"Why is that guy here?" Bedivere was a little angry and hesitated when he spoke. When he turned to ask Seifer, his tone was close to questioning.
"...I asked Othello to come." Before Sefer could answer, the King of Knights interrupted Bedivere's question: "Because he knows Palamedes."
"He knows??"
"I had some interactions with Mr. Palamedes in the army before." Othello said: "It's not a close friendship. It can only be said that we participated in a few battles together. I was still an unknown soldier at that time, hahaha..."
"This is indeed a blind spot..." Bedivere groaned.
Palamedes used to work in the army, and he was a highly regarded figure. Someone in the orc alliance must know Palamedes. Maybe Roble, the commander-in-chief of the alliance army, knows Palamedes. But Rob
That guy Bull will definitely not come to help, and it will be difficult to investigate who in the orc alliance has interacted with Paramedes in a short time.
Now I can only use the people I can find to help...
"Anyway, let's get started." Bediwell said, "Everyone, please move to the warehouse aside, the ceremony will be held there."
No one knew why that kind of ritual had to be performed in the warehouse, but Bediwell felt that it was obviously inappropriate to unfold the image of the Yingqi Orb in a small lounge.
Everyone arrived at the pre-arranged warehouse. It was more like the site of some kind of seminar. The warehouse had been emptied, there was nothing in it except stools in a circle, and the warehouse was darkly decorated.
"Why do you have to make it so dark..." Bedivere complained.
"The location where dad and Aunt Vivian are may be somewhere in the deep sea, and it must be very dark," Seifer replied, "The picture reflected is probably also a black mess. So the scene must be arranged to be dark."
Make it darker to let everyone's eyes get used to the darkness."
"Then you can see the details in the picture from the darkness?" Bedivere smiled bitterly: "It would be great if things went so smoothly."
"You have to try." The King of Knights said: "At least this logical direction is correct."
Bedivere couldn't refute this point.
"The ceremony begins." After everyone sat down, Bediwell took out the [Sun Disk of the Sun God], while Sefer distributed the artifact fragments of the [All-seeing Triangle] to everyone. They just held the fragments in their hands.
"Please recall the things related to Palamedes." Bediwell said: "While recalling the past related to him, think about seeing him again. Then, [Yingqi Orb] will help us
Find where he is."
Everyone closed their eyes and began to meditate.
Hal held Xiao Hei in his arms, and besides holding the fragments of the artifact himself, he also stuffed the fragments into the kitten's arms.
Naturally, the cat couldn't understand Bedivere's words, but as long as the fragment came into contact with him, it would take effect...probably.
"Pochi, don't make trouble, meow." The leopard man boy said to the little carp swimming next to him.
"Chirp~" Balloon Fish Pochi responded in a very soft voice, as if he could really understand Hal's words, and he seemed to be very sensible and didn't want to ruin the serious atmosphere of the scene.
But it still swam around Hal lively.
Bediwell didn't complain much and started to activate [Yingqi Orb].
Rainbow-colored light pours out from the [Sun Disk], and then reflects towards the hands of each person holding the artifact fragments. Then those artifact fragments begin to reflect the light of the Yingqi Orb like a mirror, and finally
Each holographic image is formed at the center point where everyone is sitting.
However, the picture... was black.
Just as Bedivere expected, Palamedes is now in the darkness of the deep sea, and the picture reflected is naturally pitch black.
They were unable to find any clues related to the location of Palamedes in the blackness, and there was no way to find any useful information from such ambiguous images. As a result, a large number of people were recruited to perform this ritual.
Is it all in vain?
"...It's no use?" Someone whispered, and Bedivere couldn't recognize whose voice it was for a moment.
"No, make the light darker." King Arthur said: "You will definitely find some useful clues. Look carefully and don't give up."
The scene in front of them was originally very despairing, but everyone was persuaded by King Arthur's firm tone and began to look at the picture more carefully, not missing a single detail.
"Eve, turn off the lights in the room." Bedivere said.
The originally dark warehouse became pitch black after the lights were turned off. Except for the white shimmer emitted by the balloon fish, there were almost no other light sources in the entire room.
The entire ceremony venue became quieter.
However, the darkness in the picture is still darkness. Everything in the originally lightless deep sea is as quiet as darkness, and it is impossible to be contaminated by foreign matter such as light. Just reducing the brightness of the room is like removing from that irrelevant darkness.
Is it too naive to find any clues?
This is too...desperate, right?
Bedivere vaguely heard someone sighing. Just when everyone wanted to give up, suddenly, something lit up in the picture!
Red light! It flashed on for about three seconds. Then it went out again.
"That was...!" Bedivere exclaimed.
"...Signal light. Some kind of device." The King of Knights replied: "Such regular lights turning on and off are definitely controlled by the system."
