Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 793
[Chapter 775 Intersection Window]
Chapter 775 Intersection Window
After crossing the six-nautical-mile critical line, the world around the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star entered a strange… “state.”
The sea and fog disappeared, and the strange shimmer in the sky evenly covered the entire world outside the ship’s side – all “demarcations” seemed to have failed, and everything that was originally distinct seemed to have become one in the blink of an eye. The texture is uniform and has no distinction between top and bottom… “background color”, and the two ghost ships seem to be flying in this uniform background color, “floating” out of thin air.
“…This is different from the situation recorded by the church,” Fanna looked at the scene outside the ship and subconsciously said, “According to the records, even if it crosses the six-nautical-mile critical line, there is still sea and sky… I remember that Lu Miss Cressia also mentioned this matter.”
Duncan thought thoughtfully, raised his head and silently glanced at the “sailor” who was holding the steering wheel with a nervous expression. After a moment, he broke the silence: “Maybe this is The phenomenon that should occur when abnormality 077 “normally takes effect” – we are sailing in a special “channel”, which protects us from the influence of the turbulence of time outside the critical line.” ”
We will be in this channel . How long does it take to sail in the “channel”?” Alice on the side asked curiously.
Duncan thought for a moment and shook his head: “Even I don’t know that.”
Then Alice cast her curious eyes on the sailor at the helm.
Anomaly 077, who was already nervous, suddenly became even more nervous when he noticed the clear gaze cast by the doll. He shrunk his neck and said, “Don’t look at me, I don’t know – I just drive the boat…”
while saying While trying to keep a serious face, he grabbed the steering wheel and adjusted the direction slightly, but in fact he didn’t know where to “drive”, so he just shook the steering wheel in place to show that he was very busy – anyway, he was like this In this strange situation, the specific “course” of the ship obviously has nothing to do with the rudder…
Duncan saw through it without telling the truth. After sensing the status of the Lost Home and confirming that everything was normal, he stopped paying attention to the situation on the sailor’s side. Instead, he looked up at the Brilliant Star, which was floating near the Lost Home, and called in his heart: “Lucy, how is the situation over there?” ”
Everything is normal on the ship – except for the Rabbi who was so scared that he hid in the box. There is no way out,” Lucretia’s voice immediately responded, “It keeps shouting that we are ‘crashing’… ‘crashing’ towards the end of the world. I am a little concerned about this.” ”
Towards the end of the world. Crash?” Duncan frowned when he heard this, thinking quickly about the meaning of the crazy rabbit’s words in his mind. Then he looked to the other side, looking across the deck and looking at the seemingly extremely void place outside the ship’s side. Uniform “grey”.
“What it refers to…may be the ‘outer barrier’,” Duncan said softly in thought, “or what is beyond the barrier.” ”
What is beyond the barrier?” Lucretia’s The voice sounded a little confused.
“…Embers, the chaotic and unknowable embers of the old world that have never been used as shelters,” Duncan said slowly, recalling the conversation with Le Nora not long ago in his mind, recalling that person The Frost Queen mentioned the extremely pure and frightening “nihility” beyond the end of the world. He suddenly realized something, “…For fish, the gaseous world is indeed unreasonable nothingness and doomsday. ”
On the bridge of the Brilliant Star, Lucretia seemed to understand something as she listened to her father’s words. Then she turned her head and looked at the gently trembling box on the ground near the rudder – La Half of Bi’s ears were hanging out of the box, trembling.
Miss Witch frowned: “… As a person who brings terrifying nightmares to others, how can you be so afraid?” ”
Rabbi… Rabbi doesn’t bring terrifying nightmares, Rabbi is… he is terrifying… “The rabbi muttered in the box, as if to encourage himself, but his voice changed mid-sentence, “It’s really scary, Mistress! We are falling, and we are falling very fast! Can’t you feel it – it’s getting colder, darker, and narrower, like diving headfirst into a thin tube from a bottomless abyss, about to suffocate, about to freeze, about to be squeezed to Death, just imagine, imagine that scene…”
Lucretia walked over expressionlessly, kicked open the lid of the box, picked up the rabbit with one hand, swung it around and slapped it on the wall next to it.
The doll rabbit was slapped against the wall with a “pia” sound, and finally there was no movement.
“You are the only one with rich vocabulary and association ability, right?” Lucretia looked at the rabbit doll that had been flattened and slid down the wall little by little, and subconsciously rubbed the goosebumps on her arms, ” You are not allowed to describe those associations again – if you have any thoughts, hold them back, otherwise I won’t just slap you on the wall next time.” The
flat toy rabbit lying on the ground fluffed up again with a “pop-pop” sound, and it was crooked. He climbed up and said “Oh”, then walked back to the box not far away honestly.
