Although it had been a long time since he last entered subspace, Duncan still vividly remembered that there was no goat's head in the captain's cabin on the "Broken Land" on this side of subspace.

There is only one chart on the nautical table here that shows strange and suspicious routes.

Now, however, a pitch-black goat's head was quietly sitting on the nautical table, watching him silently in the darkness—and Duncan was certain that the dark-headed goathead had a move to turn its gaze this way the moment the bedroom door opened.

It's a living thing, and it's responding to external stimuli!

Duncan quickly controlled the expression on his face, and while cautiously following the movements of the goat's head staring at him, he walked out of the bedroom and slowly approached the direction of the sailing table, and as he moved, the goat's head on the table did react - it slowly turned its gaze, and its gaze remained on Duncan.

Duncan frowned suddenly.

The goat's head looks exactly like the real goat's head, but in the wrong place - the real-world "goat's head" is placed on the left-hand edge of the table, but the goat's head is placed a little further in the middle.

Duncan quickly recalled, and soon remembered—he had placed the "Dream Skull" in that position before he returned to his bedroom to rest.

The Skull of Dreams? This is the "Dream Skull" that he brought back from the ship of the cultists? Why is it in subspace?!

Countless conjectures and thoughts flooded his mind, and Duncan cautiously came to the nautical table, his hands propped on the edge of the table, and his face was sinking into the "goat's head" on the table, and the latter slowly raised his gaze, his empty eyes meeting Duncan's gaze.

The silent, empty gaze felt a little creepy.

After a few seconds of silent confrontation, Duncan decided to break the silence - he greeted the other person with a tense face and a serious expression: "Hello, I'm Duncan. ”

The weird goat's head on the table spoke: "Hello, you're not Duncan. ”

At this moment, Duncan almost couldn't control his expression!

But fortunately, the thick nerves tempered by dealing with a large number of humorous guys on the ship played a role, and he tightened the expression on his face at the critical moment, but the turbulent waves in his heart were obviously not so easy to calm down - this weird goat's head actually spoke!?

And compared to this guy's sudden opening, what is even more amazing is obviously the content of his opening!

Duncan controlled the change in the expression on his face while trying to ask in a calm tone: "I'm not Duncan, so who am I?" ”

"You're the captain." The goat's head, which was suspected to be the "Dream Skull", said calmly.

Its voice is almost identical to Duncan's familiar "First Mate", but it reveals an eerie gloom and simplicity that is unaccustomed.

Duncan was accustomed to this unaccustomed feeling, and at the same time looked at the strange goat's head with a somewhat strange gaze, he felt that what the other party said was very strange, and couldn't help but ask again: "Isn't the captain of this ship Duncan?" ”

"You're the captain," the goathead met Duncan's gaze, "you're not Duncan." ”

It seems to say only that, no matter how much it asks questions, no matter how it changes the method and angle of the question, its response is always only these two - the person it is talking to at this moment is the captain of this ship, but it is not "Duncan".

After a few exchanges, Duncan stopped probing in this regard and put on a thoughtful expression.

He's the captain of the ship, but he's not Duncan – he certainly knows he's not Duncan.

He was Zhou Ming, a wandering soul, the Great Explorer named Duncan Abnomar was just the identity he had "occupied" at the moment, and the real Captain Duncan had died a century ago, as he knew.

But only he knew it all along—or rather, the goat-headed first mate in the real world knew it, but it never said it.

This is a fact that cannot be published on the Lost Homeland.

However, the goat's head in front of him, which was suspected to be a "dream head", said this directly.

Duncan looked up at the ruined cabins around him, and through the hollow windows at the tattered masts, decks, and distant sideboards.

The Broken Lost in subspace didn't change much because someone in the captain's room stabbed the fact that "the captain wasn't Duncan".

Is it because this is a subspace? Because the ship is a projection? Or is it because the "Dream Skull" that broke the incident is not part of the Lost Land, so its perception does not affect the stability of the ship?

Duncan slowly withdrew his gaze, his gaze falling on the head of the goat on the table.

So what exactly is this goat's head, is it the ontology of the Dream Skull, or is it the projection of the Dream Skull in subspace? Or...... The Dream Skull was originally divided into two parts, one part was found by the cultists, and the other part remained in the subspace all along?

