Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 216

"Tell me, what's going on with Prand now?"

After being silent for a long time, Shirley finally couldn't hold back, looked up at the old scholar in front of her, and then at Miss Alice who seemed to be very familiar with Mr. Duncan, and asked hesitantly.

"...I don't know, but I think Mr. Duncan may have taken action to solve this problem—although I can't think of how he solved it," Morris said while rubbing his forehead, "compared to this, now I I'm more concerned about here..."

He raised his head, looked around, and his eyes fell on the spiritual body sails that were beating out of thin air in the sky, and his expression was a little strange.

"This ship reminds me of that legend, the legend about the Lost Home..."

"That's right." As soon as Morris finished speaking, Alice's voice came from the side, with a proud smile on her face, "This is the Lost Country—welcome aboard."

Morris stopped rubbing his forehead instantly, and his eyes widened in shock: "This is really the Lost Homeland?! The identity of Mr. Duncan..."

"Captain, old man, you are too slow to react," Shirley pouted on the opposite side. After being nervous for a long time, she finally felt a little happy because she knew some information that others didn't know, which made her feel a lot easier. "His name is Duncan, don't you think of it?"

"You knew about this a long time ago?" Morris looked at the girl in front of him incredulously, "I thought you were the first time on this ship like me..."

"This is my first time here—but it's not the first time I've seen Captain Duncan's true appearance," Shirley proudly puffed out her chest, "Agou and I have known Captain Duncan for a long time... Anyway, earlier than you!"

Morris didn't pay attention to what Shirley said in the second half of the sentence. He couldn't help but feel his forehead twitch when he heard the other party mention "the captain's real appearance", and then he muttered strangely: "...if possible If so, I would rather not know what a 'true appearance' is..."

Shirley was startled: "Ah? What are you talking about, old man?"

"It's nothing... Some things should not be talked about often, it is good for physical and mental health."

"Tch, talkative or not, you learned people always like to be so mysterious," Shirley curled her lips, but she didn't stay quiet for two seconds, and she couldn't help but look at the big ship. At the end of the deck, "You said... is Nina okay? She suddenly disappeared from our sight, but Mr. Duncan said she was only leaving for a while..."

Alice's soft and confident voice sounded from the side, comforting the worried Shirley: "Don't worry, nothing will happen."

Shirley raised her eyes. She wasn't familiar with Alice, but she knew that this unusually beautiful mysterious lady seemed to have been following "Captain Duncan" earlier, presumably because she knew some insider information that others didn't know. He couldn't help asking curiously: "Why do you say that? You know about Nina's situation..."

"Because the captain said," Alice smiled, "he said don't worry."

Shirley couldn't say the rest.

For some reason, she suddenly felt that this exceptionally beautiful lady in front of her seemed...not very smart...

……

At the same time, on the rear deck of the Lost Home, Duncan was looking at the bright arc of flame floating in mid-air opposite him.

Now, he is [-]% sure that, at least in terms of form, this arc of flames is an erupting prominence—and it keeps repeating the process from erupting to falling, which gives people the feeling... as if directing a prominence "Intercepting" from a sun not only intercepts its existence, but also intercepts its circulation state within a certain period of time.

Now, this "intercepted" prominence was quietly floating on the Lost Home, and it looked like it was only one person tall.

But that doesn't mean it's really just that... "small and harmless".

Duncan could feel the astonishing energy contained in it, even though he could only feel a small part of it, the destructive heat and terrifying power from the stars were still enough to suffocate him, this feeling even surpassed what he had passed through gold before. The moment he felt when the mask peeked at the "creeping sun disc" also made him more convinced that this stream of flames really came from the "sun".

It came from a real sun that was alienated and disintegrated in a certain ancient age beyond the cognition of those sun believers.

The prominence is now small and harmless only because it is still contained.

Duncan couldn't understand that, in the knowledge system he had mastered, there was no way to explain why a part of the sun became like this, and there was no way to guess what happened to the real star to which this prominence once belonged.

Just like he can't understand this world, he can't understand what kind of great annihilation can create today's weird and dangerous "Deep Sea Age".

But he finally shook his head.

None of these things matter for now.

Duncan took a light breath to concentrate his mind again, and then tentatively stretched out his right hand towards the "solar prominence".

