Chapter 8 The Sun

Chapter 8 The Sun
A mannequin, a mannequin so delicate and lifelike that Duncan almost didn’t recognize it at first glance – she lay still in that ornate wooden box, as if she were a lady sleeping in a hearse, waiting for someone to come and wake her up.

Duncan really thought the other woman was going to wake up in the next second.

But it was just an illusion; the figure just lay still in the crate, completely unresponsive to her surroundings.

Duncan vigilantly and cautiously observed this strange …… “thing”: a doll itself is nothing strange, but the other party’s appearance that is too close to the real person and the hearse-like wooden box let him instinctively feel a kind of danger, and then associated with this box When he thought about the inexplicable appearance of this box on the Lost Country ship, it was no wonder that he was wary.

After observing for a long time, Duncan finally determined that this gorgeous gothic doll in the crate would not suddenly jump up to give himself a wave of surprises, and only then did he breathe a little sigh of relief, and then he frowned and inquired about the goat-head, “What do you think this is all about?”

“This would be the important cargo the ship was escorting earlier,” Goathead replied immediately, despite its previous statement that it didn’t recognize the strange wooden crate that had suddenly appeared on the deck, it clearly had more experience regarding matters at sea than Duncan, the false captain, “There are symbols on the exterior of the crate pointing to the gods. There are pins around the crate used to secure the chains, which may indicate that it was once in some sort of sealed state – transporting sealed objects on the infinite sea is an extremely risky business, and that ship looks like it has some history.”

“Sealed?” Duncan’s eyelids subconsciously fluttered, followed by a look at the lid of the crate that had been fully opened by himself, the lid had broken when he came aboard the Lost Country and that was why it was able to be pushed so easily by himself, and even though he didn’t know anything about seals and such, he was sure that the thing’s seals had definitely failed, “So it’s a hazardous object?”

“Dangerous to the frail commoners, but I don’t think it would be much of a threat to you – such ‘anomalies’ that can be sealed just by someone with a special skill can’t resist Captain Duncan’s prowess. ”

Duncan was silent, his expression serious, but his mind was racing with thoughts.

The goathead’s compliments sounded flattering – if he really was some kind of “Captain Duncan” he might have believed them, but he wasn’t, and so he was in a panic.

The goat-head’s words had made it clear that the mannequin in the coffin was a “dangerous object”! It was just that it could not threaten the real captain!
Even though he now bore the name of Captain Duncan, and even seemed to have taken over the other man’s body, grasping some of his power, “Zhou Ming” was quite self-aware – he didn’t think that this could make him the same as the “real Captain Duncan”. real Captain Duncan”.

He still knew too little about the world, the ship, or even his own body.

In addition, he was keenly aware of a new and odd word that had appeared in Goathead’s words – “anomaly”.

Out of the ordinary is abnormal, this sounds like a very ordinary word, but the extra emphasis in Goat Head’s words made him vaguely realize that this word seems to have a special meaning here.

Perhaps, in this world, the word “abnormal” does not only refer to the meaning of “out of the ordinary”, but also refers to a certain type of things? For example,…… a mannequin lying in a coffin.

Unfortunately, he did not have the right reason to ask about this kind of thing that should be “common sense” here.

After lamenting the need to be careful in gathering information and accumulating knowledge, Duncan frowned and took one last look at the doll, as if he had made up his mind of some sort: “I should throw it back into the sea.”

There was a hint of hesitation in his mind when he said this, and this hesitation became especially evident when he looked at the mannequin.

Of course, this is not because of the simple reason of “this doll is beautiful”, but because …… “she” is really too much like a living person sleeping in a casket, and when he thought of throwing it back into the sea, Duncan even thought of throwing it back into the sea, but he did not think of throwing it back into the sea. When he thought of throwing it back into the sea, Duncan even felt that he was throwing a living person off the ship.

But this hesitation ultimately strengthened his resolve.

Because he had already known that there were many strange and bizarre things in this world – even though so far he had only come into contact with one ship in this world, the Lost Country was the only one he had ever seen, but even on this ship alone, he had already seen the talking goat’s head, masts that could raise the sails on their own, ship’s lamps that would never go out and the strange and dangerous sea, which made his heart palpitate. of the sea, the palpitating spirit world and the endless sea mist ……

And just now, he ran into a mechanical ship that was transporting a seal on this strange sea, and the thing that the ship was “transporting” strangely landed on the deck of the Lost Country.

