Deep Sea Embers

Now, everyone staying here finally has a better understanding of the owner of the Lost Home - at least from the starting point of "enhancing understanding and strengthening dialogue", this is half the result.

It's a pity that the atmosphere became awkward after "enhancing understanding".

A strange silence lingered in the hall. Several popes, including Helena, seemed to not know whether to continue the topic for a moment. Vanna and Morris looked a little nervous, and Shirley was comforting them. Agou felt uneasy, and Nina looked at Duncan with some curiosity - the sudden starlight had no effect on her.

Lucretia looked at everyone in the hall with a half-smile, and for some reason there was a hint of schadenfreude in her smile.

Only Alice, Miss Doll, still maintained her consistent wandering state. She was still in a state of mindlessness at this time. When Rune started to use the concept of "collection" to explain the world, she turned off her brain, and then After a while, she seemed to suddenly react and looked around in surprise and confusion: "Is it over? Are you ready to prepare dinner?"

The absent-minded words of Miss Doll finally broke the embarrassment and silence at the scene. Banster raised his head, his eyes fell on Duncan, and after a few seconds he couldn't help but say: "...What on earth was that just now? ?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Frame, who was closest to him, immediately took several steps away.

"...I'm just asking." Banster glanced at Helena and Luen, who were also retreating to the side, and shook his head helplessly.

"I have many secrets, some...even I don't know much about myself," Duncan didn't mind, but shook his head helplessly. Then he looked at Lu En, who was standing opposite, with a serious look on his expression. , "But I'm very grateful to you and Morris for the conjectures you just put forward...your ideas helped me clear up a little confusion."

"...Then I hope you can tell me in advance next time you solve the mystery," Lu En said helplessly, "although this request seems a bit unreasonable."

Duncan laughed: "...I try my best."

This dangerous topic was finally over, but the thoughts aroused by the "ensemble model" proposed by Rune were still lingering in the hearts of many people. Duncan returned to his seat, he touched his pocket, and his fingers Touched the folded paper——

The primordial ashes, the "intersection" of world laws, the conflict between compatibility and incompatibility, the perspective of an observer within the scope of a subset, and...

He took his hand out of his pocket and exhaled softly.

Lucretia looked at Duncan involuntarily.

A sense of heart palpitations suddenly appeared for no reason, causing her heart to beat several times suddenly. She subconsciously looked at her father, but she felt that at a certain moment just now, when she turned her eyes to a certain point, For a moment, it seemed like my father... wasn't there anymore.

He went to a place far, far away, so far away that he was no longer in this world. In that brief moment... Lucretia seemed to feel the same feeling she had when she watched the Lost Home enter the thick fog at the border a century ago. Feel.

But that was only a brief illusion. When she blinked again, Duncan's figure was still sitting there, as if it had never moved from the beginning.

"Then, what are the other questions?" Duncan raised his head and looked at Helena, Luen and others across the table who had also just sat down again.

Alice scratched her hair and sat back next to Duncan: "Oh, it turns out it's not over yet."

Opposite him, Lu En glanced at Alice with a subtle look, and then sorted out his thoughts for a while. However, just when he was about to say something, he suddenly stopped.

He frowned slightly, as if he was listening to the sound coming from afar. Seeing this, Helena next to him immediately reacted: "Is there any news?"

"Psionic communication from Breeze Port, Ted Leal is contacting me." Rune raised his head, his expression became a little solemn, "He said that the research facility set up near the 'luminous geometry' suddenly received Some signals released from the light body..."

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Lucretia.

"It's exactly the same signal that the Brilliant Star received during the previous solar outage."

Lucretia stood up instantly.

It's dusk now - the sun hasn't quite set yet.

Vision 001 is gradually approaching the sea level. About one-third of the two brilliant luminous rune rings have touched the distant sea. The sun has created a magnificent sunset between the sky and the sea. The glow makes the entire sea area All sprinkled with a fine layer of gold.

In the other direction, in the offshore waters of Qingfeng Port, the huge "luminous geometry" is still floating quietly on the sea, and another piece of pale golden "sunshine" is evenly sprinkled around the geometry with the geometry as the center. The sea creates a unique scenery of "two different kinds of sunlight intertwining between the sky and the sea".

