Duncan sat on the sofa in the living room, leisurely looking at the newspaper he bought from the street this morning, occasionally turning his head sideways to look at Shirley who was lying on the coffee table with a sad face and writing a book, and Dog who was lying next to Shirley holding a copy of the "Compendium of Modern History of the City-State" and paying full attention, his heart was steady.

In this strange and strange world, he finally found a little familiar rhythm of life.

On the other hand, taking Dog, Shirley and Nina over can be regarded as the realization of an idea he had been thinking about for a long time - Captain Duncan's small class has finally restarted.

He turned his head and looked at the other side of the coffee table, where Nina was sitting on a small stool, writing her winter vacation homework seriously, and Morris supervising it, occasionally helping his students correct some mistakes and omissions.

"You're a good teacher," Duncan said to Morris, "and Nina is lucky."

"She's a hard worker, and I don't want to delay her life," Morris laughed, then glanced at Shirley's homework book spread out in front of him, a subtle expression on his face, "But I didn't expect you to be so good at it...... Teach others."

Duncan raised an eyebrow, "Oh?"

"The study plan you made for Shirley, Alice, and Ah Dog was very reasonable, even... There's some professionalism," Morris said with a little hesitation, "I've seen the exam papers you prepared for them before, and they're also very professional, which is a bit ..... It was my surprise."

The old gentleman was very cautious in his words, and he did care a little about this matter - when he first learned that Duncan was excited to illuminate the three illiterate people on the ship, he did not think of vocabulary cards, vocabulary books, and multiplication tables, but the first image that came to his mind at that time was completely in the direction of "the families of evil gods gathering in the ceremonial arena to learn forbidden knowledge", only to see the terrifying Captain Duncan pull out a pile of literacy cards..........

Anyway, although he was now somewhat used to Captain Duncan's private peace and friendliness, the awkward energy still surged uncontrollably at the thought that such a subspace shadow was really giving people a lesson (or a literacy class).

Duncan, of course, knew what the old scholar meant, but he couldn't explain it, so he just smiled and waved his hand, "Maybe I had a dream of being a teacher?"

Morris didn't know what to say for a while, and Duncan took another look at Shirley's heart-scratching handwriting, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that the gap between the learning progress of these three 'students' is too large, which is really a headache."

Maurice thought for a moment and nodded, "Indeed. I think Dog can almost soak in a library somewhere now, and now I'm graduating from college, but Shirley is still wrestling with common words, Alice... … Alice She.. …」

Duncan sighed again, "Well, Alice works hard, but she's Alice."

The learning progress of the three illiterate people on the ship is not at all the same as he originally expected, he thought that the brain is better so the learning progress will be faster, Shirley is still half illiterate, and the unwavering spirit and desperate learning attitude are the main reasons, Alice is working harder than anyone else, but Miss Doll's brain case really does not seem to be the material for reading and writing, and in the end, the highest level of illiterate people has become a dog - under the astonishing diligence and understanding, Ah Dog can now not only read literature by himself, It will even solve ternary quadratic equations ....

There are thousands of hidden hounds chasing knowledge—and now it seems that only one dog has caught up.

To be sure, this is the biggest stain on Duncan's – or rather Zhou's entire career as a teacher.

Just as he sighed in his heart, Alice, who had gone out to buy groceries, finally returned—nearly twenty minutes later than expected.

"I'm back!"

Miss Doll opened the door and entered the house, poked her head in the direction of the living room while putting down the things in her hand, and then saw Xueba, Xuezhu, and Xuegou who were making up their homework next to the coffee table, and her face suddenly showed a happy look: "Nina! Shirley! Dog! Are you here? 「

"I just came in the morning, and I'm already.... I've been making up for half a day's homework....." Shirley raised her head, tears in her eyes,

"The captain said that I should rewrite everything from page 16 onwards in the word book. …」

"Three times," Duncan said unhurriedly, "don't quietly cut yourself off two-thirds of your task."

Then he ignored Shirley's follow-up reaction and looked up at Alice, "Why did you come back at this time?" Got in trouble?"

"Oh no, no!" Alice hurriedly waved her hand, "It's just a lively ..... I didn't watch the excitement! It's something that I'm investigating.

This puppet really doesn't lie, and he's not good at making excuses, and in a few sentences, he exposes the fact that it takes time to watch the excitement on the way home.

