Ashes Of Deep Sea Chapter 568

Chapter 568: Chapter 567: Night Vision Chapter 568: Chapter 567: Night Vision Duncan rubbed his slightly swollen forehead, stowed away his keys, and recalled his experiences inside “the mansion,” including the message conveyed to him by the ancient god's tentacle in the garden and the “intruding foreign object” that appeared next to the hollow space inside the mansion.

Alice quickly noticed the captain's “return,” and while pulling up the back of her dress, she curiously turned her head, “Captain, you're back! Did you find the answers you were looking for?”

“I got more information, but only more questions,” Duncan sighed softly, looking at Alice's ever-carefree, radiant expression. He momentarily calmed the chaos in his mind and a smile appeared on his face, “But I've made significant progress–at least I have a new goal for the near future.”

Alice tilted her head slightly, “A new goal?”

After a moment of thought, Duncan spoke indifferently, “Let's start by capturing a few eradicators.”

Why had the “trash” he had thrown out from his bachelor apartment floated to Alice's Mansion? Why had those things turned into breeding shadows in the eyes of the mansion's servants? What was the case with the missing gardener? What was the true nature of the Cleaner? Currently, there were no answers to this series of questions, nor a suitable breakthrough in the short term. However, following another direction, the advice from the “Saint of the Mysterious Deep Sea” seemed worth a try.

About the state of Vision 001, about the meaning behind those brief noises, about the ancient kings, about the Great Annihilation and the multiple long nights' truth, and the meaning of the so-called end of the cycle… About all this, that ancient god lurking in the Mysterious Deep Sea clearly knew much and was willing to share these secrets with him, the “Usurping Flame.”

Thus, establishing a connection with the Mysterious Deep Sea became the only clear goal at the moment, just as proposed by the Saint of the Mysterious Deep Sea–capture a few eradicators and try.

But every time he thought of this “advice,” Duncan couldn't help but feel a slight oddity…

Alice, however, didn't think so much. She was just happy that the captain had a new plan, and although she didn't understand why, her face showed anticipation, “Great! So when do we go capture them? And where should we capture them?”

“Heretics are not jellyfish in the sea that you can just catch,” Duncan rubbed his forehead, “Let's rest for today. Tomorrow I need to have a good discussion about this with Fenna and Morris.”

“Oh,” Alice nodded but quickly came up with another question, “What's a jellyfish?”

“It lives in… well, it lives in the sea,” Duncan's facial muscles twitched slightly, explaining in a very odd manner, “They look translucent, some are poisonous, and some are edible.”

“Edible?” Duncan was just explaining casually, but Alice's eyes immediately lit up, “So are they tasty?”

Duncan gave her a weird look, “You don't even have a digestive system, why do you care about that?”

“I can make it for you to eat!” Alice's face beamed, “Captain, let's go catch jellyfish together when you have time in the future!”

The topic was quickly taking a bizarre turn, and Duncan's expression almost collapsed. He hurriedly waved his hand to gloss over the question, “Alright, alright, I promise we'll catch some to eat when we have the chance…”

Thus, Alice left happily and contentedly.

Duncan sighed lightly, shook his head helplessly, and strolled to the window.

By this time, night had fallen–Vision 001 had submerged below the sea surface hours ago, and its power had also faded from the world. The “rift” in the Creation of the World was then displayed in the sky, looking down coldly over the entire city.

Yet at the same time, there was still “sunlight” in the sky–the sunlight came from the Luminous Geometric Body near the City-State's sea surface. The light diffused through the multiple barriers of the city's structures and, by the time it reached this area near the city center, only fragmented beams swept across the sky–like light cast by venetian blinds, irregular beams sweeping high across the city, creating a bizarre, almost mutated dusk-like “scenery.”

Under the “cutting” of this sunlight, the world's Creation also appeared intermittently in the sky: It no longer spanned the high sky coherently; in the spots where the sunlight swept through, the Creation of the World was invisible, and only in places untouched by sunlight could the cold, pale rifts, divided into segments, be seen in the sky.

Duncan suddenly furrowed his brow, realizing a detail he had previously overlooked, and began to observe the intriguing “spectacle” in the sky with increasing curiosity.

