Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 670 The Captain and the Doll

Returning to the familiar real world, returning to the familiar Lost Home, and hearing the familiar nagging of the goat head - Duncan felt that his heart felt a little more at ease again, and the "roar" in the subspace brought him The fatigue and complicated thoughts also calmed down a lot.

He exhaled softly and stepped towards the navigation table. The goat head didn't seem to notice the fatigue on the captain's face just now - it had obviously talked freely in the past period, and it seemed very interested at this time. Feeling so high, he even showed off to Duncan: "Captain! Your loyal omission has achieved great results. I had a good chat with this head. Just now we talked about poetry and songs from the delicacies on the boundless sea, and from poetry to songs. Endowed..."

Duncan lowered his head and glanced at the noisy first mate: "Then did it respond to you?"

The goat head was stunned for a moment, feeling a little unsure: "That's true... not yet..."

But then it became confident again: "But I feel that I have almost succeeded. Such a heart-to-heart communication will surely make the stone speak. I feel that this head will soon be moved by my sincere words, and maybe it will pass." Once you know it, it will greet you..."

"Stop it," Duncan finally interrupted the goat head's nagging, "this head won't respond to you - most of it is in subspace."

The goathead made a "bang" sound, like a "braking sound" caused by a string of words suddenly being held in the throat. It was stunned for two seconds and finally reacted: "Are you talking about subspace?"

"Didn't you notice?" Duncan raised his finger and pointed at the door of the captain's cabin, "I was resting in the bedroom, but I opened the door and came back from the captain's cabin - while I was 'confiding' with your other head, I was already in I’m back from exploring the subspace.”

The goat's head shook and began to vibrate.

"Don't be shocked, as you can see, nothing happened," Duncan said casually, sitting down at the navigation table, and at the same time his eyes fell on another dark "goat head", "The head of the dreamland" So it doesn't respond to you because its body is located in subspace, and I had...limited communication with it there. According to my observation, it is indeed as I expected before, and it does not have a complete mind and body like you. memory."

The goat head finally reacted. It never expected that the captain would go to the subspace again just after returning to the room to "take a nap". The news the captain brought back from "over there" was even more unexpected. It turned Neck, looking at the other head on the table, it took a long time before he said: "Then... what did it say to you?"

As soon as he said it, he seemed to regret a little, and quickly followed up: "Ah, if it is 'knowledge' that is not very safe, then forget it, my curiosity is not that..."

"It knows something about 'Duncan Abnomar', just as much as you know, and to a certain extent you should have a common 'initial memory', but that part is not suitable for discussion on this ship "As long as we have a tacit understanding with each other," Duncan waved his hand and said calmly, "You know what I'm talking about."

The goat head closed his mouth instantly.

Of course it knew what the captain was talking about.

But the subject must not be brought up aboard the Lost Home - the ship would be sunk by the "truth", and without Captain Duncan as its anchor, it would fall into the warp again.

This is the "tacit understanding" established between it and the captain after getting along for a period of time and after many tacit hints and cooperation from both of them.

There was silence in the captain's room for a while. Duncan sat on a chair to rest and slowly regained his energy. The Dream Skull was still sitting quietly on the table, its empty eyes not looking at any target, and the goat's head seemed to be trapped in It stopped thinking and didn't know what the "first officer" was thinking. After a long time, it suddenly raised its head: "Besides that, you also..."

"'The King of the Pale Giants', the Creator of the First Long Night mentioned in the Book of Blasphemy, whose body was fused with the remains of creation in the First Long Night...but more, You can’t say that, it could be harmful.”

The goat head was startled for a moment, then slowly lowered his head: "Okay, I won't ask anymore."

Duncan said "hmm" and said nothing more. He just fell into memory and thinking in silence.

Even though he knew that he couldn't draw any conclusions from his random thoughts now, he still couldn't help but think about the "fragments" that flooded into his mind, and recalled the voice that spoke to him in that "roar".

Even though it was incomplete, he could still deduce a lot of information from those words——

That is a group that has almost cracked the truth of all things.

A civilization that has stood at the top of time and space.

They call themselves "human beings" - but they are obviously completely different from the "human beings" in 2022 that Zhou Ming knows.

They have gone too far in the process of civilization and have almost reached the end of truth.

But they also ushered in their demise on the day of the Great Annihilation, but unlike the perishing groups in other worlds, they were perhaps the only civilization that had the ability and opportunity to fully observe the Great Annihilation and make preparations for it.

Although they are still unable to prevent the arrival of the Great Annihilation, they seem to have found a way to retain a complete... "seed" when all things are destroyed.

