MTL - Deep Sea Embers-Chapter 65 guillotine
The captain's cabin of the White Oak was temporarily set up as a sanctuary.
The scent of incense wafted in the room, and amulets depicting storm runes were hung on all doors and windows. The priests set up bronze boundary markers at the four corners of the room, and tied cloth strips soaked with holy oil on the top of the boundary markers. Finally, a copy of the Book of Storms from the Cathedral was sent into the room to serve as a "pillar" for the entire sanctuary.
After completing all the arrangements, Captain Lawrence and Inquisitor Fanna entered the captain's room together.
"I hope you won't mind our 'transformation' here," Fanna Dandan said, maintaining the restraint and decent manners that a high-level priest should have. "Everything is for safety."
"Of course, everything is for safety - what I lack the most right now is a sense of safety," Captain Lawrence nodded understandingly immediately, he looked around the sacred things in the room, slightly relieved, "With these things, it's normal I am afraid that the distorted pollution will die if I come in and take a look..."
"You can safely talk to me about the Lost Homes here," Fanna nodded. "Let's start with the beginning, where are you, and how did you meet the ship?"
Captain Lawrence calmed down and began to describe the most terrifying day in his memory: "It's like this..."
Captain Lawrence explained it in great detail. In front of a professional judge, he even said exactly what he had for breakfast that day and what time the sailors on the ship started the meal. The Captain's Journal and the Sailors' Journal of the day.
Experienced captains know this: many anomalies are preceded by seemingly ordinary signs, and it may be difficult for people at the time to realize the connection between these things, but professionals who review them after the fact can learn from them. Those daily clues summarize the experience, and use this as a warning to future generations.
Every captain on the Boundless Sea has the habit of keeping a logbook - at the same time, reading the log written by oneself is the only safe "reading method" on the Boundless Sea other than reading the classics of the Church.
After Fanna heard the thrilling encounter, Yingqi's brows furrowed little by little.
The situation is more serious than expected, and more bizarre than expected.
She had thought that Captain Lawrence's so-called "encounter" was just a face-to-face, or at most a brush with the ghost ship, so that the terrible captain only took the ship's cargo without harming anyone. A person - but did not expect that it turned out to be a head-on collision.
The whole White Oak crashed into the cabin of the Lost Country, and the whole ship was swept from top to bottom by the green ghostly flames.
According to Captain Lawrence, the White Oak even began to transform from top to bottom to the Lost! He can clearly see that his body has turned into a spirit state!
The holy emblem on the ship was shut down at the time, the ballast relic did not respond, the protective material added to the hull material was useless, the priest could only protect himself, the whole ship was in the depths of the spiritual world and could not ask for help from the outside— - It can be said that the White Oak was already captured by the captain at that time, and there was no possibility of "surviving by chance" at all.
Captain Lawrence is still standing here now, entirely because Homeless gave up the spoils without hesitation.
"Your Majesty Judge," Captain Lawrence said after seeing Fanna's unresponsiveness for a long time after finally telling his own experience, "You said, what did the Homeless do at the time? Really just wanted to take it away. Is it abnormal 099?"
Fana glanced at him: "Isn't this what you always think?"
"I... I've always thought so, but I'm not sure now," Lawrence sighed, "Especially when you said that the ghost captain recently extended his power to the city-state of Pland... I always feel that It's not going to be that simple."
"No one can guess what the ghost captain is thinking," Fanna shook her head. "Now all we can do is do the most thorough inspection of the White Oak to prevent any 'invasions' being carried on the ship. You and Your crew members will also be a little wronged these days, and until the investigation is over, you are not allowed to have any contact with anyone other than the church priests...including family visits."
Captain Lawrence bowed his head: "I can understand."
Then he paused, and then asked: "Then...about the theft of Anomaly 099..."
Fanna knew what the captain was worried about.
Weird and terrifying sea anomalies are threats hanging over civilization, but before considering these long-term and vast threats, this captain is first and foremost an ordinary person who needs to support the mouth of the lake - he has lost anomaly 099, and this responsibility lies in An ordinary person's head is too heavy.
"Don't worry, the church will come forward to explain this matter to the city-state authorities and the Explorers' Association," she said calmly, "The appearance of the Homeless is a force majeure, and the loss of Abnormal 099 is not your responsibility - even if you were responsible for escorting at the time. It's a church ship, and I'm afraid the result will be the same."
The expression on Captain Lawrence's face was visibly relieved.
However, there was still a word in Fanna's heart that she didn't say: After all, "abnormalities" themselves are on the verge of being sealed and out of control. Every year, new anomalies are out of control, and there are always city-state residents who are strangely involved. Losing life under the influence of things, and the church has been fighting against these runaway anomalies for thousands of years, in the face of this long and huge dynamic balance, the loss of an anomaly is not unimaginable - even if it is anomalous. The number is within the hundreds.
