Chapter 462: The First Step to Rapprochement
A swirling flame door slammed open across the deck, and the master of the Lost Fleet stepped out of it.
Tall, majestic, with a gaze like a torch, its very existence is like the embodiment of fear on the boundless sea, and its gaze seems to attract all the flames of the earthly world.
Behind the tall figure, an elegant woman in a dark purple dress, with long silver hair reaching to her waist, with a beautiful face but a slightly pale complexion, followed closely behind Duncan's boat, with a mysterious and elegant temperament like a retinue.
Lawrence felt his heart pounding, his nerves were tense to the extreme, he saw Duncan walking towards him, and with each step the other party approached, the inextinguishable spirit flame in his body became more and more vigorous, until the other party stopped on the deck, he lowered his head in hindsight: "Boat."
"Your boat is good." Duncan said casually, and looked up at the expedition ship that had once had a relationship and then entangled with this fate, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a new feeling in his heart.
Because strictly speaking, this is the first time that his body has left the Lost and come to another ship.
But now it seems that at least while the "Lost Fleet" is active, the Lost Country will not have any problems with his departure... Lawrence had a strange feeling in his heart, and he couldn't judge whether Duncan's words just now were a compliment, so he could only continue to bow his head in embarrassment: "Eh, it's good if you like it."
"Don't be so nervous, it's not the first time we've met."
Duncan nodded slightly, and said, "Many years ago, I was also an explorer, but unfortunately the original badge has been lost in subspace.
Lawrence raised his head in a daze and hesitated, his tense nerves relaxed slightly, and his sluggish mind began to work again, and he suddenly realized that this terrible "subspace shadow" was really telling the truth, a hundred years ago.... Duncan Abnomar was indeed a member of the Society of Explorers, one of the most famous explorers of his time.
And strictly speaking, the Explorers Guild has not even "delisted" this ghost ship Chang - because no one even thought of the need to write off a subspace shadow....
Duncan didn't care about Lawrence's reaction and the confusion in his expression, and after confirming that the other party was a little more relaxed, he casually chatted with the other party in a gossipy and homely tone: "Was it okay when you came over?"
"Well," Lawrence replied honestly, trying to make his reaction as normal as possible, "We set out from Frosty East Harbor and passed through the blockade set up by the Sea Mist Fleet in the open sea, and they showed us the way..."
"Well, I told Tirion that the Sea Mist Fleet won't trouble you." Duncan nodded, then looked up at the flagpole next to him, "It's Anomaly 077 hanging on this?" β
"Yes."
"What did he do wrong? Why hang it on a flagpole?"
Lawrence: "....", he doubted for a few seconds before he tugged at the corners of his mouth: "He took the initiative to hang there--- he wanted to use this way to get himself back to the sealed state, but it seems to be very unsuccessful." β
Why are the humanoid "anomalies" I see so strange, Duncan muttered, turned his head to look at Alice, who seemed to be elegant and dignified behind him, but was actually wandering in the world, and then pointed to the dried corpse hanging in the air, "Come down." β
As soon as his words fell, the dry corpse that was still pretending to be dead a second ago immediately shook his body, fell on the deck with a "bang", and then ran to Duncan with a rolling belt, trembling slightly like Frankenstein who was powered on for the first time: "Ship.... The ship, the sailors to ... Report to you! β
Duncan frowned, "You're stammering?"
"I... I'm a sailor..."
Duncan was happy when he saw the other party's reaction, he didn't expect that a top 100 and intelligent anomaly would know to be afraid of himself, Captain Duncan, and then, he turned his head suspiciously and looked at Alice who was following him, all of whom were in the top 100 anomalies, all of whom had the same thinking ability as humans...
Why doesn't this person know to be afraid? She was nervous for a moment on the Lost Homeland, and then quickly adapted to the environment, and now she can even play back and forth with the knives and pans of the ship.
Alice noticed the sight of the boat, and immediately replied with a smirk that was so bright that it was almost solid.
Duncan: "....."
He suddenly felt that Alice might not be quick to adapt, but simply slow to react, and he estimated that he was afraid for a while at the beginning and then forgot about being afraid....
