Chapter 245 – A Corner of the Veil
Chapter 245 – A Corner of the Veil
Duncan moved closer to the door, uneasily checking its status one more time.
The “Subspace Door” was really closed – he had indeed been on the opposite side of the door before, and the easy closing of the door had really sealed off the door, which was untouchable in the real dimension.
He exhaled softly and looked up at the gate.
The mysterious and ancient line of text was still clearly printed on the door frame, “This door leads to the Lost Country.”
“Leads to the Lost Country ……” Duncan couldn’t help but recall in his mind the situation on the opposite side of the door, the Lost Country ship that sailed through subspace and looked like it had been deserted and decayed for an unknown number of years, and suddenly had a glimmer of comprehension of the words on the doorframe.
The words on the door were real, and the opposite side of the door really did lead to the Lost Country ship, another Lost Country ship – a twisted projection of the Lost Country ship of the reality dimension in subspace.
Duncan grabbed the carrying lamp and turned away from the bilge, making his way back into the captain’s cabin without stopping to walk through the light-reflected cargo hold and superstructure.
“Ah! You’re back, Captain!” Goathead was still here in a daze, the first thing he did when he saw Duncan return was to chime in, “Why did you leave all of a sudden, just now you said you took a trip to subspace? This can’t be a joke! You ……”
“I closed that ‘door to subspace’ at the bottom of the ship,” Duncan said casually as he put the lamp away, “and just now went back down ‘this way’ to make sure. Confirmed it.”
Goathead choked on his words, and there was another crunch between his head and the table.
Duncan couldn’t help but give it a look, “Take it easy, don’t fall into the same trap as Alice.”
The goat’s head didn’t care about the flirtation in the captain’s tone, it didn’t hide its shock: “You closed that door! You mean, you closed the door from the subspace side ……?”
“Or what?” Duncan asked rhetorically, “Didn’t that door fail to close from ‘this side’? Or could I have gone through the trouble?”
“You …… you because of that?” The goat head was actually a bit incoherent at this time, “You entered subspace and returned to the reality dimension just to close that door from the opposite side? That …… that’s not an ordinary wooden door of a warehouse or a utility room, you just …… closed it?!”
Duncan’s mood cheered up.
He just happily looked at the goat head, looked at the usual chatter can make people read the brain is boiling up the guy actually fell into incoherent situation, looked at the goods with the vibration mode on the “crunch crunch crunch crunch” shaking non-stop, his face expression is still calm, the heart is too happy to go out of the way.
Duncan knew that he hadn’t made things clear, and that the goat-head had some misunderstandings – but he mainly wanted to see how the bastard’s mouth was turning, which was the joy of the first musician on the infinite sea.
And with that joy, came a lessening of the oppressive feeling that came from exploring the wrecked Lost Country and the darkness of the space.
But Duncan finally opened his mouth, after all, it is about the subspace, some things can only be clear to avoid the risk in the future, and the goat head knows a lot of hidden knowledge, its insights may be able to help: “I know you’re in a hurry, but don’t be in a hurry, listen to me to finish – that door I did close, but this time to enter the subspace is an accident. But this entry into subspace was an accident, and I happen to need to hear what you have to say about it as well.”
“Accidental …… accident?” The goat head froze, and his tone instantly changed from the previous shock to extreme seriousness, “You please tell me, what is the situation all about?”
Duncan then told Goathead about his entry into subspace as soon as he opened his eyes after his light sleep – of course, he omitted the details of his exploration in that pitch-black space, and instead focused on the door at the bottom of the ship, and the sights he had seen while looking out over the chaos from the deck.
After all, he didn’t have much to hide from Goathead nowadays except for his “real name” and “origin”, and hiding his real name and origin wasn’t because the secret was so important – purely because the Lost Country was a ship of the past. -Purely because the stability of the Lost Country must be built on the “anchor point” of “Captain Duncan”.
Without a word, Goathead listened to Duncan’s story with great attention.
