Deep Sea Embers

It took a few seconds for Tirian to notice that Duncan mentioned the "meeting" with the Frost Queen just now, and his astonishment was beyond words.

Duncan was not surprised by this reaction, he just shook his head lightly: "My 'meeting' with her was very special, it was not in the normal timeline, you can understand that I once intervened in the crevice of history, with the help of a bystander Perspective met Le Nora—and in normal history, I have no contact with the Frost Queen."

Tirian frowned, as if he wanted to understand the meaning of these difficult words, then his eyes flickered slightly, he restrained all his emotions, and looked up at Duncan: "Why are you interested in the matter of the Frost Queen? Is it because of that 'meeting'? Or because of... this doll who calls herself 'Alice'? Did she tell you anything?"

"Alice doesn't know anything about the Frost Queen, her memory is as pure as white paper," Duncan said lightly, "I'm interested in the Frost Queen because everyone said that the Frost Rebellion was caused by Lei Nuo. La's conspiracy with the Lost Homelander was revealed—don't you think it's normal for me to become interested after hearing this rumor?"

"...colluding with the Homeless," Tirian's voice was low and his eyelids drooped, making it impossible to see what emotion he was feeling at the moment. "That's right, this is how they arranged charges for Her Majesty Le Nora."

"Looking at your reaction, this is indeed a crime of framing," Duncan's voice came from the mirror, "So, the Frost Rebellion back then was just a complete conspiracy, and the crime of Le Nora being planted is also true. Completely unfounded?"

As he spoke, he watched Tirian's reaction.

But Tirian didn't answer him immediately, but asked back with a slight frown: "Is this truth meaningful to you?"

"Yes," Duncan said with a serious face, "after all, from a certain point of view, I am half of the party involved."

Tirian was obviously taken aback, as if he couldn't refute his father's answer, then he sighed helplessly and shook his head: "There was indeed a conspiracy in that rebellion, but if I have to say it, the name used by the rebels is not entirely true. It's fiction..."

"oh?"

"The Queen of Frost has never colluded with the Lost Homelander, but she has indeed... done research in some taboo fields. Once these research plans are made public, even if there is no rebellion, it should be difficult for her to remain in the position of the ruler of the city-state. superior."

Duncan's eyes were deep, and after a few seconds of silence, he suddenly said: "It's called the 'Abyss Project', right?"

Tyrian looked up abruptly in astonishment.

"I know much more than you imagined." Duncan said lightly.

"But all the materials related to the Abyss plan have been destroyed, and even the insiders who revealed the plan have been liquidated and executed by the rebels..." Tirian said in disbelief, "Everyone firmly believes in this plan The name itself has been polluted by the curse, and the last insider has passed away long ago..."

"Oh? All the information has been destroyed?" Duncan felt a little surprised this time. He thought that this matter might be more confidential, but he didn't expect it to be covered up so extremely. "Even all the insiders died? "

Tirian hesitated a little. He knew the situation back then better than anyone else, and naturally he knew why the plan was buried, but after a moment of silence, he still spoke slowly:

"This taboo plan is tainted with too many things related to curses, subspaces, and spiritual pollution, so that even the rebels did not dare to talk casually about the materials they found.

"But in fact, the name of this project was made public once, and only once - on the final execution ground, when the rebels uttered those words in order to incriminate the Frost Queen, and on that very day , the Wanghai Cliff in the Frost City State experienced an unprecedented and terrifying collapse. The entire sea cliff and a quarter of the city fell into the boundless sea. Everyone who heard the words "Diving Project" was spared. They all turned into dead souls in the deep sea.

"Back then, the rebels had originally prepared a series of follow-up propaganda work against the 'Abyss Project', intending to make this matter public without revealing those taboo elements, so as to completely erase the Frost Queen's presence in the northern seas. influence, and emphasized the justice of this rebellion, but after the collapse of the sea cliff, these propaganda plans were immediately abolished-as I said just now, they firmly believed that the name of the 'Abyss Project' had been Curse the pollution, so all the materials related to this project, including its name, were completely destroyed.

