Chapter 244 Return
Chapter 244 Return
Zhou Ming stood in front of the mirror, quietly gazing at himself in the mirror.
So clear, so real – if he hadn’t reached out and touched a cold, hard surface, he would have even wondered if what stood opposite him was really his “alter ego”.
It was a long time before he withdrew his gaze from the mirror and looked out into the vast darkness that surrounded him.
How big was this space? If he continued to walk outward, could he go to an infinite distance? And what was the nature of this dark space? Why did it appear here, behind the Gate of the Lost Countrymen? And what is the connection between that Gate of the Lost Ones located in subspace and the Gate of the Lost Ones in the real world? And most importantly ……
What were those words that surfaced in the darkness?
Zhou Ming moved away from the mirror, and that mirror quietly dissipated as he left, and the figure in the mirror disappeared into the darkness with him, and with his footsteps, more pale words surfaced in the darkness – describing everything related to him.
Like an extremely detailed personal file …… that was registered in some vital database that had no idea what use it would come in handy.
Zhou Ming felt that his associative abilities were a bit inadequate – he tried to find a reasonable set of reasons to explain all that he had seen, only to find that no matter how he reasoned, in the end it all looked like a bunch of pie-in-the-sky pure fantasies.
He even begins to think that there is a “Doomsday Sanctuary Program”, and that he is the one who has taken refuge in it, unaware that the bachelor pad is his fortress of refuge, and the words that appear in the darkened space are his registration papers before he entered the sanctuary… …
In the darkness, his thoughts flowed uncontrollably, but after an unknown amount of time, he suddenly gathered up all of his ramblings again.
“…… wasted enough time.”
He mumbled softly.
There were no more clues here, there were just phantoms that could shake his mind – whether there was truly a great secret hidden in this dark space, or whether this was just another conspiracy and lure of subspace against him, he shouldn’t have left his time here drilling into his head.
Zhou Ming gently inhaled, allowing his mind to gradually calm down, and then decided to test and explore this Dark Space one last time before leaving.
He walked towards the distance, cautiously and carefully moving away from that door.
More text was surfacing beneath his feet – the content was more or less the same as before, only more detailed and formalized, more and more like a registration document used in a formal setting.
Zhou Ming, on the other hand, looked back from time to time while silently memorizing these words, confirming the distance between himself and that door, confirming whether or not he had lost his way in the darkness.
The more he walked, the more cautious he became, to the point where he only moved forward a dozen centimeters or so with each step at the back.
Suddenly, he noticed a change in the text that surfaced under his feet –
“Is the $#% situation &……% @#?”
“¥@* around 355 to *&, there may be &……% of %&……”
The text began to appear chaotic, the sentences became odd and inexplicable, and what was once a clear and smooth record became something that could not even be read.
Zhou Ming’s heart stirred, but he did not stop moving forward, only walking more carefully, and as he continued to walk towards the border of darkness, more words surfaced in the darkness.
It was getting weirder and weirder, more and more confusing, and the frequency of the confusion was rising exponentially. At first, he could still see a few meaningful words in each sentence, but it soon reached the point where not a single word could be found in a few sentences, and then he couldn’t even see the “garbled code” anymore.
What emerged from the darkness was no longer words and symbols, but a series of twisted and jumping lines, chaotic and restless points of light, and even all kinds of fluttering projections that almost defied geometric laws.
As he walked forward, a chaotic light and shadow emerged from the darkness that was difficult for mortal minds to comprehend, as if some unnamable reflection at the edge of the universe had turned into a road stretching forward under his feet.
At last, even the chaotic jumping lines and points of light finally disappeared, and nothing new appeared.
Zhou Ming immediately stopped in his tracks.
He hadn’t lost his mind, hadn’t gotten lost in this process of constantly exploring towards the unknown.
He turned his head back, and the door he had come through was almost nothing more than a hazy point of light, but it still stood silently in the darkness.
Zhou Ming decisively turned around and walked back – no matter what else was in the depths of that darkness, the moment the information that surfaced beneath his feet came to an end, he knew that he could not continue forward.
Going back was even faster than he had come, and it didn’t take him long to cross this void of darkness and return to the “Gate of the Lost Countryman” that led to the Lost Country.
Placing his hand on the door, the solid texture that came from it made Zhou Ming, who had been wandering and exploring in the darkness for a long time, feel an inexplicable sense of solidity, and then he gently inhaled and stepped through the door. The slightly cool sea breeze blew in his face, and the bright light of the sky that suddenly appeared in his vision made Duncan feel a little uncomfortable for a moment, and the slight swaying of his feet and the sound of waves lapping beside his ears were delayed by so many seconds before they appeared in his perceptions-perhaps it was because of the fact that he had stayed too long in a silent place, and the sound of the waves lapping suddenly appeared as if it were thunder. It was like thunder.
