Deep Sea Embers

Duncan took Alice back to the upper deck of the Lost Home—the cold World Creation still hung high in the night.

Duncan thought he had been exploring inside the ship for a long time, and even suspected that the night had passed, but now, looking at the deep night, it seemed that he had only stayed below for a few hours.

But just the strange and unusual situation he saw in the past few hours was enough to impress him.

He still remembers the cabin where the light and shadow are reversed, and the door at the bottom of the cabin... especially that door, what is behind that door?

The lantern in Duncan's hand has been extinguished, and he and the puppet walked slowly towards the captain's cabin, neither of them said much—the puppet seemed to have started to rehearse cooking in its head, while Duncan's attention fell on surrounding deck buildings.

He compared his memory and confirmed that the dark and dilapidated cabin opposite the door was indeed a part of the Lost Country. The styles of the two were exactly the same, and there was a vague continuity in the architectural structure.

And recalling it now, he always felt that there seemed to be something else in the deepest part of that dilapidated cabin, hidden in the darkness.

That was the unknown "hidden snow area" of the Lost Homeland—a hidden snow area that even Captain Duncan couldn't perceive or detect.

Does Goat Head know that door? Does it know what's behind that?

Should I ask it myself?

The captain's cabin arrived, but Duncan's thoughts were still fluctuating. He took Alice to open the door and went in. He saw the goat's head was still quietly sitting on the nautical table, and his empty and dark eyes were turning to the direction of the door following the sound.

Duncan turned around to hang up the lantern, and then heard Alice greet Goathead with a little excitement behind him: "Mr. Goathead! I went to the bilge with the captain! The bottom of this ship is amazing! The bottom The cabin is torn apart—and has a very strange door!"

Duncan immediately stopped worrying about how to start a related topic with Goat Head—he almost forgot that he was carrying a puppet that was full of curiosity and didn't know anything. Didn't Alice crack open the scene? ?

He tried his best not to let himself laugh out loud, while pretending to pack his things calmly while listening to the conversation of the two "crew members", he heard the voice of the goat's head, with an unsurprising tone : "I knew you would be surprised! Miss Alice, now you realize what a great ship the Lost Land is? It can sail in different dimensions at the same time while ensuring safety!"

When Duncan listened, his heart suddenly moved.

The situation was exactly as I had guessed. The reason why there was such a weird scene outside the crack in the bottom of the ship... It really was because it no longer belonged to the time and space where the Boundless Sea was located!

At the same time, he was also thinking quickly: Alice, who is very curious, is full of interest in the strange sights on the lower deck of the Lost Country, and she seems afraid to ask too many things to herself, the "captain", so that she would rather talk to the goat. Goat Head asked, but if I stood here and listened all the time, I would look weird and suspicious, and might even make Goat Head turn the topic to myself—in case it said "Ask the captain" to Alice, I couldn't handle it... …

Thinking of this, he immediately made a plan, straightened the expression on his face, and after returning to his usual seriousness, he said calmly: "Let's talk here, I'm going to take a walk outside—Goat's head, Alice is already As a member of the ship, as long as it is not too secretive about this ship, you can just tell her."

When Alice heard this, a happy smile appeared on her face, and the goat head immediately agreed: "Of course, Captain, your loyal following omission has always been a warm treat for new members..."

Duncan pushed the door and left the captain's cabin.

But the second he left the captain's room, he concentrated again, and paid close attention to the movements in the captain's room with the help of his close connection with the Lost Home.

After concentrating on one place, the vague perception turned into a clear real-time monitoring. Everything in the captain's room was clearly reflected in Duncan's mind. He "saw" that Alice simply moved a stool Sitting opposite the goat's head, he talked about his experience of exploring the lower deck of the Lost Country with excitement, and told about the bizarre scenes in the cabin.

She seemed to have completely forgotten about making the captain's supper--but Duncan didn't mind at all.

He appreciates the puppet's divine assists at critical moments.

Under the night, Ai suddenly flapped his wings and flew to the nearby mast, as if he was about to stand on guard. Duncan walked forward slowly like a normal patrol deck, and in his mind, he was clearly passing Come to the conversation in the captain's room.

Alice had already talked about the weird door with the goat head, and the doll lady's tone was nervous: "...that door looks a bit scary, the captain won't let me approach it..."

"Of course you can't get close, let alone you, even I can't touch the door—don't show such eyes, I know I don't have hands and feet, and the 'touch' I said is another meaning...contact, Controlling, understanding, peeping, do you understand? That door is untouchable in this sense...you touch it and you're done, understand?"

Alice seemed taken aback by Goat's head's extremely serious tone, and she hesitated for a second or two before speaking: "Then... what is that door?"

Duncan, who was walking around on the deck, concentrated all of a sudden, but when he heard the goat's head suddenly fell silent, he spoke in a deep voice after a long time, but he didn't answer any questions directly: "You really didn't touch that door, did you?"

"I didn't touch it!" Alice immediately replied in a hurry, but then hesitated for a moment before continuing with uncertainty, "But... But the captain leaned over to look through the crack of the door, and he still used it. The sword poked at something on the other side of the door..."

After Alice's words fell, Duncan suddenly felt the whole ship shake, and then all the mainsails and sidesails whimpered in the wind, and all the masts and cables creaked immediately—— And all of this is currently being taken over by the goat's head!

He looked up at the swaying masts and cables in surprise, as if he could sense the panic of the controller behind them through these things. In his mind, he heard the exclamation from the captain's room, which was the voice of the goat's head : "What did you say?! You said a crack in the door? The door opened a crack?"

"Yes... yes..." Alice seemed to be frightened, "The door is ajar, there is a crack, probably... about as wide as a finger..."

"The captain glanced at the other side of the door? And then? He also stabbed with a sword... Did he change at that time? Did he seem hesitant or dazed when he took you away?"

"No," Alice replied immediately, "the captain just had a serious expression on his face, and then he brought me back quickly. He seemed to be thinking about something on the way, but he was not in a daze at all—ah, he even discussed cooking with me. What about the matter, I will go to the kitchen later..."

"Forget about the kitchen! Do you know what's behind that door?"

"Ah...what's behind that door?" Alice's tone was a little dazed and frightened. She had never seen a goat's head look so serious and urgent—it felt like the ship was about to sink. same.

The tone of the goat's head suddenly became very low, and it slowly said: "Behind that door is the subspace."

Duncan, who was walking on the deck, stopped.

Behind that door is subspace?

He was astonished, and the huge waves in his heart almost interfered with the monitoring of the captain's room, but then, he thought of another thing——

The fragmented bilge, the dim, chaotic flow of light and shadow outside the cracks in the bilge——The Lost Country sailed in different dimensions at the same time, and the time and space outside the bilge were obviously different from the real world, and the bilge There is another door, opposite the door is the warp...

Could it be that the lower half of the Lost Homeland is actually sailing in the warp? !

And according to Goat's Head, this kind of sailing state doesn't seem to be stable? Not only does the bilge require constant reassurance from the captain, but the door should also be tightly closed in theory, but now there is an extra gap in it... What does this mean? Does it mean that there is a problem with the "tightness" of the bilge? Or is something in the Warp trying to get into the Lost?

He recalled that he tried to close the door before leaving the cabin, but no matter how hard he tried, the door remained open a crack—as solid as if it were integrated with the space.

He didn't think much about it at the time, but when he recalled it, a strange idea came to his mind involuntarily.

Maybe... when I tried to close the door, something on the other side of the door was against it, preventing me from closing the passage...