Lukka looked up and saw Daniel's unkempt blonde head poking in through the doorway. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He was carrying a lantern in his hand, and his upper body was normal, but it turned into a smoke-like shadow from the waist down.

No wonder you didn't hear footsteps, Lukka thought.

"Captain, you, what are you doing on the ship in the middle of the night?" said Daniel, who stopped in front of him.

"It's me. He replied, "You look like this, you might scare a few people to death!"

"Oh," Daniel transforms into a physical body all over, "it's a little faster than walking." ”

"What are you doing here?" asked Lukka rhetorically.

"I can't sleep well on the shore, alas, in fact, I haven't slept since I died, and I never feel sleepy, do you think this is a ghost disease, Captain?" Daniel put down the lantern and sat down on the ground.

"You're all ghosts, what's wrong with you?" Lukka said helplessly.

"Yes, you know, as long as there is wind and grass on this ship, I will know it immediately. Ten minutes ago, I was losing sleep, when I suddenly felt that someone had come on the boat and had come to the bottom of the cabin! I thought, "We don't have anyone on board, what if we get into a thief?" Daniel said.

"If you can't get in, you also have my defense circle on this ship. Luca said.

"Am I just worried, but what are you doing here, Captain?" asked Daniel.

"It's a long story, there's something I want to ask you," Lukka said, gesturing to the ground in front of him, "why is there a stone on the floor here?"

"Well, you're asking the right question. Daniel laughed, his golden beard reaching up to the sky.

He shook his head and said:

"This thing is called a 'bilge stone'. ”

"You know, this ship is the flagship of my original national fleet, and the capital. However, our country did not start out living entirely at sea. My ancestor, Russell Morgan, was the one who charted the Sunset Islands, and it was only later in his reign that the country became a maritime kingdom. ”

"But when you first arrive at sea, there are always people who are homesick. We would bring a stone from our old home and set it on the deck at the bottom of the ship, a stone that would remind us where we came from, even if my ancestors returned to land less and less often. ”

"Later, as time went on, our home on the shore was in dilapidation, and in the end, there was not even a complete house, and even the location of the original island was gradually forgotten. I don't know when we never returned to land, but held a National Day ceremony every year, and at the same time agreed on the location of the next year's celebration. ”

But these stones have been passed down from generation to generation. At sea, boats are often changed, but every time we change boats, we unload the original stones and load them onto new ships. ”

"For hundreds of years, our fleet has been expanding, and there are only so many stones that have been handed down, so we have to cut a large slate and cut it again when a new ship comes in. By my time, most of the ship's bilge stones were the size of fingers. ”

"The piece you're touching now hasn't been cut. Because this ship is the capital of the ship song kingdom, the capital cannot be divided. ”

Lukka nodded, "That's right." ”

The doubts in his mind were not solved. Although it sounds like an interesting legend, what Daniel said doesn't sound directly related to what Selva wants to tell him.

"Captain, you haven't told me why you came here in the middle of the night. Daniel's curiosity is also small.

Lukka was about to speak, but after a second thought, he paused, took out his pocket watch and looked at it.

"It's morning, why don't we go back first, tell everyone to get up and talk together, and save me from going back and say it again." With that, he stood up and walked out.

Ten minutes later, before entering the gate of the station, Ollie's voice was heard from afar: "Lukka is gone, you actually said you don't know?!"

Lukka pushed open the door and saw that Ollie was grabbing the servant in charge of guarding the gate of the station, and said reluctantly, "How could you not know? Isn't your job to watch the people coming and going in this station? Were you lazy last night?"

The servant replied aggrievedly: "No, yesterday the lord said that the contact person from the black market may come, so we don't have to watch, go back and sleep well, so as not to affect the transaction!"

"I don't know if the people on the black market have come or not, but the lord himself has lost it! don't you get sold to the black market, right?" Gray added fuel to the fire.

Lukka took a few steps closer to him and said, "Tell me that I'm going to sell you to the black market! ”

Ollie looked back at Luca and finally breathed a sigh of relief and let go of the minion's clothes.

"Tell everyone to get up and go to the study and assemble. There was a lot going on last night, and I need to talk to you about it. Lukka tapped her on the shoulder twice, causing Gray to scrunch and cough.

"Do you have a throat problem?" Daniel frowned and waved his hand like a mosquito, "then stay away and don't infect us." ”

"What kind of infection are you afraid of as a dead man......" Gray muttered as he went to get the others up.

Not long after, everyone gathered in the study, and Lukka recounted everything that had happened that night, including Daniel's explanation of the bilge stone.

After saying that, everyone was silent, as if it took some time to digest so much information, and even Thea didn't make any sarcasm.

Instead of bothering the others to think, Lukka whispered to Shut Up and asked, "Do you have any impression of that 'Time Synchronization'?"

Shut up, tilted his head and thought for a moment, and said, "There is indeed such a spell. ”

Lukka held its body and said eagerly, "Which book is there?"

It's not that Shut Up doesn't mean that it can't be relayed directly, it's just that for Luca, the records written on paper always make him even more impressive, and the descriptions of magic come out in a parrot's harsh voice, which is often a headache.

In desperation, he shut up and turned back into a magic book in front of everyone, which made Mores and the others, who witnessed this scene for the first time, even more speechless.

Lukka opened the book with "Encyclopedia of Magic Spells" written on the cover, and followed the phonetic index to find the page that said Time Synchrony.

Shut up and asked impatiently: "Did you find it, hurry up!"

Its mouth was in the position of the cover, and now it was pressed against the table, and its voice was a little muffled.