The crystal skeleton spoke slowly: [You will slowly remember... our mission... the task we were created to execute...]

The crystal skeleton spoke vaguely, but at least not in riddles, and Lin Yi seemed to catch certain keywords: "Am I also created?"

The crystal skeleton shook its head slightly: [We are, but you are not... your reincarnation... is different from ours...]

"What are you now, what exactly... what are you?" Lin Yi asked.

The crystal skeleton was silent for a while, with its gaze flickering like stars: [We are the souls of the night watch, followers of the Black Sun, the most loyal attendants of the "Original Apostles"...]

[From the time we were created, until death, until the flesh on our corpses was devoured by the Nocturnal species, and the bone marrow sucked dry by them... we've always been here, combating the undying wraiths and ashes in the black waves, even if only a skeleton remains, we continue the will of the "Original Apostles"...]

[We are the embers of the Black Sun falling into the deep seas...]

[We are... "Mourners."]

"Mourners...?!" Lin Yi exclaimed in shock, "That caution, is it specifically referring to you?"

[No... "When the Black Moon withers, mourners return from the endless deep sea," that's not what it means.] The voice of the "Mourner" softly echoed, [When you master the complete "Soul Suppressing Song," you will understand its meaning...]

"Soul Suppressing Song? What is that? Wait, I think... I heard it from the Night Watchman!" Lin Yi said, "No, not the Night Watchman! It was the notes from 'Amon's music box,' the Night Watchman said, that music box plays the 'Soul Suppressing Song.'

[Lord Amon...] In the eye sockets of the "Mourner," peculiar waves flickered, [He was right... they were once correct, but unfortunately... they couldn't persist...]

"What did you say...?!" Lin Yi asked, "What persistence, what correctness, do these things have anything to do with me?"

[It's related to the whole world...] The "Mourner" said softly, the decaying wooden ship cabin resonating with its voice, trembling and seemingly on the verge of collapse, [The entire world has been in ruins since we were created... they patched it up, but could only delay its destruction...]

[That wall... was the final measure the "Original Apostles" could achieve; they've exhausted their means.]

[Even they... have exhausted their means...]

"What happened back then, is it still affecting now?" Lin Yi asked in shock.

[The world can exist, all thanks to the sacrifices of those Apostles...]

[Since then, up until now, everything depends on the legacy created by those before us...]

[However, the roots of the great tree have snapped, and when all the leaves fall, the withered branches can no longer shield from the wind and rain, leaving this world only with death and end.]

Lin Yi felt a tightness in his chest as he thought of the words from the Zealots: "The Sun has extinguished, how long can the afterglow last, you shall all perish."

"So... were you summoned by me, or did I find you?" Lin Yi asked.

He recalled sinking in the black sea, then somehow ended up in this wooden ship cabin.

[I suppose... you found me, but it could also be your consciousness perceived my presence in the infinite layers, and thus appeared here.] The "Mourner" said, [Can't you discern your own state?]

Lin Yi was taken aback by the words.

The "Mourner's" words seemed to awaken him; what state was he in now?

Hadn't he been fragmented, even the Bone Golden Body shattered...

"I don't know... what state I'm in now, what about you, what state are you in?"

[I have long been dead, you might encounter the remnants of the past 'me', or maybe the will of the present 'me'...]

[We have long forgotten Time... drifting like wandering ghosts in infinite layers...]

Losing track of Time... Lin Yi was slightly startled, thinking of another caution, another phrase murmured repeatedly by the eerie creatures from the black sea, "In the abyss of fog and darkness, lost souls chase phantoms."

"Wait...?!"

The voice seemed to float from the depths of the black sea, mixed with a distant chant-like sound, resonating with his perceptions.

"Could it be... it's the 'Mourners' calling to him?!"

"But if that's the case... aren't those things in the depths of the black sea evil?"

"Could my assumptions be incorrect?"

The "Mourner" said slowly: [Where are you now? What time is it outside?]

"Me?" Lin Yi was slightly dazed, thought for a moment, and said, "I'm in the campus, outside, now it's..."

As he said this, a tingling sensation spread across his scalp, originally conversing well with the "Mourner," but as he spoke these words, he felt as if something unseen was focusing its gaze on him!

He shivered!

The "Mourner" previously said it knew what time point he was at, why... is it asking about the time again?

"Could it be... for some kind of...'coordinates'?!"

In a three-dimensional world, three elements can determine a unit's position in space, if it's four-dimensional, perhaps time needs to be added as an element.

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