"Investigation?" Duncan looked at Alice with a little surprise, he didn't think to pursue her "watching the fun", although he did warn the other party not to walk around the road, but it was just a small matter, he was more concerned about ...... Alice, who is usually dumbfounded, can actually say the word "investigation" with a serious face.

Even if it was an excuse she made on the fly, he cared about what the puppet had investigated.

"There's a family down the street that says it's dead, and the church people have gone," Alice immediately began to tell Duncan what she had seen and heard on the road, "a woman who said she had killed her husband, and the onlookers said that the man had gone out or something..... Oh yes, I also met a woman who dressed like you! Also wrapped in bandages ...

Duncan listened to the puppet's upside-down, unfocused narration for a moment, barely figuring out what was going on, and then noticed the last mention of the "bandage woman" mentioned by the other party, he frowned slightly, and just wanted to ask for some details, but saw Vanna, who was sitting at the dining table feeding the pigeons not far away, suddenly stood up.

"Stranger approaching," Fanna said quickly, "it's a clergyman."

Duncan immediately waved his hand to silence Alice and put on the veil again, and the dog crouching next to the sofa retreated into the shadows in the blink of an eye, Ay flapped his wings and hid in a nearby cupboard, and Morris got up from the sofa and came to the door.

"Don't be nervous, it's just a visitor." Duncan was quite calm, he waved his hand at Vanna and Morris, who were a little nervous, and then calmly came to the door and pulled it away.

A young woman in a long black trench coat, bandaged, black bowler hat, and cane stood outside the door, holding her hand up and ready to knock.

She seemed to be frozen there.

Duncan glanced the young lady up and down, then looked down at himself.

"Ah, it's a bumper." He said casually.

"That's what she is," Alice stood behind Duncan, and when she saw the person at the door, she immediately leaned over happily, "The woman in black I told you about saw on the way back from grocery shopping......

Alice's voice made Agatha, who was in a stunned state, suddenly wake up, the muscles on her face trembled slightly, and it took a long time to take her eyes off the tall and burly figure in front of her and look in the direction where the voice came from.

The blonde woman, who had not breathed or had a heartbeat, whom she had seen not long ago, was standing in the room, looking at it with curiosity and delight.

Sure enough, she was here.

Agatha took several deep breaths, trying to calm her heartbeat, the slight tinnitus fading in her mind, and the blackening and ghosting caused by the sudden staring directly at the "truth" finally dissipated from her eyes—she finally breathed a sigh of relief, and remembered her purpose in her chaotic mind.

A somewhat stiff smile appeared on her face: "I..... No intention to bother, just to come and see the situation, you...

"Come in," Duncan nodded indifferently and made way to the side, "It's cold, don't stand in the doorway."

Agatha was stunned for a moment, but didn't react for a while.

Seeing this scene, Fanna, who was standing next to her without saying a word, couldn't help frowning, and stepped forward to look at the other party: "You rushed over knowing what kind of place this was, you didn't even think about what happened after you opened the door, did you?"

"Understand

"The first time I saw the captain, my mind must have been confused, and the higher the vision, the more so, and this girl will be confused at first sight."

When Vanna heard this, she immediately recalled her experience of joining the Lost Country and felt that the old gentleman was right.

Agatha finally reacted when Vanna was talking to Morris - her brain was still a little chaotic, but her sanity had returned to the dominant position, and her mind was not affected much due to Duncan's conscious convergence, and as soon as she recovered, she nodded hurriedly: "Sorry, I'm a little distracted."

Then she glanced at the way Duncan had moved out of the way, and after a moment of hesitation, she finally took a step.

She knew what this place was.

She knew that the burly figure was essentially an unspeakable being descending from the city-state, and that it was most likely similar to the ancient gods.

She knew she was stepping into a "place of adventurism."

But from the moment the door opened, there was no room for repentance.

Behind Duncan, Morris watched the tense young lady step into the room, tilted his head slightly and whispered to Vanna, "Better than you were at the beginning."

Vanna muttered, "Don't blame me, the first time the captain fell asleep, it was so scary."

Morris nodded, "That's ....... too."

Vanna added, "But the second time I was much calmer."

Duncan listened to the two of them muttering in the back, and finally couldn't help but turn around, "You weren't much stronger the second time—be quiet, the guests are coming."