Deep Sea Embers

The speed of the Brilliant Star gradually decreased, and finally stopped cautiously on the sea several hundred meters away from the shimmering translucent "cliff".

However, the distance of several hundred meters was so insignificant compared to the size of that behemoth. Visually, Luni still felt that the Yaocan Star seemed to be in front of the "cliff". The majestic mountain-like geometry in front of you is almost rushing toward your face with a crushing momentum. If an ordinary person were to stand here... I'm afraid he would already feel suffocated.

"...It's so spectacular. The clockwork demon couldn't help but look up and exclaimed, "And it's very beautiful. "That thing is indeed spectacular and beautiful. If you ignore its weirdness, it can even be regarded as a magnificent spectacle, enough to inspire the greatest inspiration of a good artist in his life, or allow a poet to make countless works for this spectacle. Psalms

It is like a sharp-edged mountain peak carved from light golden clear amber, or an exceptionally regular geometric ice floe. It floats in the water with a dense mist of light, and the surrounding thin mist floats slowly around its surface. , outlining a dreamy atmosphere.

There are various signs that this thing is indeed like a "dream" and has no entity. Although it does exist there, it seems to be just a huge shadow.

"Mistress," Luni couldn't bear to look back. What do you think this is?

"...I don't know, I only know that it was Lucretia who fell from the sky and frankly admitted her ignorance. She recalled the scene when the Brilliant Star tracked that thing for the first time the day before yesterday. In the last few hours from the wall, the cruising Brilliant Star observed a huge and hazy glow suddenly falling from the sky, and the clouds disappeared into the depths of the border sea. From this moment on, she and you The ship has been tracking that thing.

But apart from the obvious natural disaster that "dropped from the sky," I knew nothing about the phantom alien visitor.

Lucrecia looked at the bottom of the huge geometric figure alone and confirmed another thing.

She quickly ruled out that possibility - after regaining consciousness, I could still tell whether I was dreaming or not.

The hands on the wall clock stopped.

That was incredible. His body didn't even need sleep, let alone dreaming. In fact, he had never had a "dream" experience since he came to the ship - the body in Pland My body has had some messy and trivial dreams, but it has never been as muddy and impressive as that brief strange dream.

The flame of the oil lamp in the bedroom is the only "moving thing" that is still burning fiercely, but the light it emits is faint and pale, making the lighting in the whole room look a bit weird.

"It's a huge stone ball," Lucretia said with a strange expression, "or at least it's made of something that looks like stone. It has a gray-white surface with few regular grooves. It's about ten meters in diameter, suspended above the sea. …”

How much mass does it have, which means it can be bound by real matter... With the power of the Yaocan Star, maybe it can even drag that thing away?

Go to the chart room first to see if Goat Head knows what's going on.

Duncan frowned and resisted the urge to open the window to take a look outside the ship. Instead, he stood up and walked towards the wooden door of the bedroom.

"Master?" Lu Ni turned back to look at her master, "What's outside?"

Is it because he suddenly learned that information and created an association, or is it because the remaining memory of the body suddenly moved? Is his contact with Tirian and Lucretia related to that dream?

That thing is very light, very, very light. It floats on the sea, and the lower part only sinks a little bit into the water. But the fact that it is only a little lower and sinks into the water illustrates the thing that looks like a "phantom". It also has a bit of quality, rather than just a shadow.

The whole world seemed to have fallen into deathly silence, and in the chaos, the huge luminous object falling from the sky also made only a loud sound.

"...Are you serious?"

Duncan quickly regained his breath. He sat up from the bed and rubbed his forehead irritably.

Luminous bodies one after another

The ground fell and fell on the low surface of the boundless sea. There was obviously no bigger falling object, but it also did not stir up any movement. It was like a phantom falling on another phantom, and these luminous objects gradually became like rain. Falling like this, it eventually turned into a terrifying and weird meteor shower - countless light bodies gradually covered the entire sea surface, surrounding the Lost Home in a blaze of light.

It was dim outside the window. It looked like the glow of dawn, but there was also the warm glow brought by the beginning of the world.

As she spoke, Lucretia frowned and concentrated, as if she was giving some order to the ghost phantom that had not yet entered the depths of the luminous geometry, and then continued: "No contact, non-entity."

I pushed open the door to the chart room and looked at the navigation table with charts and goat heads.

Lu Nilu looked at that scene with some strangeness, watching the ghostly phantom slowly cross the misty sea, and then disappear silently inside the "mountain".

Lucretia looked at the luminous "mountain" in silence, as if she had made up her mind half a minute ago: "Go in and pull it."

