Lucrecia slipped off the deck for several meters - it happened so suddenly that Duncan didn't even realize what was going on.

It wasn't until the "sea witch" got up in a panic that he hurriedly let go of the piece of paper in his hand.

The colored piece of paper flew out with a "whoosh" and quickly sank into Lucrecia's hair, who was still standing a little sluggish, unable to make out any expression on his face.

She may have fallen a little dazed.

"Lucy ......" With the embarrassment of being able to pick a hole in the deck and a subtle apology, Duncan cautiously walked up to Miss Witch, who was still confused, "Are you alright?" ”

Lucrecia suddenly seemed to wake up from her stunned state, and then slowly turned her head, the expression on her face finally changed from dazed to shocked, she looked at Duncan with an incredible expression, and it took a long time to break the silence: "How did you do it?" ”

"Huh?" Duncan didn't react for a moment, "What how?" ”

"You caught ...... 'shadow'......" Lucrecia hesitated, as if trying to put together words to describe this overly abstract thing, and then she raised her arm again, starting from her fingertips, part of her arm quickly disintegrated into flying pieces of colored paper and flew around her, "Can you try again for me to see?" ”

Duncan reached out in confusion and grabbed a piece of colored paper.

In the next second, the flying colored paper suddenly "collapsed" and became Lucrecia's arm again, and the expression on the latter's face was startled again.

"It's incredible!" Miss Witch stared at Duncan with wide eyes, "Nothing like this has ever happened, can you tell me how this was done?" ”

Seeing that this cheap "daughter" seemed to have aroused enthusiasm as a researcher, Duncan had no idea what was going on, he frowned and glanced at the colored piece of paper in his hand, and looked puzzled: "Is this difficult?" It's just scraps of paper flying in the air......"

"They can't be caught, Daddy," Lucrecia spread her hands, "if the Wind of Phantoms can be interrupted by someone grabbing a piece of paper, how can I possibly use it as my most common means of diversion—these are phantoms, theoretically able to penetrate all obstacles......"

"I don't know that," Duncan shrugged, "I just saw these pieces of paper and was a little curious, and wanted to grab them, sorry...... Hurt from a fall? Where's the knock? ”

Lucrecia was slightly stunned.

She didn't seem to have heard anyone care about her in that tone in many, many years.

Ever since she became a powerful "witch of the sea", a cursed man feared by many, and the captain of a ghost ship, she has never heard such words again.

It made her feel a little awkward.

"I ...... It's okay," she shook her head strangely, trying to distract herself with thought as she tried to suppress the embarrassment in her heart, "You can catch the phantom...... Is that one of your strengths right now? What is its essence? Is it a deep understanding of the world? Or is it due to the influence of subspace? ”

Lucrecia was really lost in thought, and her instinct to explore the unknown made her seem to forget the embarrassment just now, and she continued to mutter, "...... Could it be that in the 'layer' of subspace, there is actually no difference between matter and phantom in the real world? Everything in the world is the same 'concept' in the face of subspace...... Is Claw Devens' theory correct? Everything is a 'concept' and forms a coherent projection in the subspace......"

Duncan listened to the witch lady muttering beside him, and finally couldn't help but interrupt her: "Lucy...... You can look into this matter at another time. ”

The "witch" woke up instantly, but her eyes widened and she looked at Duncan without blinking.

Duncan lowered his head and looked at the colored paper in his hand, and couldn't help but think in his mind.

He didn't expect that these gorgeous pieces of paper were such a special "thing", and looking at Lucrecia's reaction, his actions just now were obviously enough to be called "shocking".

He caught the Phantom himself—but Duncan knew he didn't have what it took to catch the Phantom.

He just didn't know that the pieces of paper were phantoms.

The thoughts in his head fluctuated, some things and conjectures came to mind, and some "things" appeared in Duncan's mind—fish.

After being silent for some reason, he suddenly spoke softly as if talking to himself: "Its essence...... Maybe it's 'I don't know'......"

Lucretia heard her father's sloquery, but she was confused: "What are you talking about?" Are you saying that you don't know the nature of this ability? ”

Duncan came back to his senses, and he opened his mouth, as if trying to explain something to the "daughter", but after a few hesitations, he shook his head.

"It's another story, but I don't know how to explain it to you - Lucy, let's talk about it later, we have something else to do now."

