Lucretia slid several meters out on the deck - this scene happened so suddenly that Duncan didn't even realize what was going on.
It wasn't until the "Sea Witch" got up in a panic that he quickly let go of the piece of paper in his hand.
The piece of colored paper flew out with a "whoosh" and quickly disappeared into Lucretia's hair, but the latter still stood there a little dull, with no expression on her face.
She might have been a little confused from the fall.
"Lucy..." With an embarrassment that could dig a hole in the deck and a subtle apology, Duncan carefully walked up to the still confused Miss Witch, "Are you okay?"
Lucretia was excited for a moment, and seemed to finally wake up from her dazed state. Then she slowly turned her head, and the expression on her face finally changed from confused to shocked. She looked at Duncan with an incredible expression, and it took a long time to break the silence.
: "How did you do it?"
"Ah?" Duncan didn't react for a moment, "How did you do it?"
"You caught...'Shadow'..." Lucretia began hesitantly, as if she was trying to organize words to describe this too abstract thing. Then she raised her arm again, starting from her fingertips.
Part of her arm quickly disintegrated into flying pieces of colored paper, flying around her, "Can you try again and let me see?"
Duncan reached out his hand in confusion and grabbed a piece of colored paper.
The next second, the flying colored papers suddenly "collapsed" and became Lucretia's arm again, and the expression on the latter's face was once again shocked.
"This is incredible!" Miss Witch looked at Duncan with wide eyes, "Such a thing has never happened before. Can you tell me how it was done?"
Seeing that this cheap "daughter" seemed to arouse his enthusiasm as a researcher, Duncan had no idea what was going on. He frowned and glanced at the colored paper in his hand, with a puzzled look on his face: "This is very interesting."
Is it difficult? It’s just pieces of paper flying in the air..."
"They can't be caught, dad," Lucretia opened her hands. "If the Phantom Wind can be interrupted by someone grabbing a piece of paper, how can I use it as my most commonly used diversion method -
-These are all phantoms, which can theoretically penetrate all obstacles..."
"I don't know that," Duncan shrugged. "I was just curious when I saw these pieces of paper and wanted to grab them and take a look. I'm sorry... did it hurt? Where did you hit it?"
Lucretia was slightly startled.
It seemed that she had not heard anyone care about her in this tone for many, many years.
Ever since I became a powerful "sea witch", a cursed person who was feared by many people, and became the captain of a ghost ship, I no longer heard such words.
This made her feel a little awkward.
"I...it's okay," she shook her head with a weird look on her face, trying to suppress the embarrassment in her heart while trying to distract herself with thinking, "You can catch the phantom...is this one of your powers now?
What is its essence? Is it a deep understanding of the world? Or is it due to the influence of subspace?"
Lucretia really fell into thinking. Her instinct to explore the unknown made her seem to forget the embarrassment just now. She continued to mutter while thinking: "...could it be said that in this 'layer' of subspace?
, there is actually no difference between matter and phantoms in the real world? Everything in the world is an equal 'concept' in front of subspace... Is Claudius' theory correct? Everything is a 'concept', and in subspace
Space forms a consistent projection..."
Duncan listened to the witch lady muttering beside him, and finally couldn't help but interrupt her: "Lucy... you can study this matter another time."
The "Witch" woke up instantly, but still stared at Duncan with wide eyes.
Duncan lowered his head, looked at the colored paper in his hand, and couldn't help but think in his mind.
He did not expect that these gorgeous pieces of paper were such special "things", and looking at Lucretia's reaction, his actions just now were clearly enough to be called "shocking".
He caught the phantom - but Duncan knew that he did not have the ability to catch the phantom.
He just didn't know the pieces of paper were phantoms.
The thoughts in his mind were ups and downs, some things and conjectures from the past appeared in his memories, and some "things" appeared in Duncan's mind - fish.
After being silent for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly spoke softly as if talking to himself: "The essence of it...maybe is 'I don't know'..."
Lucretia heard her father talking to himself, but was confused: "What are you talking about? Are you saying that you don't know the nature of this ability?"
Duncan came to his senses and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to explain something to his "daughter", but after hesitating several times, he still shook his head.
"It means something else, but I don't know how to explain it to you - Lucy, let's talk about it when we have a chance in the future. We have other things to do now."
