"Captain! Believe me! You know my way of doing things—not to mention stealing alcohol from your collection, but I'm just walking to your room door and my stomach is already spinning...... I don't know how this thing got into my hands! ”

Anomaly 077 howled with Lawrence in a broken voice, which could be heard by half of the deck, and the seafarers who passed by all looked sideways, curious to see what was going on with this most special "member" of the White Oak.

The gray-haired Lawrence frowned, ignoring the howl crying wolf in front of him, and instead looked thoughtfully at the two bottles of beer on the deck next to him.

Of course, he believed the sailor's word - for all the unreliable behavior of the corpse, he had always been very reliable when it came to "turning his legs and stomachs at the sight of the captain".

It is impossible for this "anomaly" who is afraid of spiritual fire to steal anything from the captain's room, even if the two bottles of wine are placed on the table, he will not touch them.

After thinking for a moment, Lawrence suddenly raised his head: "...... Mr. Ted Learle just left? Was he with you all the time before he left? ”

The sailor was stunned when he heard this, and although he didn't know why the captain suddenly changed the topic in this direction, he quickly nodded: "Yes, he just left, and he kept chatting with me before leaving." ”

Lawrence looked into Anomaly 077's eyes, "What are you all talking about?" ”

“…… Poetry and songs? Anomaly 077 said casually, then waved his hand before the old captain changed his face, "Of course that's impossible...... It seems to be a worldview or something? I don't remember exactly, we seemed to talk a lot, and I felt that Mr. Secret Keeper was very preoccupied, and talked to me a lot about the world, the future, life, and so on......"

He hesitated and stopped, and muttered with some hesitation: "I seem to have invited him to drink, but he didn't...... It's strange, I didn't invite ...... or not."

Lawrence's brows furrowed slightly, he observed the look and behavior of the dried corpse in front of him with a solemn expression, and waited for the other party to mumble for a long time before asking, "Then do you remember how you answered?" Do you remember what you said? ”

The sailor stopped grunting instantly, and soon after a look of remembrance appeared on his face, his expression became confused and uneasy.

"I ...... Don't seem to remember? I should have told him a lot of things, but all I can remember seems to be...... Most of the time I seem to be just babbling gibberish......" Anomaly 077 muttered, looking at the captain with some nervousness, "Wait, I remember...... I didn't want to speak, but it seemed like a voice was talking to me all the time, leading me to speak...... Something doesn't feel right, Captain? ”

"Something is wrong...... Of course something is wrong. Lawrence whispered, and as he spoke, a faint layer of faint green flames had quietly appeared beside him, and flowed along the deck in all directions, and at the same time, a large black shadow appeared silently on the sea next to the White Oak - the Black Oak appeared next to the White Oak like a reflection from the sea, and the lights flickered on the shadows of the black house, and the silhouette of the ship rose and fell.

Anomaly 077 was startled by the sudden movement, and quickly shouted as he jumped to dodge the spiritual fire spreading on the deck, "Hey, Captain, what are you ......doing here, Captain?"

"There's an uninvited guest on the ship—though he may be gone now," Lawrence said casually with a glance at Anomaly 077, "Martha told me that she saw a figure in the White Oak that didn't belong to one of us, and that figure was standing next to you at one point. ”

The sailor froze for a moment, and his expression gradually became terrifying: "...... it! ”

……

"You're right, there was indeed an uninvited guest on board the White Oak at the time - he was near Anomaly 077," Duncan nodded to Ted Lear, "You think you 'heard' two voices, one of which should have come from that 'uninvited guest'." ”

Ted Lille noticed the change in Duncan's demeanor just now, and guessed: "...... Is it the White Oak that has sent the news? Did the old captain catch someone? ”

"Not caught," Duncan shook his head, "the other party was alert and had left the ship before Lawrence and Martha noticed." ”

"Leave?" Ted Learle was a little puzzled when he heard this, "Can you run to ...... in the vast sea"

He stopped abruptly, apparently as a "truth-keeper" who had matched the most likely answer from his own experience.

Duncan nodded lightly after noticing the change in the other party's expression: "Do you remember the conversation you had with that 'sailor'?" ”

"Yes." Ted Lear said immediately, and then he quickly recalled, and told Duncan exactly what he had spoken to the "sailor" at that time.

