This world has encountered amazing historical changes, with the "Great Annihilation" as the node, and even the basic laws of the entire world have ushered in a earth-shaking change, so that the deep sea era after the Great Annihilation and the Order Era before the Great Annihilation can almost be regarded as two completely different "worlds".
But even so, there are still people who persistently sort out the historical materials that have been passed down since the Great Annihilation, and try to sort out the true appearance of history from the fragmented and even contradictory archives of various city-states.
Unfortunately, perhaps because the inheritance was cut off too thoroughly, or perhaps because the contradictions in the records of various city-states were too chaotic, people have not been able to find a more complete and credible historical record before the Great Annihilation.
No one knows what the world was like during the Order Era.
But fortunately, the world after the ancient kingdom of Crete has a relatively clear historical inheritance - although the city-states have risen and fallen in the infinite sea, divided and merged, but at least the continuation of civilization itself has never been broken.
Scholars believe that more than half of the credit for the inheritance of civilization in the deep-sea era has been able to continue to this day under extremely unfavorable conditions:
Vision 001, the sun.
This is the greatest vision known to mankind - in fact, because its scale is so large and its existence is so "natural", many scholars are debating whether the sun itself is a vision or a natural phenomenon, but the first batch of recorders after the fall of the ancient kingdom of Crete, that is, the survivors of the ancient kingdom, referred to it as vision 001, and this ancient number has been passed down. And it hasn't changed to this day.
Obviously, not all visions are terrifying and harmful, vision 001 has brought safety to half of the world, during the day under the sun, almost all pollution from the depths of the world will be suppressed below sea level, and it is with such a stable daylight that it is possible for various city-state civilizations to develop to this day.
According to the data left by the ancient kingdom of Crete, after the opening of the deep sea era, before the appearance of Vision 001, for a whole century, the entire world was shrouded in night - the cold and dim glow of the creation of the world shone on the boundless sea for a hundred years.
That's why the people of the ancient kingdom called their kingdom "eternal night" and even the era they lived in.
Duncan stood in front of the narrow window, looking thoughtfully at the world under the sun.
The world before the Great Annihilation...... What is it like?
Before the terrible hundred years of eternal night descended, did the sun shine on all things in this world?
I think there is, because no matter how many gaps and contradictions each city-state has in the ancient records, one thing is in common: the Age of Order was an era of brightness, security, and prosperity.
But no matter what, that prosperous and bright era has passed, and now the boundless sea is illuminated by Vision 001, and the world knows this, and is grateful for the day brought by Vision 001.
Therefore, in such a context of the times, the cultists who worship the ancient "real sun" and even attack the sun like today's sun and call it a "false sun" will appear particularly paranoid and distorted, which is intolerable to the world.
They are not only attacking the sun in the sky, they are attacking the reliance of human civilization on which it struggled to survive in the deep sea era to this day.
But Duncan knew that the sun that the cultists worshiped...... It is very likely that it is really the true appearance of the sun that existed before the Great Annihilation.
In a way, the cultists had a piece of real history—unfortunately, that history had become the source of their distortion in this era.
Duncan didn't think that the cultists' grand wishes could be realized, nor did they think they could create a blazing fusion star by sacrificing living people, the distortion of this world was far beyond imagination, and the appearance of the deep sea age was by no means explained by the loss of stars.
The night sky here is not even a single star.
Duncan returned to the room, closed the door, waved to the cabinet next to him, and greeted Ai, who was grinding his mouth shell with the cabinet top.
The pigeon landed on his shoulder and tilted his head: "Who is calling the fleet?"
Duncan didn't pay attention to the bird, but walked to the bed, found the sun emblem he had hidden before from the corner of the bed, and then he thought about it, and then came to the cabinet again, opened the door and found the drawer where the spirits were stored, and took out two bottles of spirits from it.
There seemed to be something stuck on the bottle, and Duncan turned the bottle curiously and saw that it was a small note with Nina's handwriting on it: "Drink less." The
note seems to have been pasted a long time ago.
There is one on each bottle of wine, and each one has no effect.
Duncan smiled, closed the drawers and cabinets, returned to bed with two bottles of wine and the sun emblem, and poked Aiye again to let him see what he was holding.
"If you can, try to bring them to the Lost Homeland."
The pigeon immediately flapped its wings and made a proud sound: "Dear, SF Express free shipping!"
Duncan nodded, lay down in a comfortable position, and began to prepare for the shuttle.
He had been away from the Lost Home for too long, and although nothing would happen to the ship without him watching, he couldn't keep himself in his room all the time.
Nina was going to school in the afternoon, and there were some other things after the class, and it would be very late after the busy schedule, Duncan had already discussed with her that she would stay in the school dormitory for one more night today and come back after school tomorrow afternoon.
During this time, Duncan happened to study the details of the spiritual shuttle, and at the same time, according to his previous idea, he tested whether he could control the physical activities of both sides at the same time without completely cutting off the soul projection.
According to his perception of the lost homeland when he was "here", this should be feasible.
When occupying this "fresh" body, the connection between himself and the body of the lost hometown was obviously much stronger and more stable, which gave him confidence and inspiration.
The plan in his heart slowly settled, Duncan exhaled softly, a little dark green flame burned on his shoulder, and in the crackling sound, the pigeon Ai turned into the form of an undead bird in the blink of an eye, and the brass compass on his chest also opened with a "pop".
Boundless darkness, glowing lines, twinkling stars - familiar feelings come in like a tide, and the trajectory back to the lost homeland is the brightest "course" in this darkness.
Duncan's consciousness traveled rapidly along this route, and in the blink of an eye, he felt that his main consciousness had awakened in the captain's bedroom of the Lost Home.
But before completely leaving that dark space, he forcibly applied a "brake" with his control over the fire of his spiritual body and his soul in an attempt to preserve the connection between himself and the "antique shop"......
In the captain's bedroom, Duncan slowly opened his eyes.
He looked down at his hands, then looked around, and saw familiar furnishings, and the familiar sound of waves came from his ears.
He slowly got up from his chair, and deep in his consciousness, there was a clear feeling of another body!
A smile slowly appeared on Duncan's face, and then, according to his own understanding, he began to try to perceive and control his other body in the antique store through that distant connection.
He tried several times.
In the city-state of Plande, on the second floor of Dunkin' Antique Shop, the "antique store manager" who was lying quietly on the bed suddenly opened his eyes!
In the next second, the body lying on the bed turned its head little by little with a stiff expression, observing the room from side to side like a zombie, and then slowly moving its hands and feet, as if forcibly controlling a rusty machine, allowing its limbs to move.
If this scene is seen by outsiders, I am afraid that they will be so frightened that they will go to the nearby sheriff on the spot to report that someone here is possessed by an evil spirit.
Looking at it from another angle, it seems that there is nothing wrong with reporting like this?
Duncan in the captain's room of the Lost Homeland was spinning these strange thoughts in his mind, while rustily using a "remote perspective" to remotely control the body and begin to move slowly.
It's hard, directing physical activity with just some remote contact when your consciousness isn't in your body than having a novice puppet control a string puppet with twenty-eight joints.
But after many attempts, he managed to get the body in the city-state of Plant to sit up from the bed!
In the next second, the picture coming from a distance in his mind suddenly spun around.
The body fell to the floor......
Duncan sighed, "Okay, it looks like I've had to practice for quite a while."