Chapter 763: “A Long Goodbye”

Chapter 761 “A Long Goodbye”

The years have eroded the words, and the dislocation of the border and beyond has distorted the carrier of the words into a different shape – on the old and tattered shroud, only a few messy words such as “Kalani”, “Border”, “Leviathan” and so on are vaguely recognized nowadays. On the old and tattered shroud, only a few messy words like “Kalani”, “Border”, “Leviathan” and so on could be recognized, and even to distinguish these few words, one needed to give full play to the ability of observation and association.

Anomaly 077 stared blankly at the shroud in front of him – it had been ordered by the captain to be delivered from the White Oak’s stores, and had been kept in the ship’s holding room ever since he had lost his peace of mind and become a member of the White Oak.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve taken a close look at it …… No, it seems like I’ve never taken a close look at it,” Abnormality 077 cooed softly, his withered fingers slowly rubbing the surface of the shroud over what looked like dirt, but was actually patches of writing , “I have never found any of these writings present ……”

“It’s normal, if you’re not specifically looking for them, you’d normally just assume they’re inconsequential dirt even if you saw them,” Lawrence said lightly from the sidelines, “If Martha hadn’t been observant and thought of the possibility ahead of time, who would’ve connected the marks on the rag to Captain Kalani’s log? What’s more, there’s only so much as a trace of …… valid information left on it, and it’s all worn out.”

“Aye, there’s only so much left ……” said the sailor dejectedly, “It doesn’t even qualify as a captain’s log, these broken letters don’t come in handy . …It was supposed to be a thick book, it shouldn’t have been such a ‘rag’ ……”

“It may have something to do with your return to the Infinity Sea from beyond the borders, that ‘six nautical mile critical line’ seems to permanently alter the nature of certain things,” said Lawrence, “it turned you into Anomaly 077, and the Captain Kalani’s log into a shroud over you – but either way, these are vital clues, and ‘he’ needs them.”

“The Sailor” stood still by the shroud, suddenly very quiet; he seemed to be having a violent mental struggle, and hesitated for a long time before slowly nodding.

“Good, send me there, ‘he’ has been waiting a long time.”

Immediately, Lawrence exhaled softly, then took half a step to the side, while almost at the same time, an illusory, ghostly green flame had appeared where he had just stood – the

“Sailor’s” short exclamation of surprise disappeared into the whistling of the flames.

“It’s all this time before you remember to hesitate?” Lawrence glared at once, “Don’t tell me you don’t want to go now – that’s not what ‘he’ himself would do if he came from across the room and dragged you!”

The skeletal giant bird cocked its head, staring dead into Lawrence’s eyes with hollow sockets covered in flames, the latter’s body slowly tensing up, and in those few brief seconds Lawrence’s mind had gone on a walkabout rotation of the many classic cases of summoning and sacrifice related cases that had been circulating among the captains of the Boundless Sea-

The flames rose into the air and in the blink of an eye gained a solid, flowing quality from their almost transparent, illusory form, and the captain’s power was projected across the great distances, using Lawrence as a beacon in the room, and then the center of the flames swirled and contracted and wriggled and bulged, and a huge, lurid-looking skeleton bird burst out of the flames’ vortex!
“Sailor instantly took half a step back at the sight, staring blankly at the swirling flaming doorway and the skeletal bird hovering near the ceiling, and then turned his head to look at Lawrence: “…… Is this thing really okay? ”

The skeleton giant bird came up to Lawrence, flapped its wings in the latter’s dumbfounded gaze, and let out a hoarse and unpleasant sound: “Whole lot of fries whole lot of fries whole lot of fries whole lot of fries ……”

Lawrence flew up and kicked, “You’re the one who’s full of crap!”

But just as he was about to walk away, the swirling, bulging, flaming gate suddenly splintered open again, and Aey, who had just left, burst through it again.

“Sailor” instantly body a jolt, as if more than two centuries ago has been necrotic goosebumps are resurrected over: “Don’t don’t don’t don’t, I’ll go in, I’ll go in …… myself.”

The “sailor” immediately shrunk his neck, with a tangled face, took two steps in the direction of the flaming doorway, but just stopped halfway: “Does this thing hurt?”

Lawrence silently walked over and came behind “Sailor”.

Lawrence was almost scared out of his head by the “messenger”, and managed to take two steps back before he could stand firmly, and only then did he realize that he had forgotten the important “sacrifice” and “medium” required for summoning the messenger, and immediately broke into a cold sweat. Only then did he realize that he had forgotten the important “offerings” and “mediums” needed to summon the messenger, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat: “I …… didn’t prepare …….”

XX sorcerer tried to summon the shadow of the spirit world because he prepared the wrong sacrifice, and was slapped to death by the shadow’s powerful backlash; XX cultist tried to summon a demon with insufficient sacrifices, and was slapped to death by the furious demon; XX saint of truth inadvertently touched the spell to summon an evil spirit when he was researching the ancient relics, and as a result, because of the lack of preparation of the sacrifices, he had to slapped the out-of-control evil spirit to death on the wall! ……

While saying that, he took a step towards the swirling flames, then with a clench of his teeth and a close of his eyes, he reached out his hand towards the flame vortex and touched it, and instantly withdrew his hand, “Hey crikey how come it seems to be a bit hot …… Captain Why don’t we think of something else… …”

Lawrence sighed softly.

