Chapter 687 – Accidents and Coincidences
Chapter 687 – Accident and Coincidence
Accompanied by a loud bang, the ugly and shriveled “dry body” rose up from the deck, as if it were a cannonball, smashing heavily into a pile of debris not far away.
Sailors on the deck were startled by this huge movement, is not far away from the situation of watching Lawrence also instantly jumped down from the platform, with a group of people quickly ran to the direction of the “sailor” smashed down – in a pile of messy debris, that wearing a sailor’s In a pile of mess, the shriveled body wearing a sailor’s smock was struggling hard, and it was with great difficulty that he pulled his head out of a crashed crate, and when he saw the seafarers gathered around him, he shook his head dizzily: “I …… I saw …… “
First Mate Gus spoke while vigorously pulling this dry body out, “What did you see?”
“I saw me too tits ……”
First Mate kicked this dry body back again, “You TM an anomaly where did you get the too milk?!”
Lawrence instantly determined that the anomaly 077 ass no matter, so turned to the side, came to that just been salvaged “fell into the sea” on the body.
An elf dressed in southern style clothing was lying on the deck in a daze, leaning against the winch used to haul cargo, his expression looked a bit stagnant and confused – he was soaked to the skin and in a terrible state, but there was no obvious trauma on his body.
However, when Lawrence approached, the elf’s reaction was obviously not normal – he just sluggishly turned his head slightly, as if he still hadn’t fully come to his senses, and his dull eyes swept the surrounding area for a while, then sluggishly turned back again.
Ted Rill was still in a state of confusion, unaware of where he was.
He had been in this state ever since he had instinctively punched the ugly, dried-up dryad away – his head seemed to have been stuffed with a large mass of sticky, confusing glue, and strange noises constantly echoed from the depths of his mind, shadows jittering around the edges of his field of vision, interfering with his judgment and thinking.
He knew that he had already left the subspace, and the sound of the sea breeze and waves around him was undoubtedly the real world, but the terrible “darkness journey” still left a long-lasting burn in his mind, which was slowly spreading, becoming a terrible aftermath of witnessing the subspace, and continued to paralyze his nerves.
He was lucky – hardly anyone could survive witnessing subspace, let alone return to the real dimension with their sanity intact after a horrific “trip” – but he didn’t have time now to be thankful that he hadn’t survived! –The only remaining reason was urging him to regain his senses and anchor his mind to the real dimension as soon as possible, because the deadly contamination and shadows had not yet subsided completely, and they were attacking from the cracks that were imperceptible and incomprehensible to human beings, trying to drag him back to that chaotic and dark place! ……
A humming and rumbling sound came from the side, sounding like thunder through a thick curtain, and a man approached, a robust old man with white hair, who seemed to be talking, his mouth opening and closing to make sounds that were unintelligible to humans.
“Wake up, wake up,” Lawrence reached out and slapped the strange elf’s face in an attempt to bring the unlucky man, who was somehow adrift at sea, to his senses, “What is your name?”
A hazy shadow floated up to his side, and Martha warned from the shadows, “Careful, Lawrence, this man appears suspicious – he’s drifting from the sea after the sun has gone out, and there’s still no telling what the hell… …”
“Don’t worry, Martha, even something floating out of subspace isn’t much more evil than we are anyway,” Lawrence said casually, but he was still cautious, pressing one hand to the pistol at his waist, wisps of faint, ghostly green flame leaping through the nest of bullets, “Just now when this man appeared out of the darkness Did you get a good look at him when he appeared from the edge of the darkness? How did he emerge?”
“There was no warning,” Martha’s shadow cautiously observed the suspicious elf who, although his eyes were open, did not look at all like he had come to his senses, while answering in a low voice, “From the moment the sun went out, I’ve been keeping an eye on the surroundings in the Spirit Realm, and he appeared out of nowhere …… darkness emerged out of nowhere with such a guy.”
“This is the first time I’ve encountered this situation ……”
Lawrence muttered, subconsciously looked up beyond the ship’s side to the undulating breaking waves around the White Oak – a small piece of seawater was illuminated by the lights emanating from the White Oak, as if still maintaining the normal appearance of the sea before the sun went out, but beyond that limited area of the sea, there is an invisible boundary, beyond the boundary of the infinite sea of darkness and strangeness. But beyond that limited sea, there was an invisible border, beyond which the infinite sea was dark and strange, as if the whole world had been reduced to nothingness.
And this suspicious elf suddenly appeared from that invisible border.
At that moment, the “drifter” leaning against the winch suddenly moved his eyeballs.
Lawrence snapped his head back and stared at the other side.
The elf opened his mouth, and what reached Lawrence’s ears was a series of hoarse noises that humans could not understand or even emit: “@##$%……?”
