booktalesy Chapter 4417 The Ship of Trod
Chapter 4417 The Ship of Trod
Chapter 4417 The Ship of Trod
Seeing Camillo's brows still furrowed, Blanche forced herself to stand up: "Teacher, don't worry too much. Juanjuan once said that for any kind of general will, as long as you can overcome it, the winner takes all!"
"I've already won this time, there won't be any problems."
"As for the future, it's no longer important... because there won't be a next time."
Camillo nodded silently.
Blanche didn't want to continue the topic. Although she had "won" this time, as a tiny individual, she felt a strange sense of unease as she continued to talk about the grand will of the world, as if facing mountains and seas alone.
So, after she finished speaking, she immediately changed the subject.
"Teacher, this is the prototype of the new dream design."
As Blanche spoke, she pointed behind her.
At this moment, a book outline woven from golden threads appeared behind her.
Blanche's dream designs are mostly based on books.
However, this book is only two meters tall, which is nothing compared to the previous book, "I Will Never Repeat the Same Mistakes After My Rebirth".
There was nothing she could do. She only had a hundred beautiful dreams, and there was also the targeting of the world's will. Under these circumstances, it was already her best effort to weave a rough framework.
She gently pulled the cover of the book, and a dark, secluded entrance appeared. Stepping inside would lead her to the land of dreams.
"I've already added the shield settings to this framework, and it's now activated!"
“Let’s go into the dreamscape first to avoid being affected by the stagnation zone, and then I’ll refine it with final polish.” After a pause, Blanche continued, “The Book Gate is too small to accommodate the current Starship, so I’ll go to the cabin and bring Rigota out.”
Blanche jumped off the roof, opened the hatch, and carefully carried Rigota out.
Then they stepped into the open pages of the book.
As soon as she entered, Blanche stopped at the entrance and used her talent to shrink the starship outside until it was about one meter in size, before successfully bringing it into the Book Gate.
After the starship entered the book gate, Blanche restored it to its original size, and then the three of them boarded the starship again and headed towards the central area of this dreamlike land.
According to Blanche, she will dismantle the Starship in the central area to complete this new dream setting.
The starship continues its leisurely journey.
Camillo stood on the deck, watching the changing scenery around him.
Although this dreamlike land is not yet fully completed, its basic framework has taken shape, and one can vaguely see that it is surrounded by water.
You can also see schools of fish and jellyfish swimming around them.
Yes, this dreamlike place is modeled after the "seabed," and the starship is currently traveling underwater.
Of course, although it's underwater, there's actually no feeling of suffocation. After all, even the most realistic dream is still a dream, and it won't actually make you unable to breathe underwater.
A moment later, the starship arrived at an area shrouded in a dome.
This is the heart of the dreamland, an underwater city: Inshutis.
“I’ve wanted to build ‘The Ship of Trod’ for a long time. Originally, I was thinking of building a realistic and grand Inshutis, incorporating mermaids, sirens, sailors… It would require a lot of materials, so I’ve been putting it off, thinking I’d build it when I’ve collected enough materials.”
"But I didn't expect it to be built so hastily this time, and because of the lack of dream power, Inshutis can only be this big."
Blanche looked somewhat regretful. According to Inshutis's description in the original work, it was a pre-civilization underwater city that could support 800,000 people; but now, this area covered by the dome was much smaller than an ordinary village, and it was considered good if it could accommodate a few thousand people.
This is also a helpless move.
The story of "The Ship of Trod" is so fitting for the current situation that I can only make a mini version for now.
The starship was moored inside the dome.
Beneath the dome, though called Inshutis, is actually an empty space. Blanche needs to dismantle the starship to fill this final void.
After nodding to Camillo, Blanche began dismantling the Starship and reassembling the dream design.
The dismantling of the ship was slow, mainly because Blanche didn't want to waste too much Dream Power, so she used a very traditional method, dismantling it part by part instead of directly piecing it back together as a whole.
While Blanche was dismantling the ship, Camillo leaned against a nearby rock, bored, looking at the empty seabed.
