Deep Sea Embers

Now, everything is quiet.

Whether it is the voices in the mind, or the environment perceived through each "node", whether it is Nina's gentle reminder, or Vanna and Morris's calm report, they have all disappeared in this world as the stars close together - the world itself has also returned to nothingness.

This small shelter built by the ancient kings, after being in operation for 10,000 years, finally disappeared silently among the stars of the new world.

Now, in this primitive and chaotic sea of ​​information formed by the wreckage of many worlds, only the last ship is still sailing on its final journey.

The Lost Home was sailing on the back of the World Creation. Below the "hull" was the "crack" that had stretched across the entire Infinite Ocean for 10,000 years. People had never imagined that the back of this "crack" was actually a completely different scene from its front. Zhou Ming stood at the wheel of the Lost Home. Now that the world had been destroyed, he no longer had to worry about his observations destroying the Infinite Ocean. So he opened his eyes and looked down through the gaps between the deck and the hull that were almost burned out. He saw the dark crack extending almost infinitely into the distance. It did not emit any light, and even seemed to be actively absorbing all light, presenting an extreme deep black that almost gave people a "feeling of infinite falling". Although the details could not be seen clearly in the depths of the darkness, it faintly revealed a feeling of "sunken", as if there was a vast space inside it. The black sun was hanging high above the dark crack. In the vast and boundless darkness of chaos, the magnificent sun was still flickering and changing according to the rules, releasing strong and clear navigation signals, even though the Lost Hometown no longer needed it to continue navigation.

Zhou Ming turned his head again and looked at the puppet Alice who was still beside him. Alice was no longer sitting on the barrel, because even the barrel had been burned by the starlight flames a few minutes ago. She was now standing on the last small piece of deck beside Zhou Ming, and Lei Nora was standing next to the puppet.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhou Ming suddenly asked.

"Nothing!" Alice said happily immediately, but then scratched her head again, as if she felt that this was a bit wrong. After a brief thought, she smiled and added, "It feels very interesting, it turns out that the back of the World Creation looks like this."

"Aren't you afraid?" Although Zhou Ming already knew the answer, he still asked curiously.

"I'm not afraid," the puppet shook its head, "although I don't know why I'm not afraid either." Zhou Ming smiled and looked up at Renoir again: "What about you?" "I was thinking that when the world was destroyed, it was so quiet," Renoir said slowly with a calm expression, "Since I was very young, I always heard and saw things coming from the deep sea. Those twisted and torn scenes and chaotic roars and low roars once brought me great fear. I used to think that the end of the world would be like that. In the great fear and the earth-shaking upheaval, everything was torn to pieces with a wail. "But the fact is that the end of the world is so quiet, everything disappeared, and at the last moment, the world did not make any sound, whether it was the roar of the brave or the wailing of the cowards. It was so quiet that it even felt unreal, making me think that the world was still there. If I "went down" from here, I would still see the endless blue sea and the sunshine on the sea. " Zhou Ming did not speak, and Renoir exhaled softly after a few seconds of silence: "I should leave." "Leave now? "Zhou Ming raised his eyebrows, "There is nowhere to go now." "I know, but I want to get the "drifting house" away from here," Lei Nora laughed, "I have seen the scenery of the end of the world, and I still hope to continue my journey in the new world." "I understand," Zhou Ming nodded lightly, and smiled at the "Frost Queen", "Then I wish you a safe journey in advance - there will always be a door left for your "drifting house" on the Lost Homeland, even in the new world." "Thank you," Lei Nora smiled and took a half step back, "Then see you in the new world. "

She left the only remaining bridge on the ship, walked through the broken stairs and the deck with only a few remnants left, and walked into the "Lost Homelander's Door" that still stood quietly in the void. A moment later, a stream of light appeared at the edge of the fire of the Lost Homeland, and flashed in the light of the stars. //Lei Nora??? ==\u003e^%￥Migrate to new data*\u0026*%￥Storage completed.

Then, the deck on the bridge shrank and collapsed again, and the remaining part of the Lost Homeland further disintegrated in the starlight and flames. In a roar that gradually became lower, the phantom of the mast disappeared completely, followed by the structure connected to the steering wheel.

Zhou Ming raised his head and glanced at the "sunlight" in the distance, then lowered his eyes and looked at the last remaining remnant of the steering wheel in his hand. After a moment, he let go.

