Duncan stared at the sea in the distance and fell into deep thought, while Lucretia, who was standing behind him, remained quiet, this silence lasted for an unknown amount of time, and Duncan finally took the initiative to break the peace: "Tell me about the border." ”

Lucrecia stepped forward, a little hesitant in her tone: "You ......"

"I can't remember what happened," Duncan said softly, "so I'd like to hear what you think of the border—you've been operating in the border over the years, and as far as I know, you've even ventured into that fog a few times...... If we're destined to deal with that fog again, I'd at least like to know what you know about it. ”

Lucrecia's eyes were a little hesitant and complicated, and she looked at Duncan's back steadily, as if she was afraid that this figure would suddenly disappear into the wind again - before today, her father had brought up the topic of the border with her, but their discussions in this area were never deep, and she would have consciously avoided this matter, but today...... The situation seems to be different.

After a few seconds, the "sea witch" finally spoke: "...... I did enter that fog, but only in a very 'shallow' level, six nautical miles, which was the limit of my movement in the fog - theoretically the limit of the Church of the Four Gods' ships in that area. ”

"What's there?" Duncan asked curiously.

Lucretia thought for a moment: "The sea surface in most areas is calm, even calmer than other normal seas in the Infinite Sea, the water surface is like a mirror, the flag on the mast can be clearly reflected, there are no waves and waves, the ripples caused by the ship passing over the sea will also calm in a very short time, and the texture of the whole sea surface is like some kind of ...... A heavy viscous substance that could not ripple, but in fact it was indeed seawater, and the ship's voyage itself would not be affected......

"But this is only the case in calm zones, and between these calm seas, there are strange and irregular turbulence bands that appear suddenly, without warning, and even when the turbulence has already appeared, it is difficult to detect it visually, and the fast-moving waters remain calm, like some kind of 'cutting line' that sweeps nearby, and if you get closer, the boat will lose control, and at least it will spin quickly and be carried by the turbulence to the wrong course, or it will capsize.

"And that's all just a 'mild situation' in the fog, when it's not so mild...... Something weird will appear.

"Sometimes, incomprehensible things suddenly appear in the fog, such as huge, floating blocks on the surface of the sea, or 'mountains' that pierce out of the sea like blades, but it's hard to get close to these entities that emerge from the fog directly, because there are often very large ...... around these things Abnormal celestial phenomena, sometimes storms, sometimes huge annular turbulence, and sometimes even a whole piece of sea water disappears out of thin air, forming an abyss-like fault, bottomless below, terrifying to the extreme......"

Lucrecia paused at this point, as if recalling some experience that would have haunted even her, the "witch of the sea", and after a moment of gathering her thoughts, she continued:

"In the midst of this chaos, there are occasional gains, such as 'materials' and 'objects' of unknown nature, which appear with turbulence or storms, entities that can be touched, captured, stored, and even taken out of the fog, some of which are useful, such as perpetual grease, or crystals that expel spiritual pollution, and which the Explorers' Guild and the Academy of Truth will pay a lot of money for in exchange for their use, but basically these things collected from the Frontier Vision are random and unique, without the possibility of stable output......

"And in fewer cases, there will be ...... in these chaotic and dangerous phenomena"

She stopped abruptly, seeming hesitant to continue.

Duncan couldn't help frowning: "Lucy, what do you see?" ”

"Only once, I'm still not sure if it's real or if it's a hallucination I had had from extreme exhaustion," Lucrecia said after hesitating for a long time, "it was a huge cylinder that had suddenly risen from the sea, and the column was pitch black and surrounded by a huge ring, equally pitch black and invisible. It was the only foggy entity I'd ever managed to get close to—it was surrounded only by less intense wind and waves, which the Brilliant Star could barely contend with, and I reached the foot of the cylinder, even bringing the ship closer to it, touching its surface with my hand...... Then, I heard it speak to me. ”

Lucrecia raised her hand and pointed to her head: "The voice that roared in my brain, a language I didn't recognize, but I could understand its meaning directly, and it repeated the words: 'The curvature engine is activated...... We are out of danger and the curvature engine is activated...... We're out ......of danger.'"

