"Father, I wrongly blamed you..."

I stepped forward and patted his shoulder in a sympathetic tone, "Is your bladder okay?"

"...It's very good, thank you for your concern."

Father Carter slapped my hand away and sat on a chair under the stage. His whole temperament became lazy and decadent again.

I can only lament his misfortune and be angry at him for not arguing. Father Carter was sent to the den of magicians at a young age. It is indeed pitiful that he was scared to the point of incontinence. But he cannot help others and treat scaring people as a hobby.

Come to Ore Town and spread feudal superstition...

"Don't slander me. I've never had incontinence. And in my last few years at school, I was only good at scaring others to tears."

Why do you say such things proudly? You are obviously bullying!

"No more nonsense. What brings you here today?"

I looked at the vivid dreams beside me, and once again felt the convenience of this skill, which is equivalent to setting up a chat room anytime and anywhere.

"Father Carter, as a professional, you should be familiar with the strange events in the town. Do you know the origin of these two swords?"

Even though I was in a dream, I still pulled out two swords from my lower back without any hindrance.

"There is no doubt. I have already discovered what you are carrying, so there is no pressure to restore it in the dream. Look at these two swords..."

Father Carter's expression suddenly became serious, "These two swords... are not simple... where did you find them?"

"What's going on in the lake on Mads Mountain? What's the origin?"

"Actually, I'm not sure." Father Carter looked at the two swords, frowned, and took out a heavy book from the pulpit - the ancient "Voynich Historical Manuscript".

"You first turn to page 79 and read the penultimate paragraph."

After hearing this, I followed his instructions, opened the corresponding page, and saw a mysterious illustration. The patterns on it were exactly the same as the patterns on the blades of the two swords in my hands.

There is also a beautiful title in cursive fonts below the picture, which reads: "The patterns of the mysterious imperial sacrificial vessels of Oceania were excavated from the ruins of the southern archipelago."

"Father, what does this mean? Why is there only this single illustration with no explanation at all?" I looked through the front and back pages and found no relevant explanation. It was like a low-level mistake caused by a typographical error.

Father Carter's expression was very hesitant, and he said after a long while: "Because I don't know. There has never been a definite statement about the origin, meaning, and use of this pattern. The author of this book can only give this one hundred

I will make a simple excerpt and guess about the most popular archaeological topic twenty years ago and put it in the attached page of the manuscript."

"Is it so mysterious?"

"One hundred and twenty years ago, prehistoric ruins were excavated on a beach in the Southern Islands. A fossil-shell sunken ship and some special artifacts were unearthed from it. Among them was a metal rod.

There are patterns like this carved on it.”

"Previous maritime civilization settlements have shown obvious regional aggregation phenomena, often with many sporadic and interconnected regional civilizations emanating from one developed civilization."

"But this ruins shows a very strange independence. There are no similar traces of civilization on the ocean channels and trade routes before and after it. It can even be said that the desert island where this place is located is a civilized desert. In the prehistoric ship consumption,

There is no way to reach other civilizations within the time limit of using up all the supplies!”

"At that time, someone raised the possibility that it might be a civilized settlement that migrated from a continental empire. Due to the complex terrain and vast forests in the inland empire, civilizations tend to be scattered, independent, and self-sufficient. The characteristics of the civilizations are different.

The same, even the language may not be the same. If it is the migration of inland civilization, it can well explain the origin of this ruins."

"But after a long period of research, the academic community has not been able to find a corresponding reasonable explanation, nor has it been found that any civilization has similar characteristic patterns."

"Later, the author of this book, Professor Voynich, used his extraordinary extensive knowledge and unparalleled imagination to come up with a wonderful insight."

"He guessed that this ruins was not a civilized settlement, but a foothold and outpost on the way to the expansion of civilization. A certain great prehistoric empire that existed deep in the ocean had sent countless ships across the ocean to search for

On the other side of the sea. At that time, the empire may be facing an unprecedented threat of marine disaster, so it urgently needed land resources to continue its survival."

"This desperate fleet exploration resulted in a tragic failure. Most of them were buried in the waves and died in the belly of the fish. Only one fleet reached the border of the southern archipelago and successfully landed on this small island."

"The ecstatic crew members performed a passionate sacrifice here and expressed their gratitude to God with the highest-level sacrifice - the ship. These buried artifacts and burned ships are the best proof.

"

"But what they didn't expect was that it didn't have the vast land and rich resources they wanted, nor could they reach the inland they longed for."

"Part of the desperate crew members committed suicide, and others sailed back to the capital of the Oceanic Empire, but they only saw a vast ocean in a familiar place, and there was no familiar lively scene anymore..."

I was extremely puzzled when I heard this, and couldn't help but ask: "Father, does this story have anything to do with my question?"

"Of course there is." Father Carter answered me decisively and continued: "This story is just a bold guess, imagining that there is such a mysterious prehistoric civilization deep in the ocean. But this story has two footings."

"First, do you know the Voyager Alliance? It is the organization that Zach came from. Their organization originated from a mysterious association with a very long history. They have been pursuing and exploring the legendary secrets deep in the ocean. Some people speculate that the so-called

The secret refers to this long-lost empire."

"The second is the excavated sacrificial vessel. Although it seems to be a rod-shaped object now, it was actually due to the fact that during the storage process, a custodian tried to destroy the object and destroyed the sharp edges on both sides while others were not paying attention.

.Actually, it’s a sword made of special material.”

"The pattern of that sword is very similar to your two collections."

At this point, Father Carter's expression suddenly turned ferocious, and the candlelights on both sides suddenly flickered, making the entire church look weird.

"By the way, let me tell you that the custodian is also a historian. After keeping the sacrificial vessel for a night, he woke up in the morning and went crazy to destroy this historical treasure. The people around him took the ancient artifact from his hand.

Behind the sword, he frantically stabbed himself through the heart with the point of an anchor."

"Before he died, the last words he said were..."
Chapter completed!