Chapter 216 – The Well-Behaved Sun
Chapter 216 – The Well-Behaved Sun
“What do you guys say, what’s the situation over there in Prand now?”
After a long period of silence, Shirley finally didn’t hold back and looked up at the old scholar in front of her, and then to that Miss Alice who seemed to be familiar with Mr. Duncan, and asked hesitantly.
“…… I don’t know, but I think Mr. Duncan may have gone out of his way to solve the problem-though I can’t imagine how he did it,” said Maurice, rubbing his forehead, and thinking at the same while saying, “I’m more concerned about this place right now than that ……”
He raised his head and looked around, his gaze falling back to the sails of spirits that were bulging out of thin air above, his expression then somewhat strange.
“This ship, it can’t help but remind me of that legend, the legend about the Lost Country ……”
“Right,” as soon as Maurice’s words fell, Alice’s voice came from the side, a proud smile on her face, “This is the Lost Country Ship – welcome aboard.”
Maurice’s rubbing of his forehead stopped instantly, his eyes widening in shock, “This really is the Lost Country? Then Mr. Duncan’s identity ……”
“Captain chanting, you’re too slow to react old man,” Shirley across the table bristled, after being nervous for so half a day she finally felt some pleasure from knowing some information that no one else knew, it made her feel a lot more relaxed, “You couldn’t think of it even if he’s called Duncan? ”
“You knew about this already?” Maurice looked at the girl in front of him with an incredulous expression, “I thought you were a first timer on this ship like me ……”
“It’s my first time – but it’s not the first time I’ve seen Captain Duncan in real life,” Shirley puffed out her chest proudly, “Dog and I have known Captain Duncan for a long time! …… earlier than you, anyway!”
Maurice didn’t care what Shirley said in the second half of her sentence, he couldn’t help but feel his forehead jump when he heard the other man mention “what the Captain really looks like”, and then he grunted with an odd look on his face, “…… If it’s possible, I’d rather not know. If possible, I’d rather not know what ‘real look’ means. ……”
Shirley was stunned, “Huh? What did you say, Gramps?”
“Nothing…… There are some things that are better for your physical and mental health if you don’t talk about them too often.”
“Ch, love to say not to say, you this kind of engaged in learning always like to be so secretive,” Shirley skimmed her mouth, but did not quiet for two seconds, she then couldn’t help but look at the end of the deck of this big ship again, “You guys say …… Is Nina all right? She suddenly disappeared from our sight, but Mr. Duncan said she was only gone for a while ……”
Alice’s soft yet confident voice rang out from the side, comforting the somewhat worried Shirley, “Don’t worry, it’ll be fine.”
Shirley raised her eyes, she and Alice are not familiar, but she knows that this exceptionally beautiful mysterious lady seems to have been following “Captain Duncan” at an earlier time, and must know some insider information that others do not know, so she couldn’t help but be curious and asked: “Why do you say that? You know Nina’s situation ……”
“Because the Captain said so,” Alice smiled, “He said not to worry.”
Sherry couldn’t say the rest.
For some reason, she suddenly felt as if the extraordinarily beautiful lady in front of her wasn’t …… very smart ……
……
At the same time, on the aft deck of the Lost Country, Duncan was looking across himself at the bright arc of flame floating in midair.
Now, he was 100% sure that, at least in terms of form, the flame arc was an erupting sunrise – and it kept repeating the process from eruption to descent, which gave the impression …… as if a sunrise had been “intercepted” directly from a sun! This gives the impression that a sunburst has been “intercepted” from a sun, not only from its existence, but also from its cyclic state at a certain period of time.
Now, this was “intercepted” down the sunrise quietly floating in the lost country ship, looks even only one person high.
But this does not mean that it is really only so …… “small and harmless”.
Duncan can feel the amazing energy contained within it, although only a small part of it, that kind of destructive heat and the horror of the star’s power is still enough to make him suffocate, and this feeling is even more than what he felt in the moment when he peered at the “creeping sunrise wheel” through the Golden Mask before, and also made him more sure that this flame flow is really From the sun.
From a real sun, beyond the knowledge of those sun believers, in some ancient times has been alienated and disintegrated sun.
The sun’s current small and harmless appearance was only because it was still under control.
Duncan couldn’t understand it; there was no way in the body of knowledge he had at his disposal to explain why a part of the sun had taken on this appearance, or to guess what had happened to the real star to which this sunburst had once belonged.
Just as he could not understand this world, he could not understand what kind of great annihilation could have created this strange and dangerous “Age of the Deep”.
But he finally shook his head.
