Chapter 630 – Countless Threads
Chapter 630 Countless Threads
“I don’t think you should call my going to the Frost Cathedral every Friday to collect my paycheck from the cemetery guards a ‘subspace invasion’, it’s more or less undisciplined ……”
Aboard the Lost Country, which was sailing through the shallow depths of the Spirit World, Duncan said mentally to Vanna as he examined the large wooden crate that Aey had just teleported over from Prand.
“It is from a sense of rigor that I say this,” Vanna replied with a seriousness that even made it hard for Duncan to tell if the Inquisitoress was joking or not, and then she paused and took a more serious tone, “And really, I’ve never quite understood why you insisted on personally I’ve never really understood why you insist on getting paid in person – you know, the ‘Agatha’ of Frost is willing to assign a team of guards to you, and Mr. Tirion has been trying to find a way to pay for your ‘incarnation’ over there, too. ‘incarnation’ of you over there to place you in a better place, but you still insist on guarding those graveyards ……”
Duncan stopped his hand, and in a moment’s silence he recalled the cold northern city-state – the place where it was always snowing, the winter cemeteries, the calm streets, the little girl named Anne, and the old keeper.
“…… I kind of liked that place,” Duncan said slowly in his mind, “Doing ordinary people’s things in a place I like is kind of my hobby.”
Vanna was quiet for a moment, seemingly lost in thought at the touch, while a light footstep reached his ears from a short distance away, and Duncan looked up to see Alice coming high and low from the other end of the deck – she was always so cheerful.
“Captain! Are we almost at Lightwind Harbor? I can see the ship starting to ‘float’ ……”
The mannequin suddenly noticed the large crate sitting on the deck.
“What’s this?” She came over in surprise, looking left and right beside the crate and noting the various objects inside, “Is it for me to sleep in …… It doesn’t seem to be? What are these?”
“It’s important stuff, the archives of the Lost Country’s original construction,” Duncan explained casually and reached for the wooden cube, “but the most important thing is this.”
Alice came over curiously, “What’s this?”
Duncan was silent for a long moment before speaking softly at Alice’s curious and puzzled gaze, “Perhaps …… is an ‘interface’.”
He lifted his head and looked out to the sea in the distance.
The chaotic darkness in the sky was gradually fading, the black “hair” in the sea was also dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye, those hazy illusory shadows on the surface of the sea first turned into a thin mist, and then quickly faded and melted away in the ever-stronger sunlight, and the Lost Country’s speed was slowing down! –With Goathead’s control, it was gradually floating upwards from the spirit world to reality.
“The Lost Country has approached Lightwind Harbor, what is the situation in the city now?”
Maurice’s voice came immediately in response, “It’s still chaotic, but some of the guardsmen and sheriffs have managed to reach inside the neighborhoods, and the controllers are organizing the residents to help themselves, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to deteriorate any further at this point – but how things will look tonight is anyone’s guess.”
Duncan let out a soft ‘hmm’ and then returned his attention to the sea.
The Lost Country had finished surfacing, and the bright sunlight from the real world was shining on the decks and masts, and beyond the ship’s side the sea was undulating slowly in the breeze, rippling in the breaking waves.
There was nothing in sight.
Duncan blinked, thinking something was wrong.
Alice blinked too, and even the solid-headed mannequin felt something was wrong.
A shadowy figure squirmed and stood up from the deck, looking off into the distance for a long time, and it was half a day before Agatha finally broke the silence on the deck, “Where’s Lightwind Harbor?!”
Light Wind Harbor? So big a light wind harbor?
Duncan looked halfway towards the distance, and then immediately turned his head to look in other directions – he looked around the sea, and then finally found something familiar.
A huge irregular glowing geometry was floating silently on the surface of the sea in the distance.
It was the “fallen object” that was “anchored” near Lightwind Harbor, but other than the huge glowing geometry, there was nothing to be seen on the surface of the sea.
Duncan called out over the mental connection, “First Officer, confirm our position.”
Goathead immediately responded, “Yes, Captain, I have noticed …… that there is no problem with the Lost Country’s position, the charts show that we are right near Light Wind Harbor, and that ‘glowing geometry’ can be used as a positional reference …… but Lightwind Harbor is missing.”
A sea breeze blew across the deck, and the bright sunlight of the southern sea was reflected on the sea surface, so bright that it made people a little bit unable to open their eyes.
The imprint established by the fire of the spirit body shone in a place too remote to observe, and Duncan heard Nina’s voice from the depths of his consciousness, “Uncle Duncan, have you arrived already?”
“I’ve arrived,” Duncan breathed in softly, pondering how he should explain the current situation to the other, “but Lightwind Harbor is gone.” Nina: “…… Huh?”
Some time later.
The Lost Country ship arrived at the sea area where the large glowing geometry was located, and finally found a little “trace” that could prove the existence of Lightwind Harbor in the area covered by this geometry.
