Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 772 Leigh Nora’s “Travel”

The "lair" fell into silence for a while, and even the seemingly endless tremors among the stars suddenly calmed down - Le Nora saw that the humanoid entity in front of her seemed to enter stasis due to her words, until a long time later, The stagnant starlight suddenly began to expand and contract again.

"Is there only one lamp? What else is around the lantern? Where is it approximately?" Zhou Ming stared into the eyes of the Frost Queen and asked quickly.

"There is only a lantern, hanging on a broken wooden board, and there is nothing else - they are floating in the thick fog out of thin air," Le Nora said immediately, "As for the location... right here at your place. Next to the 'palace', very close, almost right next to..."

Speaking of this, she suddenly stopped, seemed to recall more details, organized her words and continued: "That lantern is actually not very bright. It stands to reason that it will not shine very far in the thick fog, but I just I saw it as soon as I arrived at this place. I controlled my 'drift house' to get closer to it. It took me a long time to actually arrive here. It felt like... the light of that lamp was not affected by distance or intensity. Without the interference of fog, as long as it lights up in this place, its light can be seen anywhere in this dense fog."

Listening to the other party's description, Zhou Ming couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and Lei Nora then added: "Of course these are my subjective conjectures - you should know that many things here are... 'Not quite right', I guess it's hard for me to tell if what I'm seeing or feeling is real."

"I understand." Zhou Ming whispered, and then he seemed to remember something and suddenly stood up and walked towards the desk not far away.

Leigh Nora stayed on the sofa, motionless out of caution - in her eyes, the wriggling starlight entity suddenly extended to another direction, as if it "moved" far away in a path and way that was difficult to judge rationally. place, and then stayed there.

She didn't understand what the other person was doing.

Zhou Ming took out a piece of paper from the edge of the desk, picked up a pencil, and quickly sketched on the paper - he drew a lantern, classical shape, brass material, trying to restore the lost home in every detail The one hanging in the captain's cabin.

After a while, he returned to Le Nora with the painting and showed the picture on the paper to her: "Is this a lantern like this?"

The humanoid starlight entity opened its limbs, and the countless eyes at the end of the limbs focused on one point, and projected an illusory projection on the front of the eyeball, which looked like a lantern.

Leigh Nora's whole body tensed up instantly, because in most cases, the things that higher-dimensional beings casually show to mortals can instantly kill those reckless prying eyes, even well-trained scholars - but soon , she discovered that she had not fallen into madness.

Those focused eyeballs just showed gentle gazes, friendly and patiently waiting for her answer - it seemed that she had completely "adapted" to these stars.

"...It's very similar," Le Nora calmed down and carefully observed the illusory image, "I can't remember the details, but they are at least seven to eight points similar."

After hearing this answer, Zhou Ming breathed out softly and confirmed his suspicion.

It was the lantern left by "him" - during his final voyage in 1800, Duncan Abnormar arrived at this place and left a "mark"-like light.

Thoughts were swirling in his mind, and Zhou Ming didn't speak for a long time. He was lost in thought, and many hazy associations gradually emerged.

The lamp in the fog... From a symbolic point of view, its meaning is not only "illumination", but its function in more cases is actually "guidance".

For ships lost in the fog, the lights piercing the fog represent the correct course - at least, the course leading to safety and shelter.

My hut is located deep in the thick fog. This may be the border, or it may be a place further away than the border. Here, the road to the world of order is hidden in the chaos...

That lantern has established a "link" here. In terms of location, it points to the Infinite Sea and the Lost Home, and in terms of time... it points to the day when the Lost Home returns to the real world and points to the end of the Infinite Sea. At the end.

Zhou Ming pondered, his eyes flickering slightly in thought.

After experiencing many things, he has vaguely grasped many "deep laws" of this world, and the most important one is the surprising role of "information" in the operation of all things.

And obviously, the "captain" who once reached the end of the world also touched this field - it seems that "he" knew many truths during the final voyage of the Lost Home.

Zhou Ming turned around and stared at the door of the apartment quietly.

As he watched, the door seemed to be open, and the dark fog was swirling outside the door. On the other side of the fog was the Lost Home, the captain's cabin of the Lost Home, and the side next to the "Lost Home". The wall of "Hometown Gate".

It's the place where the lantern hangs.

It turned out that it was hanging at my door and has been hanging there ever since.

