Chapter 456 – Reflections and Tests

Chapter 456 – Reflections and Tests
The ripples in the darkness gradually calmed down, and those pale words no longer appeared, and no matter how Zhou Ming focused his attention or searched in the darkness, he could no longer see those strange “conversations”.

Yes, the conversation, that is undoubtedly a conversation, and …… it seems to be a conversation between the gods.

At least, Zhou Ming still recognized the name “Bartok”.

In the darkness, Zhou Ming quietly stood still, he no longer try to cause new ripples, but fell into a long time of thinking – a staggering amount of information like a tidal wave in his mind ebb and flow, in the surface of the calm thinking, hidden is a huge dismay and thoughts in the mess.

Was this a bad joke? Obviously unlikely.

So was this actually happening? If so, when did these conversations take place? Is it a record of what has happened before, or is it …… right now, in some mysterious dimension? “They” are talking, and this conversation …… is reflected in this dark and eerie place.

Bartok, the name of the god of death, is certain, so what do the other names mean? One of the most plausible ideas is that those names represent the gods, so the King of Fire is likely to be the “eternal flame” Tarekin …… Leviathan Queen worshipped by the Firebringers? What about the Storm Goddess?
Another name for the Storm Goddess is “Queen Leviathan”?

In the darkness, Zhou Ming gradually furrowed his brows. The extremely special title of “Queen Leviathan” caused all sorts of speculations and associations to emerge, but more than that, it was the fourth name that caused him to lose control of his thoughts – the one that spoke to the gods, the one that had the power to make the world a better place.

The one who talked to the gods had a name called “LH-02”.

If the talkers that he just saw represent each of the four gods, then the last one can only be …… Rahm, who holds the power of wisdom and foolishness among the four gods.

Rahm’s name …… is “LH-02”? This does not sound like a name at all, but more like a number! A sequence belonging to a machine!

Countless crazy conjectures were surging upwards, Zhou Ming felt that his mind was literally boiling over, he even had to try to restrain his own wild thoughts in order to avoid letting those conjectures evolve into an overly absurd and outrageous pattern, and while organizing these chaotic conjectures, he did not overlook the amazing information mentioned in those “conversations”. information mentioned in those “conversations”.

The situation is not optimistic, the critical state is accelerating …… cluster controller has begun to replicate itself, or has gone completely out of control ……

These two sentences alone were enough for Zhou Ming to smell the tense and grave atmosphere. What was the situation that “they” were referring to? Is it the earthly state? Then the critical state is accelerating,…… meaning that the collapse of some huge system is imminent?
Zhou Ming instantly recalled his last conversation with Agatha – the successive accidents of Prand and Frost, and the “malfunction” of Vision 001, these series of events all seemed like the “precursor stage” of a huge system that was constantly going wrong. The “precursor stage” of a huge system that keeps going wrong.

Then the Cluster Controller has begun to replicate itself ……

Zhou Ming’s expression suddenly became fixed, and a sentence appeared in his mind– “This is a forgery.

“This is a fake.”

In the darkness, he couldn’t help but gently inhale, subconsciously looking towards the space where the words had just surfaced, as if expecting more information to appear there.

Of course, nothing appeared there.

Zhou Ming withdrew his gaze with a grave expression.

Of course, there were still many issues that were worth paying attention to, even though what he had just seen was only a few lines of conversation, the amount of information behind each of them was astonishingly large, and even the names of each of them were worth pondering for a long time – for example, Rahm, Gemona, and Tarekin had all used “pseudonyms”, why did the God of Death Bartok use his real name? For example, Rahm, Gemona, and Tarekin all use “pseudonyms,” but why does Bartok, the god of death, use his real name? At the end of the message, “LH-02”, who is suspected to be the God of Wisdom Rahm, also mentions a suspicious visitor and says that the other party “sent a dog’s head and left.” …… What’s up with that? What is this?
In all fairness, if it wasn’t for the overwhelming amount of information in the first few sentences, I’m afraid that all of Zhou Ming’s attention would have been focused on the “dog’s head” at the end.

But now, this one sentence was just a bit strange.

Just then, a slight noise suddenly came from the depths of the darkness, interrupting the storm in Zhou Ming’s mind.

It sounded like the sound of something quietly breaking, at first it was very faint, almost like a hallucination, but almost instantly, the sound of breaking became obvious and dense, followed by countless chaotic lines of light and shadows floating in the darkness of space – the noise became more and more dense as it filled Zhou Ming’s mind, and the whole of the darkness of space began to rapidly The entire dark space began to rapidly disintegrate and shatter, spinning lights and shadows rising from all directions, and in the next second, he heard a loud “boom” in his head!
In the next second, a short period of weightlessness and dizziness dragged him back to the real world, and the sensation of sitting on a chair made Duncan’s eyes open violently.

Rising flames filled his eyes, and the large, nameless, black book burned fiercely in his hands!
Alice’s alarmed voice sounded from the sidelines, “It’s burning! Captain! The book is burning!”

