He slowly shook his head.

"Talan. Eyl's actions are bold, but in the vast, boundless sea, he's not the only scholar with such daring!"

"Is there anything else you need us to do?" The rabbit doll, Rabi, hopped over from the side, looking up and speaking in a soft voice.

"Next, I will try to connect to Talan. Eyl's dream, helping him open a path back to the real world from the other side. But considering the complexity of this dream, I need you to watch over the candelabras in this room. If I haven't woken up after three hours, extinguish all the candles in descending order of height. This will forcibly awaken me!"

"Yes," Lunie lowered her head. Three hours, extinguished in descending order. I remember.

"Rabi can dream with the mistress," the rabbit doll hopped over, hugging Lucretia's leg with anticipation. "Rabi is a rabbit who dreams."

"One nightmare is enough." Lucretia unhesitatingly rejected the rabbit doll's eagerness.

"I don't want such a great scholar to suddenly die on my ship!"

"Okay, okay, Rabi knows." The rabbit doll lowered its head, making a dejected sound, muttering to itself as it walked to the corner of the room.

*Plop.* It sat on the floor!

Lucretia glanced at the doll, ignoring it. After confirming that all the ritual elements were ready, she sat on a high-backed chair opposite Talan. Eyl, then snapped her fingers!

In a laboratory deep within the Cerulean Star, Lucretia completed a rough check of Talan. Eyl. With the cooperation of the Academy of Truth, transferring this great scholar onto the ship was not difficult. But understanding what happened to him was not so simple. Even the knowledgeable "Sea Witch," renowned in the fields of mysticism and curses, had never seen such a situation!

Talan. Eyl was obviously trapped deep within some kind of dream, but his predicament showed no "curse" reaction, nor did he show any signs of mental corruption!

Lucretia lit three candelabras in the corner of the laboratory and sprinkled an herbal powder, which she had personally prepared, into the incense burner in front of the candelabras. Then, she went to Talan. Eyl's side, arranging crystals, bone fragments, and other items around him!

The clockwork doll "Lunie" with a ceramic shell and the rabbit doll "Rabi" were helping out in the laboratory. Noticing the serious expression on their mistress's face, Lunie couldn't help but ask, "Is the situation very bad? Is the elf in danger?"

"The situation is unclear. That's worse than bad." Lucretia said with a solemn expression.

"Talan Eyl fell asleep after trying to observe the sun. If there is a connection between these two things, it means that this kind of sleeping situation may not be an isolated case. How many people looked up during the sun's extinction? To what extent of 'observation' would trigger this sleep? How many people made the same bold moves as this elf scholar?"

As she spoke, a veil of illusion like sand instantly covered the room. All the objects in the laboratory seemed to be plated with a phantom light. The "Sea Witch" slowly lowered her head, and in the next second, she had entered the dream!

On the Forsaken, in the captain's room, Morris and Duncan were sitting at the nautical chart, and on the wall not far behind them, Agatha's hazy, illusory figure was emerging from the ancient, worn oval mirror!

"Aiyi has already flown over to confirm. The large island ahead of us is indeed Light Wind Harbor," Duncan said. "The Forsaken is currently hidden in the depths of the spirit world. We will contact Lucretia before landing on the island to confirm the current situation within the city-state from her!

"As for now, the problem of the Forsaken moving through the air remains before us!"

"Frankly, I have no clue." Morris bit his pipe, his brow furrowed like several ravines.

"I've heard of various 'teleportation' incidents, some with specific anomaly effects, some caused by curse anomalies like the Mariner at play, but what happened to the Forsaken is clearly different from all of that... Currently, the extinction of the sun is the most likely cause of the Forsaken's teleportation, but those of us on board have never noticed how or when this change occurred..."

"So I've always felt that the problem isn't the Forsaken, but the 'entire world' outside the Forsaken."

Duncan said in a deep voice, "Captain Lawrence's message also suggests this. When the sun went out, incomprehensible changes occurred in the sea area outside our sight!

"Tirian's report also illustrates this!"

