Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 712

[Chapter 694 The shadow of hindsight]

“One-third of the structure?”

Ted Leal was stunned when he heard Duncan’s words. He looked at the things he drew on the paper with some doubts. Even he felt confused when he looked at them. Abstract messy lines – to be fair, he thought he was terrible at drawing, but this was the closest to the “original impression” that he could recall. The residual influence of subspace had long disturbed his mind, making him He could never clearly recall the details of those memories, and it was difficult for him to fully outline the picture from these fragmented lines.

However, from Duncan’s tone, he realized that the “Ghost Captain” not only saw what was drawn on this piece of paper, but even… he also knew what this thing was supposed to look like.

Duncan stood in front of the table, frowning and carefully observing the details of Ted’s painting. After a while, he pointed at a certain place on the picture: “Is the structure here broken?

” De frowned and tried to recall it for a while, and a vague impression finally emerged in his mind: “It seems… but I’m not sure. I only caught a glimpse of it in a hurry, and didn’t even have time to see the complete side of it. Structure…”

“Here are fractures, and then extend outwards, and here are some connecting structures,” Duncan didn’t pay attention to the hesitation in Ted’s words. He just picked up the pencil and quickly sketched lines in the blank areas of the picture. , and in his writing, a strange thing with a symmetrical three-body structure, which Ted and Lucretia thought had nothing to do with a “ship”, was quickly sketched out, “It consists of three main structures. Composition… This is where the engine group is…”

Lucretia had unknowingly approached this weird “picture”. After staring at it for half a minute, she finally couldn’t bear it anymore. He asked, “What on earth…is this?”

Duncan didn’t look up. After a few seconds of silence, he replied softly: “It’s called ‘New Hope’.”

Lucretia and Ted Leal looked at each other. , and then said in unison: “New Hope?”

Alice also came over and asked slowly: “What is New Hope?”

Duncan raised his head, and his complicated and weird eyes fell on this Gothic doll. However, the latter didn’t seem to react at all. He just tilted his head and said, “What do you think I’m doing?” “

…That’s a ship, a spaceship.” Duncan withdrew his gaze and said in a way that he didn’t even know he was doing. He said in a deep voice with a subtle tone of emotion, “It arrived in this world many, many years ago…or, like other ‘fragments’, it crashed into the debris of the world we are in.” “

Spaceship? Can fly? “A ship?” Ted Leal sounded surprised, and then reacted, “You mean another ‘world fragment’? A flying ship called ‘New Hope’, part of its wreckage fell In the subspace, and turned into the mansion I saw…?”

He raised his hand and gestured with a bewildered look on his face.

Duncan did not answer the truth keeper’s doubts. He just lowered his head again and stared at the picture on the table for a long time – based on Ted Leal’s drawing, simple brushstrokes outlined a sketch of a huge spaceship. , although it can’t be said to be a complete restoration, it is indeed the “New Hope” that he saw in that illusion, dragging long flames and falling into this world.

He still remembered how he saw that illusion in the first place.

That was to examine Alice’s “clockwork key”. He spread his flames into the inside of the brass key – just like every time he used similar methods to detect supernatural objects, he saw the “clockwork key” The “resounds” that remain in it.

In that “echo”, Alice’s clockwork key became some kind of weird… data access medium, and New Hope crashed in the final scene of the illusion.

For a long time, he has been looking for clues about the “spaceship” and the remaining legends or historical records in this world that may be related to an ancient crash. At the same time, he often Think about a question –

why does Alice’s “Clockwork Key” record the vision when the New Hope crashed?

What is the connection between this seemingly harmless Gothic doll and a spaceship that crashed in ancient times?

The gap between “doll” and “spaceship” is so huge that even with Duncan’s ability to associate, he really can’t connect the two things together. But now… an even more incredible clue has appeared in him In front of you.

Ted Leal saw the Alice Mansion in subspace – that mansion, at certain moments, would look like a third of the wreckage of the New Hope!

Duncan had doubts about Ted Lear’s memory or expression, but he quickly ruled out the possibility that there was a problem in this regard-Ted Lear could not describe something he had not seen out of thin air, even if it was his His memory was chaotic, and it was impossible for him to “just” outline the structure of the “New Hope” in the chaos.

