Deep Sea Embers

For a moment, Lucrezia was a little uncertain how to respond to her elder brother—she stayed awake in the middle of the night and suddenly used a secret magic ball to contact her across thousands of miles, just to make fun of herself.

But soon, the "Sea Witch" vaguely noticed something was wrong.

My old-fashioned elder brother would not do this kind of thing under normal circumstances, and unlike me who always walks alone, my elder brother has an entire fleet to take care of - besides, the ship behind him is obviously not in the sea. Why does the Foghorn's room look a little... familiar?

Through the crystal ball, Tirian noticed the change in Lucrecia's expression.

This is why I made a special trip back to my home port to bring the crystal ball to the Lost Home.

"You can't believe it," the pirate captain breathed out, smiled and walked away two steps, exposing the scene in the cabin in front of the crystal ball and the lens group, "I'm in my room—" A room of one's own'."

Lucrezia listened to the other party's deliberate emphasis, and looked at the picture presented in the crystal ball. At first, she was a little confused, then thoughtful, and then finally her eyes were filled with shock and tension. She was no longer calm at the beginning, and suddenly Stand up immediately: "You..."

"As you can see," Tirian returned to the crystal ball, spreading his hands with a wry smile, "a lot of unexpected things happened, and the final result is... I came here."

Lucrezia stood in front of the crystal ball dumbfounded, silent for six or seven seconds, then frowned, and slowly sat back on the chair.

"I will help you take care of the Fog Fleet," she said calmly, "and your twenty-seven bank accounts in Cold Harbor, Moco, Mormenzo, and Zalbustro, as well as the Sixty-two treasure chests in the northern seas."

This time it was Tirian who jumped up from the crystal ball.

"How did you know..." The big pirate looked at his sister in the crystal ball almost in horror, but he realized in the next second, "You left a mark on the Sea Mist?"

"I don't need such a stupid way," Lucrezia said calmly, "Your hiding method is not very clever - did you keep all the snacks you hid from childhood to the end? "

Tirian's face froze for a moment, and then he sighed helplessly: "I thought those treasure places were chosen to be quite secretive, after all, nothing happened for such a long time..."

"Anyone who owns a fleet as large as the Sea Mist Fleet, even if he puts his treasure in the city center, it is still a 'pirate secret treasure that no one can touch'."

"...I can't say enough about you," Tirian waved his hand, avoiding this slightly embarrassing topic, "It seems that you are not worried about my safety."

"I was worried at first, but if you are really in trouble, you won't be in the mood to joke with me," Lucrezia still looked indifferent, "So, what happened? Why did you Aboard the Lost Home? Father, he..."

"He found my secret port—probably as you said, I've never been good at hiding things," Tirian sighed again. Something is about to move, which has aroused my father's attention, and now he came here to investigate in person, and took the initiative to find me."

Lucrecia frowned: "So, you've already met him, face to face."

Tirian spread his hands: "Do you still need to ask? I am already on board."

Lucrezia fell silent, as if hesitating for something, and after a long time, she said out of nowhere: "...how is father's condition now?"

"He's now...better than we thought," Tirian tried to choose his words, so that his answer would not be affected by the strange things he experienced on the Lost Country, "he really regained his humanity. —and has become a more peaceful man than we remember. He talked to me a lot, about the Fleet of Fog, about the Cold Sea, about me and you, and he told me some ...things about the Warp are, of course, general descriptions."

"You even talked about subspace with him?!" Lucrezia's mouth twitched visibly, "You're not normal anymore, are you?"

"I didn't initiate the conversation," Tirian shrugged, "I just asked him out of curiosity, how the lower cabin was locked—and he told me that the entire lower structure of the Lost Home is in the Warp Soaking inside, locking the door is mainly to prevent someone from falling in."

Lucrezia took a light breath, and even Tirian could clearly see the vibration of her pupils.

"Surprised, nervous, unbelievable, and eye-opening, right?" Tirian smiled wryly, "I understand how you feel, I've experienced these feelings once."