At the same time, Alice also noticed the shivering corpse standing opposite, she thought hard for a while, as if she remembered what the captain told her before departure, so she smiled on her face and took the initiative to greet the other party: "Hello, my name is Alice, it is said that you are also abnormal?" The dry corpse was slightly stunned, and looked up and down with some confusion at the "elegant female soil" in front of him, which was no different from ordinary humans, but seemed to have a sense of disobedience in his gestures
"You too?"
"yes," Alice said happily, "I'm making up 099." β
The sailor scratched his head in embarrassment, probably the first time he had dealt with another runaway anomaly in this way: "Uh.... I am heart 077. β
Alice thought for a moment and looked proud: "Then I'm bigger than you!"
Duncan finally couldn't help but hear this: "The anomalous number is 077 in front of you from the back row."
Alice reacted, and miraculously reacted: "Ah.... So he's better than me?"
"Not necessarily, the anomalies within the top 100 are all extremely weird, and generally cannot be judged by simple numbering, but even more so because they present different dangers under different conditions."
Duncan patiently explained, "On the sea, he should be better than you, on land, you are better than him Alice didn't know how much he understood, just curiously looked at the "sailor" in front of him, and then suddenly reached out and grabbed it in the air, and the dried corpse instantly froze in place, as if even the soul (if he had.)
was frozen in an instant, and immediately after, all of his joints and skin began to rapidly transform into a puppet.
Alice let go of her hand abruptly.
The sailor staggered back a few steps and looked at the puppet in front of him in horror: "Lie down... it?"
"Not awesome"
Alice shook her head, "I don't know the thread to protect myself." β
"You can't just grab someone else's line, you forgot?" Seeing this, Duncan immediately reminded sternly, and then frowned, "Wait, you mean, Anomaly 077 is also wired?"
"Yes, there are several of them floating on his body," Alice nodded as a matter of course, "but his thread is a little strange - ordinary people's threads float high in the sky and then fade away, but his thread floats out and then turns back into his body, as if forming a ring....
Duncan immediately frowned and glanced up and down at the still frightened "sailor", and then there was a faint green flash in Alice's eyes beside him.
In the next second, Duncan also saw the "thread" of Anomaly 077 - a thin white line of almost transparent that extended from the skull and torso joints of the dried corpse, swaying in the surrounding void and turning back into his body.
It's really wired. Do thinking humanoid anomalies have this "line"?or is this unique to Anomaly 077? What is the matter with this kind of thread that is different from ordinary human beings and generates a cycle in itself? Duncan's mind instantly had many questions, but he quickly put them back for the time being, and apologized to the "sailor" very seriously: "I'm sorry, Alice is not very sensible, she has no malicious intentions, she just wants to say hello to you."
"Don't don't, don't apologize!"
The dry corpse almost jumped up on the spot, and quickly waved his hand and stepped back, "I'm okay but I was startled just now, Alice, right?" I see, I'll stay away from her in the futureβ" he muttered again as he spoke
Come, what "worthy of working on the flagship"
"The head boss is a hot person" and so on, even Lawrence can hear the chattering voice.
Lawrence blinked and watched from the side, he didn't understand what had just happened, but he felt that the two anomalies in front of him seemed to be "communicating" and the sailor seemed to be frightened again, and then, he thought of something, and his strange eyes fell on the beautiful lady with an elegant appearance: "Wait, anomaly 099..... Boats, so that's it..."
"It's the coffin you were escorting on the ship," Duncan laughed, raising his hand to introduce.
"But now that the coffin has been assimilated by the Lost Country, the puppet that is the 'contents' is in a state of being out of control, just like the sailor next to you. β
When Alice heard this, she immediately stepped forward and said to Duncan: "Boat Chang, I haven't lost control, I'm usually very obedient..."
"Yes, yes, I'm not out of control," the dry corpse on the side also hurriedly said. I'm usually very obedient to the arrangement, and I didn't hesitate to let Captain Lawrence go ashore and fight the cultists..."
Lawrence listened stunned for a moment, looked up at the "sailor" who was trying to express himself, and then at the beautiful and elegant "Miss Coffin Stuffing" who didn't seem to have a normal brain right now
His eyes finally fell on Duncan's boat, and suddenly, the pressure and tension that had lingered for a long time dissipated, and Lawrence felt that his relationship with the "ghost ship" in front of him was much closer, and even ..... A sense of sympathy came out spontaneously.
It was a kind of ship on the same boundless sea, but I had to take care of the same disease caused by an out-of-control abnormality with a good brain.......