Chapter 735 – Farewell to the Maker
Chapter 735 Farewell to the Maker
Duncan’s response silenced the dark red core for a long time.
After an unknown period of time, Shirley and Alice heard a low humming sound coming from the depths of the distant “dark mountain range” – accompanied by the massive body in the center of the mountain range slowly morphing and writhing, the dark red core of the Profound Holy Lord slowly rose up and returned to its original position, back to the place overlooking the earth. The dark red core of the Profound Holy Lord slowly rose up and returned to its original position, back to the place where it could look down on the earth.
“A shelter that can at least keep many people alive, perhaps for thousands of years, perhaps for 10,000 years …… Even if it is not eternal, it is better than going up in smoke,” the dark red core shimmered, and a low tremor echoed throughout the wilderness. “Survival, my creators told me, is task number one, and I’ve been carrying out their orders – in my logic, nothing is more important than perpetuating the Asylum.”
“Survival is indeed very important, and I understand your motivation for wanting the shelter to continue, but for me …… ‘possibilities’ are equally essential, and this current ‘shelter’ ‘ really lacks enough to allow me to see the possibilities of the future it ……”
Duncan was suddenly silent for a moment, and in that silence, his gaze swept over Dog beside him, as well as Shirley, who still maintained her ethereal demonic form.
The fires of Prand, the mud of Frost, the nightmare of Lightwind Harbor, the dead magi, the soldiers, the civilians, the martyrs and martyred, the finite, infinite sea, and every explorer trapped and dying in this infinite sea ……
Duncan slowly closed his eyes as the memories in his mind rose and fell and tangled, finally dissolving into a sigh, “…… It’s too dark.”
The dark red core that overlooked the land spoke quietly, “So, do you have a better plan?”
“No, but I have some hazy ideas,” Duncan opened his eyes and gazed openly at that core as if he were staring into the eyes of a giant, weathered eye, “I …… probably know what I should do, and what I can do, but I haven’t found the right and workable way to do it yet, and I’m still looking – for a better future than ‘The Shelter’, a future with more possibilities and more to look forward to.”
“…… Is it eternal?” Dark Red Core continued to ask calmly.
“No, there is no true eternity in this world, everything is perishable – but at least it shouldn’t be a sea shrouded in mist, with stretched resources and hard to find places to stand on, that ‘curtain of eternity’ that serves as a border …… is simply too narrow for civilization.”
“You should know that we don’t have much time – neither you and I, nor this ‘shelter’ have much time left to waste,” the dark red core slowly brightened. “How long will it take you to find that way out? And if you still haven’t found it by the end?”
Duncan was silent for a moment, looking up to meet the gaze of the Profound Holy Lord openly.
“…… I’ll be back here before the world collapses, and if I still haven’t found another way out by then, I’ll take over it all.”
After a brief moment of silence, the ancient pilot mainframe let out a tremor, “Recorded – so, that’s our deal. If you still can’t find a better solution than the ‘Continuation Shelter’ at the end of the day, then come back here and light me up, and if I’m completely out of control before then …… don’t show any mercy, burn it down to nothing.”
Duncan nodded slowly, “We have a deal.”
After this, the Profound Sacred Lord was quiet once more, His core hanging high above the peaks, the frequency of the shimmering brightness of its depths gradually converging with the lights among the surrounding mountains, as if in long and deep thought, recalculating the future and everything in this world, while Duncan did not disturb the ancient Pilot Host, and so it remained for an indeterminate amount of time, before that muffled tremor suddenly resounded once more: “Pilot Three.”
Alice didn’t move a muscle – she didn’t realize it was calling her until Duncan suddenly touched her arm, and the figure snapped to attention, “Ah …… ah? Calling me?”
“…… Looks like you don’t remember the New Hope at all anymore, does it?”
Alice listened and raised her hand to scratch her hair, the expression on her face seemed to be somewhat embarrassed and ashamed, “Uh …… sorry, really don’t remember …… shouldn’t I more or less remember?”
“No, that’s fine, even though this isn’t what I had planned from the start …… you still survive, and survival is above all else – please continue to survive and help the usurper in any way you can. ”
Alice reacted for a moment, switching again in her head and nodding her head in a slow reaction, “Oh …… hmmmmm! Of course, I’ll definitely help the Captain!”
Shirley, on the other hand, tilted her head as she and Dog gazed at the “Ancient Creator” that was so magnificent that it would drive all the world’s best explorers and scholars crazy, and they seemed to realize that the time had come for them to say goodbye, and they suddenly felt that there were some questions that they wanted to ask, but they couldn’t think of what to say at the same time.
