Chapter 560.
Chapter 560: The Lost Countryman
All along, the scholars of this world have had many conjectures about the origin of the present Deep Sea Era as well as the world before the Great Annihilation, and they have also tried to explain the phenomenon of the present Boundless Sea city-states’ history being cut off, their artifacts being disconnected from their generations, and their inheritance being contradictory, just as any community that forms a civilization system would do when confronted with its history-
If there is history, there will be people who study history, if there are people who study history, there will be people who try to explain those contradictions, there will never be a shortage of conjectures, and what a layman can think of, professional scholars have most likely thought of it long ago, and may have even constructed a complete theoretical model.
Scholars actually have many theoretical models that can explain the reasons for the formation of today’s Deep Sea Era – including this one that Duncan guessed, and every one of them makes sense.
The only problem was that none of them could be supported by “empirical evidence”, and the Great Annihilation was like a magnificent wall that blocked everything before that point in time, and no information or relics could be passed down from before that point in time.
Now, Duncan believed he had found a key piece of “evidence” and had extracted enough information to support one of his conjectures:
A fragment of some distant and strange world left behind after its destruction – and a “memory” that accurately describes the apocalyptic scene.
Of course, in the presence of a truly rigorous scholar, this solitary piece of evidence may not be enough to provide a complete and irrefutable explanation of the current state of affairs in the Deep Ages.
“The World Convergence Theory ……” Ted Ryer said softly to himself, “I know, my mentor has always been a supporter of this theory – he believes that the present Deep Sea Era was formed by the stacking and reorganization of a large number of worlds that were originally isolated from each other, and that what caused this stacking and reorganization was probably a great disaster that befell several worlds at the same time, and that the so-called ‘Great Annihilation’ wasn’t just a single catastrophe but a series of simultaneous catastrophes, and that’s why there are such contradictions in the records of the history of various races in the boundless sea, and some of them are so contradictory. Records would be so contradictory, and certain ancient legends and stories would be severely torn ……
“This theory also explains why we can’t find the ‘original world’ that existed before the Great Annihilation, or the ‘ancient artifacts’ that support any kind of historical record – because those original features have been reorganized long ago. -because those original features have long since been reorganized, and from a timeline perspective, ‘this world’ today simply did not exist before the Great Annihilation.”
He paused, exhaled softly, and then continued speaking.
“The entire Boundless Sea was born at the moment of the Great Annihilation, and before that moment there did not exist an ‘old world’ that could be completely and accurately described and understood; there were only countless fragments of the old world piled up as ‘raw materials’ at the Great Annihilation’s point in time – the World Aggregation Theory, which has the best ‘explanatory’ among all the origin theories and explains almost everything we face.
“At the same time, however, it is also considered the most whimsical and difficult to substantiate, because it fundamentally rejects the point that ‘history can be traced back to its origins’ and reduces everything to the fact that ‘it’s already gone anyway,’ and so despite the fact that the theory is good, it has very few supporters, and my mentor …… is one of its few supporters.”
Duncan finally broke the silence after Ted Reel finished with an exclamation, “Now, we have proof.”
Ted Riel’s gaze fell on the long sword, and after thinking for a long time with a grave expression, he still shook his head, “A single piece of evidence is not evidence – it is true that this piece of evidence is extremely likely to be able to support the ‘World Convergence Theory’, but the A single piece of evidence is flawed, unless we can find a second conclusive ‘world fragment’ that is from a different world than the ‘physical evidence’ in your hand …… “
In saying this, the tone of the secret keeper seemed very difficult and entangled, obviously from an emotional point of view, he hoped more than anyone else that an unresolved conjecture could be confirmed, and hoped that he had finally found the “answer”, but from a scholar’s point of view, he had to be rigorous, and even when he saw the first “evidence”, he was not satisfied with it. But from a scholar’s point of view, he must be rigorous, even when he sees the first “evidence”, but also to show unsympathetic “harshness”.
However, after he had spoken, Duncan replied with a single word: “Yes.”
Ted Reel did not react for a moment, and even Lucrecia beside him did not react, and after a moment, they spoke in unison: “You have other evidence?!”
Duncan was silent for two or three seconds and turned his head to look deep into Lucrecia’s eyes, “The moon.”
“That ‘stone ball’……,” Lucrecia reacted instantly, “You mean, it’s… …”
“It is the other ‘shard’,” Duncan nodded gently, “It comes from another world – a completely different one from the home of this longsword’s Another world. Though I don’t know what happened to it to make it look the way it does now, I’m pretty sure it is ……
He stopped suddenly, as if a force was stopping, keeping him from voicing that conclusion, a stopping force that surged through his mind as if it were a storm whistling as a strong emotion that fought against the rational part of him.
