be a very dangerous behavior, so you Just stay on this ship in peace and contentment, and take this time to tell me what you saw in that 'darkness' - 'he' is very interested in it."

Ted Leal's expression gradually became serious.

After pondering for a moment, he looked into the eyes of the old captain in front of him: "You should already know that my experience is related to subspace - this knowledge is not safe."

Lawrence shrugged: "My boss is also involved in the subspace - his knowledge is even less safe than yours."

Ted thought for a while and felt that the other party was right.

"...Okay, where would we better start?"

"Let's start with the upside-down mansion floating in the darkness that you just vaguely mentioned..."

……

"Ted Leal is lucky. He survived the subspace and recovered well - now he is telling Lawrence about those incredible experiences on the White Oak. Maybe it will not be long before we receive An astonishing piece of information about the warp."

Duncan temporarily ended the communication with the White Oak and turned his attention back to Breeze Harbor. He briefly talked about the current situation transmitted back by Lawrence, and then his eyes fell on Lucretia.

"Based on what we know now, his experience is different from mine."

"...After all, he only 'left' for 15 minutes, and you stayed in the subspace for a century." The expression on Lucretia's face was obviously a bit complicated, "In just 15 minutes, a saint has been seriously injured. The disciple's reason almost tore him into a subspace rift... and he was even able to resist to the end under the influence of Silantis..."

"Fortunately, the only loss on the White Oak was that Anomaly 077 was punched." Duncan waved his hand and quickly changed the topic, "Before more news comes over there, we should pay attention to the sun. The world after the lights go out... Lucy, I want to know what is going on with that weird 'signal'?"

(Book recommendation time ~ The title of the book is "The Path of Starry Sky", the introduction is directly below:
First build a batch of super-light communication antennas, and then get two sets of spare ship-based hosts and interstellar navigation modules... Oops, why are they here again? "

Facing the overwhelming chaos beast, Anpei scratched his head, let the spaceship unfold on the spot, and took a picture of a base. )
(End of this chapter)