This battle that lasted for hundreds of years finally came to an end with the last human being transformed into a Naga - the way it ended was beyond every human's expectation, and beyond the expectations of the Sirens.
In the final analysis, the strange phenomenon of "Naga" is an unexplainable accident for everyone. Human beings cannot understand its principle, and the same goes for the Kraken.
In the deep sea, a deep-water shuttle with a streamlined shell was quietly passing through the seabed. Petiya stood by the port window of the shuttle, scanning the dark and deep water outside and the rugged and rough terrain. On the seabed, in the dim light and shadow, you can see several temporarily established settlements. The Nagas who have just completed their transformation are resting on this calm seabed. You can also see the Nagas taking care of their "new friends" everywhere in the settlements. Monsters.
"I'm afraid we have to spend a long time slowly studying 'Naga'," the Siren Queen said softly, "This is really an incredible phenomenon...a race that has nothing to do with the Siren. A race related to science has undergone such a huge change, and this change is obviously related to us... This world is really full of secrets, Rosalia."
Deep Sea Maid Rosalia. Floating next to Pythia, he nodded lightly when he heard the words: "As you said, Her Majesty the Queen."
Pythia hummed lightly and asked casually: "Witches and deep-water technicians Have any conclusions been drawn from the research? ”
“There is no substantial progress yet, but after asking many Nagas who have regained consciousness and consulting human books on religion, the witches have some guesses—— They think this change may be related to the long-term 'spiritual beliefs' of these humans who call themselves the Sons of the Storm."
"Oh? Tell me more."
"These 'Children of the Storm'. 'Belief in a god called the Lord of Storms, apparently our 'Big Squid', according to information shared by our Cecil allies, human belief creates a connection of power that points to a specific god, however the Storm. The god who is the son of the God has fallen many years ago, and we Kraken... have most likely occupied the original position of this god. Therefore, what the storm believers of this era of mankind have always believed in... is probably We, or strictly speaking, are the 'Siren' as a whole."
"Eva..." Petia whispered thoughtfully, slowly holding her hands in front of her chest." This is surprising if we judge from time, we began to dig up the giant squid many seasons before civilization. In other words, those children of the storm connected their faith to our race at the beginning of their religion... …However, we actually did nothing, and we didn’t even know about it.”
“This is also one of the topics that the witches are studying,” the deep sea maid Rosalia nodded, “human beings. 'Faith' seems to be something that operates automatically, and is originally transformed from the awe of natural phenomena or specific natural things. Strictly speaking, the original storm faith isIt should not be directed at any god, but the reverence for the ocean itself. In this case, according to the intelligence shared by Cecil's allies, humans should have created a new 'Storm God' from their faith, but this The process was accidentally interrupted by us - our excavation behavior imprisoned an ancient god in an immortal state and occupied its position. In addition, we actually control a large area of the ocean, so human belief Then it began to point to the 'substantial controller of the ocean'. This process... happened naturally. ”
“Will this kind of ‘pointing’ have any impact on the Kraken? "
"It is not certain yet. Human's 'religious concept' is something that is not easy to understand for us," Rosalia shook her head, "But judging from the current situation, this This kind of 'pointing' has been going on for many, many years. Even in the previous civilizations, there may have been land people who feared the sea and pointed their faith towards the sea monster, but it has not had any impact on us, so this kind of 'pointing' is mostly is harmless. "
"It is harmless to us...but it has unilaterally affected them." Petiya retracted his gaze from the Nagas' temporary living area with a sigh in his tone, "Look now. It turns out that it was the long-term belief in the Kraken that influenced these humans, causing them to transform into life forms similar to the Kraken... The so-called power of 'belief' can actually affect matter. It is an incredible change. "
Rosalia responded: "The witches are studying this change - especially the opportunity for this change. The beliefs of these children of the storm have lasted for thousands of years, but their changes only started suddenly recently, without a gradual process in between, which is very puzzling. Lady Hathaway currently has a conjecture. She believes that this is the result of the dual effects of the Storm Son’s recent actions and the recent changes in Siren society -
“Since last year, the Storm Son’s actions have become more radical. They established a large number of strongholds on the 'border', which caused them to be too close to the 'big squid' and too close to the Kraken, which enhanced the 'connection' between them and us; on the other hand, we were in the last 'hunting' 'It preys on the 'god of nature' created by humans, and the god of nature seems to have biological influence - this influence may be the reason for the 'Naga' phenomenon. ”
Listening to the report of the deep sea maid, Siren Queen Petia fell silent for a moment, and thought in silence.
After a period of thinking, the ruler of the deep sea raised his head and sighed softly: "You can't eat randomly in the future... This world is really dangerous."
Waiter Luo Salia also nodded in agreement: "...It's better to go back to my hometown. You can pick up and eat everything on the seabed."
"So, speaking of the research work of the witches - our human allies are up there. During the first contact, they mentioned a mysterious signal they captured. Is there any progress on Hathaway's side?"
"Tide Master Till also submitted the characteristics of the signal when reporting the situation. , after deepComparison by water technicians can confirm that the signal was not released by Antavien, nor was it any of our communication frequency bands." Rosalia immediately replied, "Master Hathaway had a very big impact on it. She believes that the signal transmission method and the technology used by humans in magic network communication are very helpful to us - for many years, we have been unable to repair Antavi due to our inability to perceive and understand the magical environment of this world. Well's main antenna array, but now there may be hope. ”
“Oh? "Petia's eyebrows raised slightly, "This is really good news. "
...
