In three hours, the sun will rise from the distant sea level, and the relatively safe and stable daylight will replace the unsettling night - if the sun really rises normally.
Duncan glanced at the mechanical clock hanging not far away, the hands of which were ticking slowly.
"Are you going to wait for sunrise?" The goat-headed man's voice suddenly came, "There are still three hours left.
"… Waiting for three hours is less interesting than sitting here looking at a basically pale sea chart. Duncan shook his head, stood up and stretched his shoulders, then slowly walked towards the bedroom. "I'll go back and rest for a while. If I'm not out before sunrise, you can call me directly.
"We are happy to help."
Duncan nodded, pushed the door open and returned to the bedroom. He threw the piece of paper with the mysterious numbers on the table and walked towards the bed not far away.
His body basically doesn't need much rest, but every once in a while, he still takes a short nap before dawn, not to relieve any fatigue, but simply to "get up and greet the sunrise."
This allowed him to maintain a sense of being "alive" on the Lost Homeland, and prevent him from gradually losing his humanity on this spirit-like ship. Although he didn't know if there were any hidden dangers in this regard, after feeling that the state of the Lost Homeland was not as stable as he had imagined, he had been consciously maintaining the habit of "maintaining a human lifestyle on the ship."
Duncan just lay down and closed his eyes, listening to the whispers of the wind and waves beside him, feeling the constant swaying of the camera beneath him, and controlling himself to relax little by little.
…
As the distance got closer, Lucrecia and Luni were able to observe more details of this giant.
In the captain's bedroom of the Brilliant Star, which was decorated in a feminine style, Lucrecia, who was wearing a silk nightgown, suddenly sat up from the bed.
As the speed of the Brilliant Star increased, the huge golden light floating between the mist and the sea surface finally appeared in Lucrecia's eyes more and more turbidly.
When Lucrecia saw the light, she didn't react at first, but after only two or three seconds, her eyes suddenly fixed, and then she suddenly looked up at the mechanical clock next to her.
Luni responded slowly; "Supplies are sufficient, your order has been conveyed."
The doll was made of pink and blue fabrics, with a horizontal scar on its face and a blood-like scar under its jagged mouth. When Lucrecia stood up, the rabbit doll moved slightly, then turned its head slightly, and stared at its mistress with its button-studded eyes. A big boy's voice came from Mu Hua's body: "Mistress, I thought you fell asleep successfully."
However, in the last second, the expected tragic crash did not happen - the bird flew directly back into the slightly vertical cliff.
And at that moment, a ray of golden light suddenly came in from the gap in the beautiful curtains and entered the field of vision of the "Sea Witch".
Lucrecia stared at that direction, then took a deep breath, and her body suddenly turned into a pile of flying colored paper pieces. The colored paper pieces were blown out of the window, flew across the deck, passed through the stairs, and flew into the cockpit on the lower middle level.
After a while, out of the corner of Lucrecia's eye, you saw the bird fly out from another direction, and it looked intact and damaged.
That's not when the sun rises!
"It seems to be translucent?" The doll Luni was curious and stood behind the wide viewing window. "It looks like... a piece of glowing colored glass?"
Even the clockwork puppet Luni gradually opened her eyes. She couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "Oh my God... Mistress, what is this
What is also presented is its increasingly huge true scale.
"It is daybreak now," Lucrecia said slowly, walking slowly towards the window. "Where are you now?"
The toy sailors were in a state of confusion for a while, then they gathered their things and reorganized their formation like a familiar person.
The bunny doll, who had just finished making the bed, noticed the man's movements and came bouncing over: "Madam, it looks like it's getting light inside!"
In the cockpit, the clockwork puppet Luni, dressed in a maid's outfit, is steering the ship. You immediately notice your mistress approaching, and when the colored pieces of paper fly in and circle, you let go of the steering wheel. A second later, Lucrecia's figure has not yet emerged from the colored paper, and she has reached out to take over the rudder.
Lucrecia sat behind the dressing table listlessly, letting the dolls toss and turn beside her, while she fought against the fatigue and stress brought about by a sleepless night and wild thoughts, and at the same time she was thinking about things that had nothing to do with the Lost Homeland. After a long while, she took a deep breath and forced her mind to become clear again.
Lucrecia nodded, and soon after, the Brilliant Star fully woke up under the captain's command.
A large group of toy soldiers ran out from the drawer, first quickly lined up and called the roll, then ran to the side to pick up the comb, hand mirror, water cup, and toothbrush, lined up beautifully and flexibly and ran to under Lucrecia or under the back of the seat in front of her, completing the morning wash and massage for the hostess.
