It was too wicked, so Duncan couldn't eat the bowl of fish soup in the end.

After all, the thought of Miss Doll's head once rising and falling in the soup pot made him feel that the style of this dinner was running in the direction of the curse and the coming of death—even if Alice's real style of painting was actually not harmonious, and the fact that she dropped her head in the pot was a little too terrifying......

Miss Doll looked a little hurt, she looked at the food that Duncan put aside, and grabbed the lace decoration on the side of her clothes with both hands: "Captain, are you angry?" ”

Duncan glanced at the puppet physically and mentally exhausted: "If you want to be unhappy on the ship, you can tell me directly......"

"Huh? I don't have it......"

"Then try not to go into the ......kitchen from now on," Duncan said casually, but soon he noticed Alice's increasingly frustrated expression, and finally shook his head helplessly and changed his words, "Forget it, your intentions are good, I'm actually very happy, but let's cook...... If you are not proficient, there will be some accidents, and it will be good to be familiar with it in the future. ”

Alice suddenly stood up: "Then I can try it in the future?" ”

Duncan held back for a long time, and finally nodded: "...... Just pay attention. ”

He also thought about it: this cursed doll obviously couldn't stand the status quo of messing around on the Lost Land, maybe she really had some kind of "nature" that made her have to do something on this ship to settle down, and she was an independent individual with thoughts and personalities, and Duncan felt that he couldn't treat this puppet with blows forever.

By contrast, it was better to let Alice help out in the kitchen than to keep her fighting with cables, anchors, and cannonballs—at least the pots and pans on the Lost were in a better temper.

He glanced down at the fish soup placed next to him, in all fairness, the taste of this fish soup was actually quite normal, although the seasoning on the ship was limited, but the heat was not a problem at all, and as a puppet who did not even have a sense of taste and a digestive system, Alice could do this with just a few words of theoretical knowledge (and this theoretical knowledge also came from a goat's head who also does not eat human food), which is actually quite impressive.

Two guys who don't eat human food can make a meal that everyone can eat, what more can they ask for? Duncan felt that if the puppet was careful in the future, it should still be able to do the work in the kitchen - at least he, the captain, would not have to cook for himself in the future.

"That'...... Captain, do you want me to do something else for you? At this time, Alice's voice came from the side, interrupting Duncan's thoughts, "I also learned how to grill fish and fry fish from Mr. Goathead, and I have ...... in the kitchen."

"No, I'm not hungry," Duncan shook his head, his body doesn't really need much food, and he usually maintains three meals a day just to maintain his habit of being a "human", at this time, a bowl of Alice's soup has already quenched his appetite for half a day, he simply stood up from the table, "I'm going to go to the cabin for a walk." ”

"You're going to the cabin?" Alice was stunned for a moment, and then as if she remembered something, her expression became slightly nervous, "That...... Can you go 'down there' and have a look? ”

"Below?" Duncan frowned.

"It's the deeper cabins—the places I'm not allowed to go," said Alice, "and I always hear creaking from down there, and sometimes it's like somebody muttering under the floor, why don't you go and see it...... Is there a situation below? ”

Looking at the slightly nervous expression on Miss Doll's face, Duncan's heart suddenly slowly lifted.

The Deep ...... of the Lost Country That's a place he hasn't explored yet!

Because the deepest part of the country felt strange and dangerous, and he hadn't "helmed" at that time, and he hadn't mastered the power of spirit fire, so his previous explorations had stopped at the point leading to the deep cabin - of course, he had plans for further exploration in the future, but now it seems that the plans have not kept up with the changes.

At this moment, the voice of the goat's head suddenly came from the side: "Ah, it sounds like the bilge is a little restless, captain, do you want to go down and have a look?" ”

Before Duncan could speak, he heard the goat's head already babbling to himself: "If you think about it, it seems that you haven't checked down there for a long time, and the bilge needs some reassurance from the captain, you know, it's been soaked in the endless sea for a long time...... Would you like to bring your lantern? Still in the old place, just behind the door...... You've been active in the upper echelons all this time, and the lower ones are so noisy that you don't know how annoying they are, but alas, I'm a quiet person who can't hear the creaking sounds in the middle of the night......"

Duncan gave a silent glance at the goat's head, which fell silent.

Seriously, after hearing something about the goat's head, he suddenly became more resistant to the strange bilge - it sounded like it was clearly under the deeper influence of the Infinite Sea, and had become a structure that was "wrong" even on the Lost Land!

But the idea of resistance only lingered in my mind for less than a second.

