Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 240 Falling Object

The speed of the Brilliant Star gradually decreased, and finally stopped cautiously on the sea surface hundreds of meters away from the shimmering translucent "cliff".

However, the distance of hundreds of meters is so insignificant compared to the size of that behemoth. Visually, Luni still felt that the Bright Star seemed to have stuck in front of the "cliff". The majestic geometry like a mountain is almost crushing towards the face. If it is an ordinary person standing here... I am afraid that I will feel suffocated.

"...It's really spectacular," the clockwork puppet couldn't help but sighed, raising its head, "and it's very beautiful."

That thing is indeed magnificent and beautiful. If its weirdness is ignored, it can even be regarded as a magnificent spectacle, which is enough to inspire an excellent artist's greatest inspiration in this life, or make a poet make countless works for this spectacle. Psalms—

It is like a sharp-edged mountain peak carved from light golden clear amber, or a piece of unusually regular geometric ice floe. It floats in the water with dense light and mist, and the surrounding thin mist slowly floats around its surface. , outlines a dreamlike atmosphere.

And there are various indications that this thing is indeed like a "dream" - it has no entity, although it does exist there, it seems to be just a huge shadow.

"Mistress," Lu Ni couldn't help turning her head, "what do you think this is?"

"...I don't know, I only know that it fell from the sky." Lucrezia admitted her ignorance frankly, and she recalled the scene when the Bright Star tracked this thing for the first time—— The day before yesterday, in the last few hours of the day, the cruising Bright Star observed a huge and hazy luminous body suddenly falling from the sky, tearing through the clouds and disappearing in the depths of the border sea, and since then, she and Her ship has been tracking this thing.

But apart from the obvious fact that it "falls from the sky", she knows nothing about this phantom alien.

Lucrezia carefully observed the bottom of the huge geometry and confirmed another thing:

This thing is very light, very very light, it floats on the surface of the sea, the lower part is only slightly submerged in the water, but that little sign of sinking in the water shows that this thing that looks like a "phantom" is also Something with a bit of mass, not just a shadow.

With a little mass, it means that it can be bound by real matter... With the power of the Brilliant Star, maybe it can even drag this thing away?
Is it possible to drag it back to the borders of the civilized world and organize a real professional team to study it?The League of Explorers should be happy to help...

But the theory is so, how should it be done in practice?How do you drag a giant, pierceable phantom?Or it means... There is a solid core in the depth of this luminous geometry, and that core structure is the source of its mass?
Lucrezia was thinking quickly in her head, while Luni's voice sounded from the side: "Shall we explore its interior?"

"Proceed with caution first." Lucrezia said, raised her hand and bit her finger, a drop of blood oozed from her fingertip, then slowly floated forward, and suddenly "bang" in the middle of the float "There was a burst, and it turned into an exaggerated smoke.

The smoke dissipated, and another "Lucrecia" appeared in the cab—but it was just a phantom like a ghost, wearing a pale and broken long skirt, with a dull and gloomy face, and a translucent texture all over her body. floating in mid-air.

Lucrezia nodded to the phantom, and the phantom turned around without saying a word, and flew towards the "mountain" hundreds of meters away.

Luni watched this scene a little nervously, watching the phantom phantom quickly cross the misty sea, and then disappear soundlessly inside the "mountain".

Nothing happened.

"Mistress?" Lu Ni turned to look at her master, "What's inside?"

"Light and heat, very warm, but not scorching hot, bright, but not dazzling... There is no wind or waves inside, and the sea below seems to be calmer than 'outside'," Lucrezia carefully perceived the phantom clone. While receiving the message, he said slowly, "It seems that at least the shallow layer of the 'mountain' is safe, and I'm speeding up to move inward."

Lu Ni nodded. Even though she was just a clockwork puppet, she had a "soul" that was closer to humans than any crew member on the ship. At this moment, she couldn't help but feel nervous. She stretched her hand behind her back and twirled her The clockwork key used this method to relieve the slight tremors of the various parts in the body due to tension. After waiting for a long time, she suddenly saw the hostess's expression change.

Lucrezia frowned slightly and looked up.

"I've reached the deepest point," said the "Sea Witch." "There's a core."

"Core? What kind?"

"It's a huge stone ball," Lucrezia said with a strange expression, "or at least it looks like a stone material, off-white, with many regular grooves on the surface, about ten meters in diameter, suspended on the sea surface above..."

While talking, Lucrezia frowned and concentrated, as if she was giving some order to the phantom phantom that had entered the depth of the luminous geometry, and then continued: "It can be touched, it is an entity."