"Thank you for your hard work. "He whispered to the ship. He walked to the edge of the bridge, passing through the stairs and decks in the almost transparent fragments of light and shadow. Alice followed closely behind him all the way. They came to the door of the captain's room at the stern, and the "captain's room" was almost gone at this moment.

Even the "Door of the Homeless" has become an almost transparent phantom, standing quietly where it once was. Through the transparent door, Zhou Ming can see the "Lost Home" on board the "Homeless". The last remaining part - a dark wooden carved goat's head floating there, floating above a shadow that was once a chart table, was turning its head and looking at Alice and Zhou Ming who were standing not far away.

Zhou Ming walked towards the goat head. Behind him was an illusion of stars, and the final structure of the Homeless Ship collapsed and disappeared step by step in the illusion.

"That's almost it," he said to his first mate. "It's time for the Homeless to rest. Sirandis is also waiting for you."

"Leave me a seat on the Lost Home in the New World later." The goat head raised its neck, as if there was a smile on its hard wooden face, "You decide the specific form." "

"Okay." Zhou Ming nodded.

The goat head exhaled softly. After a moment of silence, it narrowed its eyes and finally asked the first and final question again - "Name?"

"Zhou Ming."

Brilliant starlight erupted from the depths of the remaining structure of the Lost Home. The flames filled with starlight silently engulfed the phantom of Sasloka's spine and its head. In just an instant, the entire ship was in the starlight. It returned to nothingness, leaving only a few remaining light spots slowly drifting away.

Alice watched this scene with wide eyes. She raised her hand in the darkness, as if she wanted to touch the scattered light spots. When a glimmer of light fell on her fingertips, she seemed to realize it in hindsight. After realizing it, he tried his best to smile and waved his hands vigorously: "Goodbye, Mr. First Mate, goodbye - see you in the new world!"

Those light spots disappeared, and Miss Doll finally stopped waving her arms. She thought for a while in the darkness and looked up at Zhou Ming: "Captain, what's next? Is there still a short distance to go? ? I see the black sun is still ahead, how can we get there?"

Zhou Ming laughed, stretched out his hand to press Alice's hair, and raised his finger to point behind the doll.

Alice was stunned for a moment and turned around.

She saw a familiar ornate wooden box, floating silently in the darkness. I kept it alone and left it to you. Zhou Ming said from the side.

Alice finally reacted, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

She floated to the wooden box, bent down and stroked the box, gently rubbing its surface as if greeting an old friend: "Hello, we are about to leave!"

Zhou Ming laughed, lifted his legs and walked into the wooden box, followed closely by the Alice doll. The wooden box was not too big, like a small canoe, but it was enough to accommodate two people standing. .

Alice grabbed the lid of the wooden box floating aside, but then she hesitated a little and glanced at Zhou Ming unconfidently: "Captain, can you really paddle across? There is no water here.

Zhou Ming just smiled, his eyes swept across the nothingness and darkness around him, and the darkness rippled in this exile dimension that was obscured by the Creation of the World.

"That's it," he said to the puppet.

Alice blinked and tried to move the lid of the box in the surrounding darkness - the wooden box moved one by one.

She suddenly became happy and began to wave the lid of the wooden box in her hand, rowing vigorously in the darkness - just like the first day, just like she was chasing the distant ship in the waves of the boundless sea, and the wooden box slowly began to move in the darkness. Accelerate, carry the doll and her captain, and sail towards the distant sunshine together.

Time seemed to have lost its meaning, and the distance in space seemed to have lost its meaning. The wooden box was like a small canoe, sailing all the way over the dark cracks toward the distant sunshine. Alice didn't know how long she had rowed. She only knew the captain. The sun has always been with me and the sun in the distance seems to be always at the same distance - but suddenly, the sun has reached a very close position, and the distant sun has become a field as far as the eye can see. The sea of ​​​​fire spread all over the place, just below the wooden box, and the huge flame jets surged like an amazing storm-yet silent and cold.

Alice stopped what she was doing, she looked down and turned to look at Zhou Ming, with a big smile on her face, "We're here!"

Zhou Ming was quiet for a long time. After a long time, he breathed softly: "Yes, we are here.