But she, the judge, can't say such words.
"In addition..." At this moment, Captain Lawrence suddenly hesitated to break the silence, "I want to ask, what is so special about Anomaly 099?"
Speaking of this, he paused, and quickly added: "Of course, when I took on the **** mission, I got a document, but it mainly involved the sealing method of the abnormal 099 and the emergency disposal method after the initial loss of control. It did not involve The origin and background of this anomaly and the situation after it was completely out of control... You know, it is an anomaly within a hundred after all. The more ordinary people around it know about it, the more likely it will be out of control. still understand.
"But now Anomaly 099 has been kidnapped by Homeless. According to regulations, it should be considered completely out of control, so..."
"It's okay to tell you," Fanna nodded before Captain Lawrence finished speaking, "Anomaly 099 has been out of the control of civilized society. According to the regulations, its relevant information will be reported to the Adventurers Association and the extraordinary teams of the city-states. Announce it in order to capture and reseal it in the future, and you are a member of the Adventurers Association and the last contact of Anomaly 099, so you should know this information."
Speaking of this, she stopped to think for a while, and then slowly said while sorting out the information she knew: "Anomalous 099, a puppet coffin, the appearance is a gorgeous wooden box like a coffin, and inside there is a sleeping state. The dolls are silver-haired and purple-skirted, and their body shape is similar to that of ordinary humans;
"This anomaly was originally discovered in the cold sea in the north, and the doll inside it looks extremely similar to the frost queen Lei Nora, who was beheaded and executed by the rebels half a century ago, but there is no evidence to prove that there is a real connection between the two. ;
"This anomaly does not have a tendency to think and has no consciousness, but it is very likely that it will actively perceive the outside world and exert influence on the outside world under the drive of instinct;
"You should be very clear about the sealing method of abnormal 099, I will not repeat it, as for its danger...
"First of all, the doll's coffin has a tendency to 'settlement'. Once it stays in a certain area for a long time, it will regard the area as its own territory, and it will be difficult to transfer it later, and it will settle in its own settlement. At the same time, the strength of its seal will also decrease sharply, and it will become more and more easy to get out of control - this is also a common feature of a considerable number of anomalies, so anomaly 099 needs to transfer the seal location frequently to prevent it from overgrowing.
"Secondly, when the doll's coffin is out of control, within a certain range around it, all humanoid units, including humans, elves, Senjin and Jibuluo, will be used as the check target. The range is as little as 100 meters. As many as nearly a thousand meters, it will grow with the 'settlement' time of the anomaly 099. The specific test standard is not yet clear, only that the selected target will immediately lose the freedom of movement as if controlled by a puppet line, and unconsciously move towards The direction of the puppet's coffin bows and bows its head, just like the people of the city-state worship the queen, and once this action is completed...the victim will be immediately beheaded.
"The beheading cannot be avoided, protected, or exempted. It is meaningless to apply any blessing or wear armor and stomach to the victim. The only effective condition is 'being selected by a puppet', and the victim will directly become a victim after the action is completed. The state of beheading, and after the beheading is completed, the puppet will be temporarily quiet for four to six hours, and then start looking for the next target, until no one survives within the range, or the coffin is resealed.
"The doll's coffin has the characteristics of movement when it is out of control. It is extremely fast and powerful, and it will break free from capture in various unimaginable ways. In addition, the coffin itself is extremely strong, so the danger after it is out of control will be further increased. big.
"During the several runaway incidents of the puppet's coffin, only one saint survived, but that saint happened to have the blood of the northern frost city-state, so it is impossible to determine whether it was the saint's strength that resisted the curse or whether it was because of his The bloodline just meets the 'pardon' conditions for the doll's coffin."
Listening to the young Inquisitor's calm remarks, Captain Lawrence felt his hair stand up a little bit.
His first thought was: the city-state authorities are really hard to earn!
No wonder the reward of escorting anomalous 099 is almost five times that of escorting ordinary anomalies - this kind of completely ignoring protection and ignoring dodge, the effective condition only requires "the puppet is eyeing you" and the lethal damage will be triggered, and it is placed on the escapist. On the ocean-going ship, it is simply a terrifying thing that is destined to die if it goes out of control!
That is to say, the captains of the Explorers Association who are specialized in dealing with "extreme survival" will take up this kind of work.
At the same time, he heard the voice of Inquisitor Fanna continued: "...for the strange and terrifying ability of the puppet coffin, the church specially gave it a special ability when it archived the abnormal 099. The name, named after the torture device used by the rebels to execute the Frost Queen half a century ago:
"Alice Guillotine."
