Chapter 670 – The Captain and the Doll

Chapter 670 – The Captain and the Mannequin

Returning to the familiar real world, returning to the familiar Lost Country ship, hearing the familiar chatter of the goat’s head – Duncan felt a little bit of his heart once again solid, and in subspace that “roar” brought his tired and confused thoughts also calmed down a lot. Duncan felt a little bit of peace in his heart again, and the tiredness and thoughts brought by the “boom” in subspace also calmed down.

He exhaled softly, and stepped towards the navigation table, while Goathead seemed not to notice the weariness on the Captain’s face just now – he had clearly been speaking freely for some time, and was in a high mood, boasting to Duncan: “Captain! Your loyal following omission has been extremely fruitful, I’ve been having a good chat with this head, and just now we’ve been talking from food on the infinite sea to poetry and song and back again ……”

Duncan looked down at the noisy first mate, “And did it respond to you?”

The goathead froze, a little understated, “That’s true …… not yet ……”

But immediately after it was once again confident: “But I think I have almost succeeded, such a heartfelt exchange, I think it can make the stone also open up, I think this head is soon to be impressed by my sincere words, maybe it will have to fight with you in a few moments …… “

“Save your breath,” Duncan finally interrupted the goat-head’s chatter helplessly, “this head won’t respond to you – it’s got a big part of it staying in subspace.”

The goat’s head made a “crunch” sound, as if it were the “brakes” of a string of words suddenly being held back in its throat, and it froze for a couple of seconds before finally responding, “You mean subspace? ”

“Didn’t you notice?” Duncan raised his hand and pointed to the door of the captain’s cabin, “I was resting in my bedroom, but I pushed my way back from the captain’s cabin – while you were ‘pushing your luck’ with your other head, I had already returned from exploring subspace. ”

The goat-headed head shook and began to vibrate.

“Don’t vibrate, as you can see, nothing happened,” Duncan said casually, taking a seat at the nautical table while his gaze fell on the other blackened goat head, “The reason the Dreaming Skull didn’t respond to you is because Its body is located in subspace, where I have had …… limited communication with it. As far as I can observe, it indeed does not have a complete mind or memories like you, as I had previously predicted.”

The goat head finally reacted, it never thought that the captain just went back to the room to “take a nap” for a moment of time actually went to the subspace again, and the news that the captain brought back from “over there” was even more unexpected, it turned its neck and looked at the other head on the table, after half a day, it took a long time to realize that it was not the same as the other head. head, after half a day before emerging a sentence: “that …… what it said to you?”

Just after it finished it seemed to regret a little and hurriedly followed up with, “Ah, if it’s not so safe ‘knowledge’ then forget it, my curiosity is not so ……”

“It knows something to do with ‘Duncan Abnormale’ as much as you do, and to a certain extent you should share ‘initial memories’, but that part is not suitable for discussion on this ship , we just have an understanding with each other,” Duncan waved his hand with a bemused look on his face, “You know the things I’m talking about.”

Goathead shut his mouth momentarily.

Of course it knew what the captain was talking about.

But the subject must not be brought up on the Lost Country – the ship would be sunk by the Truth, and without the anchor point of Captain Duncan, it would fall back into subspace.

This is the “tacit understanding” that has been established between the ship and its captain after a period of time, and after a number of unspoken hints and cooperation between the two of them.

The captain’s room fell into silence for a while, Duncan sat on a chair to rest, slowly recovering his spirit, the dreaming skull remained quietly on the table, the empty eyes did not look at any target, the goat’s head seemed to fall into thought, I do not know what this “first mate” thought, after a long time, it suddenly looked up: “In addition to this, you also ……”

“‘The King of the Pale Giants’, the Creator from the First Long Night mentioned in that Book of Blasphemy, whose body was fused with the remains of Creation from the First Long Night …… But more than that, it cannot be said, and that could be harmful.”

Goathead was stunned for a moment and slowly hung his head, “Okay, I won’t ask.”

Duncan let out a “hmmm”, he didn’t say anything else, he just fell into reminiscing and thinking in the silence.

Although he knew that he couldn’t draw any conclusions from his thoughts, he still couldn’t help but think about the “fragments” that came into his mind, and recalled the voice that spoke to him in that “boom”.

Even though it was mutilated, he was still able to deduce a lot of information from those words –

It was a group that had almost cracked the truth of everything.

A civilization that had already stood at the top of time and space.

They called themselves “human beings” – but they were obviously very different from the “human beings” Zhou Ming knew in the year 2022.

They had already walked for too long in the process of civilization, and had even almost reached the end of truth.

However, they would also meet their demise on the day of the Great Annihilation, only unlike the demise groups of other worlds, they were perhaps the only civilization that had the ability and opportunity to observe the Great Annihilation in its entirety and make preparations for it.

