After the sun went out, the remaining faint light hung high in the sky. That faint light could not illuminate the sea, but instead made the whole world seem even darker and more terrifying.
The White Oak sailed into the depths of darkness.
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The lights on the boat have been turned on, and the glow of the oil lamps and electric lighting spreads out, illuminating a small area of the sea nearby. The tiny waves rise and fall in the faint light, and it seems as if they have a sticky and ominous texture.
The situation on the White Oak was fine. Lawrence held the rudder and responded to the voice in his mind: Apart from the sailors being a little nervous, there was nothing wrong on the ship. But we are surrounded by darkness and have lost contact with other ships on the route. In addition, the navigation has failed. Now all we can see is darkness in the observatory.
Duncan's voice echoed directly in his mind: Can you contact the nearest Cold Harbor? 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. The communication was completely cut off. The priest tried to use psychic resonance to contact the cathedral in Cold Harbor, but received no response. The psychic resonance with Pland could still be maintained.
There is no problem with Plande and Frost is also fine. The current situation is that except for the three city-states of Frost, Plande and Breeze Harbor, all other city-states have lost contact. It feels as if they all disappeared after the sun went out.
Listening to Captain Duncan's description, Lawrence's expression gradually tensed up and he swallowed hard, as if he dared not continue to associate it.
Then he looked down at the instrument panel next to the steering wheel and quickly confirmed the various parameters.
We are sailing at full speed towards Plande, which is a very busy route. Theoretically, we should see a transit port soon. It is a subsidiary island of the city-state of Lensa. We will confirm the situation there and report to you as soon as possible.
Lawrence said this quickly in his mind, but before he finished, a sudden sound of hurried footsteps interrupted what he wanted to say.
A crew member rushed into the bridge in a panic: "Ship, ship, ship! Come and have a look! The sailor has discovered something terrible!
Anomaly 077
Lawrence's expression straightened up instantly, and then he turned to look at the first mate beside him.
Gus, you take the helm, I'll go over and take a look at the situation!
First mate Gus immediately stepped forward: Yes, Captain!
Lawrence quickly left the bridge and, under the guidance of the crew member, hurriedly walked through the stairs and corridors and came to the deck at the rear of the White Oak. As soon as he arrived here, he saw that
A skinny figure was busy at the edge of the stern deck.
Anomaly 077. This strange living mummy was busy doing something beside a huge iron barrel and kept mumbling while doing it. Lawrence walked forward and heard clearly what the mummy was mumbling: It’s over, it’s over, we are done this time, no one can leave, no one can go back, the whole world is over, I might as well fall into a deep sleep.
This guy is as full of negative energy as ever.
Lawrence didn't want to hear Anomaly 077 continue talking, so he immediately took two steps forward and interrupted him loudly: What are you doing
The mummy suddenly shuddered, as if awakened from a dream, and quickly nodded and bowed: Chuan Chang! Chuan Chang, you are here...
Oh, good, now that the boat has arrived, everything will be settled...
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. The corpse said hurriedly, and then ran to the iron barrel and stirred it with a large iron tongs. There was a sound of grease sticking inside.
Only then did Lawrence realize that the iron barrel was full of oil, and the unusual 077 was stirring a piece of rag in the barrel of oil with pliers. Then the mummy took out the rag that was soaked in oil, and took out a lighter that he had asked from some crew member and lit the cloth.
Under Lawrence's frowning gaze, Anomaly 077 threw the burning rag into the sea with force. The fireball landed on the sea and quickly drifted to the back of the White Oak with the waves.
Anomaly 077 babbled: This is how sailors used to roughly estimate ship speed before your fancy machines were invented.
Not very accurate, but useful.
“I know, I’ve read about this,” Lawrence interrupted. “But what do you want me to see
The sailor waved his hands vigorously and pointed into the distance: Keep looking, we'll be there soon, look at the fire drifting away.
Lawrence frowned and turned to stare at the ball of fire floating on the sea. It was drifting rapidly behind the White Oak. This was natural because the White Oak was sailing at full speed, so there was nothing strange about this phenomenon.
