Lucretia looked at the clockwork doll lying on the experimental table without saying a word. Alice stood opposite the experimental table with a nervous and uneasy look on her face, and Duncan stood next to Alice, watching.
He went up with an expressionless face.
After the awkward atmosphere lasted for a long time, Lucretia finally broke the silence first: "...So, Luni took off her own head?"
"...The process is very complicated," Duncan said with a straight face, "I was also surprised."
Lucretia couldn't help but glance at Duncan.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she actually felt that her father, who always had a straight face and always had a serious and gloomy temperament, seemed to have a trace of... embarrassment in his expression just now.
"I'm sorry..." Alice finally spoke. She lowered her head and carefully grabbed the corner of Duncan's clothes. Apparently she realized that she had gotten into trouble again. "I saw that Luni was also a doll, and I thought all dolls were the same.
Yeah, just...I was also surprised, her head turned out to be unpluggable?"
"...It can be seen that Lu Ni also thinks that she is just like you," Lucretia glanced at this "abnormal 099" that once made countless people fearful and vigilant with a subtle expression, "but I did not design this for her.
'Function'."
At this moment, Luni, who was lying on the experimental table and moving separately, suddenly made a movement. She blinked her head and her voice sounded a bit out of tune: "Mistress, can you help me connect the head first? I'm sorry.
It’s causing trouble…”
Lucretia looked down at the clockwork doll with an expressionless expression, sighed, took the tools from the side, and began to remove the cover and decorative materials near the neck of Luni's body. She couldn't help but
Asked: "Why did you follow Alice's actions without thinking?"
"Alice...is a new friend," Luni's head made a sound beside her, making a slight noise as her mouth opened and closed, "a new friend brought by the old master."
Lucrecia paused for a moment, then said nothing and continued busy.
Alice looked at Luni's head a little uneasily: "Then will we still be friends from now on?"
"Okay," Lu Ni blinked, "but I have to wait until the mistress fixes me..."
Alice suddenly became happy again, and then she seemed to have discovered something extraordinary: "Ah, you won't stutter after taking off your head!"
"Yes, because my head can operate independently. The mistress has installed a complete sound-producing structure in my skull, and my thinking is not affected by the lack of body structure," Lu Ni explained in a serious manner, "You and I
The difference is that my neck cannot heal on its own after it is broken."
Alice thought for a while, and although she didn't understand it, she still nodded: "Oh - that's amazing."
Duncan watched this scene from the side and felt that this scene was extremely weird.
Even more evil than a cursed doll that can lose its head, he actually had to find another doll as a friend for this doll - he hadn't even introduced Alice and the other weird "servants" on this ship.
We know each other.
If this idiot were to take a stroll on the Brilliant Star, how lively would the ship be?
Lucrecia, who was busy dismantling and repairing Luni's joints with her head down, suddenly felt a thrill in her heart. She raised her head and looked around blankly, but could not find the source of this "shock".
But soon, her attention was focused on other things.
"What do you think about the 'eyeball' recorded by Master Taran El?" The "Sea Witch" turned her head and looked at Duncan, "This matter must not be disclosed to ordinary people, but the Four Gods
Over there at the church..."
"I'm going to tell them, but I haven't figured out what channel to use, and whether it's necessary to have more direct contact with their senior management," Duncan quickly calmed down the messy thoughts in his mind and looked quite serious.
He said, "The key now is not actually that the body of Vision 001 is an eyeball enclosed in an artificial spherical shell. After all, Vision 001 has been unknown to mortals since the beginning of history.
No matter how weird and terrifying its true appearance may be, what really matters is the appearance of the eyeball."
"The appearance of that eyeball..." Lucretia slowed down her movements and frowned slightly, "You said it is very similar to... a certain structure of the creeping sun disk?"
"The body of the creeping sun disk is an ancient god surrounded by a corona and roasted. Between the layers of tentacles, a huge eyeball structure is its main feature," Duncan nodded and said casually,
"I was very impressed with that eyeball - it looked at me for a long time."
Listening to her father's story, Lucretia suddenly looked around uneasily, and then looked at Duncan hesitantly: "Talk directly about the ancient gods at sea..."
"It's not a big problem. Even if that guy's 'eyes' are really attracted, it will only fall on me," Duncan waved his hand, "And I've been looking for it all along."
Lucretia opened her mouth, but suddenly she didn't know how to answer.
She has seen a lot of the world in this century of wandering on the boundless sea, and has dealt with more lunatics. She has also participated in taboo and dangerous topics and events, but those taboo and dangerous topics are not in this violent situation.
discussed in an atmosphere.