“Oil full, go!” The skeletal giant bird hovering near the ceiling gave a strange cry, and also rushed into the flaming gate right after – but then came out of the gate the next second, grabbed the shroud that had been put aside with its claws, and turned around to burrow back into the gate.

Lawrence didn’t know much about the temperament of the Captain’s creepy messenger named “Aye”, but he briefly judged that he would probably have a hard time slapping the bird against the wall.

He gulped nervously, and began to regret his careless action – although theoretically we were all followers of Captain Duncan, there was no telling whether this inhuman-looking “messenger” would have any sense of humor. The Concept of “Colleague” …….

Then he saw in front of him the skeleton bird suddenly retracted his head, turned around and flew toward the flaming door, while flying also cursed: “What a shitty shift, overtime pay is not given, what a shitty shift, overtime pay is not given ……”. Then this appalling messenger disappeared into the room together with that gate.

Lawrence:”……?”

……

Duncan looks at Anomaly 077, who was practically thrown out of the portal by Aye, and craning his head to look at the pigeon spirit, who still seems to be puffed up and pacing around on the coffee table, feels a little confused, “What’s wrong with the pigeon again?”

Alice sniffed and scratched her hair, “I don’t know, it doesn’t look like it’s too happy anyway ……”

“…… Whatever, you get it something to eat, it should be happy again.”

Duncan casually waved his hand and casually ordered a sentence before his attention was refocused on the anomaly 077 that was staggering to its feet while holding its waist.

“It’s been a long time, ‘Sailor’.”

Abnormality 077, who was dawdling to get up and seemed to be trying his best to avoid making eye contact with the other people in the living room, heard the captain take the initiative to greet himself, and with a shiver visible to the naked eye on his body, as if he couldn’t escape it any longer, he finally stood up straight and looked around cautiously amidst his nervousness.

“Uh …… Long time no see Captain, long time no see everyone, all long time no see ……”

He spun around, greeting everyone in the living room, just as he had done every time he had been in the presence of Captain Duncan before, but suddenly, he stopped.

Helena was standing not far away.

This female pope who ruled the Church of the Deep quietly gazed at the dry body in front of her, looking at the other party’s shriveled, withered, appalling appearance, she frowned a little bit, as if trying to recall the appearance of the first mate of the Sea Song, who she had personally received not long ago, however, no matter what, it seemed that she was unable to connect that loyal and stoic first mate with the hunched-over body in front of her with the terrifying facial features of the “Anomaly 077”.

After observing for a long time, Helena broke the silence, “I don’t recognize you.”

“Yes, we haven’t seen each other for more than two hundred years – or maybe even longer,” the dry body grinned and made a hoarse and unpleasant sound, he slowly took two steps in Helena’s direction, as if he wanted to salute, but raised his hand to gesture and then put it down again. “…… I can’t remember that gesture.”

“You’re the first mate of the Sea Song?” Helena asked – even though the question didn’t seem necessary.

“Yes, that’s what I remember,” the “sailor” said, lifting a finger to his head, “but those jumbled impressions are buzzing around here, and I can’t remember much in the way of details; all I can remember is that before we sailed, I and Captain Kalani had also received your personal blessing on the ark, when you anointed our wrists with oil …… before the sun had fully set.”

Helena hesitated for a few seconds, “…… Yes, that was not so long ago.”

“It’s been a long time for me,” muttered the Sailor, glancing back in Duncan’s direction, “I’ve told you everything I know, and Captain Lawrence should have briefed you on the parts I didn’t mention right?”

Duncan nodded and made his way over to the low table, reaching down and picking up the dirty, tattered looking ‘rag’ – not caring for its disgusting texture, “Is this the ‘shroud’ that Lawrence mentioned? “Is this the ‘shroud’ that Lawrence mentioned?”

Several eyes in the parlor focused on Duncan’s hand, and Helena couldn’t help but take a step forward, while the Sailor nodded, “Yes, it is. …… It still has Captain Kalani’s handwriting on it, though I don’t know how it came to look like this. know why it looks like this, but it would be the captain’s log of the Sea Song …… Before Captain Kalani dissipated, she left it to me, and it’s one of the few things I remember very clearly.”

Duncan looked over the “writing” on the tattered piece of cloth and slowly frowned, “…… It’s completely illegible.”

“Sadly, I’m afraid it was already like this by the time I returned to the Infinite Sea,” the Sailor shook his head, “That border …… it prevented us from bringing home the secrets of the world beyond.”

Duncan listened in silence, quietly thinking, and everyone in the parlor fell unconsciously silent, only the ticking of the clock echoing in the silence.

After a long time, Duncan suddenly looked up, “Mind if I do some ‘over the top’ tests on it?”

(End of chapter)