Chapter 663 – Border Intelligence
Chapter 663 – Border Intelligence
Duncan gazed at the distant sea and fell into deep thought, Lucrecia who stood behind him kept quiet, this silence lasted for I don’t know how long, Duncan finally took the initiative to break the calm, “Tell me about the border.”
Lucrecia stepped forward, some hesitation in her tone, “You ……”
“I can’t remember what happened back then,” Duncan said softly, “so I’d like to hear your thoughts on the border – you’ve been active in the border region over the years, and as far as I know, you’ve even ventured out into the thick fog a couple of times. fog …… If we’re destined to deal with that fog again, then I’d at least like to know what all you know about it.”
Lucrecia’s eyes were a bit hesitant and complicated, she looked at Duncan’s back steadily, as if she was afraid that this figure would suddenly disappear into the wind again – before today, her father had also brought up the topic of the border with her, but their discussions in this regard never went in depth, and she would consciously avoid things in this regard, but Today …… things seemed different.
After a few seconds, this “Witch of the Sea” finally spoke: “…… I did enter that thick fog, but only at a very ‘shallow’ level of activity, six nautical miles. Activity, six nautical miles, this is the limit of my action in the mist – theoretically it should also be the limit of the monitoring of the Church of the Four Gods’ ships in that area.”
“What’s there?” Duncan asked curiously.
Lucrecia thought for a moment, “The sea in most of the area is calm, even calmer than the other normal waters of the Infinite Sea, the water is like a mirror that clearly reflects the flags on the masts, there aren’t any waves that rise and fall, and the ripples that are caused by a ship sailing over the surface of the sea will calm down in a very short period of time, and the entire surface of the sea has a texture like some sort of …… heavy viscous substance that could not be rippled, but in reality it was really seawater, and the ship’s navigation itself would not be affected ……
“But that’s just the calm zone, between these calm seas there are also bizarre and irregular bands of turbulence – they can appear suddenly, without warning, and are hard to detect visually even when the turbulence has already appeared, and the fast-moving sea water remains calm, like some sort of The rapidly flowing water remains calm, like some kind of ‘cutting line’ that sweeps through the neighborhood, and when inadvertently approached, the ship will go out of control, either by spinning rapidly and being carried by the turbulence to the wrong course, or by capsizing directly.
“And these are still only ‘mild conditions’ in the mist, when it’s not so mild …… something spooky happens.
“Sometimes incomprehensible things suddenly appear in the mist, such as huge, floating cubes on the surface of the sea, or ‘mountains’ stabbing straight out of the sea like knife blades, but it’s hard to get right up close to these entities emerging out of the mist, because around these things are often accompanied by the appearance of very large-scale …… abnormal celestial phenomena, sometimes storms, sometimes huge ring-like turbulence, and sometimes even whole sections of seawater disappear out of thin air, forming an abyss-like fault with no bottom below, terrifying to the extreme ……”
Lucrecia paused here, seemingly recalling certain experiences that even she, the “Sea Witch”, would have palpitations in her heart, and only after organizing her thoughts for a moment did she continue:
“In the midst of these chaotic phenomena, there are occasional gains, such as ‘materials’ and ‘items’ of unknown nature, which appear along with the turbulence or storms, and are entities that can be touched, captured, and stored, and even brought outside the Mist. Outside the mists, some of these items are very useful, such as grease that burns forever, or crystals that banish mental pollution, the Explorer’s Guild and the Academy of Truth will pay a large price in exchange for these items in order to study their uses, but basically these things harvested from the border vision are random and unique, and don’t have the possibility of a stable output… …
“And on even rarer occasions, these chaotic and dangerous phenomena are found in ……”
She stopped abruptly, seemingly hesitant to continue.
Duncan couldn’t help but frown, “Lucy, what do you see?”
“Only once, and I’m still not sure if it was real or just a hallucination I had after extreme exhaustion,” Lucrecia hesitated and finally said hesitantly, “It was a huge column that suddenly rose up out of the sea, which was pitch-black and surrounded by huge rings that were equally dark and unreadable in detail. It was the only entity in the fog that I ever managed to get close to – it was surrounded only by less intense winds and waves, which the Radiant Star was barely able to contend with, and I came to the foot of the cylinder, even leaning the ship over and touching its surface with my hand …… Then I heard it speak to me.”
Lucrecia raised her hand and pointed to her head, “The voice boomed in my brain, a language I didn’t recognize, yet I could understand its meaning straight away, and it repeated the phrase, ‘Warp engine activation …… we are getting out of danger. Curvature Engine Activation …… we are getting out of danger ……'”
She looked up and saw a subtle change in the expression on Duncan’s face and couldn’t help but ask, “Do you know what that phrase means?”
