Chapter 463 – The First Step to a Better Relationship
Chapter 463: The First Step Toward Rapport
A revolving fiery doorway expanded violently on the deck, and then the owner of the Lost Country Fleet stepped out from the gate.
Tall, majestic, entwined with spiritual fire, and with a gaze like a torch, his existence itself was as if the fear of the infinite sea had materialized, and wherever his gaze went, it was as if he had drawn all the flames of the earthly world.
And behind that tall figure, then came out an elegant woman wearing a deep purple dress, long silver hair to the waist, beautiful appearance but slightly pale complexion, she followed behind Captain Duncan, a mysterious and elegant temperament, like a follower.
Lawrence felt his heart thumping and his nerves had tightened to the breaking point as he saw Duncan walk towards him, and with every step the other man took closer, the unquenchable spiritual flames in his body grew one point more and one point more intense-until the other man stopped on the deck, and he bowed his head as an afterthought: “Captain.”
“Nice ship you’ve got there.” Duncan said casually, looking up again to look around the expedition ship that he had met once, a bond that had since become entangled to this day, and at the same time, a sense of newness could not help but rise in him – for this was technically the first time that his essence had left the Lost Country and come aboard another ship.
Before setting foot on the White Oak, he was worried about whether his departure from the Lost Country ship would cause any unpredictable changes, after all, the use of “incarnation” on weekdays to walk in the city-state and the body off the ship are two completely different concepts, but now it seems that …… at least in the But now it seems that at least in the “Lost Country Fleet” internal activities, the Lost Country ship will not have any problems because of his departure.
Lawrence’s heart was flooded with a strange feeling, he was not able to judge whether Captain Duncan’s words just now were considered a compliment or not, he could only continue to bow his head awkwardly: “Eh, it’s good that you like it …….”
“Don’t be so nervous, it’s not like it’s our first time meeting,” Duncan smiled, Lawrence’s reaction was within his expectation, and he had seen this kind of reaction many times, “Relax, just treat it as if you met an ordinary senior of the Explorer’s Association on a normal day.”
With that said, his gaze swept over the uniform Lawrence was wearing, and at the other man’s collar he saw the crest of the Explorers’ Society.
Duncan nodded slightly and added, “Many years ago, I was an explorer as well – it’s a pity that the emblem from back then has been lost in subspace.”
Lawrence froze, looked up with some hesitation, his tense nerves relaxed a little, and his stagnant mind began to work again – he suddenly realized that this dreadful “Shadow of Subspace” was really telling the truth, a hundred years ago! …… Duncan Abnormale was indeed a member of the Society of Explorers, and even one of the most prestigious explorers of his time.
And technically, the Society of Explorers hasn’t even “de-listed” the Ghost Captain yet – because no one would ever think of canceling a Subspace Shadow… …
Duncan, for his part, paid no attention to Lawrence’s reaction or the knot in his expression, and after confirming that the other man had relaxed a bit, he chatted with him casually in a casual tone of voice: “Did you have a good time getting here?”
“Eh …… smoothly,” Lawrence answered honestly, trying to make his reaction seem as normal as possible, “We set out from Frost East Harbor and crossed the blockade line set up by the Sea Mist Fleet in the outer sea, they showed us the the way ……”
“Well, I instructed Tirian that the Sea Mist Fleet would not trouble you,” Duncan nodded, and immediately afterward glanced up at the flagpole next to him, “That’s Anomaly 077 flying up here?”
“It is …… yes.”
“What mistake did he make? Why is he hanging from the flagpole?”
Lawrence, “……”
There was a few seconds of hesitation before he tugged at the corner of his mouth, “He was the one who wanted to hang there of his own accord – he was trying to get himself back into his sealed state that way, but it seemed to be pretty unsuccessful.”
“…… How come all the humanoid ‘anomalies’ I’ve seen are so weird,” Duncan muttered, twisting his head to look at the seemingly elegant and dignified Alice following him who was actually wandering through the Alice, who was following him with a seemingly elegant and dignified look, was actually wandering out of the sky, and then pointed to the dry body hanging in mid-air, “Come down.”
As soon as his words fell, the dry body that was pretending to be dead a second ago immediately shook its body and fell onto the deck with a thud, and then rolled and crawled to Duncan’s front, shivering like Frankenstein who was electrified for the first time: “Ship… . captain, the sailor reports to …… you!”
Duncan frowned, “You stutter?”
“I’m …… I’m a sailor ……”
Duncan took a look at the other party this reaction instead happy, he did not expect a top 100, spiritually intelligent anomaly actually know to fear himself as Captain Duncan, and immediately after that, he then turned his head suspiciously and glanced at Alice who was following him.
Both are ranked top 100 abnormalities, both have the same thinking ability as humans …… How come this mannequin doesn t know to be afraid? When she was on the Lost Country ship, she was nervous for a moment, then she quickly adapted to the environment, and now she was even able to fight with the ship’s pots and pans back and forth.
Alice noticed the captain’s gaze and immediately returned a wide, almost solid, giggle.