As a sensible and prudent person, he could not keep this kind of thing, which might contain strange and dangerous power, with him just because the doll looked beautiful.

Regret after regret, Duncan finally firmly put the lid of the “coffin” again, because he was not assured, he found nails and hammer from the cabin, and seriously put another ring of iron nails to the coffin.

Finally, he pushed the coffin with the dolls to the edge of the deck.

Goathead’s voice came into his ears: “You may dispose of your loot as you wish, but I will still respectfully and humbly suggest that you needn’t be so cautious, as the Lost Country hasn’t added to its loot in a long time. ……”

“Shut up.” Duncan simply cut off Goathead’s balabala. Goathead fell silent while Duncan kicked the casket hard enough to send it straight into the sea.

The heavy wooden box fell straight down on the edge of the deck, and fell straight into the sea, which had already returned to its normal color, and then floated back up from the water after making a dull sound, and gradually drifted towards the aft direction of the Lost Country ship.

Duncan watched the crate drift away with the waves, until it was completely obscured by the stern of the ship before he breathed a little sigh of relief, then he looked up into the distance again, and saw that the fog on the surface of the sea had already completely dissipated, and the azure blue sea was slowly undulating around the Lost Country.

The ship had completely left the “spirit world” and returned to the reality dimension.

On the surface of the sea nearby, there was no sign of the mechanical ship that had briefly crossed paths with the Lost Country.

Duncan frowned slightly, and briefly estimated the time that had elapsed since the two ships had met, as well as the speed of each ship.

Based on the current conditions on the sea, that ship should not have disappeared into visual distance so quickly.

“…… Is this also because of this weird sea? Or is it related to the so-called ‘spirit world voyage’?”

Mutterings flooded Duncan’s mind, but soon, his attention was caught by something else –

He saw a line of golden light suddenly rise from the depths of the never-before-dispersed cloud over the sea.

Bright golden sunlight gradually filled up, as if the heavy curtain-like clouds gradually dissipated as if brushed away by an invisible hand, and the sea, which had been gloomy for an unknown period of time, was gradually being illuminated by the sunlight – Duncan stood at the bow of the Lost Country ship, gazing at the landscape where the gloomy clouds were dissipating with his eyes wide open, and in this instant, he actually suddenly felt an inexplicable touch.

Ever since he had learned of the existence of “this side” many days ago, ever since he had first explored this strange ship, the cloud had always hung over the entire ocean, so much so that he almost thought that there was no sunshine in the world at all, that the world was always cloudy.

He had been separated from the sunlight for too long, and even across the street from the door, in Zhou Ming’s bachelor apartment, the thick mist outside the window had long since blocked out the sun.

But now, the Boundless Sea cleared up.

After a long absence from the sun, he finally had the feeling of seeing the sun again on “this side” of the world.

Duncan subconsciously took a deep breath and opened his hands in the direction of the sunlight, and the heavy clouds quickly dissipated and faded away as if they were echoing, and at the moment when the light of the sky was at its brightest, a huge sphere enveloped by countless distorted golden light streams was reflected in Duncan’s eyes.

All of Duncan’s expressions froze at the moment he opened his hands to greet the sunlight.

He stared at the sky, the sunlight was blinding, but far from blinding as he was familiar with, and he could clearly see the thing hanging in the sky, its spherical shell that seemed to have countless dense patterns, the brilliant light streams that overflowed around it, and the two circular structures that were slowly orbiting against the backdrop of the intertwined streams of light, which were spread out in concentric circles with the central sphere at the center.

Duncan narrowed his eyes, he vaguely discerned that the two rings seemed to be connected by countless fine and complex runes, as if there was some kind of supreme greatness in the firmament inscribed an eternal bond, confining the “sun” in the sky.

Duncan was not able to embrace the sunshine he had longed for.

There is no sunshine in this world.

“What was that?” He whispered, his voice low and a little cold.

“That would be the sun, of course, Captain.” Goathead’s voice was as calm as ever.

(Mom yeah!
I’ll try to keep up the double shifts for the next few days …… until my savings run out or my energy can’t keep up 23333)

(End of chapter)