"According to the current speed, we will reach the waters around Breeze Harbor in a day - but this is based on the situation marked on the 'sea chart'. As for whether the Lost Hometown is currently in this area, we still need to confirm it. After all... this matter is too unbelievable."

There was solemnity and hesitation in Goat Head's tone, and Duncan had rarely heard this guy react like this since he had known him.

There is no doubt that what was happening to the Lost Homeland at this moment was completely beyond the experience of this "first mate".

Duncan supported himself on the edge of the navigation table with both hands, looking solemnly at the slowly spreading fog on the nautical chart. Between the shadow of the Lost Homeland and the northern route, large patches of fog were floating at this moment - that was the route that the Lost Homeland should have taken, but now it was still shrouded in fog.

"...In the twelve hours before the sun went out, we directly 'jumped' the entire voyage from the northern route to the southern seas, and even you don't know how it happened." Duncan raised his eyes and looked at the goat head on the edge of the table, "But the White Oak, which was also on the Infinite Sea during the sun going out, did not encounter this phenomenon - they still generally maintained the correct navigation path."

"...I don't know how to explain this, Captain." The goat-head shook his head slightly, looking embarrassed. "Although both the Lost Homeland and the White Oak have undergone your baptism of fire, the two ships are very different. Any difference in the details may be the cause of this phenomenon..."

Duncan didn't say anything for a while, but just thought solemnly for more than ten seconds, and then he seemed to suddenly think of something and broke the silence: "When did the sea chart change?"

This time the goat-head replied very quickly: "Just now, when the sun started to shine again."

"Are you sure?" Duncan knew that the other party would not lie to him, but he still asked subconsciously.

"I'm sure," the goat-head shook his head up and down, "I've been paying attention to everything related to 'navigation', including the movement of the nautical chart. During the time when the sun went out, the nautical chart never changed, as if we had been standing still. After the sun came back on, the nautical chart began to show some... confusion, just like the confusion that occurs every time you emerge from the spirit world into the real world. I thought it was just self-calibration, but I didn't expect that when it stabilized again, it would show that the Lost Homeland had arrived near Breeze Harbor..."

Duncan listened carefully to Goat-Head's story and suddenly frowned: "That is to say, this 'jump' is very likely to have occurred at the moment when the sun reignited..."

The goat-head nodded slowly.

The entire captain's room fell into silence for a while.

Duncan didn't know what Goat Head was thinking at the moment. He only knew that his mind was filled with confusing speculations and countless questions, and all these questions seemed to revolve around one core:

[During the process of the sun going out and reigniting, what changes happened to the Infinite Ocean? ]

At first, he thought it was just a temporary darkness, just like the sun rising ten minutes late before. In that late sunrise, except for some people who noticed it and felt nervous and panicked, the whole world seemed to be completely unaffected.

But he soon discovered that the extinction of the sun caused many things to go wrong - including the interruption of communications among the city-states, and the strange "border" phenomenon observed by the White Oak.

Now, after the sun was reignited, he discovered that the strange impact of this incident was far more than that - the entire Lost Homeland "teleported" two-thirds of the way and came directly to the vicinity of Breeze Harbor, and Tirian reported that other city-states had no idea that the sun had been extinguished...

It seems that between the switching of the sun's "extinguishing" and "lighting up", the whole world briefly presented a bizarre "appearance", with all kinds of tearing inconsistencies, and the Homeland Lost, a "ghost ship" wandering on the edge of reality, briefly and soberly crossed this torn "crack".

A terrifying thought suddenly emerged in Duncan's mind.

What is the function of the sun?

Is it just providing light and heat, while suppressing the "supernatural erosion" in this world? Is it suppressing the supernatural erosion in this world... or is it the world itself?

"...Captain," the voice of the goat-head suddenly came from the side, interrupting Duncan's contemplation, "What should we do next? If the Lost Homeland has really arrived near Breeze Harbor... then should we contact Miss Lucrecia?"

"...Confirm the surrounding situation first, and don't rush into the city-state." Duncan thought for a moment, and couldn't help but think of his previous experience in Plande and Frost. He shook his head subconsciously, "Let the Lost Homeland hide in the shadows and fog, and contact Lucrecia when the time is right."

The goat-headed man's head immediately dropped: "Yes, Captain."

Duncan hummed, then walked to the oval mirror in the corner of the room and tapped the mirror lightly with his hand.

