In Duncan's eyes, the dark shadows of chaos had "collapsed" again into the heroic female adventurer, and in the depths of the mirror, the superimposed silhouettes were no longer disorderly and trembling.

Duncan watched the scene silently, not speaking for a long time.

Martha in the mirror was still for a while after regrouping, as if the film had been frozen before the film officially began, and after two or three seconds, the living person's spirit returned to her face, she looked down at herself a little dazedly, and then raised her head consciously: "You······ What was done? ”

Duncan temporarily ended his contemplation and shook his head slightly: "It's nothing, it's just welcome." ”

Then he paused, and after a little bit of thought, he said, "If you will always be "Martha" in the future, are you still going to tell Lawrence the truth?" ”

He probably ······ "I have known for a long time," Martha hesitated for a moment, and then said slowly, "I have told him something that I have told him that I am a personality that Martha has cobbled together from his memories, and that with Lawrence's acumen and experience in the transcendent realm, and the fact that I have confided more information than necessary, it should not be difficult for him to deduce ······" Martha: "If you can hold one memory, you can hold countless copies, after all

The female adventurer paused, a somewhat complicated smile on her face: "After all, I seem to know too much when I was in that Mirror City. ”

"How did he react?"

He ······ Don't care," Martha shook her head, "but I don't know if he never cares." Duncan looked at her quietly for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"You'll care about that, and I don't think I need to worry about it," he said in a light-hearted tone, "and put that aside, ma'am, for there are so many things dark and strange on this vast sea, that any little warmth is all the more worth cherishing—and that Lawrence knows all the more. ”

In the mirror, the female adventurer gave a thoughtful look, and Duncan, who was outside the mirror, continued after a short pause: "What else do you know about the deep sea below the frost? ”

"Deep Sea ······" Martha frowned, she immediately gathered her thoughts, and slowly spoke as she sorted through her huge memories, "I do have some ······ about the deep sea" Memory', but mostly dark and vague, mixed with sinking fear and absurd hallucinations in the cold suffocation, these things probably can't be used as a real reference, but.······"

Duncan raised his eyebrows: "But? ”

Martha in the mirror thought for a moment and spread her hands.

Her figure suddenly dissipated in the mirror, like an instant blurred ink mark, black lines spread rapidly in the mirror, and then, something shadowy appeared in the darkness.

A huge shadow seems to float in the endless void, like an island, like an irregular clump at the edge, and countless small things can be seen around the shadow, like a "debris" that has broken out of the surface of the irregular clump, floating around the island.

In the center of the floating island, something huge like a pillar can be seen, extending infinitely upwards and downwards in the darkness, as if through the shadow, and then through the whole void.

Martha's voice came from the depths of the mirror:

"I went through all the memories that pointed to the deep sea, and the great fear that countless devoured minds experienced during their sinking superimposed on this scene, and I didn't know how to interpret this scene - it looked like a large floating object in the deep sea, pierced by a huge "pillar", but because of the lack of references, I didn't know how big the object was, and I didn't know how big the pillar was. ”

Duncan stared at the scene in the mirror for a long time, and did not say a word for a long time.

What came to his mind was a myriad of information related to the Abyss Project—a submersible that never returned, a mad diving advance team, a description of madness beneath the abyss, and······ The huge hollow in the depths of the boiling gold mine, and the tentacle of the ancient god that crossed the boundary between the void and the real and pierced deep into the frost city-state.

There was indeed an entity in the depths of the ocean.

The illusion in the mirror dissipated, and Martha's figure reappeared in front of Duncan: "That's all I know, although I have many memories, there are not many that can point to the deep sea while being relatively awake, you..."

"It's all right, ma'am," Duncan said softly, interrupting the adventurer, "I'll see it myself."

On the deck, Alice had already found the second bug with the dry corpse "sailor", and the two "people" continued to poke at it.

But this kind of game is obviously not as fun as fighting with pots and pans in the kitchen.

