Chapter 736 – A Quiet Change
Chapter 736: A Quiet Change
The cold, stagnant projection of the starry void of the swarm swept sharply past the edge of the field of vision, the navigation mainframe-Alice calculating the return course, while Shirley, who had returned to her human form, gazed out at the floating lights and shadows beyond the flames along with Dog in a long silence.
It was a long time before Duncan’s voice suddenly reached her ears, “What are you thinking about?”
Shirley was startled, then she blinked those eyes that represented the Profound Demon and filled with blood-colored shimmer, and muttered in a small voice, “It just suddenly came to my mind …… I’ve always thought that the Profound Sacred Lord was a horrible evil god …… Out of control crazy, the bad, bad kind ……”
Duncan looked at Sherry for a few seconds and retracted his gaze, “If you were to face him alone and directly today, the situation would be as you said, your mind would not be able to comprehend and process his voice, and you would see his out-of-control and crazy side – the other ‘gods’ ‘ are in the same situation. In the end, the Profound Holy Lord you ‘observed’ today was actually under my perspective.”
“Well, I know – Dog explained this to me before, after that meeting you had with the Pope of the Four Gods, Cognitive Shift …… right?”
Duncan nodded, and didn’t say anything for a moment, until after a dozen seconds or so he suddenly spoke, “Do you think I should accept this invitation from the ‘Holy Lord of the Profound’?”
Shirley was stunned for a moment and didn’t seem to react, “…… Huh?”
Duncan, however, just looked at her gently, “If I accept it, then what you are looking forward to can be realized almost immediately – no more demons will come out to hurt people, no more people will disappear into corners, the sun will rise and fall every day, the fog will not eat people, and the world you are looking forward to will allow more people to live more peacefully, and the world you are looking forward to will allow more people to live more peacefully, and the world you are looking forward to will allow more people to live more peacefully. The world you’ve been waiting for, where more people can live in peace, can be realized once I take over the shelter.
“Maybe a thousand years, maybe ten thousand, or it could last a little longer, after I take over this world, every city-state will be as safe as Prand and Frost are today, even the nights will be calm, and as long as my flame still burns, this infinite sea will be able to maintain this calm appearance until all the resources are depleted, and the shelter arrives at its originally designed Lifespan Limit …… That is the true Lifespan Limit that the Profound Holy Lord once planned but failed to realize.”
Sherry was silent for a moment and whispered, “And then …… everyone still dies, right?”
Duncan looked at her calmly, “But that’s already after a long time, and even if you can live forever like a normal Profound Demon, you should have no regrets by then.”
Shirley was quiet for longer this time, seeming to be thinking hard and seriously, while Dog stayed quietly beside her, unable to tell what he was thinking.
“In fact ……” a long time, Shirley finally broke the silence, “in fact, I do have some puzzles, I think that the solution of the Profound Holy Lord is already very good, a safe shelter, even if it is not eternal, but at least it is safe s, I …… don’t have that high of a pursuit, but to be able to live through the last time in peace like this, isn’t that enough? After all,…… there is no other place to go.”
“Yes, there’s nowhere else to go,” Duncan spoke softly, “for there will always be just this one infinite sea in the world, there will always be just these city-states floating on the sea, there will always be just this one small patch of habitat in the mists… . but Shirley, the real ‘world’ shouldn’t be like this, it’s just a …… narrow cardboard box.”
Shirley listened beside her with seeming understanding, while with the slight swaying of the chains, Dog suddenly broke the silence, “Like you said, this little box isn’t big enough to hold more ‘possibilities’, is it?”
“It’s too narrow, the boundless sea blocked by the mists is narrow, and so is the ‘lifespan’ of thousands and thousands of years, for the countless civilizations destroyed in the Great Annihilation, this small box is only enough to stuff even a small portion of their replicas inside, and the limited lifespan of the shelter is even not enough for them to tinker with their lost history all over again ……
“This isn’t some ‘new home’, you guys, understand? If the ‘world’ before the Great Annihilation was a myriad of lush forests, then today’s Boundless Sea is just a tiny potted plant, and all that was accomplished in the first three Long Nights was to plant a few of the forest’s surviving flowers and plants in it, and then pretend that the forest still exists – But the truth is that no matter how much it is watered and fertilized, it will not become a forest, ever, and all it takes is one small slip of the tongue, and even this pot will cease to exist.”
“So, you rejected His solution because you already saw that it had no future,” Dog said slowly, “and you actually knew of another solution, didn’t you?”
Duncan didn’t say anything, just lowered his head and looked quietly at his hands.
He blinked, and in the moment his eyelids closed, in the first .002 seconds of the darkness that had fallen, he saw that there were stars twinkling, brilliant and magnificent rivers of stars glittering in the deep sky, and vast clusters of nebulae of creation sprawled across the stars like a magnificent drapery.