She felt that it might take a long time for her to learn how to get along with her father again.
Duncan didn't pay attention to Lucretia's subtle expression for a moment. After a moment of reflection, he thought of another thing: "Do you remember the 'intruder' that appeared in Taran El's dream?
The projection of the Son of the Sun."
"I remember that you said it looked like a smaller 'Creeping Sun Disk'," Lucretia nodded, "and you also mentioned that the 'Children of the Sun' had a brief exchange with you, and it
He and his minions are looking for something in that dream."
Duncan nodded slightly, and then spoke slowly: "The core of Vision 001 is an 'eyeball' that is very similar to the core of the 'Creeping Sun Disk'. Twelve hours after Vision 001 went out, the sun
The Scions invaded the 'Dream of the Nameless One' through Taran El's dream, and led his minions to search for something in that dream. There was obviously a connection between the two things;
"On the other hand, believers in the Black Sun have been claiming for thousands of years that what they worship is the 'real sun god' and call the sun in the sky the 'false sun'. For a long time, the world has thought that this is just a
Their crazy delusion was that the spiritual pollution of the Black Sun caused those believers' understanding of the world to deviate. However, when the sun went out, Taran Ayre discovered that there was really a very similar 'worm' sealed inside Vision 001.
The eyeball of the sun-changing wheel's core structure;
"Finally, it's the Annihilation Cult that invaded the Dream of the Nameless One - according to the information I collected, the purpose of the Annihilation Cult is different from that of the Sun Cult. They are looking for the 'original blueprint of the Holy Lord before the creation of the world' in that dream.
, but according to the records in the "Book of Blasphemy", the 'Holy Lord of the Underworld' guided the Cretan clan during the creation process, and may even have personally helped them create Vision 001, so strictly speaking... the current Vision
001, which is what the Sun Cultists call the 'False Sun', can also be regarded as the 'masterpiece' of the Holy Lord Yousu, and is part of the original blueprint.
"This last point may also explain the 'cooperation state' I observed between the Annihilation Sect and the Sun Sect - they are indeed cooperating, but the relationship is obviously not harmonious."
Duncan slowly talked about what he had been thinking about for a while, then raised his eyelids and looked into Lucretia's eyes.
"What did you think of in this information?"
Lucretia unknowingly stopped what she was doing. Her expression changed several times, her expression solemn and a little uneasy. After a long time, she broke the silence in a low voice: "...even a person who worships the Black Sun
Standing here, the cultists might say that this is a bit extreme..."
"...I heard similar words not long ago," Duncan shook his head and said, "Now I just hope that the deepest truth of our world will not be crazier than this - otherwise, in the face of real history, even the most extreme
The cultists will also appear conservative."
Lucretia did not speak, but slowly lowered her gaze in deep thought.
Luni's head was still lying on the experimental table, and her eyes met the contemplative hostess.
After a while, Luni finally couldn't help but said: "Mistress... are you still pretending? Why don't you go next door to rest for a while? You can ask the rabbi to come over and help..."
Lucretia exhaled, temporarily putting aside the distracting thoughts in her mind, picking up the tools in her hands and continuing to work: "Rabbi will only stuff your head into its own belly to make up for its endless 'cotton'
Thirst - don't move, I'm going to put your head back."
"oh."
…
At the same time, in the Archon's Office of Breeze Port, Archon Sarah Mel unfolded a document that had just been delivered to her desk. Looking at the content on it, this elf who had lived for a long time understood a little bit.
Frowning.
The document comes from the Four Gods Church - it is not issued by a single church, but carries the seals of the four popes, is witnessed by the four gods, and is sent to every city-state on the boundless sea.
Establish an early warning system jointly constructed by the city-state, church and explorer association to monitor changes that may occur at any time in the city-state, the sea surface and below the sea surface, and be alert to the recurrence of the frost crisis and the awakening of the ancient gods;
The Four Gods Church has mobilized part of its patrol fleet from the border to the interior of the civilized world to respond to worldwide emergencies at any time.
Although the above two contents are worrying, they are still normal. At least for the rulers of the city-state, they are still understandable "work content".
What really made Consul Sarah Meyer frown was the particularly eye-catching and important item at the end of the document that seemed to be mentioned inadvertently——
"Each city-state must pay attention to any warning signals from the Lost Home or the Lost Home Fleet. If the Lost Home is found operating in the waters surrounding the city-state... they must not take any hostile actions, and should... cooperate as the situation requires."