She raised her head and saw a subtle change in the expression on Duncan's face, and couldn't help but ask, "Do you know what this sentence means?" ”

Duncan instantly frowned after hearing Lucrecia's words, the word "curvature engine" set off a huge wave in his heart, and what he instantly thought of was the spaceship that crashed in the deep sea era, "New Hope"!

Lucrecia found the wreck of that ship?! It fell into the Veil of Eternity?

"Can you still find it? Have you ever seen it again since? He asked quickly.

"I'm afraid not," Lucrecia sensed the importance of the matter from her father's attitude, but could only shake her head apologetically, "What appears in the Frontier Mists is random and ephemeral, like touchable illusions that dissipate without a trace when the time is up, and so far I have not encountered the same entity twice in a row in that Mist." ”

Duncan felt a wave of disappointment in his heart, but he didn't show it too much: "...... So what else did you find besides that sentence? ”

Lucrecia recalled it seriously, and said uncertainly: "In addition, when I touched it, there was an extremely strange ...... 'touch', which gave me the feeling of 'hollowness', no temperature, no hardness, I know it is strange, but at that time my fingers were completely unable to judge what material they were touching, or even whether they had touched something, and at that moment, the function of my fingers in terms of 'touch' seemed to disappear, or that thing...... Only a part of the 'attributes' remained in the reality dimension, so much so that I could not fully perceive the missing parts of it......"

In the end, she became more and more hesitant, and it seemed difficult to accurately express her feelings at the time and her conjecture at the moment, and finally she could only spread her hands helplessly: "Can you understand what I said?" ”

Duncan showed a thoughtful expression, after hearing these strange and bizarre and even bizarre situations described by Lucrecia, what suddenly appeared in his mind was his "cognitive change" in the short seconds after witnessing the truth of the Great Annihilation, or the "epiphany" of the world.

He still vividly remembers the "real" side of the world that he saw at that last moment.

Fragmented information converges into today's deep-sea age, and incompatible fragments of the old world merge and distort with each other in collision with each other, turning into unrecognizable things, or merging into the "information soup" at the bottom of the world.

So...... What about those things that do not fit in in the end, or that cannot be completely annihilated or polluted by other things because of some of their "special properties"?

Such a thing must exist, when a cosmic-level collision occurs, the probability of all events will be superimposed from infinity to infinitesimal all superimposed, anything can happen, anything may never happen, then those "lucky" or "unfortunate" who are bound to stay after the infinitesimal probability should always have a place to go......

Duncan guessed that most of them should be in subspace—in that dark and chaotic space, there are many things that seem to be the remains of the old world, such as torn land, pale cyclops, plausible shadows floating in nothingness, and they should all be fragments that have not been completely annihilated.

But now it seems that some of them have fallen outside of subspace.

The "entities" seen by the "Witch of the Sea" in the fog of the border...... That's the kind of thing.

Lucretia felt a little uneasy, she saw the expression on Duncan's face change continuously, as if some kind of logic and cognition that she did not understand was gradually forming in her father's mind, which made her have the premonition of witnessing the "starry sky" again.

But this time, she didn't really see Starlight appear behind her father's body.

"I'm intrigued by the 'entities' you saw in the Fog of the Border," Duncan said suddenly, interrupting Lucrecia's thoughts, "What about the depths?" You just said that you can only go six nautical miles in the fog at most, what will happen further down? ”

"Will completely lose the sense of the direction of the civilized world," Lucrecia suddenly woke up, and hurriedly replied, "In fact, after entering the Eternal Veil, all the conventional means of navigation have become ineffective, even if you look down on the starry sky from the stargazing room, you can only see a hazy and vague shadow, but within six nautical miles, the radio can barely function, and the lighthouse temporarily set up at the edge of the fog or the ceremonial brazier for positioning can also guide the ship to return, but once the critical point of six nautical miles is crossed, Communication with the civilized world would be completely cut off.

"I once went too deep and crossed this tipping point, even if only a little, and was almost permanently lost in that fog - there is no point in going back the way you came, because once the ship crosses the line, the continuity of time and space around it seems to have gone wrong, and your ship will not return to its original position at all......"

Duncan listened and couldn't help frowning: "Then how did you return later?" ”

"I ......," Lucrecia opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered with a somewhat strange expression, "I see the shadow of the Lost Country. ”

(End of chapter)