Chapter 761: Information brought by the “Sailor”
Chapter 759 – The Sailor’s Intelligence
The “sun fragments” that briefly illuminated the night sky broke the appearance of calm under the long night – after a quarter of the “solar circle” disintegrated in the sky and fell in front of the whole world, at least seven city-states sent fleets to look for the “sun fragments”. After a quarter of the Circle of the Sun disintegrated and fell in the sky in front of the whole world, at least seven city-states sent their fleets to search for the luminous geometries that had crashed into the infinite sea.
Within the first forty-eight hours of the Long Night, the Boundless Sea, which had been at peace for more than a dozen centuries, came so close to war for the first time.
Fortunately, the huge fleet led by the Truth Academy’s heavy flagship, the Balance of All Things, arrived near the largest “fallout point” in the central sea before all the city-states and took control of several of the largest sun fragments ahead of time, and the authority of the Church once again came into play and continued the relationship between the city-states. The authority of the Church once again played a role and continued the shaky balance between the city-states – several city-state fleets did not clash over the seizure of the sun fragments, but agreed to the Church’s distribution plan, put aside the controversy, and sent the sun fragments to the cities that were in the worst situation and in the most urgent need of sunlight support.
But during that four-hour-long standoff, a rift, a bad omen, had begun to quietly spread between the many city-states of the Boundless Sea –
In the days to come, sunlight, would become a scarce life sustaining resource.
But for Duncan, who was still currently stuck in Lightwind Harbor, these things were still far away.
An unexpected piece of information from Faelen sent to Duncan’s hands – the source of information is the captain of the White Oak Lawrence, the content of the information is related to the mysterious anomaly 077 “sailor”.
The first floor of the witch’s mansion, Lawrence’s figure appeared in an oval mirror on the wall, and his voice came from the mirror: “…… He said he used to be the first mate of the Sea Song, and they crossed the border six nautical miles from the border, which happened on January 21, 1902! ……”
Duncan stood beside the oval mirror, after hearing Captain Lawrence’s narration he immediately frowned: “It’s only January 22nd, 1902 of the New City State calendar, do you mean …… that the one named ‘Abnormality 077-Sailor ‘ dryad, at this time yesterday was still a cleric of the Church of the Deep and was on a mission to cross the border?!”
“That’s what he said,” Lawrence said with a serious look on his face, he obviously wasn’t kidding, “He said his captain’s name was Kalani, and described in great detail the details of the ship as it set sail, and he said he knew that it was actually only the day after the Sea Song had crossed the border by six nautical miles, but he told me that Kalani Captain and her sailors wandered for half a century after crossing the border ……”
“Encountered what again? I don’t remember much, Captain, I don’t remember much …… I just remember that Captain Kalani and I sailed back through the fog, and it was just the two of us, technically it was just me – Captain Kalani was just a wrinkled shadow, she couldn’t remember what she looked like, so she didn’t even have a helm. looked like, so even the steering had to be done by me ……”
The sailor was quiet and didn’t speak for a long time, and it was an indeterminate amount of time before Lawrence suddenly broke the silence, “He said he didn’t know what happened either – he didn’t really remember how he ended up back in this world, or where the Sea Song ended up going, or why he ended up looking like this, turning into an ‘anomaly’ that stirs up storms everywhere, and he said that the world in his eyes was dislocated, and that the world he sees now is already very different from what he remembers …… but couldn’t explain it all to me. ”
“Most of us just stayed there, they didn’t want to go back, they didn’t want to go back and face the world that was hopeless, they’d been adrift for too long, all their glory and unwavering faith had been wiped clean by that infinite fog, and we’d met …… met ……
For his part, Duncan paid no attention to the sailor’s subsequent grunts, and after a brief moment of contemplation, he spoke again, “But you are now an Anomaly 077 – an ‘Anomaly’ who was taken in by the City-State many, many years ago, and you have appeared on this world on the world for centuries, and your first appearance was on an expedition ship that had been missing for three long years.”
The sailor’s voice turned back into a series of vague grunts as he spoke, as if he wasn’t thinking clearly, and the confusing memories that had just appeared hovered like broken puzzle pieces in his already withered brain, keeping him awake and confused at times.
Duncan was silent for a moment and exhaled softly.
Duncan frowned and didn’t say anything, but it was Lucrecia next to him who heard the commotion over here and instantly stared in surprise, “Half a century?!”
“I know, you take care of Anomaly 077 first – I’ll contact you again if anything happens.”
Duncan’s brow furrowed as he quickly understood what the ‘sailor’ meant and spoke, “The correct course means ……”
Lawrence paused, seemingly disturbed by the noise beside him, and then a raspy, slurred voice came from the edge of the mirror, the broken voice of the Sailor: “And so we are forgotten, Mr. Captain. Aha…… we were forgotten by death, and forgotten by the sea, and at last even time and reason forgot us, and so we were immortal, immortal, immortal, and almost to float for eternity at the end of the world…… But in the end… . hiccup, the Goddess had mercy, and still the Goddess had mercy, and we were suddenly remembered by Him …… and so we drifted back to the right course …… hiccup!”
