Chapter 541 – To the Moon
Chapter 541 To the Moon
Lucrecia slid out several meters on the deck – a scene that happened so suddenly that Duncan didn’t even react to what was going on.
It was only when the “sea witch” scrambled to her feet that he let go of the piece of paper in his hand.
The colorful piece of paper “whoosh” flew out, quickly into Lucrecia’s hair, while the latter is still a little stagnant standing in place, can not see what expression on the face.
She was probably a bit dazed from the fall.
“Lucy ……” with an embarrassment that could have gouged a hole in the deck as well as a subtle apology, Duncan carefully walked up to the still dazed witch lady, “Are you alright?”
Lucrecia stirred for a moment, seeming to finally snap out of her fall daze, then slowly turned her head, the expression on her face finally shifting from bewilderment to shock as she looked at Duncan with an incredulous expression for a long time before breaking the silence, “How did you do that?”
“Huh?” Duncan didn’t respond for a moment, “How did what do?”
“You captured ……’Shadow’……” Lucrecia spoke hesitantly, as if trying to organize words to describe this overly abstract event clearly, then she raised her arm again, starting with her fingertips, part of her arm quickly disintegrating into fluttering pieces of colored paper and fluttering around her, “Can you try again so I can see?”
Duncan reached out with confusion and casually grabbed a piece of colored paper.
In the next second, the flying colored paper suddenly “collapsed” and became Lucrecia’s arm again, and the expression on the latter’s face was once again shocked.
“This is incredible!” Miss Witch looked at Duncan with wide eyes, “Nothing like this has ever happened before, can you tell me how it was done?”
Seeing that this cheap “daughter” seemed to be inspired as a researcher, Duncan had no idea what was going on, he frowned at the colorful pieces of paper in his hands and looked puzzled, “Is it hard? It’s just pieces of paper flying through the air ……”
“They can’t be grasped, Papa,” Lucrecia spread her hands wide, “If Phantom Wind can be interrupted by someone grasping a piece of paper, how can I possibly use it as my most common means of diversion – these are Phantoms that can theoretically penetrate all obstacles ……”
“I didn’t know that,” Duncan shrugged, “I just saw these pieces of paper and got a little curious and wanted to grab them to take a look at them, sorry …… fall hurt? Knocked where?”
Lucrecia was instantly and slightly stunned.
It seemed like she hadn’t heard anyone care about herself in this tone in many, many years.
Ever since she had become a powerful “Witch of the Sea”, a cursed person feared by many, and the captain of a ghost ship, she had not heard such words.
It made her feel a bit awkward.
“I …… am fine,” she blushed oddly and shook her head, trying to distract herself with thought as she tried to suppress the embarrassment in her mind, “You were able to catch the phantom… . is that one of your current powers? What is its essence? Is it a deep understanding of the world? Or is it due to the effects of subspace?”
Lucrecia was really caught up in her thoughts, the instinct to explore the unknown made it seem as if she had instantly forgotten the embarrassment she had just experienced, and she continued to mutter as she pondered, “…… Could it be that in this ‘layer’ of subspace, reality world there is actually no difference between matter and phantoms? Everything in the earthly world is an equal ‘concept’ in front of subspace …… Claude Divens’ theory is correct? All things are ‘concepts’ and form coherent projections in subspace ……”
Duncan listened to the witch lady muttering from the side and finally couldn’t help but speak up and interrupt her, “Lucy …… You can look into this matter another time.”
The “witch” instantly woke up, but still stared at Duncan with wide eyes, unblinking.
Duncan, however, lowered his head and looked at the colored pieces of paper in his hands, and couldn’t help but think in his head.
He had not thought that these colorful pieces of paper were such a special “thing”, and looking at Lucrecia’s reaction, it was obvious that what he had just done was enough to be called “shocking”.
He had caught the phantom – but Duncan knew that he didn’t have the power to catch it.
He just didn’t know that the pieces of paper were phantoms.
Thoughts ebbed and flowed in his head, memories of events and speculations surfaced, and something appeared in Duncan’s mind – a fish.
There was silence for an unknown amount of time before he suddenly spoke softly, as if to himself, “Its nature …… may be ‘I don’t know’ …… “
Lucrecia heard her father’s self-talk, but was confused by what she heard, “What are you saying? Are you saying you don’t know the nature of this ability?”
Duncan came back to his senses, he opened his mouth as if he wanted to explain something to this “daughter”, but after several hesitations, he shook his head.
“It’s another layer, but I don’t know how to explain it to you – Lucy, we’ll talk about it later when we have the chance, right now we have other things on our minds.”
