Ted Lear, wrapped in a thick blanket, sat in the hut of the research station, and someone handed him a cup of hot tea, which was still a little hot, and he held the teacup, looked up and thanked him: "Thank you." ”

"You're welcome!" Alice responded very seriously, and then began to look curiously at the "secret keeper" who had just been fished out of the sea, and after a while turned to Duncan next to him and said, "Captain, Mr. Ted doesn't seem to be in a very good mood!" ”

"I fell into the sea - twice!" Ted looked up at Duncan, who was standing aside, and subconsciously shivered halfway through his speech - the cold in his body was not a problem for a saint, his shivering was more like soaking in the chill of fate, "The first time he fell out of the subspace, the second time he was thrown out by a pigeon!" ”

He shuddered again, turned his head and glared wistfully at the fat white dove that was pacing on the floor, which was grinding its beak on the floor, tilting its head to look out the window with one eye, and one eye falling on Ted, and flapping his wings: "What do you see?" ”

"You must have offended Say," Duncan's voice said, with a sense of calmness, "it doesn't usually throw passengers into the sea. ”

"Can't it be that you're a cruel pigeon?" Ted's eyes widened, looking rather indignant, "It mocked me when it threw me down, and everyone here heard it......"

"That can't be, Aye is a dove of peace," Duncan immediately waved his hand and pointed to Aye, who was strolling around, "Look, it's white." ”

Ted was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't keep up with Duncan's rhythm - he had never heard of the dove of peace......

However, Duncan was used to this kind of situation where no one could pick up the stalk he casually said, and he just waved his hand nonchalantly: "I guess you won't be very cooperative when Ay brought you over." ”

“…… Well, I'll admit it," Ted thought for a moment and sighed helplessly, "but I can't be blamed - I don't know you pigeon, even though the flames look familiar, but suddenly a strange bird with bones flew out and swept me into a dark and strange space, my first reaction was of course to feel threatened, and some resistance was inevitable......"

Lucrecia, who had never spoken next to her, suddenly said, "And then you didn't shoot a pigeon, and you were thrown into the sea by a pigeon." ”

Ted Lear: "...... Can we stop talking about pigeons? ”

"That makes sense," Duncan nodded, and sat down in the chair next to Ted, "So that's the end of the pigeon talk, let's talk about subspace." ”

"Uh......" Ted muttered in his throat, a strange expression on his face, but it was probably the unbelievable experience that had happened in a row that had greatly tempered his nerves, and he quickly exhaled coldly and looked up.

The academy staff stationed there left the room almost instantaneously and closed the door—within seconds, there were only three of them left besides him, Duncan, Alice, and Lucrecia.

"I've told Captain Lawrence everything I can recall," Ted Lille breathed a sigh of relief after all the unrelated had left, reminiscing as he recalled, "The subspace has left a long shadow of chaos in my mind, and some of my memories have become blurry as a result, and I can only remember the disconnected fragments, such as the silent, massive, and strange 'things' I have witnessed, which you should already know......"

"Yes, Lawrence reported to me, but there are some things that have to be communicated in person to be clearer," Duncan said casually, "like the specific forms of those things you witnessed...... After all, Lawrence is better than listening to you in person......"

As he spoke, he casually pulled out a drawing from the table next to him.

It was some sketches that Duncan had drawn by his own hands after receiving Lawrence's report, before Ted Lille was brought back by Say.

Ted Lear curiously took the paper Duncan handed over, and his eyes widened slightly when he saw what was depicted on it.

The paper is not anything frightening and bizarre - just the outlines of some doors and windows, some pillars with graceful lines, some twists and wrought iron patterns.

However, the "style" and "feel" they present are no less than witnessing those terrifying giants in subspace for Ted Lear.

He looked up hesitantly and saw Duncan looking into his eyes calmly.

"Is that the style?" Duncan asked softly.

Ted Lear's mouth opened, and then he lowered his head and stared at the series of architectural structures depicted on the paper, and then spoke in a deep voice: "...... Yes, it was a huge structure in the darkness, like a palace, like an overly complex and huge mansion, and it hung upside down over my head, its spire reminiscent of the gloomy black towers of the northern city-states, its doors and windows slender and towering, each of which was covered and sealed by a dark substance like thorns......"

