The speed of the Brilliant Star gradually decreased, and finally stopped cautiously on the sea several hundred meters away from the shimmering translucent "cliff".
However, the distance of several hundred meters was so insignificant compared to the size of that behemoth. Visually, Lu Ni still felt that the Brilliant Star seemed to have been in front of the "cliff". The majestic geometry like a mountain came towards us with an almost crushing momentum. If an ordinary person were to stand here... he would probably feel suffocated.
"...It's so spectacular," the clockwork golem couldn't help but look up and sighed, "and it's very beautiful."
That thing is indeed spectacular and beautiful. If you ignore its weirdness, it can even be regarded as a magnificent spectacle, enough to inspire the greatest inspiration of a good artist in his life, or allow a poet to make countless poems for this spectacle. Psalms——
It is like a sharp-edged mountain peak carved from light golden clear amber, or an exceptionally regular geometric ice floe. It floats in the water with a dense mist of light, and the surrounding thin mist floats slowly around its surface. , outlining a dreamy atmosphere.
There are various signs that this thing is indeed like a "dream" - it has no entity. Although it does exist there, it seems to be just a huge shadow.
"Mistress," Luni couldn't help turning around, "What do you think this is?"
"...I don't know, I only know that it fell from the sky." Lucretia frankly admitted her ignorance. She recalled the scene when the Brilliant Star tracked this thing for the first time - just The day before yesterday, in the last few hours of daylight, the cruising Shining Star observed a huge and hazy luminous object suddenly falling from the sky, tearing through the clouds and disappearing into the depths of the border sea. From that time on, she and Her ship had been tracking this thing.
But apart from the obvious fact that he "fell from the sky", she knew nothing about this phantom alien visitor.
Lucretia carefully observed the bottom of the huge geometric body and confirmed another thing:
This thing is very light, very, very light. It floats on the sea, and the lower part only sinks slightly into the water. But just that little sign of sinking into the water shows that this thing that looks like a "phantom" is also Something with a bit of quality, rather than a mere shadow.
A little mass means it can be bound by real matter... With the power of the Brilliant Star, perhaps it can even be dragged away?
Can it be dragged back to the realm of the civilized world and a real professional team be organized to study it? The Explorers Society should be happy to help...
But if this is the theory, how should it be accomplished in practice? How do you drag a large, penetrable phantom? Or... is there an entity's core deep inside this luminous geometry, and that core structure is the source of its mass?
Lucretia was thinking rapidly in her mind, and Luni's voice sounded next to her: "Should we explore its inside?"
"Proceed with caution first." Lucrecia said, raising her hand and biting her finger. A drop of blood seeped out from her fingertip, and then slowly floated forward, and suddenly "bang" when she was halfway there. "There was a loud bang, turning into a puff of exaggerated smoke.
The smoke dissipated, and another "Lucrecia" appeared in the cab - but it was just a ghost-like phantom, wearing a pale and broken long dress, with a dull and sinister face, and a translucent texture all over her body, which was gloomy. The ground is floating in mid-air.
Lucretia nodded to the phantom, and the latter turned around without saying a word and flew towards the "mountain" hundreds of meters away.
Lu Ni watched this scene with some nervousness, watching the ghostly phantom quickly cross the misty sea, and disappear silently inside the "mountain".
Nothing happened.
"Mistress?" Luni turned back to look at her master, "What's in it?"
"Light and heat, very warm, but not hot, bright, but not dazzling... There is no wind or waves inside, and the sea below seems calmer than 'outside'," Lucretia carefully sensed the phantom clone's transmission The message came and he said slowly, "Now it seems that at least the shallow area of the mountain is safe. I am accelerating to move inside."
Luni nodded. Even though she was just a clockwork golem, she had a "soul" that was closer to a human being than any other crew member on the ship. At this moment, she couldn't help but feel nervous. She reached behind her and twisted her hand twice. The clockwork key used this method to relieve the slight vibrations caused by tension in various parts of the body. Then she waited for a long time before she suddenly saw the mistress's expression change.
Lucretia frowned slightly and looked up ahead.
"I'm at the deepest point," said the "sea witch," "and there's a core."
"Core? What kind?"
"It's a huge stone ball," Lucretia said with a weird expression, "or at least it's made of something that looks like stone. It's gray-white, with many regular grooves on the surface, about ten meters in diameter, suspended on the sea surface. Above..."
As she spoke, Lucretia frowned and concentrated, seeming to be giving some orders to the ghostly phantom that had entered the depths of the luminous geometry, and then continued: "It can be touched, it is an entity."
