Returning to the familiar real world, returning to the familiar Lost Country, and hearing the familiar chatter of the goat's head, Duncan felt that his heart was a little more steady, and the fatigue and complicated thoughts brought by the "roar" in subspace also calmed down a lot.

He exhaled softly and walked in the direction of the sailing table, while the goathead seemed unaware of the slight tiredness on the captain's face—it had apparently been talking freely for some time, and was now in high spirits, and boasted to Duncan: "Captain! The following omissions of your loyalty have yielded great results, and I have had a good conversation with this head, and just now we talked about poetry and poetry from the food of the boundless sea, and from poetry and poetry......"

Duncan glanced down at the noisy first mate, "Did it respond to you?" ”

The goat's head was stunned, a little lacking in confidence: "That's ...... Not yet ......"

But then it became confident again: "But I feel that I am almost successful, and such a heart-to-heart exchange must make the stone speak, and I think this head will soon be moved by my sincere words, and maybe it will greet you later......"

"Save it," Duncan finally interrupted the goat's babbling, "this head won't answer you—it's half in subspace." ”

The goat's hair made a "rattling" sound, as if it was a "brake sound" suddenly held in the throat by a string of words, and it was stunned for two seconds, and finally reacted: "Are you talking about subspace?" ”

"Didn't you notice?" Duncan raised his hand and pointed to the door to the captain's quarters, "I was resting in the bedroom, but I pushed the door back from the captain's quarters - I had already explored the subspace while I was 'in the heart's content' with your other head. ”

The goat's head shook and began to shake.

"Don't shake, as you can see, nothing happened," Duncan said casually, sitting down at the nautical table while his gaze fell on another black "goat's head", "The reason why the Dream Skull doesn't respond to you is because its body is in subspace, and I was there to ...... Limited communication. As far as I've observed, it does not have the same complete mind and memory as you did, as I had expected. ”

The goat's head finally reacted, it never expected that the captain would go to subspace again just after just going back to the room to "take a nap", and the news that the captain brought back from "over there" was even more unexpected, it turned its neck, looked at the other head on the table, and after a long time it came up with a sentence: "That...... What does it say to you? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to regret it a little, and quickly chased after it: "Ah, if it's not very safe 'knowledge', forget it, my curiosity is not so ......"

"It knows as much as you know about Duncan Abnomar, and to a certain extent, you should have a common 'initial memory', but this part is not suitable for discussion on this ship, we just have a tacit understanding with each other," Duncan waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "You know what I'm talking about." ”

The goat's head closed its mouth instantly.

It certainly knew what the captain was talking about.

But this topic must not be brought up on the Lost - the ship will be sunk by the "truth", and without the anchor point of "Captain Duncan", it will fall into subspace again.

This is the "tacit understanding" established between it and the captain after a period of getting along, after many hints and cooperation between the two of them.

The captain's room fell silent for a while, Duncan sat down in his chair to rest, slowly recovering his spirits, the Dream Skull was still quietly on the table, his empty eyes did not look at any target, and the goat's head seemed to be lost in thought, and he did not know what the "first mate" was thinking, and after a long time, it suddenly looked up: "Other than that, you are still ......"

"The 'Pale Giant' King, the creator of the First Long Night, mentioned in the Book of Blasphemy, whose corpse was fused with the remains of creation in the First Long Night...... But more, it can't be said, that can be harmful. ”

The goat's head was stunned for a moment, and slowly lowered his head: "Okay, I won't ask." ”

Duncan let out an "um", he didn't say anything more, just fell into memory and thought in silence.

Although he knew that he couldn't come to any conclusions from his cranky thoughts now, he still couldn't help but think about the "fragments" that poured into his mind, and recalled the voice that spoke to himself in that "roar".

Even if he was mutilated, he could still deduce a lot of information from that few words—

It was a race that had almost cracked the truth of all things.

A civilization that has stood on top of time and space.

They call themselves "humans" – but they are clearly very different from the "humans" of 2022 that Zhou Ming knows.

They have been in the process of civilization for so long that they have almost reached the end of the truth.

But they also ushered in the day of the Great Annihilation, but unlike the perishing races of other worlds, they may be the only civilization that has the ability and opportunity to observe the Great Annihilation in its entirety and prepare for it.

Although they were still powerless to prevent the Great Annihilation, they seemed to have managed to preserve an intact ...... "seed" when all things were gone.

