Chapter 769: “Routes”
Chapter 766 – “Course”
It was no exaggeration to say that Duncan clearly heard a “crunch” from somewhere on the sailor’s body – apparently one of the joints had been dislocated when the dryad shivered.
Then the ghostly cry of the abnormal 077 exploded on the back deck: “Captain! Captain, don’t scare me! I am loyal and diligent and honest ah! What I wrong you say I change is, you do not scare me with this ah …… or you put me into the cannon to shoot out ah …….”
This dry corpse’s broken voice echoed over the entire aft deck, and while yelling and pulling his body to the railing at the edge of the bridge to climb, as if he was going to jump from this place in the next second – in fact, he really turned over the railing, but in the moment when he was about to jump out, a cable sprang out like an arrow and directly tied around the guy’s ankles and dragged him back up to the driver’s side, wrapping several times around him in the process.
Duncan looked at the abnormal 077 that was still struggling to climb out with all his might with a smile, then took two steps forward and watched silently without speaking.
Abnormality 077’s ghostly howling came to an abrupt end, he shivered again visible to the naked eye, shrank his neck and stopped moving, holding back half a day to come out with a sentence, “If you are bored, then stew me …… I’ll show you sit-ups in a pot… …”
“There aren’t that many pots on board,” Duncan said casually, then put away the smirk on his face and took on a serious tone, “I’m serious – I need to do some tests”
Noticing the change in the Captain’s tone and expression, Anomaly 077 finally realized what was going on, and he looked up at Duncan in a daze, “…… tests?”
“Release him.” Duncan said casually with a nod of his head – the cables, which were as if they were alive, immediately came off Anomaly 077’s body in a circle, making a rustling sound as they retreated to the side.
The sailor climbed up in disbelief, first grabbed his thighs and wrenched the joints back together (now Duncan knew where the “crunch” had come from), and then followed the captain nervously while looking around to see what the cables were doing! –He came to the blackened helm wheel, but still do not dare to reach out and touch, hesitation for a long time still can not help but speak: “You want to test is not ……”
Duncan corner of his eye suddenly trembled, looking at the inexplicably branched up mannequin: “What are you proud of!”
“Don’t worry, the Lost Country isn’t enough to really be affected by you – I’m just going to use this to observe how your powers actually work,” Duncan said casually, “And even if it does happen that the ‘teleportation’ and ‘storms’ aren’t much of a problem, that’s no better than a breeze for this ship.”
The sailor’s eyes lit up at that, “There are other options?”
“The route.” Duncan said lightly.
The sailor’s face changed slightly, a thoughtful look finally coming into his eyes.
Duncan: “……”
As he speaks, he raises his hand and points at the sailor.
“Eh, I don’t mean this,” the sailor hurriedly shook his head, and looked around with special vigilance, “I mean this ship won’t beat me up …… I observed before, the stuff on this ship that will beat people up that can be too much. I’ve seen at least three fights in the two hours I’ve been on board ……”
“I know you can’t recall anything about the route – Lucrecia has already told me,” Duncan turned his head to look the sailor in the eye, “but I believe the information Captain Kalani left in the logbook -strictly speaking, I think she should have considered the changes you might undergo upon your return to the Boundless Sea when she left that log; after all, she has faced the gods directly, and has herself been changed in nature, and then ‘recovered’ again from that change ‘ over – she holds ‘knowledge’ that ordinary people cannot comprehend.”
Alice tilted her head, “I won a fight with a barrel!”
The Sailor stuttered, “I still like your first scenario ……”
Without saying a word, Duncan silently raised his hand, a bright flame leaping from his fingertips.
The sailor seemed to gradually understand the captain’s meaning, and he looked up at the blackened rudder wheel in front of him, which was being slowly and automatically fine-tuned in the night, but he still hesitated, “But if I do touch the rudder ……”
“So now I have to figure out ‘you’, and the truth that lies beneath all your ‘characteristics’ as ‘Anomaly 077’, just as Captain Kalani’s logs are recorded in your shroud, I think that you ‘yourself’ are some kind of ‘vehicle’, and to conduct a test in this regard …… to allow you to exercise a bit of your own ‘power’ is the most effective way to do so.”
As soon as the muttered words fell from his side, Alice on the other side proudly puffed out her chest.
He forcibly ignored the doll lady beside him, and his gaze fell on Anomaly 077, “I control everything on this ship, and now that I’ve given you permission to temporarily take the helm, you don’t have to worry about the consequences. Of course, I have another ‘research program’ if you really resist this one.”
The sailor froze, looking down at his hands thoughtfully, “My power ……”
“Anomaly 077, when active, will attempt to ‘take over’ the nearest vessel and cause the vessel to teleport randomly within the Infinite Sea,” Duncan said nonchalantly, speaking of the records on the Church’s part, regarding “Anomaly 077-Sailor’s out-of-control trait, “And each time it teleports, the affected vessel is caught in a storm – now, that trait piqued my curiosity.”