He paused, reminisced and sorted it out for a moment, and then continued: "The whole building remained silent in the darkness, like a giant beast that had been dead for many years, but in some moments ...... I saw a hazy glint in some of its windows, as if there were still people moving inside it, and the whole building seemed to come to life at that time......"

Duncan listened silently to Ted Lear's description, looking solemnly at the windows, columns, and ornaments he had drawn on paper.

That's what happened in Alice's Mansion – and although Ted Lille only saw the exterior of the building, stylistically the two were clearly unified.

Ted Lear's sights were Alice's Mansion.

Alice's Mansion in subspace.

But Duncan clearly remembers that after the "hostess's bedroom" in the depths of Alice's Mansion was "taken away" by Ray Nora, there was a huge void left there, and when he looked out of the hole, he could only see the boundless darkness, and could not see the iconic chaotic light flow and huge physical shadows in the subspace...... Otherwise, he would have realized that the mansion was located in subspace.

Why is that?

Is it because what Ted sees in subspace is only a "projection" of Alice's Mansion? Or is it ...... The last time I looked out from the big hole inside the mansion...... What "obscured" their gaze?

Duncan's brows furrowed, and he fell into a long thought, and Ted finally couldn't help but speak after holding back for several minutes: "What am I seeing?" Looks like you're familiar with it? ”

"Familiar, I'll go often," Duncan nodded slightly, "but don't ask about the details—for your physical and mental sake." ”

“…… Well, that's subspace after all," Ted reacted suddenly, but then the expression on his face was a little strange, "Rachem Bless, I really didn't expect that I was actually discussing subspace with you...... I went there and came back alive, and I still think it's a little unreal. ”

"It's a little late for you to start feeling this now," Duncan waved his hand, then spoke again, "and you mentioned that the huge mansion that hung upside down had changed before your eyes, and became something like a giant ship?" ”

"In fact...... I'm not sure what that thing is," Ted Lear hesitated, and finally chose to speak cautiously, "The experience in subspace is like traveling through layers of illusions, my reason and cognition seem to be separated in two dimensions and operate independently, I see many things, and they tend to become other ...... 'looks' in an instant, and only some of these changes are real, and the other part is like my mind spontaneously reconstructing the information that I can't understand." ”

Duncan thought for a moment and handed another blank piece of paper and pencil to Ted Lear: "Whether it was a hallucination or not, can you still draw what that mansion looks like in an instant?" ”

Ted Lille hesitated for a moment and took the pen and paper: "...... I'll give it a try. ”

The keeper of truth came to the table draped in a blanket and began to sketch out the hazy hallucinations he had seen in the subspace.

Duncan stood aside, looking at it with a serious and patient expression.

In Ted Lille's paintings, messy abstract lines emerge on paper.

However, Lucrecia, who was watching curiously from the sidelines, gradually frowned: "This is what you call ...... 'giant ship'?" ”

All she saw was a number of haphazardly connected lines, as if some kind of abstract geometry-like "fragments" were pieced together into a roughly long fusiform structure, or some kind of asymmetrical "cylinder", which was very different from the "boat" in her perception.

But in the next second, she noticed that Duncan's expression was becoming more serious after seeing those "abstract patterns".

Father saw something in these strange abstract lines!

He's seen this?!

Lucrecia's doubts instantly appeared in her mind, but before she could ask, Ted Lille had already put down the pencil in her hand.

"I knew it didn't look like a 'ship,' but the moment I saw it, I thought it was some kind of 'ship,'" Ted Learle looked up and said to Lucrecia, "I can't tell what it is, it's like some kind of 'cognition' is imprinted directly in my mind, or some kind of 'revelation'......"

Duncan, however, was still staring at the messy lines Ted had drawn on the paper, when he suddenly looked up and asked, "...... Finished drawing? ”

Ted Lille nodded: "It's done." ”

Duncan frowned, and his expression was strangely serious: "That's all?" Only this part? ”

Ted Lille finally realized something from Duncan's attitude, and he hesitated slightly: "What I see is ...... That's the only part, what's wrong? ”

Duncan was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly stepped forward and pointed to the pattern on the paper with his finger: "I'm not sure...... But theoretically, you might only draw a third of its structure! ”

(End of chapter)