These things are not important for the time being.
Duncan took a soft breath, let his mind focus again, and then tried to reach out his right hand to the “sunrise”.
Deadly heat appeared in his perception, but in the next second, the heat dissipated as if it were an illusion, and he saw a cluster of green fire jumping from his fingertips, and inside the sunrise, there were strands of green flame quietly traveling, as if it were a resonance.
Not long ago, it was this trace of “pollution” implanted in advance that terminated and tore apart the birth process of the dark sun in the sky above Prand, and also preserved Nina’s “humanity”. “Nina, try again,” Duncan said, “remember what it was like to be in that moment of transformation, and let yourself ‘come back’; we were very close to succeeding just now.”
The stream of flame leapt through the air for a few moments, then the surface bulged, golden flames rose and twisted with it, and in a short time a figure gradually coalesced from the leaping fire, a vague figure that could be seen to be a young girl, but with blurred features.
She lowered her head and seemed to look at her body curiously, but in the next second, the flames that had just coalesced shattered with a thud, and she once again transformed into the form of a gushing stream of flame.
“Don’t be discouraged, let’s try again,” Duncan, however, was not at all impatient, but only gently continued to guide, “I’ll ‘hold you up’, and since you can recover to this extent, it means that the idea works ……”
The arc of flame bulged once more, a crackling sound emanating from within the golden flames, followed by Nina’s figure emerging from the flames once more.
Duncan watched the scene with some nervousness – similar attempts had been made an unknown number of times, but each time they had failed by the midway point, and although the process should indeed be controllable based on the feedback from the Spirit Flame implanted within the Sun Shard, it was clear that this vast and unfamiliar power was not so easy to master.
Golden flames splintered, and Duncan was ready to fail again.
But just after the next breath, the fire and flame arcs in front of him instantly dissipated without a trace.
A familiar figure jumped out from the last ray of leaping fire.
The gentle sea breeze blew across the deck with moisture and chill, Nina’s tresses lifted slightly in the sea breeze, the bright sunlight tilted through the clouds, and then through her wind-blown hair, and between the fluttering strands of hair, the sunlight jumped and danced like flames.
In the next instant, those sunlight flames jumping between her hair strands dissipated like a phantom.
Nina smiled, and looked at the completely different, but definite “Uncle Duncan” in front of her: “Uncle, I’m back!”
It was only at this moment that Duncan finally breathed a soft sigh of relief, and along with this sigh of relief, the entire Lost Country also reacted – the ship seemed to have been taut a moment ago, with all the cables, masts, and sails taut, but now, crackling noises rang out from all sides, interspersed with whirring and clattering sounds from below decks. of whirring and clicking.
It was as if the whole ship was cheering and celebrating with the captain.
“Quiet,” Duncan said as he turned back to the ship, and the entire ship immediately fell silent before he turned his eyes back to Nina with some curiosity, “You still recognize me?”
“I can, you’re Uncle Duncan,” Nina said matter-of-factly, but scratched her face immediately afterwards – a habitual gesture to hide her embarrassment and bemusement, “but… …I don’t know how I recognized you, but I thought it was you anyway, and I recognized you straight away when you greeted me down when I was floating in the sky earlier ……”
She paused hesitantly, looking Duncan up and down, and narrowing her eyes slightly, as if trying to discern some detail about her “uncle”.
There was no resemblance at all, hardly any resemblance to the Uncle Duncan in the antique store.
But the clarity of perception was mapped directly into his mind.
It was as if he recognized the person in front of him not through his eyes, but through “reading the facts”.
Nina didn’t know how to explain what she was feeling at the moment, and could only giggle until Duncan came up and rubbed her hair as he always did.
“That’s good,” Duncan exhaled softly, “I was struggling earlier with how to explain this ship, and my other appearance, to you.”
Nina dodged the hand pressed against her head, the Uncle Duncan in front of her was considerably taller than she remembered, and the other woman’s palm was considerably wider and rougher, her calloused fingers brushing against her forehead and making her feel tickled.
After another moment, until the other party withdrew his hand, she suddenly raised her head and looked straight into Duncan’s eyes.
“I actually have two ‘uncles’ …… right?”
She said suddenly.
Duncan’s gaze didn’t flinch, and even though the moment came really suddenly, he wasn’t too surprised.
It was as if he had known, long ago, that this moment would come sooner or later.
If there is any power in the world that can resist the power of “Captain Duncan”, then the “sun”…… no matter which sun, is an expected option.
He quietly met Nina’s gaze.
“You noticed?”
“…… Uh-huh.”
(End of chapter)