Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 849 Depth 2, Annihilation

Now, the jump has reached its end - the long journey beyond the border has finally ended, and the Lost Homeland has once again returned to the territory of sea and fog.

But this was just a temporary stop during the entire journey. Duncan's goal was not to return to the Endless Sea, but to go to the solidified doomsday hanging high in the sky.

With slight vibrations coming from all parts of the ship, the Homeless left the jump state, the phantom of the New Hope quickly dissipated in the sky, and the countless invisible threads were retracted into the body of the puppet. The thick fog unique to the border waters surged up from all directions almost instantly, surrounding the entire ship like a blazing welcomer - the Homeless sailed into the sea in the thick fog, glided for a distance in the mirror-like calm sea, and the hull gradually regained stability.

Alice blinked, and her eyes quickly regained their alertness. She looked up at Duncan who was standing beside her, and a smile quickly broke out on her face: "Captain! We are back!"

"Yes, we are back to the Infinite Sea. I will be at the helm from now on," Duncan nodded to the puppet with a smile, and walked to the dark steering wheel. "You can go and have a rest, or just watch from the side."

"Well, I'm not tired, I'll watch from the side!" Alice said happily, and then she moved a large wooden barrel from the side and really sat in a corner of the cockpit, supporting her chin with both hands and watching Duncan steer the ship.

Duncan looked back at the puppet lady, smiled helplessly, and then grasped the dark steering wheel with both hands.

The green spirit fire burned between his fingers, spreading in all directions along the steering wheel, the deck and mast were set on fire, and the translucent spirit sails were filled and fluttered in the invisible wind - the Lost Homeland burned brightly, just like the day Duncan remembered when he first held the steering wheel.

Then, Duncan closed his eyes - not paying attention to the boundless sea, nor to the eternal curtain. In his gradually closed perception, he only saw a slowly flickering, cold and false sunlight, which outlined a bright path of light in the darkness and pointed far ahead.

He heard a low roar coming from deep within the Lost Homeland, heard the ropes vibrating in the air, and the creaking in the cabin. These layered sounds were like a continuous cheer, and amid the cheers of the entire ship, he heard the strange, off-key voice of Goat Head.

It was a strange ballad. He had never heard of it before, and he couldn't understand the lyrics with their complex tones and odd pronunciations. It seemed to have spanned a vast space and time, and was a hum that had been passed down from some distant ancient era and was once used to please the gods. It was not pleasant to listen to at all.

But Duncan, with his eyes closed, seemed to "see" something in the weird and off-tune humming.

He saw bright sunshine, magnificent mountains and rivers, a huge tree rooted in the earth, and the Creator wandering in the dream slowly walking out of the valley.

The newly awakened creatures surrounded the big tree, decorating the resting place for the Creator with colorful stones and furs, playing crude and primitive instruments with great joy, and singing songs praising breeze and sunshine in the morning and evening glow.

Now, after so many long years, their Creator remembered the melody.

Then, the Lost Homeland began to slowly accelerate again - the goat-head's off-tune humming became the last ship song on the voyage, and the huge ghost ship further lost its substance in the burning of the spiritual fire, presenting a more completely illusory texture than before.

The flames rose and rose until they burned up the ship, all its history, all the roots of its existence, all the projections it had ever cast in all dimensions, and all the data units it had ever occupied as an "entity" in this small shelter. The flames were filled with lavender starlight, and the Lost Homeland was finally transformed into a huge phantom in the flames, with almost no outline or details visible.

This phantom was weightless. It floated up in the clouds that covered the entire world, following the path outlined by the false sunlight in the distance, and gradually accelerated towards the sky.

Zhou Ming tightly gripped the steering wheel. For the first time, he "felt" this world so vividly. He felt that he was standing here, felt the existence of the Lost Hometown, and felt... that he was a part of this broken, dark, and gradually cooling world.

He is one of the countless lost people in this world.

Zhou Ming still kept his eyes closed, in order to avoid excessive "observation" which might cause the Infinite Sea to collapse in an instant, but his "feeling" - had already begun the final destruction process of this world.

Starlight gradually rose at the edge of the shelter. Now, all the underlying data of the shelter was open to him, and the final disaster backup began to be imported into the database of the reverse singularity. Along with this final "import" process, the "reset" work starting from the external barrier was also started.

Nina and Shirley widened their eyes in shock.

They came to the second floor of the antique shop, and the two of them carried Uncle Duncan's body to the second-floor window. Even though the body had completely stopped functioning, Nina still let him sit next to her and "watch" the situation outside with her.

