Chapter 108 – Super Infectious

Chapter 108 – Super Contagious

The gentle waves were slowly undulating, the Lost Country was sailing smoothly on the infinite sea, and after many days of setting sail, the ancient ghost ship still had not found any islands or beacons that could be used as course markers.

The long drifting journey seems endless, but its captain still has plenty to keep him busy.

Duncan was once again within the captain’s chambers, the golden sun mask still lying quietly on the table, but before that he had some other things to think about.

Alice’s matter can be arranged later, the follow-up test and research on “Anomaly 099” is not urgent, half a century ago, the Frost Rebellion is not something to be investigated now, but in addition to these things, there is another thing that is closely related to himself.

Duncan raised his head and looked at the mirror hanging on the wall.

The green flames that had once floated on the surface of the mirror had long since dissipated, and the vision of a distant land that had once appeared in the mirror had disappeared without a trace, but Duncan could still vaguely sense that the faint and vague “connection” had not disappeared with the disappearance of the reflection in the mirror – it was still there, and it was disappearing! It was still there, and it was pointing towards the magnificent cathedral in the center of the city-state of Prand.

This connection gave him a feeling somewhat similar to his own “connection” with the “antique shopkeeper” and the “White Oak”, but much weaker, more ethereal, if you must say …… is like some kind of derivative, a “secondary channel” that extends from a clear and definite connection.

Duncan slightly closed his eyes, and on the table beside him, the brass compass on Aey’s chest also quietly opened a slit, in which an eerie green flame quietly burned.

Duncan was once again back in that dark space filled with countless streams of starlight and light.

But this time, he did not execute the “Spirit Walk”, but maintained the critical state of entering the Spirit Walk, carefully observing the shimmering flow of light in this dark space and those starry lights.

He first saw the brightest “star”, which was pointing to the antique store, representing his other body, which was cleaning the warehouse and counting the goods in the inventory;

He also saw a hazy, formless mist of light, much larger than a normal star, which represented the White Oak, a steamer that had collided head-on with the Lost Country and had been completely incinerated by his psychic fire;
Finally, in a haze of starlight that seemed almost indistinguishable, he was able to distinguish the “star” that was vaguely connected to him.

Duncan curiously came over, wanting to carefully observe this cluster of starlight.

But just as he got closer, he felt a subtle repulsion spreading out from the cluster of starlight.

The repulsion wasn’t very strong, it seemed to be just a purely determined will protecting itself, and Duncan felt that if he forced himself to extend his Spiritual Body Flame past it, he should be able to incinerate this subconscious protection – but he still stopped immediately, keeping his distance from the starlight.

The owner behind the starlight should be the Inquisitor named “Vanna”, a storm saint, a powerful transcendent – too reckless contact could firstly alarm the owner of the starlight, and in a worse case, even alarm the “gods” standing behind the saint. behind the saint.

Duncan wasn’t going to take that chance, not knowing much about the gods of this world.

And on the other hand, this vague sense of repulsion might also be a reminder of the differences between these starlight beings…

He didn’t feel any repulsion when he initially occupied the body of the “sacrifice”, nor did he feel any repulsion when he occupied the body of the recently deceased cultist “Ron”, so why would there be such repulsion around Vanna’s starlight now?

Is it because she is still “alive”? Is it because the power of the mind of a living person will spontaneously resist the unknown erosion? Or is it because of …… the so-called faith and divine grace?
Duncan stepped back a bit, pondering the significance of the starlight in this dark space, while trying to reach out slowly to the nearest cluster of starlight.

He stopped at the last moment before touching the cluster of starlight.

There was no sense of repulsion.

He then tried many more times around, and every one of those stars did not repel his approach – and in some of them he vaguely sensed some new …… “elemental ”

He felt a vivid sense of life, and even felt the instinctive trembling and cowering of those stars – the instinctive retreat of life in the face of the irresistible shadow of death. Duncan returned to the dark area where the stars could not shine and looked down at his hands.

Some green flames wandered through the darkness, tracing what looked like real light between his fingers.

It seemed that as the number of times he walked in the Spirit World increased, his control and perception of the flames were becoming more precise and sharp, and he could now actually sense the presence of life from those stars!
Duncan frowned slightly as he looked into the endless darkness of the distance, the stars of light stretching out prosperously in the dark chaos, looking even a little spectacular.

Out of caution, he had never explored into the far reaches of this dark space, but just gazing out at the scale of that starlight, he could imagine just how many points of light there were here.

In the beginning, he thought that the starlight here represented all the “corpses” that had just died and met the conditions, because the first two times he “attached” he was attached to corpses, but now he felt the presence of vitality from some of the starlight, which indicated that his initial guess was wrong. This indicates that his initial conjecture was wrong.

There were not only the dead but also the living in the starlight, and it was only by coincidence that he had initially taken possession of two corpses.

The “Inquisitor”, Vanna, was also among the stars, and she was certainly a living person, no doubt about it.

So …… do the countless stars here represent all the world’s living and dead?
Duncan frowned slightly in the darkness, the thought coming so naturally to his mind that it seemed reasonable, but he soon shook his head, thinking he couldn’t jump to conclusions so quickly.

While there was a lot of starlight here, and while the population of this world was far smaller than Earth’s, those stars shouldn’t be able to outweigh the world’s population as far as the eye could see, and while the living were fine, how should the number of the undead be defined?

Do all the dead of the past and present count? Or is it only the remaining bodies that count? Do they count as long as there are corpses left, or do they count only if they have been dead for a certain amount of time?
What’s more, how can we explain the presence of the “White Oak”, a ship like the Radiance Cluster ……, which has a corresponding projection here?

Therefore, it is still too early to identify the starlight here as “the dead and the living in the world” – at the very least, he should have enough evidence before making a conclusion.

But regardless of how the starlight here was connected to the real world, one thing was clear: most of the starlight did not reject Duncan’s proximity, but only the light of Vanna, the “saint”, reacted in a self-protective manner.

Perhaps it was the god she believed in that was at work.

Duncan was curious about the power of “faith” in this world.

But no matter how strong the protective barrier Vanna had built through her faith, there was clearly a hole in it – a barrier that didn’t prevent the Lost Country’s captain from establishing a deep-seated “hidden connection” with her.

So there was only one question left: when and how had this connection been established?
Duncan pondered in the darkness, thinking about how he had crossed paths with the Inquisitor, whom he had never met before, and why such a layer of connection had appeared out of thin air. After eliminating one guess after another, an extremely bold idea suddenly surfaced in his mind – could it be that he was originally possessed by the Inquisitor?

Could it be the “sacrifice” that he had initially possessed?

Duncan recalled the first time he set foot on the land of the city-state of Prand, and recalled the Sun Sacrifice – he made a scene as a sacrifice, and then left his possessed “body” at the scene, and shortly after that, Inquisitor Vanna led a raid on the cultists’ stronghold. Shortly after that, Inquisitor Vanna led a raid on the cultists’ stronghold and captured the cultists who remained at the site, and must have been involved in the aftermath of the site’s “residue”.

If we had to say, the only “encounter” between him and the Judge could only have occurred at that time.

Just a body that had been possessed, just a place where they had been together.

“That’s a …… connection?!” The more Duncan thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, he couldn’t help but look down at his hands in dismay, after a long while, his dismayed expression turned into an oddly helpless and bitter smile, “What kind of Time Accompanying Infection Pathway is this ……”

(End of chapter)