Deep Sea Embers

In a laboratory in the depths of the Bright Star, Lucrezia completed a rough inspection of Taran El.

With the cooperation of the Academy of Truth, it was not difficult to transfer this great scholar to the ship, but it was obviously not that simple to figure out what happened to him. It was the first time for the "Sea Witch" who was famous in the field of curses to see such a situation.

Taran El was obviously trapped in some kind of deep dream, but his entrapment showed no "cursed" reaction at all, and no signs of mental pollution.

Lucrezia lit the three candlesticks in the corner of the laboratory, and sprinkled herbal powder prepared by herself in the incense burner in front of the candlesticks, and then she came to Taran Ayer's side again, There are spars, bone fragments and other things around the opponent.

The wind-up doll "Luni" with a ceramic shell and the rabbit doll "Rabbi" were helping in the laboratory, and seeing the solemn expression on the hostess' face, Luni couldn't help but said: "The situation is bad? Is this elf in danger?"

"The situation is unknown-this is worse than the situation," Lucrecia said with a serious expression, "Talan Ayr fell into a deep sleep after trying to observe the sun. If there is a connection between these two things, then This means that there may be more than one such deep sleep situation. How many people looked up during the extinguishment of the sun? To what extent do you want to 'observe' this kind of deep sleep? How many people have made contact with this elf? As bold a move as a scholar?"

When she said this, she slowly shook her head.

"Talan Ayr's actions are very bold, but in the vast sea, there is more than one scholar as brave as him."

"Do you need us to do anything else?" Rabbi the rabbit doll bounced over from the side, raised his head and said softly.

"Next, I will try to connect to Taran Ayer's dream, and help him open the passage to return to the real world from the other side, but considering that the situation in this dream may be complicated, I want you to take good care of the room. If I still haven’t woken up after three hours, you should extinguish all the candles in order from high to low, which can force me to wake up.”

"Yes," Luni lowered her head, "Three hours, from high to low, I will remember."

"The rabbi can dream with the hostess!" The doll rabbit jumped over and hugged Lucrezia's leg and said expectantly, "The rabbi is a rabbit that can dream!"

"One nightmare is enough," Lucrezia refused the rabbit doll's hospitality without hesitation, "I don't want such a great scholar to die suddenly on my boat."

"Okay, okay, the rabbi knows~" The rabbit doll lowered its head, made a frustrated voice, and walked to the corner of the room while muttering, and sat on the floor with a "poof".

Lucrezia glanced at the doll, and didn't continue to talk to him. Instead, after confirming that all the elements of the ceremony were ready, she sat on a high-backed chair opposite Taran Ayer, and then casually called Snap your fingers.

The three candlesticks burning quietly in the corner were instantly covered with a layer of illusory veil, and all the utensils in the entire laboratory seemed to be coated with a layer of phantom by this layer of illusory and hazy light. The "Sea Witch" slowly Slowly lowering his head, he entered a dream in the next second.

...

On the Lost Country, in the captain's cabin, Morris and Duncan are sitting at the nautical table, and on the wall not far behind them, Agatha's hazy and illusory figure is emerging in the simple and old oval mirror.

"Ai has already flown over to confirm that the big island in front of us is indeed a breeze port," Duncan said, "Now the Lost Country is hiding in the depths of the spirit world, and we will contact Lucrecia before landing on the island." , and confirm the current situation in the city-state from her. As for now... what is before us is still the problem of the Lost Homeland moving out of thin air."

"Frankly, I have no clue," Morris bit his pipe, his brows furrowed like rifts, "I've heard of various 'teleportation' events, some with specific vision effects, some like The cursed anomaly like 'Sailor' is at work, but what happened to the Lost Home is obviously different from that... At present, the 'sun goes out' is the most likely cause of the Lost Home's teleportation, But those of us on the ship never noticed how and when this change happened..."

"So I've always felt that it wasn't the Lost Home that was in trouble, but the 'whole world' outside of the Lost Home," Duncan said in a deep voice, "The news from Captain Lawrence also hinted at this—when the sun goes out Then, beyond our sight, incomprehensible changes took place in the sea. Tyrian's report also shows this."

