In the morning light, Vision 001, locked by the double rune ring, was rising little by little from the distant horizon, and in the gradually diffuse glow, the huge sail ghost ship was floating on the endless calm sea, gradually being plated with a layer of light in the early morning.

At the end of the distant sea, in the depths of the morning mist, the silhouette of the frost city-state can be vaguely seen—the trauma of the city-state and the joys and sorrows of countless people have turned into a haze in the fog at this distance, as if dissolved in the sun.

Duncan sat quietly on the edge of the bow deck, with his rod set up beside him, watching the line reflect the sunlight in the morning glow, occasionally looking up at the direction of the frosty city-state in the distance.

At this time, most of the city was still quiet, and he didn't have to pay much attention to the incarnation in the city-state, and he could enjoy the comfort of the ship in a rare and comfortable way.

Aye the pigeon walked up and down on the large wooden barrel beside him, and on the lid of the barrel was a pile of fries that had been brought to the ship from the Frost City-State - unlike Purand's fries, the Frost Man would add some special spices to the french fries to give them a salty aroma, and Aye was visibly pleased with this, occasionally glancing up at his fishing master, or at the distant sea, and the rest of the time he was munching on his food.

On Duncan's other side, on another shorter barrel, Shirley was lying on her stomach and writing a book, her expression sad as if she was facing a mortal enemy.

Dog lay quietly beside Shirley, paws holding a copy of Modern Geometry, while the deck was littered with scratch paper with marks and figures.

Feeling this moment of tranquility, Duncan couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, and the gloom accumulated in his heart for many days also dissipated little by little.

But apparently not everyone on the scene is enjoying this "tranquility".

"Why can Nina sleep in the cabin...... I have to get up early in the morning to catch up on my homework here......" Shirley couldn't help muttering, her expression was bitter and she could squeeze out the water, "I knew that I could only do my homework when I went back to the boat, so I might as well continue to be in the city, so I can go out shopping occasionally......"

"Frost doesn't have much to do right now, and life in that city isn't going to be much more comfortable for the foreseeable next few years," Duncan said lightly, "besides, don't complain about your homework, who let your homework get eaten by wild dogs, you said it yourself." ”

Shirley raised her head aggrievedly: "Then why doesn't Nina have to make it up?" ”

"Everyone knows that she must have finished writing, and when Morris gives her a comprehensive set of papers, she can test her self-study during this time," Duncan glanced at Shirley, "Nina is different from you, she doesn't need to be rushed." ”

Shirley shrunk her neck: "That...... Is there a possibility that I have actually written......"

Duncan's face was expressionless: "How do you spell the plural form of 'pebble'?" ”

"I haven't memorized this ...... yet"

"This is the content of the second page of your previous assignment, and you haven't finished two pages."

Shirley was stunned for a moment, and then the girl let out a long sigh, lowered her head and continued to wrestle with her spelling homework.

Duncan smiled and shook his head, and then his eyes involuntarily fell to the dog, who was putting the book aside for the time being, and using his paw to hold a pencil and scratch the auxiliary line on the scratch paper on the deck.

Duncan's gaze made the dog's soul tremble suddenly, and the dog's head trembled subconsciously, and the auxiliary line was crooked.

"Ship...... Captain? Ah Gou raised his head nervously, trying to avoid Duncan's gaze and not daring to really turn his head away, the dog's head kept shaking.

Duncan stretched out his hand and touched the ugly skeletal head of Ah Dog, his expression was a little subtle, and it took several seconds before he couldn't help but speak: "Is your learning progress a little too fast?" How do I think you'll be able to keep up with Morris in a little while? ”

"Huh? I don't feel it," Ah Gou was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and the red light in the hollow hole in his eyes flickered and dimmed, as if he was in a daze, "I feel that these things are quite interesting...... Is there anything wrong with learning fast? ”

Duncan thought for a moment, smiled and shook his head: "Forget it, there's no problem, it's always good to learn more, so that you and Shirley are not illiterate on average." ”

The dog let out a confused "oh", and Duncan exhaled slightly, and looked back at the fishing rod, which was still silent.

Didn't catch a single fish in the morning.

"A big war is tossing, and I'm afraid that the surrounding waters won't be able to catch fish in a short time," he sighed regretfully, and slowly packed up his fishing things, "The movement is too big, and even the heirs of the deep sea don't want to approach this place......

