Zhou Ming stood in front of the mirror and quietly looked at himself in the mirror.

Such a clear, such a real mirror image that if it weren't for his own reach and touching a cold, hard surface, he would even wonder if it was really his "alter ego" standing opposite.

It took a long time for him to withdraw his gaze from the mirror and look at the vast darkness around him.

How big is this space? If you continue to walk outward, can you go to infinity? What is the essence of this dark space? Why is it here, behind the Gates of the Lost? What is the connection between the Door of the Lost in Subspace and the Door of the Lost in the real world? And most importantly......

What are the words that emerge in the darkness?

Zhou Ming moved away from the mirror, which quietly dissipated as he left, and the figure in the mirror disappeared into the darkness, and with his footsteps, more pale words emerged in the darkness—describing everything related to him.

Like an extremely detailed personal file...... A personal file that is registered in a critical database and does not know what it will be of use.

Zhou Ming felt that his associative abilities were a little insufficient—he tried to find a reasonable set of reasons to explain all that he had seen, only to find that no matter how he reasoned, in the end it seemed like a bunch of pure fantasies.

He even began to feel that there was a "doomsday shelter plan", and that he was the one who had taken refuge in the vault, unaware that the bachelor apartment was his shelter, and that the words that emerged from this dark space were his registration documents before entering the vault......

In the darkness, his thoughts flowed uncontrollably, but after a while, he suddenly gathered all his thoughts again.

“…… Enough time wasted. ”

He muttered softly.

There are no more clues here, just phantoms that can shake his mind - whether this dark space really hides a huge secret, or if this is just another conspiracy and temptation of subspace, he shouldn't leave time here to dig into the horns.

Zhou Ming took a light breath to calm his mind gradually, and then decided to test and explore this dark space for the last time before leaving.

He walked off into the distance, cautiously and carefully away from the door.

More text was emerging underfoot—the same content as before, only more detailed, more formal, more like a registration document for a formal setting.

Zhou Ming silently wrote down these words while turning his head from time to time to confirm the distance between himself and the door, and to confirm whether he had lost his way in the dark.

He walked more and more cautiously, moving only a dozen centimeters forward with each step behind.

Suddenly, he noticed a change in the words that appeared under his feet-

"Is the case of ¥#% &......% @#?"

"¥@* is about 355 to *&, there may be &......% %&......"

The text began to clutter, sentences became strange and inexplicable, and what was once a clear and coherent record became something that could not even be read.

Zhou Ming's heart moved, but he didn't stop moving forward, he just walked more carefully, and as he continued to walk towards the border of darkness, more words emerged in the darkness.

It's getting weirder, it's getting more and more confusing, and the frequency of confusion is increasing exponentially, at first he can see a few meaningful words in each sentence, but soon he can't see a word in a few sentences, and after that, he can't even see the "gibberish".

What emerged from the darkness was no longer words and symbols, but a series of twisted and jumping lines, chaotic and restless points of light, and even all kinds of trembling projections that almost defied the laws of geometry.

As he walked forward, a confused light and shadow that was incomprehensible to the mortal's mind appeared in the darkness, as if some indescribable reflection at the edge of the universe had turned into a path that stretched forward under his feet.

Eventually, even the chaotic jumping lines and points of light finally disappeared, and nothing new appeared.

Zhou Ming immediately stopped.

He has not lost his mind, and he has not indulged in this constant exploration of the unknown.

He turned around, and the door was almost a dim point of light, but it still stood silently in the darkness.

Zhou Ming decisively turned around and walked back—no matter what else was in the depths of the darkness, the moment the information that surfaced under his feet came to an end, he knew that he couldn't move on.

Returning faster than he had come, it didn't take him long to step through the darkness of nothingness and return to the "Lost Door" that led to the Lost Place.

Putting his hand on the door, the solid texture that came made Zhou Ming, who had been wandering and exploring in the dark for a long time, feel an inexplicable sense of steadiness, and then he took a light breath and stepped across the door.

The cool sea breeze blew in his face, and the bright light that suddenly appeared in his field of vision made Duncan a little uncomfortable for a moment, and the slight shaking of his feet and the sound of the waves crashing in his ears were delayed by a few tenths of a second before he appeared in his perception—perhaps after staying in a quiet place for too long, the sound of the waves crashing suddenly appeared like thunder.