"Is there any further news from Mr. Tirian?" Agatha's voice suddenly sounded from the mirror, "Is there any response from Cold Harbor?"

"...Yes, the situation is developing in the weirdest direction," Duncan nodded, "Tirion has reconfirmed with the city-states that had previously lost contact, judging from the responses from various places... including Cold Harbor. Not only did the other city-states in the city not know about the extinction of the sun, they didn't even know that the communication between them and Frost had been interrupted."

Agatha's expression suddenly changed slightly.

She opened her mouth: "That is to say..."

"That is to say, they didn't experience the twelve hours when the sun went out," Duncan said slowly. "In their eyes, the world has always been running normally, and everything in Frost, Prand, and Breezy Harbor is also normal, and then suddenly Jian Frost sent a lot of inexplicable and nervous messages, saying something like 'the sun went out' and 'communication was interrupted'-now the tense atmosphere is spreading among several city-states, using Tirian 'They desperately need to figure out which side is not normal'."

Morris listened while thinking, and then he slowly put down his pipe: "Then it can be understood in this way—after the sun went out, the time of the whole world stood still for twelve hours, and the ship including the Lost Country and the three city-states Inside, it was actually 'falsely staying normal' during these twelve hours, as if in a nightmare where everyone slept peacefully, we... accidentally opened our eyes and saw the place located in time. The truth in the cracks."

Duncan showed a thoughtful look.

It must be admitted that a university student is a university student. Although Morris could not explain the rationale behind all this, he put forward a very instructive conjecture.

So can this conjecture continue to be extended? In the world after the sun went out, are there more weird changes that have never been noticed by people? Even making this guess a little more extreme...

Is the sun really going out for the first time?

These speculations floated in everyone's minds, and the captain's room fell into silence for a while, but at this moment, Duncan seemed to have sensed something suddenly, and frowned slightly suspiciously: "Huh?"

"Captain?" Agatha asked immediately, "Have you thought of anything?"

"...No, it's something else." Duncan waved his hands while continuing to perceive and listen. His eyes seemed to be unfocused, or he was looking at a place that was not in the room. "There is a breath... ..."

He suddenly raised his head and looked across at Morris.

"What is Heidi doing now?"

"Heidi?" Morris was taken aback, wondering why the captain suddenly brought up this matter, "Heidi is staying in Prand, at this time there should be confusion over there because the sun went out, the city hall will probably call her Go... is something wrong with Heidi?!"

The university scholar finally reacted, his face suddenly became tense.

"She shouldn't be in too much danger, but the state of the talisman I left her is a little bit wrong," Duncan frowned, and then waved his hand into the air. With the dark green flame rising into the air, Ai's figure appeared in the air In the air beside him, "I need a passage to the dream."

...

"That is to say, you were actually 'treating' others, and then you didn't know what happened, but you came to my dream—and then you thought I was an intruder, so you poked my neck with that awl?"

The elf scholar who called himself "Talan El" looked serious, looking at the "golden cone" in Heidi's hand and talking slowly.

"Why do I feel that there are so many things wrong with your words?"

"Actually..." Heidi's face was full of embarrassment. If there is anything worse than accidentally injuring a patient with a gold cone and being discovered on the spot, it must be that he was not discovered on the spot. Analyzing this matter with such a serious attitude - this elf scholar's reaction is really deviated from ordinary people, Heidi has seen many strange patients over the years, but this is the first time I have seen this type of patient, " I also feel that something is wrong ... but what I say is true."

"What you said is true, um," Taran Al nodded, and then asked again, "What about the 'another patient' you mentioned?"

Heidi immediately turned around and pointed to the direction she came from: "That building is her dream...land..."

Her words gradually stopped, and her expression became stiff.

In the direction of her finger, among the lush and lush giant trees and vines, a medical facility that was once so big... has disappeared at some point.

"It's gone..." Heidi muttered to herself, turning her head slowly, "But it was really there before, a big..."

"Miss Psychiatrist," Taran Eyre interrupted Heidi's self-talk. The elf scholar spread his hands with a helpless expression on his face, "It's hard for me to believe you when you're like this."