Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 667
Although it had been a long time since he last entered the subspace, Duncan still clearly remembered that there was no goat head in the captain's cabin on the "Broken Homestead" on this side of the subspace.

There is only one chart on the navigation table here that shows a strange and suspicious route.

However, now, a pitch-black goat head was sitting quietly on the navigation table, watching him silently in the darkness - and Duncan could be sure that the moment the bedroom door opened, there was a person from this pitch-black goat head looking towards him. The action of turning your eyes.

It's a living thing, and it's reacting to external stimuli!

Duncan quickly controlled the expression on his face, and while carefully paying attention to the movements of the goat head staring straight at him, he walked out of the bedroom and slowly approached the navigation table, accompanied by As expected, the goat head on the table also responded - it slowly turned its eyes, always focusing on Duncan.

Duncan frowned suddenly.

The appearance of this goat head is exactly the same as the goat head in the real world, but the position is wrong - the "goat head" in the real world is placed on the left-hand edge of the table, but the goat head in front of you is placed closer to the middle. .

Duncan recalled quickly, and soon remembered that before he returned to the bedroom to rest, he had placed the "Dream Skull" in this position.

Dream Skull?Is this the "Dream Skull" he brought back from the cultists' ship?Why does it appear in the subspace? !

Countless conjectures and thoughts suddenly arose in his mind. Duncan cautiously came to the navigation table. He held the edge of the table with both hands and stared at the "goat head" on the table with a sinking face. The latter looked at it equally slowly. He slowly raised his gaze and met Duncan's gaze with his empty eyes.

This silent and empty gaze is a bit creepy.

After a few seconds of silent confrontation, Duncan decided to break the silence - he said hello to the other party with a stern face and a serious expression: "Hello, I am Duncan."

The weird goat head on the table spoke: "Hello, you are not Duncan."

At this moment, Duncan almost couldn't control his expression!

But fortunately, his thick nerves, tempered by dealing with a lot of harmonious guys on the ship, came into play. He tightened the expression on his face at the critical moment, but the turmoil in his heart was obviously not so easy to calm down - this weird goat head actually turned out to be... Open your mouth! ?
And compared to this guy's sudden opening, what's more surprising is obviously the content of his opening!

While controlling the expression on his face, Duncan tried to ask in a calm tone: "I'm not Duncan, then who am I?"

"You are the captain." The goat head suspected of being the "Dream Skull" said calmly.

Its voice when speaking was almost exactly the same as the "first mate" that Duncan was familiar with, but it revealed a strange gloom and simplicity, which people were not used to.

While Duncan was adapting to this unaccustomed feeling, he looked at the strange goat head with a strange look. He felt that what the other party said was strange, and couldn't help but ask: "Isn't the captain of this ship Duncan? ?”

"You are the captain," the goat head met Duncan's gaze, "you are not Duncan."

It seems to only say this. No matter how you ask, no matter how you change the method and angle of the question, it always has only these two responses - the person it is talking to at the moment is the captain of this ship, but that is not "Duncan" ".

After several exchanges, Duncan stopped trying in this area and showed a thoughtful expression.

He was the captain of the ship, but he was not Duncan—and of course he knew he was not Duncan.

He is Zhou Ming, a wandering soul. The great explorer named Duncan Abnormar is just the identity he "occupies" at the moment. The real Captain Duncan died a century ago. This is what he I know.

But he was the only one who knew it all this time - or rather, the goat-headed first mate in the real world also knew it, but he would never say it.

This is a fact that cannot be announced on the Lost Home.

However, the goat head in front of him, which was suspected to be the "Dream Skull", directly stated this.

Duncan raised his head and looked at the dilapidated cabins around him, and then looked through the hollow windows at the broken masts, decks and the ship's side in the distance.

The dilapidated Homeless Ship sailing in the subspace did not change because someone in the captain's room revealed the fact that "the captain was not Duncan".

Is it because this is subspace?Because the ship is just a projection?Or is it because the "Dream Skull" that revealed this matter is not part of the Lost Home, so its knowledge will not affect the stability of the ship?
Duncan slowly withdrew his gaze, and his eyes fell on the goat's head on the table.

