Lucretia looked at the clockwork doll lying on the bench without saying a word, with Alice standing across from the table with a nervous and uneasy look on her face, and Duncan standing next to Alice, looking expressionless.

After the awkward atmosphere lasted for a long time, Lucrecia finally broke the silence first: "...... So, Luni took her head off herself? ”

“…… It's complicated," Duncan said with a straight face, "and I'm surprised, too. ”

Lucrecia couldn't help but glance at Duncan.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but she actually felt that her father, who was always straight-faced and always had a serious and gloomy temperament, seemed to have a trace of ...... in his expression just now Embarrassed.

"I'm sorry......" Alice finally spoke, her head down, carefully grasping the corner of Duncan's coat, apparently realizing that she had caused trouble again, "I saw that Luni was also a puppet, and thought that the dolls were all the same, so I ...... I'm also surprised, her head turns out to be irrevocable, huh? ”

“…… You can see that Luni thinks she's just like you," Lucrecia glanced at the "Anomaly 099" that had scared and wary countless people, with a subtle expression, "but I didn't design this 'function' for her." ”

At this moment, Luni, who was lying on the experimental table and moving separately, suddenly moved, her head blinked, and her voice sounded a little out of tune: "Mistress, can you help me connect my head first?" Sorry for the trouble......"

Lucrecia looked down at the clockwork doll with an expressionless face, sighed, took the tools from the side, and began to disassemble the cover and decorative materials near the neck of Luni's body, and couldn't help but say as she dismantled: "Why did you follow Alice without thinking?" ”

Alice...... It's a new friend," Lunee's head sounded beside her, her mouth opening and closing with a slight noise, "a new friend brought by the old master." ”

Lucrecia's hand paused for a moment, then said nothing and continued to busy.

Alice looked at Lunie's head a little uneasily, "Will we still be friends from now on?" ”

"Yes," Luni blinked, "but only after the mistress fixes me......"

Alice suddenly became happy again, and then seemed to have discovered something terrible: "Ah, you don't stutter when you take your head off!" ”

"Yes, because my head can run on its own, and the hostess has installed a complete vocal structure in my skull, and my mind is not affected by the lack of body structure," Luni explained at a glance, "The difference between me and Ling is that I can't recover after a broken neck. ”

Alice thought about it, and although she didn't understand it, she still nodded: "Oh-that's amazing." ”

Duncan watched the scene from the sidelines, feeling that the scene was too strange to be incomprehensible.

Even more evil than a cursed doll that can lose its head must have found another doll to be a friend of the doll - he hasn't introduced Alice to the other strange "minions" on the ship.

If this Han Han walks around the Bright Star, what will this ship be like?

Lucrecia, who was looking down and busy dismantling and repairing Luni's joints, suddenly felt a thrill in her heart, and she looked up blankly, but she didn't find the source of this "spirit".

Soon, though, her attention turned to something else.

"What do you think of the 'eyeball' recorded by Master Taran El?" The "Witch of the Sea" turned his head and looked at Duncan on the side, "This matter must not be announced to ordinary people, but the Church of the Four Gods ...... over there"

"I'm going to tell them, but I haven't figured out what way to go through and whether it's necessary to have some more direct contact with their higher-ups," Duncan quickly gathered the chaos in his mind and said with a serious expression, "The point now is not really ' The body of Vision 001 is an eyeball encased in an artificial spherical shell', after all, since history, Vision 001 is unknown to mortals, no matter how weird and terrifying its true appearance is, it is possible that what really matters is the appearance of that eyeball. ”

"The ......look of that eyeball," Lucrecia's hand slowed down, her brow furrowed slightly, "you say, it's the same as ...... Is a certain structure of the creep sun wheel similar? ”

"The body of the Creep Sun Wheel is an ancient god surrounded and roasted by the corona, and between the layers of tentacles, a huge eyeball structure is its main feature," Duncan nodded and said casually, "I was very impressed with that eyeball—it had been staring at me for a long time. ”

Listening to her father's story, Lucrecia suddenly looked around uneasily, and looked at Duncan with some hesitation: "Talk about the ancient gods directly at sea......"

"It's not a big deal, even if that guy's 'eyes' are really attracted, they're just going to fall on me," Duncan waved his hand, "and I've been looking for it all along." ”

Lucrecia opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to answer.

She had seen a lot of the world in the past century in the infinite sea, dealt with more madmen, and participated in all the taboo and dangerous topics and events, but those taboo and dangerous topics were not discussed in such a vigorous atmosphere.