Lucrezia didn't speak again, she seemed to be lost in thought.

For less than a second, she even really thought about whether her brother had been corrupted by the warp, whether he was already a lunatic sitting in front of the crystal ball.

After an unknown amount of time, she broke the silence again: "Father... what are you doing now?"

"I don't know. He went back to the captain's cabin. The other people on the ship said that he was going to use some special methods to investigate the Frost City--I didn't ask for details."

"Is there anyone else on board?" Lucrezia asked in surprise.

Tirian opened his mouth, as if he was about to answer, but was interrupted by a sudden knock on the door, and then he got up and left in front of the crystal ball. From the sound outside the screen, Lucrezia could only hear a faint A few conversations with Jojo.

It seems that someone came to the room to deliver something.

After a while, Tirian returned to the screen, and there was a plate in front of him, which contained freshly baked apple pie.

Lucrezia's exclamation came from the crystal ball in an instant: "You even have apple pie over there?!"

"There is still hot water supply and fresh supplies from Purand on board now," Tirian said casually, "I know this is unimaginable, in fact my father even mentioned that he plans to install a set of steam cores on board, so that we can Let the hot water supply become 24 hours, and you can also add a generator set..."

As he spoke, he spread his hands: "The good news is that now it seems that my father won't mind my modification of the Sea Mist."

Lucrezia: "...?"

...

As the cold night wind blew across the coast, a fleeting faint green fire suddenly streaked across the sky. Before anyone noticed the flame, it had already crashed into an uninhabited corner near the port.

A tall and burly figure, whose whole body was burned by flames, was completely unrecognizable and looked terrifying, stepping out of the flames.

Feeling the cold night wind blowing, Duncan took a deep breath on the frosty land.

In terms of physiological structure, his body has long since lost the ability to breathe, but he can still feel the air flowing into his chest cavity, and then exhale slowly and steadily.

"Frost..." Duncan raised his eyes, glanced at the city area that was being illuminated by lights in the distance, then shook his head, and slowly came to the coast, found a calm pool of water, and sprinkled it with the help of the creation of the world. Looking at the brilliance under the sun, I looked at the face I used now reflected in the stagnant water.

"This look is really like being held down by the sheriff and the guards as soon as you show up."

What was reflected in the pool was a burly and terrifying image, full of majesty, but enough to make people run to the police just by seeing it.

It is really hard to imagine that the original owner of this body was able to maintain the final sobriety with willpower in the last second of his death.

"Belazov... May your soul be safe on the journey." Duncan looked at the reflection in the pond, said goodbye to the old owner of this body for the last time, and then looked up not far away.

Ay was standing on a nearby piece of rubble, and it flapped its wings and let out a loud cooing sound.

Duncan waved his hand, and the pigeon instantly turned into a stream of flame light, and disappeared into the night sky in the blink of an eye.

With the connection established in the depths of the spirit, it can be confirmed that it has arrived on the Lost Homeland in an instant.

Just like the previous test - after the round-trip beacons have been established, Ai can use a method similar to "teleportation" to travel across a long time and space in the blink of an eye, and directly reach the location of each beacon.

Duncan lowered his head and glanced at his current body.

The "incarnation" that I occupy by walking in the spirit world is the "round-trip beacon" that can be used as a positioning point for Ai.

While confirming this, he also recalled the temporary body he occupied when he came to Frost the first night.

Extremely weak, with abnormal perception, and began to disintegrate shortly after leaving the coffin-he didn't bother to do more tests at the time, but now recalling that the body did not bring him the "beacon establishment" at that time feedback.

"Is it one of the characteristics of a replica..." Duncan muttered thoughtfully, "Because it's not a complete mortal body, it can't carry power?"

Just as he was thinking about it, a burst of crackling flames suddenly interrupted his thinking, and then, a dark green flame door appeared out of thin air on the coast beside him.

Ay returns from the Lost Home.

Duncan turned to look at the flame gate floating in mid-air, and three figures had gradually appeared in the light and shadow of the flame.

This is the "helper" he asked Ay to bring from the Lost Home.