Chapter 139 Those Who Guard the Border

A century ago, the Radiant Star, like the Sea Fog, had been a corvette of the Forsaken.

However, few people knew what happened to these two legendary warships after they broke away from the Forsaken, or how they gradually became what they are today.

The Sea Fog, commanded by the "Iron Vice Admiral" Tyrannian, had become the main warship of the Frost Citadel after several twists and turns. People called it the "Unsinkable Ship" and the "Breathing Corpse." The ship had been severely damaged many times in battle, but it was as if an immortal soul was dominating it, allowing it to struggle out of its almost certain doom time and time again, and after one near-impossible modification after another, it gradually became a steel behemoth.

Legend has it that the ship would even directly feed on steel and seabed mineral deposits, and would gradually grow turrets and armor plates on its own during unattended night voyages.

As for the Radiant Star, inherited by the "Sea Witch" Lucretia, it had a thicker veil of mystery due to its less frequent proximity to the civilized world—in fact, apart from a small number of members of the Explorer's Association and the Vatican fleets that often patrolled the borders, ordinary captains on the boundless sea had no chance to see what the ship looked like.

And those who were fortunate enough to have seen the Radiant Star described the ship as follows:

"It is clearly not entirely part of our reality. That ship has truly sunk at least once, and lost half of its structure in the boundless sea. One half of its hull is like a ghost, showing the appearance of a century ago, while the other half has been twisted into a bizarre and grotesque shape by the power of that witch. Its bow is hung with cursed objects from the deep sea, and it is full of clanging machines and magical equipment. The crew members are long dead, and soulless clockwork automatons and cursed rag dolls have replaced normal sailors, running around on the deck.

"Without a doubt, that ship is a corpse that is sailing—or rather, half a deformed corpse, dragging its half-soul along with it."

Lucretia's gaze slowly swept across her flagship, and she nodded slightly in satisfaction.

The Radiant Star was in good condition, and her crew members were also very happy.

She knew how the world described her ship—and she also knew how the world described her brother's Sea Fog. She knew that many captains feared her and her brother, second only to fearing their father, who had returned from the subspace.

But she didn't care. She only dealt with very few humans on weekdays, and those people either had plenty of courage, or possessed rich knowledge, or at least had experienced some real adventures. Those people could communicate with her in a rational and normal manner, and that was enough.

She and her brother were still regarded as members of the real world, as "standing on the side of humanity," even if many people thought that the Sea Fog and the Radiant Star were cursed. The above perception would not change.

In the end, there were too many cursed things in this world. Almost every city-state lived side-by-side with countless anomalies and visions, and even modern human civilization was described as "cursed."

In this world where everything is cursed, there is plenty of room for two strange ships.

Lucretia slowly walked down her "stage," which bloomed like a mechanical flower, and walked towards the bow deck. Two clockwork puppets wearing funny masks walked past her with a clanging sound, and a large rag doll made of flannel, silk, and ribbons ran over from the side, making a shrill voice in front of her: "Mistress! Mistress! Good morning! Good morning!"

"It's almost noon," Lucretia said casually. She stepped over the rag doll and stood on the bow, looking into the distance.

She saw an incomparably magnificent gray-white fog wall, standing on the distant sea like a giant curtain at the edge of the world, connecting the sky and the sea, presenting an extremely majestic and spectacular posture.

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That was the "Border."

That magnificent fog wall had many names—the Edge of the World, the Grand Mist, the Mist Barrier, and its most formal name should be the "Eternal Veil."

But Lucretia preferred to call it "Border" directly.

That's what her father called it back then.

Under normal circumstances, this Eternal Veil was like a ring-shaped barrier, covering all known sea areas, and undulating slightly within a relatively fixed range. It would not shrink or expand, but was simply a fixed natural phenomenon.

But in a few cases, a part of its barrier would suddenly "appear" inside the civilized territory, and cause terrible disasters in the process of collapsing inward. This fog wall that suddenly appeared and collapsed in the real dimension would drag nearby physical matter towards the deep layers of the world, and even open the door directly to the subspace—this terrible disaster was called "Border Collapse."

For captains who often sailed on the boundless sea, Border Collapse was even more terrifying than storms, turbulence, and mass hysteria.