Duncan instantly frowned when he heard Lucrecia’s words, the word “warp engine” sent a huge wave through his mind, and he was instantly reminded of the ship that crashed in the Deep Sea Era, the “New Hope”!
Lucrecia had found the wreckage of the ship? It crashed in the Eternal Curtain?
“Can you still find it? Have you seen it again since?” He asked quickly.
“I’m afraid I can’t,” Lucrecia sensed the importance of the matter in her father’s manner, but could only shake her head apologetically, “The things that appear in the border mists are random and fleeting, like palpable illusions that dissipate without a trace when their time is up, and so far I have not in that mist have encountered the same entity twice in a row.”
A pang of disappointment welled up in Duncan’s mind, but it didn’t show too much, “…… So what else did you find out besides that?” Lucrecia recalled it carefully and said with less certainty, “In addition to that is an extremely weird …… ‘touch’ when I touched it, which gave me the feeling of ‘ Hollow’, no temperature, no hardness, I know it’s strange to say so, but at that time my fingers completely unable to judge what material they touched in the end, and even unable to judge whether or not they have touched something, in that instant, my fingers in the ‘sense of touch’ aspect of the function seems to be disappeared, or that thing …… had only a part of its ‘attributes’ left in the reality dimension, so much so that I wasn’t able to fully perceive those parts of it that had disappeared …… “
She looked more and more hesitant at the end of her words, and seemed to have difficulty in accurately expressing her feelings at that time and her conjectures at this moment, and finally could only helplessly spread her hands, “Can you understand if I say this?”
Duncan, however, revealed a thoughtful expression, after hearing Lucrecia’s description of these strange and bizarre, or even unimaginable circumstances, what suddenly appeared in his mind was the “cognitive change”, or “epiphany” about the world, that he had experienced in the brief seconds after witnessing the truth of the Great Annihilation. “Epiphany”.
He still clearly remembers the “real” side of the world that he saw at that last moment.
The fragmented information had converged into the present Deep Sea Age, and the incompatible fragments of the old world had fused and mutated with each other in the collision, transforming into something completely different, or merging into the pot of “information soup” at the bottom of the world.
Then …… what about those things that don’t fit in, or can’t be completely annihilated or contaminated by other things because of their own “special nature”?
Such a thing must exist, when the cosmic level of collision occurs, the probability of all events will be from infinity to infinity small all iterated together, anything can happen, anything can never happen, then those in the infinity of small probability after the inevitable stay of the “lucky” or “unlucky”, should always have a place to go ……
Duncan guessed that most of them would be in subspace – the dark, chaotic space where there were many things that looked like remnants of the old world, such as torn lands, pale Cyclops, and seeming shadows floating in the void, which were supposed to be the fragments that had not been completely annihilated.
But now it seems that there are still parts of them that have fallen outside of subspace.
“Witch of the Sea” in the border fog saw those “entities” …… is such a thing.
Lucrecia felt uneasy as she saw the expression on Duncan’s face change continuously, as if some kind of logic and cognition she didn’t understand was taking shape in her father’s mind, which gave her the same premonition she had when she witnessed the “starry sky”.
But this time, she didn’t really see the stars appearing behind her father’s body.
“I’m interested in the ‘entities’ you saw in the Mists of the Border,” Duncan snapped, interrupting Lucrecia’s rambling thoughts, “What about deeper? You just said you can only go up to six nautical miles within the mists, what happens further down?”
“It will completely lose the sense of direction to the civilized world,” Lucrecia instantly woke up with a start and hurriedly replied, “In fact, after entering the Eternal Curtain, all conventional means of navigation are no longer effective, even from the Stargazer’s Room overlooking the deep starry night sky, you can only see a hazy and blurred shadow, Only within six nautical miles, the radio can still barely function, and the temporary lighthouse set up at the misty border or the ceremonial fire pots used for positioning can also guide the ship back to its destination, but once it crosses the six nautical miles threshold, the contact with the civilized world will be completely cut off.
“I once went too far in and crossed that tipping point, albeit only by a little bit, and was almost permanently lost in that fog – there’s no point in returning the way you came, because once a ship crosses the border the space-time continuum around it seems to be out of whack, and your ship takes a step forward and then a one step backward, it simply won’t return to its original position ……”
As Duncan listened, he couldn’t help but frown, “So how did you return to the ship afterward?”
“I …… “Lucrecia opened her mouth and hesitated for a while before she whispered with a somewhat strange expression, “I saw the shadow of the Lost Country.”
(End of chapter)