Fanna left. Even though she was blessed, she needed to have a good rest at this time.

Duncan watched her leave the captain's room until her figure disappeared outside the door. He then looked back at the goat head who was quietly sitting at the edge of the navigation table: "What do you think of the 'revelations' that Gemona conveyed to Vanna?"

"...The large-scale collapse and disintegration of the sun seems to be something the Four Gods knew would happen sooner or later," the Goat Head held it in for a long time, and finally got the chance to speak, "I knew they knew about this, and they must have been holding it in for ten thousand years! When the Holy Lord of the Deep created the world, he discussed it with them, but in the Deep Sea Era, no one of them said a word when asked, and they didn't say what the problem was. Of course, we have to understand it. After all, if this matter were to be made public, it would scare more than one or two city-states to death. Even the popes were kept in the dark. Now the sun is starting to disintegrate..."

Duncan looked up and reached out to cover the goat-headed man's mouth. "I shouldn't have asked you that."

The goat head was gagged, and a messy grunt came from its throat. A pair of eyeballs carved out of obsidian swayed back and forth on the wooden face, and its eyes looked so lively for the first time.

Duncan sighed and took his hand away. "I'm asking about the second half of the revelation...'They' are going to talk to me about it. What do you think they're going to talk to me about? In what form?"

"...I don't know about that," Goat-Head finally spoke with some restraint this time, shaking his head angrily as he spoke, "Are they trying to trick you into taking over something again?"

Duncan didn't say anything, but just pondered quietly for a long time.

It seems that the state of "them" is really bad. Before, Ge Mona could still pass on a few words of information to him, but now she can only send revelations through Vanna, and it is accompanied by such pollution...

At this moment, a voice from a distance suddenly interrupted Duncan's thoughts.

His eyes changed slightly in an instant, and he looked up at the oval mirror hanging on the wall not far away - a layer of illusory flames spread under his gaze, and the surface of the mirror suddenly became dark, and light and shadows slowly emerged.

Tirian's image appeared in the mirror.

"Father," the "Iron Lieutenant General" had a solemn look on his face. The background behind him should be the port area, and a hazy golden glow seemed to cover behind him. It was obviously not a normal sunset. "I'm sorry to disturb you suddenly..."

"It's okay," Duncan waved his hand, speaking gently, "What happened? Why are you so nervous?"

"...Our scholars have entered the glowing geometric object that fell in the frost. According to the information Lucrecia shared before, we have successfully found its core, but that thing... is not the same as described in the information. I hope you can see it with your own eyes."

"Not quite the same?" Duncan frowned slightly. He realized from Tirian's reaction that the situation over there might be a little complicated, and nodded immediately, "I understand. We'll be there soon."

He quickly cut off the connection with Tirian, his mind focused, and turned his head -

Outside the window of the cemetery guard's cottage, fine snow was falling silently. As the sun set, the hazy snow scene shrouded the whole world in silence.

The fire in the caretaker's hut was crackling, the samovar hissing sharply and crescendoingly, the water just boiling and steam rising.

Duncan stood up, closed the damper of the furnace, and took off the black brimmed hat hanging at the door. He put on the hat, adjusted his black windbreaker, and walked out of the cabin.

Two young guards in black who were sweeping the roads and checking street lights in the cemetery heard the noise and turned their heads at the same time. They saw the intimidating silent guard, who was always dressed in black and wrapped in bandages, walking out of the hut. They immediately stood up straight and saluted.

Duncan waved at them in response, then snapped his fingers. A giant skeleton bird with ghostly flames burning all over its body flew over a long distance and landed directly on his shoulder.

"Full of fuel, let's go!" Ai flapped his wings and made a harsh and unpleasant cry in his skeleton form. Then he suddenly turned into a fiercely rising ring of fire. The ring of fire wrapped around Duncan's figure. The two merged into one and instantly flew into the sky, passing in the direction of the port area...

In the east of Frost, a massive golden glow still enveloped the entire port. This glow seemed to have some kind of crystal-like texture, quietly permeating everything within its coverage area - bright, but not dazzling; gentle, yet disturbing.

Aiden, who is tall and has a shiny forehead, looked at the golden light around him a little nervously.

He had taken off his old pirate outfit and was now wearing a new uniform representing the modern Frost Navy. When in front of his subordinates, he would try his best to maintain his dignity and reliability, but in front of Tirian, he did not hide his uneasiness.