"Has there been any further news from Mr. Tirian?"

Agatha's voice suddenly rang from the mirror, "Has Cold Harbor responded?"

"Yes... The situation is developing in the most bizarre direction." Duncan nodded. "Tirian has reconfirmed with the city-states that had previously lost contact. According to responses from all sides... including Cold Harbor, the other city-states not only don't know about the sun's extinction, they don't even know that their communications with Frost had been interrupted!"

Agatha's expression changed slightly.

She opened her mouth, "That is to say..."

"That is to say, they didn't experience those twelve hours of the sun's extinction."

Duncan slowly said, "In their eyes, the world has always been running normally. Frost, Prand, and Light Wind Harbor are all normal. Then suddenly, Frost sent a lot of inexplicable and nervous messages, saying things like 'the sun is out' and 'communications are interrupted' - now a tense atmosphere is spreading among several city-states. According to Tirian, 'they urgently need to figure out which side is abnormal!'"

Morris listened and pondered, then slowly put down his pipe. "Then it can also be understood this way: after the sun went out, the entire world's time was frozen for twelve hours, and the Forsaken, including the three city-states, were actually 'wrongly maintaining normal' during these twelve hours. It's like in a nightmare that everyone slept through... we accidentally opened our eyes and saw the truth in the cracks of time!"

Duncan had a thoughtful expression.

It must be admitted that the great scholars are indeed great scholars. Although Morris couldn't explain the principle behind all this, he put forward a very enlightening guess!

So can this conjecture be extended further?

In that world after the sun went out, are there more strange changes that have never been noticed? Even to make this guess more extreme...

Was the sun really extinguished for the first time?

These guesses floated in everyone's minds, and the captain's room fell silent for a while.

At this moment, Duncan seemed to suddenly perceive something, and frowned slightly with a hint of doubt: "Hmm?"

"Captain?"

Agatha asked immediately, "Did you think of something?"

"...No, it's something else."

Duncan waved his hand while continuing to maintain his perception, listening. His eyes seemed unfocused, gazing at a place that was not in the room.

"There is an aura..."

He suddenly raised his head and looked at Morris opposite him!

"What is Heidi doing now?"

"Heidi." Morris was stunned, not knowing why the captain suddenly brought this up. "Heidi is staying in Prand. It should still be chaotic over there because of the sun's extinction. City Hall will probably call her to... Is something wrong with Heidi?"

The great scholar finally reacted, and his face suddenly became tense!

"She shouldn't be in too much danger, but the state of the amulet I left her is a little wrong." Duncan frowned, then waved his hand towards the air. With a flash of ghostly green flames, Aiyi's figure appeared in the air beside him. "I need a passage to the dream!"

"So, you were actually 'treating' someone else, and then somehow came to my dream—then you thought I was an intruder and poked my neck with that awl?"

The elf scholar, who called himself "Talan Eyl," looked at Heidi's "golden awl" calmly and unhurriedly.

"Why do I feel like there's something wrong with what you're saying?"

"Actually..."

Heidi was embarrassed. If there was anything worse than accidentally injuring a patient with a golden awl and being discovered on the spot, it was being discovered only after the patient suddenly reacted after half a day, and then analyzed the matter with such a serious attitude - this elf scholar's reaction was truly unconventional. Heidi had seen many strange patients over the years, but this type was truly the first time she had seen.

"I also feel that something is wrong... but what I said is true!"

"What you said is true."

"Yeah." Talan Eyl nodded, then asked, "What about the 'other patient' you mentioned?"

Heidi immediately turned around and pointed in the direction she had come from. "That building is her dream...realm..." Her words gradually stopped, and her expression became stiff.

In the direction she was pointing, among the lush towering trees and vines, the medical facility that had been so large... had disappeared without a trace!

"Gone..." Heidi murmured to herself, slowly turning her head.

"But it was really there before, a very big one..."

"Mental Physician Miss." Talan Eyl interrupted Heidi's muttering. The elf scholar spread his hands, with a helpless expression on his face.

"Like this, it's difficult for me to believe you!"