The "nest" fell silent for a moment, and even the seemingly endless tremors among the stars suddenly calmed down. Lenora saw that the humanoid entity in front of her seemed to enter stagnation because of her words. It was not until a long time later that the stagnant starlight suddenly expanded and contracted again.
"Is there only one lantern? Is there anything else around the lantern? Where is it approximately?" Zhou Ming stared into the Frost Queen's eyes and asked quickly.
"There is only a lantern hanging on a broken wooden board, nothing else - they are floating in the thick fog," Lenora said immediately, "and the location... is right next to your 'palace', very close, almost next to it..."
She suddenly stopped talking here, as if she recalled more details, organized her words and continued: "The lantern is not very bright, and it shouldn't shine very far in the thick fog. But I saw it as soon as I arrived at this place. I controlled my 'drifting house' to approach it, and it took a long time to actually arrive here. It felt as if... the light of the lantern was not affected by distance or fog. As long as it was lit in this place, its light could be seen anywhere in the thick fog."
Listening to the other party's description, Zhou Ming couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and Lei Nora immediately added: "Of course, these are all my subjective guesses - you should know that many things here are... 'not quite right'. I think it's difficult for me to judge whether what I see or feel is true."
"I understand." Zhou Ming said in a low voice, and then he seemed to remember something, suddenly stood up and walked towards the desk not far away.
Lenora stayed on the sofa, motionless out of caution - in her eyes, the wriggling starlight entity suddenly extended to another direction, as if it had "moved" to a distance in a path and manner that was difficult to judge by reason, and then stayed there.
She didn't understand what the other person was doing.
Zhou Ming pulled out a piece of paper from the edge of the desk, picked up a pencil, and quickly drew on the paper - he drew a lantern with a classical shape and brass material, trying his best to restore the details of the lantern hanging in the captain's room of the Lost Hometown.
After a while, he returned to Lenora with the painting and showed her the picture on the paper: "Is this the lantern?"
The humanoid starlight entity spread out its limbs, and the countless eyes at the end of its limbs focused at one point, projecting an illusory projection in front of the eyeballs, which looked like a lantern.
Lenora tensed up instantly, because in most cases, the things that higher-dimensional beings casually showed to mortals could instantly kill those reckless peepers, even well-trained scholars - but soon, she found that she was not crazy.
Those focused eyeballs just revealed a gentle look, waiting for her reply in a friendly and patient manner - it seemed that she had completely "adapted" to the starlight.
"… Very similar," Lenoir calmed down and carefully observed the illusory image. "I can't remember the details, but it is at least 70% similar."
Hearing this answer, Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief and confirmed his guess.
It was the lantern left by "him" - during his final voyage in 1800, Duncan Abnomer arrived at this place and left a light like a "mark".
Thoughts were churning in his mind, and Zhou Ming did not speak for a long time. He fell into deep thought, and many vague associations gradually emerged.
The light in the fog... If we talk about it from a symbolic point of view, its meaning is not only "illumination", but more often its role is actually "guiding the way".
For a ship lost in the fog, the lights that penetrate the mist represent the correct direction - at least, the direction leading to safety and shelter.
My little house is located deep in the fog. It may be the border, or it may be a place farther away than the border. Here, the road to the world of order is hidden in chaos...
The lantern established a "link" here. In terms of location, it pointed to the Endless Sea and the Lost Homeland, and in terms of time... it pointed to the day when the Lost Homeland returned to the real world, and to the time when the Endless Sea was about to come to an end.
Zhou Ming was in deep thought, his eyes flickering slightly.
After experiencing many things, he has vaguely grasped many of the "deep laws" of this world, and the most important one is the amazing role of "information" in the operation of all things.
And obviously, the "captain" who once reached the end of the world also touched this realm - it seems that in the final voyage of the Lost Homeland, "he" knew many truths.
Zhou Ming turned around and stared quietly at the door of the apartment.
As he watched, the door seemed to open, and thick black fog swirled outside the door - on the other side of the fog was the Lost Homeland, the captain's room of the Lost Homeland, and the wall next to the "Gate of the Lost Homelanders".
It's the place where the lantern is hung.
It turned out that it was indeed hanging at his door and had been hanging there all the time.