The two girls looked up at the sky in the southeast.

A dazzling light was rising from that direction, moving slowly towards the direction of the Creation of the World along a slow yet thrilling trajectory.

The dazzling light, mixed with dark green and lavender, even illuminated half of the sky, bringing a "daytime" like dawn to the world at the end of such a long night.

"Wow……"

Shirley raised her head and stretched her neck as far as she could, exclaiming in an exaggerated voice. Then she tugged at the chain around Agou's neck and made a fuss: "Agou, Agou, look at that! That thing in the sky! The captain is really flying! He's flying towards the direction of the Creation of the World! It's about to begin, it's about to begin!"

"I saw it, I saw it, stop shaking the chain," Ah Gou shouted while pressing the chain with his paw, "Hurry up and find a stable place to lean on, the final moment is about to begin, don't you keep saying when it will start every day, right now..."

"I... I'm a little nervous..." Shirley suddenly became nervous. She pulled Agou's chain against the wall next to her, but soon came to the window again. "What will happen? Will it hurt? Or will it be over in a flash? Will there be a strong light?"

"How would I know, I..." Agou muttered, but suddenly stopped.

Flames filled with starlight were burning between every crevice of its bones, gushing and rising from its body in a completely uncontrollable state.

Shirley blinked and raised her arms, and saw the same flames burning on her body. Through the light and shadow of the flames, she saw Nina beside her was gradually being enveloped by the flames.

"Uncle Duncan is observing the world through our eyes..." Nina quickly reacted. She was not panicked at all. She just said softly with a gentle expression, "Don't be afraid."

"I... I'm not afraid, but what should I do?" Shirley said in a tone that was obviously a little frightened while looking at Nina, "Look around with your eyes wide open, right?"

"Observing the world through our eyes is just a figurative expression. Actually..." Nina explained subconsciously, but halfway through her words she noticed her friend's clear but uncultured expression, so she swallowed the rest of her explanation and smiled helplessly, "Okay, just open your eyes and look around. Uncle Duncan will arrange everything anyway..."

"Oh...oh!" Shirley agreed hurriedly, then she really widened her eyes and looked at the distance as hard as she could.

And in the corner of Nina's eyes, at the end of the clouds covering the entire world, a magnificent view that no one had ever seen in the real dimension was slowly rising into the sky, closing towards the sky like a curtain -

The stars are rising.

The boundless sea began to collapse silently from the outside to the inside in the starlight.

First of all, there are the border outposts, lighthouses and mobile ports established by the Church of the Four Gods in the remote waters, as well as the patrol fleets that have always stayed near the Curtain of Eternity.

Then there are the remote islands that are a little closer to the civilized world, where explorers once stopped and left countless stories.

Then there are the city-states located in the border seas...

Lucrecia stood on the highest deck of the Brilliant Star, which was docked at the pier of Breeze Harbor. She held Rabbi's arm with one hand and supported the little doll Nelue, who was only a few dozen centimeters tall and sat on her shoulder with the other hand.

The clockwork doll Luni stood behind Lucrecia, as always.

Together, they quietly watched the stars rise from the edge of the world, and then gradually roll towards this side like a magnificent curtain that stretched from sky to earth.

The stars first touched a platform on the distant sea - it was a facility used to study "luminous geometry". Now it is deserted and the city-state is unable to reclaim it, so it can only become a memorial hanging alone on the sea.

There was no disintegration, no sound, and no flash of light - the platform merged silently into the stars, leaving no trace, and "behind" the starlight was only extreme nothingness.

Nello hugged Lucrecia's head tightly, her small body shaking: "Mistress, I'm a little scared..."

"Don't be afraid, Nello," Lucrecia raised her hand and gently stroked the back of the doll, "The next time you open your eyes, we will be in our new home."

"...Yeah." The little doll nodded vigorously.

"hostess……"

Luni's voice came from behind her. Lucrecia turned around and saw the clockwork doll's slightly nervous expression.

"Are you scared too?"

"...kind of."

Lucrecia smiled. "Then close your eyes. Open them again after a while. It will be like... blinking."

Lu Ni was stunned for a moment, then obediently closed her eyes.

In the last glimmer of light from the corner of her eye, she saw the figure of the hostess disappear silently in the starlight.

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//Lucretia.? ? ? ==>^……%￥Migration to new data*&*%￥Saving completed.

(End of this chapter)