Ship of Trod is a well-known novel in the Western Continent. It tells the story of a group of people who were born at the bottom of the sea. They never knew what the outside world was like because their living area was only at the bottom of the sea and they had never seen the outside world.
The protagonist, Trod, is a poor boy who spends his days doing nothing and has no ideals.
Later, at his childhood sweetheart's house, he saw a scroll left by her ancestors, which contained detailed records of the outside world.
There is bright, nourishing sunshine, continents that support giant human cities, white-feathered birds flying across the sky, and a dwarf civilization living in underground caverns...
Trod was engrossed in reading it, and then, just like in every prodigal son's story, he held the scroll high and announced to everyone in the center of Inshutis's city square—I am going to explore the world on earth!
Where is the world on earth?
"Isn't there still water outside the water?"
"To be precise, we live in light water, and at the end of light water is heavy water."
People in the square were talking about it.
They have never seen sunlight or land. Here, they call the surrounding seawater "light water," and if they keep rising, they will reach the heavy water zone.
The heavy water zone looks similar to the light water zone, but it is "gelatinous". Even with gills, you cannot breathe when you are trapped in it. Moreover, the higher you go, the heavier the gelatinous feeling becomes, making it impossible to break through.
Although no one has ever reached the end of the heavy water, scholars speculate that the gelatinous heavy water will continue upwards until it reaches the core, where it will become completely solid and there will be no ground at all.
But Trod seemed to have gone mad, ignoring all advice from others. He then began gathering materials to build a ship capable of cutting through heavy water.
He built ship after ship, but the deepest part he ever broke through was only a hundred meters of heavy water.
Later, he made up his mind to completely overturn and rebuild, using the bones of the demon dragon as the skeleton of the ship, the roots of the Adam Tree as the hull, and supplementing it with various magical materials... All of this required money and a huge amount of power.
So, in the years that followed, he abandoned shipbuilding and instead began to study politics, spending decades climbing the ranks step by step, eventually staging a coup and becoming the king of Inshutis.
Then, he ordered the entire nation to collect all kinds of rare magical materials, and after several decades, he finally built a ship that could break through all heavy water, break through all barriers, and even sail through stone.
The ship's name is: The Ship of Trood.
Trod and his men piloted the ship, cutting through heavy water zones, yearning to reach the surface and see the land within the scroll.
But the ending was...
At the end of the heavy water, there is no earth, but emptiness.
This is a world surrounded by heavy water.
The heavy water zone is analogous to the sky in the human world, while the light water zone is analogous to the earth in the human world.
This story is actually a metaphor, in which the author is telling his readers that people spend their whole lives trying to break through what they think are "boundaries," only to find in the end that the "outside world" they pursue is just another cage drawn for them by the rules of the world.
All life confined by rules believes that a new world lies beyond the boundaries.
But only when you truly break through the boundaries will you realize that the boundaries themselves are the entirety of the world.
Of course, Blanche created this dream not because of these metaphors; all she wanted was the ship of Trod, the ship that could overcome all obstacles.
It must be said that Blanche's choice of a story background is indeed very suitable for the current situation.
The stagnant zone in the outside world is so similar to the heavy water zone in "The Ship of Trod," and even their root causes are the same: both are barriers deliberately set up by the will of the world.
Moreover, they will ultimately overcome the will of the world, break through barriers, and reach the finish line.
Camillo paused suddenly as he thought of this.
Defeat... break through the barrier...
Did Trod really defeat the will of the world?
He did break through the barrier and see the void... but is this a victory?
It doesn't seem to be either.
The heavy water zone was merely a setting of the world; throughout the entire process, the world's will did not prevent Trod from seeing the outside world. Without further obstruction, how can this be considered a victory over the world's will?
If Trod failed to overcome the will of the world, what about Blanche?
Did Blanche defeat the world's will of Dream Crystal Plains with her mysterious talent?
Following Blanche's previous narrative logic, she broke through the stagnant atmosphere at the last moment and successfully constructed the framework of the dream, which is a victory.
But what if the world's will had intervened even slightly back then?