Duncan was stunned.

He checked his surroundings and saw the familiar Lost Country, the familiar Boundless Sea, and the sun hanging from the sky and bound by double runes.

He returned to the dimension of reality.

This unexpected situation made him a little confused, because a second before he stepped through the gate in the darkness, he was still thinking about how to continue to explore the "Broken Lost Land" to find a way back, but he didn't expect to cross the gate from there and return directly to reality...... What is the pattern in between?

If you want to return to the reality dimension from the "Broken Homeland" suspected to be located in subspace, you only need to pass through the Gate of the Lost as a transit?

He looked back thoughtfully, and saw himself standing in front of the captain's quarters, and the Deserted Gate's was standing silently in the sunlight, a few words on the doorframe glistening in the skylight.

Duncan's mind instantly came alive.

There are many doors on the Lost Country, but only three of them are special, the first is the "Gate of the Lost", the second is the gloomy wooden door that leads to the bilge deep in the cabin, which is marked with the sign "Last Door", and the third is the door that stands out of thin air in the center of the bilge, which connects the subspace and the real dimension, and may be called the "Subspace Gate".

On the "Broken Lost Country", whether it is the "last door" to the bilge or the "subspace door", its door frame has been erased, and only the "Lost Country's Gate" in front of the captain's room, whether in the real dimension or in the subspace, maintains a completely identical appearance.

Now it seems that this "consistency" may have been marked as a real "exit" from the beginning!

With an answer in mind, Duncan breathed a sigh of relief, and then stepped forward and pushed open the door to the captain's quarters.

After stepping through the door, he confirmed that it was not darkness across the street, but his bachelor apartment—everything was in order.

Then he returned to the ship, this time opening the door to the captain's quarters.

The familiar chart room, the familiar furnishings, the familiar table, and the familiar goat's head on the table.

For the first time in his life, he felt a sense of steadiness when he saw the goat's head still sitting on the table.

The goat's head turned his head immediately after hearing the movement coming from the door, and there was a squeak of wood rubbing against his neck: "Name? ”

"Duncan Abnomar, it's me, I'm back," Duncan said at once, he had already guessed that the other party would confirm to himself - this goat's head could sense whether he had left the Lost Country, and maybe even some kind of "change" in himself, and its "name confirmation" seemed a bit arbitrary on the surface, but it seemed to have a faint pattern in it, "I went to a far away place. ”

"Ah, Captain! You're finally back! The goat's head immediately uttered an exaggerated and courteous voice, as noisy as ever, "I'm shocked that you left the ship all of a sudden!" You'll at least leave your body here when you're walking in the spirit realm! But all your breath was gone...... And you're back from the deck now? Where did you go? ”

All the breath is gone? Completely off the ship?

Duncan's eyes changed slightly in an instant.

I really entered the suspected subspace place with my body, not the "projection of consciousness" that I thought at the beginning!

He raised his head, looked at the black eyes of the goat's head, and hesitated slightly before speaking: "Don't be scared when I say it." ”

"Ah, rest assured, your first mate is not only loyal and brave, but brave and loyal......"

"I went to subspace."

Goathead: "......?!" ”

After a full half a minute, this guy suddenly let out a rattling sound, and his neck seemed to be about to be twisted: "Boat...... Boat...... Captain?! You say you ......"

"I've gone to subspace, if I'm not mistaken," Duncan said as he walked into the captain's quarters and picked up the lantern on the shelf next to it, "You wait for me." ”

After saying that, he didn't wait for the goathead to speak, he left the captain's cabin directly with the lantern, and then almost rushed through the deck and layers of cabins, and went straight to the bottom of the Lost Country.

He passed through the "last door" and came to the shattered bilge.

Between the gaps in the bilge hull, there is still that dark and chaotic appearance, and there are not many details to be seen in the limited field of vision, only the chaotic turbulence of light and shadow and the occasional flash of light can be seen jumping and flowing in the darkness.

And the most dangerous "subspace door" stood quietly in the center of the cabin.

The door was closed, and there was no gap at all.

(End of chapter)