Green fire rose up in the captain's cabin, and the skeleton bird covered in spiritual fire flew out of the fire. The rotating flames formed a whirlpool-like door behind it. After the door opened, Vanna, Alice and Morris He stepped into the cabin from it.
As soon as the dizziness caused by the change of light and shadow subsided, they turned to the navigation table not far away and bowed to Duncan, who was sitting behind the table studying the chart: "Captain."
"Find a place to sit down and rest for a while. You may fall if you move around after teleportation." Duncan said without raising his head, and then looked at the chart again. After confirming a few points, he breathed a sigh of relief, straightened up and looked at Morris, "Have you brought the book?"
"Yes," Morris nodded quickly, then took out the "Book of Blasphemy" with a dark cover and no title from his arms, stood up and handed it to Duncan, "Here it is."
Duncan reached out to pick up the book, and Vanna on the side couldn't help but say: "Now that Morris, Alice, and I have returned to the city-state on the ship, only your avatar is left... Is that okay?"
"There will be no more big troubles in the city, and Tirian will become the new governor of Frost. With him and Agatha working together to maintain order in the city, there is nothing to worry about." Duncan said with a smile, "For you The things in the Frost City-State have been completed, and if there is any follow-up finishing work, my incarnation can handle it." m.
As he spoke, Duncan took the thick black book and sat back behind the navigation table. He placed it next to the chart, and the expression on his face became serious.
This is the "Book of Blasphemy" that Morris and Vanna got from the little leader of the Annihilation Cult. It records content about the Holy Lord Netherworld, and seems to mention some secrets before the creation of the gods and the Great Annihilation.
Judging from the appearance alone, there is nothing special about this book except that it has a dark cover and no title, and there is no extraordinary aura coming out of it.
Vanna, Maurice and Alice had already come over curiously, but except for the heartless Alice, the other two kept a certain safe distance and did not directly look at the book.
The goat-headed wood carving on the edge of the navigation table also creaked and turned its neck, turning its head curiously to the big book in front of Duncan. After reading for a long time, it finally couldn't help but ask: "What kind of book is this? Is it worth it?" So solemn?"
"Theoretically, it is the missionary manuscript of the Annihilation Cult." Duncan said casually, "It seems to record things related to the creation of the gods. Although it is the crazy theory of those cultists, there is part of the content that makes me very happy. care."
A record of the creation of the world by the gods? "The goat head was stunned for a moment, and then his tone changed subtly, "The 'Profound Holy Lord Genesis' of those crazy people? With all due respect, in my opinion, their theory has no reference - if any drunken playwright can fabricate a history of the birth of time without rigorous evidence and reasoning, then It can all explain the foundation of our world, and there is even an absurd play that claims that our world is stewed in a cauldron..."
"But Morris was mentally contaminated while reading this book, and even attracted the attention of the four gods." Duncan raised his eyelids slowly, "You should know what this means."
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After an unknown amount of time, it suppressed a sentence: "The closer we are to the truth, the further we are from reason..."
"Yes, the first rule of the rules of anomalies and anomalies - the closer you are to the truth, the farther you are from reason." Morris on the side nodded in a serious tone, "The more likely it is that an object will cause serious mental pollution, the more... It is possible that they recorded the true state of the world, so at some point scholars even judged the credibility of their contents based on how mentally damaged they felt after reading certain scrolls.”
The goat head shook his head in place, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't help but said: "But huge distortion and pure extraordinary power can also cause mental pollution. In this case, the facts will point to the opposite direction - the more rational The more damaged it is, the more deceived it is.”
Having said this, it paused and added: "To be honest, Maurice, there are many unlucky people in your industry who died from this, and the group of people who didn't die all mistakenly thought that they were crazy when they reached the critical point. I know the truth, and now most of it is listed on the wanted notices of heretics in major churches - of course, now that you are on this ship, if you really want to be serious, you are also on the wanted notices..."
This goat-headed painting has a strange style, but after getting along with it for so long, it is obvious that it still has some sincerity towards the members on the ship. Its words are not pleasant, but the concern in it is not fake at all.
Of course Morris knew this, so he didn't mind. Instead, he said to the goat head sincerely: "Thank you for your concern. You are right. This world is very good at fooling mortals. Curiosity often leads us in the opposite direction. , so now we need the captain to take final control.”