Lucretia nodded to the phantom, and the latter turned around and flew towards the "mountain" hundreds of meters away.

Can it be dragged back to the territory of the civilized world and a real professional team be organized to study it? The Explorers Society should be happy to help...

"Proceed with caution first." Lucretia said, raising her hand to prick her finger, a drop of blood seeped out from the tip of his finger, then slowly floated forward, and suddenly "bang" when it was halfway through the float. There was a loud crack and turned into an exaggerated cloud of smoke.

He stood on the bow of the Lost Home, and there was a dead silence on the ship. He could hear the noise of Goat Head in his mind, and the quiet sound of Alice fighting with buckets and mops on the deck, and even the entire Infinity. The sea is also noisy, with no waves or wind.

Duncan tapped his forehead lightly, and then reached out to the wine bottle on the cabinet next to him, preparing to use the power of alcohol to calm his mood. But as soon as he reached out, my eyes glanced at the wall clock on the wall not far away. , the action stopped.

"The elf scholars in Haven should be interested in that thing," Lucretia whispered. "The lines on the surface of this stone ball have obvious patterns and imply a simple geometric structure. Guess... …People who are good at mathematics should be able to see something from this.”

Duncan opened his eyes suddenly, and the deep impression left by the absurd dream still remained strongly in my mind.

Duncan raised his head at the beginning and end of the dream, and saw that there was only a dark red mottled hole in the sky, as if a fire had not been extinguished in the white darkness, silently overlooking all things in the world like a dying blind eye.

Duncan's eyes swept over everything eagerly, taking in all the abnormal phenomena.

He was shocked that he could dream on the boat, and even more shocked by the strange scenes he saw in his dreams——

Nothing happened.

"Non-entity," Lu Ni was stunned for a moment. Years of experience in getting along with her allowed her to quickly realize what her master meant, "Do you want to... drag it back?"

Under the strange boundless sea, on the Lost Homeship, she was not sure that the dream was just a dream - something must have had an impact on her, or her "intuition" had a premonition of something. Will let myself see this scene in my dream.

core? how is it like? "

“He is in the deepest part,” said the Sea Witch, “and there is a core.

"How are you going to 'drag' that thing back?" "Lu Ni looked at her mistress with some confusion, "Are you using a strong enough rope or chain? There is no spare rope on the ship, but it may not be long enough - the projection part of this luminous body is too large, and the distance from there to its core may exceed the limit of the rope..."

Lucrezia was thinking quickly in her mind, and Luni's voice sounded next to her: "Do you want to explore its inside?

...Okay, she means it.

Standing still a few minutes before sunrise.

Could it be related to the "World Countdown" that I just learned about? And a hundred years later, this man fell into madness

Is it related to the "truth" about the end of the world that the crazy "Captain Duncan" came into contact with?

The goat head is here. "You're curious."

However, the sky became brighter and brighter as countless light bodies fell. At the end of the dream, the meteor shower gradually stopped, and the sky had not yet turned completely white.

Lucretia frowned slightly and looked back.

Luni nodded. Although you are just a clockwork golem, you have a "soul" that is closer to a human being than any other crew member on the ship. At this moment, she felt relaxed. She reached behind her and spun herself twice. It used this method to impatiently feel the slight vibration of various parts in the body due to relaxation, and then waited for a long time before it suddenly saw the change in the mistress's expression.

But if this is the theory, how should it be accomplished in practice? How do you drag a giant, penetrating phantom? Or... is there an entity's core deep inside that luminous geometry, and this core structure is the source of its mass?

"Light and cold, very cool, but not burning cold, dark, but thorny silver... There are wind and waves outside, and the sea below seems to be higher than inside," Lucretia sensed the phantom clone's transmission The message came and he said slowly, "Now it seems that at least the shallow area of ​​​​the mountain is not high, and it is accelerating to move inward.

In her dream, she saw shooting stars, meteors that suddenly appeared during the day.

Something is obviously wrong... Are you still in the dream?

The smoke dissipated, and another "Lucrecia" appeared while driving - but it was just a ghost-like phantom, wearing a pale and complete long dress with a lively and sinister face, and the whole body had a translucent texture, floating sinisterly. In mid-air.

He frowned slightly in irritable thinking.

The noisy world, the complicated meteors, the dark and dead sky, and the terrifying hole overlooking the world like eye pupils... Why did I dream of such a weird scene? What does the dream mean? !

Duncan slept in the captain's quarters of the Lost Home and had a brief and bizarre dream.