At that last moment, a sharp cold light appeared in the boundless depths of nothingness and chaos, and the flood of broken information almost drowned the tiny flame that penetrated the "sample".
In a slight trance, Duncan heard Shirley next to him exclaiming: "Be careful!"
The dazed consciousness and the real world overlapped again, and Duncan instinctively took half a step back. The next second, he saw a sword tip shining with silver light appearing in front of him.
The tip of the sword stopped only ten centimeters from the tip of his nose, and was still slowly extending forward.
"Aggression!" Ted Leal, who had been watching the containment sample closely, reacted instantly. He whispered, and then he quickly patted the big book in his hand, and a faint light shone from the page. It diffuses from the center to the outside, covering the surface of the sample in an instant, and quickly condenses and thickens, turning into layers of barriers.
At the same time, Duncan also withdrew the flames that penetrated the sample. At the same time, he quickly regained consciousness and turned his eyes to the "sample" in front of him again.
On the containment platform, the solidified iron-gray metal mass suddenly deformed just now. Part of its "shell" bulged in an instant and condensed into a sword-like shape.
But the "sharp sword" that suddenly condensed did not stab anyone. It was only halfway out, and then seemed to be grabbed by a huge force. It is still slowly extending outward bit by bit. This scene Rather than saying it was "stabbed" out... it was more like a sword being gradually "discharged" from the sample.
Lucretia didn't know when a small "baton" appeared in her hand. She quickly took two steps forward and pointed the baton directly at Ted Leal while he was using magic to control the sample. She cut the middle part of the "long sword", but just when she was about to further destroy the structure, Duncan suddenly stopped her: "Wait a minute."
Lucretia abruptly stopped the spell she was about to activate, and turned to look at her father with some confusion. Ted Leal, who was about to take the next step, and Nina, who was about to get fired up, also hurriedly stopped. He came down and cast a doubtful look.
Duncan waved his hands to them, and then carefully avoided the blade that was still slowly extending outward. He came to the side of the iron-gray "living metal" and stared closely at its "shell".
It has not really "activated". Only the outwardly extending blade has changed. The rest of the sample is still in the same stagnant and solidified state as before.
The chaotic and broken information is still swirling in his mind, as if a person's memory has been completely torn into pieces and mixed randomly, and then "poured" in front of his eyes. Duncan sorted through those broken memories over and over again, trying to reassemble them. form useful information.
He saw many things - the ominous "crimson", the scars across the sky, the warriors setting off, the fallen travel companions one by one, a world that was gradually distorted and decaying, a meaningless journey, huge confusion, anger , fear, the ensuing death and peace, and the various bizarre images that constantly emerge in the midst of insanity.
Duncan suspected that if other ordinary people saw these things-even if they only saw a small part of them, they would be completely contaminated by some dangerous knowledge carried in those messages.
But these polluting "knowledges" were just chaotic fragments to him. Through sorting and recalling them again and again, he had begun to gradually combine them into continuous memories.
Then he raised his head and looked at the long sword that had extended more than half of the way outward. After a slight hesitation, he stretched out his fingers and touched its surface.
The touch of cold, hard metal came from my fingertips.
Duncan slowly closed his eyes. He could feel that when he touched the sword, the chaotic and fragmented memory fragments in his mind became clearer and more coherent. Although it was still incomplete, it was enough to make him feel better. He understood everything that had happened.
He opened his eyes and looked at the last fragment left of that distant and ancient world, and at the last counterattack of the unknown warrior against the doomsday - he gently pinched the fragment and felt it Pass the connection to yourself and then slowly pull it out.
The flames gave the long sword that failed to fly out of the sky a little extra strength, and it was finally completely separated from the living metal.
The workmanship is excellent, the blade is slender, the hilt is wrapped with fine linen, and the hand guard is inlaid with bright crystals whose purpose and material are unknown. Now, it has spanned a long time and has arrived in its original and "correct" posture. This... the deep sea era.
Including Ted Leal, everyone in the room widened their eyes and looked at the scene in front of them in astonishment. Lucretia finally couldn't help but said: "Dad, what is this?"
Duncan lowered his head and looked at the nameless sword in his hand. After thinking for a long time, he slowly said, "This is the weapon that was planned to fight the end of the world."
"Fight the end of the world?" Shirley's eyes widened instantly, "With a sword? Is this the kind of artifact in legendary stories that can split the sea? The kind blessed by the four gods?"
