As the night faded and the pale scars that dominated the sky faded, Duncan stood on the aft deck and stared up at the sky, not missing a single detail of the turn of day and night.

He saw that the scar became transparent and illusory little by little like a waking dream, and the gray-white light mist escaping from it first merged with the sky, followed by the scar itself—and the position of the "scar" remained unchanged throughout the process.

Duncan blinked, and a further speculation came to his mind: Does the fact that the trail in the sky have not changed position mean that it is not some distant astronomical structure? Does it mean that it is just some kind of phantom "imprinted" in the background of the atmosphere that will move synchronously with the infinite sea?

Or is it because the planet where the Infinite Sea is located (if it's really a planet) is in sync with the scar? Or is the scar actually moving, but the observation time is too short to be seen with the naked eye?

All kinds of conjectures come and go in his mind, but Duncan is very clear that until there is sufficient evidence and reliable experimental verification, these conjectures are just conjectures, and there are thousands of possible explanations behind a natural phenomenon, but everything is empty without theory and evidence to support it.

The "sun" has risen.

First, a golden light emerged from the sky and the sea, followed by a huge luminous structure that suddenly surfaced on the surface of the sea, and with the brilliant glow, the ball of light locked by the double rune structure appeared in Duncan's field of vision.

The sun rose majestically under the slow movement of the rune structure, and this majestic process seemed to have some kind of voice—some low, powerful, slow roar that echoed in Duncan's mind illusoryly, but when he really listened, the voice suddenly disappeared.

He frowned, a little skeptical that he had just had an auditory hallucination, but the memories of the sound were so vivid that he couldn't deny it.

Is that...... What does the sun make to the world as it rises? Or is it just one of the many hallucinations that come with the infinite sea?

No one could answer Duncan's doubts, and the vast expanse of the sea, as always, kept all its secrets.

The pigeon Ay crouched comfortably on Duncan's shoulder as usual, and then he stood up very suddenly, flapped his wings vigorously, and shouted as he looked at the sea: "Hour fries!" Hour fries! ”

Duncan couldn't help but laugh, and he glanced at the strange pigeon, and suddenly it seemed that there was such a bird thing in the middle of it—the strange things that the pigeon made from time to time always gave him some "hometown intimacy".

"It's a pity there are no fries on board," he said, fiddling with the pigeon's beak and turning in the direction of the captain's room, "but one thing you are right, you have to get something to eat." ”

Moments later, the captain of the Lost Land prepared himself a traditional breakfast of ghost ship specialties - in the captain's room, Duncan used the nautical table as a dining table, placing a few plates on the empty table next to the chart, today's breakfast was the same as yesterday's dinner, yesterday's lunch, and every meal in the past, with jerky, cheese, and plain water.

Duncan sat at the nautical table, laying out his napkin in earnestly and ceremoniously, the goat's head sitting quietly across from him, the cursed doll Alice running early in the morning to his left, and the odd dove crouching on the table to his right.

Duncan suddenly felt that this scene began to fit his character as a "ghost captain" - a goat wood carving representing a demon, a cursed doll that could not be discarded, a bird that knew otherworldly knowledge, and a ghost captain sitting in the main seat, which could be used as a cover for the movie without repair......

But only the person concerned knows what the situation is about the food on the Lost Country.

Duncan sighed and looked down at the contents of the plate - the movie poster-like opening scene was over, and then the real life of firewood, rice, oil and salt on the Lost Country was next.

He picked up the knife and sliced hard at the cheese, and there was a creaking sound in the friction of the hard object, and he poked the jerky next to him with his fork, and the jerky collided with the plate with a crisp clanging sound.

Alice looked at this scene curiously, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Captain, today is the same as yesterday's meal?" ”

"Tomorrow will be the same," Duncan glanced up at the cursed doll, "you want to try?" ”

Alice thought about it, picked up a piece of jerky with her hand, put it in her mouth and chewed it twice, and then spit it out: "It's not delicious at all!" ”

"You can't eat it even if it's delicious—do you have a stomach?" Duncan reached out and took the remaining half of the jerky from Alice's hand, "Let you try, you really try." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the food on the plate with some apprehension.