Lucrecia took the wine glass and drank it all, but still stood up. "No need, lying down will only make me more irritated... Let's clean up.
"... No, it seems that it is just transparent and beautiful..." Lucrecia shook her head. She blinked and stared at the back, as if she saw something inconsistent with the edge of the huge luminous geometric body. At this moment, a big white dot suddenly flew out from the mist in the distance and retreated into your field of vision.
Under Lucrecia's personal control, the entire ship presented a coexistence of magic and machinery, a mixture of ugly elegance and terrifying beauty!
A large number of clockwork sailors, dolls and ceramic soldiers rushed to their respective work stations, and the special paddle wheel structures on both sides of the hull began to accelerate. This engine device that seemed to be behind the times gradually released power that exceeded that of modern propeller engines, which rapidly increased the speed of the entire ship. In the front half of the hull, this ghostly "original hull" became more illusory and vague, and white hair-like stripes gradually spread from the stern to the surrounding sea. From a distance, it seemed as if a white tail wave extended in front of the Brilliant Star.
A huge and simple golden geometric body floated quietly under the sea, emitting a stern and breathtaking light golden glow all over. Its height was almost eight times higher than the lowest flagpole of the Brilliant Star, and its two sides extended out like city walls. Its lower part was slightly vertical inward, like a terrifying cliff, and there were no unnecessary trivial protrusions on its surface. Every part looked natural.
"We are still retreating according to the route planned last night," said the rabbit doll Ermei, "and we have not yet approached the direction where the 'little guy' that was observed before fell!
Lucrecia did not speak, but just stared behind her, staring at the huge golden shadow that gradually emerged from the mist and did not look like a large mountain.
"Yes, mistress."
There was a thin, hazy fog floating on the sea surface in the window, which was the most common scenery in the border area. Deep in this thin, hazy fog, a very small, vaguely diffused pale golden light was floating quietly under the sea surface. For the time being, it was impossible to judge whether it was not far away from the Brilliant Star.
This is a seabird. Even in the vast ocean, even in the border full of strange phenomena, there is still no such thing.
The moment the rabbit doll finished speaking, Lucrecia Ermei pulled open the thick curtains and then pushed open the window that was not reinforced with fine metal mesh.
She stood up suddenly.
On the contrary, it is precisely because they have simple wisdom like humans that those "wild animals live better in the strange border waters than these cowardly and weak explorers.
Her hair was a little messy, and her expression showed a bit of fatigue and irritability. When she stood up, she was holding a huge rabbit doll that was less than half a person's height, with a funny shape and a hint of weirdness.
"My lady, I was just about to send someone to call you," Luni said as she stepped aside, "when suddenly this golden light appeared from the fog.
Judging from the direction, it should not be the "falling object" you are tracking."
"Two hours before sunrise," the rabbit doll said as it jumped from the mistress's arms to the ground. It hopped to the cabinet next to it, opened the cabinet door with its seemingly soft plush hands, took out the captain's collection of fine wine, poured a large glass, and handed it to Lucrecia, "If you can't get some sleep - this will help you calm down.
At the same time, Luxusia snapped her fingers, and the lights in the room came on. She exhaled slowly, dragged her feet to the dressing table, reached out and knocked on a drawer on the mirror with her fingernails. The drawer opened in response.
A huge, glowing object floating on the sea.
There is still an hour until sunrise
"Increase to full speed, everyone on standby, and prepare the stern for entering and exiting the spirit world at any time." Lucrecia said slowly, "Are there sufficient reserves of spiritual dust and witch oil
Lucrecia glanced at the clock beside her and said in a premeditated tone, "I only slept for a few dozen minutes before I was awakened by a strange dream... What time is it now?"
The rabbit doll with a little boy's voice answered crisply, then took the wine glass handed to it by the hostess and put it away. Then it jumped to the floor and made the bed, appearing to be very familiar with the process.
It was so small that from a single angle it was almost possible to tell it was a wheel, and so majestic and complete that it hardly seemed like something a human could have built.
A toy sailor carved out of wood jumped in from outside. The sailor was wearing a classic naval uniform and holding a large sword in his hand. He first bowed to Lucrecia, then stood on top of the drawer, waving his command sword and issuing sharp commands.
Lucrecia's eyes were drawn to the seabird. She noticed that the poor creature seemed to be confused by the golden light on the sea, and in panic it rushed straight towards the "mountain" emitting a faint light.
Luni also saw this scene, and the clockwork puppet muttered in surprise: "Is this an illusion
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