Alice left.
Duncan doesn't know how much this silly doll understands, but at least one thing is that she is now aware of the dangers of the "key", and she probably won't think about winding it up until she understands the true nature of that thing. thing.
The setting sun outside the window has gradually set, and the two brilliant rune rings are gradually approaching the distant horizon. The diffuse golden-red light smudges the entire sea, then passes through the window and spills into the room.
Duncan sat at the desk next to the window, quietly staring at the brass key, watching the sunlight covering its key handle like an infinity symbol. The fine patterns seemed to come alive in the sunlight, appearing with the light and shadow. Liquid texture.
After a brief moment of thought and hesitation, Duncan took a deep breath and reached out to hold the key.
A tiny bit of green fire appeared on the fingertips, and gradually penetrated into the key.
He originally did not intend to use "spiritual fire" to study the key, because the power of the flame would very likely destroy the extraordinary nature of the key. Even if it was not destroyed, it might affect its original nature, but now he no longer cares about that. too much.
He had to figure out what Leigh Nora left in the key. Under this premise, he could only be more careful and try to avoid the power of the spiritual fire from burning the thing too violently, while carefully sensing the flames. Any little bit of information that comes through, and be prepared to extinguish the flame as soon as it feels wrong.
The flame was like water, flowing smoothly between the fingers and the key, and the green light and shadow seeped into the latter's brass surface little by little. In Duncan's perception, his flame... seemed to be sinking into a vast and chaotic world. Inexplicable place.
He slowly closed his eyes, and then used the spreading flame as his vision, and began to observe the "world" behind the key.
Fog, endless fog flows like dust and smoke, undulating in the field of vision, sometimes condensing, sometimes dispersing. Wherever the flames can see, there is only chaos and nothingness.
Duncan "observed" the thick fog in front of him in confusion, but he only saw the same and uniform chaos in all directions.
He knew that this was the "reality" of the "inside" of the key. He was doing the same thing as when he was exploring the puppet's coffin. However, the situation here was completely different from the inside of the coffin.
After staying quietly in the endless fog for a while, Duncan felt that the flames were still spreading steadily and that the key itself showed no signs of damage or destruction. He was slightly relieved and then tentatively moved in a certain direction. own vision.
But as soon as he moved forward, he felt the texture of a foreign object in his palm.
key?
Duncan immediately thought of the brass key he held in his hand in the real world, and then he realized another thing - he actually had a "body" in this thick fog?
He still clearly remembered that the last time he checked the puppet's coffin, he only had one "field of vision"!
Why this change? Is it because the properties of the two extraordinary items are different? Or is it because of some unknown change in his own power?
Duncan's doubts rose sharply, and at the same time he subconsciously raised his hand and looked at the "foreign object" in his hand.
A rectangular object with a black shell and an indistinguishable texture whether it was metal or plastic lay quietly in the palm of his hand.
Duncan was stunned.
That thing is only about half a hand long and two fingers wide. Its smooth and smooth surface is obviously some kind of artificial creation. Under its dark shell, you can vaguely see some fine lines that are either decorative lines or internal structures. , and at one end of it, you can see a metal port with a complex structure, with a series of neatly arranged protruding structures inside the port.
It looks like... a "readable device" that can be connected to some kind of machine and used to store data or act as a launcher.
Duncan held the black rectangle in front of his eyes and carefully looked at every detail of it with inexplicable astonishment.
He thought of a USB flash drive or a removable hard drive from "another world", but the interface specifications of this thing were obviously not what he was familiar with.
After observing for a long time, another thing suddenly came to his mind -
In Pulande, in the branch of history that was burned by fire, he saw that the "sons of the sun" who invaded the city-state all held a big black umbrella in their hands. Inside the big black umbrella was a complex structure and seemingly advanced and sophisticated machinery. Even,, electronic structure......
Duncan recalled the black umbrella he had seen in Purland, and then carefully observed the rectangular device in his hand. Finally, he confirmed that the style of the black umbrella of Sun Heirs and the strange "device" in front of him seemed to be different. They seemed to be different. It is the product of two technical routes or design styles, but they have something in common -
Precise, advanced, and complex, from the appearance, it seems to be far beyond the technological level of today's world.
