Deep Sea Embers

On the boundless sea, two battleships each carrying a curse are heading straight towards each other, and around these two big ships, the ocean has been disturbed by invisible forces, and even the celestial phenomena within a certain range have changed .

The cold fog around the Sea Fog spread, large and small ice floes began to appear out of thin air on the sea surface, and even formed a group of ice floes covering several nautical miles, constantly turning like a whirlpool, the originally calm sea was now choppy Ups and downs, waves that are stronger than waves are constantly rising, mixed with chaotic cold winds, while the Lost Country is wrapped in layers of green flames, penetrating all extreme celestial phenomena like a rainbow, and rushing straight to The steel battleship in the center of the ice floes.

The Sea Fog is also speeding up, all its engines are screaming like they are dying, the rudder is adjusting the angle without anyone controlling it, and the whistle of the ship's church does not stop, this sacred sound is like a death knell at this moment- -The undead sailors stood on the deck, on the gun positions, and behind the portholes, watching the battleship under their feet rushing forward to the burning ghost ship, and Tirian, who was on the bridge, even Already he could vaguely see the figure on the tall stern of the Lost Home.

He saw the tall man holding the steering wheel, standing on the boat like a rock in a storm, staring at himself with indifferent eyes.

So much like he remembered.

Then, without accident, the two ships "collided".

The expected devastating impact and disintegration did not come.

In the next 1 minute, the crew of the Sea Mist had the honor to experience the same horrifying and weird "spectacle" as the original White Oak - the burning ghost ship rolled over like a mountain, and then the ghost flames rose ragingly , In the flames, the boundaries of all things became blurred, the Seamist became a spirit body, and the crew also became spirit bodies. This scene, as if one phantom crashed into another phantom.

The first mate Aiden stared in horror. He saw the bow and mast of the Lost Country rushing towards him, and then Qiu passed him without a trace. He briefly broke into the Lost Homeland. He saw the quaint uprights and burning lanterns almost whistling past his ears—at last he saw the towering stern deck of the Lost Country, and the tall figure standing behind the rudder.

Tirian took half a step back subconsciously, but in the next second, he puffed up his chest again, as if a certain teaching from his father in his childhood was still in his ears——

"Don't retreat, don't bow to the wind and waves!"

So he raised his head and faced the storm in front of him——his father who was taken away by the subspace and returned to the human world.

Then, they came face-to-face at an extremely close distance, with the stern structure of the Lost Home directly breaking into the bridge, and Duncan was standing only a few steps away from the captain's bench of the Seamist.

At this moment, it seems that the whole world is quiet.

A majestic and deep voice came to everyone's ears: "I'm busy."

Tirian's eyes widened in astonishment, and he suddenly looked in the direction of the sound.

However, this temporary meeting was over, and the two phantoms sailing at full speed only overlapped for a very brief moment, and the phantom hull of the Lost Homeland swept around the Sea Mist like a gust of wind. When Tirian reacted again, he Find yourself and your crew back in physical form.

He suddenly ran to the viewing window in the other direction, and saw that the Lost Country was sailing at full speed in the direction of Purdand-leaving the Seamist far behind.

The steel battleship came to a halt on the sea bit by bit, the invisible force that was agitating the ship subsided, and now it returned to the hands of the helmsman again, the severely damaged engine system was finally successfully shut down thanks to the efforts of the sailors. Stop, but it seems that it is not an easy thing to start again.

".What happened just now?" Aiden scratched his bare head, and the strong first officer looked astonished. "That ship just left? Isn't it a fight to the death?"

The boatswain said with lingering fear: ".It seems that it didn't intend to fight us to the death from the beginning. It didn't slow down very much, so it came over and ran us over."

"It was so scary, I even felt like my heart was beating again just now"

The commotion of the crew reached Tirian's ears, but he was not in the mood to listen at all. He just kept echoing the short sentence just now in his mind——

"I am very busy."

That’s what my father said—no emotion, not a “greeting” when family members meet at all, even indifferent as if facing a stranger, but it is indeed a clear and sensible sentence that humans can understand In a word.

Rather than the frantic roar that belongs exclusively to the subspace.

"Captain," the first mate Aiden walked over from the side, looking at Tirian who was falling into silence with some anxiety, "what shall we do next...?"

Tirian woke up from his thoughts and raised his head: "Can the ship still move?"