After frowning and pondering for a moment, Duncan asked tentatively, "Who are you?" ”

The goat's head on the table fell silent, and after a long time, just when Duncan thought that the other party would not respond to him, it suddenly opened its mouth: "I don't know." ”

Duncan suddenly felt a little curious: "Then what do you know?" ”

The goathead was silent for a longer time this time, and finally replied the same: "I don't know." ”

“…… You don't know anything, but you know I'm the 'captain' here, and you know I'm not Duncan," Duncan's expression was a little subtle, "Then do you know this ship?" Do you know where you are? ”

The goat's head didn't respond at all—it was silent and still, as if it had become a real wood carving.

Duncan gradually realized that the mind of the "dream skull" in front of him was not complete.

Unlike the real-world "first mate", this dream skull seems to retain only a few fragments of memory and fragmented and fragmented thinking functions, and even if it shows a certain ability to communicate on the subspace side, this communication ability is limited to answering a few questions - once the question is "out of line", it will fall into stagnation.

But it was in this mutilated and fragmented mind that the "Dream Skull" knew that the "captain" of the ship at the moment was not "Duncan".

Duncan was thoughtful, he already had a vague conjecture in his mind.

It could still be related to the "deal" that the real Captain Duncan made with Saskoca in the depths of subspace a century ago.

In that transaction, the Lost Homeland, which had been almost completely swallowed up by subspace assimilation, was re-shaped by the "Dream King", and the fragmented Dream King, trapped in the depths of subspace, was given a chance to escape - despite being freed with only a spine and a skull fragment, and almost all of his memories were lost, Saslovka was indeed able to return to the real world.

The dream skull in front of it was supposed to be one of the pieces that didn't make it out of the subspace - it had also experienced the original transaction, so it knew what had happened to the real Captain Duncan, but it only had a broken memory of it.

Duncan instinctively felt that the Dream Skull should know something more—something more to do with Saxloca, to Subspace, to the Lost Country.

But its crippled and chaotic mind can't effectively organize those trivial memories.

But just as Duncan's train of thought diverged in that direction and began to think about how to guide the "Dream Skull" to answer more questions about himself, a slight tremor and a sudden strange noise coming from an unknown direction interrupted his musings.

The Lost Country was shaking, and something seemed to be approaching beyond the ship's side!

Duncan instantly looked up from the table and subconsciously looked at the window not far away.

A huge shadow, and a pale and cracked "earth", appeared in the endless darkness outside the window, the huge pale structure moved slowly outside the window, and in addition to the shocking cracked wounds, the skin-like lines could be seen on the surface.

Duncan's heart moved for a moment, as if he thought of something, and he hurried to the window, and at that moment, a new structure appeared on the slow-moving "pale earth" outside the window—first a widening crack, then a cloudy and dark yellow solidified crystal, and then a huge eyeball tissue that took up almost the entire field of vision outside the window.

A large eye was slowly moving out of the window of the captain's quarters.

Duncan stood in front of the window, looking at the cloudy one-eye, which was gradually moving sideways in front of his eyes, and as his vision moved, he saw the structure around the eye—a pale, non-human-like face.

Then his gaze extended further afield, and he saw the massive body that undulated in the darkness, and the fragmented earth that was almost "embedded" around it.

It's the pale cyclops who carries the shattered earth on his back in subspace!

Duncan suddenly remembered that he had seen this amazing "individual" from afar when he first entered subspace before!

But he had only skimmed from afar, and had not even had time to see any detail of the giant and the earth it carried—this time, the Lost Land was slowly passing almost close to the face of the giant's remains.

The shock and shock of this scene was far greater than the last time - even Duncan felt suffocated at this moment.

He just stared out the window at the slow-moving giant, at the cloudy one-eyed man who didn't know how long it had been dead.

The dead cloudy one-eyed also watched him silently—as the Lost moved the Lost Eyeball, it slowly turned around, calmly watching Duncan in the chaotic subspace.

Duncan: "......?!" ”

He blinked, reaffirming that the giant's cloudy one-eyed had indeed slowly turned around as the Lost had moved—that eye had seen the Lost Country, and it was staring at it!

(End of chapter)