Vanna felt that her brain was a little insufficient.

She was no stranger to the feeling of not having enough brains—every time she listened to Mr. Morris when she was a student, but not for many years since she entered adolescence and succeeded in replacing most of her brain's work with muscles.

Now, that familiar feeling is back.

She looked at the "glowing ball" in the giant's hand and blinked her eyes several times before she understood the other party's words and what was in her hand on a rational and literal level, but her emotional part was still confused - this is ...... Once the sun of this world?

"Do you want to touch it?" The giant looked at Fanna's stiff appearance, smiled kindly, and handed the "sun" in his hand to Fanna, "It's not hot anymore." ”

Vana felt that this sentence had never been stranger than ever, but she didn't know how to react.

After a few seconds of hesitation, she reached out in a ghostly manner—and with a feeling that she couldn't explain, she curiously touched the glowing ball in the giant's hand.

It was only the size of a fist, a human fist, and in the hands of giants, it looked like a delicate little bead, and there seemed to be many delicate structures running on the surface of the small bead, with fine flames surging, light and dark areas, and from time to time some hair-like light rose up and fell back to the surface.

It only has a little bit of heat to the touch, like hot water that is slightly higher than body temperature.

Vanna was in a trance, and she thought of the sun she was familiar with—rising from the sea every day, with a brilliant double rune ring, capable of bringing light and temperature to the whole world, a "miracle" of astonishing scale, an ancient and magnificent "vision".

At the same time, she remembered that the captain had said that the sun had something else, something more brilliant and larger—and not long ago, the captain had begun to try to tell his followers about the knowledge of subspace, and that knowledge contained the concepts of stars and the universe.

To be honest, Vana didn't understand the Captain's teachings too much, not even Mr. Morris and Miss Lucrecia, but at least Vana understood...... No matter what kind of sun it is, it shouldn't be a ...... A fist-sized ball.

The warm "little sun" left his hands.

The giant sat on the edge of the pit, he put the "sun" in the palm of his hand, put his hand on his lap, he lowered his gaze, as if immersed in memories and thoughts, and after a long time, he whispered: "They are full of intelligence, they are good at explaining the operation of the world in all kinds of ways, although they are naturally weak, but they can rely on 'science' against those who are much stronger than them, I have always thought that if they are still there, if they can develop to this day, maybe they can explain this." What's going on with the sun'......

"But by the time it fell, the world had been quiet, the last man had turned into the tower, and the brilliant minds and whimsical insights had disappeared from the world—and I couldn't figure it out."

Vanna was silent for a moment, but she wasn't just silent—she was telling the captain what was going on.

She told the captain that she might have found the "sun" that the cultists had mentioned at the rally.

It's in the hands of this giant who calls himself a god, and it looks ...... It can really be "taken away", with one hand.

The giant didn't seem to care about Vanna's silence and her communication with some unknown being on the level of consciousness, and memories hung over the lonely god of yesteryear, who stared for a long time at the small "star" in his hand that once shone on the world and on his mortal people, and after a long time, he said to himself, "I've been thinking, thinking about what is destroying this place...... It doesn't happen in an instant, traveler, and it has a long process. ”

"Process?" Vanna immediately noticed the word.

The giant nodded, and spoke in his memory: "At first, it was some anomaly that could not be explained by the existing knowledge, the clouds suddenly disappeared and suddenly appeared, there were flashes of unknown origin in the atmosphere, the weather went wrong, and the plants no longer grew normally;

"Then the anomalies began to spread to deeper, more disturbing realms—gravity was changing, and time was disconnecting everywhere;

"In the process, we observed the red light that became more and more intense, like a crack, it diffused from the sky, as if it was constant in the sky and covered our world, distorting the starlight in the distance, some kind of ...... 'deformity' eroded the world, and everyone was helpless about it.

"That's when the archives were built."