Duncan was startled, and immediately reached out and pressed his hand on the blazing flames, and in the blink of an eye, he took control of the blaze, however, the book burned ridiculously fast, and in just a blink of an eye, the majority of the book had already turned to ashes, and in the end, all that remained on the table was a small half of a messy paper page.

Dark red liquid like blood seeped out of the small half of the book that remained, soaking and soaking the pages, and Duncan frowned as he flipped through those remnants, realizing that they had all turned to soft, rotting flotsam, and were clearly unreadable.

He looked up with a somewhat subtle expression, “I don’t seem to have done anything.”

“Judging from the phenomenon …… this book probably can’t withstand your power,” Morris hesitated for a few seconds and spoke hesitantly, “It’s significant ‘transcendental overload’ ‘.”

“Can’t handle my power?” Duncan muttered subconsciously, frowning.

Just unable to withstand his own power? This book just endured …… more than just its own power, I’m afraid. Perhaps, just now, it had acted as some sort of medium – some sort of medium far beyond its own limits.

Duncan recalled the golden sun mask that he had obtained in Prand – through which he had glimpsed the appearance of the “real Sun God”, but it had also led to the abolition of the mask.

Maurice didn’t know what Duncan was thinking, but he noticed that the captain’s face didn’t look very good, and couldn’t help but add: “This book should only be a ‘transcript’, which is a copy of the ‘original’ using some special rituals, and this kind of transcendental item is copied from the ‘original’. copied transcendent item, this kind of transcendent item itself is indeed perishable ……”

Duncan looked up, “That is to say, if there is an ‘original’, it might be stable enough to be ‘read’ by me ……? ”

Morris held up his monocle, “…… Theoretically.”

Alice on the side, on the other hand, looked left and right, and finally couldn’t help but come over, “Captain, did you just see something? Why does it feel like you have such a serious expression ……”

Duncan rubbed his brow, everything he had just seen in the darkness once again came to his mind, but he just opened his mouth, then suddenly controlled the urge to tell the truth again.

To the weaker mortals, much of the “information” itself was poisonous.

“I saw something – something different from what Maurice saw,” he spoke slowly, after a few seconds of careful deliberation, “but I can’t tell you what it is, because it might hurt you. ”

Vanna and Maurice stared at each other for a moment, and in the next second, the same look of tension and gravity appeared in both of their eyes.

Morris, on the other hand, spoke after a short period of reflection, “The content is different from what I have seen …… that is to say, this book will present different contents depending on the person reading it?”

“That may be the case, but it may also simply be that it will present different content in front of ‘me’,” Duncan mused, followed by some regret in his tone, “It’s a shame . …I should have tested it at the end, even if it would have been better to let Tirian have a look at the contents of the book first, at least I would have gotten more clues, and now the only ‘sample’ is burned.”

Maurice’s face suddenly looked a bit odd, opened his mouth to say something but didn’t say anything, but it was Vanna on the side who was more straightforward, “This …… should also consider Mr. Tirian’s physical and mental health, right?”

“It is better to read more than to watch a lap dance,” Duncan waved his hand, “and there is me looking after it, and nothing can go wrong …… Not to mention this.”

He shook his head, his eyes falling on Vanna immediately afterward, deciding to side-step and verify something.

“Vanna, have you ever heard of the title or phrase ‘Queen of Leviathan’?”

“Queen Leviathan?” Vanna froze at her words, the dismayed bewilderment in her expression not seeming to be faked, “Haven’t I heard of …… being the ruler of a certain city-state? But I haven’t heard of any city-state by that name.”

Duncan observed Vanna’s expression while also concentrating his mind to sense if any abnormal aura fluctuations or transcendental phenomena appeared around him.

He was curious if the mention of the name “Queen Leviathan” in the real world would also trigger any phenomena.

But after half a minute, nothing happened.

“Well, forget about that for now,” Duncan shook his head, then looked back to Maurice, “LH-02, have you ever heard of this?”

“No,” Maurice was unsure, but noticing the seriousness in Duncan’s demeanor, he too recalled it rather carefully before shaking his head, “It sounds like a code name for some kind of machine?”

Neither of the Saints reacted as if they were faking.

They really hadn’t heard of these two designations.

However, this still did not exclude the possibility that these two titles corresponded to the “Goddess of Storms, Gemona” and the “God of Wisdom, Rahm” respectively.

After all, above the saints there was the Pope, and above the cathedrals of the city-states there were the several “Arks of the Church of the Patronage” that cruised for a long time on the infinite sea – the secrets that were closest to the gods were kept in those places far away from the earthly world.

“Forget those two names for now,” Duncan said, shaking his head as he exhaled after a long moment to make sure that nothing had happened in the cabin, “don’t mention them to anyone, especially not after you leave the confines of the Lost Country.”

(End of chapter)