Chapter 684 – Extinguished Again
Chapter 684: Extinguished Again
Now, everyone here finally had a better understanding of the owner of the Lost Country – at least from the point of view of “improving understanding and enhancing dialog”, this was half the result.
Unfortunately, the atmosphere became awkward after the “better understanding”.
A strange silence reigned in the hall, and the popes, including Helena, seemed to be at a loss as to whether or not to continue the conversation, while Vanna and Maurice seemed a bit nervous, Shirley was calming down an anxious Dog, and Nina was looking at Duncan with some curiosity – the sudden appearance of the starlight had no effect on her. any effect.
Lucrecia looked at everyone in the hall with a smirk, somehow gloating.
Only Alice, the doll lady, still maintained her constant state of wandering, and was still in a state of lost concentration, she turned off her mind when Lune started to explain the world with the concept of “collection”, and after a while, she seemed to have suddenly reacted, surprised and puzzled. Suddenly, she looked around in surprise and confusion, “Is it over? Is it time to prepare dinner?”
This off-the-cuff remark from Ms. Doll finally broke the awkwardness and silence of the scene as Banister looked up, his gaze falling on Duncan for several seconds before he couldn’t help but speak, “…… What the hell was that just now?”
As soon as his words fell, the nearest Frim instantly moved several steps to the side.
“…… I’ll just ask.” Banister glanced at Helena and Lune, who were also retreating to the side, and shook his head somewhat helplessly.
“There are many secrets about me, some …… even I don’t quite understand,” Duncan, however, didn’t mind, just shook his head helplessly, and then he looked at Loon, who stood across the room, with a seriousness in his expression, “but I am grateful to you and Maurice for those conjectures …… you have just put forward, and your thoughts have cleared up a slight confusion for me.”
“…… Then I hope you’ll say so in advance the next time you unravel the confusion,” Lunn said, somewhat breathlessly, “though it seems a bit unkind to ask.”
Duncan smiled, “…… I’ll do my best.”
The dangerous topic was finally over, but the thoughts that had been stirred by Lune’s “set model” still lingered in the minds of many, and Duncan returned to his seat, feeling in his pocket, his fingers touching the folded piece of paper again–” Duncan smiled, “I’ll do my best,” he said. –
Primordial Ashes, the “intersection” of the world’s laws, the conflict between compatibility and incompatibility, the observer’s perspective within a subset, and ……
He took his hand out of his pocket and exhaled softly.
Lucrecia couldn’t help but look at Duncan.
An unexplained palpitating feeling popped up, making her heart pound a few times, and she subconsciously looked over at her father, but felt as if …… he was no longer there just a moment ago, at a certain point when her gaze had turned away.
He had gone far, far away, so far away that he was no longer in this world, and for that brief moment …… Lucrecia felt as if she had felt the same feeling she had felt a century ago when she had watched the Lost Country ship enter that thick fog at the border.
But it was only a brief illusion, and when she blinked again, Duncan’s figure was still sitting there, seemingly unmoving from the start.
“So what’s next, any more questions?” Duncan lifted his head and looked across the table at Helena and Lune and the others who had also just resumed their seats.
Alice scratched her hair and sat back down next to Duncan, “Oh, so it’s not over yet.”
Across the table, Lune then gave Alice a somewhat subtle look and then organized his thoughts slightly, however, just as he opened his mouth to say something, he suddenly stopped.
He slightly furrowed his brows as if he was listening sideways to the sounds coming from the distance, seeing this, Helena beside him immediately reacted, “There’s news coming?”
“A psychic communication coming from Light Wind Harbor, Ted Reel is contacting me,” Loon raised his head, his expression had become a bit grave, “He said that the research facility set up near that ‘luminous geometry’ has suddenly received a number of signals released from within the light body ……”
While speaking, his gaze fell on Lucrecia.
“It’s exactly the same signal as the one the Radiant Star received during the previous sun extinction.”
Lucrecia instantly stood up.
It was dusk now-the sun had not yet fully set.
Vision 001 was gradually approaching the sea level, and about a third of those two brilliant glowing runic circles had already touched the distant sea, and the sunlight constructed a magnificent evening glow between the sky and the sea, and the haze caused the entire sea to be sprinkled with a fine layer of golden color.
In the other direction, in the offshore waters of Light Wind Harbor, the huge “luminous geometry” still floats quietly on the surface of the sea, and another piece of light golden “sunlight” centered on the geometry evenly sprinkled to the surrounding sea, creating This creates a unique scene of “two different kinds of sunlight intertwining between the sky and the sea”.
