Deep Sea Embers

When the gentle sound of the waves faded from consciousness, Fanna was stunned for a long time.

As a member of the Lost Home, as an individual who has experienced the reshaping of subspace, her cognition is firmly fixed on the "side" where the waves still exist. She realizes what happened almost instantly, and then like the wind General rushed out of the cabin and came to the deck where the captain was.

"Captain!" Vanna came to Duncan. She, who had always been calm, looked a little at a loss. "The sound of the waves in my mind has subsided. Maybe the Storm Goddess"

"I know," Duncan nodded slightly, "the rotten program has deepened. "

Vanna stood in front of Duncan, listening to this irrefutable answer, and made no other movements for a long time. Then she turned around and looked at the even "gray-white" passage in front of the Lost Home, feeling in her heart Subconsciously calling the goddess's name, just like she did every time she prayed.

She still couldn't hear the familiar sound of the waves. In her "spiritual perception", there were only a few faint murmurs and chaotic words coming - in the past, these were all "noises" during prayer. , but now, they have become the only "comfort" in her heart.

And in the corner of her eye, some shadows suddenly appeared in the even and boundless gray depths in front of the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star. Some layered black things appeared in front of the route, and there was another flat, mirror-like area. The "sea" spreads there.

A vague voice that seemed to span time and space came into the minds of everyone on the ship. It seemed to be Alice, but it was severely distorted: "The jump has ended and we are leaving the channel."

The next second, the gray-white passage around the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star shattered silently, and the two ships suddenly fell into the "node sea" constructed by entities. They sailed into the "sea" as calm as a mirror, And "sliding" rapidly on the mirror surface.

The huge hull sailed through the water without causing even the slightest ripple.

Duncan came to the edge of the deck, looked down at the "phenomenon" outside the ship's side solemnly, and then raised his head without saying a word, looking at the large and small black shadows standing on the "sea".

They gradually became clear - those things that looked like mountains rising from the sea were actually countless black crystal clusters of astonishing scale.

Countless huge black crystals stand on the calm sea like islands of all sizes. The crystals continue to split as they spread, and eventually turn into clusters of sharp-edged jungle-like structures. In the ubiquitous chaotic skylight, the edges of those crystal cluster structures show a vague translucent texture, making their edges seem uncertain and dreamlike.

This is a completely different scene from the sea area where the Storm Goddess sleeps.

Shirley also ran to the deck. She stared at the scenery on the sea with wide eyes. After a long time, she couldn't help but uttered a long-toned sigh:

:"Wow

"We have entered the node sea," Duncan took a long breath and said casually as he took over the control of the Lost Home again. "Then we just need to find the location of Pilot 2. It should be right there." Deep within those crystal clusters.

As soon as he finished speaking, Morris, who was also on the deck not far away, raised his finger and pointed in a certain direction: "I can feel it in this direction."

The Lost Home and the Brilliant Star slowly sailed towards the depths of this "Sea of ​​Crystal Clusters".

Alice left the bridge and ran to the deck to look at this place in amazement. She saw those huge black crystals like blades slowly retreating from the side of the ship. Some of the crystals seemed to be filled with living things. The luster of this place, which she found only after she personally navigated it, was strange and incredible to her.

Even though she had forgotten everything about New Hope, she knew instinctively that this was not what New Hope should be like, not what was on that ship.

This is like her "Alice Mansion", the way the spaceship was reshaped after experiencing the Great Annihilation.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in her mind: "You are here."

Alice paused for a moment, then immediately turned towards Duncan and shouted loudly: "Captain! Someone is talking to me!"

Alice felt that the voice in her mind seemed to freeze for a moment, and then she felt helpless: "I am Pilot Two—

Alice immediately turned her head again: "Captain! It says it's called Pilot Two!"

'I know,' Duncan came over and pressed Alice's hair with a subtle expression, 'Tell Pilot 2 that we are heading towards it. "

"Oh," Alice nodded, then thought hard for a moment, then raised her head with a strange expression and looked at Duncan with confusion in her eyes.

"Captain, it's ignoring me."

Duncan:

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He turned around expressionlessly and controlled the Lost Home to continue passing through the narrow and winding channel composed of countless crystal cluster peaks.