When Shirley heard this, she couldn't help but raise her head: "Then are we going to leave here?" When are you going to pick up Mr. Morris and Sister Vanna from the city as well? ”

Duncan stopped packing up his fishing rod and turned his head to look at Shirley, "Did I say that the frost thing is completely over?" ”

"Huh?" Shirley was a little confused, "Isn't it all done?" And you recommended Mr. Tirion to City Hall, and I thought you were going to leave the rest of the matter to him. ”

"Sure, I'm going to leave all the troubles in this city to him - but there's something that the Sea Mist Fleet can't solve," Duncan continued to pack up, casually saying, "I'll have to deal with those things myself, and until that's done, the Lost Home better stay away from here." ”

Shirley still didn't react: "What the Sea Mist Fleet can't solve?" That's ......"

Duncan lowered his eyelids and glanced at her lightly, "Where did the Mirror Frost come from?" ”

Shirley thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "Yes...... The cultists summoned from the depths of the sea? ”

"Almost, summoned from the deep sea - Mirror Frost is a 'product', a transformed thing, and everything we destroy in the process, including the sacrificial ground in the depths of Mirror Frost, is actually only a 'summon', since there is a summon, then there is a summon source."

Shirley finally reacted, and a look of surprise gradually appeared in her eyes.

"You mean...... What's still on the bottom of the sea?! ”

"If my judgment is correct, everything near the sea, whether it is the fakes or the mirror city-state itself, is essentially just a spread and projection of power, like a huge plant that keeps growing from the bottom up, in the fierce battle that the frost has just ended, we have only eliminated the canopy of the runaway plant overgrowth, but its roots are still there," Duncan said with a calm expression, "Don't forget, the Frost Queen threw several submersibles into the sea before she barely touched the body of that thing—that power, In the deep sea there are 'entities'. ”

Shirley finally couldn't sit still, she almost jumped up: "Huh? Wouldn't that be a dive into the depths of the ocean to fight that thing? Otherwise, wouldn't it be a mirror image soon?! ”

"Soon? Not really," Duncan smiled and shook his head, "it's not as serious as you think, and even if it was still there, it must have been badly damaged by now, and I've almost burned out the spread of it, and the rest ...... After losing the ritual support of those cultists, most of them are in a state of slumber or dormancy, and even if they are really left alone, it may take another half a century before problems arise again. ”

With that, he suddenly stopped and reached out to the air.

"You're right, Agatha?"

A faint green flame burned in Duncan's fingertips, and quickly jumped and spread through the air, forming a whirlpool curtain, and in the midst of that burning curtain, the blind goddess in a black dress and blindfold was standing there in a prayerful posture, hands clasped in front of her chest.

Shirley and Dog watched this scene dumbfounded.

"Yes, that's what we're worried about," Agatha looked up, her slightly magnetic voice sounding ethereal, "and all who know the truth about the Abyss Project will be so worried - we've only eliminated the 'product' that appears on the surface of the sea, but we have no power to destroy the 'essence' that may still be dormant in the depths. ”

"We can't put it aside for another fifty years and then wait for the next crisis to repeat the Frost War," Duncan said, "and I don't mind helping every time, but there are always many unnecessary casualties in the war." ”

“…… Now in the frost, I'm afraid I don't have the strength to make that kind of submersible anymore," Agatha said after a moment of silence, "It's not just the submersible itself, but also the other equipment, data, personnel, and material resources needed to dive...... None of this can be taken out by a frost that is waiting to be rebuilt. ”

"Then prepare as soon as possible, and let your town hall think of a way," Duncan said lightly, "If it really doesn't work, prepare an iron coffin that can explode in the deep sea, and put a corpse in it, I can use this medium to go to the bottom of the sea to see the situation—although the power that the temporary avatar can carry is limited, as long as a stable passage is established, I should be able to spread the flames to the bottom of the sea." ”

(The time to push the book is ~ "Bright Barrier", the author can wrestle the panda, the following is the author's own book push language:

Transcendent awakening, the edifice will fall.

Flesh and blood are weak, how can they soar?

The story begins with the receipt of a ruler that carries the truth. ）

(End of chapter)