For example, when Blanche was constructing her dream, Camillo noticed that the fog had become noticeably thicker... Although this thicker fog had no effect whatsoever, what if it did? If the thicker fog truly increased the stagnation, even just a little, Blanche would not be able to "win".
But strangely enough, Blanche "won", and by a narrow margin. It's really odd.
If it's a killer mechanism, then there's really nothing that can be done.
But the mere close victory made Camiro suddenly realize something was wrong; he had a strange feeling that he had been tricked.
Camillo opened his mouth and looked at Blanche, as if he wanted to say something.
But Blanche had already dismantled the Starship and begun constructing the remnants of Inshutis. Exotic buildings were constantly rising around her, and a huge ship skeleton appeared in the very center. Around her, the phantoms of craftsmen were hammering and chiseling, building the core of the Dreamland... the Ship of Trod.
Blanche was already engrossed in building the world, and Camillo thought about it for a while before deciding to put it aside until Blanche finished.
About five minutes later.
Blanche opened her eyes with a smile and immediately saw Camillo's worried gaze.
Thinking Camillo was still worried about her health, she quickly said, "Teacher, constructing the dream this time was very easy; the world's will didn't appear at all."
"Juanjuan is right, the winner takes all. The will of the world will not stop me anytime soon."
After saying that, Blanche pointed to the ship in the center: "Teacher, look, the Ship of Trod is finished. We'll be able to break through the stagnation zone soon and take Rigota to the Uriel instance!"
Looking at Blanche's delighted face, Camillo paused for a moment, then said softly, "Do you really think we... have won?"
Blanche paused, looking at Camillo with a puzzled expression.
Camiro: "I'm not trying to be discouraging, I just suddenly thought of something."
Is the will of the world really so easy to defeat?
Just because Blanche's talent is "mysterious," does that mean she can achieve a complete victory on someone else's home turf?
If the entity confronting the world's will at this moment were a mysterious or disordered entity, the world's will might indeed be completely defeated; however, Blanche is not dead yet, and her talent has not yet transformed into a mysterious entity, it is merely "mysterious level".
If we have to make a comparison, Blanche's current talent is at most equivalent to that of the Secret Treasure.
Can a single treasure challenge the will of the world?
Camillo thought it wouldn't work.
"Most importantly..."
Camillo looked at Blanche and said slowly, "According to our previous speculation, the world's will specifically targeted your talent, which is why you almost consumed all your talent power when you were constructing the dream framework just now."
"But have you considered this: if it really targets the talent of the Dream Design, why is there no anomaly in the Starship, but anomalies occur when you construct a new Dream Design?"
Starship is also a product of dream design.
If the target is indeed the Dream Design, why is Starship exempt?
Blanche's expression slowly darkened from confusion. She had a lot to say, but at this moment, she found that she couldn't find a way to refute it.
Yes, why is Starship unharmed?
Why was she able to overcome the will of the world?
If they had truly won, shouldn't it have been a crushing victory? Or a decisive lead? Why did they win, but only by a narrow margin?
It was as if she was deliberately pushed to her limits.
Seeing Blanche's increasingly confused expression, Camillo silently walked up to her and patted her on the shoulder: "I'm not trying to discourage you, I just hope you see the truth."
"Let's go, let's go to the Ship of Trod."
Blanche took a while to react, then asked in confusion, "Are we still going?"
Camillo: "Of course we have to go. If we don't go, how will we know what the world's will is really doing?"
If all of this is intentional on the part of the world's will, then it will inevitably have repercussions.
"and……"
After a pause, Camillo said softly, "If my intuition is correct, the Ship of Trod should be the final answer... The world's will will most likely no longer stand in our way."
"Just try it and you'll see."
"In any case, the situation won't be worse than before."
Because Camillo had previously "revealed" her true nature, Blanche's Dao heart had instantly developed cracks, and she was still somewhat confused. However, since her teacher already had further ideas, she put aside her confusion and nodded in agreement.
She carefully helped Rigota onto the large ship in the center.
Camillo also stood on the deck.
"It's time to go."