Sooner or later, he would have to explore the other structures of the Lost Country, and it would be better to go late than sooner...... Reason told him that the sooner it was, the better.

The Lost Country is large, not only is it incredibly long, but its cabin is also divided into many layers, and the only area Duncan knows about is the ship's superstructure - including the deck area, the upper cabins and ammunition depots below the deck, the artillery area, and the warehouse, fresh water tank, and part of the crew room on the next level, and based on the previous explorations, he can fully imagine how large the structure is hidden in the dark depths under these areas.

Those structures are located below the waterline, and from the depths, they are completely immersed in the endless sea.

Dark, eerie, echoing with hollow wind or howls – the deeper you go, the more eerie the environment becomes.

Duncan didn't know his own ship - it certainly wouldn't work to drag it all the time.

He was already the captain of the ship, and the Lost Country was his home base, and he was the base of his activities in this world, and he couldn't be so ignorant of his basic agenda—even if it was just to survive in the vast seas of anomalies and anomalies, he had to be aware of both the potential and the dangers of the Lost Place.

God knows if there will be a crisis tomorrow, and God knows if the Lost Country will crash into those heirs in the deep sea, or the collapsed frontier of reality in the next second.

What's more, the goat's head also mentioned a sentence just now: the bilge needs the captain's reassurance.

"Captain" has not been to the lower cabin for too long...... If this continues, it seems that something bad will happen.

Duncan got up and went to the door and found the lantern mentioned by the goathead.

It was a rather old lantern, with a hexagonal prism with a copper frame wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and a glass lampshade embedded in the copper frame, which looked a little vague, and inside the lampshade, Duncan did not see a wick-like structure.

Showing no curiosity or asking the goat's head, after a brief and quiet thought, he tried to activate the dark green spirit fire and infuse it with its power.

A bright green flame immediately jumped and burned in the lampshade, and the quaint old lantern began to emit a constant glow.

In the place where the lantern shines, a bleak atmosphere spreads for some reason, but Duncan stands in this light and suddenly has an inexplicable sense of calm and control, he seems to be able to vaguely feel his power spreading with the light, where the light shines, the details of everything are clearly reflected in his mind.

The pigeon, Say, suddenly fluttered and landed on Duncan's shoulder.

It had taken the form of the illusory undead bird - although Duncan did not actively "activate" the pigeon at all, it still passively completed the "transformation" under the light of the lantern.

Duncan glanced down at the lantern in his hand, thinking that it might be a good thing...... It seems to be able to spread its power to its surroundings with minimal loss and maintain a "force field" that can detect, warn, and even control, which is obviously quite suitable for long-term exploration in unfamiliar or dangerous areas.

"Captain...... Can I go with you? ”

Duncan turned his head and saw Alice standing behind him, she looked at the lantern curiously, and at the same time had an eager expression on her face: "I haven't been to the lower level yet!" Mr. Goathead said he couldn't go down without your permission......"

Duncan thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "Yes." ”

He didn't know what was on the lower deck of the cabin, but anyway, it was part of the Lost Place, and under the premise that he had successfully "steered", there wouldn't be much danger in the bilge, and he might be able to give himself a hand with this puppet.

The goat's head, which remained on the nautical table, made no comment, and it was clear from its point of view that it was quite normal for the captain to inspect the Lost - and the same was true for bringing a helper.

Outside the cabin, night had fallen, and the cold glow of the Creation of the World was shining on the sea, shining on the empty ghost ship deck, and the translucent spirit sails agitated in the air, slowly adjusting the angle uncontrollably.

With a lantern in hand and his sword and flintlock pistol, Duncan and Alice walked across the empty deck, through the top two cabins, down the wooden staircase, and down the wooden staircase to the depths of the Lost Land's cabin.

The staircase at the end of the seafarer's cabin is where Duncan had stopped on his previous exploration.

A strange dimness hovered around the sloping down staircase, and in the dimness only the columns and some of the wall structures that supported the ship's cabin could be faintly seen.

"It's so dark down here," Alice said, standing at the top of the stairs, looking nervously at the dim surroundings below, "Isn't there a light down here?" In other places, there are ...... of oil lamps that are never extinguished."

"No, there's a light down there," Duncan said slowly, his power diffusing from the lantern, and this time he could see the situation under the cabin more clearly than before, "...... It's just that the light underneath is black. ”

“…… Yes? Alice was stunned for a moment, and didn't react for a long time, "And the black light?" ”

Duncan didn't respond for a moment, but walked slowly down with the lantern, and only after Alice followed him did he whisper: "After all, we are already below the surface of the Infinite Sea. ”