He instinctively rejected the conclusion.
Lucrecia sensed something, and she looked at her father suspiciously and worriedly.
Duncan finally spoke, finishing the second half of his sentence, “…… It is what remains of ‘that world’.”
In the end, reason overcame emotion.
When he said this conclusion, he even had a kind of “relief” illusion.
In fact, after seeing the “Moon” for the first time and returning to the Lost Country to talk to Alice, he had already had a guess in this regard— Since the “Moon” had appeared in this world, it was very likely that the “Moon” had appeared in this world.
Since the “Moon” appeared in this world, it was very likely that this world was his “hometown”, the “hometown” after the serious mutation and distortion.
However, there were no “elves” or “Sengin” in his hometown, and there were no human beings in the legends of the elves themselves, and the word “Earth” never appeared in the historical records of the city-states of the Boundless Sea. The word “Earth” never appeared in the historical records of the city-states in the Boundless Sea, and the problem of “tearing of history” that plagued many scholars was especially obvious in Duncan’s eyes.
So …… how did this infinite sea form?
The most likely explanation is that it may have had its own homeland, but only a part of it. To confirm this theory, it is only necessary to find a second “moon” similar to the debris of another world.
The only thing he hadn’t expected was that the second piece of evidence would come so quickly and directly.
Ted Ryer and Lucrecia looked at each other, and after a brief moment of hesitation, they realized that Duncan had no reason to fool them on this matter.
It turned out that two pieces of evidence had been available for a long time – no wonder the once-greatest explorer had declared with such conviction, and without hesitation, that the world today was made of heaps of rubble.
Lucrecia did not ask Duncan where he got his knowledge of the Moon.
She knew that the answers to these questions would ultimately lead to subspace – in whatever form, her father had remodeled and transformed himself in that “deepest, darkest place”, and every piece of knowledge and ability he possessed today, which she did not understand, was a part of those imprints! Every piece of knowledge and ability he possesses today that he does not understand is part of those imprints.
She shouldn’t have to unveil them over and over again.
Teddy Reel, on the other hand, had been thinking in silence, but suddenly he looked up as if he had sensed something.
The “Secret Keeper” quickly opened the heavy book in his hand, summoned the “stethoscope” from its pages, and with a single leap rushed to the mass of “living metal” on the center platform. Next to the “living metal” on the center platform.
He placed the stethoscope on the surface of the “living metal”, and his face suddenly became very grave.
There was an extremely weak and slow heartbeat in the room, and each heartbeat was slower and weaker than the previous one.
“TA is dying.”
Ted Ryer looked up with a complicated gaze.
For the first time in his life, this “Truthkeeper”, whose duty was to protect the city-state, had unusually complicated emotions when facing a “foreign object” that had invaded the real world.
Because he suddenly realized that this “horrible thing” ……, which had brought panic to many people in the marketplace, was probably the same as humans, elves, and Sanguinians. -It was a “homeless person” who had arrived at the Deep Sea Age from the Great Annihilation.
Unfortunately, the destruction of Ta’s world was even more complete, and the tiny fragments of …… were far from enough to support him and his race to survive.
There was no place for homeless people like TA in the Deep Sea Age, and under the influence of some as yet unexplained mechanism, TA became what he is, and he is going to die.
Nina and Shirley subconsciously grabbed each other’s hands, not knowing what to do for a moment, and Lucrecia could only look at the scene with complicated eyes, because she knew that this was no longer something that could be reversed by human power.
In the gradually low and slow heartbeat, Duncan finally slowly walked forward, he looked at that mass of “living metal” now can not see the appearance of human, but another picture appeared in his mind —
Stubborn warriors, silent wizards, ever-energetic hunters and rangers, confident knights, pessimistic psionics, and that confident and proud, red-haired Groska woman ……
They set out one sunny afternoon, carrying the finest swords and armor the kingdom had ever crafted, the best scrolls and runes, and with the king’s blessing and trust in their company, they headed out into the distant wilderness – as the old poems described, a band of brave men going to save their world.
Duncan reached out and gently pressed his hand against the cold, hard steel.
“We are all Lost Countrymen …… Now, you are home.”
The low, slow “plop” finally faded to a halt, and after one extraordinarily weak and sluggish beat, there was no more heartbeat in the room.
The last heartbeat was like a sigh.
Ted Reel turned, as if to announce to this deep-sea age –
“TA is dead.”
(End of chapter)