Bishop Valentine's words stunned Vanna, and she didn't know what to do next.
Noticing the strange atmosphere, Valentine was slightly embarrassed, and then looked at Vanna helplessly: "The main thing is... people who came out of Vision 004 had all kinds of reactions, some were dizzy, some had short-term mental disorders, and even had cognitive shifts. I can understand all of this - but you are the first one to come out with a full stomach."
Vanna noticed that the atmosphere around her was becoming increasingly strange, and she felt a little overwhelmed: "I don't know what to do...hiccups!"
She swallowed quickly, trying to control the urge to burp, while wondering in confusion what had happened after she entered Vision 004. At this moment, the saint projections that had gathered around her suddenly froze slightly, and then dispersed to both sides.
Pope Helena walked through the crowd and came to Vanna.
The appearance of His Holiness the Pope made Vanna stand up straight immediately. She raised her head and subconsciously wanted to salute - but she couldn't hold it back for a moment and hiccuped again.
Helena frowned.
The graceful lady looked at Fanna in confusion for a while, then raised her head and looked at the empty space where the "Tomb of the Unknown King" had just sunk. After a long time, she turned her gaze back to Fanna: "...You ate the tomb guard?"
Vanna: “……?”
After being stunned for several seconds, she spoke helplessly: "You might as well suspect that I am chewing stones in there..."
There was no strange expression on Helena's face, as if in her opinion, Vanna, the inquisitor who was quite explosive in the history of the Deep Sea Church, was really capable of swallowing the guards of the mausoleum alive. But soon, she shook her head and said calmly: "That's right, even for you, this kind of thing is a bit extreme. So... what happened?"
"I don't remember, I..." Vanna shook her head. However, the moment she opened her mouth, she felt as if some vague impression emerged in her mind - as if the blocked memory was about to surface, but the impression disappeared in the blink of an eye. She was confused for a while, and finally could only continue to shake her head, "Sorry, I really can't remember."
"Really? It seems that even if we enter Anomaly 004 three times in a row, we can't resist the effects of this memory erasure." Helena's expression did not change, but she only looked at Vanna's hand, "Then check the parchment and see what information you brought out of it."
The Pope's reminder made Vanna suddenly remember the important matter. She quickly put aside her messy thoughts and embarrassment and took out the parchment she was holding tightly in her hand.
As usual, more than half of the parchment had been torn off, and the news that should not be taken out of the tomb was once again left inside Vision 004. On the small remaining half of the parchment, there were a few lines of scribbled words.
Vanna's eyes fell on those words and suddenly froze.
〖…Vision – Frost…
Vision - Lost Homeland...
Vision - The Lost Fleet...〗
Three lines of scribbled text bore the names of three visions—no numbers.
Helena's eyes became more and more serious.
Bishop Valentine also saw the records on the parchment and was greatly shocked.
Once again, Vanna brought out strange information from the tomb of the nameless king - strange vision codes that were completely different from the normal format of the "Anomalies and Phenomena List"!
“Once again…” Vanna herself was also stunned. She stared at the words on the parchment for a long time before she raised her head and looked at the Pope in confusion. “There is no numbered vision.”
"I am not surprised by the appearance of the Vision - Frost. After Plande turned into a vision, I already had a hunch about this. But the Lost Homeland..." Helena said in a serious tone, her eyes deep as water, "The Lost Homeland, which was originally on the Vision list, has now lost its number."
"Not only that, now even the Lost Home Fleet has appeared," Valentine said, "It's also an unnumbered anomaly - and it's independent of the Lost Home Fleet, occupying a separate location!"
Helena did not speak, but raised her head and glanced at the soul projections around her.
The saints reacted instantly. Familiar with the "secrecy code" and "pollution risk", they did not need any additional orders. They bowed to the Pope and then left the meeting place one by one.
In the huge and quaint square, only Vanna, Valentine and Helena were left.
"What changes have occurred on the Lost Homeland recently?" Helena asked after the other saints had left. "Why did the name of the Lost Homeland Fleet suddenly appear on the list? Is Captain Duncan reassembling his fleet?"
The Lost Home Fleet did exist, but that was a century ago, and that fleet was not a dangerous "phenomenon" -
With the most advanced exploration ship of the time, the Lost Homeland, as the flagship, the two powerful warships, the Sea Mist and the Brilliant Star, as its wingmen, and more than a dozen large and small support ships of various types, the Lost Homeland Fleet was the most powerful and greatest exploration fleet on the vast ocean. Before that terrible upheaval, this great fleet had discovered countless islands, opened up more than a dozen important shipping routes, and even defined part of the borders of the civilized world.