Even after leaving the cave, he could still see those “different landscapes” in the first 0.002 seconds of each blink.
Duncan knew that he was undergoing some kind of change, and those originally hidden things appeared in his own vision is only a part of this change, as for this change from when exactly …… he is not clear.
But he knew that as long as he continued to seek the truth, to try to uncover the secrets in himself, this change would continue to appear, continue to develop, and accelerate ……
He didn’t know if he had prepared himself, but he knew that there was no more time for him to prepare himself, just like Pilot One said, whether it was him or this world, there was no more time.
A vision of distant starlight was reaching the end …… A blooming flower blossomed violently in the illusion, the short baton in Lucrecia’s hand fell gently, a few crisp notes erupted from the flower, and the few Dread Devils covered by the sea of flowers were reduced to drifting ashes in a silent and silent manner.
The hissing sound of pipe pressurization and a loud bang of metal clashing came from beside him, and Morris blasted away the Profound Hound that lunged towards him with one punch, shaking his head somewhat helplessly, “These demons that have no respect for knowledge and wisdom …… Luckily, I still know how to do some punches and kicks.”
“The number of demons is getting bigger and bigger,” Lucrecia looked grave, looking at the still rising and shrinking and writhing black door, a rare trace of fatigue surfaced on her face, “This rift is widening, more and more demons are noticing this place, and the whole island is sinking down towards the Profound Deep Sea. ”
“It’s about time for the Captain to return,” Morris muttered, the distinctive metallic resonance of reeds vibrating coming from his throat, “Listening to the commotion up there, I’m afraid Vanna is going to smash through the entire valley if the Captain doesn’t return.”
Lucrecia frowned, listening with her side ear to the low muffled sounds that continued to come from the cave’s dome, and shook her head slightly, “It’s unlikely that this is Miss Vanna’s commotion, but more like the sound of this sacred island itself …… It’s about to be ‘awakened’ again! ‘.”
Maurice opened his mouth at that, but just before he opened his mouth to speak, a dazzling green flame suddenly rose from the rising, shrinking and writhing black door!
In the blink of an eye, the flames erupted from the gate and formed a revolving flaming doorway in the cavern’s open space, followed by several figures stepping out of the gate, accompanied by the captain’s familiar and majestic voice: “That’s right, this place is ‘waking up’ again! –Notify everyone, evacuate Holy Land Island, our business is done.”
Lucrecia was surprised for a moment, but then reacted immediately, not bothering with pleasantries and greetings, and immediately nodded, “Okay dad!”
Before the words left her mouth, she had already begun to quickly gather up her toy soldier troops, while Morris was the first to see Shirley and Dog standing next to the captain after greeting him, his eyes widened slightly when he saw Shirley’s blood-colored eyes that were the same as those of the Profound Demon’s, “Shirley what’s this… …”
Shirley’s eyes opened even wider than Maurice’s, she stared blankly at the great scholar in front of her who was in the state of “casting”, and held back a sentence for a long time: “How did you change to copper, old man?”
Duncan also looked at Morris with some surprise, and nodded with a subtle expression, “…… very chic form.”
Morris then realized that he was still in the casting form, and hurriedly focused his mind, silently recited Rahm’s prayer, and cast a divine spell to reverse his state – the texture of the copper shell quickly faded from his entire body, flesh and blood replacing those gears, bearings, pumps and copper pipes in an incredible way again, a pair of ruby focusers from the eye sockets faded and human eyeballs grew out of them, and he blinked, removing the delicate and intricate brass organ from his body before smiling and nodding, “…… The power of knowledge.”
Sherry looked confused, “…… You and the Captain didn’t say that’s what the power of knowledge meant when you gave me lessons, did you?”
In such a short period of time, this girl finally completely reacquainted with the concepts of “knowledge changes destiny” and “the power of knowledge” – this life is afraid to forget.
At that moment, another strange whistling and murmuring sound suddenly appeared in the cave.
The constantly undulating and writhing black door stirred once again, and new demons began to enter the real world through this rift, with hideous, jagged skeletons and countless arms, legs, and tentacles squeezing out from that writhing surface, crawling and writhing toward the cave!
Lucrecia subconsciously raised the short baton in her hand, but before she could do so, Duncan waved his hand at the gate, “Go back.”
Grim, jagged skeletons and countless arms, legs, and tentacles began to burrow back into the gate in hasty confusion.
“Close the gate by the way.” Duncan added next to him.
The rising, shrinking, writhing “black door” began to calm down.
Lucrecia: “……”
Duncan turns his head and waves his hand at the Witch of the Sea to bring her back to her senses, “Come on, we have a lot of work to do.”
(End of chapter)