Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 267 Thought Spread
Fan Na stood up and came to the statue of the goddess in the small prayer room. The statue was placed on a high platform, and bright candles were burning quietly around the platform.

"We should convey this warning to the Cathedral of the Storm, and preferably to other churches and city-states," Bishop Valentine's voice came from behind, "but this involves the source of the warning, if you want to have enough To be persuasive, one must give reasons sufficient to convince the other Tritheistic churches. It is not enough to simply say 'a saint received revelation in a dream'.

"The Pope already knows about the connection between you and Captain Duncan. She didn't give any admonitions about it. It seems that she has acquiesced in this matter. But if other churches know the real situation...their reactions will be unpredictable. Especially the Church of Death."

"The influence of the Thirteen Islands of Viserand..." Fan Na muttered in a low voice, "The Church of Death is very wary of the Lost Homeland."

"That's right, the thirteen islands of Veseland, the victims of being dragged into subspace by the Lost Homelander, the largest archipelago city-state under the control of the Church of Death a century ago, for the followers of the god of death, the status of the thirteen islands It is equivalent to today's Purande to the Church of the Deep Sea," Valentine sighed, "It's very troublesome, after a hundred years, this is not simply a matter of hatred, but also a natural distrust of human beings towards a 'disaster out of control' , if they know the source of this warning, maybe they will first think about this matter in the direction of conspiracy."

Fan Na didn't speak for a while, but after a few seconds of silence, she suddenly spoke: "The Cathedral of Storms is coming, maybe His Holiness the Pope will have his own considerations about this."

"I hope," Valentine muttered unsurely, "In any case, the Church of the Four Gods has already paid attention to the situation of vision 001, but it seems that we have not paid enough attention to it. If the Church of Deep Sea can take the lead, Raising the priority of this matter, I think at least this 'warning' effect has been achieved."

Fanna nodded slowly, then raised her eyes, stared at the icon of the storm goddess Gamona, and prayed softly after a long time: "... May you protect me."

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Homeless, on the aft deck, Duncan just finished his inspection of the whole ship and was going back to his room to rest.

The Lost Homeland needs to conduct an overall inspection every once in a while, especially the bottom part of the ship-those cabins submerged in the boundless sea need the captain's deterrence and comfort to ensure stability.

During this inspection, Duncan focused on checking the situation of the "subspace door" at the bottom of the cabin, and confirmed that the door was still tightly closed.

This made him more at ease.

But corresponding to this "reliability" is the faint uneasiness in his heart: he still hasn't figured out how he entered the "other side" of the door after sleeping in the bedroom last time.

In a daze, he entered the subspace, and in a daze, he stayed on another Lost Home in the subspace for a long time. Although he finally found a way to return safely, as long as he still cannot determine the mechanism of his own entry into the subspace, he will never be able to. Be completely at ease.

And the time when I entered the subspace was just after the problem of Vision 001.

There is a problem with the "sun", a strange dream, and entering the subspace. The three things happen so closely that it is hard not to think of whether there is a hidden connection behind them.

Duncan stood in front of the captain's cabin, holding a lantern in one hand, and took a breath in the cold night wind.

Perhaps it was driven by this "uneasiness" that he conveyed a warning in the previous "dream exchange" with Fanna, although he was not sure how much his weird dream reflected reality. But after dealing with extraordinary visions so many times, he has at least one experience: it may be fine for ordinary people to have a dream, but he, "Captain Duncan", has a dream... Then don't be a real one. dream look at.

He now only hopes that his warning can make the Church of the Four Gods focus more on the issue of Vision 001.

He knew that he was not an expert in the extraordinary field, and even if he wanted to study the problems of Anomaly 001, he would not be able to start. What he could do... was to attract those real experts to the problem.

The warning from "Captain Duncan" is undoubtedly a reason for many people to take it seriously.

After restraining his thoughts, Duncan put his hand on the doorknob of the captain's cabin, but before opening the door, he suddenly thought of another thing.

The abyss plan that Tirian had mentioned to himself.

Duncan frowned slightly, thought for a while, and pushed open the "door of the homeless".

A swirling fog appeared in the door frame.

He stepped into it.