At least, it's not like something that the city-states of today's Infinite Sea can and have made.
And this kind of thing seems to have a unique name in this world:
Desecrate the archetype.
Agou once described them this way:
"There are some histories that have been "locked" in the long history of this world, and the things that have been born in these forbidden histories are blasphemous prototypes. Usually, their existence itself is harmful to the creatures in the real world.
This "black box" that looks like some kind of data device...is it a "blasphemous prototype"?
Duncan frowned slightly and looked at the small device in his hand over and over again, while thinking about how it was related to the brass key he was holding in his hand in the real world. At this moment, a strange, low voice The roar suddenly came from a very high and far place, interrupting his thinking.
Duncan raised his head in surprise and looked in the direction from which the voice came.
The next second, he saw a bright light suddenly appear in the endless chaotic fog that enveloped the entire space. The light came from far away, like a violently falling meteor, and then formed a ball in the fog. A blazing fireball!
It whizzed past Duncan's head and gradually lowered its altitude as it flew. The fog was washed away, and something huge was outlined in the dazzling fire ball. Duncan saw an entity propelled by the flames -
It looks like three spindles tied together. At the end of each spindle, you can see the huge stream of light spurting out from the propeller. On the outer shell of the spindle, you can see thick smoke billowing, and the fire is overflowing in a shocking explosion. The explosion and tearing are happening continuously, and during this period, fragments are constantly falling off from the explosion point, splashing into the thick fog like rain, and turning into meteors during the fall, burning up in the sky...
Without a reference object, Duncan could not judge the size of the "trimaran" that was speeding across the sky, but he could feel the strong shock and pressure brought by the huge figure wrapped in flames and thick smoke. It may be larger than a city-state, or even larger than many city-states combined. It may have traveled a long journey, passing by the stars on a certain astronomical scale. It slid and fell in this misty illusion, As Duncan watched in shock, the fall ended with an earth-shattering explosion——
With an explosion that could almost shake the entire space and time, the "giant ship ark" composed of three spindles disintegrated.
It split into three parts and turned into three burning fireballs. Three dazzling trajectories were wrapped in thick smoke and scattered deep in the thick fog.
It was very far, a distance that could not be reached by foot power alone.
And Duncan suspected that even if he could teleport thousands of miles, he might not be able to reach the place where the three pieces of debris fell.
Because this fog... records nothing more than an event that happened in the distant past.
A slight heat came from the palm of his hand. Duncan lowered his head and saw a brass key lying quietly in his hand. The handle like an infinity symbol at the end of the brass key was emitting a faint light, and the fine lines were faintly The light slowly moves around and outlines into recognizable symbols:
"New Hope"
"boom!"
An illusory roar suddenly exploded in his mind, and the fog around Duncan suddenly dissipated into the darkness. Then, the light and shadow changed, and the familiar bedroom scene returned to his field of vision again.
Deng affirmed and calmed down, feeling that his senses were rapidly recovering. He lowered his head again and saw that the brass key was still lying quietly in his hand.
The key no longer generates heat or shines, and the fine lines on the key handle no longer wander. The characters that appeared in front of my eyes... are like a bubble that disappears when I wake up from a dream.
But Duncan still clearly remembers everything he saw and the name - New Hope.
He frowned, quickly stood up, took the notebook on the desk, wrote the words "New Hope" on it, and quickly and roughly recorded the scenes he saw in the "phantom", and then wrote all these things down. After coming down, he breathed a sigh of relief and resumed his original sitting position.
In this world, it is unlikely that anything could affect his memory and thinking, but the necessary caution cannot be avoided.
After finishing the record, Duncan fell into deep thought.
He didn't know the cause and effect of the scene he saw. He didn't know what the connection or "transformation" process was between the black data device and the brass key in the "phantom". He didn't know the falling Ark giant ship. Where he is now, but he believes that... everything he saw was not some deranged hallucination.
That was a scene that really happened. It was the real history that happened in this world in the distant past, before the city-state era even began.
There was a huge spaceship that crashed into this world and exploded during the crash, scattering its wreckage across the world.
Duncan exhaled softly.
He put the key away close to his body, raised his head, and looked out the window at Vision 001, which had almost completely fallen into the sea.
"Now...it's more fun."
