Chapter 27 Insufficient stock of common sense in life

Chapter 27: Insufficient Reserve of Common Sense in Life
In a sense, this starless and moonless sky with only a scar on Duncan’s impact is even better than that round of “sun” confined by the runic circle.

Because no matter how abnormal the sun is, it only shines on the heaven and earth under Duncan’s feet, and in Duncan’s cognition as an earthling, the so-called “sun” is only one of the billions of celestial bodies.

All the distorted visions are confined to the sunlight, and beyond the sunlight in the sky, there can be infinite possibilities of the stars – although for a being trapped in gravity, the sunlight is equivalent to the whole world, but at least then Duncan can understand and accept the scale of the visions.

In the night sky at the moment, however, Duncan saw no celestial bodies that could be called “stars”, no stars, no moon, no distant river of stars.

Instead, there was a gaping wound, covering the firmament in some form of light that he could not understand, and sending a pale mist of light outward.

The entire Boundless Sea was shrouded in this night color as pale as snow.

Farther than the sun was a distant nothingness, and a greater vision.

Duncan said nothing but stared dead at the sky while countless questions and conjectures swirled in his mind.

Where were the other planets? Did they not exist from the beginning? Or is …… the world under his feet a celestial body located in the vacuum of the universe, and it is so far away from the other stars that the night sky here is pitch black and starless? And what is that pale scar across the firmament? Is it a torn gap in space? A palpable celestial structure? Or was it merely an illusion floating in the treacherous, infinite sea?

“Captain?”

Finally a voice roused Duncan from his silence, and the mannequin Alice looked a little nervously at the ghostly captain who had suddenly stopped in his tracks, she saw that the other woman’s face had suddenly become even more somber and serious than before, which startled her, “Are you alright? Is the sky about to change? Is there a great storm? I have heard the seamen outside the box say this ……”

“…… Nothing.”

Duncan said softly, then suddenly withdrew his eyes from the sky and looked at Alice with a flat face, as if answering and repeating as if speaking to himself, “Nothing.”

“Then we ……”

Duncan stepped forward, his expression calm as if nothing had happened, “Come on, I’ll take you to the cabin – you can wash up there later too, if you need to.”

Once again, the world had shown the gentiles its bizarre grotesqueness, and that bizarre grotesqueness seemed to be far from over.

Duncan had realized that there was no telling how many more startling visions awaited him in the future, and that if he made a fuss at every one of them, he feared that he would be left with nothing more than a fuss for the rest of his life.

If the last few decades of his life on Earth had taught him anything, there was one lesson that was most useful today:
If a problem did indeed exist, then find a way to solve it; the problem wouldn’t disappear on its own because of one’s denial, just as the grotesque sky in front of him wouldn’t turn into a starry sky because of his questioning.

This world presents this kind of posture must have its reason, everything since can exist here, then this is an irrefutable fact, again absurd, again odd phenomenon, also is the objective fact of existence – oneself for a time can not understand, that is their own problem, not the world’s problem.

As the captain of the Lost Country now, Duncan felt that he might have a long time to slowly get to know the world.

Alice didn’t know what the captain’s silence on this journey was due to, she only knew that the atmosphere around Duncan had suddenly become a little oppressive, but after arriving at the target cabin, the oppressive feeling suddenly disappeared again.

Duncan brought Miss Doll to the place where she could take a bath, this was the bathroom for the upper class seamen – for a classic sailing ship, this kind of bathroom was considered some kind of “luxury” facilities, under normal circumstances this kind of facilities were definitely not for ordinary sailors! This is a bathroom for the upper class seamen.

The survival conditions of the ancient sailing ships in the ocean voyage is actually quite harsh, limited fresh water, corrupt food, poor medical care and psychological problems brought by the long voyage plagued every explorer who challenged the sea, and on Earth, many of these problems have not been completely solved even in the pre-industrial era.

