Chapter 62 Unsteady sailing

Chapter 62 Unstable Sailing

Duncan returned to the upper deck of the Lost Country with Alice in tow – the cool world creation still hanging high in the night.

Duncan thought he had been exploring inside the ship for a long, long time, and even suspected that the night had passed, but now, looking at the deepening pattern of the night, it seemed that he had only been down there for a few hours.

But just the strange and unusual things he had seen in those few hours alone had been enough to impress him.

He still remembered the cabin where the light and shadows had been reversed, and the door located in the bottom of the cabin …… Especially that door, what was behind that door?
The carrying lamp in Duncan’s hand had been extinguished, and he walked slowly with the mannequin towards the captain’s cabin, neither man saying much – the mannequin seemed to have begun rehearsing the cooking in his head, while Duncan’s attention fell on the deck buildings around him.

Comparing his memories, he confirmed that the dim, dilapidated cabin across from that door was indeed part of the Lost Country; the style of the two was identical, and there was a vague continuity in the architecture.

And now that he recalled it, he always felt as if there was something else in the deepest part of that dilapidated cabin, hidden in the darkness.

That was the unknown “hidden snow area” of the Lost Country – a hidden snow area that even Duncan, the captain of the ship, could not perceive or detect.

Did Goathead know about the door? Did it know what was behind it?

Should he ask it?

The captain’s cabin arrived, but Duncan’s thoughts still ebbed and flowed, and he opened the door with Alice to see the goathead still silent on the navigational table, its hollow, dark eyes turning in the direction of the doorway in response to the sound.

Duncan turned to hang up the carrying lamp, and then heard Alice behind him already greeting Goathead with a little excitement, “Mr. Goathead! I went down to the bilge with the captain! The bottom of this ship is awesome! The lowest cabin is actually in pieces – and there’s a very strange door!”

Duncan’s mind was suddenly free of the need to start a conversation with Goathead – he’d almost forgotten that he had an inquisitive mannequin with him who didn’t know anything, and Alice’s crackling had opened up the scene, hadn’t it?

Trying not to make a sound of amusement, he kept his ears open to the conversation between the two “crew members” while pretending not to move as he gathered his things, and he heard Goathead’s voice ring out in an unsurprising tone, “I knew you’d be surprised! Miss Alice, now do you realize what a great ship the Lost Country is? It’s capable of sailing through different dimensions at the same time while ensuring safety!”

Duncan listened, and his mind was suddenly moved.

The situation was really the same as what he had guessed, the reason why the outside of the ship’s bottom crack was that weird scene …… was really because it no longer belonged to the time and space where the Infinite Sea was located!

At the same time, his mind is also quickly calculating: curious Alice is full of interest in the strange scene of the lower level of the Lost Country, she seems to be afraid to ask too many things to himself as the “captain”, so that she would rather talk to the chatterbox goat head to inquire, but if he has been standing here to listen to the conversation, but it will look odd and suspicious, and may even let the goat The head of the goat to turn the topic to himself – in case it gave Alice a “you ask the captain to go”, he can not catch ……

Thinking of this he immediately had a plan, rectify the expression on his face, after restoring the usual seriousness, he said without moving: “You talk here, I’m going to take a walk outside – goat head, Alice is already a member of the ship, about the ship’s things, as long as it is not too secret, you just tell her. just tell her.”

As soon as Alice heard this a happy smile appeared on her face, while Goathead immediately agreed with a full smile, “Of course, Captain, your loyal following omission has always been an enthusiastic one for new members ……”

Duncan pushed the door and left the captain’s cabin.

But in the next second after leaving the captain’s room, he focused his mind again, and with the help of the close connection between himself and the Lost Country, he paid careful attention to the movements in the captain’s room.

After focusing his spirit in one place, the vague perception turned into a clear real-time monitoring, everything in the captain’s room was clearly reflected in Duncan’s mind, and he “saw” Alice simply move a stool and sit opposite to the goat’s head, and recounted with excitement her own experience of exploring the lower floors of the Lost Country, and the strange and bizarre scenes at the bottom of the cabin. light and strange scenes.