"It's an entity..." Luni was startled for a moment. Years of experience in getting along with her allowed her to quickly realize what the hostess meant. "Do you want... to drag it back?"
"The elf scholars in Breeze Port should be interested in this thing," Lucretia said calmly, "The lines on the surface of the stone ball have obvious patterns and imply a complex geometric structure. I guess... … People who are good at math should be able to see something from this.”
"Then how should we 'drag' this thing back?" Luni looked at her hostess with some surprise, "Can we use a rope or chain that is strong enough? There is a spare anchor rope on the ship, but it may not be long enough. ——The projection part of that luminous body is too large, and the distance from here to its core probably exceeds the limit of the anchor cable..."
Lucretia looked at the luminous "mountain" in silence, and after half a minute she seemed to have made up her mind: "Let's go in and pull it."
"...Are you serious?"
"I'm curious."
"...Okay, you're serious."
…
Duncan slept in the captain's quarters of the Lost Home and had a brief and bizarre dream.
This is incredible. His body doesn't even need sleep, let alone dreaming. In fact, since he came to this ship, he has never had a "dreaming" experience - that time in Pland. The body has had some messy and trivial dreams, but they have never been as clear and impressive as this brief strange dream.
In his dream, he saw shooting stars, meteors that suddenly appeared during the day.
He stood on the bow of the Lost Home, and there was a dead silence on the ship. He could neither hear the noise of Goat Head in his mind, nor the noise of Alice's daily fights with buckets and mops on the deck, or even the entire Infinity. The sea is also silent, with no waves or wind.
The whole world seemed to have fallen into dead silence, and in this silence, a huge luminous body fell from the sky - also silent.
The luminous objects fell one after another, falling on the calm surface of the boundless sea. They were obviously extremely huge falling objects, but they also did not cause any movement, just like a phantom falling on another phantom, and those luminous objects gradually It fell like rain, and eventually turned into a terrifying and weird meteor shower - countless light bodies gradually covered the entire sea surface, surrounding the Lost Home in a blaze of light.
However, the sky gradually dimmed as countless light bodies fell. At the end of the dream, the meteor shower gradually stopped, and the sky turned pitch black.
Duncan raised his head at the end of the dream, and saw only a dark red mottled hole in the sky, as if a fire had not been extinguished in the darkness, a terrifying hole, silently overlooking all things in the world like a dying eye.
Duncan opened his eyes suddenly, the deep impression left by the absurd dream still strongly remaining in his mind.
He was shocked that he could actually dream on the boat, and even more shocked by the strange scenes he saw in his dreams——
The silent world, the silent meteors, the dark and dead sky, and the terrifying hole overlooking the world like an eyeball... Why did he dream of such a weird scene? What does this dream mean? !
Duncan slowly calmed down, sat up from the bed, and rubbed his forehead irritably.
In this strange boundless sea, on the Lost Home, he couldn't believe that the dream was just a dream - there must be something that had an impact on him, or his "intuition" had a premonition that made him feel like he was there. I saw that scene in my dream.
He frowned slightly in irritable thinking.
Could it be related to the "World Countdown" that I just learned about? Is it related to the "truth" about the end of the world that the crazy "Captain Duncan" came into contact with a hundred years ago?
Is it because he suddenly learned this information and made an association, or is it because the remaining memory of this body suddenly became restless? Is his contact with Tirian and Lucretia related to this dream?
Duncan tapped his forehead lightly, and then reached out to the wine bottle on the cabinet next to him, preparing to use the power of alcohol to calm his mood, but as soon as he reached out, his eyes glanced at the wall clock on the wall not far away. The movement then stopped.
The hands on the wall clock stopped.
Still one minute before sunrise.
It was dark outside the window, and the glow of dawn could not be seen, but there was no cold brilliance brought by the creation of the world.
The flame of the oil lamp in the bedroom was the only "moving thing" that was still burning calmly, but the light it emitted was faintly pale, making the lighting in the entire room look a bit weird.
Duncan glanced over all of this calmly, taking in all the unusual phenomena.
Something is obviously wrong... Are you still in the dream?
He quickly ruled out this possibility - after regaining consciousness, he could still tell whether he was dreaming or not.
Duncan frowned and resisted the urge to open the window to take a look outside the ship. Instead, he stood up and walked towards the wooden door of the bedroom.
Go to the chart room first to see if Goat Head knows what's going on.
He pushed open the door to the chart room and looked at the navigation table with charts and goat heads.
The goat head isn't there.
(End of chapter)
