After the sun went out, the remaining faint light hung high in the sky. The faint light could not illuminate the sea, but made the whole world appear darker and more terrifying.
The White Oak sails into these dark depths
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The lights on the boat had been turned on, and the combined light of oil lamps and electric lighting spread out, illuminating a small area of the sea nearby. The fine waves undulated in the weak light, and seemed to have a sticky and ominous texture.
The condition of the White Oak was not bad. Lawrence held the rudder and responded to the voice in his head: Except for the nervousness of the sailors, there was no problem on the ship, but the surroundings around us had fallen into darkness, and we had lost peace and harmony. The communication with other ships on the channel and the navigation have also failed, and now only darkness can be seen from the stargazing room.
Duncan's voice echoed directly in his mind: Can you contact the nearest Cold Harbor to you? You should have just left that city-state not long ago.
No, Lawrence looked back at the communication station not far away and saw that all the lights on the machine were red and all communications were cut off. The priest tried to use psychic resonance to contact the cathedral in Cold Harbor, but received no response. , and the psychic resonance with Purander can barely be maintained.
There is nothing wrong with Pulande, and Hanshuang is also fine. The current situation is that except for the three city-states of Hanshuang, Pulande and Qingfeng Port, all city-states have been unable to contact each other. It feels like, They all disappeared after the sun went out.
Listening to Duncan's description, Lawrence's expression gradually became tense, and he swallowed hard, as if he did not dare to continue to think about it.
Then he lowered his head and glanced at the instrument panel next to the steering wheel, quickly confirming various parameters.
We are sailing at full speed in the direction of Puland. This is a very busy route. Theoretically, we should see a transit port soon, which is an affiliated island of the city-state of Lensa. We will confirm the situation there and Report to you as soon as possible.
Lawrence was talking so quickly in his mind, but before he could finish, a sudden sound of rapid footsteps interrupted what he wanted to say later.
A crew member ran into the bridge in panic: "Ship, boat, boat!" Come and take a look! The sailor discovered something incredible!
Exception 077?
Lawrence looked calm for a moment, then turned to look at the first mate aside,
Gus, you take the helm and I'll go check out the situation!
First mate Gus immediately stepped forward: Yes, the boat!
Lawrence quickly left the bridge, hurried through the stairs and corridors under the leadership of the crew member, and came to the deck at the stern of the White Oak. As soon as he arrived here, he saw the
A thin figure was busy at the edge of the stern deck.
Abnormality 077. This weird living mummy was busy working on something beside a huge iron bucket. It kept mumbling while it was busy. Only when Lawrence stepped forward did he hear clearly what the mummy kept mumbling: It's over, it's over. It's over, we're done this time, no one can leave, no one can go back, the whole world is over, I might as well sleep to death.
This guy is full of negative energy as always.
Lawrence didn't want to hear Anomaly 077 continue talking, so he immediately stepped forward and interrupted the guy loudly: What are you doing?
The mummy suddenly became excited, as if waking up from a dream, and quickly nodded and bowed: Chuan Chang! Chuanchang, you are here...
Oh, okay, it will be settled once the boat is here...
Enough, enough, Lawrence waved his hand and asked again,
What are you doing?
You have to look at this, you have to look at this. Zhi said hurriedly, and then ran to the iron bucket and stirred it twice with a large iron tongs. There was a sound of grease sticking inside.
Lawrence then discovered that the iron bucket was filled with oil, and the abnormal 077 was using iron tongs to hold a piece of rag and stir it in the bucket of oil. Then the mummy took out the rag that had been soaked in oil, and then He took out a lighter from an unknown crew member and lit the ball of cloth.
Under Lawrence's frowning gaze, Anomaly 077 threw the burning rag into the sea with great force. The fireball fell on the sea and quickly drifted behind the White Oak with the waves.
Anomaly 077 babbled: This is how sailors used to roughly estimate the speed of the ship. This was how they all did it before your fancy and fancy machines were invented.
Not very accurate, but useful.
I know, I've learned about this, Lawrence interrupted, but what exactly do you want me to see?
The sailor waved his hands vigorously and pointed into the distance: "Keep looking, we are almost there. You look at the fire drifting into the distance."
Lawrence frowned and turned to stare at the flame floating on the sea. It was drifting quickly behind the White Oak. This was natural, because the White Oak was sailing forward at full speed, so this phenomenon was nothing. Weirdness.
Until the flame suddenly stopped in the distance?
Lawrence's eyes froze for a moment. The ball of fire, which in theory should have continued to float into the distance until it was finally swallowed by the waves or exceeded the limit of the naked eye, stopped in the distance.
A rough estimate is that that location is only a few hundred meters away from the White Oak.
