Chapter 465 – The Future of the White Oak
Chapter 465 – The Future of the White Oak
In Duncan’s eyes, the darkness of the chaos of the shadow has been “collapsed” into the heroic adventuress, in the depths of the mirror, the layers of silhouettes are no longer disorderly tremor.
Duncan quietly watched the scene, and did not speak for a long time.
For her part, Martha in the mirror first stood still for a time after regrouping – as if there was a lull before the movie officially began – and it took two or three seconds for the living, animated demeanor to return to her face, and she looked down at herself with some bewilderment before looking up as an afterthought, “You …… did what?”
Duncan ended his contemplation for the moment and shook his head gently, “Nothing, just welcome.”
He then paused, and after organizing his thoughts a little he spoke, “If you’re always going to be ‘Martha’ in the future, are you still going to tell Lawrence the truth?”
“He may …… have known it for a long time,” Martha hesitated and spoke slowly, “I have side-stepped some things by telling him that I am Martha as a subject, and cobbled together from his memories as a personality, and with Lawrence’s acumen and experience in the transcendental realm, coupled with the fact that I had spilled out a lot more information than was necessary, it shouldn’t have been difficult for him to deduce that …… since ‘Martha’ could hold one memory, it could hold countless others, after all ……”
The female adventurer paused for a moment, a somewhat complicated smile on her face, “After all, I seemed to know too much when I was in that city of mirrors.”
“What was his reaction?”
“He …… didn’t care,” Martha shook her head, “but I don’t know if he ever will.”
Duncan looked at her silently for a moment, then suddenly smiled.
“That you would care about that, it does look like I don’t have to worry about it,” he said in an easy tone, “Well, put that aside, lady, there are countless dark and spooky things out there on this vast sea, and so any little bit of warmth is more and more to be cherished –which Lawrence understands perfectly.”
In the mirror, the adventuress gave a thoughtful look, while Duncan, outside the mirror, continued after a brief pause, “What else do you know about the deep sea beneath the Frost?”
“The deep sea ……” Martha frowned, she immediately collected her thoughts and spoke slowly while organizing her vast memories, “I do have some about the deep sea… …’memories’, but they’re mostly dark and vague, interspersed with the fear of constantly sinking and the absurd hallucinations that arise from freezing and suffocating, they’re probably not something that can be used as a tangible reference, but …… “
Duncan raised an eyebrow, “But?”
Martha in the mirror thought for a moment and opened her hands.
Her figure suddenly dissipated in the mirror, like a momentary halo of ink marks, black lines spreading rapidly through the mirror, followed by shadows emerging from that darkness.
A huge shadow, as if floating in the endless void, such as an island, such as the edge of the irregular mass, the shadow can be seen around the countless broken things, like from the irregular mass of the surface of the collapse out of the “debris”, floating around the island.
And in the center of the floating “island”, you can see something as huge as a pillar, extending upward and downward in the darkness, as if through the shadow, and then through the entire void.
Martha’s voice came from the depths of the mirror:
“I have traversed all the memories pointing to the deep, and the great fear experienced by countless devoured spirits and intellects during their descent is iterated into this scene, and I don’t know how to interpret it – it looks like a large floating object in the depths of the sea, with a huge ‘pillar’ running through it, but for lack of reference, I don’t know how big the object was or how big the pillar was.”
Duncan gazed longingly at the scene presented in that mirror for a long time.
Instead, what came to his mind were countless pieces of intelligence related to the Subterranean Abyss program – the submarine that never returned, the deep-diving advance team that went mad, the depictions of madness beneath the sea abyss, and …… the huge hollow in the depths of the Boiling Gold Mine, and the strut that crossed the line between reality and reality , the ancient god’s tentacle that pierced deeply into the Frost City State.
In the deep sea, there really is an entity.
The vision in the mirror dissipated, and Martha’s figure reappeared in front of Duncan, “That is all I know, and though I have many memories in my custody, there are not many that I can point to the deep sea while relatively lucid, you ……”
“It is all right, ma’am,” Duncan spoke softly, interrupting the adventuress, “I will see to it myself.”
……
On deck, Alice had already found a second bug with the dryad Sailor, and the two “people” continued to poke around.
The two continued to poke and prod, but the game was obviously not as much fun as fighting with the pots and pans in the kitchen.
“I’m starting to get bored,” said Alice, dropping the stick in her hand and looking up at the deck, which was still quite unfamiliar to her, “Why isn’t the captain back yet? ……” The “sailor” obviously shivered when she heard Miss Doll mention the word “captain”, and raised her head and opened her mouth in hesitation before she spoke, “You’re usually with him . . aren’t you afraid of him?”
