Deep Sea Embers

Taran El, an outstanding elven polymath, an expert in the fields of mathematics, mechanics, and natural history, the winner of four lifetime honors awarded by the Academy of Truth.

A person who studies knowledge, a person who is conscientious, a person who can stay in the laboratory without sleep, and a person who makes Lucrezia worry about sudden death at the research site at any time.

Now, in front of everyone, the erudite scholar declared that he was helpless against the geometric light body falling from the sky.

Lucrezia raised her head, her gaze passed the crystal ball in front of her, and she fell on the opposite window. The magnificent brilliance was filling in from that direction. Even at midnight, the entire sea area seemed to be bathed in "sunlight". And among the brilliance, the luminous geometric body like a hill is still floating quietly on the sea surface, and its flat light wall is like a cliff, straddling the sky and the sea.

Another small boat crossed the radiant sea and headed towards the interior of the luminous geometry, preparing to pick up the research team that had completed its duty near the “Stone Ball”.

Lucrezia sighed, looked away from the window, and looked at the table at hand - a strange, dusty sphere was placed on the shelf on the table.

The surface of the sphere was rough, like a rock, with weird undulations and irregular patterns all over the surface. It was not attractive, but it was filled with an indescribable sense of mystery.

In the center of that huge geometric light body floating on the sea surface was a strange "stone ball" with a diameter of ten meters, and the one in front of Lucrecia's eyes... was a shrunken and exact replica of the stone ball.

It is almost the only "achievement" after a long period of research by a large group of experts and scholars.

"Master Taran El has returned to Lightwind Harbor to rest now. Strictly speaking, he was 'tied' back to Lightwind Harbor by his students," Lucrezia shook her head and said to the person on the opposite side of the crystal ball. The elder brother said, "If he doesn't rest anymore, he may die suddenly outside—as an elf, it is too young to die suddenly at the age of five hundred.

"When he left, he seemed very frustrated, because this 'thing that fell from the sky' was really beyond our understanding, whether it was the luminous area around it or the nature of the sphere in the center, it was a mystery to us.

"The researchers scraped some samples from the 'stone ball', but the analysis results showed that they seemed to be fine stone powder. There was no progress in the exploration of the inside of the stone ball-all methods failed, including extraordinary Power, that thing seems to be wrapped in a dense 'shell', hiding all its secrets, and at least until now, we haven't made up our minds to conduct a destructive...'test' on it.

"After tossing for so long, we only reached a consensus, that is... this huge geometric light body should indeed be something that fell off from the rune circle around Vision 001. This is the 'high tower' of Qingfeng Harbor According to the conclusion given there, they carefully observed the gap at the edge of the anomaly 001, and found that the missing part coincided with the 'geometric light body'."

Lucrezia said a lot in one breath. Obviously, she has accumulated a lot of boredom during this time, and Tirian was a good listener. She didn't interrupt the whole process when her sister was talking, until Lucrezia After Thea's voice fell, he slowly opened his mouth: "Has it been confirmed that it is a part that fell off from Vision 001... Lucy, my father had warned the Church of Four Gods in this regard before that, and he said, 'The Sun ’ could be headed for a recession.”

"I've heard about it," Lucrezia nodded lightly, "No one dares to take the warning from 'Captain Duncan' seriously, although the first thing most people do after hearing this warning The reaction was all nervousness and fear of the Homeless..."

Tirian twitched his lips. As a person who has often met with "Duncan Abnomar" and witnessed his father's new methods with his own eyes, he can't comment at this time, so he can only change the subject: "Then your Do you have any follow-up plans? For the 'sun' problem..."

"Can there be any plan? Throw this big stone ball back into the sky? Re-embed it on the sun's rune circle?" Lucrecia shrugged, "I'm afraid only the ancient kingdom of Crete knows how to restore the sky. the sun."

Tyrian fell silent.

After a moment of silence, Lucrezia suddenly asked again: "Does father know about my 'research' here?"

"I haven't told him," Tirian shook his head. "I didn't ask for your opinion. I won't talk too much... What? You want to ask him for help?"

Lucrezia obviously hesitated for a moment, as if she was really moved, but soon she shook her head: "I'll think about it again——Father may not be able to help with this kind of thing, and...well, I'm just a little scared of him."