People then became quiet and continued to wait for the light to light up again. After about half a minute, the faint red light flashed again. It still lasted for three seconds before going out.
"Is it a distress signal?... No, the brightness of the distress signal cannot be so low, and it will flash more frequently." The King of Knights analyzed: "It should be a warning light that the power of some kind of equipment is about to run out."
"It's from a life-support device?!" Bedivere said in shock.
"No. Vivian's life-support device has its own long-term independent power supply, and the power can last for several weeks." Arthur replied: "It's definitely not that the power of the life-support device has been exhausted. Then... maybe it's where they are."
It's some device in the medical room. I don't know. There's no point in researching this now... Bediwell, can you replay the light scene just now and slow down the playback time so that we can see it more clearly?"
"...I'll give it a try." The werewolf youth actually didn't know if he could do this, but he still tried to command the artifact in his hand to do it.
As a result, another holographic image screen popped up next to the original screen, and began to reflect the red flashing scene just now, and played it in slow motion, extending the short three-second scene to tens of seconds, and playing it back continuously.
.
"If there is light -" Arthur leaned over and looked carefully: "it can illuminate the surrounding environment. There must be some clues. Look carefully."
Everyone began to stare at the picture illuminated by the red light, trying to find any clues. However, the red light was actually very weak, and in the darkness of this turbid ocean current, the things that could be illuminated were extremely limited.
Everyone stared with bloodshot eyes coming from the corners, but they still couldn't see clearly what was in the darkness. For dozens of seconds, there was nothing but a hazy halo of red light.
The situation remains hopeless... extremely hopeless.
However--
"Chirp~"
"Don't be naughty, Porky!" Hal whispered. But his pet fish had already slipped out and was flying around.
"Chirp!~" The white balloon fish swam happily in the air, not caring about the nervousness and despair of the people present.
"Yes, I'm sorry, Pochi is too naughty." Hal apologized as he came over to catch his pet fish.
"No, wait, let it fly!" The Knight King said: "What does it want to tell us!"
Sure enough, the little carp moved closer to the red light playback screen and rubbed around the lower right corner of the screen, seemingly discovering something.
Everyone also focused their attention on that position.
Very vaguely, but definitely there. A red shadow moved there!
Rather than being a red shadow, it is better to say that it is turned red by the red light. The body of the thing is either white, or has strong reflective ability on the surface. And the thing is indeed moving!
If people didn't look carefully, they would think it was some impurities or bubbles in the deep sea. But after looking carefully, they found that the little thing was swimming back and forth, which was not something that inanimate bubbles could do.
!
"Make it... magnify it?" Phileos asked, "Is there a way to see it more clearly?"
"I'll give it a try," Bedivere replied.
If this is a picture recorded by an instrument such as a camera, this resolution is now the limit.
However, the Yingqi Orb is an artifact that can manipulate the law of cause and effect. The image it reflects is a projection of an actual object, not an image captured by an optical capture device. The projection of an object that originally existed in the world can be manipulated in any way.
.It is naturally possible to enlarge the picture without loss.
Bedivere tried to locate the little thing in the red light and enlarged its image. Then another picture was projected and displayed next to it. The short moment when the little thing appeared in the red light was even more fascinating.
It's frozen, as if its time has been frozen.
It was... a fish, or some kind of mollusc. It had an extremely streamlined shape, and its body could even be said to be flat. However, its fins were very long and had a unique shape, like the wings of a bird.
"……This is?"
"Sea slug, also known as Sea Angel, is a mollusk that lives in the deep sea." The King of Knights said, "Well done, Pochi. You have done a great job."
"Chirp~!" The little fish spun around in the air happily.
Bedivere asked in confusion: "Why would such a thing appear in Vivian's ship..."
"When the [Silver Shadow] crashed, the hull was already damaged. The medical room where Vivian and Paramedes were...may have cracked when it crashed and was no longer sealed. Then.
Various deep-sea creatures slipped in from the cracked hull to explore." King Arthur analyzed: "Yes. It's because of the light. Deep-sea creatures have phototaxis, and they are probably attracted by the light."
"It's very reasonable." Bediville said: "But...what's the use of this?"
It's just a small fish attracted by the light.
"There are also many kinds of sea angels." King Arthur came closer to the scene and observed the little fish carefully. "The shape of the fins of this little thing is so special. Maybe it is a species that only lives in a few specific trenches in the Mediterranean. It seems to be called
...[Winged Angel] A special species? Knowing this information is already a huge gain. We can find marine biologists to determine the habitat of this species of Sea Angel, thereby narrowing the search scope."
An insignificant little detail, but it brings huge changes to the situation.
"Don't worry." The Knight King turned to the three Leopard Man brothers and said, "With this, we will definitely find your parents. We will definitely get them back, I promise."