But as soon as he got halfway there, he was dragged back by Lucrecia by his ears.
“Stop being lazy and find something to do,” Miss Witch said in an unquestionable tone, “Take a few tin men and go to the stern dividing line to keep an eye on it. The spiritual part of the ship seems to be unstable here… Don’t let those soulless shadows run out from inside. I don’t have the extra energy to deal with this kind of trouble now. Go ahead.” “Oh
, okay mistress…” Rabbi lowered his head and agreed, walking out on his short legs. Bridge.
After the rabbit left, Luni walked over from the side and said, “Did you be a little too harsh on Rabbi just now… It’s just a little scared.” “It’s too scared –
I need to find something to distract it. “Power,” Lucretia exhaled softly, waved her hand and said, “It is a shadow from the depths of the spiritual world. It can feel many ‘changes’ that humans cannot feel. There is nothing in my eyes.” The place, in its perception, is probably very “lively”…”
She suddenly paused when she said this, and then looked at the clockwork doll in front of her with some confusion: “But then again…you don’t feel it. Are you there? When making your mimic soul, I also used “ingredients” from the spirit world.”
Luni was stunned for a moment, thought about it seriously, and shook her head: “I don’t feel it.”
Lucretia Her expression was slightly subtle, and she looked up and down at Luni – she didn’t know if it was an illusion, but she always felt that Luni had revealed something since she played with the living doll named “Alice” on the Lost Homeship. She has a clear and pure… “temperament”, and this feeling is especially obvious after the two dolls learned to exchange heads…
But she secretly tested Runi’s intelligence last time, and there seemed to be no change – She didn’t dare to mention this to her father yet.
“Mistress?” The clockwork doll noticed the eyes on him and tilted his head in confusion.
“…Nothing.” Lucretia waved her hand, temporarily putting aside some weird associations in her head, and at this moment, she suddenly saw something out of the corner of her eye.
Outside the porthole, in the uniform and pure “gray-white background”, some lines and shadows discernible to the naked eye appeared.
“What is that?” Luni also saw the abstract lines that appeared on the “outer wall of the passage”, and her eyes widened in surprise.
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, those abstract “outlines” that seemed to be separated from a specific individual suddenly changed in the gray background color——
The black lines trembled, quickly shrinking and twisting into an orderly outline. The shadow suddenly expanded and became the color filling the outline. A ship – a flat ship that seemed to be “printed” on the outer wall of the channel. Suddenly emerged from the gray background, and gradually entered the route of the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star.
This scene is like a wanderer suddenly “breaking in” in the passage, and the abstract and distorted ship silhouette quickly acquires a logical meaning after entering the “sight” of the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star…” form”.
Lucretia was stunned for a moment, and then came to the porthole like a gust of wind, staring at the ship that suddenly appeared in the passage.
She suddenly recognized the vague markings on the ship.
“It’s the Sea Song!”
That’s the Sea Song – the Sea Song that is sailing on a long journey, wandering in the broken flow of time.
It drifted from a broken time stream, and in this short “intersection window”, it entered the route of the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star.
There was a sudden silence on the stern deck of the Lost Home.
Everyone involuntarily raised their heads, looking at the ship floating in “mid-air” outside the ship’s side, at its increasingly clear flag, and the increasingly obvious name on the ship – the Sea Song was sailing on its own. In the flow of time, it seemed not to notice the approaching Brilliant Star at all. It was as if the time difference between the two parties blocked its “sight”. It passed by the side of the Brilliant Star from a distance that was almost a collision. , and then came to the side of the Lost Home.
It adjusted its posture there, and then… sent out a series of light signals.
Anomaly 077 suddenly tightly grasped the steering wheel in his hand.
He opened his eyes wide and stared at the flashing lights on the side of the Sea Song. He silently counted the intervals and lights of the lights, as if counting his own heartbeat that had long since disappeared – ”
Short light – dark – short light -Dark – Changming…”
He did not continue to count. While the light signal of the Sea Song was still flashing, he had already closed his eyes, and then he seemed to use all his strength to pull his broken gong throat——
“Captain! The ship ahead is asking about our purpose!”
The hoarse voice of the sailor echoed on the Lost Home.
Duncan exhaled softly, his expression full of seriousness and solemnity.
“The lights answer,” he whispered, “and salute them.”
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