Duncan turned his head and calmly stared at the oval antique mirror hanging on the wall not far away, staring at the figure reflected in the mirror.

Now, he finally knew why there was no red light representing the destruction of all things in his "own memory" - because the Great Annihilation did not occur in the era he was familiar with.

The Great Annihilation takes place in the distant future after that.

But compared with these possible "truths", bigger questions filled his heart.

Why...should there be a "Zhou Ming"?
He just sat behind the table and thought about it for a long time. Finally, he put down all the troubles in his mind and stood up and walked to the door.

"I'm going to take a walk on the deck." He said to the goat head, then opened the door and walked out of the captain's cabin.

The deck was empty and quiet, and the cool brilliance of World Creation was shining on the distant sea. The sea was calm at the moment, with occasional breaking waves lapping against the hull, and the soft sounds they brought were not noisy.

Duncan just walked slowly forward along the edge of the deck, without any goal, and no longer thinking about those distant things that were destined to have no answers, as if simply to empty his mind and just to enjoy the night breeze.

He didn't stop until he saw a slender figure appearing not far away.

Alice was sitting on the big wooden barrel near the side of the ship - it was her favorite barrel. She was gently swaying on the barrel, looking at the sea in the distance, her calves dangling from side to side, and she seemed to be humming. Playing strange tunes.

Duncan distinguished it for a while, and then realized that it was a sailor tune that Goathead occasionally hummed - Goathead's tune itself was not very straight, and now it had been "processed" by Alice, and the tune was so distorted that it was placed in the wrong place. I am afraid that few people in the entire boundless sea can understand it.

But when Alice hums it, it still sounds good.

The doll finally noticed Duncan's approach. She immediately stopped and jumped off the barrel happily: "Captain!"

"Well," Duncan said with a smile on his lips, "I'm going to go for a walk."

Alice blinked and suddenly looked seriously into Duncan's eyes.

"You look a little tired. Are you worried? Are you going to deal with some big trouble again?"

The puppet's sensitivity was unexpected, and Duncan was a little dazed for a moment, but he soon smiled and shook his head: "It's nothing, I was just thinking about a problem - why don't you go to bed so late? Are you worried too?"

"No," Alice laughed happily, "I'm just a little happy and can't sleep."

"Happy?"

Alice immediately explained happily: "I sent the 'trophies' to the kitchen! They are all very useful - the 'friends' in the kitchen seemed a little unhappy at first, but after I explained to them, they Just accept those 'new friends'...

"I also checked the meat that I had marinated before, and it was in great condition! Not a single bucket was broken this time, and I should be able to use it for cooking in a month...

"I also pickled some pickles, which Nina taught me. She said pickles can be used with bacon patties, which is much better than what Goat Head taught me...

"I also found a lot of pencils that had never been used in the utility room at the end of the second deck. I don't know who put them in. I want to use them to draw. Luni is very good at drawing. She She said she could teach me, but she would have to wait until she was free..."

The doll just talked happily like this, all kinds of trivial things, all kinds of good things that were too small to be worth mentioning, and were not even considered "good things", but she did feel a great deal in these trivial things. Every piece of happiness made her elated - and now, she was trying her best to bring out this happiness, hoping to make the captain happy too.

Although she had no idea what the captain was usually worried and thinking about.

Duncan didn't interrupt her, he just listened quietly for a long time until a real smile appeared in the depths of his eyes again.

Alice stopped, blinked in the night, and looked at Duncan happily.

"Alice, have you ever thought about your 'birth'?" Duncan thought for a while and suddenly asked, "Have you ever thought about why you were born, why you think about it, and why you are Alice. "Si', what will be the future of 'Alice'? Have you considered these issues?"

"No!" Alice didn't even hesitate for a second. These questions that seemed to allow philosophers to think about them for a lifetime were so simple for her - she didn't think about them at all, "Never thought about it!"

But as soon as she finished speaking, she seemed to suddenly feel that the answer seemed a bit hasty, so she added hesitantly: "...Isn't this a bad answer? It seems that I am a bit stupid... You usually think about this ?"

Duncan looked at the doll dumbfounded.

Then he laughed and slowly shook his head: "You answered it very well."

Alice didn't know why.

Duncan didn't explain anything, just stretched out his hand and gently pressed the doll's hair.

"If you want to draw, I can teach you."

"Captain, can you still draw?"

"I knew a little bit about it, a long time ago... Do you want to learn?"

"Ok!"

(End of this chapter)