So what exactly is this goat head? Is it the original body of the Dream Skull, or the projection of the Dream Skull in the subspace?Or... the Dream Skull was originally divided into two parts, one part was found by the cultists, and the other part remained in the subspace?
After frowning and thinking for a moment, Duncan asked tentatively: "Who are you?" The goat head on the table fell silent. After a long time, just when Duncan thought the other party would not respond to him, it suddenly opened its mouth: "I have no idea."

Duncan suddenly felt a little curious: "Then what do you know?"

The goat-head was silent for a longer time this time, and finally answered the same: "I don't know."

"...You know nothing, but you know that I am the 'captain' here, and you also know that I am not Duncan." Duncan's expression was a little subtle, "Then do you know this ship? Do you know where you are? "

The goat's head stopped responding at all - it became silent and still, as if it had turned into a real wooden sculpture.

Duncan gradually realized that the mind of the "Dream Skull" in front of him was incomplete.

Unlike the "first mate" in the real world, this dream skull seems to only retain a little bit of sporadic memory and incomplete and fragmented thinking functions. Even if it shows a certain communication ability in the subspace, this kind of The ability to communicate is also limited to answering a few questions - once a question "goes out of scope" it becomes stagnant.

But in this incomplete and fragmented mind, "Dream Skull" knew that the "captain" of this ship at the moment was not "Duncan".

Duncan was thoughtful, and he already had a vague guess in his mind.

This may still be related to the "deal" the real Captain Duncan made with Saslokar in the depths of the warp a century ago.

In that transaction, the Lost Home, which had been almost completely swallowed up by the assimilation of subspace, was reshaped into an entity by the "Dream King", while the fragmented Dream King, who was trapped deep in the subspace, got a chance to escape. ——Although what escaped was only a spine and a skull fragment, and he lost almost all his memory, Sasloka was indeed able to return to the real world.

The Dream Skull in front of me should be one of those fragments that failed to escape from the subspace - it also experienced the original transaction, so it also knows what happened to the real Captain Duncan, but it only has incomplete knowledge of it. memory.

Duncan instinctively felt that this Dream Skull should know more things - more things related to Saslokar, subspace, and the Lost Home.

But its incomplete and chaotic thinking could not effectively sort out those trivial memories.

But just when Duncan's thoughts were diverging in this direction and he began to think about how to guide this "Dream Skull" to answer more of his questions, a slight tremor and a strange noise suddenly came from an unknown direction. His thoughts were interrupted.

The Lost Home is shaking, and something seems to be approaching outside the ship's side!

Duncan instantly raised his head from the table and subconsciously looked at the window not far away.

A huge continuous shadow and a pale and cracked "earth" appeared in the endless darkness outside the window at some point. The huge pale structure moved slowly outside the window. In addition to the shocking cracked wounds on the surface, what looked like skin could be seen. Similar texture marks.

Duncan's heart suddenly moved, as if he thought of something, he quickly came to the window, and at this moment, a new structure appeared on the slowly moving "pale earth" outside the window - first a widening crack, and then It was a turbid, dark yellow solidified crystal, followed by a huge eyeball tissue that almost occupied the entire field of view outside the window.

A huge eye was slowly moving past the window of the captain's cabin.

Duncan stood in front of the window and looked at the cloudy one-eye that was gradually moving past his eyes. As his vision moved, he saw the structure around the eye - a pale, non-human face.

Then his gaze extended further, and he saw the huge body rolling in the darkness, and the fragmented earth that was almost "embedded" around the body.

It's the pale Cyclops who carries the broken earth on his back in the warp!
Duncan suddenly recalled - when he first entered the subspace, he had seen this amazing "individual" from a distance!
But at that time, he was just passing by from a distance, and he didn't even have time to see any details of the giant and the earth it carried - this time, the Homeless Ship sailed slowly past almost close to the face of the giant's remains.

The impact and shock brought by this scene was far greater than the last time - even Duncan felt suffocated at this moment.

He just stared at the slowly moving giant outside the window, staring at the muddy one eye that had been dead for who knows how long.

The dead turbid one eye also stared at him quietly - as the Homeless Ship moved, the eyeball slowly turned around and calmly stared at Duncan in the chaotic subspace.

Duncan: "...?!"

He blinked and confirmed again that the giant's turbid one eye did slowly turn around with the movement of the Lost Home - that eye saw the Lost Home, and it was staring here!

(End of this chapter)