Green fire rose up in the captain's cabin, and the skeleton bird covered in spiritual fire flew out of the fire. The rotating flames formed a whirlpool-like door behind it. After the door opened, Vanna, Alice and Morris
From there he stepped into the cabin.
As soon as the dizziness caused by the change of light and shadow subsided, they turned to the navigation table not far away and bowed to Duncan, who was sitting behind the table studying the chart: "Captain."
"Find a place to sit down and rest for a while. It's easy to fall after walking around after teleportation," Duncan said without raising his head. Then he checked a few points on the chart, then breathed a sigh of relief, straightened up and looked at Morris.
"Did you bring the book?"
"Yes," Morris nodded quickly, then took out the "Book of Blasphemy" with a dark cover and no title from his arms, stood up and handed it to Duncan, "Here it is."
Duncan reached out to pick up the book, and Vanna on the side couldn't help but say: "Now that Morris, Alice, and I are back on the ship, only your avatar is left in the city-state... Is that okay?"
"There will be no more big troubles in the city, and Tirian will become the new governor of Frost. With him and Agatha maintaining order in the city, there is nothing to worry about," Duncan said with a smile, "For you
, the things in the Frost City State have been completed, and if there is any follow-up finishing, my incarnation can handle it."
As he spoke, Duncan took the thick black book and sat back behind the navigation table. He placed it next to the chart, and the expression on his face became serious.
This is the "Book of Blasphemy" that Morris and Vanna got from the little leader of the Annihilation Cult. It records the content about the Holy Lord of the Underworld, and it seems to mention some events before the creation of the gods and the Great Annihilation.
secret.
Judging from the appearance alone, there is nothing special about this book except that it has a dark cover and no title, and there is no extraordinary aura coming out of it.
Vanna, Maurice and Alice had already come over curiously, but except for the heartless Alice, the other two kept a certain safe distance and did not dare to cast their eyes directly on the book.
.
The goat-headed wood carving on the edge of the navigation table also creaked and turned its neck, turning its head curiously to the big book in front of Duncan. After reading for a long time, it finally couldn't help but said: "What is this? A book? Worth it.
Are you so solemn?"
"Theoretically, it is the missionary manuscript of the Annihilation Cult," Duncan said casually. "It seems to record things related to the creation of the world by the gods. Although it is the crazy theory of the cultists, part of the content... let me
Very concerned."
"The record of the creation of the gods?" The goat head was stunned for a moment, and then his tone changed subtly, "The 'Creation of the Netherworld Holy Lord' by those crazy people? With all due respect, their theory does not seem to me
Any reference - if a set of history of the birth of the world can be fabricated without strict evidence and reasoning, then any drunken playwright can explain the foundation of our world, and there is even an absurd play claiming that
Our world is made of a cauldron of stew..."
"But Morris was mentally contaminated while reading this book, which even attracted the attention of the four gods." Duncan raised his eyelids slowly, "You should know what this means."
A "Gaba" sound suddenly came from under the goat's neck, and he didn't speak for a while.
After an unknown amount of time, it suppressed a sentence: "The closer you are to the truth, the farther you are from reason..."
"Yes, the first rule of anomalies and visions - the closer to the truth, the further away from reason." Morris on the side nodded seriously. "The more likely it is that an object will cause serious mental pollution, the more serious it will be inside."
It is possible that they recorded the true posture of the world, so at some point, scholars even judged the credibility of the contents of the scrolls based on how mentally damaged they felt after reading certain scrolls.”
The goat head shook his head in place, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't help but said: "But huge distortion and pure extraordinary power can also cause mental pollution. In this case, the facts will point to the opposite direction - the more rational
The more damaged you are, the more you have been deceived.”
Having said this, it paused and then added: "I'm serious, Maurice, there are many unlucky people in your industry who died from this, and the group of people who didn't die all mistakenly thought that they were crazy when they reached the critical point.
I know the truth, and now most of it is listed on the wanted notices of heretics in major churches - of course, now that you are on this ship, if you really want to be serious, you are actually on the wanted notices..."
This goat-headed painting style is strange, but after getting along with each other for so long, it is obvious that it still has some sincerity for the members on the ship. Its words are not pleasant, but the concern in it is not fake at all.
Of course Morris knew this, so he didn't mind, but sincerely said to the goat head: "Thank you for your concern. You are right. This world is very good at fooling mortals, and curiosity often leads us in the opposite direction -
—That’s why now we need the captain to take final control.”