Duncan suddenly froze.
He acknowledged his surroundings, and all he saw was the familiar Lost Country, the familiar Infinite Sea, and the sun hanging in the sky, bound by a double rune.
He was back in the reality dimension.
He was a bit confused by this unexpected situation, because the second before he crossed the gate in the darkness, he was still pondering how to continue exploring the “broken Lost Country” to find a way back, but he didn’t expect to cross the gate from there directly back to reality… …What’s the pattern here?
In order to return to the real dimension from the wrecked Lost Country ship, which was suspected to be located in subspace, one only needed to use the Gate of the Lost Countrymen as a transit point?
He looked back thoughtfully and saw that he was standing in front of the captain’s cabin, and the Gate of the Lost Country was standing quietly in the sunlight, the words on its frame shining brightly in the sky.
Duncan’s mind instantly came alive.
There are many doors on the Lost Country, but only three of them are special, the first is the “Lost Country’s Door”, the second is the gloomy wooden door deep in the cabin leading to the bilge, which is marked with the sign of the “Last Door”, and the third is located in the center of the bilge, which stands out of nowhere. The third is the door that stands in the center of the bilge, which connects the subspace and reality dimensions, and can perhaps be called the “door of subspace”.
In the “wrecked Lost Country”, whether it is the “last door” to the bilge or the “door to subspace”, the markings on the door frame have been erased, but only the “Lost Countryman’s Door” in front of the captain’s cabin has been erased. On the ship, whether it was the “last door” to the bilge or the “door to subspace”, the markings on the door frames had been erased, but only the “door to the lost” in front of the captain’s cabin remained exactly the same, both in the real dimension and in subspace.
Now it seems that this “consistency” may have marked the real “exit” from the very beginning!
With a vague answer in his mind, Duncan breathed a sigh of relief, then stepped forward and pushed open the door to the captain’s cabin.
After stepping through the door, he recognized that it wasn’t darkness, but his own bachelor pad – and that everything was normal.
Immediately afterward he returned to the ship, this time pulling open the door to the captain’s cabin.
The familiar chart room, the familiar elaborate furnishings, the familiar desk, and the familiar goat’s head on the desk.
For the first time in his life, he felt a sense of solidity when he saw the goat’s head still sitting on the table.
The goat’s head, on the other hand, immediately turned his head after hearing the movement coming from the doorway, and a creaking sound of wood rubbing against his neck came from his neck: “Name?”
“Duncan Ebnomar, it’s me, I’m back,” Duncan said immediately, having already guessed that the other party would surely confirm it to him – this goat-head was able to sense whether or not he had left the Lost Country, and perhaps even to a certain extent some sort of The goat-head could sense whether he had left the Lost Country or not, and might even be able to sense a certain degree of “change” in himself, and this kind of “name confirmation” seemed a bit arbitrary on the surface, but there seemed to be a hidden pattern in it, “I’ve been a long way away.”
“Ah, Captain! You’re finally back!” Goathead immediately made an exaggerated and attentive noise, as raucous as ever, “I was really startled when you suddenly left the ship altogether! You would have at least left your shell here when you normally walk in the spirit world! But just now all of your aura was gone …… And now you’re back from the deck? Where did you go?”
All breath gone? Completely left the ship?
Duncan’s eyes changed slightly for an instant.
He had indeed entered that suspected subspace with his own body, not a “projection of consciousness” as he thought at first!
He raised his head and looked into the dark eyes of the goat head, hesitating slightly before speaking, “Don’t be shocked if I tell you.”
“Ah, don’t worry, your first mate is not only loyal and brave, but brave and loyal ……”
“I went to subspace.”
Goathead: “……?!”
It was a full half-minute before the guy suddenly let out a crunching sound, as if his neck was about to snap, “Captain of the ship …… ship …… ship? You said you ……”
“I went to subspace, if I’m not mistaken,” Duncan said as he stepped into the captain’s cabin and casually picked up the carrying lamp that sat on a nearby shelf, “Just give me a moment.”
After saying that, he didn’t wait for Goathead to say anything, so he directly left the captain’s room with the lantern in his hand, and then almost winded his way through the decks and layers of cabins, heading straight to the lowest level of the Lost Country.
He passed through the “last door” and arrived at the bottom of the shattered cabin.
Between the gaps in the hull of the bilge, it was still the same dark and chaotic appearance, in the limited range of vision can not see too many details, only to see the chaotic light and shadow turbulence and occasional flashes of light jumping and flowing in the darkness.
And the most dangerous “sub-space door” is standing quietly in the center of the cabin.
The door was closed tightly, without a single gap.
(End of chapter)