He turned his head and looked at the magnificent "wall of light" that had come to the bow of the Bright Star, exuding a sense of heavy oppression in a majestic manner.

"Take me to see the stone ball first."

Lucretia nodded, but instead of leaving, she still stood still, looking at her father with a tangled and complicated look.

Duncan frowned suspiciously, "Is there anything else?" ”

Lucrecia hesitated for a moment, then cautiously raised her finger and pointed, "You...... Can you give me that back first? ”

Duncan looked down and found that he was still holding the colored piece of paper that the other party had split when he was "doing the experiment" just now.

His face suddenly froze, and he apologized while letting go of his hand: "Eh, ahem, sorry." ”

The paper floated and quickly burrowed into Lucrecia's arm, recoloring a previously bleak place.

The "Witch of the Sea" looked at this scene with a subtle expression, then nodded to Duncan, turned into a large piece of colored paper and prepared to fly to the bridge - but she stopped again less than half a meter after flying out, her figure regrouped, and turned her head to look at Duncan uneasily: "Don't catch it this time......"

Duncan's face was embarrassed: "...... Of course. ”

Lucretia nodded again and turned away, but turned around uneasily: "If you are curious, we will do the experiment next time after we discuss it, really don't catch it." ”

Duncan stretched out his hands with a smile: "Definitely not, I'm not a child." ”

Lucretia sighed, but when she turned around, she hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed: "I'd better walk......"

Then the witch lady walked all the way to the bridge in the distance.

Duncan looked at the other party with a strange expression, and finally couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

Fortunately, the Master Taran El was too nervous to come to the deck with him, and he was still lying in his room to recuperate, otherwise the scene at this time would not have been as simple as filial piety and embarrassment.

I'm afraid that if it weren't for the "Witch of the Sea" who would choose to kill her, Taran El would have died on this ship.

The chaotic thoughts in his mind turned around, Duncan exhaled softly, and his mind finally calmed down, and at the same time, the Bright Star also adjusted its angle slightly under the captain's personal control, and then sailed straight into the magnificent "light curtain".

Like some kind of crystals with substance, but without any sense of hindrance, the pale golden "sunlight" filled the field of vision, gradually engulfing the bright star.

Duncan stood at the end of the foredeck, calmly watching the "sunshine" that came in his face and completely submerged himself.

He guessed the nature of this sunshine, and raised his hands slightly, as if to feel the "touch" of this sunshine.

On the way here, he had heard a lot of information from Lucrecia about the "glowing falling object", and had learned that the glowing geometry had been sending a continuous pattern of "light signals" during the sun's extinguishment, and that there was a lot of information - but none of them could explain to him the "moon" at the center of the glowing geometry.

Duncan's eyes narrowed slightly.

A small shadow appeared in his field of vision.

That's what Lucrecia mentioned earlier, the research site that the elves set up in the center of the glowing geometry, and the ...... located next to the site Mystic Stone Ball.

The research station is a double-storey building built on a floating platform, and the stone ball is located less than a few meters next to the floating platform, with a makeshift bridge and many steel cables connected to ensure the stability of the platform.

As the distance gradually shortened, many details on the "stone ball" became more and more reflected in Duncan's eyes.

Now, he's finally confirmed in the real world.

Those familiar patterns, those light and dark plains, depressions and craters, which frequently appear in his recent memories, have seen more than once in books and on the Internet - the moon.

"It's really ...... it"

An inexplicable complication of emotion permeated his mind—it wasn't surprise, for Duncan had already been surprised, and it wasn't confusion, for he had been thinking in confusion for a long time before today.

At this moment, he just confirmed and witnessed something that had been entangled with him for a long time, a strange fact that he could not understand and could not admit, and came to him in an undoubted way.

The Bright Star slowed down, and under Lucrecia's control, the ghost ship, which was as "alive" as the Lost Land, finally stopped only a few meters away from the stone ball with incredible accuracy.

Duncan made his way to the edge of the deck, where he could see even a single fine pattern on the surface of the stone ball.

He was also more and more sure that this sphere, which was only about ten meters in diameter, had an astonishing "degree of restoration", and it was so delicate and in line with the detailed features of the "moon" surface that it ...... It's not at all like the "miniature" he imagined at the beginning.

It seems that it is exactly the real "moon", which has been "compressed" to this size.

(End of chapter)