Chapter 688 Settling in and Communication
Chapter 688 Settling in and Communication
The sun going out would cause the teleportation spell to go out of control, making people disappear into the real world?
After hearing Lucrecia’s analysis, Duncan was puzzled for a while, but considering that there are already so many strange and bizarre things in this world, and that the sun going out is the strangest of all the strange events, it seems that whatever happens at this time is not worth a surprise – the most important thing now is to find out where the “Secret Keeper of Truth” has gone. The most important thing now is to find out where the “Secret Keeper of Truth” has gone.
At this moment, Duncan suddenly frowned, and then as if he had heard some news from afar, his face immediately looked a little strange.
Alice, who was the closest to him, was the first to notice: “Hey? Captain, what’s wrong with you?”
Duncan raised his head and glanced with a subtle expression at Lucrecia and Maurice, who were discussing how to launch a search to find Ted’s whereabouts, “…… Ahem, there’s no need to look for it.”
Lucrecia & Maurice: “Huh?”
“The people are fine,” Duncan waved his hand, “Ted Reel is now aboard the White Oak.”
The living room crowd looks at each other momentarily, and after a few seconds of silence it’s Vanna who breaks the silence, “…… The White Oak? Lawrence’s ship? How did he get there?!”
“It’s not clear, even Ted Reel himself can’t seem to make sense of it,” Duncan breathed out, speaking casually as he kept in contact with Lawrence in his head, “Just like the last time, the White Oak was sailing at sea when the sun went out- -Sailors on the ship found Ted Reel drifting in the ‘Dark Frontier’ on the surface of the sea, and then anomalously 077 fished the man out …… Lawrence said that Ted’s mental state was very confused for a while, and he couldn’t even talk to anyone. , and only now has recovered somewhat, he seems to have gone far, far away, from those intermittent descriptions ……”
Duncan paused when he said this, his expression slightly grave.
“Suspected subspace.”
……
Ted Reel, wrapped in a thick blanket, sat in the brightly lit cabin, and was handed a cup of still somewhat scalding hot tea, which he held and looked up to thank him, “Thank you.”
The shriveled, horrifying corpse stood before him, waving its hand, “Just don’t knock me out next time – I don’t know if I’ll be able to grow back once my bones are broken.”
Ted Reel’s expression was a bit wonderful for a moment, as if he had recalled something not so wonderful, he awkwardly pulled the corner of his mouth at this “abnormality” that was obviously out of control, but was moving around and working hard on the White Oak just like an ordinary crew member, and finally he couldn’t hold back his words, “”. Are you Abnormality 077-Sailor?”
“Hey, you know me?” When the dry body heard this, it seemed to be a bit happy, and while coming over, it said, “Other ordinary people’s first reaction to seeing me would only be to know fear, but you still know my name and number?”
“…… I am the Secret Keeper of Truth of Light Wind Harbor,” Ted Riel looked at the dry corpse that was sitting down beside himself with a bashful face, “The documents of one of your transshipments several years ago were signed by me personally. ”
The cadaver just sat down in the middle of the “Teng” popped up, staring at Ted Riel, trembling with excitement: “You …… you …… you are the The church? You ……”
“Calm down, ‘Mr. Dryad’,” Ted Riel seemed to have anticipated the other party’s reaction and said with a helpless face, “I know that you are now in a special situation of ‘out of control abnormality’ ‘, don’t worry, I won’t force you to be sealed ……”
As a result, his side of the words have not finished, that dry corpse on the “plop” on the ground, and stretched out the withered hand grasping the edges of the blanket, howling heart hairy: “I can count on waiting for the church to come to the people ah! You can seal me up! Just give me a rope that works! If you can’t give me a piece of shroud, I can roll it myself. …… Or you can give me a harder one than just now. ……”
Ted could not have imagined such a scene, the cries of the corpse ghosts and wails of the movement made him scrambling, and hurriedly tugged on the blanket while retreating: “Stop stop stop …… you calm down …… do not pull …… I don’t mean this …… all well and good but you calm down first, resealing is not something you can just say so ……”
But that dry corpse obviously did not even listen to what he said, just still ghosts crying and howling, a “human” movement lively with the same steam core engine room, crackling chanting what “re-seal”, “give a rope child “, “give a rope”, “hanging from the mast” and other nonsense, highlighting a sanity torn emotional pollution.
Seriously, after half a minute Ted Ryer even started to miss the “cute” students he’d had – they’d give him the clear, stupid look a lot of the time, but at least the worst thing they’d ever done in class had been The worst thing they did in class was sleep.
It was a lot quieter than it is now.
Thankfully, though, the raucous dryad’s antics didn’t last long – before Ted Rill could really start to think about whether or not he should beat Abnormality 077 half to death for accepting his suggestion, the door to the cabin was pushed open.
Lawrence, his body still burning with an eerie green flame, pushed his way through the door.
