Deep Sea Embers

At that final moment, a sharp cold light appeared in the depths of boundless emptiness and chaos, and the broken information that flooded in like a tidal wave almost drowned out the tiny flame that penetrated into the "sample".

In a slight trance, Duncan heard Shirley beside him exclaiming: "Be careful!"

The trance consciousness and the real world overlapped again, and Duncan instinctively took half a step back. The next second, he saw a sword point shining with silver light appear in front of him.

The tip of the sword stopped only ten centimeters from the tip of his nose, and it was still slowly extending forward.

"Aggression!" Ted Lear, who had been staring at the containment sample, reacted instantly. He let out a low cry, and then quickly patted the big book in his hand. It diffuses outwards, covers the surface of the sample in an instant, and quickly condenses and thickens, turning into layers of barriers.

At the same time, Duncan also withdrew the flame that had infiltrated the sample. At the same time, his consciousness quickly regained consciousness, and his eyes turned to the "sample" in front of him again.

On the containment platform, the solidified iron-gray metal group suddenly deformed just now, and a part of its "shell" bulged instantly, and condensed into a shape like a sharp sword.

But the "sharp sword" that suddenly condensed did not stab anyone, it only protruded halfway, and it seemed to be grabbed by a huge force, and it is still slowly extending outward bit by bit. It's not so much "stabbed"...it's more like a sword is being gradually "expelled" from the sample.

A small "baton" appeared in Lucrezia's hands at some point. She quickly took two steps forward, and directly tapped the baton on the She touched the middle of the "long sword", but just as she was about to further destroy the structure, Duncan suddenly stopped her: "Wait."

Lucrezia abruptly stopped the spell she was about to cast, and turned her head to look at her father in confusion. Ted Lear, who was about to take the next step, and Nina, who was already on fire, also stopped quickly. Come down and cast a puzzled look.

Duncan waved his hands at them, and then carefully avoided the blade that was still slowly extending outward. He came to the side of the iron-gray "living metal" and stared at its "shell".

It didn't really "activate", only the blade that extended outwards changed, and the rest of the sample still showed a stagnant and frozen state as before.

The chaotic and fragmented information is still circling in his mind, as if a person's memory has been completely torn into pieces and mixed indiscriminately, and then "poured" in front of his eyes. Duncan sorted out those fragmented memories over and over again, trying to reassemble them. Compose useful information.

He saw many things—the ominous "crimson", the scars across the sky, the warriors who set out, the fallen companions one by one, a gradually distorted and rotting world, a meaningless journey, great confusion, anger , fear, the ensuing death and peace, and all kinds of bizarre images constantly emerging in the insanity.

Duncan suspected that if other ordinary people saw these things—even if they only saw a small part of them, they would probably be completely polluted by some dangerous knowledge carried in those messages.

But these polluting "knowledge" are just some chaotic fragments to him. After sorting and recalling again and again, he has gradually begun to combine them into continuous memories.

Then he raised his head and looked at the long sword that had been extended by more than half. After a little hesitation, he stretched out his finger and touched its surface.

The cold and hard metal touch came from the fingertips.

Duncan slowly closed his eyes. He could feel that when he touched the long sword, the chaotic and broken memory fragments in his mind became clearer and coherent again. He understood everything that had happened.

He opened his eyes, looking at the last crumb of that distant and ancient world, watching the last counterattack of the unknown warrior against the doomsday—he gently pinched this crumb, feeling it Pass the connection to yourself, then slowly pull it out.

The flames endowed the long sword with a little extra strength, and it finally broke free from the mass of living metal.

The workmanship is excellent, the blade is slender, the hilt is wrapped with fine linen, and the gauntlet is inlaid with bright crystals whose purpose and material are unknown. Now, it has passed through a long time and has come to the world in its original and "correct" posture. This... the deep sea era.

Including Ted Lear, everyone in the room stared wide-eyed, watching the scene in front of them in astonishment. Lucrezia finally couldn't help but ask, "Dad, what is this?"

Duncan lowered his head and looked at the nameless sword in his hand. After thinking for a long time, he slowly said, "This is a weapon that was planned to fight against the end of the world."

"Fight against the end of the world?" Shirley's eyes widened in an instant. "Using a sword? Is this something magical that can split the sea in legendary stories? The kind blessed by the four gods?"

