Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 61 Unstable Voyage

Duncan took Alice back to the upper deck of the Lost Homeland - the cold creation of the world was still hanging high in the night.

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

But the strange and abnormal situation he saw in these few hours was enough to impress him.

He still remembered the cabin with contrasting light and shadow, and the door on the bottom of the bilge...... Especially the door, what was behind it?

The lantern in Duncan's hand had gone out, and he and the doll slowly walked towards the captain's cabin, neither of them speaking—the doll seemed to have begun to practice cooking in her head, while Duncan's attention fell on the surrounding deck buildings.

He compared his memory and confirmed that the dimly lit and dilapidated cabin opposite the door was indeed part of the Lost Home, with the same style and a faint continuity in the architectural structure.

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

It was the unknown "hidden snow area" of the Lost Home—an area

of hidden snow that even Duncan, the captain, could not perceive or detect. Does

the goat's head know that door? Does it know what place is behind it?

Should

I ask it?

He took Alice to open the door and entered, and saw Goathead still staying quietly on the sailing table, his empty dark eyes turning towards the door.

Duncan turned to hang up the lantern, and then heard Alice greeting Goathead with a little excitement: "Mr. Goathead! I went to the bilge with the captain! This ship is amazing! The bottom cabin was torn apart - and there was a very strange door!

Duncan suddenly didn't think about how to start a topic related to goathead—he almost forgot that he was still carrying a curious doll who didn't know anything, didn't Alice's crackling turn on the scene?

He tried to control himself not to make a sound of amusement, and while pretending to pack his things quietly, he pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation of the two "crew members", and he heard the sound of a goat's head in a tone that was not surprising: "I knew you would be surprised!" Miss Alice, now you realize what a great ship the Lost Homeland is, right? It can sail in different dimensions at the same time under the premise of ensuring safety!"

Duncan listened, and his heart suddenly moved.

The situation was indeed the same as he had guessed, the reason why there was such a strange scene outside the crack in the bottom of the ship was ...... Sure enough, it was because it was no longer the time and space in which the Boundless Sea was located!

At the same time, he was also thinking quickly: the curious Alice was full of interest in the strange scene on the lower deck of the Lost Country, and she didn't seem to dare to ask herself as the "captain" too much, so much so that she would rather ask the goathead about it, but if she kept standing here and listening, she would look strange and suspicious, and might even let the goat head turn the topic to herself - if it said "you ask the captain", she wouldn't be able to catch it......

Thinking of this, he immediately made a plan, straightened up the expression on his face, and after regaining his usual seriousness, he said calmly: "You guys talk here, I'm going to walk outside - goathead, Alice is already a member of the ship, about this ship, as long as it's not too secretive, you just need to tell her."

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

Duncan

pushed the door open and left the captain's cabin. But the next second after leaving the captain's cabin, he concentrated again, using his close connection with the Lost Home, and paid serious attention to the movements in the captain's room.

After concentrating his mind in one place, the vague perception turned into clear real-time monitoring, and everything in the captain's room was reflected in Duncan's mind with great clarity, and he "saw" Alice simply moved a stool and sat opposite the goat's head, excitedly recounting her experience of exploring the lower decks of the Lost Home, recounting the bizarre scenes in the bilge.

She seemed to have completely forgotten about making supper for the captain—but Duncan didn't care at all.

He admired the puppet's divine assistance at critical moments.

At night, Ai suddenly flapped his wings and flew to the nearby mast, as if he was about to stand guard, while Duncan slowly walked forward as if he were patrolling the deck normally, and in his mind, the conversation in the captain's room was clearly heard.

Alice had already talked to Goathead about the strange door, and the doll lady's tone was tense: "...... That door looks a bit scary, the captain won't let me approach......"

"Of course you can't get close, let alone you, not even I can't touch that door - don't show this kind of look, I know I have no hands or feet, what I mean by 'touch' is in another sense...... Touch, control, understand, peek, do you understand? That door is untouchable in this sense...... If you touch it, you're done, understand?

Alice seemed to be startled by Goathead's particularly serious tone, and she hesitated for a second or two before speaking: "That...... What the hell is that door?"

Duncan,who was walking on the deck, suddenly concentrated, but he heard Goathead's sudden silence, and it took a long time to speak in a deep voice, 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 uncertainly, "But...... But the captain leaned over to take a look, looked through the crack in the door, and poked something unknown on the other side of the door with his sword......"

Alice's voice fell, Duncan suddenly felt the whole ship shake, and then all the mainsails and side sails made a low whimper in the wind, and all the masts and cables creaked immediately - and all of this was currently taken over by the goat's head!

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

"Yes...... Yes......" Alice seemed to be frightened, "The door is closed, there is a crack, about ...... It's about as wide as a finger......"

"The captain glanced across the crack in the door? And then? He stabbed with his sword...... What did he change at that time? Did he look hesitant or in a trance when he took you away?

"No," Alice replied immediately, "the captain just had a serious expression, and then quickly brought me back, he seemed to be thinking about something on the way, but he was not in a trance at all—ah, he was still discussing cooking with me, I have to go to the kitchen later......"

"Don't think about the kitchen yet! Do you know what's behind that door?"

"Ah...... What's behind that door? Alice's tone was a little dazed and scared, she had never seen a goat head so serious and urgent - this appearance gave her the feeling that a ship was about to sink.

Goat Head's tone suddenly became very low, and it slowly spoke: "Behind that door, is subspace."

Duncan,

who was walking on the deck, stopped.

Behind

that door, is subspace?

He was stunned, the huge waves in his heart even almost interfered with the monitoring of the captain's cabin, but then he thought of another thing -

the fragmented bilge, the dim, chaotic turbulence of light and shadow outside the cracks in the bilge - the Lost Home was sailing in different dimensions at the same time, and the outside of its bilge was obviously a different time and space from the real world, and there was another door on the bilge, and the opposite side of the door was subspace......

difficultThe second half of the Lost Hometown is actually sailing in subspace?!

And listening to Goathead's statement, this navigation does not seem unstable? Not only did the bilge need to be reassured by the captain all the time, but the door should theoretically be closed, but now it has an additional ...... What does this mean? Does it mean that there is a problem with the "tightness" of the bilge? Or is something in subspace trying to enter the lost home?

He recalled that he had tried to close the door before leaving the bilge, but no matter how hard he tried, the door remained open at all - as if it were one with the space.

He didn't think much about it at the time, but when he recalled it at this time, a strange idea couldn't help but come to mind.

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......