When the soft sound of the waves faded from her consciousness, Vanna was stunned for a long, long time.

As a member of the Lost Homeland, as an individual who has undergone the reshaping of subspace, her cognition is firmly fixed on the "side" where the waves still exist, and she realizes what happened almost instantly, and then rushes out of the cabin like the wind to the deck where the captain is.

"Captain!" Vanna came to Duncan, she had always been calm and looked a little helpless at the moment, "The sound of the waves in my head has subsided, and the Storm Goddess may be ......"

"I know," Duncan nodded slightly, "the rot has deepened. ”

Vanna stood in front of Duncan in a daze, listening to this irrefutable answer, and did not move for a long time, before she turned to look at the even "gray" passage in front of the Lost Land, but subconsciously called out the name of the goddess in her heart, as she did every time she prayed.

She still couldn't hear the familiar sound of the waves, and in her "spiritual perception" there were only a few murmurs and chaotic whispers—all the "noises" of prayer that had been the only "comfort" in her heart.

And in the corner of her eye, some shadows suddenly appeared in the even and boundless gray depths in front of the Lost Country and the Bright Star, and some layers of black things appeared in front of the route, and a "sea" as smooth as a mirror spread there.

A vague voice that seemed to have crossed time and space reached the minds of everyone on the ship, it seemed to be Alice, but with a severe distortion and distortion: "The jump is over...... Disengaging from the aisle. ”

In the next second, the gray-white passage around the Lost Land and the Bright Star shattered silently, and the two ships crashed into the "Node Sea" constructed by the entity, and they sailed into the "sea" as calm as a mirror, and "glided" rapidly on the mirror surface.

The massive hull of the ship sailed across the water, but it did not stir up even the slightest ripple.

Duncan came to the edge of the deck, looked down at the "phenomenon" on the side of the ship with a solemn expression, and then raised his head without saying a word, looking at the large and small black shadows standing on the "sea".

It became clear to them that what looked like peaks rising from the sea were actually clusters of black crystals of astonishing size.

Countless huge black crystals stand on the calm sea like islands of all sizes, and the crystals continue to split in the process of spreading, and finally turn into one after another blade-like crystal cluster structures, and in the ubiquitous chaotic skylight, the edges of those crystal cluster structures show a faint translucent texture, making its edges seem to be uncertain, with dreamlike weirdness.

It's a very different view from the sea where the Goddess of Storms sleeps.

Shirley also ran to the deck, she stared at the scenery on the sea with wide eyes, and after a long time, she couldn't help but let out a long-pitched sigh: "...... Wow......"

"We're already in the Node Sea," Duncan said casually as he let out a long exhale, regaining control of the Lost Land, "all that's left is to find the location of Pilot-2, which should be in the depths of those clusters." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Morris, who was also on the deck not far away, raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction: "I can feel it, he is in this direction." ”

The Lost Country and the Bright Star slowly sailed towards the depths of this "sea of crystals".

Alice left the bridge and ran to the deck to look at the place in amazement, and she saw the large, blade-like black crystals slowly retreating from the side of the ship, some of which still seemed to flow like living creatures in the depths of the crystals, a place that she had navigated by herself and found was strange and unbelievable to her.

Even though she had forgotten everything about the New Hope, she instinctively knew that this was not what the New Hope should be, not what was on that ship.

It's like her "Alice Mansion", the ship's reimagined appearance after the Great Annihilation.

And at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in her head: "You're here......"

Alice was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned her head in Duncan's direction and shouted, "Captain! Someone is talking to me! ”

Alice felt that the voice in her head seemed to freeze for a moment, and then she was a little helpless: "I'm the Pilot No. 2 ......"

Alice immediately turned her head again: "Captain! It says it's called Pilot II! ”

"I see," Duncan said, squeezing Alice's hair with a subtle expression, "tell Pilot Two that we're heading toward it." ”

"Oh," Alice nodded, then thought hard for a moment, then looked up with a strange expression and looked at Duncan with a confused look in her eyes, "...... Captain, it ignores me. ”

Duncan: "......"

He turned around with a blank face, and controlled the Lost as it continued through the narrow, winding passage of countless crystalline peaks.