After an unknown amount of time, the scene in front of the Lost Home suddenly became clear. After passing through a "gate" composed of huge staggered crystal pillars, an extremely open sea suddenly appeared in everyone's field of vision.

And in the middle of this open sea, Pilot 2 stood quietly without any cover or suspense, waiting for guests to visit.

Duncan glanced at the neatly arranged black "matrix" and took a gentle breath: "Change the boat.'

The Lost Home stopped some distance away from Pilot 2, and then everyone changed to a small boat and cautiously approached the main engine array in the center of the sea from the mirror-like sea.

A white boat made of folded paper also came from the direction of the Brilliant Star. Lucretia stood on the bow, Rabbit Rabbit and the clockwork doll Rune were also on the boat.

The two small boats met about a hundred meters away from the host array. Lucretia on the paper boat turned her head: "Do you think - 'he' looks weird?" "

Duncan looked at Qianwan solemnly, and after a long time he said in a deep voice:

"Perhaps, looking weird is the most normal thing.""

The two small boats arrived in front of Pilot 2. Now, the true appearance of the "God of Wisdom" was finally out of the fog, and for the first time it was truly revealed to outsiders.

It is composed of many "servers" of different sizes that look like stone monuments. The largest black rectangular structure seems to be its "center". Its height is more than ten meters high by visual inspection. There is another one on top of the dark rectangular structure. The one-eye-like red light seemed to be overlooking the surroundings - it reminded Duncan of the dark red "core" of the Holy Lord Netherworld.

Behind this large cuboid as the center are twenty-two "small" units several meters high. There are lights flashing on the surface of those units, and countless dazzling indicator lights are constantly changing on and off, and from inside all the cuboids, There was a low and continuous sound of metaphors.

And between this series of cuboids is what maintains and connects the entire array.

Countless nerves and blood vessels.

The flesh-like texture of the tube tissue extends from each server "cabinet" and merges with those dark shells, even turning part of those shells into skin-like structures, with blood vessels and nerve cords crisscrossing the webs. are generally distributed at the bottom of the entire host array, and at the intersection of many tube bundles, you can see swelling of flesh and blood, tissue proliferation, and exposed, heart-like "organs" beating continuously on those nodes, and there are also things like Brain-like biological tissue is attached to the nerve nodes and slowly wriggles.

When the boat approached, a mass of flesh and blood tissue located at the bottom of the central host of Pilot 2 was the first to react. Its surface suddenly squirmed and grew, and then an eyeball rolled out from the inside and was held up by a long eye stalk. Then, he came to Alice.

"Yeah, one, one," Guan Alice was startled on the spot, and slapped the eyeball back.

The eyeballs suddenly shrank back into the flesh and blood tissue, and the blood vessels and nerve networks between the server arrays squirmed and undulated in an instant.

The next second, the hum from those dark server hosts suddenly increased, and the red light above the central host quickly turned on and off a few times, and a dull synthesized voice came from nowhere: "Pilot Three. No., why are you hitting me? "

Alice was stunned and scratched her hair a little embarrassedly: "Ah, I was shocked and slapped her face without thinking much.

Duncan had been looking solemnly at the "server matrix" in front of him, which had obviously been severely distorted. After a long time, he said in a deep voice: "I guess you are not like this originally."

After hearing Duncan's words, the red light above the central host flashed slowly several times, and then a deep voice came into his ears - "Yes, so now you should know why the machines in this world are..." There is such a phenomenon as "evil". "

Duncan's eyes changed slightly in an instant.

He stared at the criss-crossed flesh and blood tissues in Pilot 2's host matrix, and at the eyes that kept emerging and then melting between the blood vessels and nerve cords, and finally couldn't suppress the strangeness in his expression.

"When did this change begin?" he said in a deep voice.

"When the first baby's cry appeared in the boundless sea," the red light slowly flickered on and off, "when the nanomachine fleet of Pilot 1 completed the first round of reshaping of all things, the changes in us were To begin with, you should have seen No. 1 and know what it looks like now, so you don’t have to be too surprised by my current state. "

Then the towering black "stone monument" was quiet for a few seconds before continuing to say quietly: "Just think of this as some kind of 'adaptive adjustment'. Compared with others, my condition is actually not too bad -

Take a look at them one by one, and at least I can communicate with you directly here. "