“Not afraid,” Alice turned her head and looked at this ugly corpse with a puzzled expression, “I like being with the captain, why should I be afraid of him?”
“That’s subspace! Subspace don’t you understand!” The dry corpse had a horrified expression on its face, “I feel like my sanity will ‘fall’ when I even look at him, and you dare to stick with him all day long – I think you’re the one that should be numbered 077, you’re much more evil than me. ”
Alice scratched her hair and didn’t bother with the dryad, instead looking up curiously at Lawrence, who was not far away.
Lawrence was with his first mate, Gus.
“All of a sudden, the flames on everyone’s body are under control,” First Mate Gus opened his palm, displaying a small cluster of quietly leaping flames in the center of his palm in front of his captain, where the flames were in contact with his palm, the translucent texture of flesh and blood transformed into a spirit body could still be vaguely seen, while outside the range of the flames it was normal flesh and blood. “Do you have any clue?”
“I’m not sure,” Lawrence frowned slightly as he snapped his fingers and watched the spirit fire jump at his fingertips, then waved his hand again, and the flames dispersed silently, “The change happened shortly after Captain Duncan boarded the ship… . there may be some connection?”
“Maybe …… but whatever, it’s always a good thing,” First Mate Gus said, “The flames that were on everyone before would always appear out of nowhere, as if they were irritated by something, and they could never find the cause, to be honest… Quite nerve-wracking – some people were worried that we’d never be able to move ashore properly in the future, after all, not every city has ‘seen the world’ like Frost and Prender… …”
“In the future ah ……” Lawrence’s tone took on a hint of emotion and contemplation, he subconsciously clenched and opened his fists, feeling the power of the flames running calmly through his body, while contemplating his own future as well as the future of all the members of the White Oak, and “It’s time to think about the future ……”
He lowered his head and rubbed his fingers together, the Spirit Flame flowing like water through his fingertips.
A low, majestic voice came from behind him, “Having fun?”
Lawrence and Gus coincidentally instantly shivered, and flames two or three meters high directly sprang up on the two people ……
In the next second, Lawrence hurriedly suppressed the flames on his body and turned his head to look in the direction where the voice came from – Duncan stood there with a subtle expression on his face looking this way.
Duncan sighed silently.
As soon as he came out, he saw Anomaly 077 and Anomaly 099 squatting on the deck poking at bugs, and saw the captain and first mate of the new ship under his command playing with a fire in the doorway – those who know that this is the Lost Country Fleet, those who don’t know that they still think that this ship is headed for kindergarten …… What a group of people have gathered around themselves? What kind of people have gathered around him?
“Deng …… Captain Duncan!” Gus instantly straightened his body, while patting off the last bit of sparks on the corner of his coat while speaking in a panic, “I …… we are studying how to control the power of the flames, to prevent the same situation as the Frost City State from occurring again in the future …… “
“The same situation? You mean where the captain gets arrested by the local sheriff with a whole unit of marines and ends up having my emissary fish around in the sheriff’s office?” Duncan pressed the corner of his forehead and waved his hand, “Never mind, you guys have fun ……”
As he spoke on this side, Alice on the side had already run over, yelling while grabbing his arm and shaking it vigorously, “Captain! You’re finally back! Are you done?”
“Busy busy busy busy – stop shaking, you don’t want to yank any more of your joints off,” Duncan said as he pressed his hand against the somewhat over-excited Miss Mannequin, and then dropped his gaze to Lawrence, nodding his head gently, and “Don’t worry, Martha is doing well, I have officially accepted her as a member of the Lost Country Fleet.”
Lawrence was stunned, then immediately detected the hint of solemnity and deep meaning in Duncan’s words.
“You …… see that she actually ……”
“You don’t want to care, she doesn’t have to care, as for me …… I don’t really mind,” Duncan’s eyes seemed to carry a hint of a smile underneath, said faintly, “The Boundless Sea is huge, and the Lost Country Fleet has always been dealing with all kinds of strange and weird things to deal with – one more harmless ghost ship is no big deal.”
Lawrence opened his mouth, but nothing came out, and in the end, he just inhaled softly and bowed his head deeply in front of Duncan.
“All in all, welcome to my fleet,” Duncan smiled, casually patting Lawrence on the shoulder, “Speaking of which, I think I just heard you guys talking about …… the future? Are you planning something?”
“In the …… future,” Lawrence hesitated for a moment, with a hint of complexity in his expression, “I am indeed thinking about this, do you think …… we can still now return to a normal harbor as in days gone by?”
Listening to Lawrence’s words, which were full of hesitation and entanglement, Duncan sighed softly.
The future …… of the White Oak was indeed a problem.
(End of chapter)