Duncan casually dispersed the flames from his fingertips and signaled the rudder next to him with his gaze, “Do what you need to do before I light the fire.”
The sailor finally sighed, knowing that he had no reason to hesitate now.
His parched chest puffed up hard as he inhaled hard into the night, feeling the slightly cooler air draining from his body, he gritted his teeth and made his way to that rudder wheel, directing his eyes to close and his hand to reach out. Anomaly 077’s dry, claw-like hands gripped the Lost Country’s rudder wheel-
The first mate of the Sea Song started to take the helm.
And almost as soon as the sailor touched that steering wheel, Duncan heard an illusory and distorted roar – it sounded like the loud crash of a great ship as it slid into the sea from a shipbuilding platform, as if a million-foot wave was rising around the Lost Country, and the sea was shaking and cracking beyond the ship’s side.
The Lost Country was under the influence of some …… “force,” and in a flash Duncan caught the “touch” that was working its way through the ship.
If an ordinary ship, should have been swallowed by some kind of dimensional rift due to this “touch”, and was transported to some random place on the infinite sea, involved in a storm – but the Lost Country is still sailing steadily on the sea, under Duncan’s conscious control, the “touch” of the “force” was not only a “force”, but also a “force”, and the “force” of the “force” was also a “force”. Under Duncan’s conscious control, the unknown force can’t really affect the ship’s navigation.
Duncan slowly furrowed his brow as he sensed how the Lost Country was currently being affected, and then as if he suddenly sensed something, he craned his head to the side.
A hazy phantom appeared in the corner of the bridge almost simultaneously – Agatha, dressed as a female explorer, emerged from the mirror world and looked over to Duncan as she staggered and held onto the handrail next to her, “Captain? What’s happening! This side of the spirit world ……”
Without waiting for Agatha to finish her sentence, Duncan had already walked quickly towards her, “Agatha, I need to borrow your ‘eyes’.”
Agatha was stunned at the words, but immediately reacted, reaching out and probing for her eyeballs, “Ah yes, you wait a moment I’ll just gouge ……”
Duncan was startled and hurriedly interrupted, “Stop! No need to pick out!”
Agatha’s expression was a bit confused: “Ah?”
Duncan didn’t have time to explain, and directly ignited a ghostly green flame, pointing it at Agatha’s forehead-
“Don’t be nervous, it’s harmless.”
The link to the flame was established before the words left his mouth.
The Gatekeeper’s vision was reflected in Duncan’s eyes.
Everything in front of him seemed to “shake” rapidly and briefly, all the light and shadows dislocated and then reorganized – Duncan felt the vision turn upside down several times, then stabilize, and then a very different experience from the one he had experienced when he had shared Alice’s vision appeared in his perception. his perception.
He saw the world in black, white, and gray; he saw the phantom of the Lost Country reflected in the surface of the “sky”; he saw invisible waves ebbing and flowing upward in the boundary between the real and the unreal; and in the midst of all these interlocking, uncanny landscapes, he saw the distant surface of the sea… …constantly collapsing and reorganizing!
In front of the Lost Country, the sea was repeating the process of disintegration like a poorly-contacted phantom; waves appeared and disappeared suddenly, the whole sea disappeared in one moment and turned into a black “hole”, and then was filled up and reappeared in the next moment, and dislocated landscapes were emerging in the distance, and the process was repeating itself every second. Every second, this process is constantly repeated, as if …… a “process” that is constantly restarted because it is stuck!
Duncan stood at the stern of the Reflection Lost Country ship, staring at the rapidly collapsing and changing “scenery” in the distance, and then he suddenly turned his head to the direction of the ship’s rudder.
A hazy phantom stood there – gripping the rudder wheel, but unable to see his face, transparent and almost dissipated, as if it were just a lingering sound, bound to the rudder.
Agatha stood beside Duncan, and in the mirrored world, her figure seemed all too real instead.
Looking at the incredible sight of the ocean in the distance, she finally couldn’t help but ask, “Captain, what the hell is that?”
“…… is the route,” Duncan spoke softly, “from the ‘border’ to the ‘external barrier’ made up of the gods ‘ The proper route.”
Agatha’s eyes widened.
“As Captain Kalani said in her log, she gave the route to her first mate – this route has not disappeared,” Duncan continued slowly, “Anomaly 077 – Sailor, he is the route itself. ”
The distant sea reorganized and collapsed once more, an illusory roar echoing throughout the ocean as if the entire world was resonating with it!
“This is the route, and the so-called process of ‘anomaly 077 taking over and causing the ship to randomly teleport’ is really just some sort of navigation – it’s the first mate of the Sea Song trying to guide the ship to his remembered ‘destination’, except that this process simply cannot be accomplished within the confines of the Infinity Sea, so ……”
He paused, speaking softly a moment later.
“Hence the storms.”
(End of chapter)