"Come here, Captain..." The goat head was startled and then noticed that Duncan's hand had been placed on the cover of the big black book, and he seemed to be about to open it, "Huh? Are you sure you want to read it?"
"What else?" Duncan raised his head, "I asked Morris to bring this thing on board to use it as a base for you, right?"
The goat head was stunned, and his head swayed slightly from side to side: "Actually, it's not impossible..."
Duncan didn't pay attention to this guy's obvious trick. He was already prepared, and took a deep breath to gradually concentrate.
Gloomy green flames rose from the body, turning the body into a spirit form in an instant. After confirming that he had completed the transformation, Duncan opened the first page of the big black book.
At first glance, he saw that there were no words on the page.
At the second glance, he saw boundless darkness suddenly gathering from all directions.
In an instant, the light and shadow changed, and there was no time to react - just like when he used the spiritual compass for the first time, Duncan's consciousness suddenly "fell" into boundless darkness."
He raised his head in surprise and saw that all the familiar things in the captain's cabin had disappeared. Goat Head, Morris and others were also missing. Even the big black book he was reading a second ago was nowhere to be found. Went somewhere.
He stood in the darkness, frowning and thinking for a few seconds. Something wasn't right—it wasn't the same process Morris was describing.
After opening it myself, the book changed completely differently from when Morris opened it! And at this moment, something suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye.
Zhou Ming looked subconsciously and saw the tiny white light and shadow floating in the air not far away from him. He concentrated on distinguishing it again and finally discovered... that it was words.
When the text became clear, after he opened the book, a completely different change occurred than when Morris opened the book. "
Zhou Ming was suddenly stunned.
He stood there motionless, quietly staring at the line of words floating in the air, and for a moment he even forgot to breathe and think.
After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly remembered something.
He remembered that he had seen similar places, that he had visited darkness like this, and had seen words in the darkness - a
"It was in the subspace, on the dilapidated Homeless Ship sailing in the subspace. When I opened the door leading to the captain's cabin, there was a dark place, and words emerged in the darkness, describing..."
Pale words quickly appeared in mid-air, but soon faded away.
Zhou Ming suddenly stopped. He controlled himself and tried to stop himself from thinking. It was very difficult, but after filling his mind with a lot of messy numbers, words and meaningless scenery memories, the things that emerged in the darkness before his eyes The text in actually disappears.
Then, he tried very hard to control his thoughts while calming his pounding heart.
what is happening? What is this darkness? What are these words emerging from the darkness?
They seem to be describing themselves...are they really describing themselves? What does this description mean?
Is this some kind of mind-reading process? Or is it some kind of soul-level "mapping" phenomenon? The last time I saw a similar dark space was on the dilapidated Homeless Ship in the subspace, but this time it was after opening the book. Why does that book have such "power"?
He couldn't help but have various thoughts emerge in his mind, and almost at the same time, new words appeared in the darkness.
But this time, the words were not describing himself, but a few words without beginning or end——
"Embodiment...transforming the real into reality..."
Zhou Ming frowned, subconsciously approached the new line of text, and stretched out his finger to try to touch it.
His fingers passed through the shadows, and there were only a few ripples in the darkness.
And in the trembling ripples, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be other words hidden behind those words!
He only hesitated for a second, then stretched out his hand and continued to fiddle with the handwriting that was like a reflection in the water, causing the ripples to expand, making the overlapping words reveal their true appearance, and making other information hidden deep in the darkness emerge. in one's own field of vision.
Suddenly, he saw a few intermittent lines of text emerging from the darkness. They were shaking, extending and moving downwards.
"The source of the message - Queen Leviathan - the situation... is not optimistic, and the critical state is accelerating..."
"The source of the message - the Lord of Fire - is there a new record?"
"Source of the message - Bartok - bad news...the node feedback is vague...it is suspected that the cluster controller has started to copy...or has completely lost control..."
"Source-LH-02-has relevant information."
"specific?"
"LH-02 - An individual carrying the characteristics of the cluster controller was observed approaching, suspected of having a mental mutation, and suspected of being able to communicate with me.
"The source of the message: Queen Leviathan - amazing information! Follow-up?"
"Sending source - LH-02 - no follow-up."
"The source of the message - Bartok -?"
"Sending source - LH-02 - the suspicious individual made a fool of himself and left." The transcoding has been serious recently, which makes us more motivated and updates faster. Please use your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thanks
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