Alice didn't ask why the captain was quiet for so long. She seemed to understand everything. After the captain answered, she carefully put the lid of the wooden box aside and raised her head to look into Zhou Ming's eyes.

The bright smile gradually turned into a quiet smile, "Captain, see you in the new world."

"Well, see you in the new world."

"Don't forget my little pan~"

"certainly--"

The doll disappeared contentedly into the light of the stars.

Zhou Ming stood quietly above the sea of ​​fire under the black sun. After an unknown amount of time, he turned his head and looked over his shoulder.

In the diffuse starlight, Ai's figure appeared and disappeared. It tilted its head, as if it was curiously observing its master. When their eyes met, it suddenly flapped its wings and let out a strange and sharp sound. The voice that is being disturbed: "To a new world, to a new world, to a new world! New UR

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Zhou Ming frowned in confusion.

The pigeon usually spoke abstractly, but he could still understand it to a certain extent, but this time it was a bit too abstract. The bird was in B

What?

However, just when he was about to say something, Ai Yi's figure quickly dimmed in the starlight. It flapped its wings for the last time, and its mung bean eyes that usually didn't look very smart seemed to suddenly have something. After thinking, it turned its head and seemed to look at its owner seriously.

"goodbye--"

Then, the pigeons are pigeons.

Zhou Ming looked at this scene in a daze. After a long time, he shook his head helplessly and muttered to himself: "I thought at least this guy could stay with me until the end."

No one responded to his soliloquy.

Including the blazing "sun" beneath his feet.

The Black Sun is "dead", Zhou Ming discovered this when Alice rowed the famous wooden box close to the sea of ​​​​fire.

Zhou Ming didn't know when it stopped thinking. Perhaps it was the moment when the Lost Home entered the back of the World's Creation, or perhaps it was when Alice rowed the famous wooden box to reach the sea of ​​fire. The black sun remained silent during this process. He stopped thinking quietly, without saying goodbye or leaving a single word.

There is only one corpse here that is still burning according to a specific pattern, maintaining a flash like a beacon that can still illuminate the route after the end.

This flame is the last "gift" Black Sun left to Zhou Ming.

You really can rest assured of my promise. "

Zhou Ming smiled helplessly and shook his head. His figure slowly descended on the sea of ​​fire until he was engulfed by the flames, until he felt that he had stepped on a solid surface.

And the flame that once belonged to the Black Sun but is now ownerless is still burning around him, as if waiting to take over."

Zhou Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. He looked around at the sea of ​​​​fire, and suddenly a word appeared in his mind.

The usurper of fire.

Thus, the final usurpation of fire began.

At a certain moment, the remaining flames of the black sun were transformed into the carrier of starlight. This dazzling "celestial body" composed of distorted information and disordered beliefs was soaked in starlight, as if it was ignited for the second time. The ground exploded, and it turned into a strong flash of light, illuminating everything here in an infinitesimal moment.

The fierce "illumination" reflected the starlight into the cracks in the creation of the world - this was also an infinitely short moment.

After this moment, time finally truly lost its meaning. Black Sun, the last remnant of the old world, the last fragment left to this moment after the collision of thousands of worlds, was completely decomposed in the starlight.

The Great Annihilation is complete.

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All things disappeared in the echo of the Great Annihilation Hollow, and time and space turned into nothingness. The nearly eternal, but infinitely short-lived "

moment”—began.

There is only one consciousness, floating in nothingness, walking in this eternal moment.

He started thinking and calculating.

The first parameter of the mathematical machine is generated, and an infinite amount of time passes before the second parameter is carefully determined - a process that is too long to measure and too short to detect on a time scale.

He is still thinking and calculating.

In the infinitely long and infinitely short "time", he assigns initial values ​​to everything.

On the scale of calculable and uncalculable information, he begins to arrange the places that deserve the promises for those who deserve them.

He is still thinking and calculating.

It begins to determine the node at which all things will be executed. In this mathematical machine that has not yet started, everything before the node belongs to "design", and everything after the node belongs to "possible future".

This process took another infinitesimal moment.

call.

Since old world-assignment-completed.

Redirected.

To a new world - the model has been injected.

And so the first second of eternity passed.

Zhou Ming Duncan opened his eyes.

The darkness of nothingness reflected in his eyes.

He said--

"Let there be light."