The deadly high temperature appeared in his perception, but in the next second, the high temperature dissipated like a hallucination. He saw clusters of dark green flames dancing around his fingertips, and inside the prominence, there were also strands of green light. The flames are walking quietly, as if resonating.

Not long ago, it was this trace of "pollution" implanted in advance that terminated and tore apart the birth process of the dark sun over Prand, and also preserved Nina's "humanity".

"Nina, try again," Duncan said, "Recall the feeling of the moment of transformation, let yourself 'come back', just now we are very close to success."

The stream of flames jumped a few times in the air, and then the surface swelled up, and the golden flames rose and entangled. In a short time, a figure gradually condensed in the dancing flames, this vague figure It can be seen that it is a young girl, but the outline of the facial features is blurred.

She lowered her head and looked at her body curiously, but in the next second, the flame that had just condensed shattered again, and she turned into a gushing flame again.

"Don't be discouraged, let's try again." Duncan was not impatient at all, but continued to guide gently, "I will 'support' you, since you can recover to this level, it means that this idea is feasible... "

The arc of flames swelled up again, crackling sounds came out from within the golden flames, and immediately after, Nina's figure emerged from the flames again.

Duncan looked at this scene with some nervousness—similar attempts had been made several times, but each time they would fail halfway, although according to the feedback from the spiritual fire implanted in the sun fragments, this process should indeed be controllable Yes, but obviously this huge and unfamiliar power is not so easy to grasp.

The golden flames crackled, and Duncan was ready for another defeat.

But just after the next breath, the flames and flame arcs in front of his eyes instantly dissipated without a trace.

A familiar figure jumped out from the last ray of jumping flames.

The gentle sea breeze blew across the deck, bringing moisture and coolness. Nina's hair was slightly raised in the sea breeze. The bright sunlight slanted through the clouds and passed through her wind-blown hair. In the twinkling of an eye, the sun dances and dances like a flame.

And in the next instant, those sun flames jumping between the hair strands dissipated like phantoms.

Nina smiled and looked at the "Uncle Duncan" who was completely different from what she remembered, but she was sure: "Uncle, I'm back!"

It wasn't until this moment that Duncan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and with his movement of letting out a sigh of relief, the entire Lost Homeland also reacted—the ship seemed to have been tense just now, all the cables, masts and the sails were taut, but now there was a crackling sound from all sides, mingled with the whoosh and rattle of below decks.

It was like the whole ship was cheering, celebrating with the captain.

"Quiet," Duncan said back, and the whole ship fell silent immediately. Then he turned his gaze back and looked at Nina curiously, "Can you still recognize me?"

"Yes, you are Uncle Duncan," Nina said as a matter of course, but then she scratched her face - this is her habit of hiding embarrassment and confusion, "But... I don't know how to recognize it , anyway, I thought it was you, when you were floating in the sky before, you called me down, and I recognized it directly..."

She hesitated and stopped, looked up and down at Duncan in front of her, and then narrowed her eyes slightly, as if to carefully distinguish some details of "Uncle".

Not at all, hardly any resemblance to the Uncle Duncan in the antique shop.

But a clear cognition is directly reflected in one's own mind.

It was as if he recognized the person in front of him not through his eyes, but directly by "reading the facts".

Nina didn't know how to explain how she felt at the moment, so she could only giggle in a daze until Duncan came up and rubbed her hair as usual.

"That's fine," Duncan exhaled softly, "I was still struggling with how to explain this ship and my other appearance to you."

Nina dodged the hand that was pressing on her head. The Uncle Duncan in front of her was much taller than she remembered, and the other's palm was also much thicker and rougher. His callused fingers rubbed against her forehead, making her feel itchy.

After a while, after the other party retracted his hand, she suddenly raised her head and looked directly into Duncan's eyes.

"I actually have two 'uncles'... right?"

she said suddenly.

Duncan didn't look away, and even though the moment came suddenly, he wasn't too surprised.

As if long ago, he knew that this moment would come sooner or later.

If there is any power in this world that can resist the power of "Captain Duncan", then the "sun"... no matter which sun it is, is an expected choice.

He met Nina's gaze quietly.

"Did you notice it?"

"……Um."

(End of this chapter)