Chapter 265 – Captain’s Warning

Chapter 265 – Captain’s Warning

To be fair, Vanna had never been afraid of anything in her life, but Captain Duncan Abnormale …… always seemed to bring her all sorts of “surprises”.

In the dream-blocked room, the dark sea outside the window, the eerie body of light high in the sky, and the silence of the night, there was a knock on the door.

Almost subconsciously, Vanna wanted to gather her giant sword in the dream world and do a jumping slash in the direction of the door – fortunately, she controlled this impulse at the last second.

“Knock, knock, knock.”

The knock on the door was still coming nonchalantly, with complete patience and politeness.

Vanna took several hard, deep breaths, and not knowing what expression to show at the moment, she could only tense her face and try to make her tone seem normal, “Come in.”

There was a soft click, the handle turned, and the dark, heavy wooden door was pushed open from the outside, and an extremely tall and imposing figure appeared in front of Vanna’s eyes and stepped into the room.

Behind this figure, there was pure darkness, as if the edge of a dream world – beyond the edge, there was “nothingness”, where no entity existed.

Duncan entered the room and gave Vanna a friendly smile, “Good afternoon, Vanna – I knocked this time.”

Vanna looks without a word at the spectral captain who is walking into the room, watches as the other man walks himself over to the nearby wine cooler and removes the bottle and two glasses from it, and watches as the other man makes his way nonchalantly over to the table and sits down in the reclining chair.

“Won’t you come and sit down?” Duncan raised an eyebrow at the young Inquisitor still standing near the window and gestured to the empty seat across the table, “You don’t have a very good look on your face.”

Vanna hesitated for a moment before finally coming across to Duncan with a strange look on her face, sitting cautiously in her chair while watching the other man pour the wine, and sighed after a long time, “Don’t you think that makes it more intimidating?”

“Is that so?” Duncan looked at Vanna with a bit of surprise, and then at this dreamscape he’d been mulling over for so long to set up, looking at the cozy, everyday furnishings and the glass in his hand that represented friendliness, and frowned with less certainty, “I’ll try a bit brighter tone next time then …… “

“I don’t think it’s the hue that’s asking …… ” Vanna felt her eyebrows twitch a little, but then immediately sighed with a tearful smile as she didn’t know what came to mind, “Well, at the very least, I think I do feel your ‘goodwill’ …… This goodwill is a bit scary, but I can more or less confirm it’s real.”

Duncan pushed a glass of wine over to him, “Seems like a good thing.”

“Thank you,” Vanna took the glass and looked hesitantly at the slightly golden-red liquid in its clarification, hesitantly setting it aside for the moment before she lifted her eyes and looked across at the Captain, “This is yet another dreamland- -is it some room on the Lost Country?”

“There’s some reference to it, but not exactly, I set it up according to my personal preferences,” Duncan said nonchalantly, “I’m not really that good at weaving dreams, I prefer to go straight into ready-made ones, but you were sleeping so restlessly, with your dreams broken and messy, that I prepared a place for you to be able to rest properly.”

Vanna didn’t care about Duncan’s last comment, she just craned her head to look out the window and asked her biggest question, “What is that glowing thing …… in the sky outside? Is it also your ‘personal favorite’?”

Duncan was silent for a moment, his eyes looked out the window, silent in the moonlight for a long time before he sighed softly and shook his head: “Sort of – I don’t really like that kind of too pale and cold shimmering light of the world’s creations, it’s not soft enough, and it makes people feel that it’s drenched in malice. As for the one you see now …… you can call it ‘the moon’.”

“‘Moon’ ……” Vanna rustily repeated the odd word that seemed to have been phonetically translated directly from an unknown language, “What a mouthful of a title! .”

“You’re interested in it?” Duncan looked at Vanna with a smirk, “Then I can tell you the story behind the name ……”

As it turned out, before he could say this, Vanna’s whole body perked up, “No! Thanks!”

“…… Well, it’s always the same,” Duncan shrugged, not too concerned, “It’s really just some of the most unusual stuff that has nothing to do with subspace at all.”

“I’m sorry, I’m sure you’re very friendly, but …… you’ll just have to assume I’m chicken,” Vanna said chirpily, after so many encounters and a series of events, her wariness and wariness of the spectral captain had actually shifted quite a bit subconsciously, but In any case, even from a logical and rational point of view, she didn’t dare to take “knowledge” from this subspace returnee, “Let’s talk about something else, why do you want to see me?”

“Two things,” Duncan gazed into Vanna’s eyes, “First, to thank you for taking care of Tirion for the past two days, he seems to be enjoying his stay in Prenland.”

“Captain Tirian?” Vanna’s heart fluttered as she suddenly realized something, “Have you been keeping an eye on …… these days?”

