Chapter 547 – Extreme Conjectures
Chapter 547 – Extreme Conjecture
Lucrecia looked at the clockwork doll lying on the lab table without a word, Alice stood on the opposite side of the lab table with a nervous and uneasy look on her face, and Duncan stood next to Alice, looking expressionless.
After the awkward atmosphere lasted for a long time, Lucrecia finally broke the silence first, “…… So, Luni took her own head off?”
“…… The process was complicated,” Duncan spoke with a stern face, “I was surprised too.”
Lucrecia couldn’t help but glance at Duncan.
She didn’t know if it was an illusion, but she actually felt as if her father, who was always stone-faced and always had a serious and gloomy temperament, had a hint of …… embarrassment in his demeanor just now.
“I’m sorry ……” Alice finally spoke up, she lowered her head, carefully grasping the corner of Duncan’s coat, obviously realizing that she had intruded again, “I saw that Luni was also a mannequin, and assumed that mannequins were all the same, just …… I was also surprised that her head turned out to be unpluggable, huh?”
“…… I can see that Luni also thought that she was the same as you,” Lucrecia looked at this “abnormality099” that had made countless people fearful and alert with a subtle expression. “But I didn’t design that ‘feature’ for her.”
Just then, Luni, who was lying on the lab table with her head split, suddenly stirred, her head blinking, her voice sounding a bit out of tune, “Mistress, can you help me connect my head first? Sorry for the trouble ……”
Lucrecia glanced down at the clockwork figure with an expressionless face and sighed, taking tools from the side and beginning to remove the covers and decorative materials on Luni’s body near her neck, unable to help but speak as she did so, “Why did you follow Alice’s lead without a second thought?”
“Alice …… is a new friend,” Lunie’s head sounded off to the side with a slight noise between the opening and closing of her mouth, “a new friend brought by the old master.”
Lucrecia paused for a moment in the movement of her hand, and then said nothing, continuing to be busy.
Alice, on the other hand, looked at Luni’s head a little uneasily, “So will we still be friends in the future?”
“Yes,” Luni winked, “but only after Mistress fixes me up ……”
Alice was instantly happy again, and then seemed to realize something extraordinary, “Ah, you don’t stutter when your head is off!”
“Yes, because my head can operate alone, Mistress installed a complete vocal structure in my skull, and my mind is not affected by the lack of physical structure,” Luni explained with a single glance, “The difference between you and me is that I can’t recover on my own after my neck is broken. ”
Alice thought about it, and although she didn’t understand it, she still nodded, “Oh… that’s awesome.”
Duncan watched the scene from the side, feeling that the scene had been bizarre beyond words.
What is even more evil than a cursed doll that can lose its head is to find another doll for this doll to be a friend – he has not yet introduced Alice to the other strange “servants” on this ship.
If this silly person were to wander around the Bright Star, what would the ship be like?
Lucrecia, who was busy dismantling and repairing Luni’s joints, suddenly felt a jolt in the bottom of her heart, and she looked up blankly, but she couldn’t find the source of this “jolt”.
However, her attention was soon focused on something else.
“What do you think about that ‘eyeball’ that Master Taran El recorded?” This “Witch of the Sea” turned her head to look at Duncan on the side, “This matter definitely cannot be publicized to ordinary people, but on the side of the Church of the Four Gods ……”
“I am prepared to tell them, but I haven’t thought about what way to do it, and whether it’s necessary to make some more direct contact with their executives,” Duncan also quickly collected the chaotic thoughts in his mind, and said with a serious expression, “The key right now doesn’t lie in the ‘Vision 001’s’ name. ‘The body of Vision 001 is an eyeball encapsulated in a man-made spherical shell’ matter, after all, since there has been history, Vision 001 is originally unknown to mortals, its true appearance could be as bizarre and horrifying as it is, what really matters is what that eyeball looks like.”
“The appearance of that eyeball …… “Lucrecia slowed down the movement in her hands, her brows slightly wrinkled, “You said that it is similar to …… a certain part of the creeping sun wheel’s structure is similar?”
“The essence of the Creeping Sunwheel, an ancient god surrounded and scorched by a corona, between the layers of tentacles, a massive eye structure was its main feature,” Duncan nodded, casually, “I was extremely impressed by that eyeball- -it had locked eyes with me for a long time.”
Listening to her father, Lucrecia, however, suddenly looked around uneasily, and then somewhat hesitantly at Duncan, “Talking directly about the Ancient Gods at sea ……”
“Not much of a problem, even if that guy’s ‘gaze’ does get caught, it’ll only fall on me,” Duncan waved his hand, “And I’ve been looking right for it.”
Lucrecia opened her mouth, for a moment, but didn’t know how to respond. She’d seen a lot of the world in her century of wandering the infinite seas, and had dealt with even more madmen, and had been involved in no less taboo and dangerous topics and events, but those taboo and dangerous topics weren’t something to be talked about in this raw atmosphere.