"Captain..." Goathead was startled, and then he noticed that Duncan's hand had been placed on the cover of the big black book, and he seemed to be about to open it, "Ah? Are you sure you want to read it?"
"What else?" Duncan raised his head, "I asked Morris to bring this thing on board to use it as a base for you, right?"
The goat head was stunned, and his head swayed slightly from side to side: "Actually, it's not impossible..."
Duncan didn't pay attention to this guy's obvious trick. He was already prepared, so he took a deep breath to gradually focus his energy.
Gloomy green flames rose from the body, turning the body into a spirit form in an instant. After confirming that the transformation had been completed, Duncan opened the first page of the big black book.
At first glance, he saw that there were no words on the page.
At the second glance, he saw boundless darkness suddenly gathering from all directions.
In an instant, the light and shadow changed, and there was no time to react - just like the first time he used the spiritual compass, Duncan's consciousness suddenly "fell" into boundless darkness.
He raised his head in surprise and saw that all the familiar things in the captain's cabin had disappeared. The goat head, Morris and others were also missing. Even the big black book he was reading a second ago was nowhere to be found.
Where.
He stood in the darkness, frowning and thinking for a few seconds.
Something isn't right - it's not the same process Morris described.
After I opened this book, I experienced a completely different change than when Morris opened the book!
And at this moment, something suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye.
Zhou Ming looked subconsciously and saw the tiny white light and shadow floating in the air not far away from him. He concentrated on distinguishing it and finally discovered... that it was text.
The text becomes clear——
"After he opened the book, a completely different change occurred than when Morris opened the book."
Zhou Ming was suddenly stunned.
He stood there motionless, quietly staring at the line of words floating in the air, and for a moment he even forgot to breathe and think.
After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly remembered something.
He remembered that he had seen similar places, that he had visited the same darkness as here and saw words in the darkness - that was in the warp...
"It was in the subspace, on the dilapidated Homeless Ship sailing in the subspace. When I opened the door leading to the captain's cabin, there was a dark place, and words emerged in the darkness, describing..."
Pale words quickly emerged in mid-air, but soon gradually faded away.
Zhou Ming suddenly stopped - he controlled himself and tried not to think too much. It was very difficult, but after filling his mind with a lot of messy numbers, words and meaningless scenery memories, the things that appeared in front of him were
The writing in the dark literally disappears.
Then, he tried very hard to control his thoughts while calming his pounding heart.
What is going on? What is this darkness? What are these words emerging from the darkness?
They seem to be describing "themselves"...are they really describing "themselves"? What does this "description" mean?
Is this some kind of mind-reading process? Or is it some kind of "mapping" phenomenon at the soul level? The last time I saw a similar dark space was on the broken Homeless Ship in the subspace, but this time I was opening the book
After that - why does that book have this "power"?
He couldn't help but have various thoughts emerge in his mind, and almost at the same time, new words appeared in the darkness.
But this time, the text is not describing "himself", but a few words without beginning and end——
"Representation...transformation into reality...real..."
Zhou Ming frowned, subconsciously approached the new line of text, stretched out his finger, and tried to touch it.
His fingers passed through the shadows, and there were only a few ripples in the darkness.
And in the trembling ripples, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be other words hidden behind those words!
He only hesitated for a second, then stretched out his hand and continued to fiddle with the handwriting that was like a reflection in the water, causing the ripples to expand, making the overlapping words reveal their true appearance, and making other information hidden deep in the darkness emerge.
In my own vision——
Suddenly, he saw several intermittent lines of text emerging from the darkness. They were shaking, extending downwards, and moving.
"The source of the message - Queen Leviathan - the situation... is not optimistic, and the critical state is accelerating..."
"The source of the message - the Lord of Fire - is there a new record?"
"Source of the message - Bartok - bad news...the node feedback is vague...it is suspected that the cluster controller has started to copy itself...or has completely lost control..."
"...Source-LH02-has relevant information."
"……specific?"
"...LH-02 - An individual carrying the characteristics of the cluster controller was observed approaching. It is suspected of a mental mutation and it is suspected that it can communicate with me."
"The source of the message - Queen Leviathan - amazing information! Follow-up?"
"Sending source - LH-02 - no follow-up."
"The source of the message - Bartok -?"
"Sending source - LH-02 - the suspicious individual made a fool of himself and left."