Deep Sea Embers

Lucrezia looked at the wind-up doll lying on the experimental table without saying a word, Alice stood opposite the experimental table with a nervous and uneasy look on her face, and Duncan stood beside Alice, watching Go up expressionless.

After the awkward atmosphere lasted for a long time, Lucrezia finally broke the silence first: "...So, Luni took her own head off?"

"...The process is very complicated," Duncan said with a straight face, "I was also surprised."

Lucrezia couldn't help but glanced at Duncan.

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she actually felt that her father, who was always stern and always serious and gloomy, seemed to have a hint of... embarrassment just now.

"I'm sorry..." Alice finally spoke. She lowered her head and carefully grabbed Duncan's clothes, obviously realizing that she had caused trouble again. "I saw that Luni was also a doll, and I thought all dolls were the same. Yes, just... I am also surprised, her head is not pluggable, is it?"

"...It can be seen that Luni also thinks she is the same as you," Lucrezia glanced at the "abnormal 099" who had made countless people fearful and vigilant, "but I didn't design this for her." 'Function'."

At this moment, Luni, who was lying on the experimental table and moving separately, suddenly moved. Her head blinked and her voice sounded a little out of tune: "Mistress, can you help me connect my head first? I'm sorry to give you Sorry for the trouble..."

Lucrezia glanced down at the wind-up doll expressionlessly, sighed, took the tools from the side, and began to dismantle the cover and decoration materials around Luni's body around her neck. Open the mouth: "Why did you follow Alice without thinking?"

"Alice...is a new friend," said Luni's head beside her, with a slight noise as she opened and closed her mouth. "A new friend brought by the old master."

Lucrezia paused for a while, then said nothing, and continued to be busy.

Alice looked at Luni's head with a little anxiety: "Then will we still be friends from now on?"

"Yes," Luni blinked, "but after the mistress fixes me..."

Alice suddenly became happy again, and then seemed to have discovered something extraordinary: "Ah, you don't stutter when you take your head off!"

"Yes, because my head can operate independently, the hostess has installed a complete sounding structure in my skull, and my thinking is not affected by the lack of body structure," Luni explained sternly, "I and Ni The only difference is that my neck doesn't heal when I break it."

Alice thought about it, and although she didn't want to understand, she still nodded: "Oh—that's amazing."

Duncan watched this scene from the side, feeling that this scene was too weird.

It is more evil than a cursed puppet that can lose its head. Sure enough, it has to find another puppet as a friend for this puppet-he hasn't introduced Alice and other weird "minions" on this ship We know each other.

If this naive wandered around on the Brilliant Star, how lively would the ship be?

Lucrezia, who was lowering her head and busy dismantling and repairing Luni's joints, suddenly felt a shock in her heart. She looked up and looked around blankly, but she couldn't find the source of the "wave".

But soon, her attention was on other things.

"What do you think about the 'eyeball' recorded by Master Taran El?" The "Sea Witch" turned his head and looked at Duncan, "This matter must not be announced to ordinary people, but the Four Gods Over there at the church..."

"I'm going to tell them, but I haven't figured out what channel to use, and whether it's necessary to have some more direct contact with their senior management." Duncan also quickly calmed down the messy thoughts in his mind, with a serious expression He said, "The key now is not that 'the body of Vision 001 is an eyeball encapsulated in a man-made spherical shell'. After all, Vision 001 has been unknown to ordinary people since the beginning of history. No matter how weird and frightening its real appearance is, it is possible that what is really important is the appearance of the eyeball."

"The shape of that eyeball..." Lucrezia slowed down her hand movements, and frowned slightly, "You said, it is very similar to... a certain structure of the creeping sun?"

"The main body of the creeping solar disc is an ancient god surrounded by the corona and roasted. Between the layers of tentacles, a huge eyeball structure is its main feature," Duncan nodded, and said casually, " I'm very impressed with that eyeball - it's been looking me in the eye for a long time."

Listening to her father's narration, Lucrezia suddenly looked around anxiously, and looked at Duncan with some hesitation: "Talk about the ancient gods directly at sea..."

"It's not a big problem. Even if that guy's 'gaze' is really attracted, it will only fall on me." Duncan waved his hand, "And I was looking for it all the time."

Lucrezia opened her mouth, but suddenly she didn't know how to answer.

She has seen a lot of worlds wandering in the boundless sea in this century, and she has dealt with more lunatics, and she has participated in no matter how taboo and dangerous topics and incidents, but those taboo and dangerous topics are not in this kind of violent discussed in an atmosphere.