Zhou Ming blinked, and the imagined scene disappeared from his mind. The door was still closed tightly, waiting for its owner to open it and return.
Lenora remained silent cautiously. She could not discern any human expression from the starlight, but she could feel that this being was thinking something very important. His thoughts created ripples in the chaos. Low and vague howls echoed in all directions. She recalled the training she had received since childhood, trying not to listen, think, or understand the voices echoing in her ears.
She must avoid having her mind "melted" into the other person's thinking activities and avoid becoming a fleeting thought of the other person.
Fortunately, this terrifying thought finally ended - the low roar around him gradually calmed down, and the starlight looked at him gently again.
"Sorry, I was a little distracted," Zhou Ming said politely, "Now tell me about your other adventures. I'm very interested in them."
Lenora heaved a sigh of relief immediately - compared to "listening" to the voice of this being, she found that it was indeed easier to "speak" herself.
"…After I left there, I couldn't control my 'drifting house' very well for the first period of time, so I drifted for a long time—in fact, I suspect that the time I experienced was much longer than you know, because I encountered many strange phenomena in the timeline…"
This time, Zhou Ming did not interrupt the narration of the "Frost Queen". He listened with patience and interest, while Lenora recounted the many incredible things that happened to her after she gained her freedom.
Frankly speaking, most of the experiences during the journey had no reference value for the problems Zhou Ming had to face and solve at the moment. Most of them were some bizarre scenery, or wonderful phenomena that could be seen in the spiritual world - but for Lenoira, they were all amazing journeys that she could never imagine or experience during her time as the ruler of the Frost City-State.
This "Her Majesty" became a traveler as she wished and witnessed countless landscapes during her long journey.
Then, Leigh Nora finally mentioned the last time she encountered "turbulence" and how she came to this thick fog.
"… I encountered turbulence after I left the warp. I was carefully passing through the upper reaches of the Deep Sea, you know, the 'dome' with the stagnant starry sky," she said as she recalled, "and then suddenly a shock erupted from the Deep Sea, as if it was specifically aimed at me, and 'pushed' me out. After that, I was out of control for a long time. I completely lost control of this 'drifting house', and when I finally managed to stop, I was already here."
Zhou Ming seemed to be thinking about something.
"... Could it be the Lord of the Deep?" He frowned and whispered in thought, "That's not right... There must be a reason..."
"Lord of the Deep?" When Le Nora heard the voice mumbling to itself, her eyes widened in astonishment. "You mean, the Lord of the Deep created that impact and consciously sent me here?"
"... It's just a rough guess," Zhou Ming shook his head. He knew there was no answer for now, so he didn't dwell on it any further. "Let's not talk about that for now. Let's talk about this... 'fog'. Do you know where this place is?"
Lenora fell silent after hearing this. Half a minute later, she nodded slightly with a complicated expression.
“I didn’t know at first, but after being in this fog for a while, I began to see some… ‘phantoms’, and knowledge appeared in my mind as if out of thin air,” she said softly. “This is the end of the world. I saw here… the shadow of the end of everything.”
"You should be thankful that you found this place under the guidance of that lamp and stopped outside my cabin," Zhou Ming said seriously, "Luckily you didn't continue to drift deeper into the thick fog - otherwise you probably would never come back."
Even the brave "Frost Queen" couldn't help but feel a little scared at this moment.
She realized that in the past period of time, she was like riding on a canoe that had lost power and was rushing towards the end of a rapids. At the moment before it was about to rush out of the rapids and fall into the abyss, it was fortunately stopped by the only "stone" in the rapids.
Although she was almost smashed to pieces by this "stone".
But after a few seconds of silence, she showed hesitation again, and finally couldn't help but mutter: "Actually... I was a little too aggressive..."
Zhou Ming was stunned when he heard this, and didn't react for a while: "Huh?"
"... After following the 'light' to your palace, I tried to communicate with this large 'entity', but you did not respond at the time - instead, a shadow rushed out of your 'palace'. The shadow was an indescribable mass, which hit my 'drifting house' and caused it to lose control again. I also rushed deeper into the fog, but fortunately, the loss of control was not serious this time..."
Zhou Ming's expression suddenly became a little subtle.
(End of this chapter)
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