Lucrecia slid several meters on the deck - this scene happened so suddenly that Duncan didn't even react to what was happening.

He didn't let go of the paper until the "sea witch" hurriedly got up.

The piece of colored paper flew out with a "whoosh" and quickly disappeared into Lucrecia's hair, while the latter still stood there in a daze, with no expression on her face.

She might have been a little dazed from the fall.

"Lucy..." With an embarrassment that could have made a hole in the deck and a subtle apology, Duncan carefully walked in front of the still confused witch lady, "Are you okay?"

Lucretia shuddered, as if she had finally woken up from the daze. She slowly turned her head, and the expression on her face finally changed from confusion to shock. She looked at Duncan with an incredible expression, and it took a long time before she broke the silence: "How did you do it?"

"Ah?" Duncan didn't react for a moment. "How did you do that?"

"You caught... 'Shadow'..." Lucrecia hesitated to speak, as if trying to organize words to describe this overly abstract thing. Then she raised her arm again, and starting from her fingertips, part of her arm quickly disintegrated into flying colorful paper pieces, flying around her. "Can you try again and let me see?"

Duncan reached out his hand in confusion and grabbed a piece of colored paper.

The next second, the flying colored papers suddenly "collapsed" and turned into Lucrecia's arms again, and the latter's expression was shocked again.

"This is incredible!" Miss Witch stared at Duncan with eyes wide open. "This has never happened before. Can you tell me how this was done?"

Seeing that this cheap "daughter" seemed to have aroused his enthusiasm as a researcher, Duncan had no idea what was going on. He frowned and looked at the colored paper in his hand, with a puzzled look on his face: "Is this difficult? They are just some pieces of paper flying in the air..."

"They are uncatchable, Dad," Lucrecia opened her arms. "If the Phantom Wind can be interrupted by someone grabbing a piece of paper, how can I use it as my most commonly used means of transfer? These are all phantoms, and in theory they can penetrate all obstacles..."

"I don't know about that," Duncan shrugged. "I was just curious about these pieces of paper and wanted to grab them to have a look. Sorry... Are you hurt? Where did you bump into anything?"

Lucrecia was slightly startled.

It seemed like she hadn't heard anyone express concern for her in this tone for many, many years.

Ever since she became a powerful "sea witch", a cursed person feared by many, and the captain of a ghost ship, she has no longer heard such words.

This made her feel a little awkward.

"I... I'm fine." She shook her head with a strange expression, trying to suppress the embarrassment in her heart while trying to distract herself with thinking, "You can catch phantoms... Is this also one of your current powers? What is its essence? Is it a deep understanding of the world? Or is it due to the influence of the subspace?"

Lucrecia was really lost in thought. Her instinct to explore the unknown made her forget the embarrassment in an instant. She continued to mutter while thinking: "... Could it be that in this 'layer' of the subspace, there is actually no difference between matter and illusions in the real world? Everything in the mortal world is the same 'concept' in front of the subspace... Is Claude Devins' theory correct? Everything is a 'concept' and forms a consistent projection in the subspace..."

Duncan was listening to the witch mumbling beside him, and finally couldn't help but interrupt her: "Lucy...you can study this matter at another time."

The "witch" woke up instantly, but still stared at Duncan with wide eyes without blinking.

Duncan lowered his head, looking at the colored paper in his hand, and couldn't help thinking in his mind.

He had not imagined that these colorful pieces of paper were such special "things", and looking at Lucrecia's reaction, his actions just now were obviously enough to be called "shocking".

He caught the phantom himself - but Duncan knew that he did not have the ability to catch the phantom.

He just didn't know that the pieces of paper were phantoms.

Thoughts in his mind were rising and falling, some past events and guesses emerged in his memories, and some "things" appeared in Duncan's mind - fish.

After being silent for an unknown amount of time, he suddenly spoke softly as if talking to himself: "Its essence... maybe it's 'I don't know'..."

Lucrecia heard her father talking to himself, but was confused: "What are you talking about? Are you saying that you don't know the nature of this ability?"

Duncan came back to his senses and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to explain something to his "daughter", but after hesitating several times, he shook his head.

"It has another meaning, but I don't know how to explain it to you. Lucy, we'll talk about it later when we have a chance. We have other things to do now."