Anomaly 077, who had been ghostly wailing a second before, instantly quieted down and playfully greeted the captain before disappearing into the room in almost the twinkling of an eye.
Ted stared blankly at the direction the “sailor” had disappeared. After half a day, he turned his head to look at Lawrence, “I never imagined that the Sailor, who was feared by countless mariners, would look like this after losing control of the ship. ……”
Lawrence looked surprised, “Have you never seen Miss Alice?”
“…… Well, Mr. Captain, you have a point,” Ted thought for a moment and waved a hand, “Anything that seems to get tangled up with the Lost Country becomes… . unthinkable.”
“Unbelievable, yes, but at least not bad,” Lawrence laughed, walking over to him as he did so, “Ignore that nervous dryad, and don’t take what he says about asking to be resealed seriously – he’s just being a joker That’s all. While it’s true that the guy was a bit of an escapist at first, he’s actually quite comfortable on this ship now, he’s just not happy to admit it.”
“Sounds like you already know a lot about Anomaly 077?”
“As a captain’s duty and basic education, I have to know everyone on my ship, and that includes that guy,” Lawrence said, taking a seat next to Ted, while turning his head to observe his “temporary passenger’s” aura. “How are you feeling, Mr. Secret Keeper?”
“There’s still the occasional slight noise in my head, but it’s much better than before,” Ted breathed out, “The biggest problem now is that there’s a whole bunch of jumbled memories going through my head, all sorts of visions – real, false, and all sorts of things… -real, false, distorted by the effects of self-preservation, and it’s hard for me to tell which of them is actually believable ……I feel as if I’ve been traveling through that dark place for a century ……But you told me that that I actually left Lightwind Harbor only ten minutes ago?”
“Yes, ten minutes, Lord Keeper of the Secrets,” Lawrence nodded, “you were only missing from the portal for a little while while we scooped you up – so we’re now very curious to know what you were doing in that ‘little while’ exactly what you experienced.”
“‘We’?” Ted Ryer noted keenly the one word the captain mentioned.
“I’ve just spoken to my ‘boss’, and he’s been made aware of what’s been going on here – the ‘disappearance’ of the Truthkeeper’s Secretaries has caused Some confusion, but fortunately, the White Oak found you before the chaos festered,” Lawrence said, “Don’t worry too much about the city-state side, the Lost Country is near that city, then there’s no safer place on this infinite sea than Lightwind Harbor, and as for you here… …”
The old captain paused when he said this, and after a little thought continued, “Right now we’re still unsure of just how much change this sun extinction has brought to this world, and attempting to open a spatial passageway again could be a very dangerous act, so you should stay on this ship in peace, and take advantage of this time to tell us about what you saw in that ‘darkness’. ‘ Tell me about what you saw in that ‘darkness’-‘he’ is very interested in it”
Ted Reel’s expression grew serious.
After a few moments of contemplation, he looked into the eyes of the old captain in front of him, “As you should already know, my experiences had something to do with subspace – that knowledge is not safe.”
Lawrence shrugged, “My boss also has something to do with subspace – he can be even more unsafe than your knowledge.”
Ted thought about it, and felt that the other man was right.
“…… Okay, so where would be a better place for us to start?”
“Let’s start with what you just mentioned in your muddle, the upside-down public house floating in the darkness ……”
……
“Ted Reel is sort of lucky that he survived subspace and isn’t recovering too badly – right now he’s aboard the White Oak telling Lawrence about those incredible experiences, and it probably won’t be long before we receive an amazing piece of intel about subspace. ”
Duncan ended the communication with the White Oak for the time being and turned his attention back to the Lightwind Harbor side of the ship, he spoke generally about what Lawrence had sent back so far, before his eyes fell on Lucrecia.
“As far as I can tell from what I have now, he didn’t have the same experience as I did.”
“…… After all, he’s only been ‘gone’ for fifteen minutes, whereas you’ve been in subspace for a century,” Lucrecia said with a slightly complicated expression on her face, obviously. “In just fifteen minutes, you’ve already hit a Saint’s sanity hard enough to almost tear him into a subspace rift …… And he was even able to resist to the end under Silantis’ influence in the first place …… “
“Luckily, the only damage over at the White Oak was a punch in the face to Anomaly 077,” Duncan waved a hand and quickly changed the subject, “Let’s focus on the world after the sun goes out until more news comes in from there… …Lucy, I wonder what that weird ‘signal’ was all about? “
(Book Push Time ~ The book is titled “Star Destiny” and the blurb is directly below:
First, we’ll knock out a batch of FTL communication antennas, and get two spare sets of shipboard mainframes and interstellar navigation modules …… Ouch, what’s up again?”
Facing the overwhelming chaos giants, Ampei scratched his head, letting the spaceship unfold in place, and tapped a base out.)
(End of chapter)