Alice doesn't really understand the things of this world.

But at least, she had heard the whispered conversations of fear and nervousness in the wooden crates countless times, and from the mouths of the crew and guards who were nervous because they were responsible for escorting anomalous objects, she had established a basic understanding of something "out of the ordinary".

If something is clearly out of the ordinary, but it really exists, then the way to survive is to first follow the existing safety rules and consider research and analysis while maintaining a safe distance.

Alice doesn't really have a real sense of the fact that she is "Anomaly 099", she doesn't know what she can do, or what she has done, to make humans so afraid and wary of herself, she doesn't know how to think as a sapient "anomaly" is "normal" - at this moment, she is just thinking like a human.

Since Goathead says that there are six rules for crews, then there are six, and since Goathead mentions the seventh rule, remember this seventh.

But she still had some questions and couldn't help but want to ask: "I tried to push the door of the captain's room just now, and it was indeed open outward—why should I emphasize it in the code for such a natural thing?" ”

The wooden goat's head looked silently into Alice's eyes, and it took a full two seconds for him to speak in a way that he had never said before: "Sometimes, it can open inwards. ”

"That ......"

"If you see the door open inward, don't go in, for only the captain is qualified to do so on the entire Lost Ship."

It was the first time since the goat head had spoken in such a serious, even somewhat intimidating tone, even when he had just introduced the crew code.

Alice was taken aback by the other party's extraordinarily solemn tone.

But then, the goat's tone became brisk again, and he spoke happily as if the serious topic had never happened: "Alright, the necessary introduction process for the new crew has ended, now let's talk about something else...... Ah, ma'am, what are you doing in the captain's room? If the ship's facilities don't work, then there's no need to bother the great Captain Duncan, if you're looking for someone to talk to, you've found the right one, I'm very good at finding topics and know countless great deeds about the ship...... Are you not interested in great deeds? Then I can introduce you to the most famous dishes on the boundless sea, and I still know a thing or two about cooking......"

The goat's head was in a state of flux as soon as she opened her mouth, and Alice tried to interrupt several times but couldn't find a chance, and by the time she realized that something was wrong, it was too late.

Anomaly 099, the puppet Miss Alice, faces the second greatest horror on the Lost World today, after Captain Duncan.

At the same time, in their dormitory, which was only separated by a wall, Duncan was quietly listening to the movement coming from the chart room.

He had just woken up, his soul returning to the Lost from a distant shell, and he hadn't heard the goat's head and Alice's initial conversation, but he had heard the "crew code" and the conversation about "the captain's door opening outward".

Important information, unexpected gains.

Before Duncan could digest the information he had just gathered from the cultists, he accidentally overheard the conversation between Goathead and Alice, and both the strange and strange "Crew Code" and the information revealed in Goathead's words at the end were extremely important to him.

Sure enough, when he pushed the door of the captain's room back to the "other side", Goathead knew that this was a return to his bachelor apartment, but for the Lost Ship here, it seemed to mean that "the captain was temporarily gone".

The goathead had no doubts about this, and regarded it as a move that Captain Duncan himself would have.

So...... The ship's original "real Captain Duncan" would have pushed open the door to the captain's room and headed to some mysterious "world"? And this kind of thing happened more than once, so much so that it not only became a matter of course in the eyes of the goat's head, but even became part of the code of the crew of the Lost Land?

This news is a good thing for Duncan, which means that he does not have to worry too much about returning to the "other side" later, even if there are other new crew members on board, he can disappear in this way in the open, and he does not have to worry about someone following him and discovering his "secret".

But on the other hand, Duncan also had inevitable thoughts in his heart - this is related to the "6+1" crew code deliberately mentioned by Goathead.

What exactly do these crew codes mean? What is the basis of these grotesque-sounding, dangerous, and even contradictory codes? Some of its entries sound like a deliberate emphasis on the captain's authority, but the reality is clearly more than that, and the strict restrictions on behavior are more like allowing the people on board to survive in some kind of dangerous environment, so that the crew can avoid unseen dangers through some established rules.

Duncan frowned slightly, he was thinking about his true place in these codes - judging from the content of the codes, he, the "captain", seemed to be the only individual who had the most freedom and initiative, he did not have to worry about the "invisible risks" on the ship, and even he himself was the arbiter of many of the risk areas, but ...... The premise of all this is that he must be the "real Captain Duncan".

That's the part that's the most worrying.

But he suddenly remembered his exploration on the Lost Land during this time, and remembered the fact that he was walking around the cabin at will.

Goathead never reminded himself of the crew rules, he thought of himself as the real Captain Duncan, he had not encountered any "strange dangers" when he was on the ship, and there was no way that a second "captain" would jump out and assign him any restrictions on his activities.

From this point of view, the dangers mentioned by the goathead in the "Crew Code" do seem to him to be of little concern.

Duncan exhaled softly, and he continued to listen intently to the movements coming from the chart room.

Half a minute later, he hated himself for not being able to turn off his ears.

The trash doll communicates with the noisy goat's head, who is clearly dominant, and the crackling nonsense is surging in the chart room like the wind and waves of the endless sea, even Duncan, who is hiding in the dorm and secretly observing.

He felt that he had to hurry out and save the poor puppet lady, and Alice, who lacked social experience, was clearly no match for Goathead, but after a little hesitation, Duncan stopped.

He had just finished a fantastic "soul trip", and he still had a lot of information to sort out and experience to sum up, and he had to figure out what had just happened to him, and whether the process was controllable - for now, this ability to project his spirit into the distance would be the best means for him to gather information on land in the future.

Normally, he would have to worry about whether he would get the goat's unwanted attention by burying his head in the room for too long, but now there was an Alice outside who could draw the attention of that noisy thing...... It couldn't be better.

Silently saying sorry to Miss Doll in his heart, Duncan looked down at his right hand, and the next second, his expression was stunned.

The brass compass, which was slightly larger than the pocket watch, disappeared at some point.

And he clearly remembered that until not long ago, the compass was still tightly held in his hand!

Duncan's eyes were a little strange for a moment, as he realized that he had not noticed the change in his hands at all, and this lax negligence had appeared for the first time since he had come to this strange and strange ghost ship.

The next second, he shook his right hand weakly, and a dark green flame crept between his fingers, and then he stood up from behind his desk, ready to use the connection between the spirit flame and the supernatural to check the entire dormitory for anomalous traces.

But the moment he got up, Duncan's movements suddenly stopped, and some subtle connection emerged from the bottom of his heart, and he subconsciously looked in the direction where the connection came from, and in the corner of his eye, there were a few feathers that seemed to be real and illusory falling from the air.

Duncan looked in surprise at the place where the feather had fallen, and saw a phantom rapidly emerging and condensing in front of his eyes, but in two or three seconds, the phantom condensed into a snow-white ......

Dove.

The missing compass hung on the pigeon's chest, and a familiar obsidian knife lay quietly at the pigeon's feet.