Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 233

[Chapter 233 Tirian’s Memories]

After listening to Fanna’s story, Tirian fell into a short silence.

Without seeing it with his own eyes, he still can’t analyze from these few words what kind of plan the ghost who returned from the subspace has at this moment, and how he has undergone these changes, but one thing is certain—— what Vanna described That “Captain Duncan” is definitely not the frenzied monster that the Sea Mist encountered on the cold sea half a century ago.

But it was not quite like the great explorer father he remembered from a century ago.

“Captain Tirian,” after a long silence in the living room, Fanna’s voice suddenly sounded, interrupting Tirian’s thinking, “What do you think?” “I… can’t believe

this will really happen , but since it has already happened, we can only admit this fact for the time being,” Tirian frowned slowly, and said while thinking, “From your description, it seems that he is indeed in a state of clear thinking, reason and humanity. However, his power… that cursed flame has become stronger accordingly.”

Fan Na nodded: “I don’t know if that green flame is a curse, but it is indeed very powerful.”

” That flame has something to do with the warp,” Tirian said, “he gained this weird power after falling into the warp, so there is no problem calling it a curse.” “…So, the flame is more powerful than half

a The ones you saw a century ago are more powerful, which means that Captain Duncan has a deeper connection with the subspace than before,” the old bishop Valentine thought thoughtfully, “so he did not break free from the influence of the subspace, but instead Did he sink deeper—and instead, he recovered in the process?” “

…that doesn’t fit with our understanding of the Warp.” Tirian shook his head.

“There is a saying among the followers of Rahelm,” said Valentine, “that the only thing we know about the Warp is that we can never know enough of it—for thousands of years, there has been nothing from People or things in the real dimension can return to this world after entering the subspace, and apart from some indirect observation records and a few words written by mad scholars in the Kingdom of Ancient Crete in their madness, no one knows what happened in the subspace. What exactly is there… Our ‘law summary’ of that place is actually meaningless.”

Speaking of this, the knowledgeable old man paused for a while, and sighed leisurely: “Even, we can’t even determine the subspace. Is it a ‘place’ after all——

“Beermin, a madman 1,600 years ago, read an ancient scroll and was devoured by invisible things in full view. Before disappearing, he shouted ‘the subspace It is the shadow on the back of the world’. At that time, his words made one hundred and forty-two witnesses crazy, but with the madness of those one hundred and forty-two witnesses as a ‘sacrifice’, this information has also become our The greatest step in understanding the Warp in millennia.

“Until now, scholars are still trying to construct a theoretical model of the subspace based on Bayermin’s dying cry… and your father, not only did he really go into that place, he even returned to our world consciously.”

“Yeah, research every year, people die every year, and those who die are quickly replenished, and continue to study… So I really admire those desperate scholars in the Academy of Truth, in a pure sense of respect,” Tirian said. He sighed and shook his head, then his voice was slightly lowered, “So, may my ‘father’ have become a precious sample now? A sample that has really been to the subspace and can communicate rationally?

” It’s just wishful thinking,” Valentine spread his hands, “We can’t expect ‘Captain Duncan’ to cooperate with mortal research, what’s more, although he has reason now, we can’t rashly assume that his reason is biased towards humans This side—if he’s a sane Warp invader, it’s far more terrifying than those unthinking projections of Chaos.”

Tirian didn’t speak for a while, as if he was in deep memory and thinking. After some time, he suddenly said: “Before the last expedition, he was anxious for a while… No, strictly speaking , since at some point, he seems to have been anxious about something, and made many… chilling preparations for it.”

Valentine and Fanna immediately looked at each other, their expressions At the same time it became serious.

This may be the first time in a century that someone has heard these vital secrets from the descendants of Captain Duncan!

Fanna couldn’t help asking: “What is he anxious about? What is he preparing for?”

“The end of the world.” Tirian raised his head and said calmly.

Valentine frowned slightly: “Doomsday?”

“I know this sounds a bit cheesy, like the crazy words of doomsdayists that pop up every year, but it was indeed the most craziest thing in the world a hundred years ago. A thing that the great explorer has been thinking about day and night.”

Tirian sighed softly, and continued.