The giant stopped abruptly at this, and looked at the tower again, as if he was not accustomed to communicating with people, and he always fell into thought or wandered in the middle of speaking, but soon he spoke again:

"The long process had a quick end, and I briefly felt it when the archives were destroyed...... There was something 'touching' that touched our world, and it took a long time for that thing to get closer, and in the process of approaching, it led to that long end of the world, and its final 'touch' was the final coming and ending of destruction, but after a long time, I still couldn't figure out what that 'thing' was. ”

"You say you feel something touching the world?" Vanna's eyes widened, and before she knew it, she was already using honorifics when talking to the giant, "You really didn't 'see' what that thing was?" ”

The giant reminisced earnestly, and apologized to Vanna: "I'm sorry, Traveler, I can see that you care about this, but what I said is all I know. ”

Vanna pursed her lips, she had to suppress the regret in her heart, and then her eyes fell on the "little sun" in the giant's hand.

We can't let this thing really fall into the hands of the heirs and dregs of the Black Sun.

After much hesitation, she finally decided to be more open.

"There are ill-intentioned people who have their eyes on the 'sun' in your hands...... I don't know if they'll find it or how to explain their origin to you, but ......"

As soon as she was halfway through speaking, the giant raised his hand again and placed the "ball of light" in front of her: "Do you want to take it with you?" ”

The giant spoke softly and had a smile on his face.

Fanna was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, she quickly waved her hand: "No, I didn't mean that, you may have misunderstood......"

"It's all right, Traveler," the giant interrupted Vanna again, still in that calm and friendly tone, "I can feel your kindness, and...... I don't think you can take it out of my hands. ”

Vana was slightly stunned, and after realizing that the giant was not joking, she finally hesitated to reach out to the glowing orb—this time not to touch, but to try to pick it up.

The warm touch came again, and Vana felt herself grip on an entity, but as she tried to exert it, the touch suddenly disappeared.

The orb turned into an apparition that passed through her palm.

She looked at the sun that she couldn't pick up, a little stunned.

"I don't know when it became a part of me," the giant's voice came from the side, "maybe the day I picked it up...... One apparition picks up another and can no longer be separated.

"Traveler, you can't take it with you, and it seems that the people with bad intentions in your mouth can't take it with you."

The giant rose from the ground.

He patted the dust on his robe, carefully tucked the "sun" close to his body, and then bent down to pick up the huge cane: "It's time for us to go, traveler. ”

Vanna subconsciously asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Walking around the world, there are many things here, although they are no longer visible, but I would like to introduce you to the stories and appearances of them," the giant turned his head and looked at the sand sea in the distance, "You can also tell me on the road about the origin of those 'ill-intentioned people' - this world has been dead for many years, and I haven't talked to people for too long, this is the first time I've heard it...... Message from outsiders. ”

He paused, and glanced down at Fanna, "I've almost forgotten what curiosity is, thank you for making me remember." ”

"Aren't we going to take a look down there?" Vanna pointed to the tower in the center of the pit, "I thought it was ......"

"There's nothing to see there, all you see here is all it takes," the giant shook his head, and had turned to walk off into the distance, "Let's go, it's getting dark again, and the day and night here always change quickly, but perhaps we can reach another ruin before dusk, where we used to be able to look out over the sea." ”

Listening to the giant's words, Vanna glanced back at the "tower", she silently said goodbye in her heart, and then turned to follow the giant who had already walked more than ten meters away.

……

Duncan sat behind the chart table and held this position for a long time, and it was not long before he exhaled deeply.

Vanna found the "sun" in a very ...... I found it in an unbelievable state.

But for some reason, after hearing Fanna's report, apart from the initial surprise and doubt, he had no other feelings, and even the surprise quickly faded, leaving only a feeling of ...... "so it is".

Maybe it's because he's already seen the ten-meter-diameter "moon" with his own eyes, or maybe he's already seen a "sun" that can jump on the deck, and after surviving in this weird and twisted world for so long, his receptivity has been completely trained.

Then there is only one question left -

Vanna can't take the "sun" with her.

This can be a bit unsettling.

(Now double the period, ask for a monthly pass~)

(End of chapter)