Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 745 Alice’s Potato Pancakes

The core of the second luminous geometric object that fell on the boundless sea is still a "lost star", but it is different from the first fragment - this "lost star" is a compressed gaseous planet.

After preliminary measurements by scholars, the diameter of this gaseous planet as the core is still ten meters, which is exactly the same as the first "moon" that fell into the light body.

But there is another thing that Duncan is more concerned about: he does not know this planet.

At least he can be sure that it is not a gas giant planet that once belonged to the "solar system" like Saturn or Jupiter - its silver, gray, and blue metallic colors and several distinctive storm vortices on its surface are all very unfamiliar to him. .

Duncan stood next to the compressed gas giant planet, carefully observing the cloud belts and vortex structures on its surface, while thoughts were rising in his mind.

The core of the first luminous geometric object was the "Moon" of his hometown, so when this second falling object appeared, he subconsciously thought that he would see another familiar solar system celestial body, but now it seems... the rune ring around the sun The "raw materials" used in the belt are not limited to the "solar system" of his hometown. These "lost stars" that make up the ring come from more distant deep space, and are even very likely to come from different universes.

Celestial objects from different worlds are compressed and distorted and transformed into a halo around the sun to maintain the operation of the observer effect stabilizing anchor. The "sun" as the main body is essentially an eyeball encapsulated in a crystal spherical shell... The eyeball symbolizes the eye of the observer... a device that ensures that the incompatible remnants of the world after the Great Annihilation can collapse into a single reality...

It seems that this is the principle of Vision 001.

After thinking for a long time, Duncan shook his head slightly.

He knew that it was useless to think about the principles of Vision 001 now. This stabilizing device, which had been seriously overdue for service, had now reached the end of its life. Its collapse and extinction was destined to happen, even if he accepted the "continuation plan of Pilot 001" ", and can only replace Vision with its own flames, so that the world will usher in the "Fire Age" after the "Deep Sea Age" - in any case, the disintegration of the observer effect anchor itself is an irreversible process.

But even so, the effect mechanism of Vision 001 still brought him some inspiration - after rejecting Pilot 001's plan, he must find other ways to continue the civilization of the Deep Sea Age. He vaguely had an idea , the principle of Vision is very useful for him to improve his ideas.

Tyrion and Aiden stood on the beach, looking at Duncan not far away with a little nervousness and confusion. They didn't know what their father (the old captain) was doing, and they didn't dare to rush forward to disturb him, but it was obvious that they were paying attention. The expression on Duncan's face was sometimes thoughtful and sometimes astonished.

Aiden looked around to make sure that all the irrelevant personnel had retreated, then he moved closer to Tirian and lowered his voice and said, "What do you think the old captain is studying?"

"How would I know," Tirian also lowered his voice, "I can't understand what Lucy usually studies, let alone my father's thoughts - maybe he is communicating with that thing?"

Aiden thought for a while and nodded: "...I think you are right."

Duncan actually heard a whisper coming from not far away, but he ignored it. Instead, after thinking for a moment, he suddenly said in his heart: "Alice."

Miss Doll's voice echoed almost immediately: "Huh? Captain?"

"Come here, I have something for you to see - Ai has already gone to pick you up."

Alice stayed there for a moment: "Ah, wait for a moment, my potato pancakes will be out of the pan soon - do you want to eat them? I'll send you one to the captain's cabin?"

Duncan: "...No need, I'm not hungry over there. Come over as soon as you're done."

Then, he stood there and waited patiently. After several minutes, a green flame suddenly rose beside him - the flame turned into a rotating door, and a giant skeletal bird flew out of the door. The figure of Alice came out next.

Miss Doll held a steaming paper bag in her hand. When she saw Duncan, she looked happy and sent the bag forward: "Captain! Potato cakes! I'll send it to you here!"

Duncan turned his head and looked silently at the Hanhan doll in front of him. He didn't know what the expression was on the face covered by the bandage, but his eyes were very helpless.

Alice reacted for a moment, and this time she responded smoothly: "...Ah, I forgot that your body doesn't usually need to eat..."

"You can drink tea occasionally, but you really don't need to eat," Duncan said lightly, but still took the paper bag from Alice, "Thanks anyway."

Alice suddenly laughed happily, and then noticed Tirian and Aiden who were standing not far away and looking over here, and immediately waved to them: "You are here too!"