“Since the day Lucrezia and I took command of the Seamist and the Bright Star, he’s been bringing it up occasionally. “He seems to think there’s something like a

… , or some kind of time limit, although the world looks stable and peaceful on the surface, this countdown is actually approaching the end, and as soon as the time comes, it will quickly enter into collapse and end, no one can reverse or stop this process, and he Think…our era is the last frame of the countdown. “

Valentine frowned: “Frankly speaking, I don’t think our world is ‘stable’…” “

But in my father’s mouth, he called the present world the ‘last pastoral age’. Fan

Na thought for a while and asked: “So, he fell into the subspace in order to find a way to stop this ‘countdown’?” “

“No, he wanted to find anomaly 000—he thought that anomaly 000 could end the distortion of the world and stop the countdown, so he passed through the ‘eternal curtain’ at the end of the world.” Valentine was taken

aback : “He passed through the Veil of Eternity?!”

“Yes… But I can only confirm that he did enter that fog, not whether he really succeeded in ‘penetrating’ it,” said Tirian, ” He refused to follow all the frigates at that time, and what I can be sure of is that he did return from there alive-to be in a state of madness. As for falling into the warp space… it was after that.”

Varun Ding and Fanna fell silent at the same time, and after a while, Fanna took the initiative to break the silence: “Then did he find the so-called anomaly 000? You know, theoretically…” “Theoretically, there is no abnormal number

zero Anomalies or visions, I know, and he did return without success,” Tirian said calmly, “So I always thought that he might already be abnormal when he decided to look for anomalies 000.” Vanna

thought After a while, he asked: “Do you know the reason why your father thought there was a ‘countdown’ in the world at first? When did he have this cognition? Did he come into contact with any inducement, or… discovered something? “

Tirion thought about it carefully for a moment, and said a little uncertainly: “I…not sure, it’s been too long, but I vaguely remember that he once received a few people on the Lost Home, and talked with them all night ——It was after that day that he brought up the question of the end of the world to us for the first time.”

“How many people have you received?” Valentine immediately became serious, “What kind of person? What was the situation at the time?”

“They are all wearing gray and white coarse cloth robes and bare feet. In my impression…they are very thin, as if they have undergone penance, as if they have experienced a rather long journey. They suddenly appeared during the voyage of the Lost Country Those who were on the ship boarded the ship as if they had already made an appointment with their father,” Tirian said slowly, “and after a long talk all night, my father said that the guests had left, but I didn’t see them leave the ship. People seem to disappear out of thin air.”

Valentine had a weird expression on his face: “Preacher Final Yan? This sounds a lot like…” “Your

Excellency, do you think I’ve lived for a hundred years and I don’t know Missionary Final Yan?” Tirian shook slightly. Shaking his head, “I doubted that too, but those people are definitely not the final preachers you and I are familiar with – they are rational and friendly, and they don’t have any aura of madness on them.” “Sensible and friendly?” Valentine

blinked Blinking, he said thoughtfully, “It’s true that I’ve never heard of a rational final missionary… Do those people have any characteristics?”

This time Tirian recalled for a longer time, and after a few minutes, He raised his head suddenly: “At that time, one of them said a few words to me, I can’t remember the specific content, it was just a very common greeting, but I remember they called themselves ‘humble seekers’, and… “

Tirion paused, and looked around: “Do you have a pen?” “Yes,” Fanna immediately   took the pen and paper from the side, “here

.”

A pattern, Valentine and Fanna moved over curiously.

They saw a hexagonal emblem, and in the center of the emblem was a broken pattern that looked like a cross. Tirian obviously hesitated when drawing the cross, as if his memory had been blurred.

“It’s roughly like this pattern – one of them is wearing such a talisman, that talisman seems to be very important, he doesn’t allow me to touch it, he only said that it is their guidance and protection on the road.” Fan Na frowned

. After looking at the pattern for a long time,

he turned his head and looked at Valentine : “You know more, do you know this thing?” It looks like any known religious symbol, and it doesn’t look like something used by classical city-states.” “

Is that so…”

Fanna muttered softly, her eyes still fixed on the piece of paper.

The strange patterns on the paper were reflected in her eyes.

Reflected in her eyes at the same time, there is also a cluster of faint green sparks that are almost undetectable to the naked eye.

(end of this chapter)