He turned his head and looked at the magnificent "wall of light" that had arrived at the bow of the Brilliant Star and was emitting a heavy sense of oppression with its majestic posture.

"Take me to see the stone ball first."

Lucrecia nodded, but did not leave. Instead, she stood there, looking at her father with a conflicted and complicated look.

Duncan frowned in confusion: "Anything else?"

Lucrecia hesitated for a moment, then raised her hand and pointed cautiously: "Can you... give that back to me first?"

Duncan looked down and found that he was still holding the colored paper pieces that the other party had split apart during the "experiment" just now.

His face suddenly froze, and he let go of her hand while apologizing: "Uh, ahem, sorry."

The piece of paper floated up and quickly penetrated into Lucrecia's arm, filling a dull spot with color.

The "Sea Witch" looked at the scene with a somewhat subtle expression, then nodded to Duncan, turned around and turned into a large piece of flying colored paper, ready to fly towards the bridge - but she stopped less than half a meter after flying out, her figure recondensed, and turned her head to look at Duncan worriedly: "Don't catch me this time..."

Duncan looked embarrassed: "...Of course."

Lucrecia nodded again and turned away, but turned back again with concern: "If you are curious, discuss it before doing the experiment next time, and really don't catch it."

Duncan spread his hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Of course I won't catch you. I'm not a child."

Lucrecia said "oh", but hesitated for a long time before turning around. Finally, she sighed and said, "I'd better walk..."

Then the witch walked all the way to the distant bridge.

Duncan looked at the other person walking away with a strange expression, and finally couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

Fortunately, Master Taran El was too nervous to come to the deck with him and was still lying in the room resting. Otherwise, the scene would not be just a matter of fatherly love and filial piety as well as embarrassment.

I'm afraid the "Sea Witch" will choose to silence him - and then Taran Eyre will really die on this ship.

After a series of chaotic thoughts went around in his mind, Duncan let out a sigh of relief, and his mood finally calmed down. At the same time, the Brilliant Star slightly adjusted its angle under the personal control of the captain, and then sailed straight into the magnificent "light curtain".

Like some kind of tangible crystal, the pale golden "sunlight" filled the field of vision without any obstruction, gradually engulfing the Brilliant Star.

Duncan stood at the end of the front deck, looking calmly at the "sunshine" that was blowing towards him and completely immersing him in it.

He guessed the nature of the sunlight and raised his hands slightly, as if to feel the "touch" of the sunlight.

On the way here, he had heard Lucrecia tell him a lot of information about this "luminous falling object", and also learned that during the period when the sun was extinct, this luminous geometric body had continuously sent out regular "light signals". There was a lot of information - but none of it could explain to him the "moon" in the center of the luminous geometric body.

Duncan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Some small shadows appeared in his vision.

That was the research station that Lucrecia had mentioned before, the elves set up in the center of the glowing geometric body, and the mysterious stone ball next to the station.

The research station is a two-story building built on a floating platform, and the stone ball is less than a few meters away from the floating platform. There is a temporary bridge and many steel cables connecting the two to ensure the stability of the platform.

As the distance gradually shortened, more and more details on the "stone ball" came into Duncan's eyes.

Now, he's finally confirmed it in the real world.

Those familiar lines, those plains, depressions and crater structures with light and dark distributions, which frequently appeared in his recent memories and which he had seen more than once in books and on the Internet - the moon.

“It’s really this…”

An inexplicable complex emotion filled his heart - it was not surprise, because Duncan had been surprised before, and it was not confusion, because he had been thinking about it in confusion for a long time before today.

At this moment, he just confirmed and witnessed something that had been bothering him for a long time, a strange fact that he could not understand or admit, and it came before him in an undoubted way.

The Brilliant Star slowly slowed down, and under Lucrecia's control, this "alive" ghost ship like the Lost Homeland finally stopped only a few meters away from the stone ball with incredible accuracy.

Duncan came to the edge of the deck, where he could even see every tiny line on the surface of the stone ball.

He was also increasingly certain that this sphere, which was only about ten meters in diameter, had an astonishing degree of "restoration". It was so delicate and in line with the detailed features of the "moon" surface that... it was completely unlike the "miniature model" he had imagined at first.

It seems that it is exactly the real "moon", which has been "compressed" into this size.