Duncan found the research station used to study the “stone sphere” at the center of the geometry – it remained in the real world, but the station was empty.
Judging by the traces of the station, the scholars who had been stationed there had disappeared at least before dawn – the cooking stove for breakfast showed no signs of use, and the blessed oil lamps, which had to be lit at night, were kept burning, their internal fuel almost depleted, suggesting that no one had bothered to extinguish them after sunrise.
After some investigation, the Lost Country left the “body of light” of the glowing geometry, and once again returned to the theoretical waters of Lightwind Harbor, wandering slowly in the same place.
“…… The research facility near the stone sphere is still there, perhaps because the ‘sunlight’ released by the glowing geometry counteracted the power of the Dream of the Nameless One, but the personnel on duty at the facility are gone! …… It looks like that ‘sunlight’ did not completely counteract Silantis’ power.”
Lost Country, inside the captain’s room, Duncan was analyzing the current situation, while in the oval mirror not far from him, Agatha was also showing a look of grave reflection.
“This looks very much like the phenomenon of the disappearance of the inhabitants in Lightwind Harbor when the Dream of the Nameless One erupted, but this time …… the power of the dream has been enhanced to an unimaginable extent,” Agatha said while thinking, “even the an entire city-state with a material entity has disappeared.”
Alice stood beside Duncan, this always broad-minded mannequin at this time finally revealed a nervous to even a little scared look, she subconsciously grabbed Duncan’s arm, hesitantly spoke, “Then …… that everyone who stayed in the city… …”
“They’re fine now, I can still reach them,” Duncan reassured the figure, “According to the pattern that the Dream of the Nameless One has shown before, as soon as this dream dissipates, the ones that once disappeared as a result of the dream will return to their original state.”
Listening to the Captain’s words, Alice breathed a small sigh of relief, though she still felt something was wrong.
But Duncan knew that he hadn’t finished his sentence-
The biggest question now was whether the Dream of the Nameless One would dissipate as it had before, and whether it would be Silentis’s “last dream” or not.
Teddy Reel’s news from the depths of the Dream of the Nameless was very bad.
Silentis had gone mad – from an ancient obsession in a state of sleep, to a powerful being with a clear ability to act and lose control, and the goal of this powerful being was very clear, that is, to re-root in the real world! This powerful being has a clear goal, and that is to take root in the real world… Having awakened and in a state of insanity, will Silentis still unconsciously let the dream of the Nameless One come to a peaceful end as he has done on several previous occasions? Or is …… the “disappearance” of Lightwind Harbor her first step into the real world?
Time is running out.
Duncan thought quickly, he put the piece of “dragon bone sample” he found from the city-state of Prand on the navigation table in front of him, and at the same time, he thought about how to use this piece of wood to establish a connection with Silentis, how to reach the deepest part of the Dream of the Nameless One, to find out the truth about the dream of the Nameless One, and to find out the truth about the dream of the nameless one. At the same time, he thought about how to establish contact with Silentis by means of this piece of wood, and how to reach the deepest part of the dream of the Nameless One, and find out what kind of truth was hidden in the curtain at the core of that dream.
Sea Mist and Bright Star had already changed due to the “curse”, the original keel of Lost Country had already disappeared in the subspace, and the remaining “tree branches” had already been turned into ashes in the shipyard fire, and I’m afraid that this is the last piece of “Silantis” left in the world. I am afraid that this is the last piece of “Silentis Wood” left in the world, and the opportunity may only come once.
Just when Duncan’s mind began to float out some ideas, Alice on the side suddenly let out a cry of surprise: “Line!”
Duncan turned around in surprise, “Line? You see lines here?”
“Lines …… are everywhere!” Alice’s eyes widened and she answered quickly as she raised her hand to gesture in the air, “Suddenly floating out, everywhere in the air …… from below decks!”
“Below deck?” Duncan froze for a moment, but reacted instantly, immediately pulling Alice’s arm and tugging the figure towards the outside of the captain’s cabin, “Follow me!”
Alice did not react at once, while following the captain to run outside while shouting, “Hey …… hey? Captain, where are you taking me? Slowly slowly I hold my head ……”
Alice’s exclamation of surprise came to an abrupt end after stepping out of the door of the captain’s room.
She stood on the deck, staring dazedly at the boundless sea outside.
The sun was gradually sinking, and in the brilliant haze that filled over, she saw something she had never seen before, a dense, hair-like …… line floating and rising up from the entire sea.
Those lines were not floating up from “below decks” of the Lost Country – they were floating up from the sea where the Light Wind Harbor used to be.
(Push the book time, from Luo San Guan.CS’s “Children of the Stars”, the author himself is also my readers, in Guangdong on business when the line was blocked in the right …… In fact, his last book was milked to death, this time also milked the sacrifice of heaven.
(The new book is said to be a hardcore sci-fi title, so you can support it.)
(End of chapter)