She felt that it might indeed take a long time for her to relearn how to get along with her father today.

Duncan didn't care about Lucrezia's subtle expression for a moment, and after a moment of contemplation, he thought of another thing: "Do you still remember the 'intruder' that appeared in Taran El's dream? The projection of that son of the sun."

"I remember, you said that it looked like a smaller 'creeping sun'," Lucrezia nodded, "and you also mentioned that the 'child of the sun' had a brief exchange with you, it And its minions are looking for something in that dream."

Duncan nodded slightly, and then spoke unhurriedly: "The core of vision 001 is an 'eyeball' that is very similar to the core part of the 'creeping sun', and twelve hours after vision 001 went out, the sun The descendants invaded the 'Dream of the Nameless' through Taran Al's dream, and brought their minions to look for something in that dream. There is obviously a relationship between these two things;

"On the other hand, for thousands of years, believers of the black sun have declared that what they worship is the 'true sun god', and called the sun in the sky a 'false sun'. Their delusional delusion is that the spiritual pollution of the black sun caused those believers to have a biased perception of the world, but Taran Al discovered that there was really a very similar "worm" sealed inside the vision 001 when the sun went out. The eyeball of the sun wheel' core structure;

"Finally, it is the Annihilation Cultist who invaded the Dream of the Nameless—according to the information I have collected, the purpose of the Annihilation Cultist is different from that of the Sun Cultists. They are looking for the 'original blueprint before the creation of the Holy Lord' in that dream. , but according to the records in the "Book of Blasphemy", the Crete clan was guided by the 'Holy Lord of the Deep' during the creation of the world, and may have even personally helped them create Vision 001, so strictly speaking... the current vision 001, which is the "false sun" in the mouth of the Sun Cultists, can also be regarded as the "masterpiece" of the Youshen Lord, which is a part of the original blueprint.

"The last point may also explain the 'cooperative state' between the Annihilation Sect and the Sun Sect that I observed-they are indeed cooperating, but obviously the relationship is not harmonious."

Duncan slowly talked about what he had been thinking for a while, then raised his eyelids and looked into Lucrezia's eyes.

"In this information, what do you think of?"

Lucrezia had already stopped what she was doing unknowingly, her expression changed a few times, her solemn expression was a little disturbed, and after a long time, she broke the silence in a low voice: "... even a person who worships the black sun Heretics stand here, I am afraid that this is a bit extreme..."

"...I heard similar words not long ago," Duncan shook his head and said, "Now I only hope that the deepest truth of our world will not be crazier than this—otherwise, in the face of real history, I am afraid that even the most extreme The cultists are also going to look conservative."

Lucrezia didn't speak, but slowly lowered her eyes in thought.

Luni's head was still lying on the experimental table, meeting the eyes of the contemplative mistress.

After a while, Lu Ni finally couldn't help but said: "Mistress... are you still pretending? Why don't you go to the next door to rest for a while? You can ask the rabbi to help..."

Lucrezia exhaled, temporarily shook off the distracting thoughts in her mind, picked up the tool in her hand and continued to work: "The rabbi will only stuff your head into its own stomach to make up for its endless 'cotton' Thirst - don't move, I'm going to put your head back."

"oh."

...

At the same time, in the Consul's office in Qingfeng Harbor, Consul Sarah Mel unfolded a document that had just been delivered to her desk. Looking at the contents on it, the elf who had lived for a long time felt a little bit frown.

The document came from the Church of the Four Gods—not issued by a single church, but with the seals of the four popes, witnessed by the Four Gods, and sent to every city-state on the boundless sea.

Establish an early warning system jointly constructed by the city-state-church-explorer association to monitor the city-state, the sea surface and the changes that may occur at any time below the sea surface, and be alert to the recurrence of the frost crisis and the awakening of the ancient gods;

The Church of the Four Gods dispatched part of the patrol fleet from the border to the interior of the civilized world to respond to emergencies around the world at any time.

Although the above two contents are worrying, they are still normal, at least for the rulers of the city-state, this is still an understandable "work content".

What really made Consul Sarah Meier frown was the last item in the document that seemed to be mentioned inadvertently, but was particularly eye-catching and important——

"All city-states need to pay attention to any warning signals from the Lost Homeland or the Lost Homeland Fleet. If the ship of the Lost Homeland is found to be operating in the waters around the city-state...you must not take any hostile actions, and you should cooperate...as the situation requires."