At that last moment, a sharp cold light appeared in the boundless depths of nothingness and chaos, and the flood of broken information almost drowned the tiny flame that penetrated the "sample".
In a slight trance, Duncan heard Shirley next to him exclaiming: "Be careful!"
The dazed consciousness and the real world overlapped again, and Duncan instinctively took half a step back. The next second, he saw a sword tip shining with silver light appearing in front of him.
The tip of the sword stopped only ten centimeters from the tip of his nose, and was still slowly extending forward.
"Aggression!" Ted Leal, who had been watching the sample collection nearby, reacted instantly. He whispered, and then he quickly patted the big book in his hand, and a faint light shone from the page.
It diffuses from the center to the outside, covering the surface of the sample in an instant, and quickly condenses, thickens, and turns into layers of barriers.
At the same time, Duncan also withdrew the flames that penetrated the sample. At the same time, he quickly regained consciousness and turned his eyes to the "sample" in front of him again.
On the containment platform, the solidified iron-gray metal mass suddenly deformed just now. Part of its "shell" bulged in an instant and condensed into a sword-like shape.
But the "sharp sword" that suddenly condensed did not stab anyone. It was only halfway out, and then seemed to be grabbed by a huge force. It is still slowly extending outward bit by bit. This scene
Rather than saying it was "stabbed" out... it was more like a sword being gradually "arranged" from the sample.
Lucretia didn't know when a small "baton" appeared in her hand. She quickly took two steps forward and pointed the baton directly at Ted Leal while he was using magic to control the sample.
She cut the middle part of the "long sword", but just when she was about to further destroy the structure, Duncan suddenly stopped her: "Wait a minute."
Lucretia abruptly stopped the spell she was about to activate, and turned to look at her father with some confusion. Ted Leal, who was about to take the next step, and Nina, who was about to get fired up, also hurriedly stopped.
He came down and cast a doubtful look.
Duncan waved his hands to them, and then carefully avoided the blade that was still slowly extending outward. He came to the side of the iron-gray "living metal" and stared closely at its "shell".
It has not really "activated". Only the outwardly extending blade has changed. The rest of the sample is still in the same stagnant and solidified state as before.
The chaotic and broken information is still swirling in his mind, as if a person's memory has been completely torn into pieces and then mixed randomly, and then "poured" in front of his eyes. Duncan sorted through those broken memories over and over again, trying to reassemble them.
Create useful information.
He saw many things - the ominous "crimson", the scars across the sky, the setting off warriors, the fallen travel companions, a world that was gradually distorting and decaying, a meaningless journey, huge confusion, and anger.
, fear, the ensuing death and peace, and the various bizarre images that constantly emerge in the midst of insanity.
Duncan suspected that if other ordinary people saw these things-even if they only saw a small part of them, they would be completely contaminated by some dangerous knowledge carried in those messages.
But these polluting "knowledge" are just chaotic fragments to him. Through sorting and recalling them again and again, he has begun to gradually combine them into continuous memories.
Then he raised his head and looked at the long sword that had extended more than half of the way outward. After a slight hesitation, he stretched out his fingers and touched its surface.
The cold and hard metal touch came from the fingertips.
Duncan slowly closed his eyes. He could feel that when he touched the long sword, the chaotic and broken memory fragments in his mind became clear again and became a little more coherent. Although they were still incomplete, they were enough to make him feel better.
He understood everything that had happened.
He opened his eyes and looked at the last fragment left of that distant and ancient world, and at the last counterattack of the unknown warrior against the doomsday - he gently pinched the fragment and felt it
Pass the connection to yourself, and then slowly pull it out.
The flames gave the long sword that could not fly out of the sky a little extra strength, and it was finally completely separated from the ball of living metal.
It is well made, has a slender blade, the hilt is wrapped with fine linen, and the gauntlet is inlaid with bright crystals whose purpose and material are unknown. Now, it has spanned a long time and has arrived in its original and "correct" posture.
This... the deep sea era.
Including Ted Leal, everyone in the room widened their eyes and looked at the scene in front of them in astonishment. Lucretia finally couldn't help but said: "Dad, what is this?"
Duncan lowered his head and looked at the nameless sword in his hand. After thinking for a long time, he slowly said: "This is the weapon that was planned to fight the end of the world."
"Fight the end of the world?" Sherry on the side suddenly widened her eyes, "With a sword? Is this the kind of artifact in legendary stories that can split the sea? The kind blessed by the four gods?"