"That's why I'm particularly curious... How did you learn about the 'Abyss Project'?"

Tirian finally stopped avoiding it, but looked directly into Duncan's eyes. After hearing the plan half a century ago from the other party, the ups and downs in his heart could not be calmed down. For a moment, he even really began to doubt Was there any "collusion" between the Frost Queen and the Lost Home?

"I said that I once 'watched' some things in the cracks of history," Duncan said frankly, and asked again, "So, what is the Abyss Project? Why is this plan so secretive and taboo, even You... seem to have a little bit of fear left when you mention it?"

Tirian had a serious face and was silent for a long time before finally speaking in a deep and slow voice: "Simply speaking, it is an exploration plan—but unlike those explorers who explore new sea routes at the border of civilization, the Abyss Project explores the deep sea. .”

"Exploring the deep sea?" Duncan frowned. "You mean the spirit world, the deep, and the subspace? But if it's just research in these fields, there shouldn't be any 'taboo', even though it's really dangerous. But mystical research in this area has always been legally carried out in various city-states, and the Academy of Truth even has a special research group..."

"I'm not referring to the 'deep sea' in the mystical concept," Tirian shook his head lightly, "I'm talking about the deep sea in the real sense, the deep sea in the natural realm—a place right in front of all of us, But everyone pretends not to see it, does not touch it, and does not dare to touch the 'deep sea'."

As Tirian said, he suddenly asked a question: "Father, have you ever thought about this question, what is it like under our city-state, under these isolated islands in the sea that carry the entire civilization today...?"

Duncan didn't speak.

But under the calm appearance, there was a sudden wave of turmoil in his heart.

He really hadn't thought about it, or...he hadn't even realized it was a question before!

In this world, people are used to referring to the "depth" of the world with terms such as "spiritual world", "deep sea" and "subspace", and this structural model can indeed explain this world to a certain extent The current mode of operation, but in fact, this model is only an interpretation based on "occult concepts". Strictly speaking, what it describes is only the "dimensional" structure of this world, not the "physical structure" of the real world !

What Tirian is talking about at this moment is obviously not the dimensional model based on the concept of mysticism. He is referring to the body of water that descends from the surface of the sea in terms of physical concepts.

Corresponding to the classic model of "reality-spiritual world-deep-subspace", the "deep sea" mentioned by Tirian is actually on the first layer of the model: the dimension of reality, but this is only the "deep sea" on the first layer , but it seems to be a complete blank in human cognition.

Duncan never considered this issue because he had a set of "common sense" preconceived. He took it for granted that beneath the city-state there must be geological structures raised in the sea, such as mountains in the sea, or raised craters. It should be something like the seabed, but at this time, he carefully recalled the various knowledge he came into contact with after coming to this world, only to find that... human beings have never had an understanding of an underwater world deeper than 200 meters. Research!

"Obviously, you haven't considered this issue either," Tirian's voice suddenly came, interrupting Duncan's thoughts, "and before I met the Frost Queen, I had never considered this issue—the boundless sea covered In the whole world, our city-state is an isolated island floating on the sea. The protection of the gods has laid a solid foundation for the real world, and the illumination of Vision 001 has brought us a safe and stable day. As for what lies beneath the surface of the water... ...why care? The astral, the deep, the warp...the 'deep regions' of these 'dimensions' are enough to give us headaches."

Tirian said, shaking his head slightly.

"But Her Majesty Rey Nora told me that this issue is very important, as important as the secrets of the 'spiritual world', 'the deep', and the 'subspace', right under our feet, right below the city-state and the sea, right in our In the real world, there is such a vast unknown area, and she is a person full of exploration spirit, she cannot accept that such a large area is shrouded in the unknown within the range of her control."