“Yes, I have been paying attention to this matter,” Duncan’s tone was tinged with emotion, “He has been wandering in the north for many years, and has also been tainted with the stink of pirates, and usually only has a group of undead sailors for companionship, and has extremely unhealthy socialization habits, coupled with that old incident of the Frost, it has to be feared that his mental state – in order to avoid turning into a withdrawn, eccentric and cynical weirdo, he needs a little bit of healthy and orderly interpersonal relationships ……”

Duncan was basically making it up as he went along, just to further solidify his image as a man who had “regained his humanity and his sanity” to make it easier to deal with Vanna and the “civilization of order” behind her, but Vanna didn’t take it as such, and the Lady Inquisitor stared in disbelief as the spectral captain acted like an old father to her. Miss Inquisitor stared blankly as she listened to the Ghost Captain talk to himself like an old father, and froze for a long time before stifling a sentence: “You …… still care about him ……”

Duncan was serious: “Family members care about each other is the first step in maintaining family harmony.”

“…… But you almost blew the Sea Mist into a pile of scrap metal.” Vanna warned carefully.

Duncan remained serious, “Proper education and guidance is the second step.” Vanna: “……”

Odd, against the harmony, everywhere weird, Vanna more and more feel that their communication process with Captain Duncan at this moment is full of unspeakable strange feeling, but somehow, is in this strange and against the harmony of the conversation, she really feel …… this ghost captain “flesh and blood “The first time I saw him was when he was in the hospital, and he was in the hospital, and he was in the hospital.

She had to shake her head, put this sudden idea aside for the time being: “What about the second thing you said?”

“The second thing,” Duncan paused to straighten his expression and become slightly more serious, “is that there is something about the sun – have you noticed how it has changed?”

The sound of the waves outside the window had at some point grown low, as if it were a distant murmur, and the light breeze that blew into the room had become if nothing else.

Vanna’s eyes changed slightly when she heard the other party mention “the sun”, “Are you referring to the sunrise that was delayed for fifteen minutes before, or ……?”

“There is a gaping hole in its outer rune ring,” Duncan said, “I think you noticed it by the look on your face.”

Vanna was silent for two or three seconds before nodding softly, “It’s hard not to notice – even though it’s just a gap that’s hard to detect with the naked eye, there have always been vigilant eyes watching the workings of Vision 001 for thousands of years, and the Church noticed the disturbing situation at the first opportunity. ”

“Do the Guardians never relent …… I feel a little better about you,” Duncan said, suddenly asking, “And what do you have to say about that?”

“…… It depends on the feedback given by the Storm Cathedral,” Vanna said with a flourish, “The Prendergast side can only report what it observes, we are not a research facility, and we cannot think of any way to intervene into the operation of Vision 001.”

She said this pondered for a moment, and then shook her head somewhat less surely, “Perhaps, even the Storm Cathedral won’t give very clear feedback, Vision 001 …… its operation touches the whole world, and its abnormality alarms more than just a deep-sea church. ”

Vanna said, seems to suddenly realize something, looked up at Duncan: “You suddenly look for me to talk about this matter, do you know something? Do you know what went wrong with Vision 001?”

Duncan didn’t answer right away.

He couldn’t help but recall the brief strange dream he had had in his mind.

In the dream, huge bodies of light fell like a meteor shower, the whole world faded into darkness, and the sky was finally left with nothing but horrifyingly lurid darkness, shaped like a hollow, or a dying eyeball.

At that time, he did not comprehend anything from this dream, but now, it was as if he had glimpsed a hint of an omen from this dream.

“Even I can’t be sure, Vanna,” he finally broke the silence, gazing calmly into Vanna’s eyes, “but I suppose this is just the beginning.”

A chill slowly spread down her back, and Vanna felt like she was seeing some sort of extremely disturbing message in the other man’s eyes, “Just the beginning?”

“Right now I don’t have enough evidence, but my guess is that there is actually a ‘lifespan’ to Vision 001,” Duncan said seriously, “The ancient kingdom of Kritzerland is not leaving the future generations with an eternal sanctuary, but just a temporary peace, the sun …… above our heads is more than likely to break down soon.

“As to when this evidence will come ……”

Duncan paused and said languidly:

“Perhaps there will be great pieces of debris falling from the sky, and that will be the ticking of the countdown.

“More likely, the first shattered pieces are falling now, just out of view of the civilized world.”

Chills and unease spread through her heart, and Vanna’s eyes drooped slightly, hiding all the changes in them, while her hand slowly picked up the glass next to her and subconsciously brought it to her mouth again, as if she was trying to smooth out her mood with alcohol.

She took a sip and frowned slightly as she looked up at Duncan, “No flavor ……”

“Of course it doesn’t taste,” Duncan smiled, raising his glass slightly in salute to Vanna, “Because you’re almost awake.”

Vanna’s eyes snapped open.

She was still sitting inside the moving steamer, and the tall towers of the cathedral with its main building came into view.

She gasped slightly as she heard her ministry’s voice from up ahead, “Ah, you’re awake, just in time, the cathedral is almost here.”

(End of chapter)