“We found Him! A great ……” The sailor suddenly drew up his voice, but then stopped as violently as if he had been strangled by someone, and uttered a series of vague grunts before continuing, “Can’t remember, I can’t remember what He looked like, but we did find the found …… found the source of the call, and that was our mission – the Pope told us to go to Him because He communicated the revelation to the Pope ……
“Or maybe …… longer, ma’am,” said Lawrence in the mirror, frowning cautiously, “if, according to the ‘Sailor,’ they just still able to keep track of the days by their waking sanity for the first half-century, and then lost all conception of time – they drifted in an infinite mist, neither alive nor dead, as if the psychiatrists had had the misfortune to fall into the ‘nothingness’ on the edge of the dream world, while administering the Fault’, and the Sea Song fell into a fault at the edge of the world, and so ……”
“Yes, Captain.”
The flames in the mirror faded, and it reverted back to a flat, uninteresting piece of glass.
Lawrence withdrew his gaze from looking into the mirror and twisted his head to look at the dryad sitting in the corner of the room – Abnormality 077 was sitting there a little dazed, the large flask in his hand had been emptied, but he was still picking up the glass flask every now and then and pouring it senselessly twice above his mouth. “Alcohol doesn’t really have any effect on you at all,” Lawrence finally frowned, getting up and coming over to the dryad, “you can’t get drunk, and you can’t possibly pass out on this stuff – alcohol won’t work, poisons won’t work, not even revolver bullets won’t work – this last one you tried.”
The dryad was stunned for a moment, casually tossed the bottle aside, looked up somewhat sluggishly at the old captain in front of him, and froze for a couple of seconds before grunting, “What about the twelve-pounder ……”
“If you’re still awake until the day the world ends, then I wouldn’t mind you trying it out – you could even try out that sixty-four-pounder on the dock, if you’re interested.”
Lawrence said casually, coming to sit in the chair next to the dryad.
“But since the world is coming to an end, you might as well not try those things – sooner or later, we’re all going to be long gone, though you’ve come a little further than we have.”
“Sailor” turned his head and stared blankly at Lawrence.
His withered, dried-up eyeballs rolled for a moment, the drunkenness that came from relying on self-hypnosis didn’t last long after all, and after a few moments of stupefaction, the dried-up corpse who had lost his peace finally slowly lowered his head, cradling his head in his skeletal, dried-up hands.
“I lost the log ……”
The dryad mumbled vaguely and desperately.
“What?”
“The log, Captain Kalani’s log, she wrote a lot before she dissipated, she told me to bring that log back, that was our mission ……” the dryad mumbled, he seemed to be tempted to have a cry of anguish, yet he seemed to have forgotten how such feelings, which belonged to the living alone, should be expressed, “I lost it, I lost the Captain’s log. “I’ve lost it, I’ve lost the captain’s logbook …… I remember I had it tucked away on me at the time, it was on me when the Sea Song re-crossed the fog, but I don’t know where it is now . . it’s all different, I can’t remember ……”
Lawrence listened to the dry body’s confession in a daze, while in the mirror beside him, Martha’s figure with a complex expression quietly appeared – they were quiet, silently watching the “sailor”, and the only thing that remained in the room was the latter’s muffled, low mumble! …… It sounded like a corpse that had forgotten how to cry and was trying to learn how to cry.
……
Duncan turned his head and saw that everyone had come up behind him, with many pairs of eyes looking either at himself or at the mirror behind him, which had been restored to its original state.
“…… That dryad actually has such great origins, huh?” Sherry muttered in a small voice.
Vanna thoughtfully said, “The Sea Song that crossed the six nautical mile critical line only yesterday …… I remember Coronet Helena mentioning this matter earlier, she mentioned that the major churches have started sending advance ships to storm the six nautical mile boundary in a bid to bring back ‘World Beyond ‘ information.”
“But an expedition ship that crossed the border only yesterday, why would its first mate turn out to be ‘Anomaly 077’, which had already appeared in the world over two hundred years ago?” Nina was confused, “And there’s that ‘half a century’ ……”
“…… Perhaps it’s because the concept of ‘time’ has begun to fail,” Duncan said softly, “or perhaps it’s the fact that the outer borders of the characterization of the sea – the entire crew of the Sea Song verified this first characterization of the Outer Borders with their lives.”
Maurice frowned at that, and something seemed to immediately come to mind.
But before the old scholar could speak, a sudden knock on the door from the direction of the foyer interrupted his thoughts.
A guest had arrived.
(End of chapter)