And then said it also do not know what is going on ……
“According to your description, it is indeed subspace,” said Goathead frankly, “but I’ve never heard of a case like this, where you directly …… ‘entered’ there in your sleep, and then also entered ‘ there, and then came back unharmed …… Realize that while subspace is a serious threat to the reality dimension, that doesn’t mean it’s an easy place to ‘arrive’ at; its dangers are more reflected in its contamination defenses.
“Holes in the mind, shaken beliefs, wrong sacrifices, all of these can lead to infiltration of subspace forces, but ‘infiltration’ is quite different from going in like you did …… and ‘exploring ‘ some is a completely different concept.” Saying this, it paused for a moment, then turned its head and looked straight at Duncan with its empty, dark eyes, “Captain, you really didn’t suffer anything over there? You really …… didn’t feel something left in your head?”
“No,” Duncan spread his hands with a frank face, “Do I look like I’m delirious? I’m normal as can be.”
Goathead was speechless for a moment.
Duncan, on the other hand, spoke thoughtfully, “I’ve usually seen you worried about the Lost Country falling back into subspace, I thought falling in would be easy ……”
“That …… is a relative concept,” Goathead explained with a bit of difficulty, “Falling down from the reality dimension is dangerous, but even the Lost Country isn’t just going to ‘ fall’ down, ”falling down is dangerous” and ”falling down very easily” are not the same concept, and …… how can I explain it to you, in general Under the unfortunate victims who fall into subspace …… their process and feelings of entering subspace are completely different from yours, it is an extremely painful and horrible process, and it is often difficult to simply end in death ……”
Duncan listened and thought carefully, shaking his head, “I really don’t feel it ……”
Goathead held his tongue for half a second and sighed.
Duncan was instantly even a little shocked – for the first time ever, the chatterbox didn’t say anything, just sighed!
Duncan searched for a moment and looked serious: “…… Should I act serious?”
Goathead: “…… You are worthy of the name of a mobile cataclysm on the infinite sea ……”
It’s all stick reading, not a hint of emotion, and a sentence comes out like muscle memory.
“Let’s not discuss this then,” Duncan waved his hand at the situation and directly changed the topic, “What are those huge shadows I saw in subspace? Those broken lands, the wreckage, and that pale Cyclops …… what are they?”
The goat head suddenly fell silent, and after nearly half a minute, it slowly spoke, “…… As you can see, it’s just wreckage.”
“Just wreckage?” Duncan frowned, “That’s not much of an answer, wreckage of what? Wreckage of what? Wreckage of when? These ……”
“Wrecks of the world,” Goathead said, “All those that didn’t live to see this day have become twisted shadows in subspace in the ancient past.”
Duncan was stunned at first, then repeated in a hushed voice, “Wrecks of the world?”
The goat’s head fell silent again, as if hesitating, weighing something, but eventually, it raised its head slightly, “Do you think that the Infinite Sea is vast? Do you think that …… our real world today is still spacious?”
Duncan blinked, followed by a sudden reaction, “You mean, everything in today’s reality dimension ……”
“…… Yes, what’s left after the drop,” Goathead said softly, “A meager bit of detritus with a few hardy colonies left on it.”
Duncan was stunned, and then something snapped to mind, “Is this the truth of the Great Annihilation?”
“Just a minuscule piece of it,” Goathead’s voice trailed off, “The complete truth of the Great Annihilation has been buried in the river of time, and there is no point in piecing together its full picture.
“In your words, there exists a ‘limit of vision’ there, where all information is on the other side of the unknowable and unnoticeable, and unless there’s some truly omniscient and omnipotent great being who can instantly gain insight into all the secrets of the sub-space to the abysmal depths of the ocean to the Spirit Realm and the dimensions of reality, and roll them back ten thousand years, the But even then what’s the point?
“I know what else you want to ask, but unfortunately, that’s all I know, and I can’t guarantee that all of them are true – I do know some things related to subspace, but even the so-called ‘truth’ , after passing through the influence of subspace will not necessarily be distorted into what shape, cause and effect logic and time sequence are meaningless there, and these fragmented knowledge of mine …… I myself do not know how many parts of it are real memories, and how many parts of it are shadows left over from the process of detaching from subspace. ”
(End of chapter)