"According to the current speed, we will arrive in the waters around Qingfeng Port in one day - but this is marked on the 'navigation chart'. As for whether the Lost Home is currently in this sea area, it still needs to be confirmed. After all...
This thing is too incredible.”
There was solemnity and hesitation in the goat's head's tone, and ever since Duncan met this guy, he had rarely heard this kind of reaction from him.
There is no doubt that what happened to the Homeless at this moment was completely beyond the experience of this "first officer".
Duncan held the edge of the navigation table with both hands and looked solemnly at the slowly rippling fog on the chart. Between the phantom of the Lost Home and the Northern Route, there was a large area of fog floating at the moment - that
This is the route that the Homeless Ship should have sailed through, but it is still shrouded in fog.
"...In the twelve hours before the sun went out, we directly 'jumped' the entire voyage from the northern route to the southern seas, and even you don't know how this happened," Duncan raised his gaze,
Looking at the goat head on the edge of the table, "But the White Oak, which was also on the Infinite Sea when the sun went out, did not encounter this phenomenon - they still generally maintained the correct navigation path."
"...I don't know how to explain this matter, Captain," the goat head shook his head slightly, looking embarrassed, "Although both the Homeless and the White Oak have been baptized by your fire, there is no difference between the two ships.
The difference is huge, and any difference in details may be the cause of this phenomenon..."
Duncan didn't speak for a while. He just pondered for another ten seconds with a solemn face. Then he seemed to suddenly think of something and broke the silence: "When did the sea chart change?"
This time the goat head answered unusually quickly: "Just now, when the sun lit up again."
"Are you sure?" Duncan knew that the other party would not lie to him, but he still asked subconsciously.
"Sure," the goat shook his head up and down, "I have been paying attention to everything related to 'navigation', including the movements of the charts. During the time when the sun went out, the charts never changed, as if we had been staying still in the same place.
The ground, and after the sun lit up again, the chart began to show some... chaos, just like the chaos every time it floated from the spirit world to the real world. I thought this was just it calibrating itself, but I didn't expect that when it re-emerged
When it stabilizes, it will show that the Lost Home has arrived near Qingfeng Port..."
Duncan listened carefully to Goat Head's story and suddenly frowned: "In other words, this 'jump' most likely happened at the moment when the sun rekindled..."
The goat head nodded slowly.
The entire captain's room fell into silence for a while.
Duncan didn't know what the goat head was thinking at this moment. He only knew that his mind was now filled with chaotic speculations and countless questions, and all these questions seemed to revolve around one core: in the process of the sun extinguishing and rekindling.
, what changes have happened to the boundless sea?
At first, he only thought it was a temporary darkness, just like the sun rose more than ten minutes late before. During that late sunrise, except for some people who noticed it and felt nervous and panic, the whole world seemed completely complete.
Not affected.
But soon, he discovered that the extinction of the sun caused many strange things - including the interruption of communications among various city-states, and the strange "border" phenomenon observed by the White Oak.
But now, after the sun was rekindled, he discovered that the strange effects of this incident were far more than that - the entire Lost Home "teleported" two-thirds of the way, directly to the vicinity of Qingfeng Port, Tirian.
Then it was reported that other city-states had no idea that the sun had gone out...
It seems that just when the sun switches between "extinguishing" and "lighting up", the whole world briefly takes on a strange and bizarre "appearance", with all kinds of tearing disobedience appearing, and the cruise ship "Lost Home" appears.
The "ghost ship" walking on the edge of reality briefly and soberly crossed this torn "rift".
Suddenly and uncontrollably, a horrifying thought popped into Duncan's mind -
What is the function of the sun?
Is it just providing light and heat while suppressing the "extraordinary erosion" in this world? Is it suppressing the extraordinary erosion in this world... or is it the world itself?
"...Captain," a goat-headed voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Duncan's contemplation, "What should we do next? If the Homeless Ship has really arrived near Qingfeng Port... shouldn't we contact Lu?
Miss Cressia?"
"...Confirm the surrounding situation first, and don't approach the city-state rashly," Duncan thought for a moment, then couldn't help but think of his previous experience in Purland and Hanshuang, and subconsciously shook his head, "Let the Lost Home be hidden in the shadows and fog.
Contact Lucretia when the time is right."
The goat-headed head immediately lowered: "Yes, Captain."
Duncan hummed, then walked to the oval mirror in the corner of the room, stretched out his hand and tapped the mirror surface lightly.
