Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 699

[Chapter 683 Overflowing with stars]

Obviously, the sudden news from Duncan shocked the views of several popes – they were relieved on the spot for a long time, but in the end they still didn’t recover much.

After concealing the information related to Alice Mansion, Duncan briefly told Rune and others about his exchanges with Black Sun and Holy Lord Netherworld.

He is not worried that this information will “contaminate” the people staying at the scene at this moment. On the one hand, his followers have all been baptized by his “spiritual fire”, which has proven to give them extremely high resistance to mental pollution. Sex, on the other hand, the several popes present also deal with mental pollution almost every day. Visually, their resistance is very high, and they are not going to go crazy just because they heard a few words from the ancient gods – if it was the bishop just now He certainly wouldn’t mention these things while Tuan was still there.

Helena and the others looked at each other in confusion. After a moment of thinking and hesitation, three eyes fell on Lu En.

The short, fat elf old man suddenly looked a little embarrassed: “…Why are you all looking at me?”

“You are the most knowledgeable person among us.” Helena looked sincere.

Banster nodded: “You often have unique insights and foreboding acumen in the difficult field of mysticism.”

Frame said nothing, and just continued to stare at Rune without blinking.

Luen was silent for a few seconds with a subtle expression. After a moment of thinking, he seemed to suddenly think of something. He turned to look at Duncan who was watching the show next to him: “Are you sure you heard the clear and rational words from Holy Lord Netherworld and Black Sun?” “

Of course you confirm,” Duncan spread his hands, “It’s as rational as the conversation between us now.” “

Then the second question,” Lu En thought about it for a moment, and his expression became extremely serious, “…Since returning to the real world from subspace, have you ever encountered ‘chaos creations’ that are completely incommunicable, incomprehensible, and completely indescribable in your eyes?” Duncan was slightly startled when he heard this, and then he vaguely understood this

. What the old pope meant, after a moment of pondering, he spoke: “…I have met many ‘chaotic, chaotic, incommunicable freaks’ according to the world’s standards, but almost every time…I have been among them.” I heard useful information in the noise-like roar… Sometimes, I even felt that they were talking to me intentionally.” He

stopped, but there was still half a sentence left unsaid – he always thought this was normal !

Lu En showed an obvious change in expression after hearing Duncan’s reply. His brows instantly furrowed, and Helena on the side also reacted: “Wait, so…” “…in’

Captain “There are no crazy and out-of-control ancient gods in our eyes,” Luen looked into Duncan’s eyes and spoke slowly with a serious expression, “You can understand those voices that have completely deviated from the ‘basis of reason’ under any circumstances, even if they are Those existences that would make a mortal collapse into madness at just one glance are probably understandable to you and can be communicated with.” The

hall fell silent for a while, except for Alice who didn’t have enough brains and Shirley who didn’t. They all instantly began to subconsciously think about what this meant and the “reason” behind this incredible “phenomenon”.

While in meditation, Morris broke the silence in a low voice: “If we follow the ‘cognitive deviation’ conjecture that you just proposed, teacher, it means that the captain…” “No matter how

deviated everything is, it is still in his cognition.” Within the range,” Luen nodded slowly, “It’s a bit like…wait, wait, I need paper and pen!”

Morris immediately reacted: “Here they are.”

A piece of paper was quickly laid out on the On the table, Lu En took the pencil, leaned down in front of everyone’s curious eyes, and began to quickly sketch a pattern on the paper – but to Duncan’s surprise, it was not some complicated and mysterious occult rune, nor some mysterious rune. It’s not some difficult mathematical formula. What Lu En draws is just one seemingly loose and random circle after another.

He drew many circular patterns – they were randomly distributed on the paper, some overlapped each other, some were only slightly staggered at the edges, and some were completely independent.

“Do you still remember the Great Annihilation? And the conjecture about the formation process of the new world after the Great Annihilation…” Rune said quickly while describing, “Many worlds collided together, and their debris accumulated to form the foundation of the new world. , I call these piled-up debris ‘primitive ashes’, and these ashes initially carried the ‘rules’ of their respective worlds. We regard ashes with the same set of rules as such a ring… “Yes.

” , the concept of set, the remaining ‘original ashes’ of each world is a subset. Have you seen these intersecting rings? Those intersections are the mutually ‘compatible’ parts of the original ashes…

“In the third long night, the compatible original ashes were reorganized to form the deep sea age we are now in…” Intersection, yes, right here…”

Rune paused, pointing with his pencil to the center of the white paper.

