Chapter 35 – Calm and Normal

Chapter 35 Calm and Normal

The sea calmed down.

Alice saw that the tentacle fell down on the deck, and some kind of flesh and blood containing strong power also fell down by the captain’s feet, and the vitality quickly faded away from the flesh and blood, and at the same moment, some kind of huge thing coiled under the sea water around the Lost Country also began to accelerate its dive – at the “price” of one tentacle, it quickly got out of the sea where the Lost Country was located, it even looked like it was in a hurry. “At the cost of one of its tentacles, it quickly broke away from the sea where the Lost Country was located, and it even looked like it was fleeing in a hurry.

In the process of this huge shadow re-diving into the deep sea, the sea was restored to calmness with astonishing speed, and the dark clouds in the sky, which were like a deep ink color, also dissipated completely.

…… That might not have been a cloudy cloud at all.

Alice looked up at the sky, she still remembered the appearance of that cloudy cloud from before, she recalled the outline of that cloudy cloud when it dissipated, and finally vaguely corresponded it to that shadow underwater around the ship from before.

That thick cloud in the sky seemed to be a shadow, a shadow cast in the sky by some huge thing in the sea.

The crackling sound of burning flames came from the edge of the deck, interrupting Alice’s wandering, and she hurriedly looked in the direction of the captain, only to see that the captain had already resumed his usual appearance, a tall man with a pleasant smile on his face, who had already noticed Alice standing not far away, and beckoned his hand to gesture for Ms. Mannequin to come over.

Seeing Alice walk up to him, Duncan kicked the large fish on the deck, his tone rising slightly, “Look, I caught a big fish!”

“A big …… big fish?” Alice’s expression was a bit dumbfounded as she looked at the mass at Duncan’s feet, between the twisted and rolled up flesh and blood, uncountable, blood and flesh bloomed eyes were still gazing at the sky in a half-open, half-closed position, while jagged, sharp teeth and fangs glistened with a metallic-colored cold light between the eyeballs.

With Duncan’s kick, half of the eyes on this severed tentacle suddenly blinked, but then they all closed.

“Yeah, big fish,” Duncan said cheerfully, “You see, getting this thing up here took a lot of work out of me.”

Even though it was only a doll, Alice felt as if a muscle twitched in the corner of her eye for a moment, and she opened her mouth to speak, but she didn’t know where to begin to rectify the situation.

She looked to the Fish at Duncan’s feet.

A large, ugly fish lay there – pitch-black in color, with a pitted skin, odd grayish-white patterns around its fins, bone spurs extending from its head, and a pair of lifeless eyes that met her gaze.

There were many other “small fish” scattered around the deck.

Alice suddenly lost all expression and speech, she stared at the scene in front of her with wide eyes, looking at those “fish” lying on the deck, looking at these things that were not “fish” a second ago.

Miss Doll, who lacked life experience, did not yet understand what it meant to be “skeptical”, but at this moment, she did suddenly become skeptical about everything, and even wondered if she was “dreaming”…. -She even wondered if she was “dreaming”… Where did the tentacles, the pieces of flesh and blood go?
Perhaps her momentary stupor was too obvious, and Duncan immediately recognized Alice’s abnormality, raising an eyebrow as he looked at the figure, “What is it? Is something wrong?”

“I …… “Alice opened her mouth, yet just as she was about to open her mouth to correct something, the codes that Goathead had told her earlier suddenly surfaced in her mind.

On the Lost Country, Captain Duncan was the absolute authority, and his words were the absolute “facts” – if the real world contradicted Captain Duncan’s words, then the captain’s judgment would prevail.

“There’s nothing wrong with that!” Alice reacted furiously and said quickly, and then as if to cover up the overly nervous part of her tone, she hurriedly changed the topic, “By the way Captain, that storm just now was really scary ……”

“Storm? You mean that wave?” Duncan looked at Ms. Doll suspiciously, “That wave wasn’t small indeed, but it was far from a storm I guess …… But yeah, you haven’t seen any real storms either.”

Alice: “…… You’re right.”

Captain Duncan called the storm that covered almost the entire ocean a “wave”, so it was a wave, and Captain Duncan thought that the things he caught on the ship were “fish”, so they were fish.