Duncan shook his head: "It is just a sword - their best sword. It is very sharp, but even if it is used to the extreme, it can only be used to kill larger beasts or armed humans... This
This is the limit of what they can do."
Lucretia and Ted Leal looked at each other, unable to understand for a moment, while Nina vaguely understood and immediately asked: "What did you see?"
Duncan was still sorting out the messy and incomplete memories in his mind, but after a brief thought, he still broke the silence: "Just some fragments, things that happened a long, long time ago..."
He described what he saw—in the most understandable way possible.
He said it unhappily because there were too many incomplete fragments and too much information that even he himself could not understand. He had to find a way to complete the incoherent parts, or to find a way to explain some of the inconsistencies.
It is a concept that is difficult for Na and others to understand.
It was his first attempt to explain to people in this world what a "planet" was - after talking to Alice last time, he finally decided to give it a try.
But explaining an unfamiliar concept requires ten more basic knowledge points, and each unfamiliar knowledge point requires more knowledge to supplement, and there are countless of them that are completely counter-intuitive and counter-intuitive to people in this world.
Things, even if all these are explained clearly, no one can imagine and reorganize them in their mind.
Ted Leal and Lucretia were struggling to understand, and the questions they kept throwing out kept prolonging the explanation. Finally, Duncan realized that if he wanted to explain all the basic concepts, he would probably have a hard time explaining them.
It requires at least half a year of full-time teaching.
Therefore, he can only pass many things over, or use metaphors to temporarily fill in the gaps in knowledge and concepts.
In the end, despite his many efforts, Nina and others obviously could only understand part of it, but at least this time they generally understood what happened.
Shirley was still immersed in the shock of a long "story", Nina was still thinking about those weird words that Duncan mentioned just now, and the two scholars at the scene... Lucretia and Ted Leal
His face was as heavy as water, obviously he had thought of a lot.
"The end of the world..." Ted Leal whispered to himself, "If what you see really points to an apocalypse, then when it happens..."
"Before the Great Annihilation," Duncan confirmed the other party's unspoken question, and then raised the sword in his hand, "The 'black wall' that has stood in front of historians for a long time has now opened a gap. This sword... maybe
It is the first 'relic' that can be confirmed and passed from before the time point of the Great Annihilation to the present Deep Sea Age."
"A historic moment... just happened." Ted Leal sighed with a complex expression. In the face of this news that could shake the entire academic world, he only felt that his mind was in chaos, and it suddenly appeared.
Countless pieces of information were impacting the knowledge system he had established over a long period of time, and even impacting his understanding of the world, so much so that he couldn't help but pray to Rahm in his heart, and applied mental protection and psychological hints to himself.
Prevent your own sanity from being damaged.
Lucretia suddenly raised her head after a long period of silent thinking and looked into Duncan's eyes: "You just mentioned a lot of weird concepts, those... are the things you mentioned before that are difficult to explain to me.
?”
"Only a small part of it, a very, very small part," Duncan whispered. "I should have told you this sooner."
Lucretia just shook her head slightly. She neither complained nor asked why her father was willing to explain those things to her now - her father must have his reasons for doing this. When he was willing to talk,
It will come naturally.
She was just a little curious as to why her father knew these incredible things.
That knowledge...comes from subspace?
On the other side, Ted Leal suddenly realized a problem after thinking for a while.
"According to what you 'saw', under the influence of that 'red light', the world was swallowed up by lava, the earth was torn apart, and everyone died... Then how did the current deep sea age begin?"
He raised his hand to gesture, and made a split with his palm, simulating a fault.
"This is incoherent, Captain Duncan - after the destruction of that world and before the beginning of the Deep Sea Age, there should be a process of change. The world you see is different from any race and location in the Deep Sea Age today.
Even legends cannot correspond..."
"Indeed, it can't be matched." Duncan nodded slightly. His eyes fell on the "sample" on the platform. After a long time, he finally said a guess he had long ago, "So
...That world did not pass down many things like the world of humans, elves, and Sen'jin. What we see in front of us is all that remains of that world."
"'That world'..." Ted Leal and Lucretia looked at each other for a moment. At this moment, they finally understood what Duncan meant.
In Duncan's mind, the "moon" of his hometown finally appeared in front of him again.
What emerged with it was the words Alice once said to herself with a smile——
"Captain, is this a brainteaser?"
The expression on Duncan's face changed slightly, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, finally turning into a smile that neither Nina nor Lucretia could understand.
"Yeah, this is really a brain teaser..."
He said softly in a voice that only he could hear.