Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 839: Invitation at the End of the Century

At the edge of order, the composition and operation rules of information present a bizarre state - Duncan thought seriously for a long time and decided to give up thinking.

Anyway, the good news now is that Lenoir was not knocked out by the Lost Homeland, nor was she crushed under the ship - the bad news is that she was knocked "into" the ship, and she was still dazed at the time.

This reminded Duncan of a world famous painting:
A dog was hit by a car on the road and got embedded in the front bumper and was carried onto the highway.jpg.

Duncan coughed twice, and put aside the inappropriate association in his mind. He and Alice took two steps forward, with a little apology and concern on their faces: "Sorry, I didn't pay attention when I was sailing... Are you okay?"

Alice, who was standing by, lowered her head, thinking about something. Suddenly, she poked Duncan's arm and said, "Captain, I remember that it was the Lost Homeland that collided with the White Oak at the beginning, and then I came to your ship. Now it's the Frost Queen's turn. Is this a complete story?"

Duncan glared at him: "That's not how you use 'beginning and end'!"

Lei Nora seemed to have recovered a little at this time. She rubbed her dizzy head and stood up from the bed while adjusting to the situation. "It's okay, but the shock was a bit big. I didn't expect your appearance to be so...'shocking'."

As she spoke, her eyes fell on Alice beside her. With a slightly strange and complicated look, she carefully looked at this doll that looked almost exactly like her. The latter also turned her eyes and looked at Lenora seriously and curiously.

After a long time, Lenora suddenly smiled and stretched out her hand to Alice: "Hello."

Alice also laughed happily, and shook Lenora's hand up and down: "Hello!"

"It's incredible," Lenoir secretly sighed at the puppet's strength, and turned to Duncan and said, "I didn't expect that my first meeting with Alice in the real dimension would be like this... Although it's hard for us to say whether this place is the 'real dimension' or not."

As she spoke, she calmly withdrew her hand, turned around, walked to the wall on the other side of the room, and waved her hand.

The wall "shattered" silently in the blink of an eye, and turned into a transparent curtain. Outside the curtain was endless nothingness and chaotic mist floating in the nothingness.

"I have been waiting here for a long time," Ray Nora said slowly while looking at the "scenery" outside. "During this time, I tried to 'sail' along the edge of this thick fog, but I found nothing. There is only this chaotic and empty fog. In fact, I couldn't even see the fog at first, but could only feel that there was something here. It was only after my last contact with you that I was able to observe the fog, but that's all."

"Don't tell me you're trying to go deeper into the fog," Duncan looked at Lenora with a strange look in his eyes. "This is really reckless."

"Don't worry. Although I'm keen on adventure, I'm not going to throw away my brain." Lei Nora smiled and shook her head. "The dangers deeper down are unimaginable. Even with the protection of the Drifting House, I probably won't be able to come back alive after going in."

"Your judgment is rational," Duncan exhaled slightly, "That is a completely undefined and unvalued 'sea of ​​raw data'. Any entity that enters will be instantly cleared to the same unvalued state - it is completely different from the 'boundary' state here."

Lei Nora nodded slightly, and looked at Duncan with some curiosity: "Now that you are here, what are you going to do next?"

"First confirm your guess, then do some research and testing to see if you can generate some 'samples' from this sea of ​​raw data," Duncan said immediately. It was obvious that he had a plan in mind. Then he looked at the Frost Queen in front of him with some curiosity. "But now I am more curious about another thing... Can you come out of this room?"

Lei Nora was stunned for a moment: "Go out from here?"

As she spoke, she looked up at the large door-shaped hole left when Duncan and Alice pushed the wall into the house just now - the "passage" with a faint light still existed stably.

"You mean..." She gradually came to her senses, "going to the Lost Homeland with you?"

"This is a stable door, although the way it opens seems a little strange now." Duncan nodded, "I feel it can accommodate people to enter and exit freely, but I'm not sure if you are an 'entity' that can leave this room."

"...It should be possible," Lei Nora frowned slightly, thought seriously and said, "I have reached out from the door to fish out the 'invisible things' in this sea of ​​ash, and I have also left the room and entered your 'palace' floating in the endless void. Although I am bound to become a part of this 'drifting house', it seems that there will be no problem as long as I don't leave too far."