Some messy and broken clues seemed to be quietly connecting, and some incredible conjectures emerged in Duncan’s mind.

With the thoughts in his mind rising and falling, Duncan reached into his pocket and fumbled for the brass key used to wind up Alice.

The brass key lay quietly in the palm of his hand. The cold metal key showed the classic “∞” symbol at the end, as if all the secrets were hidden deep in infinite silence.

After a moment, he put away the keys and when he raised his head, he met the curious but hesitant gazes of Lucretia and Ted Leal.

“Let’s talk about other things first.” Duncan shook his head and looked at Ted. “What else did you see in the subspace?”

Ted nodded, realizing that “New Hope” might be pointing to something. The secret was too ancient and dangerous, so he rationally controlled his curiosity and began to continue talking about the incredible sights he had seen in the subspace.

Giant things standing in the wasteland, thrones and huge headless figures, nameless soldiers who died leaning on the wreckage, and all kinds of other bizarre things that it is unclear whether they are real or imagined.

Duncan didn’t interrupt again. He listened attentively, nodding slightly from time to time. He didn’t let out a long sigh of relief until Ted Leal’s story came to an end.

The headless corpse on the throne, the unknown warrior next to the strange wreckage, the huge structure standing in the wasteland… These things are indeed incredible, but anything can appear in the subspace – at least in Duncan’s view, these are better than It’s much easier to accept that “Alice’s Mansion appears in the subspace” and “Alice’s Mansion is part of New Hope”.

“…It was such a wonderful and impressive journey.” After listening quietly for a long time, Lucretia broke the silence in the room, “Fifteen minutes… Mr. Ted, you ten Five minutes of experience is enough for many scholars to study

for a lifetime.” “I can use these fifteen minutes of experience to write academic papers for the rest of my life, but to be honest, I would rather not have this experience,” Ted sighed, “Do you know? I can still hear the buzzing noises in my head from time to time… They are like living creatures crawling around in my consciousness, even though I have been trained in resilience psychology and will control theory. It is extremely difficult to fight against this kind of noise despite rigorous training, and this kind of sequelae is likely to last for a long time…”

He shrugged at this, his face looked a little bad –

“And what’s even worse is that I will have to fight again tomorrow. Return to the academy and face those stubborn students…their clear yet stupid opinions in the academic field are simply ‘subspace noise’ in another sense to me…”

Mr. Secret Keeper muttered , raised his hand and covered his forehead in pain. It was obvious that the subspace reverberation was intertwined with the foreseeable shadow of the future, casting a strong shadow in his heart.

Seeing this, Duncan couldn’t do anything to comfort him. He could only sigh slightly and raised his hand to pat Ted’s shoulder: “I understand this feeling very well.”

Ted was a little surprised and looked up at Duncan in confusion: “You How can you understand?”

Duncan was stunned for a moment, feeling that this question was difficult to explain clearly, but soon, Shirley’s homework book and Alice’s scribbling book came to mind.

“… There are students on my boat who are clearer than yours.”

Ted was stunned for a moment, not knowing how much he understood, and then nodded with a complicated expression: “It seems… you usually have a hard time. “

Then he calmed down, as if he felt a little tired after recalling things about subspace for a long time and wanted to relax his mind. However, less than half a minute later, he seemed to suddenly remember another thing.

“There’s another situation,” Ted raised his head, his expression becoming a little serious, “It’s not about the subspace, it’s about… the White Oak.” “The

White Oak?” Duncan was a little confused, “That ship What’s wrong?”

“…I don’t know if it’s my illusion. After all, I was affected by subspace at the time, and my perception and thinking were very confused, but I always felt that…when I was talking to the ‘sailor’ on the White Oak, , something is not right.”

Listening to Ted’s words, Duncan’s expression became serious.

“Sailor… you are referring to the ‘abnormal’ numbered 077? What’s wrong with him?” “

I can’t tell, but after returning here, I recalled the feeling when I was talking to that ‘abnormal’ , I always felt as if I was not just talking to ‘him’ at that time,” Ted Leal frowned and tried to recall while thinking about his words, “I talked to him about some views on the world and about being a person. An unusual perspective on the world. When he answered me… I always felt as if I could hear multiple voices… It was as if something else was hiding on that ship, and it was hidden in the sailor at that time. ‘Next to me.”

(End of chapter)