Chapter 192: Non-Linear Presence, and Preparations for Traveling to the City-State

Chapter 192 Non-Linear Existence, and Preparations for Traveling to the City-State

The mannequin once again rode back to the Lost Country, and looked as if it was in a bit of shock – and Duncan’s eyes widened in astonishment after listening to the discarded mannequin’s garbled description.

“Disappeared? Disappeared out of thin air right in front of your eyes?” Duncan stared daggers at Alice, then at the nearby lifeboat that had just been lifted over the side of the ship by a winch sling – the ropes that had been used to bind the Terminal Preachers earlier still remained on the boat, but the cultists that had been bound had long since disappeared.

“Yeah, yeah! It was gone just like that! Not even a sound!” Alice gesticulated as she explained her bizarre experience to Duncan, “Just the instant the sunlight poured down, they were gone, like they never existed ……”

“The moment the sunlight sprinkled down disappeared without a sound ……” Duncan frowned, he envisioned countless ways or means of resistance for those final preachers to escape, but he didn’t expect the other party to disappear so out of thin air, which made many of his preparations useless, and “They just jumped into the sea I can understand, well at least it is considered dissolvable in water, how does this dissolvable in sunlight work …… Could it be related to the sun? The sun’s suppressive power would make them unable to survive in the real world?”

“I don’t know ah.” Alice stared, justified.

“And I didn’t ask you,” Duncan gave the mannequin a look, “So what was wrong with them before they disappeared? What did they even say? Or did they do some weird ritual?”

“They …… just kept chanting about subspace, the Promised Land, the doomed final newborn reincarnation, or something,” Alice rubbed her head, before suddenly remembering immediately afterward, “Ah yes! There was a cultist who said something about ‘another day is over for us’ ……”

“Their ‘another day’ is over?” Duncan’s brow furrowed, and then for some reason he thought of what one of the Endbringers had told himself earlier-

They hide in cursed history.

Some outrageous conjectures bubbled up, but when he thought of what a ghostly state this even more outrageous world was in, it seemed that anything more outrageous wasn’t so outrageous.

“Captain?” Alice finally couldn’t help but take the initiative when she saw Duncan frowning and pondering for a long time without addressing himself, “What did you think of? You ……”

“Nothing,” Duncan shook his head, as if talking to himself, but also as if softly sighing muttered, “just suddenly have a crazy idea, those so-called final preachers …… afraid of not non-linear existence of the ……”

“Non-linear existence?” Alice froze at once, her limited brain capacity and knowledge reserves prevented her from following the Captain’s train of thought, “What does that mean?”

“…… You’d better not ask, with your intelligence it’s hard for me to explain it clearly to you,” Duncan glanced at Alice, hesitated for two seconds or shook his head, “Only I suddenly figured out one thing, why did Maurice gave me that book would say that the Final Preacher is the most mysterious and the most difficult to be found and captured cultists …… This is too outrageous.”

This is outrageous – Duncan repeated in his mind again.

Hiding in a perverse stream of history, a non-linear being in its own right, shuttling through reality with the alternation of day and night, the fact that you could never apprehend today a Terminal Preacher captured yesterday unless you killed him on the spot – that was the astonishing fact he had surmised from the clues available to him.

In contrast, those Sun Religionists, who were also vicious and dark but were actually mostly composed of rabble, were much more ordinary and friendly – although they also had the weird characteristic of being “transformed from ordinary people under the influence of the Creeping Sun Wheel”, they were at least not as evil as the Sun Religionists, but they were not as evil as the Sun Religionists. Although they also have the strange characteristic of “being transformed from ordinary people under the influence of the Creeping Sun Wheel,” they are at least not as evil as this.

But then again …… if the Ultimate Preacher is really a “non-linear existence” as he guessed, then how did they become this state? Ordinary human beings …… how can they detach themselves from the normal flow of time and become a kind of discontinuous “sliced creatures” in time?
Just because they follow the subspace …… and get the crazy misaligned “blessing” of the subspace?
“Captain, you’re staring …… again.”

Alice’s voice came once more, and the figure was looking at Duncan with a bit of concern.

“I’m fine.” Duncan gently exhaled and put away all those chaotic thoughts, he felt that it was still too early for him to brainstorm, after all, he was also in first contact with those subspace believers, and it was not much use to make the most outrageous speculations rashly.

He refocused his gaze on Alice.

“You saw the note I gave you, right?” He said casually.

