Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 744 Another Core

Vanna left. Even though she was blessed, she still needed a good rest at this time.

Duncan watched the other party leave the captain's cabin, and it wasn't until her figure disappeared outside the door that he withdrew his gaze and looked at the goat head who was sitting quietly on the edge of the navigation table: "What do you think of the revelations that Gemona conveyed to Vanna?" '?"

"...The large-scale collapse and disintegration of the sun seems to be something that the four gods knew would happen sooner or later." The goat head held it in for a long time, and finally took the opportunity to speak, "I knew they knew about this, I'm sure I've been holding it in for ten thousand years! I discussed it with them when Holy Lord Netherworld created the world, but in the Deep Sea Age, when asked, no one said anything and didn't say what the problem was. Of course, we have to understand this matter after all. If you tell me, it will frighten more than one or two city-states to death, and even the popes will be kept in the dark. Now, the sun is beginning to disintegrate..."

Duncan raised his head and glanced up, then reached out and pressed the mouth of the goat-headed balabala: "I shouldn't have asked you."

The goat's head was gagged, and messy grunts came from its throat. A pair of obsidian eyeballs swung back and forth on the wooden face. For the first time, the eyes were so agile.

Duncan sighed and took his hand back: "I'm asking about the second half of the revelation... 'They' plan to talk to me. What do you think they will talk to me about? What form will it take?"

"...I don't know about that," Goat Head finally spoke with some restraint this time, shaking his head angrily as he spoke, "Are you trying to trick you into taking over something again?"

Duncan didn't speak, but thought quietly for a long time.

The state of "their" seems to be really bad. Before, Gemona could send him a few pieces of information, but now she can only send revelations through Vana, and it is accompanied by such pollution...

At this moment, a voice from far away suddenly interrupted Duncan's thinking.

His eyes changed slightly in an instant, and he looked up at the oval mirror hanging on the wall not far away - a layer of illusory flames spread under his gaze, and the surface of the mirror suddenly became dark, accompanied by light and shadow. Emerging slowly.

Tirian's figure appeared in the mirror.

"Father," the "Steel Lieutenant General" had a solemn look on his face. The background behind him should be near the port area, and a dense golden light seemed to cover him behind him like a infiltration. It was obviously not a normal sunset, " Sorry to disturb you suddenly..."

"It's okay," Duncan waved his hand and said in a gentle tone, "What happened? So nervous?"

"...Our scholars entered the interior of the luminous geometric object that fell in the frost. According to the information Lucretia shared before, we successfully found its core, but that thing...is not the same as what is in the information. , I hope you can see it with your own eyes.”

"Not the same?" Duncan frowned slightly. He realized from Tirian's reaction that the situation there might be a bit complicated, and nodded immediately, "I understand, I'll be there soon."

He quickly cut off the connection with Tirian, his mind was slightly focused, and he turned his head——

Outside the window of the cemetery caretaker's cabin, fine snow was falling silently. The sun set in the west, and the hazy snow scene enveloped the whole world in silence.

The stove in the keeper's cabin was crackling, the samovar hissed sharply and crescendoing, the water was just boiling and steam was rising.

Duncan stood up, closed the furnace damper, and took off the black hat hanging at the door. He put on the hat, adjusted his long black windbreaker, and walked out of the cabin.

Two young guards in black who were cleaning the roads and checking the street lights in the cemetery heard the movement and turned their eyes in unison - they saw the intimidating silent guard who was always dressed in black and wrapped in bandages. Walking out of the hut, he immediately stood up straight and saluted.

Duncan waved to them in response, then snapped his fingers, and a giant skeletal bird covered in ghostly flames crossed a long distance and landed directly on his shoulder.

"Full of fuel, let's go!" Ai flapped his wings and made a harsh and unpleasant cry in the form of a skeleton. Then it suddenly turned into a fiercely rising ring of fire. The ring of fire wrapped around Duncan's figure, and the two merged into one. In one body, they instantly flew into the sky and sailed towards the port area...

In the eastern part of the frost, a huge golden light still envelopes the entire port. This light seems to have some kind of crystal-like texture, quietly infiltrating everything within the coverage area - bright, but not dazzling, gentle, but yet Disturbing.

Aiden, who was tall and had a bright forehead, looked at the golden light around him a little nervously.

He has taken off the old outfit he wore when he was a pirate, and now wears a new uniform that represents the contemporary Frost Navy. In front of his subordinates, he will try to maintain his majestic and reliable appearance, but in front of Tirian, he He didn't hide his uneasiness.