Zhou Ming blinked, and the imaginary scene disappeared from his mind. The door was still closed, waiting for the owner to open and return.

Leigh Nora carefully remained silent. She could not distinguish human expressions from the starlight, but she could feel that this being was thinking very important things - his thinking set off a layer of chaos in this chaos. Layers of ripples, low and fuzzy howls echoed in all directions all the time. She recalled the training she had received since childhood, trying not to listen, think, or understand the sounds that echoed in her ears.

She wants to prevent her mind from "melting" into the other person's thinking activities, and she wants to avoid becoming a fleeting thought of the other person.

Fortunately, this frightening thought finally ended - the low whistling around him gradually calmed down, and the starlight looked at him gently again.

"Sorry, I was a little distracted," Zhou Ming said politely, "Now tell me about your other adventures, I'm very interested in it."

Le Nora breathed a sigh of relief—compared to "listening" to this being's voice, she found that it was easier to "speak" on her own.

"...After I got out of there, I couldn't control my 'drifting house' well for a while at first, so I just drifted with it for a long time - in fact, I suspect that I went through it for much longer than you know, Because I encountered a lot of weird phenomena in the timeline..."

This time, Zhou Ming did not interrupt the "Frost Queen"'s narration. He listened patiently and with interest, while Leigh Nora recounted the many incredible things he experienced after gaining freedom. .

Frankly speaking, most of the experiences during those journeys had no reference for the problems Zhou Ming was facing and solving at the moment. Most of them were bizarre scenery or wonderful phenomena that could be seen in the spiritual world - just for Lei. ·For Nora, it was an amazing journey that she could not imagine and had never experienced when she was the ruler of the Frost City State.

This "Her Majesty the Queen" got her wish and became a traveler, witnessing countless scenery during her long journey.

Then, Leigh Nora finally mentioned the "turbulence" she encountered for the last time and the process of arriving at the thick fog here.

"...I encountered turbulence after leaving the subspace. At that time, I was carefully skimming the upper layer of the deep sea. You know, the 'dome' with the frozen starry sky," she recalled as she said, "Then Suddenly, a shock erupted from the deep sea, as if it was coming specifically for me, and pushed me out. After that, I lost control for a long time, and I completely lost my understanding of this 'drift house'. Control, that’s it when it finally comes to a reluctant stop.”

Zhou Ming was thoughtful.

"...Could it be the Holy Lord Netherworld?" He frowned and whispered in thought, "That's not right...there must be a reason..."

"Holy Lord Netherworld?" Leigh Nora heard this soliloquy, and her eyes widened in shock, "You mean, it was Holy Lord Netherworld who created that impact and sent me here consciously? "

"...It's just a rough guess," Zhou Ming shook his head. He knew that there was no answer for the time being, so he did not continue to dwell on this issue. "Let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about this...'fog'. You know What is this place?"

Le Nora fell silent after hearing this, and after half a minute, she nodded slightly with a complicated expression.

"I didn't know it clearly at first, but after staying in this thick fog for a while, I started to see some...'phantoms', and knowledge seemed to appear in my mind out of thin air," she said softly, "This is the end of the world. I see here... the shadow of the end of all things."

"You should be lucky that you found this place under the guidance of that lamp and stopped outside my cabin," Zhou Ming said seriously. "Fortunately, you didn't continue to drift into the depths of this thick fog. ——Otherwise you’ll probably never come back.”

Even the extremely courageous "Frost Queen" couldn't help but feel a sense of fear at this moment.

She realized that in the past period of time, she had been like riding on a canoe that had lost power and was rushing towards the end of the rapids. She was lucky enough to be caught by this moment just before she was about to rush out of the rapids and fall into the abyss. The only "stone" in the rapids was stopped.

Although she was almost crushed to pieces by this "rock".

However, after being quiet for a few seconds, she showed a hesitant look on her face again, and finally couldn't help but muttered: "Actually... I was a little over the top..."

Zhou Ming was startled when he heard this and didn't react for a moment: "Huh?"

"...After following the 'light' to your palace, I tried to communicate with this large 'entity', but you did not respond at that time - instead, a shadow rushed out from your 'palace', that The shadow was an indescribable mass. It hit my 'drift house', causing it to lose control again. As a result, I rushed deeper into the thick fog, but fortunately, it did not lose control seriously this time..."

Zhou Ming's expression suddenly became a little subtle.