After a short period of dizziness and a sense of dislocation in time and space, Zhou Ming opened his eyes and saw the familiar single apartment, where everything was still the same.

He settled down, first of all, as usual, he checked the window sills, desks and other places immediately, and after confirming that nothing had changed here, he walked to the end of the room.

On the plain shelf, the exquisite "models" of the Lost Country and Plante are still quietly placed in place.

Zhou Ming walked over, directly picked up the "model" representing Prand, and then carried this "collection" that was neither light nor heavy in his hands to the desk not far away, sat down and observed carefully Its "base" structure.

Before that, he had never thought about this matter—it must be admitted that "under the city-state" is not only a blind spot for many people in this world, but even for him.

All he saw was an extremely smooth bottom.

Below the sea level of the Puland city-state, the corresponding part on the model stopped abruptly, and its bottom surface was as smooth as if it had been cut off by a sharp knife.

Zhou Ming stared at the base of the model and fell into deep thought.

As a "model", this neat and tidy bottom is of course a very normal situation, but he knows that this "collection" is not an ordinary model, it should be the real "Prand" in this room. Mapping", "projection", what this thing presents... should be the complete appearance of Prand!

No matter what is under the city-state, whether it is an infinitely long pillar or a pancake-like base, it should have a structure, instead of the part below the sea that stops abruptly as it is now.

Is it because I was not thorough enough when I burned the city-state with flames?or because...

Did you "ignore" this part yourself?
Zhou Ming frowned slightly, and unconsciously tapped the edge of the desk with his fingers. Then he collected himself, put his hand above the model, and his spirit gradually diffused.

In the antique shop in Purland City-State, Duncan, who just said goodnight to Nina and Shirley, walked back to the room silently, came to the window, and quietly looked out the window at the night scene of the street full of night lights and quiet night.

It was dark, and almost all the residents in the city-state had returned home. The streets and alleys were extremely silent, only a few light spots moving in the depths of those slightly dark streets and alleys, which were the night guards and the light emitted by the lanterns in their hands. glow.

Duncan closed his eyes slightly.

The scene of the entire Puland city-state directly came into his mind with a clearer and more intuitive perspective.

Crowded residential areas, day and night steam factories, quiet commercial districts, wet coastal streets, gas lamps by the roadside, pipeline systems across the city...

Somewhere in the city, a team of guards was walking out of an alley, ready to check the situation of the next gas and steam node.

Looking at the quiet street in front of him, the young team member with a lantern in his hand muttered with some sighs: "It seems that tonight is peaceful again... To be honest, I'm really not used to this kind of quiet night."

"Don't relax," the squad leader glanced at his subordinates, "Anything can happen in the night, pay attention to those darkest places."

"Yes, I understand," the team member straightened up quickly, but couldn't help but continued, "But don't you think the past two days have been really peaceful? I heard that there is even one..."

A light green glow suddenly flickered at the edge of the field of vision, causing the team member to subconsciously stop.

It seems that the light emitted from the gas lamp in the distance has changed instantly, but it is extremely short-lived, extremely secretive, and almost difficult to capture.

"Did you see something flash past just now?" The team member subconsciously pressed his hand on the rune steel sword at his waist, and said in a serious whisper, "The gas lamp seems to have flashed."

"I saw that your lantern seemed to flicker too." Another team member said immediately.

The team members subconsciously set their eyes on the captain.

But the captain just frowned, as if he was thinking about something. After a few seconds, the senior guard shook his head: "Continue to patrol - just report the situation to the church after you go back."

Guardian squad left the place.

And similar situations are happening all over the city.

Green lights and shadows floated in the flames, and invisible gazes flashed in the darkness—Duncan's thoughts flowed throughout the city-state, and then gradually sank deeper into the city-state.

In that detached and clear "perception", Duncan let his consciousness sink a little bit, to explore the structure of the city-state under the sea.

In the apartment room, Zhou Ming suddenly opened his eyes.

A slight grinding sound came into the ears.

He picked up the "collection" in front of him, staring closely at the bottom of the Puland city-state.

A rough and complex new structure... is "growing" from the bottom of this "model" little by little.

(End of this chapter)