The Luminous Geometric Body that had fallen into the sea, of course, couldn't project light so high up to the Creation of the World–scholars from Lucia and Light Breeze Harbor had already determined its luminous range, which only covered approximately a City-State and some of the surrounding sea area, incapable of reaching the sky.

And now, he observed that in places where the “sunlight beams” swept across the city's sky, the Creation of the World appeared invisible.

So…, was the sunlight not directly affecting the Creation of the World but instead the eyes of the “Observer”?

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Vision 001 – The true function of the sun isn't to suppress the Creation of the World, but to prevent the intelligent beings on Earth from observing the Creation of the World by covering or filtering it?!

Suddenly, Duncan felt as if he had touched on a critical mechanism related to Vision 001.

However, just as Duncan was about to follow this line of thought, a strange shade that appeared in the corner of his eye interrupted his train of thought.

He immediately stepped forward, pushed open the window, and looked in a particular direction outside.

That was another street adjacent to the Crown District–he still vividly remembered the densely packed rooftops and high buildings there, with a distinctive spire located at the deepest part of the district.

However, now, a dense jungle shrouded in dusk appeared in his view.

Tall, towering trees abruptly rose from the city, the buildings and the spire of the district had somehow transformed into a forest look, with high, vine-like structures spreading out from the forest, some even extending into the Crown District!

Under the intertwined light of the “sun” and the “Creation of the World,” the dark vines grew windingly across the streets, entwining around the buildings along the street, gradually climbing the buildings and walls, looping around the street lamps like tentacles from a nightmare, slowly piercing into the real world…

Duncan blinked, finding that the “abnormality” in his view still existed, and under the mixed light of the sun and the Creation of the World, it seemed even more real than before.

However, the city remained utterly silent, whether it was the other districts in the distance or the buildings nearby that were entwined with vines… none made a single sound.

It seemed that no one noticed this massive abnormality, even though the lights were still on in several nearby houses, clearly indicating that people were awake and active inside just seconds ago.

Duncan withdrew his gaze from the window and quickly walked toward the door; before he could open it, hurried footsteps sounded from the corridor outside, and the door was suddenly flung open.

Alice, who had just left, hurried back with a look of panic on her face, “Captain… outside! Did you see outside…”

“I saw it,” Duncan interrupted the stutteringly anxious figure, “It might be some extensive anomaly or illusion, but it has not yet affected our building–don't panic yet, go and gather everyone, we need to figure out what's happening.”

Hearing this, Alice finally calmed down a bit, quickly nodded her head, and then while turning to leave, she spoke rapidly, “Oh… oh right! Wait here, I'll go find the others!”

The figure hurriedly left, disappearing quickly into the corridor outside, while Duncan turned his head again to look at the “strange scenery” on the street outside.

The “forest” that covered a large part of the district still existed, lush as ever in the twilight, a burgeoning shadow, but the vines spreading from the forest seemed to have stopped growing–many thick and thin vines had stopped at the edge of Crown Street, showing no signs of further extending.

But this was just what he could observe from here; he couldn't determine what the scene was on the other side of the “forest.”

Just as Duncan began to worry about whether other parts of the city were also undergoing changes, Alice's hurried footsteps reappeared in the corridor, and her panicked voice simultaneously reached Duncan's ears, “Captain, Captain, Captain! The… the others are gone!”

This time Duncan was truly taken aback, “Everyone is gone?”

“They've vanished,” Alice ran over quickly, nodding her head in affirmation, then hurriedly clasped her head as if fearing it might fall off, “I just went to Nina and Sherry's rooms, and they weren't there, Miss Lukrecia isn't around either, no response from knocking on other doors, only the clockwork servants are in the living room–they are all idly standing there, looking very frightening!”

Duncan's expression immediately turned solemn, but he still comforted the anxious Alice before squinting his eyes slightly, spreading his perception gradually.

He searched for signs of Fenna, Maurice, and others, trying to ascertain their conditions.

The markers were still present, but their status… was strange.

“Let's go downstairs to check,” Duncan opened his eyes and gestured to the Ai Yi dozing off on top of a cabinet to land on his shoulder, then nodded to Alice, “Stay close to me, don't wander off.”

Alice immediately nodded, “Yes… yes, Captain!”

Chapter end

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