Duncan shook his head: "It is just a sword - their best sword. It is very sharp, but even if it is used to the extreme, it can only be used to kill larger beasts or armed humans... ...This is the limit of what they can do.”
Lucretia and Ted Leal looked at each other, unable to understand for a moment, while Nina vaguely understood and immediately asked: "What did you see?"
Duncan was still sorting out the messy and incomplete memories in his mind, but after a brief thought, he still broke the silence: "Just some fragments, things that happened a long, long time ago..."
He described what he saw—in the most understandable way possible.
He said it unhappily because there were too many incomplete fragments and too much information that even he himself could not understand. He had to find a way to complete the incoherent parts, or to find a way to explain some of the inconsistencies. It is a concept that is difficult for Na and others to understand.
It was his first attempt to explain to people in this world what a "planet" was - after talking to Alice last time, he finally decided to try this.
But explaining an unfamiliar concept requires ten more basic knowledge points, and each unfamiliar knowledge point requires more knowledge to supplement, and there are countless of them that are completely counter-intuitive and counter-intuitive to people in this world. Things, even if all of these are explained clearly, no one can imagine and reorganize them in their mind.
Ted Leal and Lucretia were struggling to understand, and the questions they kept throwing out continued to prolong the explanation. Finally, Duncan realized that if he wanted to explain all the basic concepts, he might not be able to explain them clearly. It requires at least half a year of full-time teaching.
Therefore, he can only pass many things over, or use metaphors to temporarily fill in the gaps in knowledge and concepts.
In the end, despite his many efforts, it was clear that Nina and others could only understand part of it, but at least this time they generally understood what happened.
Shirley was still immersed in the shock of a long "story", Nina was still thinking about those weird words that Duncan mentioned just now, and the two scholars present... Lucretia and Tai De Lille's face was as sinking as water, and he had obviously thought of a lot.
"The end of the world..." Ted Leal whispered to himself, "If what you're seeing really points to an apocalypse, then when it happens...
"Before the Great Annihilation," Duncan confirmed the other party's unspoken question, and then raised the sword in his hand, "The 'black wall' that has been standing in front of historians for a long time has now opened a gap. This sword... ...Perhaps it is the first relic that can be confirmed and passed from before the time point of the Great Annihilation to the present Deep Sea Age'."
"A historic moment...just happened." Ted Leal sighed with a complex expression. Faced with the news that could shake the entire academic world, he only felt that his mind was in chaos. Suddenly The countless pieces of information that emerged from time to time were impacting the knowledge system he had established over a long period of time, and even impacting his understanding of the world, so much so that he couldn't help but pray to Rahm in his heart, and imposed mental protection and protection on himself. psychological hints to prevent oneself from
sanity is damaged.
Lucretia suddenly raised her head after thinking silently for a long time and looked into Duncan's eyes: "You just mentioned a lot of weird concepts. Are those the things you mentioned before that are difficult to explain to me?"
"It's just a small part of it, a very, very small part," Duncan whispered. "I should have told you this sooner."
Lucretia just shook her head slightly. She neither complained nor asked why her father was willing to explain those things to her now - her father must have his reasons for doing this. When he was willing to talk, It will come naturally.
She was just a little curious as to why her father knew these incredible things.
Did that knowledge... come from the subspace?
On the other side, Ted Leal suddenly realized a problem after thinking for a while.
"According to what you've seen, under the influence of that 'red light', the world was swallowed up by lava, the earth was torn apart, and everyone died... Then how did today's deep sea age begin? ?」
He raised his hand to gesture and slashed down with his palm, imitating a fault.
"This is incoherent, Captain Duncan - after the destruction of that world and before the beginning of the Deep Sea Age, there should be a process of change. The world you see is different from any race, location, or race in the Deep Sea Age today. Even legends cannot match it..."
"Indeed, it cannot be matched." Duncan nodded slightly. His eyes fell on the "sample" on the platform. After a long time, he finally said a guess he had long ago, "So .....That world did not pass down many things like the world of humans, elves, and Sen'jin. What we see in front of us is all that remains of that world."
"'That world'..." Ted Leal and Lucretia looked at each other for a moment. At this moment, they finally understood what Duncan meant.
In Duncan's mind, the "moon" of his hometown finally appeared in front of him again.
What emerged with it was the words Alice once said to herself with a smile -
"Captain, is this a brainteaser?"...
The expression on Duncan's face changed slightly, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, finally turning into a smile that neither Nina nor Lucretia could understand.
"Yeah, this is really a brain teaser..."
He whispered in a voice only he could hear.