"Not good, the engine is off now, it will take a while to repair it, and many people were injured in the battle just now... quite serious injuries, the kind that are broken all over the ground, it takes a long time to shovel," Ai Deng shook his head, his bright forehead glowed, "But the most incredible thing is that those who were directly hit by the artillery of the Lost Homeland were all right. The No. [-] and No. [-] main guns completely disappeared, but the people in the fort were intact. fell in the hole."

"The people who were hit by the aftermath were seriously injured, but the people who were hit directly didn't die?" Tirian confirmed it in surprise, and then frowned, "How could this be?"

"Perhaps... your father didn't kill him?" Aiden glanced at his captain and said cautiously, "From the shelling of the Lost Home, it seems that it just wants to stop the Sea Fog."

"No." Tirian said subconsciously, but then he closed his mouth. After a few seconds of silence, he shook his head lightly, "Hurry up and let the ship recover and send a report to Prand. It is said that we have tried our best to intercept it, but the Lost Country is still heading towards the city-state. The rest is left to the large number of city-state navies to figure out a way, we have worked hard.”

Aiden immediately took the order to leave, but after a while, he hurried back: "Captain! Prand can't be contacted!"

"Can't get in touch?" Tirian frowned, "Is the signal environment disturbed by the battle just now?"

"No, we can still receive the signal from the patrol point in the open sea, but we can't receive the signal from Pland, all the signals," Aiden said quickly, with a confused expression on his face, "The whole Pland seems to be broadcasting from the radio. It’s like disappearing... At this distance, this is simply impossible. And not only the optical telegram cannot be contacted, even the psionic call from the church has not responded!"

"There is no response to the psychic call?!" This time, the expression on Tirian's face changed significantly, and at the same time, he thought of the abnormal behavior of the Lost Country that rushed to Purand at full speed at all costs. , A strong uneasiness finally floated in his heart, "When did the communication stop? Is someone monitoring the telegraph station?"

"The last call was yesterday. We had a routine briefing with the Pland Port Authority. At that time, everything was normal," Aiden recalled, speaking quickly, "Captain, what should we do? Do you want to return?"

Speaking of this, he paused, with a hesitant expression on his face: "This matter... this matter has gone beyond the original plan."

Tirian's face was tense, and he didn't speak for several seconds, before finally exhaling deeply.

"We'll go to Purland--and we'll set off when the Seamist recovers."

Aiden was a little surprised, but after a brief surprise, the loyal first mate immediately puffed up his chest: "Yes, captain!"

The surrounding turbulent sea gradually returned to calm, only the sound of the waves was heard.

The deafening artillery roar still seemed to be echoing in his mind, making Duncan scratch his ears subconsciously—he was obviously not quite used to the sudden encounter just now.

Goat's head's voice came to his ears: "Just now you accelerated straight towards the Seamist, I thought you wanted to say a few words to Tirian, after all... this is an extraordinary "reunion, . "

"I really thought so at the beginning," Duncan replied casually, "I just changed my mind suddenly."

"why?"

"...After meeting, I suddenly found that I didn't know what to say,
Duncan said frankly. After having a "showdown" with the goat head in a certain sense, he was no longer as cautious as he was at the beginning, "After all, I am not familiar with it. "

"...Well, you have the final say." Goat Head has no objection, "but you'd better think about how to get along with your "son and daughter". Those who met them, a good family relationship is very important to the fate, I think there was one back then...

"Shut up," Duncan interrupted the other party's divergent topic with ease, and then seemed to suddenly think of something, with a strange expression on his face, "Speaking of which, it's a pity that there is no one on board this time."

Goat Head hesitated: "There is no one? You mean..."

"Alice is not here, she is helping to look after the store in the city-state," Duncan said leisurely, even with a little joy, "I suddenly remembered that Tirian had been under the Frost Queen for a while back then, Ellie Si faced the face of the Frost Queen—you said it would be so interesting if Alice was on the boat just now, I guess Tirian will think about it for several days after returning..."

Goat Head: "..."

"Why are you silent? Don't you usually talk a lot?"

"It's inconvenient for me to comment on your family affairs..." Goat Head replied, "But after hearing what you said, I seem to think that this scene is worth looking forward to... How about we go back again and this time Miss Alice bring"

Of course, Duncan ignored this whimsical proposal, he just said suddenly after two seconds of silence: "I didn't see it, you are also a fun person."

"What is a fun person?"

Duncan didn't answer the other party again, he just raised his head suddenly and looked towards a certain direction on the distant sea.

At just a moment ago, he clearly sensed his body in the city-state of Purand on the Lost Country, and even sensed the flames spreading everywhere in the city-state.

Just as he expected before, after the distance was close enough, the connection between the Lost Homeland and Prand strengthened!