In a laboratory deep aboard the Bright Star, Lucrecia completed a cursory examination of Taran Eyre.

With the cooperation of the Academy of Truth, it was not difficult to transfer the scholar to the ship, but it was obviously not so easy to figure out what happened to him, and it was the first time that even the well-informed "Witch of the Sea" with a reputation in the fields of occultism and curses had seen such a situation.

Taran El was apparently trapped in some kind of dream depth, but his trapped showed no "curse" reaction, and showed no signs of mental contamination.

Lucrecia lit the three candlesticks in the corner of the lab, sprinkled the incense burner in front of the candlesticks with the herbal powder she had prepared herself, and then she went to Taran El and arranged the hedron and bone fragments around them.

The clockwork doll "Luni" with a ceramic shell and the rabbit doll "Rabi" were helping out in the laboratory, and when they noticed the solemn look on the hostess's face, Luni couldn't help but speak: "The situation is bad? Is this elf in danger of his life? ”

"The situation is unknown—it's worse than the situation," Lucrecia said with a serious expression, "Taran El fell into a deep sleep after trying to observe the sun, and if there is a connection between the two events, it means that there will probably be more than one such slumber, and how many people looked up during the sun went out?" To what extent do you want to 'observe' this slumber? How many people have made a move as bold as this elven scholar? ”

She said this, slowly shaking her head.

"Taran El is bold in his actions, but there is more than one scholar as bold as him on the vast expanse of the sea."

"Is there anything else you need from us?" Rabi the rabbit doll jumped up from the side, raised her head and whispered.

"Next, I will try to connect into Taran El's dream and help him open the path back to the real world from the other side, but considering that the situation in this dream can be complicated, I want you to take care of the candlesticks in this room, and if I don't wake up after three hours, you can extinguish all the candles in order from highest to lowest, which can forcibly wake me up."

"Yes," Luni bowed her head, "three hours, high to low, I remember." ”

"The rabbi can dream with the hostess!" The doll rabbit jumped up, hugged Lucrecia's leg and said expectantly, "Rabi is a rabbit who dreams!" ”

"It's enough to have a nightmare," Lucrecia refused the rabbit doll's courtesy without hesitation, "I don't want such a scholar to die suddenly on my ship." ”

"Okay, okay, Rabbi knows~" The rabbit doll lowered its head, made a dejected sound, and walked to the corner of the room while muttering, and sat down on the floor with a "poof".

Lucrecia glanced at the doll and didn't continue to talk to the other party, but after making sure that all the ritual elements were ready, she sat down on a high-backed chair opposite Taran El and snapped her fingers.

The three candlesticks that burned quietly in the corner were instantly dyed with a layer of illusory veils, and all the utensils in the entire laboratory seemed to be plated with a layer of phantom by this layer of illusory and hazy light, and the "Witch of the Sea" slowly lowered her head, and the next second she had already entered a dream.

……

On the Lost Land, in the captain's cabin, Morris and Duncan were sitting at the sailing table, and on the wall not far behind them, Agatha's hazy and illusory figure appeared in the quaint and old oval mirror.

"Aye has flown over to confirm that the Big Island ahead of us is indeed Lightwind Harbor," Duncan said, "Now that the Lost is hiding in the depths of the Spirit Realm, we will contact Lucretia before landing on the island to confirm the current situation in the city-state." As for now...... We are still faced with the problem of the Lost Country moving out of thin air. ”

"Frankly, I don't have a clue," Morris clenched his pipe, his brow furrowed like a few rifts, "I've heard of all sorts of 'teleportation' events, some of them with specific anomalies, some of them with curse anomalies like 'Mariner' at work, but what happened to the Lost Land was clearly not the same as that...... At the moment, it appears that the 'sun goes out' is the most likely cause of the Lost Land's teleportation, but those of us on board were never aware of how and when this change occurred......"