“Saw it!” Alice immediately nodded happily, “I was shocked when I first saw the box, thinking that you were telling me not to go back, and then I was relieved when I saw the note……. But I didn’t read the words on it, but I did understand the picture you drew… …”

The corner of Duncan’s mouth trembled a little, and said that his own heart after writing that note really came in handy, this mannequin is really illiterate: “…… You really can’t read.”

“I can’t read!” Alice with the usual righteousness, “I have been lying in the box for so many years, relying on ‘listening’ to be able to accumulate some general knowledge of life is already very powerful, how can I recognize the words clearly again …… “

Duncan: “……” “What are you thinking, Captain?”

“I suddenly thought …… I don’t know if it’s feasible to run a cram school on the Lost Country or in an antique store,” Duncan sighed, “Counting you, I already know two illiterates – -and counting the dog there’d have to be three, enough to start a study group.”

Alice thought for a moment, “What’s a cram school? What’s a study group?”

“…… I’ll explain later,” Duncan waved a hand, then his expression grew slightly more serious, “Let’s talk about the ‘test’ from earlier. Everything was fine with those three cultists until they disappeared, yes? Including after sending the crate through, and they weren’t affected in any way?”

“Definitely normal, their heads were on their necks, I could see them clearly.”

Duncan curled his fingers against his chin and looked at Alice thoughtfully.

Although the characteristics of those final preachers are strange, but certainly do not have the same strength or “extraordinary resistance” as the saints, after all, Shirley swung the dog to hit people can be smashed to death three, which means that their flesh and blood is also a “conventional material” can be destroyed, at most their tolerance of pain is far more than normal. The most they can do is to tolerate pain far more than normal people.

Now, the three Ultimate Preachers stayed beside Alice for such a long time, but they were not affected in any way, that is to say,……, the effect of the guillotine has really disappeared?

Alice watched Duncan’s face change, even more sluggish at this time also finally gradually reacted, she carefully came over, lifted her face, her face with a hidden expectation: ”Captain …… is my ‘test’ passed ? Are you able to take me to the city state?”

“The test …… should have passed, although the bizarre nature of those Endbringer preachers made me a bit uneasy, but from the results ……” Duncan spoke slowly, as he was still thinking and deliberating, but finally he nodded, “Well, the test did pass, and your guillotine abilities appear to be under control.”

At this he paused, and before Alice could celebrate added, “I’ll take you to the city-state, but not right away – you have a serious lack of knowledge about the common sense of the human world, and there are still areas on your body that are easily exposed, such as your finger and wrist joints, the former will need some wicked homework, and the latter will require some camouflage to make it work.”

“Uh-huh, I know I know!” Alice nodded her head vigorously, she didn’t seem to be frustrated at all by those difficulties and problems mentioned by Duncan, instead she seemed to be motivated, “Mr. Goathead told me that too, he said that the human world is complicated as hell, even going out to buy groceries comes with a whole lot of rules, he said that if I were to go to a human city-state I’d definitely need to ‘catch up on some homework’, there’s something I don’t know how to do. ‘, if there’s anything you don’t know how to do you can go ask ……”

“Don’t you ask it!!!” Duncan didn’t wait for Alice to finish her sentence, he was shocked, and hurriedly interrupted this mannequin that was always in collusion with the goat head and was about to grow completely out of shape, “It’s not even more human than you are, so you’re learning about the common sense of human society from it? Where is your brain?”

Alice looked innocent, “No!”

Duncan breath almost did not come up, staring at the eyes to hold half a day finally stifled a sentence, “You …… I admit that you are right.”

“Hey ……”

“Anyway, you don’t learn things from that goat head in the future, it can’t teach a few good things,” Duncan sighed, feeling that every time he interacted with this mannequin was challenging his nerves, and even had the feeling of passing san check, “I’ll take the time to give you a bad dose of common sense later on, and by the way, to help you think about the camouflage thing, there’s nothing for you to do now, go ahead and cook.”

“Oh oh,” Alice nodded vigorously, but just as she was about to walk away and then as if she suddenly remembered something, she turned around and looked at Duncan curiously, “What are you going to do then Captain?”

“I have some things to talk to Goathead about,” Duncan waved his hand with a tired look on his face, “Things that don’t concern you.”

Alice nodded and turned in the direction of the cabin – with a very good mood and light, demure steps.

Duncan watched the departing back of the doll lady, and could not help but feel once again in his heart- the

It’s so elegant when you don’t open your mouth and turn around.

It’s just a pity to grow a mouth ……

(End of chapter)