"That's good," Duncan smiled and extended his hand to invite Ray Nora. "Would you like to visit the Lost Homeland?"

The Frost Queen also smiled and bowed slightly: "It's my honor."

After passing through the slightly cool curtain again and feeling the familiar slight dizziness and sensory dislocation, Duncan and Alice returned to the deck of the Lost Homeland.

Then Duncan looked back to confirm, and saw that Leigh Nora had indeed successfully passed through the gate - she was standing in front of the "Gate of the Lost", and her face seemed a little confused.

Lenora opened her eyes wide. Even though she had been prepared mentally, she still felt dazed for a moment after actually passing through the door.

Now, she was standing firmly on the deck of the Lost Homeland. A vast "world" surrounded her, and everything in her field of vision seemed so real and... "spacious".

She stepped out of her cage.

"I..." Lenora's lips moved a few times, and it took a long time for her to make a sound, "I actually walked out of the room..."

"Welcome to my ship. Before you explore this vast Ash Sea, I'll take you on a tour here," Duncan said with a smile, opening his arms in a welcoming gesture. "There aren't many people here now, so it may seem a bit deserted, but it was very lively before."

Lei Nora listened in a daze, and finally adjusted her mentality. With a faint smile, she stretched hard outside the cage.

“It feels so good to be out.”

She said softly, looking back in the direction she came from.

The Door of the Lost Home, pushed open from its hinges, stood quietly in her field of vision.

Duncan noticed that Lenora had suddenly stopped moving, and asked casually, "What are you thinking about?"

"……I'm thinking……"

"Ahem, this door is amazing. By opening it in different ways, it can reconstruct a 'channel' in the disordered space-time relationship," Duncan coughed twice and explained with a serious and professional look on his face, "but you only need to know two ways to open it - if you pull it open from the door handle, it will lead to my captain's room. If you push it from the door axis, it will connect to your drifting house."

Leigh Nora blinked her eyes and couldn't help asking curiously, "What's the principle?"

Duncan thought about it and continued to frown: "Because it's magical."

Lenore stopped asking immediately.

Duncan stepped forward and closed the "Door of the Lost Homelander" in the normal way. After it was restored to its normal state, he pulled its handle and opened the door to the captain's room.

He turned and made an inviting gesture to Lenore.

On the chart table in the captain's room, the black wooden carved goat head heard the noise and immediately turned its neck with a creaking sound, looking at the figures who opened the door and came in. Then, at first glance, it noticed the Frost Queen who was walking side by side with Alice.

It was obviously startled for a moment, and then exclaimed: "Oh! I guess these are definitely not two Miss Alices - Captain, you have brought a very special guest."

"This is my first mate," Duncan said, raising his hand. "His name is Sasloka, but you can just call him Goat's Head."

Then he pointed at Lenora and said to the goat-headed man, "This is the Frost Queen. I don't need to introduce her in detail. Don't worry about the principles and processes in between. Anyway, she is on the ship now and will be a guest here during this period of time."

"Hello, Mr. First Mate, you can just call me Lenoora," Lenoora nodded politely, but then she was stunned for a moment, as if she vaguely realized something, "Wait... Sasloka? I think this name is..."

"That was all when I was young," the goat-headed man shook his head modestly, his tone full of vicissitudes of life, "I was still intact back then, with a body under my head... but now I am only the first mate of this ship, Captain Duncan's most loyal first mate."

As it spoke, it stretched its neck toward itself and pointed with its chin at another "goat head" (Skull of Dreams) on the other side of the chart table: "This is also Sasloka, my other head, but there is something wrong with this head and it can't communicate now. Usually I chat with it unilaterally - it's a good listener, silent and patient. The captain always thinks I talk too much and asks me to shut up, but this head won't do that. And I tell you, I always feel that this head actually responds. When I talk to it a lot, sometimes it will move a little, but the captain always says that it's all my illusion..."

"Shut up."

"Okay Captain."

Lenora looked at the scene with a dazed expression. She didn't react to what had just happened. She felt that the goat-headed man opened his mouth and spoke for a while, and suddenly a wall of sound waves rolled towards her. There was no punctuation in the sound waves...

The last time she felt this kind of impact was a few dozen minutes ago, when it was the Lost Hometown that was running over her...

(End of this chapter)