"So I always felt that it wasn't the Lost Country that was in trouble, but the 'whole world' beyond the Lost Country," Duncan said in a deep voice, "and the news from Captain Lawrence hinted at this—when the sun went out, there was an incomprehensible change in the sea in a place 'out of sight.'" Tyrion's report illustrates this as well. ”

"Is there any further news from Mr. Tirian?" Agatha's voice suddenly sounded from the mirror, "Is there a response from Cold Harbor?" ”

“…… Yes, things are going in the weirdest direction," Duncan nodded, "Tirion's side has reconfirmed the city-states that had previously cut off contact, and judging by the responses from everywhere...... The other city-states, including Cold Harbor, were unaware of the fact that the sun was extinguished, or even that communication between them and Frost had been cut off. ”

Agatha's expression changed slightly.

She opened her mouth: "That is, ......"

"That is, they didn't go through the twelve hours that the sun went out," Duncan said slowly, "and it seemed to them that the world was always going on as it was, and that Frost, Prand, and Breezhaven were all right, and then suddenly Frost sent a whole bunch of inexplicable and tense messages about 'the sun went out' and 'communication was cut off'—and now tension was spreading between the city-states, and in Tyrion's words, 'they urgently needed to figure out which side was abnormal.'" ”

Maurice listened and pondered, then he slowly lowered his pipe: "Then it can be understood that after the sun went out, time stood still in the whole world for twelve hours, and the Lost Country and the three city-states were actually 'wrongly kept normal' during those twelve hours, as if we were in a nightmare where everyone slept peacefully, and we ...... I accidentally opened my eyes and saw the truth in the gap between time. ”

Duncan gave a thoughtful look.

It must be admitted that a scholar is a scholar, and although Morris could not explain the principle behind all this, he came up with a very revealing conjecture.

So can this conjecture be extended? Are there more strange changes in the world after the sun goes out, that no one has ever noticed? Even to make this speculation a little more extreme......

Is the sun really extinguished for the first time?

These speculations floated in everyone's minds, and the captain's room fell silent for a while, but at this moment, Duncan seemed to suddenly sense something, and frowned slightly puzzled: "Huh? ”

"Captain?" Agatha immediately asked, "Did you think of anything?" ”

“…… No, it's something else," Duncan waved his hand as he continued to perceive and listen, his eyes unfocused, or looking out into a place that wasn't in the room, "and there was a breath ......"

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Morris opposite.

"What is Heidi doing now?"

"Heidi?" Morris was stunned, not knowing why the captain suddenly mentioned this matter, "Heidi is staying in Plant, there should still be chaos over there because of the sun going out, and the town hall will probably call her to ...... Something is wrong with Heidi?! ”

The university scholar finally reacted, and his face suddenly became nervous.

"She shouldn't be in much danger, but there's something wrong with the talisman I left her," Duncan frowned, then waved his hand into the air, and as the dark green flames rose into the air, Aye's figure appeared in the air beside him, "I need a passage to the dream realm." ”

……

"In other words, you were actually 'healing' someone else, and then you came to my dream without knowing what's going on—and then you thought I was an intruder and poked me in the neck with that awl?"

The elven scholar who called himself "Taran Eyre" looked at the "golden cone" in Heidi's hand and said unhurriedly.

"Why do I think there's so much wrong with you?"

"Actually......" Heidi's face was full of embarrassment, if there was anything worse than accidentally injuring a patient with a golden cone and being found on the spot, it must be that she was not found on the spot, but it took a long time for the patient to suddenly react, and she analyzed this matter with such a serious attitude - this elven scholar's reaction was really out of the ordinary, Heidi had seen many strange patients over the years, but this type was really the first time she had seen it, "I also think something is wrong...... But what I said is true. ”

"What you say is true, um," Taran Al nodded, then asked, "What about the 'other patient' you said?" ”

Heidi immediately turned around and pointed in the direction she had come: "That building is her dream...... ......"

Her words gradually stopped, and her expression stiffened.

In the direction of her finger, among the lush towering trees and vines, a medical facility that was once as big as it was...... I don't know when it's gone.

"It's gone...... Heidi muttered to herself, turning her head slowly, "but it was really over there, a big ......"

"Miss Psychiatrist," Talan El interrupted Heidi's self-talk, and the elven scholar spread his hands with a helpless expression, "I can't trust you like this." ”

(End of chapter)