The starry starry starry projection swept rapidly over the edge of the field of vision, and the navigator Alice calculated the route home, while Shirley, who had returned to her human form, stared at the floating lights and shadows beyond the flames with Dog, and was silent for a long time.

It was a long time before Duncan's voice suddenly came to her ears: "What are you thinking?" ”

Shirley was startled, and then she blinked her blood-colored eyes that represented a dark demon, and muttered, "I just remembered it suddenly...... I always thought that the Dark Lord was a terrible evil god...... Runaway crazy, very bad, very bad kind of ......"

Duncan looked at Shirley for a few seconds and then withdrew his gaze: "If you were to face him alone today, the situation would be as you said, and your mind would not be able to understand and process his voice, and you would see his uncontrollable madness - the same is true of other 'gods'." After all, the dark Lord you 'observe' today is actually from my perspective. ”

"Well, I know—Dog explained this to me before, after your meeting with the Pope of the Four Gods, cognitive shift...... Right. ”

Duncan nodded, and didn't speak for a while, until more than ten seconds later, he suddenly spoke: "Do you think I should accept this invitation from the 'Netherworld Holy Lord'?" ”

Shirley was stunned for a moment, and didn't seem to react: "...... Yes? ”

Duncan just looked at her gently: "If I accept it, then what you wish for will come true almost immediately—no more demons will run out to hurt people, no more people disappear into corners, the sun will rise and fall every day, the fog will not eat people, the world you want to have more people live in peace, as long as I take over the shelter."

"Maybe a thousand years, maybe ten thousand years, maybe a little longer, after I take over this world, every city-state will be as safe as the prands and frost it is today, even the night will be calm, and as long as my fire is burning, this endless sea will be able to maintain this peaceful appearance until all resources are exhausted and the shelter reaches the limit of life for which it was originally designed...... It was the true limit of lifespan that the Nether Lord had planned but failed to achieve. ”

Shirley was silent for a moment and whispered, "Then...... Everyone is still going to die, right? ”

Duncan looked at her calmly, "But that is already after a long time, even if you can live as immortal as an ordinary ghostly demon, there should be no regrets by then." ”

Shirley was quiet for a longer time this time, as if she was trying to think hard, while Dog stayed quietly beside her, unable to see what she was thinking.

"Actually......" After a long time, Shirley finally broke the silence, "Actually, I do not understand a little, I think the plan of the Dark Lord is already very good, a safe shelter, even if it is not eternal, but at least it is safe, I ...... It's not that high, but isn't it enough to be able to survive the last time like this? After all...... There's nowhere else to go. ”

"Yes, there is nowhere else to go," said Duncan softly, "for there will always be only such an infinite sea in this world, and there will always be only these floating city-states, and there will always be only such a small habitat in the mist...... But Shirley, the real 'world' shouldn't be like this, it's just a ...... Narrow cardboard boxes. ”

Shirley listened as if she didn't understand, and with the slight shaking of the chains, Ah Gou suddenly broke the silence: "Like you said, this little box is not enough to carry more 'possibilities', is it?" ”

"It's too narrow, the infinite sea blocked by the fog is very narrow, and the 'lifespan' of tens of thousands of years is also narrow, for the countless civilizations destroyed in the Great Annihilation, this small box is only enough to stuff even a small part of their copies inside, and the limited lifespan of the shelter is not even enough for them to tinker with the lost history......

"It's not a 'new home,' you know? If the 'world' before the Great Annihilation was a myriad of lush forests, then the Boundless Sea today is just a small potted plant, and the fruit of the first three long nights is just to plant a few surviving flowers and plants in the forest, and then pretend that the forest still exists - but the truth is that no matter how much you water and fertilize, it will not become a forest, it will never be, but it will only take a small miss, and even this pot will cease to exist. ”

"So, you rejected His plan because you already saw that it had no future," Dog said slowly, "You already know another solution, don't you?" ”

Duncan didn't speak, just lowered his head and looked at his hands quietly.

He blinked, and the moment his eyelids closed, within the first 0.002 seconds of darkness, he saw stars twinkling, glorious and magnificent galaxies shining in deep space, and huge nebulae like a gorgeous draperium, lying between them.

Even after leaving the cave, he could still see the "different scenery" in the first 0.002 seconds of each blink.