Tirian hesitated for a moment, then walked over with Aiden. At the same time, he looked at the doll that was exactly the same as the Frost Queen with a subtle expression - no matter how many times he saw it, every time he saw this face, he always felt that way. This unspeakable sense of disharmony will emerge involuntarily, especially when this doll speaks...

However, Alice seemed not to notice the subtle expressions of Tyrion and Aiden at all. She just felt happy to see her acquaintances, so she raised her finger and pointed at the paper bag in Duncan's hand: "Do you want to eat potato pancakes? They were just made! It’s also topped with compound spices that are a specialty of Qingfeng Port!”

After the puppet finished speaking, before Tirian could speak, Duncan suddenly reacted: "Wait a minute, you said... the special spices of Qingfeng Port?"

Alice held her head and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, Luni bought it from outside when we were in the city-state. She said it could open the eyes of northerners... Although the taste is a bit weird, the feel is quite interesting. ..." Duncan finally knew what was going on with the weird smell that kept coming out of the paper bag.

He silently raised his head and glanced at Tirian: "Try one."

Tirian still didn't know what was going to happen - he didn't care about food, and he didn't know much about the food legends of Qingfeng Port. At this time, he didn't have any extra thoughts when facing his father's invitation. Instead, he was a little happy and stretched out his hand. I took a piece of potato pancake from the bag and stuffed it into my mouth...

Then he stood there motionless.

"It seems that your spices are very authentic - it will probably take him a while to wake up," Duncan looked back, nodded to Alice, then turned around and pointed to the "compressed planet" floating on the beach. , "Let's take a look at this first."

"Oh." Alice agreed. Although she was a little curious about why Tirian shed tears suddenly, she still focused on the "lost star" with a magnificent appearance and a constant buzzing.

Of course she knew what it was - before setting off, she knew that the captain was investigating "Falling Object No. 2" in the north, and the strange but beautiful ball in front of her was obviously the core of Falling Object No. 2.

"What's it saying?" Duncan asked curiously.

He can share Alice's vision, and can see "threads" or the information from Vision 001 through Alice's eyes, but he cannot understand those things instinctively like Alice - this is Pilot Unique abilities.

Now, he was curious about what information this puppet could read from "Falling Object No. 2".

Alice frowned slightly, and after a while, she slowly spoke: "A lot of information... Various error reports, host communication failures, protocol conflicts, errors in reconstructing the operating environment... It's very messy. It's much worse than the last time I saw it. The error messages are much more confusing..."

Duncan: "What about other than that? Is there something like a system restart countdown?"

"No," Alice shook her head, "It's all malfunctions and some messy information, some of which I can't understand."

Listening to Alice's report, Duncan just sighed softly and nodded slightly.

It was a bad situation, but he had somewhat expected it.

Aiden on the side was watching this scene dumbfounded. It was only then that he suddenly reacted and immediately touched Tirian's arm: "If nothing else, Miss Alice can really communicate with this thing!"

Tirian suddenly woke up, as if he had woken up from a nightmare that was coming quickly. His whole body trembled obviously, and then he bent over and started coughing and retching violently.

This startled Aiden. The bald man quickly held Tirian's arm, patted him on the back and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong with you?"

Tirian finally recovered from the impact of the extremely spicy and pungent sour smell. He didn't understand why a piece of potato cake gave him such a "thrilling" impression. At this time, he raised his head and saw something in front of him. It seemed that he was surrounded by layers of shadows, and in the shadows, he even saw his father's gentle and smiling expression.

He reacted and realized that his father seemed to be really here.

"This... is too exciting... yuck," Tirian finally breathed out and looked at the remaining half of the potato pancake in his hand with a strange expression, "How on earth was this thing made?"

"The key lies in the special spices of Qingfeng Port - it is enough to awaken a person's awe for food," Duncan said lightly, "We have been in the south during this time, and the food in Qingfeng Port is the thing that impressed me most deeply there. .”

Tirian stared blankly at the paper bag in his father's hand, and understood from the bottom of his heart what the reverence for food meant.

So much awe - almost fearful.

At this moment, a whistling wind suddenly came from not far away, interrupting the communication of several people at the scene.

Duncan subconsciously followed the sound. In the faint golden light that filled the entire port, he saw a wind carrying gray dust quickly passing through the sky. The gray wind hovered over the beach for a few seconds, and then came directly to him. before.

The gray wind gathered, and Agatha, wearing a black priestess robe and dress with a cold temperament, stepped out of the wind.

(End of this chapter)