The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

Seeing that Carly turned the topic to that past event, Grissom, who had been relatively taciturn before, shuddered, then slowly raised his head and looked directly at his sister.

Even though he had become the captain of the "Blue Reef" and was confident in front of others, when Gleason looked into his sister's ice-blue eyes, he suddenly felt very short.

After meeting again after a long separation, there is an indescribable sense of strangeness.

"..."

Gleason was silent for a while, sighed softly, and then continued:

"Actually... I don't know much, because my father didn't tell me much about my mother..."

"When I woke up that day, my father had already brought me to a small village on the autumn plain. He kept apologizing to me and said that he would never see his mother and sister again..."

"I didn't understand anything at that time. I saw him crying, so I kept crying too. I cried until I fell asleep. When I woke up the next day, my father took me on an adventure ship and we went to Donglin Island."

"During that time, I was like my father's follower. He found a job on the deck, which seemed to be related to navigation locators... He had to debug on the deck for a long time every day. He was not very good at climbing the mast, so I learned to climb with him. Later, I learned how to swing on the mast, and gradually I could help him a lot..."

Grissom said, smiling softly, his blue eyes bright with memories.

"Not long after, he met a very powerful adventure captain at the time, and then he planned to go to the Black Island for adventure... He told me that he would find my mother, and he had a way, so I had to wait obediently..."

"I was entrusted to a shipyard in Donglin Island. I watched my father's ship sail towards the East Ocean from the port and never came back."

Grissom looked up, his expression a mixture of sadness and a hint of faint panic.

The same goes for Carly. Her memory of her father had long since become blurred. Not to mention recalling his voice, even his appearance had gradually faded, turning into ripples on the fragments of time, slowly dissipating.

For Carly, the period of her life before she met Perlis had long become dark and blurred. She had almost completely forgotten that she had ever had a brother, and she just madly immersed herself in the ocean of books and knowledge, greedily filling the gaps in her life.

She seemed to have a lot, yet she seemed to have nothing.

So, when the past came back to her, the speechless emotion far outweighed the joy of reunion.

But Carly would never escape. Maybe Will Tran was not a competent father, but Uncle Edward took his place and taught Carly a simple and easy-to-understand truth -

——Facing it directly is much more satisfying than avoiding it.

"..."

Looking at her somewhat lonely brother, Carly thought for a moment and then said firmly:

"...I know the truth of that year."

"You...know...?" Grissom's eyes lit up faintly, "Why did Dad run away? And Mom..."

"【Starry Sky Ladder Project】."

Carly spoke lightly, manipulating the blue light in the air to emerge and form a light screen.

She played for Gleason all the recordings of Cecilia Fellowes after she boarded the rocket to the stars, and the vague nursery rhyme came out of the player again:

"Twinkle... twinkle... little star..."

"The sky is full of little stars..."

"..."

Gleason Tran listened blankly to his mother's last voice, and before he knew it, two lines of tears rolled down his cheeks.

After the video was played, Carly looked at her brother with mixed feelings. After he calmed down for a while, she spoke:

"Did Dad tell you not to look for me?"

"He did warn me, and... I didn't have a chance," Grissom wiped his tears. "For more than ten years, I worked hard to become the best sailor on the sea. I want to find my father."

How is it possible? He went to Black Island but didn't come back. There is no way he could survive.

Carly knew this, and she didn't think Gleason didn't know it.

It is much easier to escape than to face it, but what if after facing it, we lose the motivation to persevere and fall into endless nothingness?

Nobody knows.

"I found the complete document of the [Starry Sky Ladder Project]," Carly took a deep breath and said, "I got it from Chadwick Smith."

"Can I take a look?" asked Aoi, who had not spoken for a long time.

"I want to, too, but the decoding process is very slow," Carly shook her head. "The intact document has been strictly encrypted. It's hard to crack it quickly without the key. Maybe we can only put it aside for now."

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Mei Xinghui walked in with a box of information. Seeing that the air in the room was even more depressing than at the beginning, the girl was slightly stunned, and for a moment she didn't know where to put her eyes.

"I...found the file..." she began carefully.

"Let me take a look," Carly stretched out her hand towards Mei Xinghui, "maybe there will be some clues."

Mei didn't dare to disobey Carly's "order" at all. She walked to the table in two or three steps, put the documents on the table in front of Carly, and then "swished" back to Gleason.

Carly didn't notice Mei's abnormality. She was looking through the documents, first picked up the nautical map, and looked at the route carefully.

This route... looks strangely familiar... why do I feel like I've seen it somewhere before?

No, don't think too much... take a look at the contents of the logbook...

Carly put the nautical chart aside and began to quickly browse the navigation log that the members of the Blue Reef found in the ruins of the shipwreck. (Note 1)

The contents of the diary were enough to horrify Carly just by reading them. Even though so much time had passed, the fear between the lines still made people feel cold.

“The sea is alive.”

Carly murmured quietly, recalling the dark schools of fish rising and falling in the ocean currents.

A chill ran up her spine. Carly resisted the urge to close the diary and continued to flip through the pages.