Though still powerless to prevent the Great Annihilation, they seem to have found a way to preserve an intact …… “seed” in the midst of the silence of all things.

Duncan turned his head and gazed calmly at the oval antique mirror hanging on the wall not far away, at the figure reflected in it.

Now, he finally knew why “his own memories” would not have that red light representing the destruction of all things – because the Great Annihilation did not occur in the era he was familiar with.

The Great Annihilation took place far into the future after that.

But more than these possible “truths”, greater questions filled his mind.

Why …… should there be a “Zhou Ming”?
He sat behind the table like this and pondered for a long, long time, before finally putting aside all the worries in his mind for the time being and getting up to walk towards the door.

“I’m going to take a walk on the deck.” He said to Goathead, before pushing his way out of the captain’s cabin.

The deck was empty and quiet, the cool light of the World’s Creation was shining on the distant sea, the wind and waves were calm at the moment, and the occasional breaking wave lapping against the hull of the ship brought with it a soft sound that wasn’t noisy.

Duncan just walked slowly forward along the edge of the deck, with no goal in mind, and no longer thinking about things that were far away and destined to have no answers, as if it was simply to empty his mind, simply to catch the night breeze.

It wasn’t until he saw a slender figure appear a short distance away that he stopped.

Alice was sitting on a large wooden barrel near the side of the ship – it was her favorite barrel – and she was gently rocking her body on it, looking out over the distant sea, her little legs swaying around, and her mouth seemed to be humming a strange tune.

Duncan discerned for a while, and realized that it was the sailor’s tune that Goathead would occasionally hum – Goathead’s tune itself was not very correct, and now it had been “processed” by Alice, and the tune had been distorted to the extent that few people could listen to it in the entire Boundless Sea, and I’m afraid that he would not be able to understand it. The tune has become so crooked that I’m afraid not many people in the entire boundless sea can understand it.

But when Alice sang it, it still sounded good.

The doll finally noticed Duncan’s approach, she immediately stopped and happily jumped down from the barrel: “Captain!”

“Well,” Duncan’s mouth brought up a small smile, “I came out for a walk.”

Alice blinked and suddenly looked Duncan in the eye very seriously.

“You look a little tired, is something on your mind? Having to deal with some big trouble again?”

The mannequin’s perceptiveness was unexpected, and Duncan flinched a little for a moment, but soon he smiled and shook his head, “Nothing, just happened to be thinking about things – why aren’t you in bed this late? Something on your mind too?”

“No,” Alice smiled happily, “I’m just a little too happy to sleep.”

“Happy?”

Alice immediately explained cheerfully, “I got the ‘trophies’ to the kitchen! They all work great – the ‘friends’ in the kitchen seemed a little upset at first, but I explained it to them and they accepted the ‘new friends’! ……

“I also checked the previously cured meat and it was in great shape! None of the buckets went bad this time, so I should be able to use it for cooking in a month’s time ……

“I also pickled some pickles that Nina taught me, she said they’d be good with bacon butties, much better than what Goathead taught me ……

“I also found a big handful of never-used pencils in the utility room at the end of the second deck, I don’t know who put them there, I’m going to use them to draw with, Luni is good at drawing, she said she could teach me, but not until she has time ……”

And so the doll talked happily about all sorts of trifles, all sorts of good things that were too small to be considered “good”, but in which she did feel great joy, and each of which made her happy – and now… And now she was doing her best to bring out that joy, and to make the captain happy too.

Though she had no idea what the Captain usually worried and thought about.

Duncan didn’t interrupt her, he just listened quietly, for a long time, until a real smile appeared again in the depths of his eyes.

Alice stopped, blinking happily at Duncan in the night.

“Alice, have you ever considered your ‘birth’?” Duncan thought for a moment, and then suddenly asked, “Have you ever thought about what you were born for, and what you think about, why you are ‘Alice’, and what the future of ‘Alice’ will be? Have you considered these questions?”

“No!” Alice didn’t even hesitate for a second, these questions that seem to make philosophers think about them all their lives were surprisingly simple with her – she didn’t even think about them, “Never thought about it!”

But just after the words were said, she herself seemed to suddenly feel that this answer seemed to be a bit hasty, so she hesitantly added: “Isn’t it not good to answer …… like this? It seems like I’m a bit stupid. …… Do you usually think about this?”

Duncan looked at the mannequin with tears and laughter.

He then smiled and slowly shook his head, “You answered well.”

Alice was unsure.

Duncan didn’t explain anything, just reached out and gently pressed the doll’s hair.

“If you want to draw, I can teach you.”

“You can still draw, Captain?”

“Can some, back in the long, long ago days …… Do you want to learn?”

“Uh-huh!”

(End of chapter)