He turned his head and looked at the magnificent "wall of light" that had reached the bow of the Brilliant Star and was exuding a heavy sense of oppression in its majestic posture.
"Take me to see that stone ball first."
Lucretia nodded, but did not leave. Instead, she still stood where she was, looking at her father with a tangled and complicated look.
Duncan frowned in confusion: "Is there anything else?"
Lucretia hesitated for a moment, then raised her finger carefully and pointed: "Can you...can you give that back to me first?"
Duncan looked down and found that he was still holding in his hand the colored paper that the other party had split apart during the "experiment".
His face suddenly stiffened, and he let go of his hand and apologized: "Uh, cough, sorry."
The piece of paper floated up and quickly got into Lucretia's arm, filling an originally dark place with color again.
The "Sea Witch" looked at this scene with a subtle expression, then nodded to Duncan, turned around and turned into a large piece of flying colored paper, preparing to fly towards the bridge - but she stopped again less than half a meter after flying out.
The figure regrouped and turned to look at Duncan worriedly: "Don't arrest me this time..."
Duncan looked embarrassed: "...Of course."
Lucretia nodded again and turned around, but then turned around uneasily: "If you are curious, we can discuss it before doing the experiment next time, and really don't arrest him."
Duncan spread his hands dumbfounded: "I won't arrest him, I'm not a child."
Lucretia said oh, but hesitated for a long time when turning around, and finally sighed: "I'd better walk..."
Then the witch lady walked all the way to the bridge in the distance.
Duncan looked at the other party walking away with a strange expression, and finally couldn't help but sigh in his heart:
Fortunately, Master Taran El was too nervous to come to the deck with him and was still lying in the room to rest. Otherwise, the scene at this time would not be as simple as a loving father and a daughter, and embarrassment.
I'm afraid that if it weren't for the "Sea Witch", she would choose to silence her - then Taran Ayre would really die on this ship.
The chaotic thoughts in his mind went around in a circle. Duncan exhaled softly, and his mind finally calmed down. At the same time, the Brilliant Star also slightly adjusted its angle under the personal control of the captain, and then sailed straight into the magnificent
"Light Curtain".
Like some kind of substantial crystal, but without any sense of hindrance, the pale golden "sunshine" filled the field of vision, gradually engulfing the Brilliant Star.
Duncan stood at the end of the front deck, looking calmly at the "sunshine" that came towards him and completely immersed him in it.
He guessed at the nature of the sunlight, and raised his hands slightly, as if to feel the "touch" of the sunlight.
On the way here, he had heard Lucretia tell a lot of information about this "luminous falling object", and also learned that during the period when the sun went out, this luminous geometric object continuously sent out
There were regular "light signals", and there was a lot of information - but none of them could explain to him the "moon" in the center of the luminous geometric body.
Duncan narrowed his eyes slightly.
Small shadows appeared in his vision.
That was what Lucretia had mentioned before, the research station set up by the elves in the center of the luminous geometry, and the... mysterious stone ball located next to the station.
The research station is a two-story building built on a floating platform, and the stone ball is less than a few meters next to the floating platform. There are temporary bridges and many steel cables connecting the two to ensure the stability of the platform.
As the distance gradually shortened, more and more details on the "stone ball" came into Duncan's eyes.
Now, he's finally confirmed it in the real world.
Those familiar patterns, those light and dark plains, depressions and crater structures frequently appeared in his recent memories. He had seen it more than once in books and on the Internet - the moon.
"It's really..."
An indescribable complex emotion filled his heart - it wasn't surprise, because Duncan had already been surprised, and it wasn't confusion, because he had been thinking about it in confusion for a long time before today.
At this moment, he just confirmed that he had witnessed something that had been bothering him for a long time. A strange fact that he could not understand and find difficult to admit came to him in a conclusive way.
The Brilliant Star slowed down slowly. Under Lucretia's control, this ghost ship, which was as "alive" as the Lost Home, finally stopped just a few meters away from the stone ball with incredible accuracy.
Duncan came to the edge of the deck, where he could even see every subtle pattern on the surface of the stone ball.
He was also increasingly certain that this sphere, which was only about ten meters in diameter, had an astonishing degree of "reduction". It was so exquisite and consistent with the detailed characteristics of the "moon" surface that... it was not at all like what he had originally imagined.
"Miniature".
It seems that it is exactly the real "moon", "compressed" into this size.