Duncan shook his head: "It's just a sword—their best sword, it's very sharp, but even if it's used to the extreme, it can only be used to kill larger beasts or armed humans... It's the limit of what they can do."

Lucrezia and Ted Lear looked at each other, unable to understand for a while, but Nina vaguely understood, and immediately asked, "What did you see?"

Duncan was still sorting out the messy and incomplete memories in his mind, but after a short thought, he still broke the silence: "It's just some fragments, things that happened a long, long time ago..."

He described what he saw—in as understandable a manner as possible.

He couldn't speak quickly, because there were too many incomplete fragments and too much information that even he himself could not understand. It is a concept that is difficult for Na and others to understand.

It was his first attempt at explaining what a "planet" was to the people of this world—after talking to Alice last time, he finally decided to give it a try.

But explaining an unfamiliar concept requires ten more basic knowledge points, and each unfamiliar knowledge point requires more knowledge to supplement, and there are countless of them that are completely counter-common sense and counter-intuitive to people in this world. Things, even if all of them were explained, no one could picture them, put them together in their minds.

Ted Lear and Lucrezia are struggling to understand, and their endless questions will continue to prolong the explanation time-finally Duncan realizes that if he is going to explain all the basic concepts, he will be afraid. It requires at least half a year of full-time teaching.

Therefore, he can only pass many things over, or use metaphors to temporarily fill in the gaps in knowledge and concepts.

In the end, despite his efforts, Nina and the others could only understand part of it, but at least this time they generally understood what happened.

Shirley is still immersed in the shock brought by a long "story", Nina is still thinking about those weird words mentioned by Duncan just now, and the two scholars at the scene... Lucrezia and Ted Lear His face was as heavy as water, and he had obviously thought of a lot.

"The end of the world..." Ted Lear whispered to himself, "If what you're seeing really points to an end of the world, when it happens..."

"Before the Great Annihilation," Duncan affirmed the other party's unspoken question, and then raised the long sword in his hand, "The 'black wall' that has been standing in front of historians for a long time has now opened a gap. This sword...maybe It is the first 'relic' that can be confirmed and passed from before the time node of the Great Annihilation to the current deep sea era."

"A historic moment... just happened." Ted Lear sighed with a complex expression. Facing the news that could shake the entire academic world, he only felt that his mind was in chaos, and suddenly appeared The countless information was impacting his long-established knowledge system, and even impacting his cognition of the world, so that he couldn't help praying to Raheem in his heart, and imposed mental protection and psychological hints on himself, so as to Prevent your own sanity from being damaged.

Lucrezia suddenly raised her head after a long period of silent thinking, and looked into Duncan's eyes: "You just mentioned a lot of weird concepts, those... are the things you mentioned earlier that are hard to explain to me ?”

"It's just a small part of it, a very, very small part," Duncan whispered. "I should have told you this sooner."

Lucrezia just shook her head lightly. She neither complained nor asked why her father was willing to explain those things to herself now—there must be reasons for his father to do so. When he was willing to speak, It will come out naturally.

She was just a little curious as to why her father knew these incredible things.

Does that knowledge... come from subspace?

On the other side, Ted Leal suddenly realized a problem after thinking for a while.

"According to what you've seen, under the influence of that 'red light', the world was engulfed in lava, the earth was torn apart, and everyone died... Then how did the deep sea era start today?"

He raised his hand to gesture and slashed down with his palm, imitating a fault.

"This is incoherent, Captain Duncan - after the destruction of that world, before the beginning of the deep sea age, there should be a process of change. The world you see is different from any race, place, Even legends cannot correspond..."

"Indeed, I can't correspond," Duncan nodded lightly, his eyes fell on the group of "samples" on the platform, and after a long time, he finally expressed a guess that he had in his mind a long time ago, "So ...That world didn't pass down much like the world of humans, elves, and Sen'jin, and what we see is all that's left of that world."

"'That world'..." Ted Leal and Lucretia looked at each other for a moment. At this moment, they finally understood what Duncan meant.

In Duncan's mind, the "moon" of his hometown finally appeared in front of him again.

What emerged with it was the words Alice once said to herself with a smile——

"Captain, is this a brainteaser?"

The expression on Duncan's face changed slightly, the muscles at the corners of his mouth trembled a few times, and finally turned into a smile that neither Nina nor Lucrezia could understand.

"Yeah, this is really a brain teaser..."

He whispered in a voice only he could hear.