Duncan took Alice back to the upper deck of the Lost Land, where the cold Creation of the World still hung high in the night.

Duncan thought that he had been exploring the ship for a long, long time, and even suspected that the night was over, but now that the night was dark, it seemed that he had only been there for a few hours.

But the strange and unusual situation he had seen in just a few hours was enough to impress him.

He still remembered the inverted light and shadow of the cabin, and the door in the bilge...... Especially that door, what the hell is behind that door?

The lantern in Duncan's hand had been extinguished, and he walked slowly towards the captain's quarters with the puppet, neither of them saying much - the puppet seemed to have begun to rehearse cooking in his head, while Duncan's attention fell on the surrounding deck buildings.

He compared his memories to confirm that the dimly dilapidated cabin across the door was indeed part of the Lost Country, that the two were identical in style, and that there was a faint continuity in the structure.

And looking back now, he always felt as if there was something else in the deepest part of the ruined cabin, hidden in the darkness.

It was the "hidden snow area" unknown to the Lost Homeland—an area of hidden snow that even Captain Duncan could not perceive or detect.

Does the goat's head know the door? Does it know what's behind it?

Should I ask it myself?

When the captain's room arrived, Duncan's mind was still fluctuating, and he led Alice open the door and went in, and saw the goathead still sitting quietly on the sailing table, his empty dark eyes turning in the direction of the door.

Duncan turned to hang up the lantern, and then heard Alice behind him already greet the goathead with a little excitement: "Mr. Goathead! I went to the bilge with the captain! It's so awesome under this ship! The bottom cabin was torn apart—and there was a strange door! ”

Duncan's mind suddenly stopped worrying about how to start a conversation with the goat's head - he almost forgot that he still had a curious doll that didn't know anything, didn't Alice's crackling turn the scene on?

He tried to keep himself from laughing, and as he pretended not to move as he packed up his things as he pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation between the two "crew members", he heard the voice of a goat's head sound, and said in a tone of no surprise: "I knew you would be surprised!" Miss Alice, now you realize what a great ship the Lost Land is, right? It can sail in different dimensions at the same time without sacrificing safety! ”

Duncan listened, and his heart suddenly moved.

The situation was exactly as I had guessed, and the reason why there was such a strange scene outside the crack in the bottom of the ship...... Sure enough, it was because it no longer belonged to the time and space where the Boundless Sea was located!

At the same time, his mind was racing to calculate: the curious Alice was so interested in the strange sights of the lower levels of the Lost Country that she didn't seem to dare to ask too much about herself, the "captain", so much so that she would rather ask the goathead about it, but if she had been standing here and listening, she would look strange and suspicious, and might even make the goathead turn the conversation to herself—if she gave Alice a "You ask the captain", she wouldn't be able to catch it......

Thinking of this, he immediately had a plan, straightened out the expression on his face, and after returning to his usual seriousness, he said quietly: "You guys talk here, I'm going to walk outside-goat-head, Alice is already a member of the ship, and you can just tell her about this ship, as long as it's not too secretive." ”

When Alice heard this, a happy smile appeared on her face, and the goathead immediately agreed: "Of course, captain, the following omissions of your loyalty have always been a warm ...... for new members."

Duncan pushed the door open and left the captain's quarters.

But the next second he left the captain's room, he concentrated again, and with the help of his close connection with the Lost Homeland, he carefully paid attention to the movements in the captain's room.

After concentrating his mind in one place, the vague perception turned into a clear real-time surveillance, and everything in the captain's room was clearly reflected in Duncan's mind, and he "saw" Alice simply move a stool and sit opposite the goat's head, and excitedly recounted his experience of exploring the lower level of the Lost Land, and told the bizarre scenes in the bilge.

She seemed to have completely forgotten about making the captain a supper—but Duncan didn't care.

He appreciates the puppet's divine assistance at critical times.

In the night, Ay flapped his wings and flew to a nearby mast as if to stand guard, while Duncan walked slowly forward as if he were patrolling the deck, and in his mind's mind, the conversation in the captain's room was clearly heard.

Alice had already spoken to the goathead about the strange door, and Miss Doll had a nervous tone in her tone, "...... That door looked a little scary, and the captain wouldn't let me get close......"

"Of course you can't get close, don't say it's you, you can't even touch it—don't show that look, I know I don't have hands or feet, and I mean 'touch' in another sense...... Touching, mastering, understanding, peeping, you know? The door is untouchable in this sense...... You're done touching it, understand? ”

Alice seemed to be taken aback by the goat's extraordinarily serious tone, and she hesitated for a second or two before speaking: "That...... What the hell is that door? ”

Duncan, who was walking around the deck, suddenly gathered his mind, but he heard the goat's head suddenly fall silent, and it took a long time to speak in a deep voice, but he did not answer any questions directly: "You really didn't touch that door, did you?" ”

"I didn't touch it!" Alice immediately replied hurriedly, but then hesitated again before continuing uncertainly, "But...... But the captain leaned over and looked, and looked through the crack in the door, and poked with his sword at something on the other side of the door......"

As Alice's voice fell, Duncan suddenly felt the whole ship shake, and then all the mainsails and sidesails let out a low whimper in the wind, and all the masts and cables creaked - and all of this was now being taken over by goatheads!

He looked up at the shaking masts and cables in amazement, as if he could sense the momentary panic of the controller behind them, and in his mind, there was an exclamation from the captain's room, the voice of a goat's head: "What did you say?!" Crack in the door, you say? A crack in that door? ”

"Right...... Yes......" Alice seemed frightened, "the door is hidden, and there is a crack, probably ...... It's about the width of a finger......"

"The captain glanced across the crack in the door? And then what? He also stabbed ...... with his sword Did anything change about him at that time? Did he hesitate or be in a trance when he took you away? ”

"No," replied Alice at once, "the captain was only very serious, and then he brought me back very quickly, and he seemed to be thinking about something on the way, but he was not in a trance at all—ah, he was talking to me about cooking, and I was going to the kitchen in a moment......"

"Don't think about the kitchen just yet! Do you know what's behind that door? ”

"Ah...... What's behind that door? Alice's tone was a little dazed and frightened, she had never seen a goat's head look so serious and urgent—it felt to her as if the ship was about to sink.

The goat's voice suddenly became very low, and it slowly spoke: "Behind that door, is the subspace. ”

Duncan, who was walking on the deck, stopped.

Behind that door, is the subspace?

He was stunned, and the huge waves in his heart almost interfered with the monitoring of the captain's room, and then he thought of another thing-

The shattered bilge, the dim, chaotic turbulence of light and shadow outside the crack in the bilge - the Lost Ground sailed in different dimensions at the same time, and the outside of the bilge was obviously a different time and space from the real world, and the bilge had a door, and on the opposite side of the door was a subspace......

Could it be that the second half of the Lost Country is actually sailing in subspace?!

And listening to the goat's head, this state of navigation does not seem to be stable? Not only did the bilge need to be reassured by the captain at all times, but the door was theoretically supposed to be closed, but now it had an extra slit...... What does this mean? Does it mean that there is something wrong with the "tightness" of the bilge? Or is something in subspace trying to get into the Lost Country?

He remembered that he had tried to close the door before leaving the bilge, but no matter how hard he tried, the door remained open in a crack—as solid as one with the space.

At the time, he didn't think much about it, but when he recalled it, a strange idea involuntarily came to his mind.

Maybe...... When he tried to close the door, something on the other side of the door was against it, preventing him from closing the passage......