Duncan knew that something was going on in him, and that the appearance of things that had been hidden in his vision was only part of the change, and when exactly did this change begin...... He didn't know.

But he knew that as long as he continued to seek the truth and try to uncover the secrets of himself, the changes would continue to appear, continue to develop, and continue to accelerate......

He didn't know if he was ready, but he knew that there was no time left to prepare himself, as Pilot-1 said, neither he nor the world had time.

The phantom of the distant starlight is coming to an end......

A blooming flower bloomed violently in the illusion, the short baton in Lucrecia's hand fell gently, a few crisp notes burst out of the flowers, and several dreaddemons covered in the sea of flowers turned into scattered ashes in silence.

There was a hissing sound of pressurized pipes and a loud thud of metal colliding beside him, and Morris punched away the ghostly hound that pounced on him, shaking his head helplessly: "These demons have no fear of knowledge and wisdom...... Luckily, I still know a little bit about punching and kicking. ”

"There are more and more demons," Lucrecia said with a solemn expression, looking at the black door that was still squirming and shrinking, and a rare trace of exhaustion appeared on her face, "This rift is expanding, more and more demons are noticing here, and the whole island is sinking into the deep sea. ”

"It's time for the captain to come back," Morris muttered, the metallic resonance of the reeds vibrating in his throat, "Listen to the movement above, if the captain doesn't come back, Vana will probably smash the whole valley through." ”

Lucrecia frowned, listened intently to the muffled sound that kept coming from the dome of the cave, and shook her head slightly: "It's unlikely that Miss Vanna made a movement, but more like the sound of this Holy Land Island itself...... It's about to be 'woken up' again. ”

Morris opened his mouth when he heard this, but before he could speak, a dazzling green flame suddenly rose from the swelling and wriggling black door!

In the blink of an eye, flames erupted from the gate, forming a swirling flame door in the cavern's clearing, and then several figures stepped out of the gate, accompanied by the captain's familiar and majestic voice: "That's right, this place is going to 'wake up' again - inform everyone, evacuate the Holy Land Island, our business is done." ”

Lucretia was surprised at first, but then she reacted, and she didn't bother to greet her, and immediately nodded: "Okay Dad!" ”

Before the words fell, she had already begun to quickly gather her toy troops, and Morris saw Shirley and Dog standing next to the captain for the first time after greeting the captain, and he saw Shirley's blood-colored eyes like the dark demon, and suddenly opened his eyes slightly: "Shirley, this is ......"

Shirley's eyes were wider than Morris, she looked at the university scholar in front of her who was in a state of "casting" in a daze, and held back a sentence for a while: "Old man, why did you become copper?" ”

Duncan also glanced at Morris with some surprise, and nodded with a subtle expression: "...... Very chic form. ”

Only then did Morris realize that he was still in the casting form, and hurriedly concentrated, silently reciting Rahhem's prayer, and cast a magic spell to reverse his state - the texture of the copper shell quickly faded from his body, and the flesh and blood replaced those gears, bearings, pumps, and copper pipes in an incredible way, a pair of ruby focusers faded from the eye sockets, and human eyeballs grew out of the eye sockets, and he blinked his eyes and took out the delicate and complex brass mechanism from his body, and then nodded with a smile: "...... The power of knowledge. ”

Shirley looked confused: "...... You and the captain didn't talk about the power of knowledge when you taught me, did you? ”

In such a short period of time, this girl finally completely re-understood the two concepts of "knowledge changes fate" and "the power of knowledge" - I am afraid that I will never forget it in this life.

And at this moment, another strange whistling and whispering sound suddenly appeared in the cave.

The undulating and wriggling black door was restless again, and new demons began to enter the real world through this rift, and the hideous bones and countless hands, feet, and tentacles squeezed out of the wriggling surface, crawling and squirming towards the cavern!

Lucrecia subconsciously raised the short baton in her hand, but before she could do it, Duncan waved her hand at the door: "Go back." ”

The monstrous skeleton and countless hands, feet, and tentacles began to rush back to the gate in a hurry.

"Close the door by the way." Duncan added again.

The "black door" that swelled and contracted began to gradually calm down.

Lucrecia: "......"

Duncan turned his head and waved his hand to the "Witch of the Sea" to bring her back to her senses: "Let's go, we still have a lot of things to do." ”

(End of chapter)