"I'm starting to get bored," Alice said of the little stick, throwing away the little stick in her hand, and looking up at the deck, which was still quite new to her, "why hasn't the captain come back yet······"

&nThe "sailor" was obviously trembling when he heard the puppet lady mention the word "captain", raised his head and opened his mouth and hesitated for a long time before he spoke: "You usually go with him····· Not scared? ”

"I'm not afraid," Alice turned her head and looked at the ugly corpse with a puzzled expression, "I like to be with the captain, why should I be afraid of him?" ”

"That's subspace! You don't understand subspace! The corpse had a horrified expression on his face, "I feel like my reason will "fall" when I look at him, and you dare to stick to him all day long - I think you should be the one with the number 077, you are more evil than me." ”

Alice scratched her hair, and instead of bothering the corpse, she looked up curiously at Lawrence not far away. Lawrence with his first mate, Gus.

"Suddenly, the flames on everyone's bodies can be controlled freely," the first mate Gus opened his palm, showing a cluster of quietly jumping small flames in his palm in front of his captain, where the flames touched his palm, he could vaguely see the clear texture of flesh and blood turning into spirits, but outside the range of flames was normal flesh and blood, "Do you have any clue?" ”

"I don't know," Lawrence frowned slightly, snapped his fingers, watched his fingertips jump, and then waved his hand, and the flames dissipated silently, "The change happened shortly after Captain Duncan got on board...

··· Could there be a connection? ”

"Perhaps······ But either way, it's a good thing," said the first mate, "and the flames on everyone's bodies always appear suddenly, as if they were stimulated by something, but they can't find the cause, and to be honest, it's nerve-wracking—and there are people who worry that we won't be able to go ashore forever, after all, not every city has 'seen the world' like Frost and Plant..."

"From now on, ······" Lawrence's tone carried a hint of emotion and thought, he subconsciously clenched his fists and opened them, feeling the power of the flames running calmly in his body, and at the same time thinking about his future and that of all the members of the White Oak, "It's time to think about the future·····."

He lowered his head and rubbed his fingers, and the spiritual fire flowed like water in his fingertips. A deep and majestic voice came from behind him: "Is it fun? ”

Lawrence and Gus shuddered in an instant, and flames two or three meters high directly burst out from the two of them...

In the next second, Lawrence hurriedly suppressed the flames on his body, and turned his head to look in the direction where the voice came from - Duncan Station

There, looking at this side with a subtle expression on his face. Duncan sighed silently.

As soon as he came out, he saw Anomaly 077 and Anomaly 099 squatting on the deck to poke bugs, and saw the captain and first mate of his new ship lighting a fire at the door to play - he knew that this was the Lost Fleet, but he didn't know that he thought this ship was going to kindergarten...

··· What kind of people are gathered around you?

Deng ······ Captain Duncan! Gus straightened up instantly, and hurriedly said while patting off the last bit of spark on the corner of his clothes, "I······ We're working on how to control the power of the flames to prevent the same situation as the Frost City-State from happening in the future·····."

"The same situation? Are you referring to the captain being arrested by the local sheriff with an entire team of marines, and finally having my emissary go to the sheriff's office to get people? Duncan pressed the corner of his forehead and waved his hand, "Forget it, you guys are happy..."

As he spoke, Alice on the side had already run over, grabbing his arm and shaking vigorously as she shouted: "Captain! You're finally back! Are you done? ”

"It's done—don't shake it, don't pull any of your joints off," Duncan said as he pressed his hand on Miss Doll, who was a little too excited, and then turned his gaze on Lawrence and nodded slightly, "Don't worry, Martha is doing well, and I've officially accepted her as a member of the Lost Fleet." ”

Lawrence was stunned, and then noticed a trace of solemnity and deep meaning in Duncan's words. "You······ I can see that she is actually ······"

"You don't want to care, she doesn't have to care, as for me······ I don't mind," Duncan said lightly, with a smile in his eyes, "The Infinite Sea is huge, and the Lost Fleet has always dealt with all sorts of strange things, so it's not a big deal to have a harmless ghost ship. ”

Lawrence opened his mouth, but said nothing, and finally just took a light breath and bowed his head deeply in front of Duncan.

"All in all, welcome to my fleet," Duncan laughed and patted Lawrence on the shoulder, "Speaking of which, I just heard you guys talking about ······ Henceforth? Do you have any plans? ”

"Future ······" Lawrence hesitated, his expression tinged with a hint of complexity, "I did think about this, don't you think······ Can we go back to normal ports as we did in the past? ”

Listening to Lawrence's words full of hesitation and entanglement, Duncan sighed softly. The future of the White Oak ······ That's a problem indeed.