She felt that it might indeed take a long time for her to relearn how to get along with her father nowadays.
For his part, Duncan paid no attention to Lucrecia’s expression, which rose subtly for a moment, and after a few moments of contemplation, he thought of something else: “Do you remember that ‘intruder’ that appeared in Taran-El’s dream? That projection of the Sunchild.”
“I remember, you said it looked like a smaller ‘Creeping Sunwheel’,” Lucrecia nodded, “And you also mentioned that that ‘Sunchild’ ‘ communicated with you briefly, and that it and its minions were searching for something in that dream world.”
Duncan nodded slightly, then spoke nonchalantly, “At the heart of Vision 001 was an ‘eyeball’ that was remarkably similar to the core of the ‘Creeping Sun Wheel’, and twelve hours after Vision 001 went out, the Sun Son then invaded the ‘Dream of the Nameless One’ through Taran-El’s dream and brought his minions to look for something in that dream, so there is clearly a connection between these two events;
“On the other hand, for thousands of years the followers of the Black Sun have been proclaiming that it is the ‘true sun god’ that they worship, and calling the sun in the sky the ‘False Sun’, and all along the world has believed that this is just their epileptic delusion, that it was the spiritual pollution of the Black Sun that caused those believers’ perception of the world to be skewed, but Taran-El had discovered that Vision 001 really did have an eyeball extremely similar to the core structure of the ‘Creeping Sun Wheel’ sealed inside it when the sun was extinguished;
“Lastly, there was that Annihilationist who invaded the Dream of the Nameless One – according to the intelligence I gathered, the Annihilationists’ purpose was not the same as the Sunists, they were searching for the ‘original blueprints before the creation of the Holy Lord’ in that dream world ‘, but according to that Book of Blasphemy, the ‘Profound Holy Lord’ had guided the Cretan Clan during the creation of the world, and may have even personally helped them to create Vision 001, so technically speaking …… today’s Vision 001, the ‘False Sun’ in the mouths of the Sunists, can also be seen as the ‘masterpiece’ of the Profound Holy Lord, a part of the original blueprint.
“This last point may also explain the ‘state of cooperation’ I observed between the Annihilation Cult and the Sun Cultists – they are indeed cooperating, but clearly the relationship is not cordial.”
Duncan spoke slowly about what he had been thinking about for some time, then raised his eyelids and looked Lucrecia in the eye.
“What comes to mind in this information?”
Lucrecia unconsciously has stopped the movement of her hands, her complexion changed several times, her expression was a bit uneasy in the gaze, after a long time, she whispered to break the silence:”…… Even a cultist who worships the black sun standing here, I’m afraid to say that this is a bit extreme ……”
“…… I heard something similar once not too long ago,” Duncan said, shaking his head, “Now I just hope that the deepest truths of our world aren’t even crazier than that- -or else I’m afraid even the most extreme cultists are going to look conservative in the face of real history.”
Lucrecia didn’t say anything, just slowly lowered her gaze in contemplation.
Lunie’s head, on the other hand, still lay on the laboratory table, meeting the contemplative mistress at eye level.
After a while, Luni finally couldn’t help but speak, ”Mistress …… still loaded? Why don’t you go next door to rest for a while first? You can have the rabbi come over to help ……”
Lucrecia exhaled, temporarily shook off the distractions in her mind, picked up the tools in her hands and continued to start busying herself, “The rabbi will only stuff your head inside its own stomach to make up for its endless thirst for ‘cotton’- Don’t move, I’m going to put your head back in.”
“Oh.”
……
At the same time, inside the consul’s office in Lightwind Harbor, Consul Sara Meier unfolded a document that had just been delivered to her desk, and looking at the contents on it, this elf who had already lived for a long time frowned a little bit.
The document came from the Church of the Four Gods – it was not issued by one church alone, but carried the seals and signatures of the four popes, witnessed by the four gods, and was sent to every city-state on the Boundless Sea.
An early warning system was established, jointly constructed by the city-states, churches, and explorers’ associations, to monitor the city-states, the sea, and any movement that may occur below the surface at any time, to be on guard against a repeat of the Frost Crisis, and to be on guard against the awakening of the Ancient Gods;
The Church of the Four Gods draws a portion of its patrol fleet from the borders to the interior of the civilized world to be ready to respond to emergencies on a world-wide scale.
The above two items are worrying, but they are still normal, at least to the rulers of the city-states, this is still an understandable “job description”.
What really raised the eyebrows of Consul Sara Meir was the last item of the document, which was mentioned as if it were not meant to be, but which stood out as being of great significance.
“All city-states need to pay attention to any warning signals from the Lost Country or the Lost Country Fleet, and if they find the Lost Country’s own ship operating in the waters around the city-states …… must not take any hostile actions, and should …… cooperate as the situation requires. cooperate.”
(End of chapter)