As far as Duncan knew, there were not even toilets for the ordinary crew on the early sailing ocean-going vessels on Earth, and the personal problems of the average sailor were usually solved on the grating facing the sea (a process that also involved paying attention to the direction of the wind), and bathing was even more of a difficult problem – using the spare sail as a bathtub and using seawater to rinse off the body was the solution for many unscrupulous sailors. sailors, while many more sailors of the Age of Sail simply chose not to bathe for weeks or even months.

After all, a little hygiene was the least of the problems compared to scurvy, plague, and mass hysteria caused by intense mental stress.

But I don’t know if it’s ironic or not, but on a ghost ship, which everyone feared, these terrible survival problems were solved instead.

The fresh water compartments on the Lost Country replenish themselves, the food kept in storage shows no signs of spoilage, the ghost captain doesn’t get sick, and Alice’s cervical spine problems aren’t the result of nautical causes.

Aside from the fact that she often felt her blood pressure rise when spending time with Goathead, the ship was actually quite livable …… “The pipe next to the bath tub leads to the fresh water compartment, just get water directly, the stopper of the bath tub hangs over there, don’t lose it – the current condition is limited, the ship doesn’t supply hot water, but you shouldn’t mind this.”

Duncan introduced Alice to the facilities in the cabin, all of these mediocre experiences but all of them were the result of his explorations over the past several days.

“It’s fine to be able to rinse your body, it’s really not very comfortable to have salt water in your joints,” Alice was not fussy at all, she looked at the various things in the cabin with slight curiosity and excitement, nodding her head as she listened to Duncan’s introductions, “I’m just a mannequin, I don’t have much of a quest for a hot shower. ”

Duncan nodded, but immediately afterward his expression was a bit strange as he glanced at Alice with a slightly hesitant tone, “Speaking of which, do you know how to take a bath? Do you have any of this …… ‘life experience’?”

Alice really froze for a moment, and then spoke very seriously while thinking, “It should …… work, right? It’s just a matter of taking the joints off and rinsing and flushing them and putting them back on after ……”

Duncan: “……?”

He looks at Alice, who also looks at him with an innocent expression.

“Have you considered how you’re going to put it back together on your own after it’s all taken apart?” Duncan knew he was right with this casual question, the mannequin in front of him, who had never left the box before, was truly inexperienced in this area, “There’s nothing I can do to help you.”

Alice: “…… Seems so.”

“And I highly discourage you from disassembling your joints on a regular basis,” Duncan reminded again at length, “even if your anatomy allows it.”

Alice was a little confused, “Why?”

“It’s easy to fall off,” Duncan finally became helpless, he hadn’t realized that staying on a ship with a cursed mannequin had so many “details”, it was never mentioned in the novels, movies and TV shows. “I don’t want you walking on deck one day and suddenly falling apart in front of me, no one on this ship knows how to maintain a doll’s joints.”

At that he paused and added, “You have enough whiplash problems as it is.”

Alice pictured that image and instantly scrunched her neck, “Ah, okay, okay I see …… I figured out what to do ……”

“You’d better,” Duncan said, giving the mannequin, who hadn’t had quite enough life experience, another somewhat uneasy look before he was ready to turn away, “I’ve got a lot of work to do – don’t make too much of a mess. ”

“Yes Captain, thank you Captain,” Alice said cheerfully, but just as Duncan was about to walk out of the cabin she suddenly spoke again, “Ah yes Captain ……”

Duncan stopped and looked slightly sideways, “What else?”

“Captain …… I suddenly feel like you don’t seem so scary ah,” Alice looked at Duncan’s back and carefully weighed the words, “That goat head said you are the most frightening captain on the infinite sea, the most scary captain on all routes most inscrutable plague, but ……”

“But what?”

“But it seems to me that you’re quite talkative and a bit of a worrywart parent ……”

Duncan didn’t turn around, just remained silent for two seconds before suddenly asking, “Where did you get the idea of family …… Do you have one?”

Alice hesitated for a moment and slowly shook her head, “I don’t think so.”

“Then don’t talk about any parental topics, honestly stay on the ship, I will arrange your life on this ship.”

“Oh, good Captain.”

(End of chapter)