Lawrence stared in that direction, looking at the flame parked hundreds of meters away from the tail of the White Oak. It was as if the flame was following the White Oak at constant speed, until after a long time, the flame Finally it gradually weakened and extinguished at the edge of the dark water.
The sailor used iron tongs to pick up a rag, covered it with grease, lit it and threw it into the water. The second time, the fire ball entered the water, floated back quickly, and then stopped at the same distance. Anomaly 077 was finally thrown away. With the iron pliers in his hand, he turned to look at Lawrence, with a sad expression on his skinny and terrifying face: Chuanchang, do you think... how can we explain this matter scientifically?
This time, Lawrence didn't make fun of it like usual.
Abnormal, he was obsessed with explaining things scientifically. He just stood quietly on the edge of the deck. After an unknown amount of time, he said as if talking to himself: Did you see it?
Anomaly 077 next to him was stunned when he heard this: Huh? Who are you talking to?
Lawrence did not answer, but Duncan's deep and majestic voice came from his mind: I saw it, and by sharing your vision, I saw it somewhat clearly.
What do you think of this phenomenon? Lawrence asked sincerely, the laws of physics are becoming unfamiliar, it is most likely due to chaos in the space field, or it may be a deeper reason. In short, after the sun goes out, the Infinite Sea is changing rapidly - and the White Oak and its surroundings A small area is still normal.
Lawrence thought for a while and then spoke hesitantly: This is your power at work, maybe, but I also need some time to understand the reason.
Listening to the voice in his head and looking at the dark and chaotic sea in the distance, Lawrence fell into deep thought.
However, at this moment, a strange low sound that seemed to come from the sky and echoed throughout the world suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
It was a weird, slow buzzing sound, like a giant beast panting with difficulty, or some unimaginably huge device slowly starting up. It sounded faint and distant, but it also seemed to be filled with energy. The whole world echoes in everyone's ears.
Lawrence raised his head in astonishment and looked at the extinguished sun. The double rune rings around the sun were flickering in and out, and as the rune rings flashed, the dark sphere at the center of Vision 001 gradually emerged. Wisps of light.
The wisps of light were weak and red at first, like bloodshot threads, but then they began to spread to the entire sphere and quickly became brighter...
Huge luminous geometry floats on the sea, its uniform release
The sunlight shines on the Qingfeng Port not far away and the Brilliant Star docked near the floating dock... On the highest scientific research platform of the Brilliant Star, Lucretina is staring closely at the large-scale ship in front of her. Round crystal lens.
There was a light blue shimmer floating around the crystal lens, and in the center of the lens were groups of undulating, alternating light and dark colored clockwork dolls, Luni, standing near Lucretia, using her Adjusting the dazzling observation equipment with precise and dexterous hands, he reported to his mistress: From just now, there have been these weird signals in the sunlight released by the luminous geometric objects. They are invisible to the naked eye, but can be detected by the ship. The observation lens captures and presents this kind of light and dark and constantly undulating ripples.
Lucretia raised her head and looked towards the front of the room. This scientific research platform was closed, but there was a special window at the end of the room. The sunlight from the luminous geometry was introduced into the room through the window, and then passed through a series of complex lenses. The installation is processed, eventually broken down into spectral images, and projected onto a specific viewing device, which she designed and built herself.
This was a large-scale device she had built specifically to study the luminous geometric object. Now that it was working, Lucretia looked away and looked at the recording instrument on the table next to her that was constantly spitting out paper tapes.
The paper tape recorded the spectral changes captured by the lens system, and the jumping black lines showed a clear periodicity.
These light signals are regular... She said softly, yes, and the puppet Luni nodded. Each set of signals is sent with a period of twelve seconds. After repeating three times, there is an interval of thirteen seconds. Then it appears again and it is sent by the stone ball. from?
It is impossible to be sure that there is truth near the stone ball. The people in the academy are monitoring it, but they have not found any changes in the ball itself. These light signals are more like coming directly from the luminous area around the ball out of thin air.
In the middle of speaking, the doll Rooney paused suddenly...!
Mistress, the light signal has stopped.
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Lucretia looked at the crystal lens in front of her eyes in astonishment.
Those alternating between light and dark,
The color has disappeared.
She was stunned for a moment, and then, as if she suddenly thought of something, her figure suddenly disintegrated, turning into colorful pieces of paper flying in all directions, and then spiraled out of the window.
The colorful pieces of paper were flying over the deck and quickly re-condensed into shape. Lucretia stood on the upper deck of the Brilliant Star, squinting her eyes and looking up to the sky. Through the pale golden sunlight that diffused on the sea, she saw There is an extremely bright luminous object.
High in the sky, the sun lights up again.