He turned his head and looked at the magnificent “wall of light” that had come to the bow of the Bright Star and was emanating a heavy sense of oppression in a majestic manner.
“Show me that stone sphere first.”
Lucrecia nodded, but did not leave, but remained where she stood, looking at her father with a tangled and complicated look.
Duncan frowned suspiciously, “Is there something else?” Lucrecia hesitated for a moment and carefully raised her finger, “Can you …… give that back to me first?”
Duncan looked down and found that he was still holding the colorful piece of paper that the other party had split during the “experiment” just now.
His face instantly stiffened, and he apologized while releasing his hand, “Uh, ahem, sorry.”
The piece of paper floated up and quickly drilled into Lucrecia’s arm, refilling a spot that was originally dull with color.
The “Witch of the Sea” watched this scene with a somewhat subtle expression, then nodded to Duncan, turned around and turned into a large swath of fluttering confetti ready to fly towards the bridge – but she stopped again just less than half a meter out, her figure coalescing back together, and turned her head to look uneasily at Duncan: “You’re not going to be able to do this, are you? Looked at Duncan: “You don’t catch it this time ah ……”
Duncan blushed in embarrassment, “…… Of course.”
Lucrecia nodded again and turned away, but then turned around again uneasily, “If you are curious, next time you discuss the experiment, really don’t catch it ah.”
Duncan spread his hands in tears, “Definitely don’t scratch, I’m not a child.”
Lucrecia gave an oh sound, but when she turned around, she hesitated for half a day and finally sighed, “I’d better walk ……”
Then this witch lady just walked all the way to the far bridge.
Duncan watched with a strange expression as the other party drifted away, and finally couldn’t help feeling emotional in his heart:
Luckily, that Master Taran El did not dare to come to the deck with himself because of his nervousness, and was still lying in his room at this time to recuperate, or else the scene at this time would be more than just a father’s kindness and daughter’s filial piety, as well as embarrassment.
I am afraid that the “Witch of the Sea” will choose to blatantly silence – by then Taran Ayer will really die on this ship.
The chaotic thoughts in his mind turned around, Duncan gently exhaled, his mind finally gradually calmed down, and at the same time, the Bright Star also slightly adjusted the angle under the personal control of the captain, and then sailed straight into the magnificent “curtain of light”.
Like some kind of crystal with substance, but without any sense of obstruction, the light golden “sunlight” filled the field of vision and gradually engulfed the Bright Star.
Duncan stood at the end of the foredeck, his eyes calmly looking at this “sunlight” that pounced on his face and completely submerged himself in it.
He guessed the nature of this sunshine, and slightly raised his hands, as if he wanted to feel the “touch” of this sunshine.
On the way here, he had already heard Lucrecia tell him a lot of information about this “luminous falling object”, and had also learned that during the period of the sun’s extinction, this luminous geometry had continuously sent out regular “light signals”. There was a lot of information – none of it, however, could explain to him the “moon” in the center of the luminous geometry.
Duncan narrowed his eyes slightly.
Small shadows appeared in his field of vision.
It was the research station the elves had set up in the center of the glowing geometry, as Lucrecia had previously mentioned, and the …… mysterious stone sphere located next to the station.
The research station was a two-story building built on a floating platform, and that stone sphere was less than a few meters next to the floating platform, with a temporary bridge and many steel cables connecting the two to ensure the stability of the platform.
As the distance shortened, more and more details of the sphere came into Duncan’s eyes.
Now, he finally confirmed it in the real world.
The familiar patterns, the plains, depressions, and craters of light and dark, the one that had appeared so often in his recent memories, the one he had seen more than once in books and on the internet – the Moon.
“It really is it ……”
An indefinable complexity pervaded his mind – it wasn’t surprise, for Duncan had been surprised long ago, and it wasn’t bewilderment, for he had pondered it in confusion long before today.
In this moment, he was simply confirming, witnessing something that had haunted him for a long time, a bizarre fact that he could not comprehend nor recognize, coming to him with certainty.
The Bright Star slowly slowed down, and under Lucrecia’s control, the ghost ship, which was as “alive” as the Lost Country, finally stopped with incredible accuracy just a few meters away from the stone sphere.
Duncan came to the edge of the deck, where he could see even the smallest lines on the surface of the sphere.
He was also more and more certain that the sphere, which was only about ten meters in diameter, had an amazing degree of “reproduction”, it was so delicate and conformed to the details of the surface of the “moon”, that… …it was not at all like the “miniature model” he had imagined at the beginning.
It seemed to be the real Moon, compressed to this size.
(End of chapter)