"Are these 'lights' really harmless?" the bald man muttered, "Looking at them, I feel as if I'm 'immersed' in something, as if they will seep into my skin, and even breathing seems to fill my lungs with something..."

Tirian turned and glanced at Aiden.

"First, you have at least seven holes in your lungs now. Do you usually put less stuff into those holes?" he said casually. "Second, the harmlessness of this 'light' has been proven. Lucrecia has been studying this stuff for a long time in Breeze Harbor."

"...but the thing that fell here is different from the one in Breeze Harbor," Aiden couldn't help but mutter, "The 'core' over there is a stone ball..."

The undead commander, who was deeply trusted by Tirian, shook his head, and his shiny head reflected a dazzling golden light in Tirian's sight.

Tirian took a small step to the side without making a sound, and opened his mouth as if about to say something, but suddenly sensed a breath approaching, so he immediately closed his mouth and turned back.

At almost the same time, a deep and slightly hoarse voice reached his and Aiden's ears: "You mean, the core of the falling object here is not a 'stone ball'?"

A green flame rose silently, and Duncan walked out of the flame. He walked past the frightened guards and government office staff around him and walked straight towards Tirian and Aiden.

Aiden was startled, but reacted instantly, took two steps forward, bowed his head and saluted: "Old Captain..."

A dazzling golden light swept across Duncan's vision. He calmly took a half step to the side, avoiding Aiden's shiny head.

"Father," Tirian also reacted and hurried forward to greet him, "I didn't expect you to arrive so soon."

"I'm curious about the 'special situation' you mentioned," Duncan said as he waved his hand and walked forward. "Don't waste time. Let's talk while we walk - what exactly is the situation?"

Tirian hurried to catch up, speaking quickly as he walked: "It is hard to describe to you. It is something we have never seen before... something that even the most knowledgeable scholars in the city are at a loss to explain. It is indeed a sphere, but the surface is illusory and is always moving, like some kind of living thing, and it even makes a slight whistling sound... You will know when you see it with your own eyes."

Listening to Tirian's description, Duncan just nodded slightly and quickened his pace.

They walked through the pale golden light that spread throughout the entire port area, passed through the docks and connecting bridges, and came to the coastline - the road was very quiet, and the people in the entire area had been urgently dispersed. A long blockade line separated the entire dock area from the urban area, and the central area of ​​the luminous body was right at a corner of the coastline of this port.

If you look down from the air at this moment, the irregular luminous geometric bodies cover almost one-third of the entire city-state, as if a luminous structure has "grown" out of thin air on the edge of the Frost Island, illuminating the large area of ​​​​the nearby sea at dusk.

Under the guidance of Tirian and Aiden, Duncan finally arrived at the center of the glowing geometry and saw the "core structure" that puzzled the Frost Scholars and even made them nervous and frightened.

It is floating at the end of the beach, with calm sea water a dozen meters away - a sphere with a diameter of about ten meters is quietly suspended there, a simple scaffolding has been built on its edge, and some staff are busy nearby.

"You see, this is it..." Tirian raised his hand and pointed at the huge sphere that seemed to move like a living thing, with colors flowing on its surface, which was disturbing. "This thing doesn't look like stone."

"...Of course it's not stone..."

Duncan raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly. After a brief surprise, a natural but subtle feeling came to his mind. He looked at the "core", moved his lips a few times, and then answered Tirian's question softly.

"This is a gaseous planet."

Tirian was stunned for a moment, and repeated the unfamiliar word in confusion: "Gas planet? What does that mean?"

Duncan did not speak. He just observed for a moment and then slowly walked forward two steps, until he came to the bottom of the floating "gas planet", and quietly looked up to observe its surface structure.

Gorgeous cloud bands with a slight metallic luster flow slowly on its surface, outlining circles of "cloud flows" surrounding the entire star. There are also tiny whirlpools and storms rotating between those cloud bands, slowly and magnificently.

As he got closer, he heard the "whistling" that Tirian had mentioned, so subtle that it seemed to come from afar.

That was the sound coming from within the star - a long, long time ago, in the years before all things were annihilated, the whistling sound might have been deafening, even with enough power to tear apart a small celestial body. At that time, this planet was still of such a huge and shocking scale that it could contain thousands of endless seas in its clouds.

However, now, this "star" with a diameter of ten meters can only make a sound that is so subtle that it is difficult to distinguish... like a whimper.