But the “gaze” of the dark red core seemed to have fallen on them.
That is a kind of indescribable feeling, the dark red core of the shimmering light is only as usual slowly bright and bright, but Shirley intuitively feel …… that the other side is watching themselves.
An odd feeling of being completely penetrated floated to the bottom of her heart, Shirley instinctively took a small half step back, and then, she heard the low tremor came – it seemed to be slightly milder.
“This world has brought you much suffering,” the gentle voice spoke slowly, “do you …… think this shelter is bad too?” Shirley opened her mouth, she didn’t know how to answer this question – she thought, now it should be someone more knowledgeable, more witty, more intelligent standing here, such as old Mr. Morris as a great scholar, as the first “mortal” to face the Lord of the Profound. As the first “mortal” to face the profound Lord, it should be someone better than himself who stood here to answer the question.
And not an uneducated person like her.
But the ancient god was still waiting for her answer.
“…… I ……” Shirley finally squeezed the syllables out of her throat, the skeletal knuckles behind her swinging uneasily, a wisp of shimmering light flickering on and off in her chest cavity. “I don’t know …… I didn’t actually understand too much of what you told the Captain, I ……”
She mumbled, then hesitated for a long moment before muttering in a small voice, “It’s a bit hard to be alive …… sometimes you have to worry about food, sometimes it’s clothes and fuel for the winter, and where I used to live it was pretty rough at night… …But I think no matter what, there will always be people who will have a hard time living, even if the city-state gets ten times bigger and has more food than it can eat, living will be otherwise not easy, a neighbor of mine used to always say that, life is always hard, and it’s not the world’s fault, and it’s not because of something someone did wrong, and more than that, the captain cares about the more ……”
She turned her head slightly, stole a glance at Duncan, and quickly withdrew her gaze.
“The captain cares about something more …… ‘profound’, although I don’t understand it too well, but I think what he said is definitely right, and it’s more beneficial to many people, and as for me, I don’t really have a lot of requirements for the future, I just hope to …… be able to live in peace, of course, if I can ……”
She suddenly paused, as if carefully picking out the right words, and hesitated for a long time before speaking in a small voice: “No more demons running out to hurt people, no more people disappearing around corners, the sun rising and falling every day, and the fog won’t eat people …… That’d be even better, and if all of that can really be realized Then whatever works.”
Dog slowly came over and gently rubbed his skeletal hideous head against Sherry’s leg.
That high hanging dark red core, on the other hand, was silent for a long time before suddenly breaking the silence with a soft voice: “I understand.”
With a series of low rumbles, the center of that huge star-shaped mountain range slowly cracked open, and little by little the dark red core of the Profound Holy Lord sank back into the depths of the mountain range – Duncan realized that the time to say goodbye had come.
But before the core sank completely into the mountain, he suddenly took a step forward, “There is one more thing.”
The core stopped and waited for Duncan.
“The guard of the last Cretan outpost on …… has asked me to bring a greeting,” Duncan took another step forward, his expression growing serious and his tone extraordinarily earnest, “He says . . that they were honored to finish the job.”
The dark red core stood still, and for a few seconds no movement came from it – no one knew what the ancient navigator was thinking and calculating at this moment, perhaps finding the meaning of the distant word “Cretan” in its vast database, or perhaps remembering the meaning of those words. It may have found the meaning of the distant word “Cretan” in its huge database, or it may be recalling the information located in the early stage of creation, or …… it may just be a silent sigh.
Or perhaps the creator of all things and the “Cretan Clan” is also remembering its creators at this moment.
“I am also honored …… to have worked with them.”
The dark red core slowly sank deeper into the mountains.
Duncan withdrew his gaze from the mountain range, he inhaled softly as layers of illusory flames gradually floated around him, “We should go, there is much to do.”
Alice came to the captain’s side, and took the initiative to welcome the flames, and Shirley also moved her long jointed limbs, and came into the flames together with Dog.
The flames rose, and Alice’s lavender eyes began to reflect a myriad of intricate paths as she began to search for the right direction out of this Profound Bottom.
Shirley, however, is still somewhat out of focus looking at the distant peak, looking at the place where the dark red core finally disappeared, for some reason, she always feels …… that there is still a gaze there, always falling on herself.
Until the flames closed, until the light outside the flames became illusory and hazy, she suddenly heard a vague whispering voice, which seemed to echo directly in her mind, and repeated several times before she could hear the sentences in it –
“…… I’m sorry I tried my best in the first place ……”
The flames rose into the air, then disappeared in a flash into the vast obscurity of the deep, deep sea.
(End of chapter)