The speed of the Brilliant Star gradually slowed down, and finally it cautiously stopped on the sea several hundred meters away from the shimmering translucent "cliff".
However, the distance of several hundred meters was so insignificant compared to the size of that behemoth. Visually, Lu Ni still felt that the Brilliant Star seemed to be in front of the "cliff".
The majestic geometry like a mountain is almost rushing toward you with a crushing momentum. If an ordinary person were to stand here... I would probably feel suffocated.
"...It's so spectacular," the clockwork demon couldn't help but raise its head and sigh, "and it's very beautiful."
That thing is indeed spectacular and beautiful. If you ignore its weirdness, it can even be regarded as a magnificent spectacle, enough to inspire a great artist's greatest inspiration in his life, or allow a poet to make countless poems about this spectacle.
Psalms -
It is like a sharp-edged mountain peak carved from light golden clear amber, or an exceptionally regular geometric ice floe. It emits a dense light mist floating in the water, and the surrounding thin mist floats slowly around its surface.
, outlining a dreamlike atmosphere.
There are various signs that this thing is indeed like a "dream" - it has no entity, and although it does exist there, it seems to be just a huge shadow.
"Mistress," Luni couldn't help turning around, "What do you think this is?"
"...I don't know, I only know that it fell from the sky." Lucretia frankly admitted her ignorance. She recalled the scene when the Brilliant Star tracked this thing for the first time - just
The day before yesterday, in the last few hours of daylight, the cruising Shining Star observed a huge and hazy luminous object suddenly falling from the sky, tearing through the clouds and disappearing into the depths of the border sea. From that time on, she and
Her ship has been tracking this thing.
But apart from the obvious fact that he "fell from the sky", she knew nothing about this phantom alien visitor.
Lucretia carefully observed the bottom of the huge geometric body and confirmed another thing:
This thing is very light, very, very light. It floats on the sea, and the lower part only sinks a little bit into the water. But just that little sign of sinking into the water shows that this thing that looks like a "phantom" is also
Something with a bit of quality, rather than a mere shadow.
It has a little mass, which means it can be bound by real matter... With the power of the Brilliant Star, maybe it can even be dragged away?
Is it possible to drag it back to the territory of the civilized world and organize a real professional team to study it? The Explorers Association should be happy to help...
But if the theory is like this, how should the actual operation be completed? How can we drag a huge, penetrable phantom? Or... there is an entity core deep in this luminous geometry, and that core structure is the source of its mass.
?
Lucretia was thinking rapidly in her mind, and Luni's voice sounded next to her: "Should we explore its inside?"
"Proceed with caution first." Lucrecia said, raising her hand and biting her finger. A drop of blood seeped out from her fingertip, and then slowly floated forward, and suddenly "bang" when she was halfway there.
"There was a loud explosion and turned into an exaggerated smoke.
The smoke dissipated, and another "Lucrecia" appeared in the cab - but it was just a ghost-like phantom, wearing a pale and broken long dress, with a dull and sinister face, and a translucent texture all over her body, which was gloomy.
The ground is floating in mid-air.
Lucretia nodded to the phantom, and the latter turned around without saying a word and flew towards the "mountain" hundreds of meters away.
Lu Ni watched this scene with some nervousness, watching the ghostly phantom quickly cross the misty sea and disappear silently inside the "mountain".
Nothing happened.
"Mistress?" Lu Ni turned back to look at her master, "What's in it?"
"Light and heat, very warm, but not burning, bright, but not dazzling... There is no wind or waves inside, and the sea below seems calmer than 'outside'," Lucretia carefully felt the phantom clone's transmission
The message came and he said slowly, "Now it seems that at least the shallow area of the mountain is safe, and I am accelerating to move inside."
Luni nodded. Although she was just a clockwork golem, she had a "soul" that was closer to a human being than any other crew member on the ship. At this moment, the tension inevitably surfaced. She reached behind her and turned her hand twice.
The clockwork key used this method to relieve the slight trembling caused by tension in various parts of the body. Then she waited for a long time before she suddenly saw the mistress's expression change.
Lucretia frowned slightly and looked up ahead.
"I'm at the deepest point," said the "sea witch," "and there's a core."
"Core? What kind?"
"It's a huge stone ball," Lucretia said with a weird expression, "or at least it's made of something that looks like stone. It's gray-white, with many regular grooves on the surface, about ten meters in diameter, suspended on the sea surface.
Above..."