On the edge of the continent of Io under the sunlight, the majestic steel starship prostrates like a mountain on the coastline, and the waves gently rise and fall around the spacecraft, licking it. Licking the hull and deck of the immigrant ship
At the stern of the Antavien, on the platform where the antenna array is located, deep-water technicians are busy
On the edge of the platform. , the deep sea witch Hathaway, who had long blue hair and many scaly cheeks, retracted her gaze and looked at the beach in the distance.
The spacecraft tilted and crashed on the planet, causing the ship to crash. Everything on the ship is at an angle of about 30 degrees to the gravity of the planet itself. The Krakens are unable to move the giant ship that has lost power, but they cannot abandon the ship's massive supplies and precious living space, so they finally After easily repairing some functions of the ship, they first activated and reset the Antavien's gravity generator - by recalibrating the gravity, the Kraken could stand on the tilted ship as comfortably as on the ground. On the boat, this also gave them a wonderful feeling when they stood on the boat and looked out:
The whole world is tilted.
“I think we should be in An. All viewing areas in Taviion are equipped with a layer of optical filtering," the blue-haired witch Hathaway stretched out her hand, gesturing between the sky and the earth, and said to the assistant beside her, "Let this tilted scene Come here 'right'. The scenery now always looks dizzying. "
"...I think the main reason why you feel dizzy is that you drank too much 'Deep Sea Special Drink'," the assistant slapped Hathaway's paws dangling in the air with his tail, "Then Almost twice as much as we had. "
"I need to stimulate my mind and maintain the ability to think at high speed," Hathaway poked the nearby alloy ground with the tip of her tail and made a "doo-doo" sound, "Recent research projects are so... It's exciting, I don't want to stop for a moment..."
The assistant glanced at this respectable deep-sea witch who had a lot of problems in life, and shook his head helplessly: "'Exciting Mind' is the human word for it, Master - where do we get our brains from? "
Hathaway looked at the serious-looking assistant and shook his head: "It's boring." ”
Then the deep sea witch, who had experienced the “Big Crash” and was of the same age as the Queen, slid her long snake tail to the antenna array not far away.
This large-scale ancient device stands solemnly. Its streamlined shell covers the superalloy frame, concealing its complex internal structure. Its end points to the high blue sky, a set of extremely sensitive devices. The sensor array monitors signals that may come from all directions at any time.
It was designed for interstellar super-light communication and was used to contact several other colonial ships that had escaped from their home star.
However, today only Antavien crashed on this planet alone. The compatriots who fled together in the past have long disappeared into the depths of the turbulence of time and space. The advanced and powerful super-light communication array is also abnormal in this environment. The planet has lost its function, leaving only a set of the most basic sensing devices that can still barely function - not to mention receiving signals from space, even maintaining communications within the atmosphere requires the use of various auxiliary enhancement methods.
Hathaway's eyes followed the antenna array's shell all the way up. At about a hundred meters high, she saw that part of the shell had been opened, and deep-water technicians were busy there, removing the inside. The ancient structure is undergoing extensive renovations, with shimmering runic devices being installed one by one into the original framework, and many additional cables and drag chains extending from the "access openings."
“Our human allies have generously shared many things with us...” the Deep Sea Witch said softly, “We thought that the technology on land was very backward, but it turns out that even on backward land , the wisdom of the local people also has merit..."
The assistant's voice came from the side: "Master, do you think this kind of transformation will really be useful? After all, we have used various methods before? Transform other things..."
"A year ago, the Sirens were completely unable to understand and perceive what the 'magic' of this world is. It is something outside our worldview, even ours. Content that cannot be 'compatible' with the physiological structure of the body - this is the result of a conflict of rules," Hathaway said in a low and serious voice. At this moment, she was already the deep sea witch worthy of the respect of all sirens. Her words made Every siren around could not help but show expressions of thought and approval, "I predicted many years ago that if the rules of this world deviate even one ten thousandth from the rules of my home world, then when we enter this world, A piece of time and space will be wiped out in an instant, but fortunately, we did not encounter that extra ten thousandth of a deviation. We survived, but this survival is incomplete.
"Ours. The ability to perceive and think is limited to our own life form. In this world, we are like a defective race that is born unable to understand addition and subtraction. We are born unable to perceive and understand part of the structure of this world, so no matter how hard we try, , we cannot repair the spaceship, but will be pushed down again and again by the demonic tide of this world.
“We cannot repair the antenna, not because we lack wisdom and technology, but because we are 'blind' and 'deaf' in front of specific information.
"But this flaw nowhas been replenished.
“We can feel magic and understand what magic is. Human runes are no longer a chaotic mess of symbols to us, and the tremors of energy in the air are no longer incomprehensible. On this basis, every repair work we do on the spacecraft in the future will not be like random knocking and trying.
“We have successfully made the core fusion tower. A small part has returned to normal operation, and Antavien's energy supply rate has now reached 36%. This is an inconspicuous number, but it is enough to prove that we have indeed taken a step forward.
"Sisters, our current efforts are meaningful - let us start by repairing the main antenna."