The gentle waves are rising and falling slowly, and the Lost Home is sailing smoothly on the boundless sea. After setting sail for many days, this ancient ghost ship still has not found any islets or navigation beacons that can be used as route markers.
The long rafting journey seems endless, but its captain still has a lot to do.
Duncan returned to the captain's dormitory again, and the golden sun mask was still lying quietly on the table, but before that, he had other things to think about.
Alice's affairs can be arranged later, and there is no rush for subsequent testing and research on "Anomaly 099". The Frost Rebellion half a century ago is not something that needs to be investigated now, but in addition to these things, there is another
The thing is closely related to oneself
Off.
Duncan raised his head and looked at the mirror hanging on the wall.
The green flames that once floated on the mirror have long since dissipated, and the scenes from the distance that appeared in the mirror have also disappeared, but Duncan can still vaguely feel that weak and vague "connection".
Without disappearing with the reflection in the mirror
Lost and disappeared - it still exists, and it is pointing far away to the magnificent cathedral in the center of the city-state of Pland.
This connection gave him a feeling somewhat similar to the "connection" between himself and the "Antique Store Manager" and the "White Oak", but it was weaker, more ethereal, and it must be said... It was like...
a derivative from a clear and definite connection
The "secondary channel" that sticks out
Duncan closed his eyes slightly, and on the table next to him, the brass compass on Ai's chest quietly opened a crack, and a faint green flame burned quietly in it.
Duncan returned to the dark space filled with countless stars and streams of light.
But this time, he did not perform "walking in the spirit world", but maintained the critical state of entering the spirit world, carefully observing the flow of light and the dots of light in this dark space.
He first saw the brightest "star", which pointed towards the antique store, representing his other body, which was cleaning the warehouse and counting the goods in the inventory;
He saw another hazy, invisible haze of light, much larger than ordinary stars. It represented the "White Oak", a ship that had collided head-on with the Lost Home and was completely burned by his spiritual fire.
Steamboat passing through;
Finally, he finally distinguished the "star" that was vaguely related to him in a hazy starlight that seemed almost indistinguishable.
Duncan moved forward curiously, wanting to observe the cluster of stars carefully.
But as soon as he got closer, he felt a subtle repulsion spreading from the cluster of starlight.
This repelling force was not very strong, it seemed to be just a pure and firm will protecting himself. Duncan felt that if he forcibly extended the spiritual fire, he should be able to burn this subconscious protection.
But he stopped immediately and kept his distance from the starlight.
The master behind this starlight should be the judge named "Fanna", a storm saint, and a powerful transcendent.
Too reckless contact may first alarm the owner of Starlight, and in a worse case, it may even alarm the saint.
The "god" standing behind the apprentice
Without knowing much about the gods of this world, Duncan was not ready to take this risk.
And on the other hand, this vague feeling of rejection may also be reminding him that these stars have their own differences.
When he first occupied the body of the "sacrifice", he didn't feel rejection, nor did he feel rejection when he occupied the body of the cultist "Ron" who had just died. Why is there such rejection around Vanna's starlight now?
Is it because she is still "alive"? Is it because the mental strength of a living person will spontaneously resist indescribable erosion? Or is it because of... the so-called protection of faith and divine grace?
Duncan stepped back a little, thinking about the meaning of the stars in this dark space, while trying to slowly reach out to another cluster of stars closest to him.
He stopped at the last moment before touching the cluster of stars.
There is no feeling of rejection.
Then he tried many times around, but every star never rejected his approach -
-And in some of the stars, he also vaguely felt some new... "elements"
He felt a fresh sense of life, and even felt the instinctive trembling and flinching of those stars - that was the instinctive retreat of life when faced with the irresistible shadow of death.
Duncan returned to the dark area where the starlight could not shine, and looked down at his hands.
Some green flames wandered in the darkness, outlining light and shadow that seemed real and illusory between his fingers.
It seems that with the increase in the number of walks in the spirit world, his control and perception of flames have become more precise and sharp. He can now sense the existence of life from those stars!
Duncan frowned slightly and looked into the endless darkness. The dots of light spread out densely in the darkness and chaos, and it even looked a bit spectacular.
Out of caution, he had never explored the far reaches of this dark space, but just by looking at the scale of the starlight, he could imagine how many light spots there were here.
At the beginning, he thought that the starlight here represented the "corpse" that had just died and met the requirements, because the first two "attachments" he had possessed were corpses, but now he felt it from some of the starlight.
The existence of vitality shows that his initial guess was wrong.
There are not only the dead but also the living in these starlights. He just happened to occupy two corpses at the beginning.
The "Judge" named Vanna is also among these stars. She is of course a living person without a doubt.
....Do the countless stars here represent all the living and dead in the world?
Duncan frowned slightly in the darkness. This conjecture came to mind so naturally and seemed reasonable, but he soon shook his head, thinking that he could not draw a conclusion so quickly.
Although there are a lot of stars here, and although the population of this world is far less than that of the earth, as far as the eye can see, those starlights should not be worth the population of the whole world, and there are still living people, so what about the number of the dead?
Define?
Do all the dead throughout the ages count? Or only the remaining corpses count? Does it count as long as there are corpses remaining, or does the time of death not exceed a certain level in order to count?
What's more, there is a gathering of brilliance like the "White Oak" here... Ships can show corresponding projections here. How to explain this?
Therefore, it is too early to rashly identify the stars here as "the dead and the living in the world". At the very least, he must have enough evidence to make a conclusion.
But no matter how the starlight here is connected to the real world, one thing is obvious: most of the starlight will not show rejection to Duncan's approach. Only the light of Vanna, the "saint", has this effect.
a self-protective response.
This may be the role of the god she believes in.
Duncan became a little curious about the power of "faith" in this world.
But no matter how powerful the protective barrier Vanna built through faith was, it also clearly had loopholes - this barrier failed to prevent the captain of the Lost Home from establishing a deep "secret connection" with her.
Then only one question remains: When and how was this connection established?
Duncan thought seriously in the darkness, wondering about the intersection between himself and the inquisitor he had never met before, and why such a connection appeared out of thin air. After eliminating one guess after another, an extremely bold idea suddenly came to him.
What appeared in his mind was the "sacrifice" that he possessed in the first place! ?
Duncan recalled the first time he set foot on the land of Pland City-State, and recalled the sun sacrifice.
He made a scene as a sacrifice, and then left his possessed "body" at the scene. Shortly after that, Judge Mortal
Na then led a team to raid the cultists' stronghold, captured the cultists who remained at the scene, and must have participated in the aftermath of the "residues" at the scene.
If anything, the only "intersection" between him and the inquisitor lady could only have occurred at that time.
Just a possessed body, just a common place.
.So...we are in contact?!" The more Duncan thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible. He couldn't help but look down at his hands in surprise. After a while, his stunned expression turned into a weird and helpless smile,"
What kind of time and space companion infection route is this?