As she spoke, Lucretia frowned and concentrated, as if she was giving some orders to the ghost phantom that had entered the depths of the luminous geometry, and then continued: "It can be touched, it is a physical entity."
"It's an entity..." Luni was stunned for a moment, and her many years of experience allowed her to quickly realize what the hostess meant, "Do you want to... drag it back?"
"The elf scholars in Breeze Port should be interested in this thing," Lucretia said calmly, "The lines on the surface of the stone ball have obvious patterns and imply a complex geometric structure. I guess...
…People who are good at mathematics should be able to see something from this.”
"Then how should we 'drag' this thing back?" Lu Ni looked at her hostess with some surprise, "Are we using a strong enough rope or chain? There is a spare anchor rope on the ship, but it may not be long enough.
——The projection part of that luminous body is too large, and the distance from here to its core may exceed the limit of the anchor cable..."
Lucretia looked at the luminous "mountain" in silence, 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."
"...Okay, you are serious."
…
Duncan slept in the captain's quarters of the Lost Home and had a brief and bizarre dream.
This is incredible. His body doesn't even need sleep, let alone dreaming. In fact, since he came to this ship, he has never had a "dreaming" experience - that time in Pland.
The body has had some messy and trivial dreams, but they have never been as clear and impressive as this brief strange dream.
In his dream, he saw shooting stars, which appeared suddenly during the day.
He stood on the bow of the Lost Home, and there was a dead silence on the ship. He could neither hear the noise of Goat Head in his mind, nor the noise of Alice's daily fights with buckets and mops on the deck, or even the entire Infinity.
The sea is also silent, with no waves and no sound of wind.
The whole world seemed to have fallen into dead silence, and in this silence, a huge luminous body fell from the sky - also silent.
The luminous objects fell one after another, falling on the calm surface of the boundless sea. They were obviously extremely huge falling objects, but they also did not stir up any movement, just like a phantom falling on another phantom, and those luminous objects gradually
It fell like rain, and eventually turned into a terrifying and weird meteor shower - countless light bodies gradually covered the entire sea surface, surrounding the Lost Home in a blaze of light.
However, the sky gradually dimmed as countless light bodies fell. At the end of the dream, the meteor shower gradually stopped, and the sky turned into pitch black.
Duncan raised his head at the end of the dream and saw only a dark red mottled hole in the sky, as if a terrifying hole was still burning in the darkness, silently overlooking all things in the world like a dying eye.
Duncan opened his eyes suddenly, and the deep impression left by the absurd dream still remained strongly in his mind.
He was shocked that he could actually dream on the boat, and even more shocked by the strange scenes he saw in his dream——
The silent world, the silent meteors, the dark and dead sky, and the terrifying hole overlooking the world like an eyeball... Why did he dream of such a weird scene? What is the meaning behind this dream?!
Duncan slowly calmed down, sat up from the bed, and rubbed his forehead irritably.
In this strange boundless sea, on the Lost Home, he couldn't believe that the dream was just a dream - there must be something that had an impact on him, or his "intuition" had a premonition that made him feel like he was there.
I saw that scene in my dream.
He frowned slightly while thinking irritably.
Is it related to the "countdown to the world" that I just learned about? Is it related to the "truth" about the end of the world that "Captain Duncan" who fell into madness a hundred years ago came into contact with?
Is it because he suddenly learned this information and made an association, or is it because the remaining memory of this body suddenly became restless? Is his contact with Tirian and Lucretia related to this dream?
Duncan tapped his forehead lightly, and then reached out to the wine bottle on the cabinet next to him, preparing to use the power of alcohol to calm his mood, but as soon as he reached out, his eyes glanced at the wall clock on the wall not far away.
The action then stopped.
The hands on the wall clock stopped.
Standing still one minute before sunrise.
It was dark outside the window, and the glow of dawn could not be seen, but there was no cold brilliance brought by the creation of the world.
The flame of the oil lamp in the bedroom was the only "moving thing" that was still burning calmly, but the light it emitted was faintly pale, making the lighting in the entire room look a bit weird.
Duncan glanced over all this calmly, taking in all the unusual phenomena.
Something is obviously wrong... Are you still in the dream?
He quickly ruled out this possibility - after regaining consciousness, he could still tell whether he was dreaming or not.
Duncan frowned and resisted the urge to open the window to take a look outside the ship. He stood up and walked towards the wooden door of the bedroom.
Go to the chart room first to see if Goathead knows what's going on.
He pushed open the door to the chart room and looked at the navigation table with charts and goat heads.