She seemed to have completely forgotten about having to make the Captain a midnight snack – but Duncan didn’t care one bit.

He appreciated the mannequin’s divine assistance at a crucial time more than anything else. As the night wore on, Aye suddenly flapped her wings and fluttered to a nearby mast, as if to stand sentry, while Duncan walked slowly forward as if he were doing his normal rounds of the decks, while in the back of his mind, the conversation in the captain’s chamber was coming through loud and clear.

Alice had already spoken to Goathead about the odd door, and the doll lady had a tense, nervous feeling in her tone, “…… That door looks a bit scary, the captain won’t even let me go near it …… “

“Of course you can’t get close, that door, not to mention you, even I can’t touch it – you don’t show this kind of look, I know I don’t have arms and legs, I say ‘touch’ is another sense of I’m talking about touching in another sense. …… Touching, controlling, knowing, peering, you know? That door is untouchable in this sense …… you touch it you’re done understand?”

Alice seemed to be startled by Goathead’s extraordinarily serious tone, and she hesitated for another second or two before speaking, “Then …… what exactly is that door?”

Duncan, who was walking around the deck, focused his mind at once, but he heard the goat-head suddenly fall silent for a long time before he spoke in a deep voice without answering any questions positively, “It’s true that you guys didn’t touch that door, right?”

“I didn’t touch it!” Alice immediately replied hastily, but then hesitated for a moment before continuing with less certainty, “But …… but the Captain went over to look through the doorway, and poked the unknown thing on the opposite side of the door with his sword… …”

As Alice’s words trailed off, Duncan suddenly felt the whole ship rock, followed by a low whine in the wind from all the mainsails and side sails, and all the masts and cables creaking right after that – and all of this was currently being taken over by Goathead!
He looked up in amazement at the swaying masts and cables, as if he could sense through them the momentary panic of the controllers behind them, and in his mind’s eye, in turn, came a startled cry from inside the captain’s cabin, the voice of Goathead, “What did you say? You said a crack in the door? That door opened a crack?”

“Yes …… yes ……” Alice said, as if startled, “The door was ajar, and there was a crack, probably …… about as wide as a finger ……”

“The captain looked across the doorway? And then what? And he stabbed with his sword …… Did he change at that moment? Did he look hesitant or dazed as he led you away?”

“No,” replied Alice at once, “the captain just had a serious expression on his face, and then quickly brought me back, and he seemed to be thinking about something on the way, but not in a trance at all – ah, and he was discussing with me the matter of cooking yet, I’m going to the kitchen later ……”

“Don’t think about the kitchen yet! Do you know what’s behind that door?”

“Ah …… what’s behind that door?” Alice’s tone was a bit bewildered and scared, she had never seen Goathead look so serious and anxious – it gave her the same feeling as if the ship was about to sink.

Goathead’s tone suddenly became very low as it slowly spoke, “Behind that door, is subspace.”

Duncan, who was walking on the deck, stopped in his tracks.

Behind that door, is subspace?

He was dismayed, and the great wave that rose in his mind even came close to interfering with the monitoring of the captain’s cabin, when, immediately afterward, something else occurred to him- the

That fragmented bilge, the dark, chaotic chaos of light and shadow presented outside the crack in the bilge – the Lost Country was sailing in a different dimension at the same time, and the outside of its bilge was clearly a time and space different from the real world, and there was a door in the bilge, and on the opposite side of the door was subspace… …

Could it be that the bottom half of the Lost Country is actually sailing through subspace?

And from what Goathead said, this state of navigation didn’t seem to be peaceful? Not only does the bilge need to be pacified by the captain at all times, but that door should theoretically be tightly closed, but now it has an extra slit …… What does this mean? Does it mean there’s something wrong with the “seal” of the bilge? Or was something in subspace trying to enter the Lost Country?
He recalled that he had tried to close the door before leaving the bilge, but no matter how hard he tried, the door stayed open as if it were solidly integrated into the space.

He hadn’t thought much about it at the time, but now that he recalled it, an odd thought came to his mind.

Perhaps …… when he himself tried to close that door, something on the opposite side of the door was against it, preventing himself from closing that passage ……

(End of chapter)