Dark shadows floated in the mirror, and in the blink of an eye, Agatha, dressed as a female adventurer, appeared in front of him.

"I never thought that I would have such an incredible experience on my first voyage with you," Agatha exclaimed. "It's just as you said. When I set sail with the Lost Homeland, I will witness all the incredible things in the world - my imagination before departure was too conservative."

"Feeling overstimulated?"

"It's OK. I don't have a heart that beats wildly all the time." Agatha smiled. "I need to keep an eye on the changes in the spirit world next, right?"

"The spirit world, and those 'reflections' that wander between the spirit world and the real world, if possible, pay attention to the situation below the sea surface," Duncan said without hesitation, "I always feel that... even if the sun shines again, the follow-up effects of this incident are not over. It always doesn't hurt to be cautious."

"I understand." Agatha put away her smile and nodded solemnly, but then added, "Ah, according to the rules of the ship, we should say this - Yes, Captain!"

The figure in the mirror gradually disappeared.

Duncan still looked solemn and was thinking quietly in front of the mirror.

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The flying colored pieces of paper circled over the street, passed through the gaps between the tall and short roofs and buildings, and finally flew into a building near the City-State University, and flew into the laboratory of the elven scholar Taran El.

Lucrecia's figure condensed out from the colored paper.

The next second, the "sea witch" frowned in confusion.

The elf scholar was nowhere to be seen in the laboratory.

"...Could he still be trapped on the roof and unable to get down?" Lucrecia couldn't help but mutter, turning her head to look at the still open window not far away.

But just as she was about to fly to the roof to confirm whether the elf scholar was still trapped there, a burst of slightly hurried footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside, interrupting her action.

Listening to the noise in the corridor, Lucrecia waved towards the door not far away.

With a "bang", the door suddenly opened, and then a shadow rushed towards the corridor in the direction of Lucrecia's finger. Brief screams and sounds of falling were heard outside. A moment later, an apprentice who was dancing and trying desperately to stand up was "invited" into the room.

The apprentice came in lying down, and it looked like he was "sliding" into the house floating at a height of about ten centimeters from the ground. But when he entered the house and stopped, the things that "sent" him into the room swarmed out from under his body - countless toy soldiers crawled out from under the apprentice, and quickly formed a team on the floor next to him, and then marched to the sound of music played by drummers and trumpeters, and returned to the shadow beside Lucrecia in an orderly and fast manner.

The apprentice who was "invited" into the room looked at the running toy soldiers on the floor in horror, and then his eyes noticed the soldiers and the owner of the shadows. He raised his head and glanced at Lucrecia who was standing by the window, and finally realized who this vaguely familiar lady was.

"Witch... Ah, Ms. Lucrecia!" The apprentice quickly turned over and greeted this great figure who was surrounded by many legends and halos, "Good afternoon... Good afternoon..."

As he spoke, the apprentice could not help but suddenly twist his body - a small toy soldier crawled out of his pocket, fell to the ground and broke into pieces, but then the toy soldier reassembled, turned over quickly and ran towards his mistress, and hid back in the shadows.

Lucrecia ignored the panicked faux pas of the young apprentice and the toy soldier who had fallen behind, and asked directly, "I'm here to look for your teacher. Where is he?"

"I was just about to go look for him," the apprentice swallowed and quickly answered the "witch" who was said to be "cold and lonely, good at cursing, and as unpredictable as the sea." "Someone saw him go to the Flowing Cloud Tower when the sun went out, from... from the roof of the university..."

Lucrecia raised an eyebrow. "From the roof of the university?"

"Yes... yes, someone saw him. He seemed to be in a hurry... and he hasn't come back yet. I'm worried that something happened to him..."

"He must be in trouble. He went to the roof of the university with a century of frozen shoulder and cervical spondylosis. Even as an elf, he shouldn't challenge such an extreme sport," Lucrecia said casually, and then waved her hand to the young apprentice, "I'll go check on him. By the way, what's your name?"

The apprentice quickly straightened his body: "Joshua... Joshua Dino."

"Okay, I'll tell your teacher and deduct three points from your academic performance assessment."

Joshua was stunned for a moment: "Why?"

Lucrecia's figure suddenly turned into flying colored pieces of paper, and flew out of the window. Only one sentence was vaguely heard by the young apprentice:

"...No running allowed in the research building."