She turned to the page written in the ancient divine language, and her icy blue eyes narrowed slightly the moment her gaze fell on those words, as if she had been electrocuted.

These words... have a strange energy... and they feel like they are weighed down when you look at them directly.

"That... that is the ancient divine language, and it is different from the ordinary ancient divine language..." Mei Xinghui hesitated, "Miss Perlis told me not to interpret it further, she said... it would be dangerous."

"Is that what Perlis said?" Carly looked up at Mei, "It sounds like she has a point."

The little white flower must have sensed the danger and didn't want others to take risks...

A faint smile played across Carly's lips as she thought back to the silly little fellow.

My filter is so serious... She is obviously quite smart...

Carly's smile became more obvious. At the same time, she waved her hand and murmured:

"Skyline, run the translation database."

Note 1: This log is the same as the one in Volume 5 (Part 2) The Soul Eater of the Eight-Headed Troll (Part 2333). I will not copy it again to save the word count.

7) Stairway to the Stars (Part 5)

As Carly waved, bits of blue light lit up, attached to the pages of the book, and added a faint layer of glow to the surface of the torn diary.

The [Skyline] located on the little finger of Kali's [Five Rings] is directly connected to Kali's sophisticated database [As I Saw]. Even for such a niche language, it is not impossible to decipher it.

But what happens when you decipher the message and see it?

"Ms. Mei, what was Perlis's reaction when she saw these words?" Carly asked calmly.

"She...she had a nosebleed," Mei replied, and suddenly got startled, "Ms. Carly, you don't want to...?"

"Yes, I want to crack it."

There is no time to hesitate now. What lies before us is the only chance to find the law governing the movement of Black Island. If we are afraid, we will stagnate.

Being swift and decisive has always been Carly's creed, whether it is in scientific research or life, or even more so when facing Pearlis.

That was the most important person in her life, and she couldn't let the opportunity slip away.

"Buzzing—"

As Skyline gradually deciphered the high-entropy ancient divine language, a strong gravity pressing on her brain made Carly frown slightly.

This feeling was exactly the same as the pressure she had felt in Chadwick Smith's office, a pressure far beyond the scope of life.

This means that the person who wrote this information could not be a human.

This is not a message that humans are supposed to understand.

"..."

"Wait a minute, Carly, can you let me—"

Aoi reached out to Carly, but it was too late.

As lines of characters were gradually translated by blue light, Carly felt a warm current flowing out of her nose and dripping onto the notebook.

Then she began to understand the lines:

"...it's too late...I can't go back, I will become part of the sea..."

The picture appeared, Carly's eyes flashed, and she saw the dark coast and the rough sea.

A man knelt in the captain's room, his body structure was disintegrating bit by bit, and the dark skeleton gradually emerged from under the tumor-covered body.

Carly was very familiar with the man's back.

"...Black Island...Don't come...There is no treasure...only life..."

The man was shaking and twitching, and his hand holding the pen was writing almost instinctively, but the words on it were no longer the common language he was familiar with, but the ancient language of God.

"...the sea...is alive...the starry sky...is alive...we are dust...we are ants...we are..."

"...following the trajectory of the stars...reaching the end...self-righteous..."

"...We shouldn't have sailed so far..."

"pat-"

There was a cracking sound, and the muscles on the man's hands burst into corrupted pieces as the dark liquid seeped out, leaving only the dark skeleton, and he could no longer even hold the pen.

But he still held the pen and used his last bit of consciousness to write down his final words:

"...Cecilia...Grissom...Carly...I miss you guys..."

He collapsed in darkness.

At the last moment, he sealed the diary into a box, along with Kuroshima's secrets and his past, and locked them into the long river of time.

Until now.

"..."

When Carly came to her senses, she found herself lying on Aoi's lap, with three worried faces staring at her.

"...This journal belongs to Will Tran..."

Carly looked at Grissom, and their two pairs of ice-blue eyes met.

"...It belongs to Dad. He is the one you found...on the ruined ship..."

After struggling to sit up, Carly looked at her dazed brother standing beside her, and confusion and helplessness once again emerged in her heart.

Then, the brother and sister hugged each other and burst into tears.

......

Capital of Wiesel - Academi Federation

"[Sigma Team] is in place, arrest Shansen Rei, shoot if necessary."

"receive."

At the door of Room 8205, Ashley Miller quickly checked the magazine and nodded to the agent troops beside her.

The leading [Silent One] slowly walked to the door and fiercely kicked it—

"boom!"

The door was kicked open in an instant, and three or four infrared rays penetrated the darkness and swept towards the living room inside the door.

"No target movement, start scanning."

As she said this, Ashley gently pressed the screen on her arm. Scanning waves appeared on her retina, reporting the structure of the room in real time.

There was no one in the entire living room, not even a trace of Shan Senlian.

She nodded, and the Silent One slowly began to advance into the room, followed by a group of armed agents.

The group quickly occupied the living room, and after allocating the security areas, [Silent] and Ashley prepared to continue sweeping the laboratory inside the room.

Just at this moment, a little light appeared in the corner of the living room.