"The sky is the earth, and the earth is the sky—so that's what it meant," Caesar nodded and said. "From the perspective of the crew on the *Yamal*, the mirage is another world; the sky is the pitch-black ocean, reflecting the auroras of the true sky, and the earth is those white islands. Because it's a projected illusion, there's no concept of time at all. The scene Vincent described is exactly identical to the one depicted in *The Isle of the Dead*. He happened to actually obtain a coffin, so he naturally assumed that the painting and the scene he witnessed were both entirely real."
Yet the appearance of that coffin remained baffling. The lifeline was clearly looped around a sailor, but when pulled up, it turned into a black coffin of unknown material, exactly as recorded in the painting... If Vincent and Sasha were not lying, they might truly have approached that bizarre, legendary island.
"Vincent believed the appearance of that coffin was related to Hitler's heroic spirit, so he used the coffin to hold Hitler's corpse," Chu Tianjiao said. "Even more miraculous things happened: Hitler's corpse, placed inside the coffin, actually stopped decomposing."
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