Duncan turned his head and calmly stared at the antique oval mirror hanging on the wall not far away, and looked at the figure reflected in the mirror.

Now, he finally knew why there was no red light in his "memory" that represented the destruction of all things—because the Great Annihilation did not take place in the era he was familiar with.

The Great Annihilation took place in the distant future after that.

But more than these possible "truths", bigger questions filled his mind.

Why...... To exist a "Zhou Ming"?

He sat behind his desk and thought for a long, long time, before he finally put aside all the troubles in his mind and got up and walked to the door.

"I'll go for a walk on deck."

He said to the goathead, then pushed the door open and walked out of the captain's quarters.

The deck was empty and quiet, and the cold light of the creation of the world was shining on the distant sea, and the wind and waves were calm at the moment, and the occasional breaking wave crashing against the hull was not noisy.

Duncan walked slowly along the edge of the deck, without any goal, and no longer thinking about things that were distant and destined to have no answers, as if he were simply trying to empty his mind, to blow the night breeze.

He didn't stop until he saw a slender figure appear not far away.

Alice was sitting on the large barrel near the side of the ship, which was her favorite barrel, and she was gently rocking her body from the barrel, looking out at the sea in the distance, her calves dangling, and her mouth seemed to be humming a strange tune.

Duncan discerned it for a moment, only to realize that it was the sailor's tune that the goathead occasionally hummed—the goat's head's tune itself was not very correct, and now it had been "processed" by Alice, and the tune had been crooked to the extent that few people in the entire Infinite Sea could probably understand it.

But when Alice hums it out, it's still good.

The doll finally noticed Duncan's approach, and she immediately stopped and happily jumped off the barrel: "Captain! ”

"Well," Duncan said with a small smile on his lips, "I'll go for a walk." ”

Alice blinked, and suddenly looked into Duncan's eyes very seriously.

"You look tired, do you have something on your mind? Are you going to deal with any big trouble? ”

The doll's sharpness was unexpected, and Duncan was a little stunned for a moment, but soon he smiled and shook his head: "It's nothing, it's just thinking about the problem - why don't you sleep so late?" Do you have something on your mind? ”

"No," Alice laughed happily, "I'm just a little happy and can't sleep." ”

"Happy?"

Alice immediately happily explained, "I've delivered the 'loot' to the kitchen!" They're all working well – the 'friends' in the kitchen seem a little unhappy at first, but when I explain it to them, they accept the 'new friends'......

"I also checked the meat that was marinated before, and it was in good condition! This time, not a single bucket was broken, and it should be able to be used for cooking in a month......

"I also pickled some pickled cucumbers, which Nina taught me, and she said that pickled cucumbers can be used with bacon patties, which is much better than what Goathead taught me......

"I also found a large handful of unused pencils in the utility room at the aft of the second deck, I don't know who put them in them, I want to draw with them, Luni is very good at drawing, she said she can teach me, but only when she has time......"

The doll was so happy that all sorts of trifles, all sorts of things that were too small to be worth mentioning, and which were not even "good" good things, but she did feel great joy in them, and every single one of them made her happy—and now she was doing her best to bring out this pleasure, to make the captain happy, too.

Even though she had no idea what the captain was worried about and thinking about.

Duncan didn't interrupt her, he just listened quietly for a long time, until a real smile appeared in the depths of his eyes again.

Alice paused, blinking in the night, looking at Duncan happily.

"Alice, have you thought about your own 'birth'?" Duncan thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Have you ever thought about what you were born for, and what you think about, why you are 'Alice', and what will the future of 'Alice' be?" Have you considered these questions? ”

"Nope!" Alice didn't hesitate for a second, the questions that seemed to make philosophers think for a lifetime were so simple to her that she didn't think about them at all, "never thought about them!" ”

But as soon as she finished speaking, she herself seemed to suddenly feel that this answer seemed a bit hasty, so she hesitantly added: "...... Isn't that a good answer? Looks like I'm a little dumb...... Do you think about this on a daily basis? ”

Duncan looked at the doll with a smile and tears.

Then he laughed and shook his head slowly: "You answered well. ”

Alice didn't know why.

Duncan didn't explain anything, just reached out and gently pressed the doll's hair.

"If you want to draw, I can teach you."

"Captain, you can draw?"

"Yes, a long, long time ago...... Do you want to learn? ”

"Hmm!"

(End of chapter)