Duncan: “……”
He suddenly thinks that Alice may not be quick to adapt, but simply slow to react, figuring that after being scared for a while in the beginning, she’s forgotten about being scared ……
And at the same time, Alice also noticed the dry corpse that was standing on the opposite side shivering, she pondered hard for a while, as if she finally recalled what the captain had confided to her before departure, so a smile appeared on her face and took the initiative to greet the other party, “You’re good, my name is Alice, I’ve been told that you’re also an anomaly?”
The zombie was slightly stunned, a little puzzled, looking up and down in front of that and ordinary human beings are no different, but there seems to be a kind of incongruity between the hands and feet of the “elegant lady”: “You are also?” “Yes!” Alice said happily, “I’m number 099.”
The sailor scratched his head awkwardly, probably for the first time dealing with another out-of-control anomaly in this manner as well, “Uh …… I’m 077.”
Alice thought for a moment, revealing a smug look, “Then I’m bigger than your number!”
Duncan finally couldn’t help himself when he heard this, “The anomalies are numbered from the front to the back – 077 is in front of you.”
Alice reacted for a moment and miraculously responded, “Ah …… that means he’s bigger than me?”
“That’s not necessarily true, anomalies ranked within the top hundred are all extremely bizarre, and generally cannot be considered strong or weak based on mere numbering, preferring instead to present different dangers under different conditions,” Duncan explained patiently, “Put it on the sea, he should be more powerful than you, put it on land, you’re more powerful than him ……”
Alice, however, did not know how much she had understood, but only looked curiously at the “sailor” in front of her, and then suddenly reached out and grasped at the air.
The dry corpse instantly stood still, as if even his soul (if he had one) was frozen in a flash, and immediately afterward, all of his joints and skin began to rapidly appear to be transformed into a puppet state.
Alice violently let go of her hand.
The sailor staggered back a few steps, looking at the mannequin in front of him in horror, “Crap …… Crap?”
“Not impressive,” Alice, on the other hand, shook her head, “Don’t even know how to protect your wires.”
“No randomly striking out and grabbing someone else’s ‘line’, have you forgotten?” Duncan immediately reminded sternly at the sight, followed by a frown, “Wait, you mean to tell me that Anomaly 077 has a ‘line’ too?”
“Yes, there are several of them floating around his body,” Alice nodded her head rightfully, “But his threads are a bit strange – while ordinary people’s threads float high up in the sky and then fade away, his threads float out and then turned back into his body afterward, as if forming a ring ……”
Duncan immediately frowned and looked up and down at the still stunned “sailor”, and immediately afterward, Alice beside him had a faint flash of green fire in her eyes.
In the next second, Duncan also saw the anomalous 077 “threads” – thin, nearly transparent white threads extending out from the head and torso joints of the dried corpse, swaying in the surrounding nothingness and folding back into him.
There really were threads.
All humanoid anomalies that have a mind have this kind of “thread”? Or is …… this unique to Abnormality 077? And what about the threads that are different from those of ordinary humans and generate a loop in themselves?
Duncan’s mind instantly surfaced a lot of questions, but soon he put these doubts away for the time being, and seriously apologized to the “sailor”: “Sorry, Alice is not very understanding, she did not mean any harm, she just wanted to say hello to you.”
“Don’t apologize!” The dry corpse almost jumped up on the spot, and hurriedly waved his hands while backing up, “I’m fine, I was just startled …… Alice, right? I know, I’ll stay away from her in the future ……”
While saying this he whispered again, what “not worthy of the flagship work”, “top boss side of the people is more powerful” and so on, read the voice even Lawrence can hear.
Lawrence blinked his eyes and watched from the side, he didn’t understand what had just happened, he just felt that the two anomalies in front of him seemed to have “exchanged” some words, and the sailor seemed to have been frightened, and then he thought of something, and his strange eyes fell on that beautiful lady with elegant appearance: “Wait, anomaly 099 …… captain, so this is ……”
“It’s the same ‘coffin’ that was being escorted on your ship,” Duncan smiled, raising his hand in introduction, “but now that the coffin has been assimilated by the Lost Country, the contents as a ‘content ‘ the mannequin is in a state of chronic loss of control, much like the sailor next to you.”
When Alice heard this, she immediately went up to Duncan and chanted, “Captain Captain, I’m not out of control, I’m usually very obedient ……”
“Yes yes yes, I also did not lose control,” the side of the dryad also hastened to say, “I usually also very obedient, Captain Lawrence let me go ashore to fight with the cultists I did not hesitate ……”
Lawrence stared blankly, looking up at the sailor, who was trying to express himself, and then at the beautiful and elegant Miss Coffin Stuffing, who didn’t seem to be in her right mind at the moment, before his eyes finally landed on Captain Duncan.
Suddenly, the kind of lingering for a long time the pressure and tension dissipated, Lawrence inexplicably felt himself and the “ghost captain” in front of him between the relationship between the many closer, and even …… arise a feeling of empathy out.
That is a kind of the same as the captain of the boundless sea, but have to take care of a brain has a pit out of control abnormality brought about by the sympathy ……
(End of chapter)