The "sunlight" released from that glowing geometry is warm and calming, and looks the same as ever.

However, according to the records of highly sensitive observation instruments - certain specific spectra in the "sunlight" are "vibrating" periodically in an extremely complex pattern at the moment, continuously releasing incomprehensible waveform signals outwards.

Duncan and others came to the stern deck of the ship and looked at the huge "luminous geometry" near Qingfeng Port in the interweaving glow of the twilight.

Frame looked at Rune and said in a deep voice: "Is the signal still going on?"

"It's still going on. The signal transmission period is twelve seconds. It repeats three times and then appears again with an interval of thirty seconds." Rune nodded and said, "Ted Leal has arrived at the research station and he is personally monitoring the equipment there... …”

"The sending cycle and repetition pattern are exactly the same as last time."

Lucretia spoke quickly, while looking up at the nearby sea: her "Brilliant Star" was quietly docked next to the Lost Home, and at this moment there was a special structure on the top of the bridge of the ship. It's spinning slowly——

A cabin that looks like a mechanical bud is pointing one side of it towards the distant sea. The shielding structure at the front of the cabin is opened, and the precision optical lens hidden inside shines in the sunlight.

"I am ordering the servants left on the ship to open the optical lenses on the Brilliant Star," Lucretia explained to Duncan next to her while paying attention to the movements on her ship. "When the sun went out before, it was me. First, a strange light signal was observed, and then Qingfeng Harbor manufactured similar equipment and installed it on the research facility... Theoretically, if the signal was observed at the research station, we should be able to observe it here too arrive."

"It's not affected even though it's so far away?" Nina on the side couldn't help but asked in surprise.

"The light will attenuate and be interfered with, but this distance is not a problem yet - the key now is what this weird signal means," Lucretia frowned, with worry in her tone, "Last time The signal appeared after the sun went out, but this time the signal appeared, there was nothing wrong with the sun..."

"Let's approach Qingfeng Port first to ensure that there will be no problems in the city-state." Duncan said, and as his words fell, the Homeless Ship began to turn its bow and slowly accelerated in the direction of Qingfeng Port.

The Brilliant Star next to it also received Lucrecia's order after a short delay and made the same reaction.

Luen looked at the Brilliant Star's flexible movements with some surprise, as well as the "synchronous response" of the peculiar "experimental cabin" on the upper part of the bridge during the adjustment of the hull's attitude. He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "What an exquisite design... …Ms. Lucretia, you did all of this yourself?”

"I have spent a hundred years designing a 'pioneer exploration ship' that can complete border missions under any circumstances. This ship has many parts that I am proud of," Lucretia said casually, "But at this time Are you still in the mood to analyze the engineering technology used on the Brilliant Star?"

"Anyway, we have nothing else to do," Lu En shrugged, not looking panic at all, "It would be better to say that I am a little bit looking forward to it now - an incredible phenomenon has appeared, and this is something I have never been exposed to before. If we can really decipher the secret of the signal emitted by that luminous geometric object, maybe we will have a chance to truly understand what the 'sun' above our heads is going on, which is a good thing."

Lucretia didn't say a word. She had transferred most of her energy to the Brilliant Star and the "servants" left on the ship.

Those servants were all made by her own hands - each servant contained a fragment of her soul, and each servant and even the entire ship were equivalent to an extension of her body.

She cautiously issued orders to put the complex and sophisticated observation equipment on board the Brilliant Star into operation.

"...The signal strength exceeded what I observed last time." She suddenly raised her head and looked at the pale golden sunlight that diffused on the sea. "The situation seems to be different from last time..."

Duncan looked in another direction - the "sun" that was slowly sinking, with one-third of its structure falling below the sea level, Vision 001.

"The sun went out last time..." Shirley's nervous voice came from the side. She looked quite uneasy, "No matter what this time, the sun doesn't seem to have changed at all..."

She only spoke half of her words.

A low humming sound suddenly seemed to sound in everyone's heart.

A strange feeling of uneasiness interrupted everyone's conversation.

The distant sky suddenly darkened.

Shirley raised her head with a dull expression and looked towards the direction where the sky was darkening.

A dark, chaotic, hollow-like sphere, and two ring-shaped "bright edges" that looked like hot steel, were quietly resting on the horizon.

The sun went out again.

"...That's stupid."