In that era, Captain Duncan and the Lost Homeland Fleet were not feared. Instead, they were synonymous with glory and greatness, and a symbol of the courage of civilization to expand to the frontier.
However, all this came to an abrupt end when the Lost Homeland fell into the warp.
After that, the Lost Homeland Fleet fell apart, with the flagship returning to the world as "Anomaly 005", and its fleet members disintegrated and dispersed in the following century. Now the only two remaining warships, "Sea Mist" and "Brilliant Star", no longer operate in the name of the Lost Homeland Fleet.
Therefore, it can be said that throughout this entire period of history, the "Lost Fleet" was never listed as a vision.
But now, there is a new vision, called the "Lost Fleet".
"...There is a ship called 'White Oak'," Vanna sorted out her thoughts and began to tell Helena about the incident that happened in the Frigid Sea not long ago. She knew that the Pope must have intelligence channels and should have a general understanding of the situation of Frost by now, but the details were obviously only known by her, who was at the center of the incident. "That ship is now a member of the Lost Home Fleet..."
Helena's expression was serious as she listened carefully to Vanna's report on the "Mirror Frost Incident" and how the White Oak was transformed and absorbed into a member of the Lost Homeland Fleet.
The Pope broke her silence only after Vanna finished her story. "That is to say, a new Lost Homeland Fleet is taking shape. As soon as that new exploration ship was transformed into a member of the fleet, a new 'vision' entered the list of the Tomb of the Unknown King."
"It seems so," Vanna nodded gently, "Birth is an anomaly... and it is an anomaly without a number. This kind of thing..."
"This kind of thing has happened in history, but every time a new anomaly is born, it is often accompanied by a huge disaster or a huge change in the environment of an entire region or even the entire sea." Helena shook her head. "What did the birth of the Lost Homeland Fleet bring?"
Vanna opened her mouth, and for a moment her mind felt a little blank.
"It seems... nothing happened?" She hesitated for a long time before she spoke to herself, "At least for now, no one has been injured, and no place has become a restricted area. In fact... the transformation of the White Oak has been accompanied by the restoration of stability in the Frost situation. The whole thing seems to be moving in a good direction..."
Helena looked into Vanna's eyes quietly: "Not only that, this new 'vision' also cannot be summarized into 'rules' or 'taboos'."
A thoughtful look appeared on Vanna's face.
"Normal 'visions' all have corresponding rules and taboos, just like normal 'abnormalities' all have corresponding dangers and containment and sealing conditions," Bishop Valentine at the side couldn't help but speak up, "but according to your description just now, Vanna, the Lost Homeland Fleet currently does not show any such taboo tendency at all - although the White Oak has its own weird characteristics, these 'weirdnesses' are limited to the ship itself, not the entire 'fleet'."
"It may also be because this phenomenon has just been born and we are unable to summarize its rules yet," Helena said thoughtfully, "but the greater possibility is... it is just like Plande today."
"What is Plande like now?" Vanna repeated this sentence subconsciously, her eyes fell on Bishop Valentine, "Prande is now..."
"It's just like what I described during the last contact. It's safe and peaceful. The night is no longer scary and the darkness no longer changes," Valentine said with a serious expression. "I haven't received any reports of supernatural erosion in the city for a long time. I believe Frostbite will be the same next time."
Helena nodded gently: "The peaceful night and darkness, the environment suitable for survival - the strangest thing in the world is that there is nothing strange about a place. Today's Plande is such a place."
Vanna didn't speak for a while, but fell into quiet thought.
Bishop Valentine said after a moment of silence: "Perhaps, all these 'unnumbered visions' are like this? They reject all supernatural invasions except for themselves, and the only weirdness they show is that there is no weirdness within the range."
"We can't jump to conclusions yet. We need to observe the newly appeared 'Anomaly - Frost' for a while," Helena said in a deep voice. Then she frowned and looked at Vanna. "As the controller of all this, did Captain Duncan do anything...special? What plans does he have? Will he continue to expand his fleet, or re-incorporate the Sea Mist and the Brilliant Star? Has he revealed anything to you?"
Fanna thought about it, and suddenly hesitated: "This...he gave me a task."
"A task for you?" Helena's expression suddenly became serious. "What task?"
"...He asked me to find a way to get a pass for the White Oak and take advantage of... a loophole in the church's review."
Helena: “……?”