"Actually, he's really easy to talk about now," Tirian laughed, "but since you don't like it, then I won't interfere, but let's make it clear in advance that if I don't say anything, I don't know when the news will come. It will reach his ears, after all, he has already established contact with the church and the city-state, if he is really interested then, I dare not stop him."

Lucrezia waved her hands irritably. This "Sea Witch" shrouded in mystery in the eyes of outsiders has never concealed her emotions in front of her family: "I know, I know—don't talk about it , When will you give me the spirit world lens mentioned earlier?"

Tirian: "..."

Two seconds later, Lucrezia's dissatisfied cry sounded sharply from the crystal ball: "You forgot again?!?!"

...

"Tirion, you don't look very well."

Early in the morning, Duncan came to Southport, and couldn't help but say something after seeing Tirian's tired expression.

Tirian rubbed his forehead and sighed helplessly: "There are too many things to worry about recently."

This is not an excuse for him, there are indeed a lot of things to worry about recently, and the effort required to manage a city-state is obviously far more than managing a fleet, but then again... the impact of two hours of intensive reading by my sister on my complexion Obviously it is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

But Tirian soon bypassed this slightly awkward topic, he didn't bring up Lucrezia's matter, but straightened his expression: "I called you so early today to tell you—diving The device is ready."

Duncan raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "So fast?"

"After considering that the occupants do not need to breathe, many preparations can be accelerated," Tirian nodded, "and the submersible secretly built by the former Frost government was built based on the blueprint of the Queen's Era, although there are There are many improvements, but the basic principle has not changed much. If you just want to understand its operation method, it is actually a very simple matter."

Duncan looked at Tirian for a while, then nodded with satisfaction after looking away: "Very well, take me there."

"You want to start right away?" Tirian was a little surprised. "We can do some more tests. I invited you here today just to let you see for yourself..."

Duncan interrupted the other party: "You should have done some tests?"

"... A little bit," Tirian hesitated, "After completing the system verification, I arranged for two undead sailors to conduct a short dive of tens of meters last night, mainly to confirm the operation process and working status of the submersible. , there is no problem..."

"That's enough," Duncan nodded, turned around and walked towards the warehouse leading to the underground facility, "Let's just assume that I will complete the follow-up testing process myself, anyway, the official deep-diving operation will still be carried out by me."

Tirian was stunned for a moment, and could only quickly follow Duncan's footsteps. On the way to the facility in a hurry, he couldn't help feeling a little doubtful in his heart.

I don't know if it's an illusion... He always felt that his father looked a little preoccupied today, and this urgent look was different from before.

It was as if he suddenly noticed some clues, or touched some huge secret, and he was driven by an emotion eager to uncover the mystery and explore the truth.

And this hasty appearance... gave Tirian a vague sense of familiarity.

The burly figure in a black overcoat hurriedly walked in front, and Tirian also walked quickly, desperately following behind.

The latter looked at the back of the former, and during this step-by-step pursuit, he suddenly noticed the source of this familiarity——

This feeling, as if many years ago.

When some ancient relic clues are found, when a brand-new shipping route appears on the sea chart, when news about border areas and mysterious visions suddenly spreads to the civilized world, that's what my father at that time would do.

This is what he looked like when he was about to embark on a long voyage.

Long-term yellowed memories uncontrollably surfaced from the depths of his mind, and the scene of following his father to set sail in the past emerged in front of his eyes. In the overlapping images, Tirian's footsteps subconsciously slowed down.

Duncan stopped, turned his head and looked this way suspiciously.

"Tirion, what are you in a daze--follow up quickly."

Tirian was taken aback, and hurriedly agreed as he stepped forward, "Ah... oh, good father!"

Duncan turned around and continued to walk forward, not paying too much attention to Tirian's reaction just now.

Because a sense of urgency to explore this world surged up again, constantly urging him.

This sense of urgency stems from what he gained when he explored the brass key yesterday, and from the corner of the mysterious veil that was suddenly unveiled in this world——

The huge spacecraft that crashed in this world in a certain lost age, the ancient civilization creation called "blasphemy archetype" that originates from the hidden history, and the deep mysteries that even great scholars like Morris have never touched.

There are too many unknown things, and the occasional clues make people realize that the secrets of this world are entangled, like layers of curtains.

Therefore, any opportunity to explore the truth of the world is very precious.

Explorers should be.