The “sunlight” emitted from the luminous geometry was warm and calm, and looked no different from any other time in the past.
However, according to the records of highly sensitive observation instruments, certain specific spectra in the “sunlight” were periodically “vibrating” with an extremely complex pattern, releasing incomprehensible waveform signals outward. releasing incomprehensible waveform signals. Duncan and the others came to the aft deck and looked at the huge “luminous geometry” near the Light Wind Harbor in the haze of light.
Frem looked to Lune and spoke in a deep voice: “Is the signal still going on?”
“It’s still going, the signal sends on a twelve-second cycle, repeats three times with a thirty-second interval, and then reappears,” Lunn said with a nod, “Ted Reel has rushed to the research station, and he’s personally monitoring the equipment there… …”
“The sending cycle and repetition pattern is exactly the same as last time.”
Lucrecia said quickly, while glancing up at the nearby sea: her Bright Star was quietly docked next to the Lost Country, and at the moment a special structure on top of the ship’s bridge was slowly rotating – a pod that looked like a mechanical Pod.
A mechanical pod-like chamber was pointing one of its sides toward the sea in the distance, and the shielding structure at the front of the chamber was opened up, and the precision optical lenses hidden inside were glowing in the sunlight.
“I am ordering the servants who remain on board to open the optical lenses on the Radiant Star,” Lucrecia explained to Duncan beside her as she noted the movement on her ship, “I was the one who first observed the strange light signals when the sun went out, and it was only afterward that Lightwind Harbor built and installed a similar device. similar equipment and installed it on the research facility …… Theoretically, if that signal was observed over at the research station, we should be able to observe it here as well.”
“It’s not affected even from this far away?” Nina on the side couldn’t help but ask in surprise.
“The light will decay and be interfered with, but this distance isn’t a problem – the key now is what this odd signal actually means,” Lucrecia frowned, her tone not without worry, “The last time the signal appeared, it was after the sun had gone out, but this time the signal appeared, the sun didn’t look anything out of place ……”
“Let’s approach Lightwind Harbor first, and make sure nothing goes wrong on the city-state side.” Duncan said, and along with his words, the Lost Country had already begun to turn its bow and slowly accelerate in the direction of Lightwind Harbor.
The Bright Star ship next to him also received Lucrecia’s order after a short delay and reacted in the same way.
Lun was somewhat amazed at the Bright Star’s flexible movements, as well as the “synchronized response” made by that peculiar “experimental module” on the upper bridge during the ship’s attitude adjustment, and couldn’t help but feel some emotion: “It’s really subtle! Design …… Ms. Lucrecia, are these all done by your own hands?”
“I spent a hundred years designing a ‘Pioneer Exploration Ship’ that could accomplish frontier missions in any situation, and there are many parts of this ship that I am proud of,” Lucrecia said casually, “but at this point you still have the in the mood to analyze the engineering techniques applied on the Radiant Star?”
“It’s not like we have anything else to do anyway,” Lune shrugged instead, not looking the least bit flustered, “Rather, I’m kind of looking forward to it at the moment – an incredible phenomenon has arisen, and it’s an area I haven’t touched before, and if we can really crack it field, and if we do manage to crack the secret of the signals emitted by that glowing geometry, perhaps we’ll have a chance to really understand what’s going on with the ‘sun’ above us, and that’s a good thing.”
Lucrecia didn’t say a word, she had already transferred most of her energy to the Bright Star, to the “servants” who had stayed on board.
Those servants were all created by her own hands – each one of them had a part of her soul inside, and each one of them, even the entire ship, was an extension of her body.
She was cautiously giving orders to make the complex and sophisticated observation equipment on the Radiant Star work.
“…… The signal strength exceeds what I observed last time,” she suddenly raised her head and looked towards the pale golden sunlight that filled the sea, “the situation doesn’t seem quite the same as last time… …”
Duncan then looked in the other direction – the slowly sinking “sun” that had already dropped a third of its structure below sea level, Vision 001.
“Last time the sun went out ……” Shirley’s somewhat nervous voice came from the side, she looked quite uneasy, “This time, no matter what, at least the sun does not seem to have changed much! ……”
Her words were only half spoken.
A low humming sound suddenly seemed to resonate in the back of everyones mind.
A strange sense of unease interrupted everyone’s conversation.
The distant sky suddenly darkened.
Sherry raised her head with a dull expression and looked in the direction of the darkening sky.
A dark, chaotic, hollow-like sphere, as well as two ring-shaped “bright edges” that looked like hot steel, were silently stagnating at the edge of the sky.
The sun had gone out again.
“…… Grass up.”
(End of chapter)