After a while, the scene in front of the Lost Land suddenly opened up - after passing through a "gate" composed of huge crystal pillars, an extremely open sea suddenly appeared in everyone's field of vision.

And in the middle of this open sea, the Pilot No. 2 stood quietly and unconcealed, without suspense, waiting for the guests to visit.

Duncan glanced at the neatly arranged black "matrix" and took a light breath: "Change the boat." ”

The Lost Homeland came to a halt some distance away from Pilot 2, and then all the crew changed to small boats, and cautiously approached the main array in the center of the sea from the mirror-like sea.

A small white boat made of paper folded also approached from the direction of the Bright Star, with Lucrecia standing at the bow of the ship, as did the rabbi the rabbit and the clockwork doll Luni.

The two small boats converged about a hundred meters away from the main array, and Lucrecia on the paper boat turned her head: "Do you think ...... 'he' looks weird?" ”

Duncan looked ahead with a solemn face, and only spoke in a deep voice for a long time: "...... Perhaps, it is the most normal thing to look weird. ”

Two small boats came to the Navigator 2, and now, the true appearance of this "god of wisdom" has finally broken out of the fog and truly appeared to outsiders for the first time.

It consisted of a number of stone monument-like "servers" of different sizes, the largest black cuboid structure seemed to be its "center", its height was more than ten meters high, and on the top of the dark cuboid there was a red light that seemed to be like a single eye, as if it was looking down on the surroundings - it reminded Duncan of the dark red "core" of the Dark Lord.

Behind the large cuboid that served as the centerpiece was twenty-two "small" units several meters high, with lights flickering on the surface of those units, countless dazzling indicators constantly changing on and off, and a low, constant humming sound coming from all the inside of the cuboid.

And between this series of cuboids, there is the ...... that maintains and connects the entire array

Countless nerves and blood vessels.

The flesh-and-blood texture of the tube bundle extends from each server "cabinet", merging with those dark and heavy shells, and even turning part of those shells into skin-like structures, with blood vessels and nerve cords crisscrossing and cobweb-like distribution at the bottom of the entire host array, and where many tube bundles meet, you can see flesh and blood expanding, tissue proliferation, and exposed, heart-like "organs" constantly beating on those nodes. There are also brain-like biological tissues that cling to nerve nodes and slowly wriggle.

As the boat approached, a mass of flesh and blood at the bottom of the Navigator 2 Pivot was the first to react, its surface suddenly squirming and growing, and then an eyeball rolled out of it, held up by the long eyehandle, and came to Alice.

"Ahh

The eyeballs suddenly contracted back into the flesh tissue, and the blood vessels and neural networks between the server arrays instantly squirmed and fluctuated.

In the next second, the buzzing sound coming from those dark server hosts suddenly increased, and the red light above the central host quickly turned on and off a few times, and a dull synthesized voice came from nowhere: "Pilot Three, what are you hitting me for?" ”

Alice was stunned for a moment, scratching her hair a little embarrassed: "Ah, I was startled...... I slapped it without much thought......"

Duncan, on the other hand, looked at the "server matrix" in front of him with a solemn face from just now, which had obviously been seriously distorted and distorted, before he spoke in a deep voice: "I guess...... You're not like that, you're not going to look like that. ”

After hearing Duncan's words, the red light above the central host flickered slowly several times, and then a deep voice came to his ears-

"Yes, so now you should know why the machines in this world have such a phenomenon as 'evil'."

Duncan's eyes changed slightly.

He stared at the intertwined flesh and blood in the main matrix of the Navigator 2, and looked at the eyes that kept emerging and dissolving between the blood vessels and nerve cords, and finally could not suppress the strangeness in his expression.

“…… When did this change begin? He said in a deep voice.

"When the first baby's cry appeared on the infinite sea," the red light slowly turned on and off, "when the Navigator One's nano fleet completed the first round of reshaping of everything, the changes in us began - you should have seen One and know what it looks like now, so there is no need to be too surprised by my current state." ”

Then the towering black "stone tablet" was silent for a few seconds before continuing to say quietly: "Think of this as some kind of 'adaptation', compared to the others, my state is actually not too bad - look, I can at least communicate with you directly here." ”

(End of chapter)