Dark light and shadow floated in the mirror, and in the blink of an eye, Agatha dressed as a female adventurer appeared in front of him.
“I never expected that my first voyage with you would be such an incredible experience,” Agatha sighed. “It’s exactly as you said, setting sail with the Lost Home, I will witness all the incredible things in this world.”
Things - my imagination before departure was still too conservative."
"Feels like it's too exciting?"
"Fortunately, thanks to the fact that I don't have a heart that beats every now and then," Agatha showed a smile, "I need to keep an eye on the changes in the spiritual world, right?"
"The spiritual world, and those 'reflections' that wander between the spiritual world and the real world, if you can, pay attention to the situation below the sea surface," Duncan was not polite, "I always feel... even if the sun lights up again
, the subsequent impact of this incident is not over yet, it never hurts to be cautious."
"Understood," Agatha put away her smile and nodded solemnly, but then added, "Ah, according to the rules on the ship, it should be said like this - yes, captain!"
The figure in the mirror gradually disappeared.
Duncan still looked solemn, meditating quietly in front of the mirror.
…
The flying pieces of colored paper circled over the streets, passed through the gaps between the high and low roofs and buildings, and finally flew into a building near the city-state university, and flew into the building of Talan El, the great elf scholar.
Research room.
Lucretia's figure emerges from the colored paper.
The next second, the "Sea Witch" frowned in confusion.
The elf scholar was nowhere to be seen in the research room.
"...Could he still be trapped on the roof and unable to get off?" Lucretia couldn't help but muttered, turning to look at the still open window not far away.
But just when she was about to fly up to the roof to confirm whether the elf scholar was still trapped up there, a burst of slightly panicked footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside, interrupting her movements.
.
Listening to the movement in the corridor, Lucretia casually moved towards the door not far away.
With a "bang", the door suddenly opened, and then a shadow rushed towards the corridor in the direction of Lucretia's finger. There were brief screams and falling sounds from outside. A moment later, a person was walking
The apprentice, who was dancing and trying desperately to stand up, was "invited" into the room.
The apprentice came in lying down, and it looked like he was floating about ten centimeters above the ground and "sliding" into the room. However, when he entered the room and stopped, the things that "sent" him into the room stopped.
Countless toy soldiers swarmed out from under him - countless toy soldiers emerged from under the apprentice, quickly organized the team on the floor next to them, and then marched to the sound of music from drummers and trumpeters.
, neatly and quickly slipped back into the shadow beside Lucretia.
The apprentice who was "invited" into the room looked at the toy soldiers running on the floor in horror. Then he noticed the soldiers and the owner of the shadow. He raised his head and glanced at Lucretia who was standing by the window.
, finally realized who this vaguely familiar lady was.
"Witch...ah, Ms. Lucretia!" The apprentice quickly stood up and greeted this important figure shrouded in many legends and auras, "Afternoon...Good afternoon..."
While speaking, the apprentice couldn't help but suddenly twisted his body - a small toy soldier crawled out of his pocket, fell to the ground and fell into pieces, but then the toy soldier reorganized and quickly
He rolled over and ran towards his mistress, slipping back into the shadows.
Lucretia didn't pay attention to the panicked rudeness of the young apprentice in front of her or the straggler toy soldier, but asked straight to the point: "I came to see your teacher, where is he?"
"I was just about to go find him," the apprentice swallowed, and quickly replied to the legendary "witch" who was "cold and lonely, good at cursing, and as capricious as the sea." "Someone saw him when the sun went out.
Went to the Tower of Flowing Clouds, from... from the roof of the university..."
Lucretia raised her eyebrows: "From the roof of the university?"
"Yes...yes, someone saw him. He seemed to be in a hurry...and he hasn't come back yet. I'm worried that something happened to him..."
"He has to do something. He has to endure a century-old frozen shoulder and cervical spondylosis to walk on the roof of the university - even as an elf, he should not challenge such an extreme sport," Lucretia said casually, and then
Then he waved his hand to the young apprentice, "I'm going to confirm his situation - by the way, what's your name?"
The apprentice quickly straightened his body: "Make an appointment with...Joshua Dino."
"Okay, I will tell your teacher and you will be deducted three points in the study style assessment."
Joshua was a little dazed for a moment: "Why?"
However, Lucretia's figure suddenly turned into colorful pieces of paper flying in all directions, swirling and flying out of the window, leaving only a vague sentence that reached the ears of the young apprentice——
"...No running is allowed in the research building."