She thinks it may take a long time for her to learn how to get along with her father again.

Duncan didn't pay attention to Lucrecia's delicate expression for a moment, and after a moment of contemplation, he thought of something else: "Do you remember the 'intruder' that appeared in Taran El's dream?" The projection of the sun's heir. ”

"I remember saying it looked like a smaller 'creep sun wheel,'" Lucrecia nodded, "and you mentioned that the 'Sun Child' had a brief communication with you, and that it and its minions were looking for something in that dream. ”

Duncan nodded slightly, and then spoke unhurriedly: "The core of Vision 001 is an 'eyeball' that is extremely similar to the core part of the 'Creep Sun Wheel', and twelve hours after Vision 001 was extinguished, the Sun Heir invaded the 'Dream of the Nameless' through Taran El's dream, and searched for something in that dream with his minions, and there is obviously a connection between the two things;

"On the other hand, for thousands of years, the believers of the Black Sun have claimed that what they worship is the 'true sun god', and call the sun in the sky the 'false sun', and the world has always believed that this is just their delusional delusion, and it is the spiritual pollution of the black sun that causes those believers to have a biased perception of the world, but when the sun is extinguished, Taran El discovers that there is really an eyeball that is very similar to the core structure of the 'Creep Sun Wheel' inside the vision 001;

"Finally, it's the Annihilation Cultist who invaded the Dream of the Nameless One - according to the information I've gathered, the purpose of the Annihilation Cultists is not the same as that of the Suncultists, they were looking for the 'original blueprint of the Holy Lord before the creation of the world' in that dream, but according to the record of the Book of Blasphemy, the 'Netherworld Holy Lord' guided the Cretan clan during the creation of the century, and may even personally help them create Vision 001, so strictly speaking...... Today's Vision 001, what the Suncultists call the 'False Sun', can also be seen as the 'masterpiece' of the Dark Lord, part of the original blueprint.

"This last point may also explain the 'state of cooperation' I observed between the Annihilation Sect and the Sun Sect - they are indeed cooperating, but obviously not on good terms."

Duncan slowly talked about what he had been thinking about all this time, and then raised his eyelids and looked into Lucrecia's eyes.

"What do you think of in all this intelligence?"

Lucretia had unconsciously stopped the movement of her hand, her expression changed several times, her expression was solemn and a little uneasy, and after a long time, she broke the silence in a low voice: "...... Even if it's a cultist who worships the Black Sun standing here, I'm afraid it's a bit extreme......"

“…… I've heard something like that not long ago," said Duncan, shaking his head, "and now I only hope that the deepest truth of our world is not crazier than this—or else even the most extreme cultists will be kept in the face of real history." ”

Lucrecia didn't speak, just slowly lowered her gaze in contemplation.

Luni's head was still lying on the bench, meeting the eyes of her pensive hostess.

After a while, Luni finally couldn't help but speak: "Mistress ...... Is it still loaded? Why don't you go next door and rest for a while? Can you get the rabbi to come over and help......"

Lucrecia exhaled, temporarily shook off the distractions in her mind, picked up the tool in her hand and continued to get busy: "The rabbi will only shove your head into its own stomach to make up for its endless thirst for 'cotton' - don't move, I'm going to put your head back." ”

"Oh."

……

At the same time, in the Archon's office in Breeze, Archon Sarah Mel unfolded a document that had just been sent to his desk, and looking at the contents of it, the elf who had lived for a long time frowned slightly.

The document came from the Church of the Four Gods – not issued by a single church, but with the seals of the four popes, witnessed by the four gods, and sent to every city-state on the boundless sea.

Establish an early warning system jointly constructed by the city-state-church-explorer association to monitor the city-state, the sea and the sea surface and any changes that may occur at any time below the sea surface, and be vigilant against the recurrence of the frost crisis and the awakening of the ancient gods;

The Church of the Four Gods has sent a portion of its patrol fleet from the border to the interior of civilization in order to respond to worldwide emergencies at any time.

The above two items are worrying, but they are normal, at least for the rulers of the city-state, which are understandable "job content".

What really made Consul Sarah Meier's brow furrow was the one that seemed to be casually mentioned at the end of the document, but it was particularly striking and important—

"The city-states should heed any warning signs from the Lost Country or the Lost Fleet, such as the sighting of the Lost Country itself in the waters surrounding the city-state...... It is important not to engage in any hostile behaviour and to ...... Cooperate as necessary. ”

(End of chapter)