Several large and small rings intersect there, and the intersection of the rings has an area only the size of a fingernail.

“This is our Deep Sea Age…the primitive ashes from the wreckage of various worlds that are ‘compatible’ with each other and can barely be ‘established’ under the same set of rules. Together they built this boundless sea and the many city-states on the boundless sea. …

“Besides this ‘intersection’, the other non-intersecting parts of these rings, that is, their ‘difference sets’, are those things that we can access, but cannot understand or control – —They wander around the edge of our real world, perhaps appearing as visions, perhaps as anomalies, perhaps as other strange phenomena or carriers of pollution…” Lu En thought for a moment, then pointed to those wandering

outside all rings. , a circle that does not have any contact with other patterns.

“This is the location of the blasphemous prototype, the location of the Black Sun and other lost ancient gods and exiled ethnic groups. We are completely unable to understand their existence, and they are completely incompatible with the real world. Some of them have completely disappeared into the darkness, while others… are still wandering in the form of primitive ashes… in some kind of time and space that we cannot understand. middle. “

Morris looked at the simple and clear graphics drawn by the teacher on the paper and quickly understood: “We are within the scope of the ‘intersection’, so we can only ‘understand’ the information within the scope of the intersection. To us, things are indescribable noises and shadows…”

Lu En nodded: “Yes, this is the ‘fact’ shown by this model. “

Morris then added: “But for the captain, whether it is the ‘weird shadows’ outside the intersection or the lost ancient gods that are completely outside the collective system, it is understandable – in his In my eyes, there is no world ‘outside the intersection’…”

“As you said…”

Duncan stood aside and listened to these discussions silently.

They are discussing him, they are trying to use a set of logic to explain him, they are trying to recognize, they are trying to understand, they are trying to get in touch with his “real mystery”.

But he didn’t care.

He just listened silently, thoughtfully while listening.

He looked at the patterns drawn by Rune, at the intersecting, overlapping, and independent rings, at the “primordial ashes” floating and scattered in the ruins, and at the piece of paper. .

For some reason, he recalled his recent experience in the subspace in his mind, and recalled the overflowing starlight he saw in the eyes of the pale giant… Vanna also came to the piece of paper, and

she Looking at the pattern above, he couldn’t help but whisper: “Then where is the captain…”

Lu En looked serious: “Only in one case, a ‘collection’ can accommodate what has already appeared here, and what has not yet appeared. All subsets of them.”

Vanna thought for a moment, stretched out her hand and drew on the paper: “A larger circle that includes them all?” “

No.”

Morris shook his head.

Then, the old scholar stepped forward and gently pressed his hand on the piece of paper.

“It’s this piece of paper.”

After he finished speaking, he raised his head and looked around.

Endless starlight filled his vision, his memory, and his cognition.

It filled the eyes of everyone in the hall.

Helena’s eyes widened in the starlight. She felt her mind crumbling in the huge waves of truth. She saw an undulating shadow rising in the starlight, an outline, and the outline approached her. Roaring –

“Isn’t it incredible?”

Rune stood stiffly in the starlight, the noise and tremor squeezed out of his mind: “Truth…Beauty…”

Then, all the starlight suddenly dissipated – The huge and undulating shadow shrank and collapsed into the real world in the hall in an instant that humans could not detect.

Vanna barely broke free from the horrific afterimage caused by the starlight. In the intense dizziness, she saw the captain walking towards the table and slowly rolling up the paper.

“Let me give you a suggestion,” Duncan turned his head and looked into Rune’s eyes, “Next time you discuss me, make more preparations.” The terrifying afterimage left by the

starlight finally completely faded – that piece of paper It had been completely rolled up by Duncan and stuffed into his clothes.

With the “truth” temporarily obscured, reason suddenly returns to everyone’s mind.

Banster took a deep breath, subconsciously took a step back, and then glared at Lu En: “I should have kept a distance from ‘scholars’ like you from the beginning!” “You were the ones who asked me just now

. Analytical!” Luen took two deep breaths, first glanced at Duncan with lingering fear, and then looked at the three Bansters, “Just tell me whether it has any effect!” “

Captain…” Morris turned He looked at Duncan with a somewhat embarrassed expression on his face, “Sorry…” “

It doesn’t matter, curiosity is human instinct.” Duncan smiled, with the same gentleness and tolerance as before, “Fortunately No one is dead.”

(End of chapter)