As the shadows in the spiritual world quickly faded from the surroundings of the Lost Home, the originally dark sea gradually returned to its normal blue color. The skylight in the real world and the mist wandering around the ship enveloped the entire sea.
Nina ran from the room to the deck, and soon discovered the strange ship not far in front of the Lost Home, which was engulfed in green flames and almost torn apart.
The ship that was destroyed by the big explosion and is now driven entirely by spiritual flames is slowly slowing down, but it is still sailing forward, and in the direction pointed by its bow is the road that once appeared in the textbook, but today
This is the first time I really saw the "border".
The magnificent wall of thick fog stretches across the sky and into the sea. Waterfall-like clouds and mist pour down from the top of the giant wall, turning into a thin mist that permeates the entire sea. In front of it, everything seems small - even those who have lost their homes.
After seeing many incredible things, Nina still couldn't help but open her eyes wide, and then let out a long exclamation: "Wow--"
Shirley also ran out at this time, holding on to the guardrail on the side of the ship and looking into the distance, and exclaimed with Nina: "Wow -"
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Agou's voice coming from the shadows: "So I ask you to read more books. As long as you have a better vocabulary, you won't be able to read such a magnificent curtain after seeing the border.
Just 'wow'..."
Shirley's eyes immediately widened when she heard this: "Isn't Nina also 'wow'? Why didn't you talk about her?"
Agou jumped out of the shadows, shaking his head and muttering casually: "Nina's 'Wow' is because she thinks the word is appropriate here, and 'Wow' is because you only know this one word.
You two are different..."
Listening to Ah Gou's words, Shirley puffed up her face angrily and said plausibly: "I... I have a lot of vocabulary. I have so many modal particles. Isn't that why the captain and Mr. Morris don't let me use them? I want to
I opened up and said, I..."
But Agou no longer paid attention to her. This ferocious-looking dark hound became more cautious after arriving at the border. It looked around, seeming to be sensing the breath coming from other dimensions. After a moment, it
Muttered: "...The environment here is different from the safe sea area... There is an unstable atmosphere everywhere. It is obviously in the real dimension, but I can vaguely smell the smell of the spirit world..."
"This is the border, and it is only the most insignificant part of the countless weird and dangerous characteristics of the border," Lucretia's voice came as a swirl of colorful paper flew, "Here, the border of 'reality'
will become blurred, and all those 'things' that are suppressed in the safe sea... will become active. The probability of evil in the machine will be very high, and the books will attract more and more dangerous snoops.
Many things in the ship become easily activated, and at certain times, especially when the ship accidentally overlaps with some invisible 'fields', these dangers are multiplied."
She strolled to the edge of the deck, looked at the thick fog in the distance, and continued softly in her thoughts and memories -
"So, there will be almost no sane explorers who come to the border to 'try their luck'... There is no honor and wealth here, only a cold and strange environment, and a dangerous and terrifying fate, and a very small number of 'madmen' dare to set foot here.
They have summarized some unique "codes of action" at the border, such as not carrying any idols or portraits with human characteristics on board, not shouting loudly in the fog, not staying in front of the mirror for too long, etc.
wait……
"But these rules and taboos can only reduce risks to a certain extent. There will still be experienced explorers disappearing into the fog near the border. They will forget where they are when the fog comes, and they will push away in the cabin.
A door that does not exist, they may even think in a trance that they have completed a thrilling and long border exploration, and successfully returned to the city-state where they settled. Their tense nerves relaxed and they finally breathed a sigh of relief and stepped onto the door.
The solid ground of the dock - just walked into the thick fog on the border, leaving only the empty ghost ship floating on the sea."
Shirley's eyes widened as she listened to the strange and terrifying things described by the "Sea Witch", and she finally shuddered subconsciously: "I...fuck...this sounds a bit scary..."
"Yes, it's scary, so under normal circumstances, people like you who have no experience in border exploration should not go near this sea area at all - but you still don't have to worry, because this is the Lost Home, and you are the Lost Home
A member of the fleet."
Lucretia smiled lightly, looked at the sea, and spoke leisurely.
"My father and this ship... are no longer what I remember. If it were the current Lost Home, I believe that even if something really got on the ship and opened your door, it would
Apologize politely and close the door before leaving..."
As soon as she finished speaking, a voice suddenly came from the side: "Normally, they don't have the opportunity to close the door and apologize."