Listening to the other party's story, Duncan's expression became serious a little bit, and finally nodded: "Sure enough...... It couldn't have been something that the sailor said on his own initiative. ”

Ted Learle was a little puzzled: "How can you be so sure?" ”

"He's not that literate."

Ted Lear: "......"

"Looks like we'll be able to determine the identity of the uninvited guest," Duncan exhaled softly, "This theory sounds a bit close to the doomsday of the Last Missionary, but it's more of a milder, logical version of what you're talking to is a sane Last Missionary—who was hiding on the White Oak and talking to you through the mouth of the 'sailor.'" ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and added: "According to Lawrence's report, this process is very much like a kind of mental 'overwriting' and 'guidance' - the sailor remembers what he talked to you, but he can't remember the specifics of the conversation, and he also made some actions that did not fit his previous character, which should also be the result of the influence. ”

Ted Lear's brows furrowed, and the expression on his face was a little subtle: "...... I have never heard of a poster of the end of the day with such ability and style......"

"It's normal, not so long ago we didn't even believe that there was a sane Last-Word Missionary in this world," Duncan shrugged, "This group of 'subspace worshippers' in the cracks of time has always been the most mysterious, they sometimes behave like monsters distorted by subspace, sometimes they look like polite scholars, they live in a non-linear flow of time, so strictly speaking...... Perhaps no one in the whole world has ever really come into contact with a 'complete' end-time preacher, and all we know about them so far is only a temporary state of their manifestation in a particular 'slice of time'. ”

“…… It's an interesting theory," Ted Lille raised an eyebrow, then retracted his expression and tone became serious, "that a Last-Dead Evangelist can appear right under my nose without even alerting the old captain of yours...... It seems that they are indeed more weird than you can imagine, but the 'uninvited guest' did so much just to tell me some godly doomsday theories through the mouth of the 'sailor'...... What do you think of that set of stuff he said? ”

Duncan didn't speak for a moment, he was silent, thinking about the words that Ted Lear had heard from the mouth of the "sailor", and after a long time, he suddenly raised his head: "What do you think?" Do you find it meaningful to tinker with this world? ”

"It's not that it's meaningless, it's that there's no other way to go," Ted Lear shook his head slightly, "the world is a big ship that sails on the seas, and maybe as the Preacher of the End says, the ship is leaking, it's sinking, and it's hopelessly there, but what else can we do about those of us who live on ships?" All we can do is tinker – it's better than sitting back, isn't it? ”

Duncan was noncommittal, he just pondered for a long time, but no one knew what he was thinking at the moment.

At this moment, an ethereal bell suddenly reached Ted Lille's ears, interrupting the communication between him and Duncan.

The Truth Keeper was momentarily stunned, and after distinguishing the frequency and interval of the bell, he gradually frowned in confusion: "...... the Swift Bell?" ”

"Xun Zhong?" Duncan's voice came from the side, "Are you talking about this sudden bell?" ”

"Yes, this is to summon the Saints to ......" Ted Lear said casually, but stopped abruptly in the middle of speaking, and instead looked at Duncan with a stunned expression, "Wait, you said you heard the bell just now?!" ”

"yes, I heard that, what's wrong?" Duncan looked puzzled, "Shouldn't I have heard?" Pretty obvious......"

"Of course you shouldn't hear it!" Ted Lille almost jumped up from his chair, "This is the convening bell from the Tomb of the Unknown King, the Church of the Four Gods has set up measures to close and guide this bell many years ago, and theoretically only the saints of the Four Gods should be able to hear the summoning ......"

"Tomb of the Nameless King?" Duncan gradually reacted when he heard this, "Ah, I've heard Vanna talk about this, so this is what she called 'Swift Bell'......"

As he spoke, he got up and looked around, and said casually, "The bell is ringing again—it seems to be urging the saints to assemble?" Do you have to participate in the rally? ”

"Theoretically......" said Ted Lear, who hesitated suddenly, "but it shouldn't be...... It's still the Deep-Sea Church's rotation, and theoretically even I shouldn't hear the bells......"

He looked up and looked at Duncan in the eye.

The bell rang again, with a solemn atmosphere, with a smell of urging, as if ...... Prepare for a solemn proclamation to the world.

(End of chapter)