The only food that could be found on the ship was this, the taste of the jerky was like thick cardboard with salt and the cheese was like loose firewood mixed with sand, and no matter how it was handled, it had a strange smell, and he had tried to boil the jerky in water, bake it, and fry it raw, but he couldn't make it any better.

The good news is that the food is at least not spoiled and doesn't poison people, and the bad news is that the power of the passage of time still turns these non-decaying substances into something extremely undesirable to swallow - Duncan has every reason to believe that the cheese is several rounds older than himself, and that the jerky, if still alive, has at least seen a century of ups and downs.

The captain of the Lost Country may not have to worry about scurvy, but Duncan still longs for a healthy diet—at the very least, he wants the food on his plate to be a little younger than his own.

It's okay for the same age.

The "Material Supply Plan for the Lost Country" and the "Land Exploration Plan" that I had planned in my mind yesterday came to mind again.

But none of this will be achieved in a moment.

Duncan sighed, and continued to cut the "firewood" on the plate with a vengeful attitude, and Aye, who had tilted his head on the table next to him and watched for a long time, came over curiously, the bird first glanced at his master, and then looked at the contents of the plate: "Insufficient crystal ore reserves?" ”

Duncan glanced at the pigeon, pinched some of the fallen cheese crumbs and threw them at it, and Ay pecked her head twice, and immediately stood still as if she had suddenly died......

The bird froze for a full three or four seconds before it suddenly became active, flapping its wings and flying to the shelf next to it, making a breathless voice: "I will starve to death today, die outside, and I will not ......eat if I jump from here."

Duncan felt a little hurt, and the goat's head, which had been quiet for a long time across the table, finally couldn't help but start to make a creaking sound of wood rubbing.

Before this drill made his own fire, Duncan finally nodded: "If you have something to say, just say it." ”

"Yes, Captain," said the goathead, who had a chance to speak, immediately clamoured, "I've been wanting to ask since yesterday, the ...... you brought with me It's called 'Aya', right? Why can't I always understand what it says? Yesterday I thought about it all night, what does it mean to charge Q coins? ”

Duncan raised his eyebrows suddenly—he really didn't expect this goat's head to hold back until this time before asking, and he actually underestimated the self-control of this thing!

"You don't have to worry about it, this bird has a strange mind," Duncan did not stop his carpentry work, but casually uttered a pretext that he had already thought of while making the sound of a chisel and axe saw with his knife and fork, "It seems to be able to communicate with people in a language that only it can understand, and you can guess what it means if you listen to it too much." ”

"Is that so?" "But I always felt as if there was some kind of logic hidden in its words...... It's as if there is a complete, self-consistent set of knowledge hidden behind that language...... You discovered Aye while walking in the spirit realm? Could it be some kind of projection from a deep depth? You know, the deeper you go, the more information from the dislocated time and space will emerge in the form of projections, including some fragments of the lost era and even the future that we don't know about, and maybe Ay is talking about something from another time and space? ”

The cutting work in Duncan's hand paused for a moment with an imperceptible magnitude, and then everything went on as usual, and at the same time he said in a flat tone: "Then I wish you to summarize the logic behind Ae's language as soon as possible." ”

The goat's words may have been casual guesses, but the information revealed in them inevitably set off waves in Duncan's heart!

In the process of walking in the spirit realm, his soul approached the "deeper" of this world? The deeper the place, the more projections from dislocated space-time will be seen? It is even possible that those projections may even represent scenes from different timelines?

Duncan didn't see any "landscapes in different timelines" when he walked in the spirit realm, but the goat's head was right about one thing - Aeg, who was indeed from another plane.

So...... Was this pigeon brought to this world by an earthling named "Zhou Ming", or did it really come from a deeper part of this world, as the goathead said?