"Are these 'lights' really harmless?" the bald man muttered. "Looking at them, I feel as if I am being 'immersed' in something. I feel that they will seep into my skin, or even Even breathing seems to put something into your lungs..."

Tirian turned to look at Aiden. "First, there are at least seven holes in your lungs now - how much do you normally pour into those holes?" He said casually, "Second, the harmlessness of these 'lights' has been confirmed. In Breeze Port, Lucretia has been studying this thing for a long time."

"...But the thing that fell here is different from the one in Qingfeng Port," Aiden couldn't help but muttered, "The 'core' over there is just a stone ball..."

The undead commander who was deeply trusted by Tirian shook his head, and his shiny head reflected a dazzling golden light in Tirian's field of vision.

Tirian calmly moved a small step to the side, opened his mouth as if he was about to say something, but suddenly felt a breath approaching, and immediately closed his mouth and turned around.

And almost at the same time, a low and slightly hoarse voice came into his and Aiden's ears: "You mean, the core of the falling object here is not a 'stone ball'?"

A green flame rose silently, and Duncan's figure walked out of the flames. He passed over the startled guard soldiers and government affairs personnel around him, and walked straight towards Tirian and Aiden.

Aiden was startled, but he reacted instantly, took two steps forward, bent down and bowed his head in salute: "Old Captain..."

A dazzling golden light swept across Duncan's field of vision, and he calmly took half a step to the side, avoiding Aiden's shiny head.

"Father," Tirian also reacted and hurried forward to say hello, "I didn't expect you to arrive so soon."

"I'm very curious about the 'special circumstances' you mentioned," Duncan waved his hand and said as he walked forward, "Don't waste time, let's talk as we walk - what is the situation?"

Tirian quickly stepped to follow, and said quickly as he walked: "It's hard to describe to you, it is something we have never seen before... something, even the most knowledgeable scholars in the city-state are at a loss. It is indeed a sphere, But the surface is illusory, and it’s always flowing, like some kind of living thing, and it makes a slight whistling sound... You’ll know it when you see it with your own eyes.”

Listening to Tirian's description, Duncan just nodded slightly and quickened his pace.

They walked all the way through the pale golden light that spread throughout the port area, passed through the docks and connecting bridges, and came to the coastline - the road was very quiet. People in the entire area had been dispersed urgently, and a long blockade blocked the entire dock area. It is isolated from the city, and the central area of ​​the luminous body is right on the coastline of the port.

If you look down from the air at this moment, the irregular luminous geometry covers almost one-third of the entire city-state, as if a luminous structure "grew" out of thin air on the edge of the frost island and illuminated the nearby area at dusk. large areas of sea.

Under the leadership of Tirian and Aiden, Duncan finally arrived at the center of the luminous geometry and saw the "core structure" that confused the frost scholars and even made them nervous and frightened.

It floats at the end of the beach, and there is calm water more than ten meters away - the ball about ten meters in diameter is suspended there quietly, with simple scaffolding built on its edge, and some staff are busy nearby.

"Look, this is it..." Tirian raised his hand and pointed at the huge ball that moved like a living thing, with flowing colors on its surface, making it disturbing. "This thing doesn't look like a stone."

"...Of course it's not a stone..."

Duncan raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly. After a brief surprise, a natural but subtle and inexplicable emotion came to his mind. He looked at the "core", moved his lips a few times, and then softly answered Tirian's question. .

"This is a gaseous planet."

Tirian was stunned for a moment, and repeated the unfamiliar word with some confusion: "Gaseous planet? What does that mean?"

Duncan did not speak. He just observed for a moment and then slowly took two steps forward until he came under the floating "gas planet" and quietly looked up to observe its surface structure.

Gorgeous cloud bands with a slight metallic luster flow slowly on its surface, outlining a circle of "cloud flow" surrounding the entire star. There are also tiny vortices and storms rotating between those cloud bands, slowly and magnificently. .

When he got closer, he heard the "whooshing" that Tirian had mentioned before, very subtle, as if it was far away in time.

That was the sound coming from the interior of the star - a long, long time ago, in the years before the annihilation of all things, the roar might have been deafening, and even had the power to tear a small celestial body apart. At that time, this whistling sound was deafening. The planet also has a huge and shocking scale, enough to fit thousands of endless seas into its clouds and mist.

However, now, this "star" with a diameter of ten meters can only make a sound that is so subtle that it is difficult to distinguish... just like a whimper.

(End of this chapter)