The only good news was that this collapse phenomenon did not happen often.

Lucretia spent most of her time in the border area. She observed the border, studied the border, and tried to summarize the operating rules of the fog, trying to find out the reason for its sudden inward collapse—a hundred years ago, her father had also done the same.

But to this day, no one has been able to unravel the mystery of this veil.

What exactly did her father discover back then, or what did he "hear," that made him suddenly decide to cross the fog and look for Anomaly No. 0?

Lucretia withdrew her gaze from the border.

In the borderlands, do not gaze at the Eternal Veil for a long time. Although there is no clear evidence that the fog has the characteristics of devouring the mind and affecting thinking, in the boundless sea, especially in places far away from civilized city-states, gazing at any target on the sea has a natural risk.

God knows what things here can be spread by "sight."

A melodious whistle broke the silence of this border sea area.

Lucretia looked in the direction of the sound and saw some small silhouettes suddenly emerge from the edge of the giant fog wall. Those silhouettes slowly approached and finally showed the outlines of ships.

There were three ships, the newest steel battleships, driven by powerful steam cores. They were sailing towards the location of the Radiant Star, but this was just a chance encounter.

The other party whistled first, which was a greeting—in this borderland, no matter who you meet, as long as the other party is not an evil god from subspace, it is something to be happy about.

"Mistress," Luni walked over, and a stiff voice came from the clockwork maid, "It's a Vatican patrol fleet... visually confirmed, the Church of the Flame Keepers."

"...Only the Flame Keepers and Storm Cultists would get so close to the Eternal Veil during patrol," Lucretia sighed softly. "They're all a bunch of daredevils."

"Should we respond?" Luni asked.

"...Sound the whistle to greet them," Lucretia said softly. "To our continuing civilization..."

...

There were not many customers in the antique shop today. Apart from selling a pair of unremarkable ornaments in the morning, no one else had stepped into the shop.

Nina held a mechanical engineering textbook and sat next to the counter, concentrating on studying the intricate and complex mechanical structures on it, occasionally picking up the notepad next to her and sketching on the blank space. Duncan sat inside the counter, curiously flipping through Nina's history textbook while making some notes in his notebook.

Only Shirley was idle. She wanted to go home, but she didn't dare to leave. She wanted to talk to Nina, but she couldn't understand what the other party was studying. She was extremely bored.

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After circling around the nearby shelves several times, she finally couldn't help but mutter, "Is reading really that interesting?"

"It's interesting!" Nina looked up. "And I have final exams soon, so I have to hurry up and review."

Duncan also looked up at Shirley. "If you're really bored, you can also find a book to read... I have a Brief History of the City-State Era here. Do you want to read it?"

Shirley glanced at the books next to Duncan, opened her mouth, and showed an awkward expression on her face. "I... I can't read..."

Duncan suddenly stopped reading, and Nina next to him also raised her head in surprise.

"What's so surprising?" Shirley saw this situation and widened her eyes as if she had been hurt. "I... I've said that I sneaked into the school. I... Isn't it strange that I haven't gone to school? I was raised by a dog..."

Duncan was indeed a little surprised, but after seeing Shirley's reaction, he was more emotional. "You can't read, and you can still sneak into school so calmly. I really don't know whether to say you're too confident or too trusting of A'Gou's unreliable cognitive interference ability."

"A'Gou's cognitive interference ability is very reliable!" Shirley immediately retorted. "It's just... just..."

The girl's face flushed slightly, and she didn't seem to dare to say the following words. Duncan guessed what the other party wanted to say, and he showed a smile. "You already dare to argue in front of me—look, there's nothing to be afraid of, is there?"

"That's right, that's right. My uncle is so kind," Nina, the silly girl who didn't understand anything, also chimed in confusedly. "Although he was very grumpy for a while before, isn't he better now!"

"I..." Shirley opened her mouth, but suddenly didn't know how to communicate with the "uncle and niece" in front of her, and couldn't squeeze out a second word after a long time.

Seeing this, Duncan shook his head with a smile, but just as he was about to say something, a slightly familiar aura suddenly appeared in his perception!

Duncan was slightly startled. The next second, he recognized who this aura belonged to—

Vanna! The young inquisitor was approaching this antique shop... and at a very fast speed!

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