"It's the entity..." Lu Ni was stunned for a moment. Years of experience in getting along with her made her quickly understand the meaning of the hostess, "You want...to drag it back?"

"The elf scholars in Qingfeng Harbor should be interested in this thing," Lucrezia said calmly, "The texture on the surface of the stone ball has obvious patterns, and also implies a complex geometric structure, I guess... …someone who is good at math should be able to see something in it.”

"Then how should we 'drag' this thing back?" Luni looked at her mistress with some astonishment, "Should we use a rope or chain that is strong enough? There is a spare anchor line on board, but it may not be long enough ——The projected portion of that luminous body is too large, and the distance from here to its core may exceed the limit of the anchor cable..."

Lucrezia looked at the glowing "mountain" silently, and after half a minute, she seemed to have made up her mind: "Let's go in and pull it."

"...Are you serious?"

"I'm curious."

"...well, you are serious."

……

Duncan slept in the captain's quarters of the Lost Home, and had a short and bizarre dream.

This is unbelievable. His body doesn't even need sleep, let alone dreaming. In fact, since he came to this ship, he has never had the experience of "dreaming". The concrete body has had some messy and trivial dreams, but it has never been as clear and impressive as this short strange dream.

In the dream, he saw shooting stars, meteors that appeared suddenly during the day.

He stood on the bow of the Lost Country, and the ship was dead silent. He could neither hear the noise of the goat's head in his head, nor the noise of Alice's daily fight with buckets and mops on the deck, or even the noise of the entire Infinity. The sea is also silent, no waves, no wind.

The whole world seemed to have fallen into a dead silence, and in this silence, a huge luminous body fell from the sky-also silent.

The luminous bodies fell one by one, and fell on the calm surface of the Infinite Sea. They were obviously huge falling objects, but they also did not stir up any movement, just like a phantom falling on another phantom, and those luminous bodies gradually It fell like rain, and finally turned into a terrifying and weird meteor shower——countless light bodies gradually covered the entire sea surface, enveloping the Lost Homeland in a radiance.

However, the sky dimmed little by little with the falling of countless light bodies. At the end of the dream, the meteor shower gradually stopped, and the sky had turned into pitch black.

Duncan raised his head at the end of the dream, and saw that there was only a dark red mottled, terrifying hole in the sky that seemed to be lingering in the darkness, silently overlooking everything in the world like a dying pupil.

Duncan opened his eyes suddenly, the deep impression left by the absurd dream still strongly remained in his mind.

He was amazed that he would actually dream on the boat, and even more amazed by the weird scene he saw in the dream——

The silent world, the silent shooting star, the dark and dead sky, and the terrifying void overlooking the world like pupils... Why did he dream of such a weird scene?What is the meaning behind this dream? !

Duncan slowly regained his breath, sat up from the bed, and rubbed his forehead a little irritably.

On this eerie boundless sea, on the Lost Home, he couldn't believe that the dream was just a dream—something must have affected him, or his "intuition" had premonitioned something, which would make him feel like a dream. I saw that scene in my dream.

In the irritated thinking, he frowned slightly.

Could it be related to the "countdown to the world" that I just learned?Is it related to the "truth" about the end of the world that the "Captain Duncan" who fell into madness came into contact with 100 years ago?
Is it because I suddenly learned about this information and had an association, or is it because the memory left in this body suddenly became agitated?Is my contact with Tirian and Lucrecia related to this dream?
Duncan tapped his forehead lightly, then stretched out his hand to the wine bottle on the cabinet next to him, intending to use the power of alcohol to calm his mood, but just as he stretched out his hand, his eyes swept over the wall clock on the wall not far away, The action then stopped.

The hands on the clock stopped.

Stand still 1 minute before sunrise.

It was dark outside the window, and the glow at dawn could not be seen, but there was also no cool brilliance brought by the creation of the world.

The oil lamp flame in the bedroom is the only "active thing" that is still burning peacefully, but the radiance it emits is faintly pale, making the lighting of the entire room look a little weird.

Duncan glanced over all these calmly, and he had a panoramic view of all unusual phenomena.

Something is obviously wrong... Are you still in a dream?

He quickly ruled out this possibility - when he regained consciousness, he could still tell whether he was dreaming or not.

Duncan frowned, resisting the urge to open the window to take a look at the situation outside the ship, then got up and walked towards the wooden door of the bedroom.

Go to the chart room first to see if Goat Head knows what's going on.

He pushed open the door leading to the chart room, and looked at the nautical table with the chart and goat's head.

The goat's head is not there.

(End of this chapter)