Lucretia turned around and saw Duncan arriving on the deck at some point.
"Vanna received a psychic communication just now. The Deep Sea Church's 'Tide' has arrived in the nearby waters and will appear soon. The two capital ships of the Death Church are also nearby. They are sending small reconnaissance boats to go first.
Check the situation in the surrounding sea areas."
Lucretia nodded: "That's fine, we need to figure out the situation around here - the church fleet that patrols the border all year round is more professional than us in this regard."
Duncan said "Yeah" and didn't say anything else. He just controlled the Lost Home to gradually move closer to the big ship that was "leading the way" in front of him. Next to the Lost Home, the Brilliant Star had also left the spirit world state.
Accompanying the voyage leisurely.
Ten minutes later, the Lost Home and the Brilliant Star arrived near the broken ship, cruising slowly and at a constant speed.
Perhaps because it was closer to the "curtain", the fog on the sea seemed a little thicker than before. The layers of fog were floating in all directions like flowing gauze, even the faint green escaping from the surroundings of the Lost Home.
Even the flames cannot completely dispel the mist.
At Duncan's order, the three ships stopped before the fog became thicker.
"Let's wait until we meet up before continuing forward," Duncan said on the bow deck of the Lost Home as he glanced at the foggy sea in the distance, "light the lights first."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at the "guide ship" at the front.
With a snap of the fingers, the green flames burning on the big ship suddenly intensified, and the blazing spiritual fire expanded explosively, rose up, and released a brilliance that was enough to penetrate the fog!
A "lighthouse" made entirely of spiritual fire rose up in the foggy border waters. The light from the flames violently illuminated the entire sea area, and where the light was shrouded, near the three ships
On the sea surface, the fog finally showed signs of dissipating slightly, and the visibility recovered a little.
Vanna and Morris also came to the deck. The latter was curiously observing the sea near the side of the ship. He saw that the color of the sea seemed to be a little richer than outside the thick fog. The dark blue water looked quite dark.
Calm, with only slight fluctuations due to the breeze - and the fluctuations look quite weird, it seems slow and sticky, as if... the entire sea is a layer of thick and smooth oil that lacks surface details.
.
Fanna frowned and stared at the sea, which gave people a strong sense of strangeness and suspicion. After a moment of hesitation, she took out a small wooden carved amulet from her body - it was a wave amulet carved from sea breath wood -
—and threw it into the sea.
The amulet that symbolized the faith and protective power of the Storm Goddess landed on the sticky and sluggish sea surface. It bounced as if it had landed on solid ground, without causing any ripples or sinking in the sea water.
It just stayed quietly on the thick and sluggish "water surface". After several seconds, it was suddenly dyed a dark blue by the surrounding seawater and "melted" silently into the water.
Fanna looked at this scene with some astonishment that was inconsistent with her experience.
But in her ears, the gentle sound of the waves still surfaced as always.
Although the process seemed strange, the power of the goddess Gemona still came as usual - in this abnormal sea area, the protection of the storm goddess could still take effect.
Even...it seems to take effect a little faster?
At this moment, Fanna seemed to suddenly feel something again and looked up at the misty sea in the distance.
And almost at the same time she raised her head, a melodious and loud whistle suddenly broke the calm of the border waters, and then, a hazy light appeared in the depths of the thick fog - behind the light, a huge ship
The shadow of the ship gradually emerged from the fog.
The soft sound of the waves sounded, and in the psychic resonance, she confirmed the news from her fellow church members. At the same time, the huge ship silhouette in the distance also began to slow down at a certain distance, and several smaller ships
Escort ships appeared one after another around the outline.
Through the drifting fog, the ships that came to join and the Lost Home and Brilliant Star, which arrived here first, were confirming each other's identities - in the border waters, this is a very important link.
Moreover, this kind of "confirmation" of identity will be accompanied by the entire action process in the future and will need to be done again every once in a while.
After all, in the thick fog on the border, you can't always confirm that the figure next to you this second is the same person you were familiar with the previous second.
"It's the Deep Sea Church's Tide and its escort formation," Vanna quickly came to Duncan's side and lowered her head to report, "It has been confirmed through psychic resonance."
Duncan nodded: "Okay, allow them to approach and let them enter the range illuminated by the spiritual fire."