“…… I feel you a little nervous, you really all right?” Duncan, however, still noticed something wrong in Alice’s tone, he looked at his “No. 1 crew member” with some concern, “Could it be seasickness? Do you get seasick?”

“I’m fine, just a moment ago the boat shook a little ……” Alice looked at the captain in front of the face of concern, but I do not know whether to feel relieved or should feel greater fear, can only be hard to change the topic, “Right. What are you planning to do when you catch these …… ‘fish’?”

“That goes without asking?” Duncan burst out laughing, “Eating them, of course!”

Alice’s expression instantly froze, “…… Eat?”

“What else? Haven’t you noticed that the stock of ingredients on the Lost Country is too monotonous?” Duncan was clearly in a good mood, “I’m going to take this big one apart, stew part of it and roast part of it, and these slightly smaller ones will be salted and made into dried fish ……” He spoke cheerfully of his next plans, but as confident as his mouth was, he was actually rather unsure whether he’d be able to pull it off or not – his cooking skills were only average, much less experienced in handling such a huge sea fish, and the technique of making dried fish was only somewhat theoretical, without the slightest bit of hands-on experience.

But how do you know unless you try?
The only problem …… is don t eat a bad stomach.

Duncan still retained some sense in the joy of the great harvest, and he cautiously looked at the big fish at his feet, guessing whether this gift from nature would be poisonous.

The safest thing to do was to find an unlucky person to try it first.

He first thought of the goat’s head in the captain’s cabin, then instantly ruled that option out, then glanced across the room at the cursed mannequin – this one wasn’t viable either.

Alice had no stomach at all.

Finally, he looked over his shoulder at the dove.

The dove cocked its head at him as well.

Aye didn’t look like a normal creature, but if he had to find a living creature of flesh and blood on the ship, this pigeon seemed to be the only one left. ……

A few moments later, Duncan left the deck with his “catch” – lunchtime was approaching and he couldn’t wait to improve the food on the Lost Country.

Alice stared for a moment, then went to the captain’s cabin door.

She hadn’t intended to come to the goat’s head, but since the last time she’d seen the “first mate’s” ability to talk, she’d felt a deep sense of reverence for the entire captain’s cabin.

She didn’t want to step into the door of the captain’s cabin, if at all possible.

However, what happened today was really too strange, so she felt it was necessary to consult with the experienced Mr. Goathead to see if this was a normal phenomenon on the Lost Country.

She wasn’t breaking the crew code, just inquiring about the situation shouldn’t be taboo.

After hesitating for a full ten seconds or so, Alice finally gathered her courage and pulled open the door to the captain’s room.

In the next second, she was shocked to see that the goat’s head had already turned in the direction of the doorway long ago, and was staring this way with a deadly stare – it was as if it had been waiting for itself to come over for a long time.

“What happened outside?” The goat head spoke in an extremely rare and concise manner.

Alice sensed a hint of something wrong from this abnormal behavior of the other party, and she hurriedly turned back and closed the door of the room, came to the sailing table, and told the other party everything she had seen.

And after her words fell, the goat’s head fell into an extremely perverse silence – for a minute-long period of time, it surprisingly did not utter a single word.

Wooden carved goat head can not make expression, but Alice can obviously feel …… things seem to be a little beyond the “first mate” judgment.

Alice immediately tensed up, she subconsciously leaned forward: “Is this not something that would normally happen on the Lost Country? Could it be that the captain is really ……”

“Everything is normal on the Lost Country,” Goathead finally snapped out of his silence and replied quickly, interrupting Alice as if to plug some kind of loophole at the first opportunity, “Look, everything is normal on the Lost Country, always will be, and the great Captain Duncan is as normal as he’s ever been! ”

“Then …… I’m just looking at your reaction ……”

“Things are a bit beyond my expectations – but that’s due to my lack of imagination and perception,” Goathead’s words flowed quickly, it seemed to be recovering a little bit from its dismay to its usual state, and right after that, its emotions visibly started to rise, even its its tone became impassioned and excited, “Yes, the great Captain Duncan-he deserves to be greater and more powerful! There’s no anomaly, Miss Alice; listen, it’s business as usual on the Lost Country! Let the Captain do what he thinks is right, and don’t go on discussing the subject …… You’ve just got to remember that fact from this day forward:
“There is fish in the galley of the Lost Country, and fish is a delicious ingredient.”

(End of chapter)