Lawrence:”……?!”
At the instant of hearing this series of noises, a warning sign suddenly rises, the experience accumulated in the infinite sea drifting for more than half of his life instantly makes the old captain back two steps, at the same time with the speed of the naked eye almost can not be seen to pull out a revolver, and almost at the same time, the sailors who are responsible for guarding the surrounding immediately reacted to a variety of weapons pointed at the “drift”, even the hard to see, and the sailors who are responsible for guarding the surrounding area immediately reacted to a variety of weapons pointed to the “drifter”, and even the sailors who are responsible for guarding the surrounding area immediately reacted to the warning sign. The “drifter”, even the “sailor” who climbed out of the pile of debris again with great difficulty drew a machete from somewhere, and waved it at the side in a gesture.
The “drifter” on the deck opened his eyes wide, and seemed to be a bit confused for a moment. He opened his hand to show that he was unarmed, and at the same time, he opened his mouth again to let out that kind of hissing, ear-piercing noise that seemed to be able to stir up the ordinary people’s minds: “%&**%$! ” Then, he stopped violently.
Ted Ryer finally realized that what he was saying wasn’t “human” language – it wasn’t even language.
It was a tremor that he couldn’t even understand, a meaningless sound.
It was the echo of subspace.
He reacted instantly, and in the next second, he noticed that the world before him was distorting – shadows rising and shrinking suddenly floated on those gathered around him who looked like ordinary innocent seafarers, countless eyeballs filled with malice appeared behind the old captain with white hair, the nearby deck was gradually Softening, taking on a silty texture, an invisible curtain is slowly opening, subspace erosion instantly ……
However, at the moment when Ted Ryer was ready to sacrifice himself to terminate the subspace rift from opening, a green flame suddenly appeared in his eyes.
A ghostly spirit flame emerged from Lawrence’s body, and immediately afterward, the flames that looked like living creatures jumped and spread out, rising and burning on every sailor nearby, causing them to transform into ghostly forms, and then burned to the surrounding decks, to the cables, the bridge, the smokestacks ……
The dryad that was wielding a machete to join in the fun nearby let out a shriek the moment the spirit fire rose, jumping and ducking aside as if he had been scalded, but quickly walked back as if nothing had happened, and carefully touched the fire on the nearby deck with his machete, lighting a bit of kindling on the tip of the blade and holding it above his head, pretending that he too was part of the burning flames.
The gates of subspace were banished completely before they had a chance to open, and Ted Rill felt all the noise and shadows within him being scorched and dispelled by the invisible flames – the flames isolated the last vestiges of subspace’s entanglement in him, and the touch of the real world seemed never clearer, more stable than it did now.
He looked up in dismay at the old captain, who was burning with a ghostly green flame, and felt a little dazed.
Why did this fire look so familiar?
“What the hell was that just now?” Lawrence was also a bit confused, he muttered as he continued to look vigilantly at the “elf” across the street, who was suspicious but did not look like a cultist or a filthy demon, and was a bit unsure of what to do next, “Is it some kind of spell?”
“…… Who are you?” Ted Riel suddenly spoke, this time in a human-understandable voice, “What is this place?”
“You can talk?!” Lawrence was instantly startled, but still couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this elf speak human language – although he didn’t know what was going on, the sense of crisis in his heart did subside slightly, “…… This is the White Oak, and I am the captain of this ship.”
“The White Oak?” Ted Reel frowned slightly, seeming to vaguely remember when he had heard of this name – it was just that the continuous trauma to his spirit coupled with a severe sense of fatigue had left his mind still a little confused, and for a moment he could not recall any specific information about this ship, “What is your relationship with the Lost Country? What is your relationship with Captain Duncan?”
“Captain Duncan?” Lawrence froze at that, it was the first time he had ever heard the name mentioned so openly out in the open, but he quickly responded and nodded, “That’s my boss.”
Ted Ryer: “……?”
……
“Ted Riel is missing?!”
Inside the “Witch’s Mansion” in Lightwind Harbor, Duncan, who had just returned to the city, was taken aback after hearing the news brought by Lucrecia.
“Yes, this just came in from the academy,” Lucrecia nodded, she had gone outside only a few minutes ago, “Ted Riel left the research station next to the ‘Luminous Geometry’ fifteen minutes ago, through a portal, but after that, he left through a portal. portal to leave, but he hasn’t shown up at his intended location in Lightwind Harbor since then.”
“It’s only been fifteen minutes, huh?” Shirley, who was off to the side, poked her head in, “Doesn’t seem like too long, look for it ……”
“Using a portal to move – the moment you open the door if the person doesn’t arrive it’s already an accident,” Lucrecia glanced at Shirley, “I’m afraid it’s a spell gone haywire due to the sun going out. ”
(End of chapter)