Until the flame suddenly stopped in the distance
Lawrence's eyes froze instantly. The ball of fire, which theoretically should have continued to drift away until it was eventually swallowed by the waves or exceeded the limit of the naked eye, stopped in the distance.
A rough estimate shows that the location is only a few hundred meters away from the White Oak.
Lawrence stared at that direction, looking at the flame that was parked hundreds of meters away from the stern of the White Oak. It was as if the flame was sailing at a constant speed along with the White Oak. After a long time, the flame finally gradually weakened and went out at the edge of the dark sea.
The sailor used the tongs to pick up a piece of rag, soaked it with grease, and threw it into the water. The second time, the fireball entered the water, drifted backwards quickly, and then stopped at the same distance. Anomaly 077 finally threw away the tongs in his hand. He turned his head to look at Lawrence, and a sad expression seemed to be squeezed out on his skinny and scary face: Captain, how do you think... how can we use science to explain this matter
This time, Lawrence did not make fun of this person like he did in the past.
It was unusual that he was so persistent in explaining things with science. 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
Abnormal 077 next to him was stunned when he heard this: "Ah? Who are you talking to?"
Lawrence did not answer, but Duncan's low and majestic voice came from his mind: I saw it, and by sharing your vision, I saw it quite clearly.
What do you think of this phenomenon? Lawrence asked cautiously. The laws of physics are becoming strange. It is very likely that the space field is in chaos, or there may be deeper reasons. In short, after the sun goes out, the vast sea is changing rapidly - and the White Oak and a small area around it are still normal.
Lawrence thought for a moment and spoke hesitantly: Perhaps this is the effect of your power, but I also need some time to figure out the reason.
Listening to the voice in his mind 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 seemed to echo throughout the world suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
It was a strange, slow humming sound, like a giant beast gasping for breath, or some unimaginably large device slowly starting up. It sounded faint and distant, yet it seemed to fill the entire world and echo in everyone's ears.
Lawrence looked up in astonishment, looking at the extinguished sun. The double rune rings around the sun were flickering in and out, and along with the flickering of the rune rings, the dark sphere at the center of Vision 001 gradually began to emit wisps of glow.
The strands of light were faintly red at first, like bloodshot, but then they began to spread across the entire sphere and quickly became brighter...
A huge luminous geometric body floats on the sea, releasing its light evenly.
The rising sun illuminated the Breeze Harbor not far away, as well as the Brilliant Star, which was docked near the floating dock... On the highest research platform of the Brilliant Star, Lucreciana was staring at the large round crystal lens in front of her.
A faint blue light floated around the crystal lens, and in the center of the lens appeared a group of undulating, light and dark colored clockwork dolls. Luni stood near Lucrecia, adjusting the dazzling observation equipment with her precise and deft hands, while reporting to her mistress: From just now on, these strange signals have appeared in the sunlight released by the luminous geometric bodies. They are invisible to the naked eye but can be captured by the observation lenses on the ship, presenting this kind of light and dark, constantly undulating ripples.
Lucrecia raised her head and looked toward 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 geometric body was introduced into the room through the window, and then processed by a series of complex lens devices. It was finally split into a spectrum and projected onto a specific observation device. This entire set of equipment was designed and built by her personally.
This was a large device she had built specifically to study the luminous geometric body. Now, it was working. Lucrecia withdrew her gaze and looked at the recording device 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 clear and definite periodicity.
These light signals are regular... She whispered, "Yes," and the puppet Luni nodded. Each set of signals is sent every twelve seconds, repeated three times with an interval of thirteen seconds, and then appears again. Is it sent by the stone ball
It is impossible to confirm 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 sphere itself. These light signals are more like they are generated directly from the luminous area around the sphere.
The doll Luni suddenly paused in the middle of her speech...!
Mistress, the light signal has stopped
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Lucrecia looked at the crystal lens that was constantly rising and falling in front of her in astonishment.
Those 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 circling out of the window.
Colorful pieces of paper were flying above the deck and quickly re-condensed into shape. Lucrecia stood on the upper deck of the Brilliant Star, squinted her eyes, and looked up at the sky. Through the pale golden sunlight that permeated the sea, she saw an exceptionally bright light.
The sun was shining again as it was high in the sky.